Sevastova beat Ostapenko and reaches the third round / day of the Madrid WTA 1000 tournament

Sevastova, outside the WTA rank, beat Ostapenko (WTA 18) with a 7-6 (7: 2), 6-2.

In the introduction to the first set, both Sevastov and Ostapenko won the opponent’s serve family, but then both protected their serve, keeping the result in a draw (2-2). In the fifth and sixth round, both Latvians again won at the opponent’s serve.

Sevastov continued to win two games in a row with a lead of 5-3, but Ostapenko was superior to the next two games and reached a draw again 5-5. Both tennis players once again won the opponent’s serve family (6-6), but Sevastova was superior in Taipei with 7: 2.

The second set began with two winning Ostapenko geys, but Sevastova was superior to the next six games, winning the set with 6-2 and success in the match.

In the third round of the winner, he will meet Russian Diana Schna (WTA 13th), who has been sown in the tournament with number 13.

Sevastova earned 65 WTA rank points for reaching the third round, while Ostapenko scored 35 WTA singles.

Ostapenko was free from the first round, but Sevastov outscored Russian Anastasia Pavlochenkov (WTA 47) by 6-4, 7-5.

The roads of both Latvian tennis players have previously crossed twice. Sevastova won the 2015 Moscow Tournament Qualifying and in the first round of the 2019 Stuttgart Tournament.

Ostapenko this was the first match after Monday’s winning Stuttgart’s WTA 500. Ostapenko was the first title of the season and the ninth career.

Sevastova won the first round of the International Tennis Federation (ITF) in the first round of the International Tennis Federation (ITF) in the first round of the International Tennis Federation (ITF) last week, but did not finish the second round. Sevastova was not in the WTA before the Madrid tournament, but you can play with a protected ranking position in the Main Event.

Sevastova broke the cross ligaments of the left knee in March last year and did not play for more than a year. Before that, she had almost two years in professional tennis.

Former Latvia’s first racket in Sevastov’s career has won four WTA titles and reached the world rank 11th in 2018.

In the Madrid tournament, Sevastov plays for the fifth time, finishing the best in 2017, when he fought to the semi -finals. Ostapenko is fighting for the eighth time in the Spanish capital, reaching the fourth round last year, so she has to defend 120 ranking points this year.

The WTA 1000 tournament in Madrid takes place in clay pavement courts.