Latvia’s first women’s tennis racket Alona Ostapenko today in Indian Wells “WTA The second round of the 1000 “series tournament will meet with the American Shelby Rogers.
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The match on the fourth card will be third and will start at about midnight Latvian time.
Ostapenko is ranked 12th in the WTA and tenth in the tournament, while Rogers is ranked 49th in the world.
Ostapenko was free from the first round of battles, but Rogers defeated Nuryia Parris-Dias (WTA 45) 6-1, 5-7, 7-6 (7: 3).
After returning from the Australian Open, where he was in the third round, the Latvian tennis player has a successful season cut. She first reached the semi-finals of the WTA 500 tournament in St. Petersburg, then triumphed in the same competition in Dubai, and reached the semi-finals of the WTA 1000 series in Doha, where, like in St. Petersburg, the Estonian conceded. Anetei Kontaveitai. This season Ostapenko has won 14 battles in 18 battles.
Roger’s most successful was the first tournament of the season – the Adelaide “WTA 500” series. She made it to the quarterfinals, but lost the first game in the next three tournaments. There are two wins and four losses in her account this season.
Ostapenko has met Rogers three times in his career, winning the Latvian tennis player. In 2017, in Rome, Ostapenko was superior in two sets, but in the 2019 Charleston tournament in the USA and in the quarterfinals of last year’s Indian Wells tournament, the Latvian tennis player was superior in three sets.
Ostapenko has won five WTA tournaments so far, but Rogers has no titles yet.
Ostapenko will play in Indian Wells for the fifth time in his career. She lost the first three times in the second match, but reached the semi-finals last year, losing to Belarus in three sets Victoria Azarenka. Meanwhile, the American has participated in the competition six times, going beyond the second game only in 2021.
In the 1/16 finals, the winner of this match will compete against the tournament’s 18th racket – last year’s US Open Championship from Canada Leila Fernandes (WTA 21st) or US tennis player Amanda Anisimov (WTA 43rd).
It has already been reported that on Friday, Ostapenko lost to Ukrainian tennis player Lyudmila Kichenok in the first round of the doubles tournament, conceding 1-6, 6-4, 7:10 to US tennis player Kerolain Dolehide and Australian Storm Senders.
Ostapenko earned ten world doubles rankings for participating in the tournament.
The hardwood tournament in Indian Wells will run until March 20th.
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