By Erik Gudris | @atntennis | Friday, May 26, 2023
Ons Jabeur, after enduring damage points for a lot of the clay season, says she is match and prepared forward of this 12 months’s Roland Garros.
The No. 7 seeded Tunisian, nonetheless seeking her first main singles title, is wanting ahead to the Parisian clay after coping with a calf damage in most of the lead-up occasions to the second Grand Slam of the 12 months.
“Well, injury-wise I’m feeling much better, and I had a very nice week of training here at the French Open. I’m going to do my best and hopefully do better than last year,” Jabeur stated in a pre-event press convention.
When requested if she was 100%, she replied “Yeah, definitely 100%. I was training with a lot of players, moving normally.”
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— Roland-Garros (@rolandgarros) May 26, 2023
Jabeur, began off the clay season sturdy profitable her first title of the 12 months in Charleston. But in Stuttgart, the 28-year-old star, picked up a calf damage in Stuttgart. That identical damage compelled her to withdraw from Madrid the next week. She then suffered an early spherical straight units loss to Paula Badosa in Rome.
Despite the setbacks, the often optimistic Jabeur is wanting ahead to her first-round assembly with Italy’s Lucia Bronzetti who simply reached the Rabat finals. Jabeur can be pleased that her opening match just isn’t on Sunday, the opening day of the occasion.
“Well, I’m not playing on Sunday. It’s a good start. I will play one match at a time, step by step, as we say,” Jabeur said. “The first match will be hard, because she’s actually on the rise right now. There is no easy first round. I will do my best.
“The most important thing for me is to be in good health, because it was hard lately with all these injuries that I had sustained. I will try to play with the same mindset as for Charleston, because I think it was the best tournament that I played this season. I will try to keep up and enjoy playing on court.”
Jabeur can be hoping for a a lot better begin in Paris this 12 months than in 2022 when, regardless of being a pre-tournament favourite, she crashed out of the opening spherical in three units to Magda Linette.
With Roland Garros nonetheless the one main that she has but to achieve the quarterfinals at, Jabeur is wanting ahead to the problem. Especially as she has a lot fan help within the City of Lights.
“I love Paris. I love being here. I keep wonderful memories, especially after having won the junior Roland Garros,” Jabeur said. “And Tunisia is very close to Paris, so there is a lot of Tunisians that live in Paris or come over here to support me.
“2022 has been a game changer for me. I feel like I’m under — I have more fans cheering for me. I have more support from Tunisia. People love more tennis than before. Maybe they started watching more tennis than football, which is great for me.”
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