MELBOURNE RESULTS. Ons Jabeur surprises Garcia in the 2nd round of the Australian Open

Ons Jabeur surprises Caroline Garcia 1-6 6-2 6-3 in the 2^nd round in Melbourne on Wednesday. Jabeur is going to play against Caroline Wozniacki in the 3^rd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Caroline was too good to drop just 1 game before breaking Jabeur 2 times and win the set 6-1.

The Tunisian was outplayed in the last 5 games of the set (from 1-1 to 6-1).

2^nd set.

Jabeur in this set played a much better tennis than Caroline and without too much struggle she won 6-2. Garcia broke the Tunisian 3 times in the 4^th (3-1), in the 6^th (5-1) and in the 8^th (6-2) game. However, Ons broke her opponent in the 7^th (5-2) game, but that didn’t prevent her to win the set (6-2).

Jabeur failed to serve out the set when leading 5-1 to be broken at 40.

A crucial moment of the match was when the Tunisian won 4 consecutive games in the 2^nd set to change the scoreline from 1-1 to 5-1.

3^rd set.

Jabeur overpowered the opposition at the beginning of the set after breaking Garcia in the 2^nd game (2-0). However, that was not enough for Ons to win the set as the French Player succeeded in breaking back in the 3^rd (1-2) game. Jabeur maintained her cool to break Caroline in the 4^th (3-1) game before winning the set (6-3).

Statistics

At the end of the match, the Tunisian scored 77 points vs. the French Player’s 74 points.

Ons was effective in converting 71% of the break points that she procured (5/7). On the other side, Garcia was sharp when converting 50% of the break points that she procured points (4/8). Nonetheless, that was not enough to win the match.

After this contest, the head to head between Jabeur and Garcia is 2-0 for Ons.

Highlights Ons Jabeur vs. Caroline Garcia Australian Open – Melbourne

Next Match H2H: Ons Jabeur vs. Caroline Wozniacki – stats

Jabeur will fight against Wozniacki in the 3^rd round.

This will be the 2^nd time that Ons Jabeur and Caroline Wozniacki play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Wozniacki (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they played each other, Wozniacki won 7-6³ 6-4 in the 2^nd round in Indian Wells back in 2015.

Tennis Scores at the Australian Open

• Sofia KeninKenin – Ann LiLi (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
• Elena RybakinaRybakina – Greetje MinnenMinnen (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Maria SakkariSakkari – Nao HibinoHibino (7-6⁴ 6-4) – See score progression
• Qiang WangWang – Fiona FerroFerro (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
• Cori GauffGauff – Sorana CirsteaCirstea (4-6 6-3 7-5) – See score progression
• Ashleigh BartyBarty – Polona HercogHercog (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
• Ons JabeurJabeur – Caroline GarciaGarcia (1-6 6-2 6-3) – See score progression
• Naomi OsakaOsaka – Saisai ZhengZheng (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
• Caroline WozniackiWozniacki – Dayana YastremskaYastremska (7-5 7-5) – See score progression
• Shuai ZhangZhang – Caty McNallyMcNally (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
• Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Barbora KrejcikovaKrejcikova (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
• Petra KvitovaKvitova – Paula Badosa GibertBadosa Gibert (7-5 7-5) – See score progression
• Serena WilliamsWilliams – Tamara ZidansekZidansek (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
• Julia GoergesGoerges – Petra MarticMartic (4-6 6-3 7-5) – See score progression
• Alison RiskeRiske – Lin ZhuZhu (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
• Madison KeysKeys – Arantxa RusRus (7-6(3) 6-2) – See score progression

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