Jelena Ostapenko of Latvia, world number 52, will face Stefanie Voegele of Switzerland, ranked 127, in the first round of the 2021 Stuttgart Open WTA Charleston Open on Tuesday, April 20. Get the live streaming options of this Jelena Ostapenko v Stefanie Voegele match along with its preview, head to head, and tips here.
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Jelena Ostapenko v Stephanie Voegele Head to Head
The pair have met before, and Voegele has won on each occasion, Their first meeting came in a junior event in France in 2015, the German winning in three sets on clay. Later that same year they met in the final in Linz, this time on hard courts, with Voegele claiming straight set victory.
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Ostapenko Looking to Regain Lost Form
Still only 23, it has been almost four years since Ostapenko won the French Open as a teenager, becoming the first layer from Latvia to win a Grand Slam and the first unseeded player to win the event sine 1933 (although Iga Świątek has since emulated that feat).
At that point she seemed to have a bright future before her, but it has not quite panned out as she had hoped, and several years of indifferent form have seen her drift down the rankings.
This year that elusive search for consistency continues, with her best result of the year coming in Miami, where she reached the third round before losing to the eventual winner, Ashleigh Barty, the world number one.
Last week she played for Latvia in the Billie Jean Cup against India, and had a real struggle to beat Ankita Rana, the world 176.
She will be hoping for a change of fortune now that she is back on her favourite surface of clay.
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Voegele Makes it Through as a Qualifier
Voegele’s one senior WTA final came back in 2018, when she lost the Mexican Open to the Ukrainian Lesia Tsurenko. That was almost six years after her one appearance in a doubles’ final in Colombia, which ended in another defeat.
She has though won titles at the junior ITF level, the most recent of which came in France, on clay, three years ago.
Her best result in 2021 to date also came on clay, reaching the third round in Bogota earlier this month, eventually losing to the Colombian Maria Camila Osorio Serrano.
Obliged to qualify here in Stuttgart, she enjoyed two relatively straightforward victories over German opponents, beating first Anna Zaja, and then Katharina Gerlach.
Ostapenko v Voegele Prediction and Tip
Although Voegele has won both their previous matches, Ostapenko will start as the favourite to progress. She has not enjoyed the best of form recently, but she is back on her favourite surface, and, by the law of averages, one day things will start to come good for her again.
Tip: Ostapenko to win: 6/13 (bet365)
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The 2021 WTA Stuttgart Open will be played from April 19 to 25. You can watch & bet on these matches here. Get your latest premium tennis predictions here.
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