• The first racket of the Baltics played 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 today’s first set, Ostapenko did not hold serve three times (0:1, 0:3, 0:5) and lost with 0:6. Net wins to unforced errors: 4-9 to 5-1. Total points – 9:25.
• It was 15-17 degrees in Madrid today.
→ → At the beginning of the second set, Žabera effectively broke Ostapenko’s serve, but the Latvian tennis player won the next four episodes (1:1) and made it 2:1, finishing with a run. The score became 3:2 and 4:3, but in the eighth game, Ostapenko did not use the break opportunity. The representative of Latvia did not hold her serve (4:5) and lost with 4:6.
• In this tournament, Jaber’s coach is Fernando Verdasco (Spain), who continued his career as a player last season.
• Ostapenko played for the first time in the 1/8 finals of the Madrid tournament.
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 1/8 final, 120 points are due for the rank and 88,440 euros in prize money, while the 1/4 final participant earns 215 points and 161,995 euros.
# The Latvian-Ukrainian tandem Alyona Ostapenko/Ludmila Kichenoka will find out their opponent in the 1/4 finals of the doubles match today.
Resources used:
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