Barbora Krejcikova prevails over Jelena Ostapenko 6-4 7-6(4) in the quarter in London on Wednesday. Krejcikova will square off with Elena Rybakina in the semifinal. The match lasted 1 hour and 40 minutes. This will be her best achievement in this event. In the past, the best she could do was reaching the 4th round in 2021. Here you can see her previous results at this event.
Krejcikova added to her prize money ÂŁ 340,000 after winning this match. She has already won ÂŁ 715,000 until now in this competition. If she wins the next match, Barbora will add ÂŁ 685,000 to her earnings to get in total ÂŁ 1,400,000.
Highlights Barbora Krejcikova vs. Jelena Ostapenko Wimbledon – London
Krejcikova’s Interview
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, the Czech scored 81 points vs. Jelena’s 67.
Krejcikova
The Czech served pretty well to win 81% of the points (38/47) behind her first serve. Nevertheless she won only 47% points (8/17) on her second serve. The Czech won this match even if she was far from perfect in converting her break points as she converted only 38% (3/8) of the procured opportunities.
Ostapenko
On the other side, the Latvian was far from perfect in converting her break points (only 40% – 2/5). That was one of the key issues for her defeat.
After this match, the head to head between Krejcikova and Ostapenko is 3-5 for Jelena.
Draw and next match H2H: Barbora Krejcikova vs. Elena Rybakina – stats
Krejcikova will face Rybakina in the semifinal.
This will be the 3rd time that Barbora Krejcikova and Elena Rybakina fight against each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Krejcikova (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on grass.
The last time that they played, Krejcikova won 3-6 7-64 6-4 in the semifinal in Ostrava back in 2022.
Live score progression and stats
Both players managed to hold their serve for the entire set. The only difference was just 1 break that Barbora grabbed in the 3rd game (2-1) just before finally winning the set (6-4).
Krejcikova was clinical in converting the only break point that she conquered in the 3rd game (1-1 40-A). On the other side, Barbora didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They played 49 points. Krejcikova was the one to win the set after conquering 5 points more than Ostapenko (27-22). Krejcikova was extremely solid on serve to concede just 3 points (20-3). In addition, on the other side, Ostapenko conceded 7 points on serve (19-7).
Barbora won the set after recovering 2 times from a break down. In fact, after dropping her serve in the 4th (1-3) and in the 10th (5-5) game, Krejcikova broke back in the 7th (3-4) and in the 9th (5-4) game before bringing the set at the breaker that she won 7-4.
Krejcikova failed to serve out the set when leading 5-4 to be broken at 40.
There was an important spell in this set when the Czech won 4 consecutive games in the 2nd set so as to convert the scoreline from 1-4 to 5-4.
Tiebreak
The Czech won 4 minibreaks in the 4th (2-2), 5th (3-2), 9th (6-3) and 11th (7-4) point. On the other side, Ostapenko won 2 minibreaks in the 3rd (2-1) and 10th (4-6) point.
Barbora won the tiebreak 7-4 after she conquered a decisive 5-3 lead.
This was the tiebreak sequence: 0-1, 1-1, 1-2, 2-2, 3-2, 4-2, 5-2, 5-3, 6-3, 6-4, 7-4
Krejcikova converted 28% of her break points (2/7). She had 7 break points opportunities in the 5th (1-3 30-40, 40-A and 40-A), the 7th (2-4 0-40, 15-40 and 30-40) and the 9th game (4-4 15-40). Moreover, on the other side, the Latvian converted 40% of her break points (2/5). She had her opportunities in the 4th (2-1 30-40), the 8th (4-3 15-40 and 30-40) and the 10th game (4-5 30-40 and 40-A).
They played 99 points. The Czech was the winner of the set after clinching 7 more points than Jelena (53-46). The Czech dropped 16 points on serve (25-16). on the other side of the net, Jelena conceded 28 points on serve (30-28).
Tennis Scores in Wimbledon
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Elina SvitolinaSvitolina (6-3 6-2)
- Barbora KrejcikovaKrejcikova – Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko (6-4 7-64)
- Donna VekicVekic – Lulu SunSun (5-7 6-4 6-1)
- Jasmine PaoliniPaolini – Emma NavarroNavarro (6-2 6-1)
Upcoming matches
- Barbora KrejcikovaKrejcikova – Elena RybakinaRybakina (2-0) – H2H details and stats
- Donna VekicVekic – Jasmine PaoliniPaolini (1-2) – H2H details and stats