TIANJIN. Jabeur conquers Putintseva in the quarter of the Tianjin Open

Ons Jabeur dispatches Yulia Putintseva 7-6⁵ 7-6⁴ in the quarter in Tianjin on Friday. Jabeur will face off with Rebecca Peterson in the semifinal.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Jabeur overpowered the opposition at the beginning of the set after breaking Putintseva in the 1^st game (1-0). Nonetheless, the set was not over yet and there was more work to do for the Tunisian to win the set since Yulia managed to break back in the 6^th (2-4), in the 8^th (4-4) and in the 10^th (5-5) game. The Tunisian maintained her cool before winning the set at the tiebreak at 5.

The Tunisian failed to serve out the set when leading 5-4 to be broken at 30.

2^nd set.

Putintseva started the set in the best possible way after breaking Jabeur in the 1^st game (1-0) before consolidating her break and lead 4-0. Nonetheless, Ons found the way to come back to break Yulia 3 times in the 6^th (2-4), in the 8^th (4-4) and in the 10^th (5-5) game before winning the set at the tiebreak at 4.

A crucial moment of the match was when Ons won 4 consecutive games in the 2^nd set to change the scoreline from 0-4 to 4-4.

Anyhow also Yulia won 4 consecutive games from 0-0 to 4-0

Statistics

At the end of the match, the Tunisian scored 89 points vs. Yulia’s 79 points.

Jabeur was effective when converting 67% of the break points that she conquered (6/9). On the other side, Yulia didn’t lose the concentration in converting 50% of the break points that she conquered points (6/12

). Nevertheless, that was not enough to win the match.

After this contest, the head to head between Jabeur and Putintseva is 1-0 for Ons.

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Next Match: Ons Jabeur vs. Rebecca Peterson – stats

Jabeur will square off with Peterson in the semifinal.

There is no head to head record between Ons Jabeur and Rebecca Peterson since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.

Tennis Scores in Tianjin

• Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Dayana YastremskaYastremska (6-4 6-0) – See score progression
• Ons JabeurJabeur – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (7-6⁵ 7-6⁴) – See score progression
• Heather WatsonWatson – Magda LinetteLinette (7-5 6-7⁴ 7-6⁶) – See score progression
• Rebecca PetersonPeterson – Yafan WangWang (6-7⁵ 6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Nao Hibino/Miyu KatoHibino/Miyu Kato – Christina Mchale/Yanina WickmayerMchale/Yanina Wickmayer (w/o) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Ons JabeurJabeur – Rebecca PetersonPeterson (0-0) – See H2H details
• Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Heather WatsonWatson (0-0) – See H2H details