Ons Jabeur Reveals the Key To Defeat Coco Gauff at Volvo Car Open 2021 Quarterfinals

Tunisian tennis player Ons Jabeur took on American youngster Coco Gauff in the quarterfinal at the Volvo Car Open 2021 in Charleston. The 26-year-old player registered her first win over the teenaged sensation. The match was won in straight sets, 6-3 6-3, which was wrapped up in 80 minutes. 

Ons Jabeur took control of the match from the early stages and showed no remorse towards her opponent. To make matters more difficult for the American player, she struck 13 double faults during the match. Coco Gauff managed to win only 21.4% of her second serve points. As a result, Ons ended up breaking her opponent’s serve on six occasions during the match. 

After the match, Jabeur reflected on the key aspects and stated, “I got to say the drop shots, it saved me so many times in the match in many important points. The service wasn’t here today but I’m glad that I got to break her so many times. I was trying to close some angles for her to confuse her on the service and get a few double faults.”

Coco Gauff and Ons Jabeur played twice before this match

Prior to today’s game, the two players faced each other twice in the previous year. Both those matches went in favor of the 17-yer-old talent. They played at the 2020 Top Seed Open in Lexington on the hardcourt and the WTA Rome Open on clay. 

Prior to this event, Ons featured at the Miami Open but fell short in the Round of 16. Similarly, she competed at the Dubai Tennis Championships and lost in the pre-quarterfinal round. This year, she could not repeat a similar performance at the Australian Open as she did in the previous season when she achieved a career-best result of reaching the quarterfinal of a Grand Slam event. She lost in the third round in Melbourne this year. 

On the other hand, when Coco competed at the Miami Open this year, she lost in the Round of 64 matches. Prior to that, she was a quarterfinalist at the Dubai Tennis Championships. She began her season competing at the Australian Open but failed to impress after crashing out in the second round. It will be interesting to see how the two players fair at the clay-court events. 

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