CHICAGO, Sept. 30 (US): Ons Jabeur wasn’t too excited about having to get up at 5:30 a.m. Thursday before her 9 a.m. game and got off to a slow start before making a Chicago Fall Tennis Classic quarterfinal back. to beat Jessica Pegula 1-6, 6-2, 6-3.
Sixth seed Jaber qualified to face top seed Elina Svitolina or Elena Gabriella Ross, according to the Associated Press.
“I last woke up at 5:30 probably for pre-season (training) or to take a flight, not to play a match,” said Gaber, a 27-year-old Tunisian ranked 16th. this week. “But I can’t complain too much.”
She said she tried to do everything an hour or so earlier than usual, such as eating and sleeping; She was ready for bed at about 9 pm on a Wednesday.
“Starting against Jessica is not easy, anyway – 9am or 5pm is not easy at all,” Jaber said. “So I’m glad I got in the rhythm later.”
She won her 42 rounds in 2021 second only to No. 2 ranked 43rd-ranked Aryna Sabalenka.
The other seeded women reached the quarter-finals with a victory in the hard-court tournament Thursday, seed No. 5 Elena Rybakina and seed No. 10 Danielle Collins.
Rybakina defeated 12th seed Veronika Kudretova 7-6 (4) 7-5, and Collins defeated seventh seed Elise Mertens 6-2, 6-4. Mertens twisted her upper left leg by a coach after taking a medical timeout early in the second set.
Jaber entered Thursday’s match with a 0-2 record in his career against the ninth seed Pegula. This included a loss in Montreal in August when Jaber served the match 5-4 in the second set, broke and ended up losing in three.
That match was on Jaber’s mind this time around, including when she served to win 5-3 in the third set. She climbed to 40 in love but became very defensive, Jaber then admitted, and the first three match points vanished, two on a forehand win from Pegula.
Jaber then needed to salvage a pair of break points before finishing things off with a fine and serving winner to reach the quarter-finals of the season, including Wimbledon in July.
“I am happy, because the same scenario that happened in Montreal did not repeat itself today,” Jaber said.
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