US Open final LIVE: Iga Swiatek vs Ons Jabeur – tennis score and latest updates tonight

Jabeur slaps a forehand large to surrender the opening level, however Swiatek hits lengthy to make it 15-all. Another error from Jabeur makes it 15-30, and then a very timed double fault serves up two break factors on a plate. Swiatek returns the primary into the online, earlier than Jabeur saves the second with an excellent serve-and-winner two-punch mixture. Finally a few first serves land within the service field and Jabeur is on the scoreboard on this second set.

Jabeur will get herself into Swiatek’s service sport at 15-30 earlier than making a weird shot alternative, hopping up into the air the place she dumps a backhand into the online. “I’m not going to say anything about that shot selection,” says an unimpressed Martina Navratilova on commentary. At 40-30, Jabeur cracks a backhand deep into the nook however Swiatek responds with an outrageously good backhand of her personal, which zips down the road and curls on to the surface of the tramline. How on earth do you beat somebody enjoying like this? Swiatek has saved her finest tennis of the event for the final, as she so typically does.

Jabeur throws in one other double fault at 15-0, then can’t get sufficient of her racket on a ferocious Swiatek return to go down 15-30. They win an extended rally every to present Swiatek a break level at 30-40, however the Tunisian saves it with a wonderful backhand proper into the nook – it’s going to take that kind of brilliance to beat Swiatek tonight. Jabeur constructs the following level effectively with a large serve and a follow-up forehand winner into the house, earlier than lacking a routine forehand to take them again to deuce. Then an enormous mistake from Jabeur, hitting straight on to Swiatek’s forehand with the court docket gaping, and on benefit Swiatek dispatches a backhand into the nook to shut out the break.

At 0-15 down, Swiatek misses a uncommon first serve and provides Jabeur a window of alternative, however she wastes it with an tried drop shot from the again of the court docket which doesn’t beat the online. Swiatek then piles in an unreturnable physique serve from the deuce facet, and does one thing comparable at 30-all, however Jabeur forces deuce with a well-constructed level which she ultimately smashes residence. I’m pretty certain that is the primary deuce of the match: Swiatek hits a fantastic backhand down the road for benefit, then a forehand which bounces on the tramline too, to clinch the sport. The accuracy is outrageous.

This simply sums up that first set. Jabeur regarded nervous, Swiatek regarded nerveless.

Oh, Ons! At 0-15 down Jabeur has a reasonably routine smash volley to get on phrases, however dumps it into the online beneath her. On the very subsequent level she makes up for it with a implausible smash whereas backtracking, and it brings up an enormous roar of encouragement. But Swiatek navigates her approach to two set factors and she solely wants one as Jabeur plonks a baseline backhand into the online.

Swiatek’s serve is completely imperious to date on this final – she had solely missed one first serve coming into this sport and it continues to fireplace. A giant forehand winner adopted by a Jabeur missed volley sees out the service maintain to fifteen. If the Pole serves like this all night time, it’s arduous to see how she loses.

At 15-all Swiatek shifts on to her backhand facet and whips an excellent crosscourt winner from virtually behind her physique. A Jabeur error then provides up two break factors, and Swiatek takes the second with a rush to the online and a forehand winner. An instant break again for the world No 1.

Three gorgeous factors to start out this sport! Swiatek wins the primary with a genuis flicked half-volley on to the road after a quick trade on the web, however from there it’s all Jabeur because the Tunisian slams two clear winners down the road on the finish of fierce rallies. Jabeur wins one other to earn herself two break factors at 15-40. Her forehand deserts her on the primary however not the second, as she fires a winner into the nook which Swiatek can solely watch. That was nice tennis, and Jabeur has discovered her sport to interrupt again.

Ons Jabeur strings a few factors collectively and the gang roars – they got here to see a correct battle and they’re beginning to see indicators of 1. Jabeur powers a forehand winner on to the baseline to make it 40-0, earlier than serving a double fault and hitting the online for 40-30, however lastly closes out the sport to get on the board.