Barbora Krejcikova downs Ostapenko in the quarter to play vs Rybakina at Wimbledon. HIGHLIGHTS, INTERVIEW – WIMBLEDON RESULTS

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 4^th round in 2021. Here you can see her previous results at this event.

Krejcikova added to her prize money £ 340,000 after winning this match. She has already won £ 715,000 until now in this competition. If she wins the next match, Barbora will add £ 685,000 to her earnings to get in total £ 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 3^rd 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 3^rd 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 3^rd 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 4^th (1-3) and in the 10^th (5-5) game, Krejcikova broke back in the 7^th

(3-4) and in the 9^th (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 2^nd set so as to convert the scoreline from 1-4 to 5-4.

Tiebreak

The Czech won 4 minibreaks in the 4^th (2-2), 5^th (3-2), 9^th (6-3) and 11^th (7-4) point. On the other side, Ostapenko won 2 minibreaks in the 3^rd (2-1) and 10^th (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 5^th (1-3 30-40, 40-A and 40-A), the 7^th (2-4 0-40, 15-40 and 30-40) and the 9^th 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 4^th (2-1 30-40), the 8^th (4-3 15-40 and 30-40) and the 10^th 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