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February 11, 2025

Ons Jabeur

Press Conference

O. JABEUR/Z. Qinwen

6-4, 6-2

THE MODERATOR: Ons, congratulations on the win, strong performance, can you give us your thoughts.

ONS JABEUR: Yeah, definitely a great win today. I'm pretty happy with my level. It was very tough playing against her like always, but I'm glad that I got my first win.

THE MODERATOR: Questions in English, please.

Q. Today USTA announced that they're going to have mixed doubles a week before the main draw, so I don't know if you intend to play mixed doubles, but...

ONS JABEUR: I honestly don't know what the research is behind having the mixed doubles before. I, obviously, never played mixed doubles in my life. I'm sure we have to try to know if it works or not, but I prefer to leave it to the people that are experts to know if it's better to start before or after. I hope we will have more crowd to watch the mixed doubles, and be like, you know, supportive for that. But, yeah, for sure I will miss seeing the mixed doubles in the second week of the slam, it's going to be a little bit weird (smiling).

Q. I've asked this question to several players: When you win a coin toss, do you prefer to serve or return and why?

ONS JABEUR: I prefer to return, because I try to break the serve from the beginning. It gives you, you know, maybe the player is still sleeping (laughing).

Q. Great start in the season for you, top-10 win today, are you playing with less pressure maybe now that you're outside the top 10?

ONS JABEUR: I would say I'm playing with same pressure, I'm just handling it much better (smiling). I'm trying to focus on myself. I think the pressure will always be there somehow, but for me the most important thing is I focus on myself, I focus on how I am playing, and I'm trying to improve things in my game, in my mentality in general. I feel it's a very important thing to evolve in the sport, since the sport is really evolving every month.