

What Time Will Yulia Putintseva Play Against Jelena Ostapenko?
Putintseva and Ostapenko are on the Day 8 Schedule at The Championships, Wimbledon 2024 on Monday July 8, 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?
Yulia Putintseva from Kazakhstan, currently ranked 35th, will be facing Jelena Ostapenko from Latvia, ranked 14th. They have a head-to-head record of 2-2. This will be their first meeting since 2021.
In the first week of the tournament, Ostapenko lost only 10 games, which is the fewest dropped through the first three rounds at Wimbledon since 2014. She is aiming to make her first Wimbledon quarterfinal since her semifinal run in 2018. Ostapenko has won multiple WTA titles this season, including Adelaide and Linz. She has also won two career singles titles on grass at Eastbourne in 2021 and Birmingham in 2023. This is her 33rd Grand Slam main draw appearance, and she won the 2017 Roland Garros.
Putintseva is currently unbeaten on grass this year and is on an eight-match win streak, which is her longest career winning streak in Tour level main draw matches. Before this year, she had never made it past the second round at Wimbledon. She won her first grass title and third career title overall at Birmingham last month. In the third round, she won 12 of the last 15 games to defeat No.1 Iga Swiatek, which was her second career win over a reigning No.1. Putintseva is aiming to make her first Grand Slam quarterfinal since the 2020 US Open.
In terms of their tournament history, Putintseva is making her 10th appearance at Wimbledon, with her previous best result being reaching the first round in 2023. This is her first Round of 16 at a Grand Slam since the 2020 US Open. She has beaten Angelique Kerber, Katerina Siniakova, and Iga Swiatek so far this week. Before this year, she had not progressed past the second round. Her
win over Swiatek in the third round was her first over the Pole and second over a reigning World No.1. Both wins have come on grass, with her previous win over Naomi Osaka at Birmingham in 2019. This is the first time she will be facing Ostapenko since their meeting at Indian Wells in 2021. Along with Elena Rybakina, she is one of two players from Kazakhstan to reach the Round of 16. The best result by a player from Kazakhstan at Wimbledon was Elena Rybakina’s championship run in 2022. The last time two players from Kazakhstan reached the Round of 16 at Wimbledon was in 2014. Putintseva is currently ranked 35th, an improvement from her ranking of 56th at the same time last year. She is currently on a career-best eight-match winning streak and has won 26 matches so far in 2024.
Ostapenko is making her ninth appearance at Wimbledon, with her previous best result being reaching the second round in 2023. Her best Wimbledon result came with a semifinal run in 2018. So far this week, she has beaten Ajla Tomljanovic, Daria Snigur, and Bernarda Pera to reach her first Round of 16 at a Grand Slam since the 2023 US Open. She has only lost a combined 10 games through the first three rounds and has not dropped a set. She will be facing Putintseva, who is ranked 35th. Ostapenko is a two-time champion on grass, having won Birmingham in 2023 and Eastbourne in 2021. She is currently ranked 14th, an improvement from her ranking of 17th at the same time last year. During last year’s grass swing, she reached the second round at Wimbledon, the quarterfinals at Eastbourne, and won at Birmingham. She has won 27 matches so far in 2024.}
My Conclusion / Prediction:
My pick is that Putintseva will win.
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