Ostapenko reaches the final / day of the Stuttgart WTA 500 tournament
Ostapenko has earned 325 world ranking points for entering the finals. Reaching the finals allows you to return to the top 20, but the victory would allow it to be further strengthened.
Ostapenko will meet the world leader Belarusian Arin Sabalenka, who beat the Italian Jasmine Paolini (WTA 6th) in the semi-finals by 7-5, 6-4.
In Ostapenko, Ukrainian tennis player Dajan Jastremsk (WTA 46) was in the first round of the match with his redesign in this tournament doubles match with a 6-3, 3-0 lead, when Yastremsky could not continue. In the second round, the Latvian with 7-5, 3-6, 6-2 beat US tennis player Emmu Navarro (WTA 11), who was seventh in the tournament, but in the quarterfinals with 6-3, 3-6, 6-2 beat world-rank vice-leader Polish tennis player Iga Schvjontek.
Alexandrov played a 6-3, 6-3 played by compatriot Ludmil Samsonov (WTA 19), with 6-3, 6-2-another compatriot Mirra Andrejev and 6-0, 6-4-World Ranked third in American Jessica Jessica Pegul.
The two tennis players had met ten times before, dividing winning in half.
This season Ostapenko has won 11 of 20 singles and Alexandrov has 15 out of 24 games.
The Latvian tennis player starts for the seventh time in Stuttgart, finishing in the quarterfinals in 2018, but last year she lost in the first round.
Ostapenko paired with Yastremsk on Wednesday lost to the doubles match in the quarter -finals, earning 108 World doubles points.
The tournament in Stuttgart takes place in clay pavement courts.
