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Jelena Ostapenko thinks Iga Swiatek does not like her aggressive style at all and also believes that it is “quite difficult mentally” for the Pole to play against her because she has never beaten her. Swiatek, who has been the best player in the game over the last two years, owns a positive head-to-head against pretty much all top players.
But against Ostapenko, Swiatek has four losses in as many matches. Their most recent match came at the US Open, where world No 13 Ostapenko came back from a set down to beat Swiatek 3-6 6-3 6-1. With that win, Ostapenko ended Swiatek’s title defense at Flushing Meadows and also improved to 4-0 against the Pole.
“I think it’s quite difficult for her mentally to play against me because I won many times. She doesn’t like my style of tennis either. She likes to dictate the game more, she also tries to play aggressively. It is difficult for her in matches against me – I try to play more aggressively.
At the US Open I played against her, I lost the first set, but I continued to play my game anyway. I played aggressively and I think that’s how I won that match,” Ostapenko told Latvian media LSM.
