French Open 2023 results: Beatriz Haddad Maia beats Ons Jabeur at Roland Garros
- By Jonathan Jurejko
- BBC Sport at Roland Garros
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Beatriz Haddad Maia has fought again from behind to win within the third spherical, final 16 and now quarter-finals of the French Open
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Brazilian 14th seed Beatriz Haddad Maia reached her first Grand Slam semi-final by preventing again to stun Tunisia’s Ons Jabeur within the French Open final eight.
Haddad Maia, who had by no means beforehand reached the third spherical of a significant, recovered to win 3-6 7-6 (7-5) 6-1.
The 27-year-old is the primary Brazilian lady to achieve a Grand Slam semi-final since Maria Bueno in 1968.
Haddad Maia will play Polish high seed Iga Swiatek or American sixth seed Coco Gauff in Thursday’s semi-finals.
Haddad Maia has turn out to be recognized for her capability to come back by lengthy exams, together with within the Roland Garros fourth spherical when she outlasted Spain’s Sara Sorribes Tormo in an epic lasting nearly 4 hours.
That was the longest ladies’s match of the season and, whereas the encounter in opposition to Jabeur was nowhere close to as lengthy, she once more demonstrated her bodily and psychological endurance.
Against an opponent backed by a lot of flag-waving Tunisian followers on Court Philippe Chatrier, Haddad Maia began slowly in her first main quarter-final.
The world quantity 14, who served a 10-month doping suspension which resulted in 2020, was damaged thrice within the first set as Jabeur took management.
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Jabeur remains to be aiming for her first Grand Slam singles title, having misplaced within the Wimbledon and US Open finals final 12 months
Break alternatives have been scarce within the second set till two probabilities not taken by Jabeur at 5-5 finally proved pricey for the 28-year-old Tunisian.
Last 12 months’s Wimbledon and US Open runner-up missed the primary break level with a forehand that went lengthy, her opponent saving the opposite with a sequence of aggressive returns.
The Brazilian, having proven the significance of hanging in as Jabeur rattled by service video games, finally took her fourth set level to ship the match right into a decider.
Galvanised, the left-hander’s heavy forehand returns prompted extra issues for Jabeur as she moved 3-0 forward.
The pair exchanged breaks within the subsequent two video games earlier than Haddad Maia, who may now hear the assist of singing Brazilian followers, saved 4 breaks to carry for 5-1.
Jabeur, now turning into more and more demoralised, spanked a forehand lengthy on the second match level, leaving Haddad Maia trying flummoxed at what she had simply achieved.
