SEOUL, South Korea — Ekaterina Alexandrova broke Jelena Ostapenko‘s serve five times Friday and defeated the defending champion and No. 1-seeded player 6-3, 6-2 in a rain-delayed match at the Korea Open.
Ostapenko, the 2017 French Open champion, had reached the quarterfinals or better at six tournaments this year, including the Wimbledon semifinals. Alexandrova came into the match with a 1-7 career record in round-of-16 matches at WTA-level events.
The postponement from Thursday meant Alexandrova had to play her quarterfinal match later Friday against sixth-seeded Hsieh Su-wei.
Hsieh is on a seven-match winning streak after capturing last week’s Japan Women’s Open at Hiroshima.
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