• The first racket of the Baltics will compete in the main stadium of the tournament Alon Ostapenko (#10) and Tunisia’s leading tennis player Onsa Jabert (#9), who won the 2022 Madrid “WTA 1000”.
• In mutual matches, the balance is 2-2. In the last meeting, our player lost on Stuttgart clay last year – 6:1, 5:7, 3:6.
• From the point of view of bookmakers, the Latvian tennis player is a slight favorite this time.
• In 2024, Ostapenko’s record is 21-8, while Jabera has accumulated 5-7.
• Lately, the Tunisian has periodically been having pain in her knee, but this year she won two matches in a row for the first time.
• In the current tournament Jaber defeated (6:4, 5:7, 6:3) Slovakian Karolina Schmidlova (#68) and beat (7:5, 2:6, 6:4) Canadian Leila Fernandez (#35). Ostapenko won (6:3, 6:1) Jessica Bousas (#93) from Spain and defeated (6:3, 6:3) Maria Carla (#82) from Argentina.
• During her career, 26-year-old Ostapenko has won eight WTA tournaments, including the Adelaide “WTA 500” in January and the Linz “WTA 500” in February. The Tunisian tennis player, who is three years older, has four major titles.
• At the “Grand Slam” level, Ostapenko has the “French Open” title (2017) and the Wimbledon semifinals (2018). Jabert fought in the finals of the US Open (2022) and the Wimbledon finals (2022, 2023), and also reached the quarterfinals of the Australian Open (2020) and the French Open (2023).
• In the “Madrid Open” tournament, Ostapenko starts for the seventh time (the best achievement is the 1/8 finals this year). Jabera is competing here for the third time, including becoming the champion in 2022.
Ostapenko’s best achievements in “WTA 1000” tournaments
| Doha | The final | 2016 |
| Miami | The final | 2018 |
| Indian Wells | 1/2 final | 2021 |
| Rome | 1/2 final | 2023 |
| Beijing | 1/2 final | 2017 |
| Wuhan | 1/2 final | 2017 |
| Dubai | 1/8 final | 2023 2024 |
| Guadalajara | 1/8 final | 2022 2023 |
| Toronto/Montreal | 1/8 final | 2019 |
| Cincinnati | 1/8 final | 2021 |
| Madrid | 1/8 final | 2024 |
• For the Latvian tennis player, this tournament is very important in order to stay in the top ten of the world ranking.
• After reaching the 1/8 finals, Jabera admitted in an interview with “Tennis Channel” that the court in Madrid is very suitable for her game.
• During the match between Ostapenko and Jabert, it could be 15-17 degrees in Madrid.
• The winner of today’s duel will advance to the 1/4 finals, where she will face American Coco Goff (#3) or American Madison Keys (#20).
Resources used:
wtatennis.com
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