Icon's incredible offer to beaten US Open finalist

Former expansive slam champion Kim Clijsters has offered to assistance Ons Jabeur rebound aft the Tunisian was beaten successful the US Open last by satellite No.1 Iga Swiatek.

Jabeur's loss successful the last astatine Flushing Meadows was her 2nd this year, aft losing successful the Wimbledon final to Elena Rybakina.

Cljisters said she had sympathy for Jabeur, aft enduring her ain struggles successful expansive slam finals earlier breaking done with the 2005 US Open title, the fist of 4 majors she won.

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"I conscionable told her team to fto her springiness maine a call," she told Stan Sports' Grand Slam Daily.

"I mislaid 4 expansive slam finals earlier I won my archetypal one, truthful it's each a substance of conscionable trying to bent successful determination and moving hard.

Ons Jabeur, of Tunisia, holds up the runner up trophy aft losing to Iga Swiatek, of Poland, during the women's singles last of the U.S. Open tennis championships, Saturday, Sept. 10, 2022, successful New York. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) (AP)

"She's honestly doing the close things. She's improving, she's getting fitter, getting stronger, but it's conscionable a substance of giving yourself the chances again and those opportunities to get to different last and possibly beryllium amended adjacent time."

Australian large Wally Masur implored the 28-year-old to fto Clijsters lend a helping hand, reminiscing connected his aboriginal interactions with Clijsters earlier she broke done for her archetypal major.

"Ons, instrumentality that call," helium said.

"Kim utilized to amusement up a mates of times erstwhile we were playing different teams (at the Davis Cup) and she would bid with our guys.

"This was anterior to winning a slam and you could spot that her apical extremity was awesome, but she needed to bash small things disconnected court, astir negociate her day, to get to the constituent wherever she was acceptable to triumph slams, and she did."

Iga Swiatek of Poland hugs Ons Jabeur of Tunisia aft the satellite No.1 hung connected to triumph the US Open successful consecutive sets. (Getty)

Masur said helium was frustrated by a fig of collapses from galore of the established players connected the women's circuit passim the US Open, and lamented the information they'd fto the accidental of winning a large slip.

"All of these players person the quality to triumph slams, I deliberation it's really rather wide open," helium said.

"No question connected clay, Swiatek is the ascendant player, but connected the different surfaces there's a batch of bully stories to beryllium told."

Masur said immoderate of the younger stars coming done needed to beryllium taught however to grip unit situations much effectively.

"They've each got a batch of radical successful their container (and) you've got to remedy that situation," helium said.

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"Is it (through) a sports psychologist? Is it an extracurricular mentor? We saw Aranxta Sanchez Vicario successful (Jabeur's) box. What relation is she playing? Who is the honorable dependable to marque definite that this does not hap again?

"From a method constituent of view, erstwhile you're successful occupation you've got to support scoreboard pressure, 1 mode to bash that is done your serve. Look astatine (Sam) Stosur, Ash Barty, Serena Williams, technically dependable serves that clasp up.

"There were a batch of women astatine this lawsuit erstwhile they were struggling the 2nd service went missing from a method standpoint. At immoderate constituent that's got to beryllium rectified and the coaches person to instrumentality attraction of that.

"The women's crippled is successful a truly steadfast situation, but I privation to spot them performing astatine their champion connected the biggest stage, and I felt similar we were denied that connected respective occasions.

"There's excessively galore bully players not getting the champion retired of themselves connected the large occasions. They're each top-10 players, truthful astatine immoderate constituent someone's got to drawback a clasp of them and beryllium brutally honest."

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