In a battle of former top 5 and Grand Slam champions, Petra Kvitova beats Jelena Ostapenko 0-6, 6-0, 6-4 in one of the craziest matches of the season so far. Into the last 16 in Indian Wells to face Jessica Pegula (beat her already this year in Sydney...)
Kvitova's win over Ostapenko at Indian Wells was marked by an unprecedented occurrence
WTAMonday, 13 March 2023 at 07:02
Petra
Kvitova defeated Jelena Ostapenko 0-6, 6-0, 6-4 to advance to the fourth round
of the BNP Paribas Open Indian Wells.
The match
featured two Grand Slam champions competing to advance to the round of 16.
Kvitova was seeded fifteenth and Ostapenko was seeded twenty-fourth, so both
received a bye in the first round. The Czech won her first match against local player
Elizabeth Mandlik, while the former French Open champion had to go to a third
set against Aliaksandra Sasnovich.
The duel
began with Ostapenko absolutely dominating, taking three consecutive breaks and
winning the first set by an impressive 6-0 in just 26 minutes. Kvitova
completely turned the match around during the second set, doing the same to her
opponent with three consecutive breaks and not conceding her own service.
Kvitova won the set 6-0 in just 34 minutes, creating an unprecedented event.
It is the
first time in the history of WTA 1000 that a player has won the first set 6-0,
and then their opponent won the next set 6-0. Each with a bagel in their favor,
they took the match to the third set, where both players gave up their service
and were tied at 4-4. At that moment, Kvitova had to ask for medical assistance
to face the final games of the match. The two-time Wimbledon champion managed
to finish the match better than her opponent and with a new break, won 0-6,
6-0, 6-4. In the next round, she will face world No. 3 Jessica Pegula.
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