Iga Swiatek\u2019s bid for a third\u00a0Stuttgart Open title was dashed as she\u00a0fell to a sixth consecutive defeat to her nemesis Jelena Ostapenko.<\/p>\n
The five-time Grand Slam winner lost 3-6, 6-3, 2-6 to the world No 24 in just under two hours and 10 minutes in the quarter-finals of the WTA 500 tournament.<\/p>\n
The world No 2\u00a0remains without a win against Ostapenko and now holds a 0-6 record against the 2017 French Open champion.<\/p>\n
This was Swiatek<\/a>\u2018s first defeat to Ostapenko on her favoured clay courts, with the previous four on hard courts and the first meeting on grass.<\/p>\n Ostapenko surged into a 4-0 lead as she made a blistering start to the match and broke Swiatek three times en route to winning the opening set in convincing fashion.<\/p>\n Swiatek was unable to consolidate a 3-1, break advantage in the second set, but her second break of\u00a0the 27-year-old Latvian\u2019s serve at 4-3 proved decisive as she levelled the contest.<\/p>\n It ended a run of five consecutive sets Swiatek had lost against Ostapenko, but that momentum was instantly lost as she swiftly fell 0-3 behind in the decider.<\/p>\n The 23-year-old Pole had her only chance to break back in a crucial 11-point seventh game, but Ostapenko held firm before breaking to seal another impressive win.<\/p>\n The 10 women to beat Iga Swiatek on clay before 2025: ft. Aryna Sabalenka, Elena Rybakina<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Elena Rybakina hires new team member after key recent departure and coaching saga<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Swiatek\u2019s quarter-final exit in Stuttgart extends her title drought. The former world No 1 has not reached a final since winning the French Open in June last year.<\/p>\n Among WTA players who have not been ranked world No 1, Ostapenko is just the third woman to win their first six matches against a former or future world No 1.<\/p>\n Gabriela Sabatini and\u00a0Agnieszka Radwanska are other players to accomplish this.<\/p>\n In her on-court interview, Ostapenko was asked: \u201cNo one else has beaten Iga 6 times in a row. Which statement is more correct: she hates to play you, or you like to play her?\u201d<\/p>\n The Latvian replied: \u201cI think both.\u201d<\/p>\n Ostapenko followed that up with another great quote as she pointed out her own clay-court pedigree.<\/p>\n \u201cShe (Swiatek) is a great clay-court player as well. But you know, I won French Open. So I can say about myself the same thing (smiling).\u201d<\/p>\n READ NEXT:\u00a0Carlos Alcaraz and Iga Swiatek break silence on sending letter to Grand Slams about prize money<\/a> The post Iga Swiatek title drought continues as\u00a0Jelena Ostapenko becomes 3rd woman to achieve stunning feat<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Iga Swiatek\u2019s bid for a third\u00a0Stuttgart Open title was dashed as she\u00a0fell to a sixth consecutive defeat to her nemesis Jelena Ostapenko. The five-time Grand Slam winner lost 3-6, 6-3, 2-6 to the world No 24 in just under two hours and 10 minutes in the quarter-finals of the WTA 500 tournament. The world No […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}WTA Tour News<\/h2>\n
What did Ostapenko say after her win?<\/h4>\n
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