Ostapenko does not overcome the third round of the French Open Championship / Day
Ostapenko, who is ranked 21st in the WTA ranked with the same number in the Main Event, lost in the third round with a 2-6, 2-6 loss to Kazakh athlete Yelena Ribakina (WTA 11th).
In the first set of the first set, Ostapenko made five double mistakes, leading Ribakina, who also won the second game, reaching 2-0. The Latvian won the second family of her serve, reducing the deficit, but lost to another serve in the set, which allowed the opponent to reach 5-2.
The Kazakh athlete won the next game and was successful in the first set with 6-2.
The second set also began with Ostapenko’s loss of his serve, and Ribakina was at a lead of 3-1. The Latvian continued to lose another serve of her serve, but in the sixth genus she made a mistake for Kazakhstan’s tennis player, winning the opponent’s serve and reaching 2-4.
Ostapenko lost his serve again, and Ribakina was in the next match with the first match in the set and throughout the game.
The Latvian tennis player has earned 130 WTA ranking points for reaching the third round.
In the first round, Ostapenko played Russian Polin Kuodmetov (WTA 58) with 5-7, 6-0, 6-2, and in the second with 5-7, 6-3, 6-3 outscored American Kerolain Dolehaid (WTA 66).
Ribakina defeated Argentine Hulia Rier (WTA 202) in a sequential with 6-1, 4-6, 6-4 and US tennis player Iva Jovich (WTA 129) with 6-3, 6-3.
The Latvian tennis player has won 15 games this season and has suffered 12 losses and has won the Stuttgart’s WTA 500 series. Ribakina has won 26 successes this season in 35 matches. She has won the WTA 500 series tournament with clay pavement last week and has reached the quarter -finals in three tournaments. In the Australian Open Championship, the tennis player reached the eighth final.
The 27 -year -old Ostapenko started the 11th time in the French Open Championship and started the competition for the tenth time in the Main Event. In 2017, she became the winner of the French Open, winning one of the biggest success in the history of Latvian sports, but after that, she failed to get further than the third round in the Cours of Paris. Last year, Ostapenko was up to the second round.
The 25 -year -old Kazakhstan plays for the seventh time in the second Grand Slam of the season, reaching the quarter -finals in 2021 and 2024.
Ostapenko paired with Taiwanese Suveju Sji also plays in doubles. The Latvian and Taiwan duo, which is sown in third, won the international duo Anna Bondar (Hungary)/Greta Minnen (Belgium) in the first round on Thursday with 6-3, 3-6, 7-6 (10: 3).
In the second round, Ostapenko earned 130 world ranking points.
It has already been reported that Darya Semenista « French Open » did not win the first round.
The French Open Championship is the second of the season « Grand Slam ».
