TENNIS SCORES. Jelena Ostapenko shocks Riske in the 2nd round in New York

Jelena Ostapenko stuns Alison Riske 6-4 6-3 in the 2^nd round in New York on Thursday. Ostapenko will face Kristie Ahn in the 3^rd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Ostapenko started off on the right foot in the set after breaking Riske in the 2^nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 4-0. Notwithstanding, that was not enough for Jelena to win the set as Riske succeeded in breaking back in the 5^th (1-4), in the 7^th (3-4) and in the 9^th (4-5) game. Ostapenko kept her cool to break the American in the 8^th (5-3) and in the 10^th (6-4) game.

Ostapenko failed to serve out the set when leading 5-3 to be broken at 40.

Alison lost the 4^th game (4-0) when she had 3 consecutive game points when leading 40-0.

A crucial moment of the match was when the Latvian won 4 consecutive games in the 1^st set to change the scoreline from 0-0 to 4-0.

2^nd set.

Ostapenko conquered a commanding position in the outset to break Riske in the 2^nd game (2-0). Nevertheless, that wasn’t sufficient for Jelena to win the set since the American managed to break back in the 3^rd (1-2) game. Jelena maintained her focus to break the American in the 8^th (5-3) game before winning the set (6-3).

Statistics

After this encounter, the head to head between Ostapenko and Riske is 1-0 for Jelena.

Highlights Jelena Ostapenko vs. Alison Riske U.S. Open – New York

Next Match: Jelena Ostapenko vs. Kristie Ahn – stats

Ostapenko will play Ahn in the 3^rd round.

This will be the 2^nd time that Jelena Ostapenko and Kristie Ahn clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Ahn (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.

The last time that they competed against each other, Ahn won 2-6 7-6⁵ 7-5 in the 1^st round in Bogota back in April 2019.

Tennis Scores at the US Open

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• Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Rebecca PetersonPeterson (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
• Maria SakkariSakkari – Shuai PengPeng (6-7⁵ 6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Cori GauffGauff – Timea BabosBabos (6-2 4-6 6-4) – See score progression
• Taylor TownsendTownsend – Simona HalepHalep (2-6 6-3 7-6⁴) – See score progression
• Andrea PetkovicPetkovic – Petra KvitovaKvitova (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Donna VekicVekic – Kaia KanepiKanepi (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
• Sorana CirsteaCirstea – Aliona BolsovaBolsova (3-6 6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Johanna KontaKonta – Margarita GasparyanGasparyan (6-1 6-0) – See score progression
• Ons JabeurJabeur – Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich (3-6 6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Qiang WangWang – Alison Van UytvanckVan Uytvanck (7-5 6-4) – See score progression
• Belinda BencicBencic – Alize CornetCornet (6-4 1-6 6-2) – See score progression
• Bianca Vanessa AndreescuVanessa Andreescu – Kirsten FlipkensFlipkens (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
• Naomi OsakaOsaka – Magda LinetteLinette (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
• Julia GoergesGoerges – Francesca Di LorenzoDi Lorenzo (7-5 6-0) – See score progression
• Caroline WozniackiWozniacki – Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins (4-6 6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka (6-3 7-6³) – See score progression
• Kristie AhnAhn – Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
• Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Alison RiskeRiske (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Elise MertensMertens – Kristyna PliskovaPliskova (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
• Anett KontaveitKontaveit – Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic (4-6 7-5 6-2) – See score progression
• Petra MarticMartic – Ana BogdanBogdan (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
• Kiki BertensBertens – Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova (7-5 6-4) – See score progression
• Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Su-Wei HsiehHsieh (6-1 4-6 7-6²) – See score progression
• Fiona FerroFerro – Kristina MladenovicMladenovic (6-4 6-7³ 6-3) – See score progression
• Shuai ZhangZhang – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (7-6⁵ 4-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Sofia KeninKenin – Laura SiegemundSiegemund (7-6⁴ 6-0) – See score progression
• Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Venus WilliamsWilliams (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Karolina PliskovaPliskova – Mariam BolkvadzeBolkvadze (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
• Madison KeysKeys – Lin ZhuZhu (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
• Ashleigh BartyBarty – Lauren DavisDavis (6-2 7-6²) – See score progression
• Serena WilliamsWilliams – Caty McNallyMcNally (5-7 6-3 6-1) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

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• Anett KontaveitKontaveit – Belinda BencicBencic (0-0) – See H2H details
• Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – Donna VekicVekic (0-3) – See H2H details
• Julia GoergesGoerges – Kiki BertensBertens (1-2) – See H2H details
• Taylor TownsendTownsend – Sorana CirsteaCirstea (0-0) – See H2H details
• Caroline WozniackiWozniacki – Bianca Vanessa AndreescuVanessa Andreescu (0-1) – See H2H details
• Kristie AhnAhn – Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko (1-0) – See H2H details
• Elise MertensMertens – Andrea PetkovicPetkovic (1-0) – See H2H details
• Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Dayana YastremskaYastremska (0-0) – See H2H details
• Sofia KeninKenin – Madison KeysKeys (1-1) – See H2H details
• Johanna KontaKonta – Shuai ZhangZhang (4-1) – See H2H details
• Ons JabeurJabeur – Karolina PliskovaPliskova (0-0) – See H2H details
• Serena WilliamsWilliams – Karolina MuchovaMuchova (0-0) – See H2H details
• Petra MarticMartic – Anastasija SevastovaSevastova (1-1) – See H2H details
• Fiona FerroFerro – Qiang WangWang (1-3) – See H2H details
• Maria SakkariSakkari – Ashleigh BartyBarty (1-2) – See H2H details