WTA Guadalajara Open: Jabeur crashes out, Kenin continues revival

Ons Jabeur went all the way down to Martina Trevisan on the Guadalajara Open in Mexico. Reuters

Prime seed Ons Jabeur was despatched crashing out of the WTA 1000 Guadalajara Open on Wednesday, shedding a grueling three-hour battle to Italy’s Martina Trevisan.

Tunisian star Jabeur, the shedding finalist at Wimbledon for the previous two years, was downed 6-7 (4/7), 7-5, 6-3 by the unseeded Trevisan, presently ranked 54th on the planet.

Jabeur regarded to have taken a grip on the match after taking the primary set on a tie-break after which surging right into a 30-0 lead as she served for the match at 5-4 within the second set.

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However the world quantity seven was left shocked after Trevisan battled again to interrupt twice in fast succession to take the set and stage the match.

The 29-year-old Italian, who’s chasing solely the second WTA title of her profession this week in Mexico, then broke for a 5-3 lead within the decider earlier than holding to clinch victory.

Trevisan will face unseeded American Caroline Dolehide within the quarter-finals. Dolehide superior with a 6-1, 6-2 thrashing of Russian eighth seed Ekaterina Alexandrova.

In different matches on Wednesday, Sofia Kenin’s spectacular return to kind continued because the unseeded American upset sixth seed Jelena Ostapenko to achieve the final eight.

Former Australian Open champion Kenin, who final reached the quarter-finals of a WTA 1000 occasion in 2019, booked her place within the final eight with a 6-4, 7-5 win in 1hr 44min.

The Moscow-born Kenin, whose rating plunged to 426th final 12 months, will face Canada’s 2021 US Open finalist Leylah Fernandez within the final eight. Fernandez defeated unseeded American Emma Navarro 6-2, 6-3 in her final 16 conflict.

Third seed Caroline Garcia of France sailed into the quarter-finals with a 7-5, 6-4 victory over Hailey Baptiste of america. Garcia will face tenth seed Victoria Azarenka within the final eight.

Azarenka cruised into the quarter-finals with a 6-2, 6-1 defeat of seventh seed Veronika Kudermetova.

Second seed Maria Sakkari of Greece, in the meantime, romped right into a quarter-final assembly with unseeded Colombian Emiliana Arango after a 6-2, 6-2 dismissal of Italy’s Camila Giorgi.