Petra Kvitova gets the better of Jelena Ostapenko 6-2 5-7 6-1 in the 3rd round in Doha on Wednesday. Kvitova will have to play Karolina Pliskova or Ons Jabeur in the 4th round.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Ostapenko had a running start at the beginning of the set after breaking Kvitova in the 1st game (1-0). Yet, Petra managed to stage a good comeback to break the Latvian 3 times in the 4th (2-2), in the 6th (4-2) gamein the 8th game before winning the set (6-2) after breaking his opponent in the last game.
The Latvian was dominated in the last 6 games of the set (from 0-2 to 6-2).
2nd set.
The Latvian won the set after she broke the Czech 4 times in the 3rd (2-1), in the 5th (3-2), in the 9th (5-4) and in the 11th (6-5) game. The Czech tried to stage a comeback breaking 3 times in the 4th (2-2), in the 6th (3-3) and in the 10th (5-5) game. Nonetheless, Jelena maintained the focus before winning the set 7-5.
Jelena failed to serve out the set when leading 5-4 to be broken at 15.
3rd set.
Kvitova had a great start in this set after breaking Ostapenko in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 5-0. Kvitova managed to boost her lead after breaking the Latvian in the 4th (4-0) game before conquering the set (6-1).
It is worth noting that a key moment of this match was when Kvitova won 5 consecutive games in the 3rd set to change the scoreline from 0-0 to 5-0.
Statistics
At the end of the match, the Czech scored 102 points vs. Ostapenko’s 79 points.
Kvitova won this match even if she wasn’t that great in converting her break points since she converted only 47% (8/17). On the other side, the Latvian was sharp when converting 56% of the break points that she conquered points (5/9). Notwithstanding, that was not enough to win the match.
After this contest, the head to head between Kvitova and Ostapenko is 4-3 for Petra.
Highlights Petra Kvitova vs. Jelena Ostapenko Qatar Total Open – Doha
Next Match H2H: Petra Kvitova vs. Karolina Pliskova or Ons Jabeur – stats
Kvitova will come up against either Karolina Pliskova or Ons Jabeur in the 4th round. The head to head is 3-1 vs. Karolina Pliskova and 1-0 vs. Ons Jabeur.
Tennis Scores in Doha
- Petra KvitovaKvitova – Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko (6-2 5-7 6-1) – See score progression
- Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Maria SakkariSakkari (6-3 6-0) – See score progression
- Belinda BencicBencic – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Saisai ZhengZheng – Kiki BertensBertens (3-6 6-3 6-4) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Ashleigh BartyBarty – Elena RybakinaRybakina (1-0) – See H2H details
- Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza – Dayana YastremskaYastremska (1-2) – See H2H details
- Karolina PliskovaPliskova – Ons JabeurJabeur (1-0) – See H2H details
- Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova – Svetlana KuznetsovaKuznetsova (0-0) – See H2H details
- Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – Belinda BencicBencic (3-1) – See H2H details
- Saisai ZhengZheng – Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka (1-1) – See H2H details
