A blistering start from Ostapenko saw the Latvian unleash a forehand winner to break Swiatek in the opening game of the contest and she surrendered just one point on her way to a 2-0 lead.
The American is set to make her Top 20 debut after winning the biggest title of her career at the Qatar Total Energies Open.
Quick to start, quick to finish: Ostapenko started as she meant to go on: blitzing a forehand return winner on the first point of the match, and another to capture the Swiatek serve in the first game.
Ostapenko, as we know ... The Pole likes to take long swings, with an extreme Western grip, on her forehand side. But against this opponent, she doesn’t have time. She also likes to control ...
One of the strangest head-to-heads in tennis got a little bit stranger last week. Jelena Ostapenko extended her record against the five-time Grand Slam champion and current world No. 2 Iga Swiatek ...
A blistering start for Ostapenko Ostapenko started as she meant to go on: blitzing a forehand return winner on the first point of the match, and another to capture the Swiatek serve in the first game.
A blistering start from Ostapenko saw the Latvian unleash a forehand winner to break Swiatek in the opening game of the contest and she surrendered just one point on her way to a 2-0 lead.
Anisimova coolly served out the one-set lead, deploying an error-forcing forehand on her first set point. Anisimova had 10 winners to Ostapenko's nine in the opener, while Ostapenko was undone by 19 ...
Three-time defending Qatar Open champion Iga Swiatek suffered a crushing 6-3, 6-1 defeat by Jelena Ostapenko in the semi-finals on Friday, her fifth loss in as many meetings with the mercurial Latvian ...