(Los Angeles) The Tunisian Ons Jabeur, world No.5, won the WTA 500 tournament in Charleston on Sunday by beating in the final 7-6 (8/6), 6-4 the Swiss Belinda Bencic (11th), who had beaten last year at the same stage of the tournament.
Broken from the start and led 5-3 in the first set, Jabeur fought hard to come back to 5-5.
Bencic then managed to save five set points to snatch the tiebreaker, where Jabeur in turn worked to save two set points in a tiebreaker which she ended up winning 8 points to 6.
Jabeur then won the second set 6-4, and the match in 2h 01min of play, clinching his fourth WTA title in his eleventh final, after being absent from the circuit in February with injury and being eliminated in the second round. instantly from the WTA 1000 tournaments in Indian Wells and Miami.
