(Provided by Tennis World USA)
Camila Giorgi took out Ons Jabeur in their round-of-16 match at the Rothesay International on Wednesday. The Italian prevailed 6-3, 6-2 in 72 minutes over the fourth seed. In the first set, Jabeur didn’t win a single game on her serve as both players traded breaks in the first six games of the set.
Giorgi was the one to break this dominance of the returner and converted a fourth break on the Tunisian’s serve to take the lead in the match. The second set went Giorgi’s way from the set and Jabeur wasn’t able to make any comebacks into the match.
Giorgi will play Jelena Ostapenko next. Ostapenko got past Harriet Dart, 6-3, 6-4 in 90 minutes. The Latvian’s now got a winning streak of seven matches going back to winning run at the Rothesay Classic in Birmingham last week.
Ostapenko had also defeated Giorgi in the semi-finals of the Rothesay Classic, in 2022.
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