Jelena Ostapenko calls partisan Doha audience “disrespectful” after defeating Ons Jabeur

The former French Open winner Jelena Ostapenko (27) said that the partisan fans at the Qatar Open were disrespectful because they mocked them during their quarter-final game when they waned a 6-2 win with 6-2 against ONS Jabeur (30) .

The relentless pace and the aggressive ball strike of the lettge proved too much for Tunisia. Ostapenko will meet three -time defending champions Iga Swiatek in the semifinals on Friday, after Swiatek 6: 2, 7: 5 against Elena Rybakina against Elena Rybakina on Thursday.

Ostapenko said the enemy crowd heated up her motivation when she revenge her first round against Jabeur at the Abu Dhabi Open last week, fired four aces and broke her opponent five times, while Jabeur only managed a break in the opening set.

“I know they are around,” said Ostapenko in the press conference after the game.

“I respect ONS, I respect the crowd and I feel like a few moments in which they motivated me even better, as and more, and I played even better, so I like it somehow, you know.”

When she addresses the crowd in court after her victory, she said: “It is great that ONS plays like a woman from the Middle East and represents her. It is amazing what she did for tennis, but you angry me and you made more motivated. “

Ostapenko leads 4-0 in her head-to-head record against Swiatek, after she last hit her in the fourth round of the US Open in 2023 and was in top shape in Doha and with the fourth seed-jasmine-Paolini 6: 2, 6- 6-, defeated. 2 before she won against Jabeur.

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