"She gave us a lot of confidence to go after her": Jabeur sees positives in Swiatek dominance on WTA Tour

Ons Jabeur finds motivation in seeing Iga Swiatek dominate the WTA Tour and she thinks that it makes the sport overall more competitive.

Swiatek and Jabeur played a couple of times this year and some of those were finals as well. The Polish player defeated Jabeur in the Rome final pretty easily and once more in the US Open final. Seeing her dominate the WTA Tour this year was inspiring to Jabeur who explained it in a recent interview in Adelaide.

"With Iga's result, she gave us a lot of confidence to go after her and that's competitive, which is good because Ash was doing that, now Iga's doing the same thing."

In a way she feels that player sfeel motivated to dethrone Iga which makes the sport more competitive. She expects that to continue in 2023:

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"I just like the idea of not knowing who's going to win. I feel like it's been the same. When you play a top-10 player, it's always tough to beat. We're always trying to maintain at that level."

She also hopes for a grand slam victory next year:

"I was ready to win it this year. But it didn't happen and didn't happen for a reason. I'm glad that I got the experience of two finals in a Grand Slam."

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