The first seven games of the match were played without breakballs. Alona Ostapenko in the eighth game from the 30: 0 position he gave the opponent a break ball, which he also played – with a combination of diagonal strokes.
Ostapenko in the next game Paul Bados broke down “dry”, forcing the Spaniard twice to make a mistake and twice winning the Bados second serve. A successful hit by the line on the line resulted in a triple break ball, to which Paula reacted with a double error.
Ostapenko did not serve a set at 5: 4. She corrected the mistakes from 0:40 played a triple break ball, but then hit the net and did not deal with the fourth break ball. In a simple situation, he made a mistake.
Before Taiwan, the Latvian tennis player had the only “dry” service game in the match, but in Taiwan, due to mistakes, he was defeated, losing in all games. Ostapenko got the only point in the shooting at 0: 4 with Bados’ double mistake.
After winning the 1st set, Ostapenko was not competitive in the next set, being able to win only one game in the 0: 1 draw.
Statistics
| Ostapenko | Badosa | |
|---|---|---|
| Eisi | 0 | 3 |
| Double errors | 5 | 4 |
| 1. serves accuracy | 56% | 57% |
| 1. serves points | 21/36 | 24/31 |
| 2. serves points | 9/28 | 10/23 |
| Breakballs | 2/2 | 5/13 |
| All points | 50 | 68 |
Ostapenko competed for the third time with his peer Bados, who lost in two of three fights. She also made concessions to the Spaniard in the 3rd round of the French Open in 2020 (4: 6, 3: 6), but won the first round of last year’s 6: 2, 6: 2 WTA 500 tournament in St. Petersburg.
The Latvian tennis leader played for the fourth time in Sydney, where he lost in all four matches – once in qualifying (2016) and three times in the main event (2018-19, 2022). Ostapenko will still have a doubles tournament in Sydney with Ukrainian tennis player Lyudmila Kichenok.
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