Badosa is a finalist after beating Jabeur in Indian Wells

Spanish tennis player Paula Badosa beat Tunisian Ons Jabeur 6-3, 6-3 after 1h21m of play in the Indian Wells WTA 1000 semifinals. In the final, she will go in search of the title against the Belarusian Victoria Azarenka.

Paula Badosa is having a dream week in California, after beating the Ukrainian Dayana Yastremska, the american Cori Gauff, the czech Barbora Krejcikova and, in the quarterfinals, the German Angelique Kerber.

For its part, Ons Jabeur managed to get into the Top 10 in this tournament, after eliminating the Latvian Anastasika Sevastova, the american Danielle Collins, the Russian Anna Kalinskaya and, among the eight best, Estonian Anna Kontaveit

Badosa with great forcefulness to cross out Jabeur

In the beginning, Paula Badosa He came out to hit the ball with great determination, locating good angles and imposing his tennis. That way, conquered the break in the first game, to later confirm the distance. But, Ons Jabeur He got into the game, he grew with his shots and recovered the break in the fourth game. After two games in which both held their serve effectively, the World No. 27 accelerated with the return, hurt with her power and returned to capture the break. Before the break, the Spanish confirmed escaping from a double breaking point. After the change of ends, Badosa closed the set with a lot of margin by 6-3 in 37 minutes.

In the second sleeve a much more even game was seen, with both firm from the service and displaying good tennis on the Californian desert. But, Paula, in the sixth game, came out to break the parity, hitting hard from the base and taking advantage of the mistakes of her rival to capture the break. He then kept his serve and confirmed the difference in numbers. In the eighth game, Ons Jabeur came out of very match points and he set out to prevent the end of the game. However, Badosa salvó triple break point, overcame his nerves and sealed the match by 6-3, 6-3 after 1h21m.

The Spanish will seek her first WTA 1000 when she meets Belarusian Victoria Azarenka in the Indian Wells final.