Late finish for Ons Jabeur as she wins first match in Adelaide

Jabeur had a 1st round BYE so this was her first match and she proved pretty comfortable overall beating Cirstea 7-6(3) 6-1 to move on to the next round.

Jabeur is the top seed at the event and is expected to make the final with the match being the start of it. It was a decent match from Jabeur, a good start and the some struggling to get the first set done. Jabeur was up a break twice in the opening set but allowed Cirstea to battle back both times.

She didn't serve well and that was a problem giving Cirstea many looks on the second serve where she did a lot of damage. Jabeur outplayed her in the tiebreak 7-3 to take the opening set and things went much more easily in the second set. She served a lot better and was in better rhythm cruising to a 6-1 finish for her first win in Australia.