Jelena Ostapenko dispatches Anastasia Potapova 6-4 6-2 in the 2nd round in Rome on Friday. Ostapenko will engage against Sara Sorribes Tormo in the 3rd round. The match lasted 1 hour and 37 minutes. Her best result in this competition was reaching the semifinal in 2023. Here you can see her history at this event.
The Latvian added to her prize money € 13,470 after conquering this match. She has already won € 30,435 after this win. If she wins the next match, the Latvian will add € 22,045 to her earnings to get in total € 52,480 in total.
Highlights Jelena Ostapenko vs. Anastasia Potapova Internazionali BNL d’Italia – Rome
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDYv5Q6XZiY
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, the Latvian scored 73 points vs. Anastasia’s 63.
Ostapenko
The Latvian was pretty focused in converting 60% of the break points that she procured (6/10).
Potapova
On the other side, the Russian was struggling when converting her break points (only 33% – 3/9). That was one of the key issues for her demise.
After this match, the head to head between Ostapenko and Potapova is 2-0 for Jelena.
Draw and next match H2H: Jelena Ostapenko vs. Sara Sorribes Tormo – stats
Ostapenko will play Sorribes Tormo in the 3rd round.
This will be the 3rd time that Jelena Ostapenko and Sara Sorribes Tormo play each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Sorribes Tormo (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they fought against each other, Sorribes Tormo won 7-63 6-4 in the 1st round in Linz back in 2016.
Live score progression and stats
Jelena won the set after she broke Anastasia in the 4th (3-1) and in the 10th (6-4) game. Anastasia tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 7th (4-3) game. Nevertheless, Jelena didn’t make any concession anymore to conquer the set 6-4.
The Latvian failed to serve out the set when leading 6-4 to be broken at 30.
Ostapenko converted 50% of her break points (2/4). She had 4 break points opportunities in the 4th (2-1 30-40) and the 10th game (5-4 40-A, 40-A and 40-A). Also, on the other side, Potapova converted 50% of her break points (1/2). She had her opportunities in the 5th (1-3 30-40) and the 6th game (2-4 30-40).
They played 77 points. The set was a huge battle since finally Jelena won just 3 more points than Anastasia (40-37). Jelena dropped 18 points on serve (26-18). In addition, on the other side, the Russian conceded 14 points on serve (19-14).
Ostapenko was quite dominant at the beginning of the set to break Anastasia Potapova in the 2nd game (2-0). Nonetheless, that was not enough for the Latvian to win the set as Potapova succeeded in breaking back in the 3rd (1-2) and in the 5th (2-3) game. Jelena kept her focus to break Anastasia in the 4th (3-1), in the 6th (4-2) and in the 8th (6-2) game.
Jelena converted 66% of her break points (4/6). She had 6 break points opportunities in the 1st (0-0 15-40), the 4th (2-1 40-A), the 6th (3-2 30-40) and the 8th game (5-2 15-40, 30-40 and 40-A). Moreover, on the other side, Anastasia converted 28% of her break points (2/7). She had her opportunities in the 3rd (0-2 40-A, 40-A and 40-A), the 5th (1-3 30-40) and the 7th game (2-4 0-40, 15-40 and 30-40).
They played 59 points. The Latvian conquered the set after winning 7 points more than the Russian (33-26). Jelena lost 17 points on serve (15-17). On the other side, Anastasia conceded 18 points on serve (9-18).
Tennis Scores in Rome
- Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Anastasia PotapovaPotapova (6-4 6-2)
- Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins – Anna BlinkovaBlinkova (6-4 ret.)
- Maria SakkariSakkari – Varvara GrachevaGracheva (6-2 6-2)
- Sara Sorribes TormoSorribes Tormo – Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova (6-3 1-6 7-5)
- Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya – Clara TausonTauson (6-1 6-2)
- Elise MertensMertens – Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova (6-1 6-4)
- Sofia KeninKenin – Ons JabeurJabeur (7-5 2-6 6-4)
- Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Bernarda PeraPera (6-0 6-2)
- Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – Sloane StephensStephens (6-3 6-2)
- Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova – Ana BogdanBogdan (6-2 3-6 6-4)
- Cori GauffGauff – Magdalena FrechFrech (6-3 6-3)
- Sorana CirsteaCirstea – Brenda FruhvirtovaFruhvirtova (7-5 6-0)
- Linda NoskovaNoskova – Lucrezia StefaniniStefanini (6-3 7-61)
- Jaqueline CristianCristian – Elina AvanesyanAvanesyan (5-7 6-2 6-2)
- Daria KasatkinaKasatkina – Tatjana MariaMaria (7-5 6-1)
- Paula Badosa GibertBadosa Gibert – Emma NavarroNavarro (1-6 6-4 6-2)
- Angelique KerberKerber – Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova (6-3 6-0)
- Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (6-0 6-1)
- Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia – Xinyu WangWang (4-6 6-3 6-4)
- Naomi OsakaOsaka – Marta KostyukKostyuk (6-3 6-2)
- Diana ShnaiderShnaider – Liudmila SamsonovaSamsonova (6-1 6-3)
- Qinwen ZhengZheng – Shelby RogersRogers (6-2 6-0)
- Madison KeysKeys – Maria Camila Osorio SerranoCamila Osorio Serrano (6-0 4-6 6-3)
- Anhelina KalininaKalinina – Lesya TsurenkoTsurenko (2-0 ret.)
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