TENNIS SCORES. Kristie Ahn surprises Ostapenko in the 3rd round of the U.S. Open

Kristie Ahn shocks Jelena Ostapenko 6-3 7-5 in the 3^rd round in New York on Saturday. Ahn will fight against Elise Mertens in the 4^th round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Kristie won the set after she broke Jelena in the 6^th (4-2) and in the 8^th (5-3) game. Ostapenko tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 7^th (4-3) game. Notwithstanding, the American managed to stay calm and finish the job before winning the set 6-3.

2^nd set.

Ahn started off on the right foot in the set after breaking Ostapenko in the 1^st game (1-0). Anyhow, that was not enough for the American to win the set since Ostapenko found the way to break back in the 4^th (2-2) game. Kristie maintained her focus to break the Latvian in the 11^th (6-5) game before winning the set (7-5).

Statistics

After this match, the head to head between Ahn and Ostapenko is 3-0 for Kristie.

Highlights Kristie Ahn vs. Jelena Ostapenko U.S. Open – New York

Next Match: Kristie Ahn vs. Elise Mertens – stats

Ahn will face Mertens in the 4^th round.

This will be the 3^rd time that Kristie Ahn and Elise Mertens face off. The head to head is 1-1 for Ahn and Mertens (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on hard.

The last time that they played each other, Ahn won 6-3 6-3 in the 2^nd round in San Jose back in August 2019.

Tennis Scores in New York

• Donna VekicVekic – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
• Elise MertensMertens – Andrea PetkovicPetkovic (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
• Taylor TownsendTownsend – Sorana CirsteaCirstea (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
• Julia GoergesGoerges – Kiki BertensBertens (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
• Bianca Vanessa AndreescuVanessa Andreescu – Caroline WozniackiWozniacki (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Karolina PliskovaPliskova – Ons JabeurJabeur (6-1 4-6 6-4) – See score progression
• Qiang WangWang – Fiona FerroFerro (7-6¹ 6-3) – See score progression
• Ashleigh BartyBarty – Maria SakkariSakkari (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
• Petra MarticMartic – Anastasija SevastovaSevastova (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Serena WilliamsWilliams – Karolina MuchovaMuchova (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Johanna KontaKonta – Shuai ZhangZhang (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
• Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Dayana YastremskaYastremska (6-2 6-0) – See score progression
• Madison KeysKeys – Sofia KeninKenin (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
• Kristie AhnAhn – Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko (6-3 7-5) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Naomi OsakaOsaka – Cori GauffGauff (0-0) – See H2H details
• Anett KontaveitKontaveit – Belinda BencicBencic (0-0) – See H2H details
• Donna VekicVekic – Julia GoergesGoerges (0-3) – See H2H details
• Taylor TownsendTownsend – Bianca Vanessa AndreescuVanessa Andreescu (0-0) – See H2H details
• Kristie AhnAhn – Elise MertensMertens (1-1) – See H2H details
• Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Madison KeysKeys (1-2) – See H2H details
• Johanna KontaKonta – Karolina PliskovaPliskova (1-4) – See H2H details
• Serena WilliamsWilliams – Petra MarticMartic (0-0) – See H2H details
• Qiang WangWang – Ashleigh BartyBarty (0-2) – See H2H details