Who Will Win: Ostapenko Vs Krejcikova? Prediction For WTA The Championships, Wimbledon 2024

What Time Will Jelena Ostapenko Play Against Barbora Krejcikova?

Ostapenko and Krejcikova are on the Day 10 Schedule at The Championships, Wimbledon 2024 on Wednesday July 10, 2024. Lets breakdown the career, past stats and recent form of these players and predict who will get the victory.

Who Will Win In This Head-To-Head?

Jelena Ostapenko and Barbora Krejcikova will face each other in the Wimbledon quarterfinals. Ostapenko currently leads their head-to-head with a record of 5-2. She has won their three most recent meetings, including the title match at Birmingham last season, which was also their only previous match on grass. However, Krejcikova did manage to defeat Ostapenko in their only previous meeting at a Grand Slam in the third round of the 2022 Australian Open.

A win for Ostapenko today would mark her second Wimbledon semifinal appearance, with her first coming in 2018. During the last eight years at Wimbledon, Ostapenko, Elena Rybakina, Elina Svitolina, and Ons Jabeur have the most quarterfinal appearances with three each. Ostapenko and Rybakina have also served the most aces at Wimbledon so far this year, with 24 each.

Ostapenko is one of the seven current players with 50+ grass court wins in WTA main draws, along with Venus Williams, Angelique Kerber, Petra Kvitova, Caroline Wozniacki, Victoria Azarenka, and Karolina Pliskova. She has also dropped the fewest games en route to the quarterfinals at Wimbledon (15) since 2012, surpassing Victoria Azarenka’s record of 14.

Since her first grass court win in 2015, Ostapenko is one of two players, along with Angelique Kerber, to have won 50+ WTA main draw grass court matches (50). She has won 20 matches at Wimbledon, making it the tournament where she has secured 20+ main draw wins in her career. In the last 10 years, only Serena Williams, Angelique Kerber, Simona Halep, and Madison Keys have won more Ladies’ Singles main draw matches at Wimbledon than Ostapenko (20).

Ostapenko has two career singles titles on grass, winning at the 2021 Eastbourne and 2023 Birmingham tournaments. Overall, this is Ostapenko’s

33rd Grand Slam main draw appearance, and she owns one major title, winning the 2017 Roland Garros.

On the other hand, Krejcikova is bidding for her second Grand Slam semifinal after winning Roland Garros in 2021. She also reached the quarterfinals at this year’s Australian Open. If Krejcikova reaches the semifinals at Wimbledon, she would become the sixth Czech player to reach the women’s singles semifinal at both Wimbledon and Roland Garros during the Open Era.

Krejcikova could also achieve a career milestone by winning five consecutive matches on grass for the first time in her career, as well as five consecutive matches in WTA level events on any surface for the first time since March 2023 (during Dubai title run). At 28 years old, she is the oldest player competing for the Czech Republic in the Open Era to make the quarterfinals at the Australian Open and Wimbledon in the same season.

Krejcikova reached a career-high ranking of No.2 in 2022 and has spent 19 weeks at No.1 in the doubles ranking. She is aiming for her second Top 20 win of the season after defeating No.11 Danielle Collins in the fourth round at Wimbledon. This is Krejcikova’s fourth main draw appearance at Wimbledon, with her best result being a run to the Round of 16 in 2021.

The best result by a Czech Republic player at Wimbledon was achieved by Marketa Vondrousova in 2023, Petra Kvitova in 2014 and 2011, Jana Novotna in 1998.

Krejcikova is currently ranked No.32; however, with a quarterfinal win, she could secure a return to the WTA Top 20 after Wimbledon.

Both players have had success on grass, with Ostapenko and Krejcikova each winning two grass-court titles. Lastly, this is the ninth Wimbledon appearance for Krejcikova, with her best result being a semifinal run in 2018.}

My Conclusion / Prediction:

My pick is that Ostapenko will win.
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