Astra Sharma surprises Ons Jabeur 2-6 7-5 6-1 in the final in Charleston on Sunday. The match lasted 1 hour and 55 minutes. This is the first time that Sharma conquered this tournament. Her best result in this tournament so far was reaching the 1st round. Here you can see when her history at this event.
Astra added $ 12,802 to her prize money after winning this final. She has earned $ 29,200 in total after conquering this tournament.
Sharma was delighted about how things unfolded. She commented:
“To come out of this with a win, it’s really unexpected, it’s amazing for me, I have no words. It hasn’t really sunk in that I won, I’m so happy.”
Highlights Astra Sharma vs. Ons Jabeur MUSC Health Women’s Open – Charleston
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
1h:55
At the end of the match, the Australian scored 90 points vs. Jabeur’s 80.
Sharma
Sharma was pretty good at converting 71% of the break points that she procured (5/7).
Jabeur
On the other side, the Tunisian was effective when converting 57% of the break points that she conquered points (4/7). Anyhow, that was not enough to win the encounter.
After this contest, the head to head between Sharma and Jabeur is 1-0 for Astra.
This was the maiden title for the Australian. This was her 1 final as she was the runner up in Bogota 2019. This was Ons’s 1st final. (see list of the title)
Live score progression and stats
Jabeur in this set was much more effective than Astra and without too much hustling she won 6-2 after breaking Sharma in the 3rd (2-1) and in the 5th (4-1) game.
It is worth noting that a pivotal stage of the set was when Ons won 5 consecutive games in the 1st set to convert the game count from 0-1 to 5-1.
Sharma won the set after she broke the Tunisian in the 4th (3-1) and in the 12th (7-5) game. Jabeur tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 5th (3-2) game. Nevertheless, the Australian kept the focus to win the set 7-5.
Sharma conquered a leading position at the beginning of the set after breaking in the 2nd game (2-0). Yet, that wasn’t sufficient for Astra to win the set as Ons managed to break back in the 3rd (1-2) game. The Australian kept her cool to break the Tunisian in the 4th (3-1) and in the 6th (5-1) game before winning the set (6-1).
Ons was unable to find the solution against the opposition in the last 4 games of the set when the game count went from 2-1 to 6-1.
They contested 46 points. Sharma conquered the set after winning 16 more points than the Tunisian (31-15). Sharma lost 5 points on serve (13-5). In addition, on the other side, the Tunisian conceded 18 points on serve (10-18).
