Jelena Ostapenko and Taylor Townsend will clash against each other in the 2^nd round of the U.S. Open for the 3^rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 2:00 pm on Court 11. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Jelena Ostapenko who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Jelena Ostapenko is the pick to win this match.
Jelena Ostapenko -> 1.68
Taylor Townsend -> 2.19

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Prediction and head to head Jelena Ostapenko vs. Taylor Townsend

This will be the 3^rd time that Jelena Ostapenko and Taylor Townsend clash against each other. The head to head is 1-1 for Ostapenko and Townsend (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on hard.

The last time that they squared off, Townsend won 6-2 6-1 in the 3^rd round in Toronto back in 2024.

Highlights Taylor Townsend vs Jelena Ostapenko – Toronto 09-August-2024

Jelena Ostapenko

Ranked no. 26, the Latvian reached the 2^nd round after beating Xiyu Wang 6-4 6-3.

In the 1^st round, The Latvian had a good straight sets win against Wang (6-4 6-3). During the match, Ostapenko scored 68 points vs Wang’s 55. The Latvian was very aggressive to blast 29 winners.

Regarding the service games, Ostapenko scored just 1 ace and she committed only 7 double faults. Jelena Ostapenko lost the serve twice and she saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Ostapenko put 60% of her first serves in, winning 64% (29/45) of the points behind her 1st serve and 53% (16/30) on the 2nd serve. The Latvian broke Wang 4 times after converting 50% of her break points (4/8).

Ostapenko has good record in the last 10 years having won 58% of her matches (285-204). 8-10 on hard in 2025. Talking about her performance on the same surface of this event, Ostapenko has an aggregate 130-113 win-loss record in the last years on hard.

Her best result of the current year was winning the title in Stuttgart where she beat Aryna Sabalenka in the final 6-4 6-1.

Ostapenko has a composed 18-16 win-loss record in 2025, 8-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously at the U.S. Open

Taylor Townsend

Ranked no. 139, Taylor got to the 2^nd round after beating Antonia Ruzic 6-4 6-4.

In the 1^st round, Taylor had a good straight sets win against Ruzic (6-4 6-4). During the match Townsend scored 74 points vs Ruzic’s 61. Taylor was exceptionally aggressive to blast 34 winners.

Talking about serving, Townsend scored 6 aces and she committed only 4 double faults. Taylor Townsend was extremely efficient on serve to win 76% (34/45) of her 1st serve and 61% (11/18) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Taylor broke Ruzic twice after converting 33% of her break points (2/6).

Townsend has an overall 17-13 win-loss record in 2025, 12-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously at the U.S. Open

Previously, her best result was reaching the 4^th round in 2019. See her history.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Ostapenko	Townsend
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	19	20
Pts	68-55	74-61
Total Points	123	135
Winners	29	34
%Winners	43%	46%

Both Ostapenko and Townsend played 1 match. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Ostapenko and Townsend have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Ostapenko played 1 game less than Townsend. Ostapenko scored 29 winners (43% of the total points). On the other side, The American blasted 34 winners (46%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Ostapenko	Townsend
Aces	1	6
Avg per match	1	6
1st in	45/75	45/63
%1st in	60%	71%
1st pts	29/45	34/45
%1st pts	64%	76%
2nd pts	16/30	11/18
%2nd pts	53%	61%

Ostapenko recorded 1 ace . Townsend also managed to score 6 aces . Ostapenko won 64% points on her first serve. She quite strong on her second serve to win 53% of the points. On the other side, Townsend won 76% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 61% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Ostapenko	Townsend
Won	4	2
Converted	4/8	2/6
% Converted	50%	33%
Conceded	5	4
Saved	3	4
% Saved	60%	100%
Times Broken	2	0

The Latvian broke her opponent 4 times with a 50% conversion rate. Jelena conceded her serve twice and she saved 60% of the break points that she conceded. The American broke her opponent twice with a 33% conversion rate. Taylor was rock solid on her serve as she has never conceded a single service game after saving 4 break points.

Ostapenko
	R1 Wang	Total
Score	6-4 6-3
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	19	19
pts	68-55	68-55
Total points	123	123
Winners	29	29
%Winners	43%	43%
SERVE
Aces	1	1
Double Faults	7	7
1st in	45/75	45/75
% 1st in	60%	60%
1st pts	29/45	29/45
% 1st pts	64%	64%
2nd pts	16/30	16/30
% 2nd pts	53%	53%
Breaks
Won	4	4
Converted	4/8	4/8
Converted %	50%	50%
Conceded	5	5
Saved	3/5	3
Saved %	60%	60%
Times Broken	2	2

Townsend
	R1 Ruzic	Total
Score	6-4 6-4
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	20	20
pts	74-61	74-61
Total points	135	135
Winners	34	34
%Winners	46%	46%
SERVE
Aces	6	6
Double Faults	4	4
1st in	45/63	45/63
% 1st in	71%	71%
1st pts	34/45	34/45
% 1st pts	76%	76%
2nd pts	11/18	11/18
% 2nd pts	61%	61%
Breaks
Won	2	2
Converted	2/6	2/6
Converted %	33%	33%
Conceded	4	4
Saved	4/4	4
Saved %	100%	100%
Times Broken	0	0

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