In women's tennis, for a long time, the good feelings of a tennis player do not guarantee almost anything, especially in the Grand Slams, because equality is tremendous and anyone can win on an inspired day. This is what happened this Friday in the game that Garbiñe Muguruza, world number 12 and champion of the tournament in 2017, played at the Wimbledon center, and Ons Jabeur, 24th. and whose best result in a Grand Slam are the quarters of the 2019 Australian Open. The match ended with a victory in three sets (5-7, 6-3 and 6-2 in 2:25) for the 26-year-old Tunisian, who had lost in another duel played against the Spanish in Hobart (“It was a revenge, in a nice way,” he said).
For Garbiñe it is a painful defeat, because he does not recover the good line with which the season began, but not a setbackas Jabeur is an upwardly progressive tennis player who has just won a grass court title in Birmingham, where she became the first Arab woman to lift a WTA trophy. And she is, along with Sabalenka, the player with the most wins this year (32).
It will be she who plays for the first time in the round of 16 of the British major against the Polish Iga Swiatek, who obtained a very convincing victory against the Romanian Irina Camelia Begu (6-1 and 6-0 in 55 minutes). The Tunisian almost always led the initiative, even in the first round, although she did not win it. Garbiñe suffered in almost all his services due to the good remains of his rival. Each serve was an ordeal for her and she saved the furniture in that initial sleeve because she went ahead three times and knew how to close it.
Faith against anguish
Then the agony continued before a grown rival who had a great time seeing that everything was going well for her and that her faith prevailed in the face of Muguruza's anguish, who was the one who had the most to lose. The winner of two Slams was also desperate because she had had options to break in two games before she conceded the break that gave the equalizer to Jabeur. He was even able to avoid it with a 15-40 at 6-3. The third set was already a debacle for Garbiñe, unable to contain the winner, despite the fact that she struggled a lot in the attempt and it can be said that she played badly, nobody can argue with that. Simply, her opponent, who vomited in the last game, was better than her. He has to rest, recover and look forward to the Tokyo Games and the US Open. The balance in the big tournaments is not good, with Australia's round of 16, the first round at Roland Garros and the third at Wimbledon. By rescuing something positive, Muguruza can return to the top-10, since she has added 120 points and provisionally climbed three places, although there are players who can overtake her.
“I'm on the right track, the results will return”
“I had a lot of opportunities, especially in the second set, and afterwards she was very successful and gained confidence. Things changed in a moment and I did not have the determination to close the match, “explained the Spaniard, who made no excuses. “I didn't feel very hot, rather the two and a half hours of an intense match.” Her analysis was as confusing as the match itself: “She was a stranger. I was hurting her in the first set with my style of play, but I have to improve in determination, to take advantage of the opportunities. She has started to play better, with a style that goes to moments. In the third he caught me trying to find solutions and it got away quickly. I have to get better at managing these situations and find better tennis, because now I'm confused. “
Muguruza does not make a bad balance of his season: “At the beginning I felt better inertia, the gravel tour I don't think about it, and here I felt better. I think it has been details that have made the difference. I don't have the feeling of having played badly, but rather that everything depends a lot on me and I can't close the games. I have to keep working to see what I can do better in those moments, seek calm so that I don't cloud. “Despite the fiasco, he doesn't see a” bad mood. ” “I'm thinking about the Games, looking forward, I'm on the right track and the good results will return.”
Results and women's table calendar.