Ons Jabeur bests Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 7-63 6-3 in the 1st round in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday. Jabeur will play Kateryna Bondarenko in the 2nd round.
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The Tunisian won the set after she broke the Russian in the 5th (3-2) game. Pavlyuchenkova tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 6th (3-3) game. Nonetheless, Jabeur didn’t lose the lead to finally clinch the set at the following tiebreak at 2.
Ons missed the chance to break Anastasia in the 9th game when she had 3 consecutive chances (0-40).
Tiebreak
The Tunisian won 4 minibreaks in the 1st (1-0), 4th (3-1), 5th (4-1) and 9th (7-2) point. On the other side, the Russian won 2 minibreaks in the 3rd (1-2) and 6th (2-4) point.
Ons won the tiebreak 7-2 after she conquered a decisive 4-2 lead.
This was the tiebreak sequence: 1-0, 2-0, 2-1, 3-1, 4-1, 4-2, 6-2, 7-2
They contested 84 points. Jabeur was the winner of the set after clinching 16 points more than Pavlyuchenkova (50-34). Jabeur surrendered 15 points on serve (28-15). on the other side of the net, Pavlyuchenkova conceded 22 points on serve (19-22).
Jabeur had a strong start of this set after breaking Pavlyuchenkova in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 3-0. Yet, that wasn’t sufficient for Jabeur to win the set since the Russian found the way to break back in the 7th (2-5) game.
Ons failed to serve out the set when leading 5-1 to be broken at 30.
They played 61 points. Ons conquered the set after winning 9 points more than Pavlyuchenkova (35-26). Ons conceded 12 points on serve (21-12). Regarding the other side of the net, the Russian conceded 14 points on serve (14-14).
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Ons scored 83 points vs. Anastasia’s 69.
Ons won this match even if she was struggling when converting her break points since she converted only 23% (3/13) of the procured opportunities. On the other side, Anastasia was not so effective in converting her break points (only 22% – 2/9). That was one of the key issues for her loss.
After this match, the head to head between Jabeur and Pavlyuchenkova is 2-0 for Ons.
Draw and next match H2H: Ons Jabeur vs. Kateryna Bondarenko – stats
Jabeur will compete against Bondarenko in the 2nd round.
There is no head to head record between Ons Jabeur and Kateryna Bondarenko since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
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