Emma Raducanu v Ons Jabeur LIVE: Score and updates from Abu Dhabi Open clash

Jabeur starts her service game with a tidy volley to go ahead, but Raducanu’s winner pulls it back to 15-all.

Jabeur pulls ahead with a great forehand passing shot, and backs it up with an ace.

However, a missed backhand down the line at 40-15 brings the British player back into it, but she has no answers to the final serve.

Raducanu wins the first point, but some good play from the baseline sees Jabeur level at 15-all.

The British player pulls ahead at 30-15 and then made is 40-15 with relative ease.

For a player who was ill in Australia and dealt with a host of injury problems over the last year, she is looking more herself in this match.

But she misses a volley to win the set and Jabeur takes it to deuce. Jabeur secures an advantage and wins the game.

Raducanu will serve first against the former world number two

The temperatures are dropping slightly in the desert of Abu Dhabi, and Raducanu is just warming up her serve...the match will get underway shortly

This is the first meeting between the two players on the WTA tour, but Jabeur goes in as the favourite, ranked as the second seed for the tournament.

Raducanu and Jabeur are just warming up ahead of the highly-anticipated match.

Cirstea said on court after the match: “This (waiting a long time to start) is one of the one of the hardest things in tennis, waiting around and warming up 2-3 times. I’m definitely very happy with the win tonight.”

Cirstea is 5-1 up in the second set.

Sakkari managed to save one match point at 40-15, but could not do the same for the second and the Romanian has won in Abu Dhabi.

The Romanian is 4-1 up in the second set and could claim victory soon against the tournament number three seed.

Emma Raducanu takes on Ons Jabeur at the Abu Dhabi Open with a place in the quarter-finals up for grabs.

Raducanu advanced to the last-16 as she breezed past world number 26 Marie Bouzkova 6-4 6-1 on Monday, winning 10 of her final 11 games to book a meeting with three-time grand slam finalist Jabeur, the tournament’s second seed.

Former US Open champion Raducanu is playing in just her third tournament in eight months, having compiled a 3-2 record since returning from multiple wrist and ankle surgeries at the start of the season.

The 21-year-old fell at the second hurdle at both the Auckland International and the Australian Open, where she battled a stomach bug in her three-set defeat to Wafan Wang.

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