Ostapenko, who ranks tenth in the WTA ranking and is seeded in the tournament with the same number, lost 3-6, 2-6 to former world number one Osaka, who is ranked 85th in the WTA ranking and is playing at the US Open for the first time since 2022. year
Osaka started the game with a serve, both tennis players won their service games until the eighth game, when the Japanese woman converted the first break point, winning the ninth game “dry”.
Ostapenko started the second set with a serve, losing the game when Osaka took the first break point.
In the seventh game, the Japanese woman used the first of two break points, but in the eighth game, Ostapenko did not use two break points in a row.
Osaka added match point in the longest game of the match with the third match point.
Ostapenko made fewer elusive serves (5:9), but made more double faults (6:0).
Although Latvia’s first racket was slightly more accurate in the execution of first serves (62%:60%), Osaka scored more points with both first (80%:61%) and second (75%:47%) serves.
Ostapenko made 21 unforced errors, while her opponent made just five errors.
In the entire match, the Latvian tennis player won 39 out of 100 games.
For the loss, Ostapenko lost ten world ranking points.
The two tennis players had previously met on the court only once, in 2016 in the first round of the French Open Championship, the Japanese was superior.
In the second round, Osaka will play the Czech Karolina Muhova (WTA 52nd), who beat the American Katie Volinetz (WTA 59th) 6-3, 7-5 on Tuesday.
Ostapenko has won two WTA 500 titles this year and won 29 of her 45 matches, while Osaka has a 19-15 win-loss record.
Last year, the Latvian tennis player reached the quarterfinals of the US Open Championship, where she lost to the American Koria Goff. Osaka is a two-time “US Open” winner, triumphing in this “Grand Slam” tournament in 2018 and 2020.
Ostapenko will also compete in doubles together with her usual partner Ludmila Kichenok from Ukraine. The Latvian and Ukrainian duet is seeded seventh.
It has already been reported that Darja Semenistaja failed to qualify for the US Open, failing in the first round in three sets.
The last “Grand Slam” tournament of the season will take place in New York until September 8.
2024-08-28 11:44:09