Ostapenko starts the Australian Open tennis championship with a sure victory / Article

(supplemented with Alyona Ostapenko’s opponent in the next round)
Ostapenko was superior in two sets with 6-4, 6-2 and won the first match against Jastremska. Alona both served more accurately and made fewer unforced errors and used all three opportunities to score a point on the opponent’s serves. On the other hand, Jastremska did not realize her only break chance.

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The next opponent of Alona, ​​ranked 17th in the tournament, will be her peer, 25-year-old Hungarian tennis player Anna Bondar (WTA 81), who defeated Romanian Anna Bogdan (WTA 63) – 6-2, 2-6, 6-3. Ostapenko and Bondara have not met before.

Ostapenko, ranked No. 17 by the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA), is making her eighth appearance at the Australian Open, with her best finish so far reaching the third round in both 2017 and 2018 and last year.

On the other hand, the 22-year-old Jastremska ranks 101st in the ranking, and her best achievement in the Australian Open Championship is participation in the third round, which the Ukrainian made her debut in 2019. Jastremska has less experience in Melbourne, starting the “Grand Slam” season in Australia only for the fourth time and also exiting in the first round last year.

Ostapenko will also participate in the women’s doubles, where she is paired with the Ukrainian Lyudmila Kichenok, both seeded fifth, and will play in the first round against Kazakhstan tennis player Yelena Rybakina and neutral athlete Anastasiya Pavlyuchenkova, whom she lost to in the semifinals of the Adelaide tournament before the Australian Open.

The first “Grand Slam” tournament of the year in Melbourne will last until January 29 on hard courts. The tournament will distribute 76.5 million Australian dollars (48.3 million euros) in prize money, which is an unprecedented amount.

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