Ostapenko and Sevastov lead second round of WTA – Tennis – Sports tournaments



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Ostapenko, the state's second racket, will participate today in the match of the first Birmingham series II, at 16:30 Latvian time, with British tennis player Johann Kontu. with Almond Tomlanovich from Australia.

Ostapenko takes the 37th place of the WTA ranking, but his opponent account now occupies the 18th place. She received the seventh issue of her home tournament in Birmingham.

Ostapenko on Monday beat Igu Svyatek (WTA 65), who had already beaten the tournament on Monday in the first round of 6-0 and 6-2 at the Birmingham tournament. In the first round, Ostapenko had 55 WTA points.

Meanwhile, in the first round of the account with 6-4 and 6-2, Aneti Kontaveit, first Estonian racket, ranked 20th.

Ostapenko and the count have already met four times, winning just one win.

For the first time, tennis players met at the Federation Cup held in Estonia in 2017, where Konta was ranked higher on two hardcover sets. The next two-leg match took place in the third round of the Eastbourne First Tournament, where the British tennis player still won, and in the third duel on the clay floor, Ostapenko was able to win the first victory in 2018. The last fight between the two athletes took place last August at the WTA Premier Race of Montreal, when the first round of their third victory in the match was won by the account.

Latvia has won eight victories this season and suffered 15 defeats, while the main winners of the WTA account totaled 33 matches and 24 wins. The British tennis player has played twice in the final at the last four tournaments and has already made it once in the semi-finals (French Open Championship), but everything was covered, while Ostapenko was ranked last in semifinal at Wimbledon last year. In total, the account has participated in three semifinals of the Grand Slam race during his career. The only one that has not yet succeeded is the US Open Championship.

Ostapenko played for the last time for the Birmingham tournament in 2016, when he arrived in the quarter-finals, but the count of these competitions was played last year, but he left the first round .

The highest ranking WTA account was in July 2017, when she took the ranks of the world's fourth racket, while Ostapenko reached her career record next year, the fifth.

During his career, the account has been run by three WTA trophies, while the Latvian has one less. The most brilliant victory of Ostapenko's career was the triumph of 2017 in the French Open Championship.

In addition, the second racket of Latvia has reached the second round of competitions in double play. The duo of Ostapenko with the tennis players of Kazakhstan Galina Woskoboyev in the first round with 6-0, 6-7 (3: 7), 10: 8 has gone beyond British specialist Sare Betu Gray and Eden Silv.

At the start of the second round or quarter-finals, Ostapenko received 100 WTA points in doubles.

At the Birmingham tournament, Larissa Neilande has already won six trophies in doubles.

Meanwhile, in Mallorca, Sevastov, Latvia's first racquet, ranked 12th in second place and number two in the tournament, will meet Tomlanovich, owner of 47th place in the world in the second round.

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