The Latvian and Ukrainian duo, seeded with the seventh number, defeated the Brazilian Beatrisi Hadada Maja and the German tennis player Laura Seegemundi, who are seeded with the 12th number in the tournament, in the third round, or in the round of 16, 6-3, 7-6 (7:5).
At the start of the second set tiebreak, Ostapenko and Kichenko found themselves trailing 0-3 after losing two serves, but then reeled off five straight points to take a 5-3 lead. The opponents still managed to score two points and level the score, but Ostapenko/Kichenoka responded with two points in a row to secure the victory.
In New York, Ostapenko has already earned 430 WTA doubles ranking points.
Ostapenko/Kichenok will meet Kazakhstan’s Anna Danilina and Russia’s Irina Khromacheva or the Slovakian-Great Britain duo Tereza Mihalíkova/Olivia Nichols in the fight for a place in the semi-finals.
It has already been reported that the Latvian/Ukrainian couple beat American Jessie Eini and Jessica Feil in the first round match 6-3, 6-3, and in the second round they defeated Japanese Makoto Ninomiya and Chinese Jiang Xinyu 6-3, 6-3.
It was previously reported that in the first round of the “US Open” singles tournament, Ostapenko lost 3-6, 2-6 to former world number one Naomi Osaka from Japan, but Daria Semenistaya did not overcome the first round of qualification.
The last “Grand Slam” tournament of the season will take place in New York until September 8.
2024-09-02 20:42:24