Ons Jabeur suffered a remarkable «brain freeze» during her French Open quarter-final against Beatriz Haddad Maia on Wednesday at a very important moment midway through the deciding set.
Serving in an extended deuce while 3-1 down in the crucial third set, Jabeur found the line with an exquisite delivery out wide to Haddad Maia's backhand side, but then inexplicably stopped playing and lost the point on Court Philippe-Chatrier.
Ad The reason? She thought that the serve had gone out, so kicked the return away with her foot as it came back from her Brazilian opponent.
It was a perplexing mistake from the 28-year-old at a critical moment in the match when she was trying to hold serve and put the pressure back on the 14th seed.
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