Auréole de her title won in Ningbo, Ons Jabeur entered the running, this Monday, October 2, 2023 at the WTA 1000 tournament in Beijing where she faced the American Ashlyn Kruger.
This morning, Ons Jabeur, still 7th in the world after the updating of the WTA ranking, composted his ticket for the 2nd round by beating the American Ashlyn Krueger (80th in the world) in two sets (6-3, 6-4).
She thus qualified for the 2nd round that she will play against the Ukrainian Marta Kostyuk, 44th world player.
Ons Jabeur, let us recall, won on Saturday his second title of the season by winning in the final of the Ningbo WTA 250 tournament. The Tunisian proclaimed herself champion after a one -way match against Russian Diana Schnaider (85th in the world). A match she dominated from start to finish winning in two sets (6-2, 6-1) in 78 minutes.
This is the second title won by Ons Jabeur, this season, after his success during the WTA 500 tournament in Charleston. Ons Jabeur has also reached the Wimbledon final this year, lost to the Czech Marketa Vondrousova.
On Saturday, Ons Jabeur competed in his thirteenth final in the WTA circuit. The Tunisian has already lost eight finals including Charleston, Rome, Wimbledon and the US Open in 2022 alone and again Wimbledon in 2023. She also won five trophies in Birmingham in 2021, Madrid and Berlin in 2022, Charleston and Ningbo this year.