At the beginning of the first set, the games lost one after another. The Latvian tennis player won the first game convincingly with his service, but the next four ended with the victory of the host tennis player – 3-2 in favor of Ostapenko. Both athletes used two of the three breakballs.
In the sixth game, the American equalized the result, and the fate of the set was decided by the ninth game, in which Kenina won again, serving Ostapenko. In the tenth game, the American served a set – 6-4.
In the second game, which was also started by a Latvian tennis player, the athletes won their service games without break balls to the fourth game. It was the longest in the set, and with the third break ball Ostapenko won it, after a while reaching 4-1 in his favor.
In the seventh game Kenina won by serving a Latvian tennis player, but in the eighth with her service she reached a draw – 4-4.
In the tenth game, Ostapenko once again celebrated the victory by serving the opponent, whose ball after the last blow of the Latvian athlete from the awkward side could not return to the field – 6-4 in favor of Ostapenko.
The third set started destructively for the Latvian tennis player – the game of his service was lost to zero, one game was won by serving Kenina, and the third game was lost when the opponent used the first break ball – 0-3.
The long fourth game ended with Ostapenko’s march to the net, and one point, serving Kenina, was played – 1-3. However, in the next game, Ostapenko won only one game, the score changing to 1-4.
In the next game, Ostapenko played one point, realizing the first break ball with an inaccessible blow from the air – 2-4.
However, the Latvian athlete was too unstable when serving herself. By a double mistake, in his seventh game, he gave Kenina a break ball, which she also used, Ostapenko knocking the ball out of the awkward side – 2-5.
In the eighth game, Ostapenko was always half a step ahead, celebrating the victory after Kenina’s double mistake – 3-5.
However, the next game became the last match, with Ostapenko losing “dry” – 3-6.
Ostapenko stood out in the match with three elusive servings, while the American had none. In addition, Kenina had more double mistakes – six against Ostapenko’s four.
The American won more games of his service – 57% against Ostapenko 55% after the first serve and 44% against Ostapenko 36% – after the second.
Ostapenko went online more often, winning 14 of the 18 games or 78%, while Kenina won four of the six games online (67%).
The Latvian tennis player had more wins (32 against Keninas 23) and more unforced errors (48 against 32).
The realization of Kenina’s breakballs was fantastic, scoring nine out of ten times, while Ostapenko was able to use seven of the 12 breakballs.
Throughout the game, the American was slightly superior with 103: 91.
The Latvian tennis player spent the last game before the French Open in the middle of May in the quarterfinals of the “WTA 1000” tournament in Rome, in which he lost to the Czech Karolina Plīškova.
This season, before the second round of the Rome tournament, the Latvian tennis player had overcome only the “Gippsland Trophy” in the “WTA 500” series tournament in Melbourne and Miami, where in the third round of the “WTA 1000” he gave up the first racket to the rank of Ashley Barthy.
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