Jessica Pegula and Jelena Ostapenko will clash against each other in the 2^nd round of the Qatar TotalEnergies Open for the 4^th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 5:30 pm on Center Court. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Jessica Pegula who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Jessica Pegula is the pick to win this match.
Jessica Pegula -> 1.47
Jelena Ostapenko -> 2.69

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Prediction and head to head Jessica Pegula vs. Jelena Ostapenko

This will be the 4^th time that Jessica Pegula and Jelena Ostapenko square off. The head to head is 2-1

for Pegula (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they locked horns, Pegula won 6-2 7-5 in the 2^nd round in Doha back in 2021.

Jessica Pegula

Ranked no. 4, the American will start her run in Doha after she played her last match at the Melbourne where she lost 6-4 6-1 to Azarenka in the quarter on the 24^th of January.

Pegula has a composed 8-2 win-loss record in 2023, 8-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Her best result of the current year was winning the title in Australia where she defeated Martina Trevisan in the final 6-4 6-2.

Talking about her overall career, The American has an overall 343-214 record. She has a positive 185-107 record on hard.

Previously in Doha

Previously, her best result was reaching the semifinal in 2021. See her history.

Jelena Ostapenko

Ranked no. 14, Ostapenko reached the 2^nd round after beating Madison Keys 7-5 6-2.

In the 1^st round, Ostapenko had a good straight sets win against Keys (7-5 6-2). During the match Ostapenko scored 73 points vs Keys’s 55. Jelena was extremely aggressive to blast 24 winners.

About the serving games, Ostapenko managed to score 4 aces and she committed only 4 double faults. Overall, Jelena Ostapenko was extremely effective on serve to win 83% (24/29) of her 1st serve and 56% (15/27) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve once. The Latvian broke Keys 4 times after converting 80% of her break points (4/5).

Jelena has a compiled 7-4 win-loss record in 2023, 7-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Doha

Previously, her best result was reaching the final in 2016. See her history.

Tennis Scores in Doha

• Jonas MerckxMerckx – Manuel GuinardGuinard (6-4 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Valentin GuentherGuenther – Matteo MartineauMartineau (6-4 3-6 7-6⁶) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Julien DubailDubail – Sidane PontjodikromoPontjodikromo (6-4 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Jeroen VannesteVanneste – Romain BarbosaBarbosa (6-3 3-6 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Rio NoguchiNoguchi – Yannick VandenbulckeVandenbulcke (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Louis WesselsWessels – Mateusz TerczynskiTerczynski (6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Darya KasatkinaKasatkina – Rebecca MarinoMarino (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins (1-1) – H2H and prediction
• Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka – Belinda BencicBencic (2-0) – H2H and prediction
• Cori GauffGauff – Petra KvitovaKvitova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Sofia KeninKenin – Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Maria SakkariSakkari – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (5-1) – H2H and prediction
• Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Caroline GarciaGarcia (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Jessica PegulaPegula (1-2) – H2H and prediction