{"id":114139,"date":"2021-08-09T19:42:23","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T19:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=114139"},"modified":"2021-08-09T19:58:49","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T19:58:49","slug":"former-french-open-champ-ostapenko-drops-montreal-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=114139","title":{"rendered":"Former French Open champ Ostapenko drops Montreal opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Ten.jpg\" width=\"742\" height=\"486\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Latvian Jelena Ostapenko, the 2017 French Open champion, lost her opening match Monday at the WTA Montreal Masters, falling to Katerina Siniakova, the Olympic doubles gold medalist alongside Barbora Krejcikova.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Czech posted a 6-1, 6-3 victory to reach the second round in an hour and a quarter, with Ostapenko double-faulting six times and losing her serve on seven occasions.<\/p>\n<p>American teen Amanda Anisimova won a matchup of qualifiers, the world number 86 defeating Tereza Martincova 6-1, 4-3\u00a0when\u00a0the\u00a0Czech retired.<\/p>\n<p>Anisimova has now won both of the pair&#8217;s matches, the first played in 2019 at Mallorca.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament debutant was playing only her second match since a first-round defeat at Wimbledon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m feeling really good\u00a0and it&#8217;s good to\u00a0have a couple matches in quallies,&#8221; the 19-year-old said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was playing well today. My opponent wasn&#8217;t feeling too good. I feel sorry for her.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ll build on the last three matches and I&#8217;m looking forward to my next round.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Anisimova, who has struggled\u00a0with injuries in recent seasons, said she is now fully fit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I feel better and I feel stronger. Hopefully I can just build on that this year. I&#8217;m looking forward to this season and the US Open.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Spain&#8217;s 31st-ranked Paula Badosa defeated Swiss Viktorija Golubic 6-2, 6-3 while France&#8217;s Fiona Ferro put out Ajla Tomljanovic 2-6, 6-2 when the Australian retired.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Latvian Jelena Ostapenko, the 2017 French Open champion, lost her opening match Monday at the WTA Montreal Masters, falling to Katerina Siniakova, the Olympic doubles <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=114139\" title=\"Former French Open champ Ostapenko drops Montreal opener\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114139"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114139"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114141,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114139\/revisions\/114141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}