Jelena Ostapenko annihilates the 2021 runner-up Garbine Muguruza 6-2 6-2 in the quarter in Doha on Thursday after playing a fantastic match to play Anett Kontaveit in the semifinal. The match lasted 1 hour and 6 minutes. Her best achievement in this event was reaching the final in 2016. Here you can see her history at this event.
The Latvian added to her prize money $ 62,289 after winning this match. She has won already $ 115,289 until now in the tournament. If she wins the next match, the Latvian will add $ 108,711 to her earnings to get in total $ 224,000.
Highlights Jelena Ostapenko vs. Garbine Muguruza Qatar TotalEnergies Open – Doha
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, the Latvian scored 64 points vs. Garbine’s 44.
Ostapenko
Jelena didn’t lose the focus when converting 60% of the break points that she procured (6/10).
Muguruza
On the other side, the Spaniard was exceptional in converting all her break points (2/2). Nonetheless, that was not enough to win the match.
After this match, the head to head between Ostapenko and Muguruza is 2-3 for Garbine.
Draw and next match H2H: Jelena Ostapenko vs. Anett Kontaveit – stats
Ostapenko will square off with Kontaveit in the semifinal.
This will be the 5th time that Jelena Ostapenko and Anett Kontaveit play each other. The head to head is 3-1 for Kontaveit (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they played, Kontaveit won 6-3 6-4 in the semifinal in St. Petersburg back in February 2022.
Live score progression and stats
Ostapenko had a strong start of this set after breaking Garbine Muguruza in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 3-0. Anyhow, that wasn’t sufficient for Ostapenko to win the set because the Spaniard succeeded in breaking back in the 5th (2-3) game. Jelena maintained her focus to break Muguruza in the 6th (4-2) and in the 8th (6-2) game.
Ostapenko converted 75% of her break points (3/4). She had 4 break points opportunities in the 2nd (1-0 30-40), the 4th (3-0 30-40), the 6th (3-2 40-A) and the 8th game (5-2 15-40). On the other side, Muguruza was clinical in converting the only break point that she conquered in the 5th game (1-3 30-40).
They contested 49 points. Jelena won 13 points more than Garbine (31-18). The Latvian conceded 6 points on serve (14-6). In addition, on the other side, the Spaniard conceded 17 points on serve (12-17).
Jelena stepped up in a great fashion to overplay the Spaniard and without too much struggle she won 6-2
. The Spaniard broke Ostapenko 3 times in the 4th (3-1), in the 6th (5-1) and in the 8th (6-2) game. However, the Latvian broke her opponent in the 7th (5-2) game, but that didn’t prevent her to conquer the set (6-2).Ostapenko failed to serve out the set when leading 5-1 to be broken at 30.
One of the most important stints of the set was when Ostapenko won 4 consecutive games in the 2nd set to convert the score from 1-1 to 5-1.
Ostapenko converted 50% of her break points (3/6). She had 6 break points opportunities in the 4th (2-1 15-40, 30-40, 40-A and 40-A), the 6th (4-1 30-40) and the 8th game (5-2 30-40). On the other side, Garbine was clinical in converting the only break point that she conquered in the 7th game (1-5 30-40).
They contested 59 points. Jelena was the one to win the set after conquering 7 more points than Garbine (33-26). Jelena surrendered 10 points on serve (14-10). Regarding the other side of the net, Muguruza conceded 19 points on serve (16-19).
Tennis Scores in Doha
- Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza (6-2 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Maria SakkariSakkari – Cori GauffGauff (6-3 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Anett KontaveitKontaveit – Ons JabeurJabeur (6-4 6-1) – Stats and score progression
- Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka (6-2 6-3) – Stats and score progression
Upcoming matches
- Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Maria SakkariSakkari (0-3) – H2H details and stats
- Anett KontaveitKontaveit – Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko (2-1) – H2H details and stats