Ostapenko, who is ranked 17th in the WTA and is seeded 13th in the tournament, lost 3-6, 2-6 to neutral athlete Ludmila Samsonova (WTA 22nd).
In the first set, the Latvian got behind with 1-4 and after the fifth game, the coach was called to the court. Ostapenko may not have felt well and had her blood pressure checked, but the Latvian tennis player returned to the court after that. In the continuation, she won two more games, but it was not enough to compete for success in the first set.
The second set started with a game won by Samsonova, but in the next Ostapenko saved her serve and reached 1-1. In five more games, Samsonova was superior, and she also celebrated the victory throughout the game.
In the semi-finals, Samsonova will meet the world leader neutral athlete Arina Sabalenka or the world’s fifth ranked racketeer from Kazakhstan Yelena Rybakina.
Ostapenko has earned 215 world ranking points for reaching the quarterfinals. In the online ranking, the Riga player is 14th, but in the season average, she takes 12th place and is one of the applicants for the three remaining tickets to the final tournament of the season, in which the eight best tennis players will participate.
Ostapenko defeated the German tennis player Eff Lees (WTA 121) in the first round with 2-6, 6-3, 6-2, won the second round without a fight, Czech athlete Linda Noskova (WTA 42) did not go on the court due to injury, but in the round of 16 with 6 -4, 6-2 defeated the fourth racket of the planet Jessica Pegula from the USA.
In the first round, Samsonova defeated the American Alicia Parks (WTA 43rd) 6-4, 7-6 (7:4), in the second round she defeated the 12th-seeded Petra Kvitova (WTA 14th) 6-4, 7-5. of the Czech Republic, but in the round of 16 she beat Ukrainian Marta Kostyuk (WTA 44) 6-4, 6-7 (4:7), 7-5.
This summer, Samsonova reached the final of the WTA 1000 series tournament for the first time in her career, losing to the American Pegula in the competition in Canada. She has lost her last two WTA finals but was unbeaten in four straight title matches before that, winning three trophies last year.
The tournament takes place in China on hard courts.
