Ons Jabeur shocks Qiang Wang 7-64 6-1 in the 4th round in Melbourne on Sunday. Jabeur will seek to keep on going in this event against Sofia Kenin in the quarter.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Jabeur started the set strong after breaking Wang in the 1st game (1-0). Anyhow, there was more to do for Ons to win the set since Qiang found the way to break back in the 2nd (1-1) and in the 4th (3-1) game. Jabeur maintained her cool before winning the set at the breaker at 4.
Notwithstanding also Qiang won 4 consecutive games from 0-1 to 4-1
2nd set.
Jabeur got off on the right foot in the set after breaking Wang in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 5-0. Ons managed to boost her lead after breaking Qiang in the 4th (4-0) game before managing to win the set (6-1).
It is worth noting that a pivotal stage of the match was when Ons won 5 consecutive games in the 2nd set to change the scoreline from 0-0 to 5-0.
Statistics
At the end of the match, Ons scored 67 points vs. Qiang’s 57 points.
The Tunisian won this match even if she had a tough time converting her break points as she converted only 40% (4/10). On the other side, Wang didn’t lose the focus when converting 50% of the break points that she procured points (2/4). Yet, that was not enough to win the match.
After this match, the head to head between Jabeur and Wang is 1-2 for Qiang.
Highlights Ons Jabeur vs. Qiang Wang Australian Open – Melbourne
Jabeur’s Interview
Next Match H2H: Ons Jabeur vs. Sofia Kenin – stats
Jabeur will fight against Kenin in the quarter.
This will be the 3rd time that Ons Jabeur and Sofia Kenin face off. The head to head is 2-0 for Kenin (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they competed against each other, Kenin won 6-2 2-0 ret. in the 2nd round in Mallorca back in 2019.
Tennis Scores at the
- Sofia KeninKenin – Cori GauffGauff (6-75 6-3 6-0) – See score progression
- Ons JabeurJabeur – Qiang WangWang (7-64 6-1) – See score progression
- Ashleigh BartyBarty – Alison RiskeRiske (6-3 1-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Petra KvitovaKvitova – Maria SakkariSakkari (6-74 6-3 6-2) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Anett KontaveitKontaveit – Iga SwiatekSwiatek (1-0) – See H2H details
- Elise MertensMertens – Simona HalepHalep (1-2) – See H2H details
- Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza – Kiki BertensBertens (2-1) – See H2H details
- Angelique KerberKerber – Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova (7-7) – See H2H details
- Ashleigh BartyBarty – Petra KvitovaKvitova (3-4) – See H2H details
- Sofia KeninKenin – Ons JabeurJabeur (2-0) – See H2H details
