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Latvian tennis player Alona Ostapenko on Wednesday in the United Kingdom in straight sets with 6-3, 6-4 won Johann Kontu's home in the second round of the Birmingham tournament and qualified for the quarter-finals, according to the organizers. For the first time since early April, Ostapenko has won two consecutive matches in the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) tournaments.
The opponent of Ostapenko will be Croatian Petra Martiča (WTA 25).
The 7th ranked WTA ranking this week is the 18th and the lawn is her favorite cover, but the British tennis player could not resist the pressure of the competition. During the match in Ostapenko, eight double mistakes were made, which proves that she still had problems with her, but the owner of rank 37 was superior in less than 80 minutes.
Two consecutive victories in WTA tournaments Ostapenko had not had since early April, while he was playing eighth in Charleston.
It has already been reported that in the first round of Birmingham, Ostapenko defeated 18-year-old Igu Svjontek. Ostapenko alongside Kazakh tennis players Galina Voskoboyev, also participates in the doubles, where he reached the second round.
In Birmingham, the tennis players will share a prize pool of $ 1 million and win a ranking of 470. Five of the top 10 tennis players of the tournament participated in the tournament, including the Japanese leader Naomi Osaka.
Anastasia Sevastova, Latvian women's tennis leader, will then play in the second round of the match.
In field tennis tournaments, tennis players are gearing up for the third Grand Slam season, the Wimbledon Championship, starting the first day of July.
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