The first Latvian women’s tennis racket Alona Ostapenko In the second round of the Ostrava Premier Test Tournament, he meets with the Tunisian representative Ons Žaberas.
Games between the two tennis players on the central court are scheduled for 1 pm Latvian time. The match of both players will be the first of the day in the central court.
Ostapenko WTA takes the 44th place in the ranking and participates in the tournament as a recipient of a special invitation, but in the ranking of Jabera is the 32nd place.
In the first round in Ostrava, the Latvian tennis player on Wednesday defeated Petra Martich, the Croatian representative with the fifth number, who is in the 18th place – 6-3, 6-1.
Meanwhile, Žaberas beat his home team Barbora Stricova (WTA 37) no less convincingly 6-2, 6-2.
The two tennis players have previously met each other once, with the Latvian tennis player winning 6-3, 6-4 in the quarterfinals of the ITF 75,000 series single-player tournament taking place in Sobota, Poland.
The Ostapenko tournament is the fourth after the season has resumed. After the loss in the first round of the WTA “Premier 5” tournament in Rome, Magda Linete from Poland (WTA 35) with 4-6, 3-6 Latvia’s first racket reached the quarterfinals of the WTA “International” series tournament in Strasbourg, where, fighting her abdominal pain, with 6 -7 (2: 7), 6-7 (4: 7) lost to Japanese Nao Hibino, who is ranked 84th.
Then, in the French Open, Ostapenko made it to the eighth final, where he lost 4-6, 3-6 to Spaniard Paula Badosa Hiberta (WTA 87). In the first round, the Latvian tennis player defeated the American Madison Brengl (WTA 77) in the first round game, 6-2, and in the second round, the Czech tennis player Karolina Plīškovs (WTA 2nd) with the 6-4, 6-2 round.
In all three tournaments, Ostapenko also played doubles with Canadian Gabriel Dabrovsky. In Rome they lost in the eighth final, in Strasbourg they reached the semi-finals, but the “French Open” Latvian / Canadian duo stopped in the eighth final.
In Ostrava, she has already overcome the first round of doubles, because on Monday, in a pair with the Russian Vera Zvonarjov, they defeated Victoria Azarenko from Belarus 1-6, 6-4, 10: 4 and the Czech Karolina Muhov.
After the fight against Jabera Ostapenko, he will have to go to the court again on Thursday – in a doubles match.
This season, Ostapenko’s balance is 8-6 in WTA single-player tournaments and 12-6 in doubles.
Meanwhile, Jabera has accumulated a balance of 22-10 in singles this season.
Ostapenko’s opponent plays steadily, and only in the first tournament of the year in the Shenzhen International Series and in the Rome Premier 5 Tournament did they win. In the biggest competition of the year, she has reached the quarterfinals of the Australian Open, with 4-6, 4-6 conceding the next American winner, Sofia Kenina, but knocking out the 12th numbered British athlete Joanna Kontu and the 27th numbered Chinese athlete Cian Vanu.
In the US Open Championship, the Tunisian conceded to Kenina in the third round in the third round – 6-7 (4: 7), 3-6, but the “French Open” reached the eighth final, where he did not overcome the barrier of other American Daniel Collins (WTA 57) – 4- 6, 6-4, 4-6, before knocking out the eighth racket of the tournament, Belarusian Arina Sabalenk, from the fight for the trophy.
After the resumption of the competition at the end of the summer, this will be the sixth tournament for a Tunisian woman, accumulating a balance of 11-5 during this time.
In the third round, the winner of this match will meet the Greek Maria Sakari, who is in the 23rd position and who, after winning the housewife Kristīna Pliškova (WTA 68) with 6-3, 6-3 sensationally, also dealt with the main Ukrainian favorite with the same result. Jelina Switolina.
Meanwhile, Sevastova, who ranks 54th in the WTA rating, is not participating in the tournament.
The Ostrava Open tournament takes place on a hard surface.
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