LONDON : After letting last year's Wimbledon final against Elena Rybakina slip through her fingers when she started to doubt her own tactics Ons Jabeur said sticking to the plan, even in adversity, was key to her revenge victory on Wednesday.The Tunisian sixth seed came back from losing the first set tieb
LONDON : After letting last year's Wimbledon final against Elena Rybakina slip through her fingers when she started to doubt her own tactics Ons Jabeur said sticking to the plan, even in adversity, was key to her revenge victory on Wednesday.
She began to question the approach after losing the tiebreak but stood firm and eventually ran away with it as she took eight of the last nine games. "But most of all I think I was hitting fast. I was thinking 'If you want to hit hard, I'm ready to hit hard, too'". "I learned a lot from the final last year and I’m very proud of myself for the improvement that I made mentally, physically and with the tennis racquet.
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