MELBOURNE RESULTS. Immense Ostapenko crushes Samsonova in the 1st round

Jelena Ostapenko motors past Liudmila Samsonova 6-1 6-4 in the 1^st round in Melbourne on Tuesday after playing a remarkable match to fight against Belinda Bencic in the 2^nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Ostapenko overpowered the opposition at the beginning of the set after breaking Samsonova in the 2^nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 3-0. The Latvian managed to strengthen her lead after breaking the Russian in the 6^th (5-1) game before winning the set (6-1).

2^nd set.

Both players managed to hold their serve for the entire set. The only difference was just 1 break that the Latvian conquered in the 9^th game (5-4) before winning the set (6-4).

Ludmilla had to surrender the 9^th game (5-4) when she had 3 consecutive game points when leading 40-0.

Statistics

At the end of the match, the Latvian scored 68 points vs. Ludmilla’s 47 points.

Jelena served extremely well to win 80% of the points (32/40) behind her first serve, and she won 54% points (15/28) on her second serve. Ostapenko struck 11 aces and she committed 3 double faults. The Latvian was stunning in converting all the break points (3/3). On the other side, Ludmilla wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/5). That was one of the key issues for her defeat.

After this contest, the head to head between Ostapenko and Samsonova is 1-0 for Jelena.

Highlights Jelena Ostapenko vs. Liudmila Samsonova Australian Open – Melbourne

Next Match H2H: Jelena Ostapenko vs. Belinda Bencic – stats

Ostapenko will compete against Bencic in the 2^nd round.

This will be the 2^nd time that Jelena Ostapenko and Belinda Bencic face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Ostapenko (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they played each other, Ostapenko won 6-4 3-6 6-1 in the 2^nd round in Indian Wells back in 2018.

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