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Jelena Ostapenko vs Taylor TownsendPrediction, Head-to-Head Results, and Stats

🇱🇻Jelena Ostapenko

#34 · 29 yrs · Right-Handed

1–2

3 meetings · sets 2–5

🇺🇸Taylor Townsend

#89 · 30 yrs · Left-Handed

4w3Back after 4w offBeat 3 favorites

Jelena Ostapenko and Taylor Townsend have met 3 times since 2018; Taylor Townsend leads 2–1. Their first meeting came at US Open in 2018 on hard. On hard courts Townsend leads 2–1. Townsend has won the last 2 meetings. Across all meetings Ostapenko has taken 2 sets to Townsend's 5. Their most recent meeting: Taylor Townsend won at U.S. Open - New York (2025).

Spread & Straight-Sets Form

Completed best-of-3 matches · Last 12 months

Indicator	Ostapenko	Townsend
Indicator	Jelena Ostapenko		Taylor Townsend
Wins in straight sets	71%	17/24	68%	15/22
Wins a set when losing	56%	10/18	38%	5/13
Goes to a deciding set	40%	17/42	34%	12/35
Covers −1.5 sets as favorite	57%	13/23	55%	12/22
Covers +1.5 sets as underdog	65%	11/17	62%	8/13
Tiebreak sets won	50%	3/6	54%	7/13
Wins after taking set 1	69%	18/26	89%	16/18
Wins 2-0 after taking set 1	65%	17/26	83%	15/18

Colored rows are higher-is-better: green above 50%, red below. Favorite/underdog set by book odds; cover rows count only matches with odds on record. Head-to-head: 2 of 3 completed meetings ended in straight sets (Ostapenko 0, Townsend 2).

Style Matchup

Playing styles and historical archetype record

Ostapenko

💥 Big Hitter

Power groundstrokesHigh winner countAggressive shotsShort rallies

Townsend

🤖 Servebot

High ace rateDominant serviceWeaker returnBig first serve

Matchup analysis

💥 Big Hitter vs 🤖 Servebot is historically tight (49% vs 51%, 3,072 matches). Neither style has a clear edge, so form, surface, and the head-to-head matter most.

Previous meetings

3 career meetings, newest first

Aug 27, 2025

U.S. Open - New York

H Hard · 2nd Round

Townsend

Aug 9, 2024

National Bank Open - Toronto

H Hard · 3rd Round

Townsend

Aug 29, 2018

US Open

H Hard · Round of 64

Ostapenko

Prop Research

Hit rates on common betting markets · Last 90 days

Outcome	Ostapenko	Townsend
Outcome	Jelena Ostapenko		Taylor Townsend
1 or more	100%	6/6	100%	10/10
3 or more	83%	5/6	100%	10/10
5 or more	50%	3/6	60%	6/10
10 or more	0%	0/6	0%	0/10
15 or more	0%	0/6	0%	0/10
20 or more	0%	0/6	0%	0/10

Player ROI

Hypothetical if you put 1u on each player to win every one of their matches · Last 90 days

Metric	Ostapenko	Townsend
W-L	2–4	7–3
Avg odds	1.89	2.47
ROI %	-34.0%	+27.3%
Units P/L	-2.04u	+2.73u

Small sample: ROI stabilizes with more matches; fewer than 10 in the window is noisy.

Travel

Last 30 days

Metric	Ostapenko	Townsend
Countries	2	1
Events	2	1
Matches	4	1
Distance	592 mi · 952 km	0 mi · 0 km
Route	POR → ROU	UKR

Host country from each tournament in the last 30 days, including the current event even when a player arrived on a bye. Route is the order of countries visited; consecutive stops in the same country are shown once. Distance is the great-circle total between host cities, shown only when every stop in the window is geocoded. A rough fatigue signal, not a headline stat.

Common opponents

Results vs. opponents both players faced · Last 12 months

Townsend has a higher win rate against shared opponents (56% vs Ostapenko's 44%).

Opponent	Ostapenko	Townsend
Taylah Preston	L 46 16	W 61 61
Tatjana Maria	L 64 16 26	W 67 63 62
Aryna Sabalenka	L 46 46	L 46 36
Maria Victoria Quinde Serrano	W 63 61	W 36 63 63
Tereza Valentova	L	W 64 75
Elena Gabriela Ruse	W 26 62 63	L 63 16 46
Rebecca Sramkova	W 64 64	W 36 75 62
Hailey Baptiste	L 36 46	L 36 76 36
Jasmine Paolini	W 57 62 75	L 36 61 26

Recent Form

Last five matches per player

Ostapenko

LWLWLLLL

Elise Mertens

China Open - Beijing · 3rd Round

Oct 5

Paula Badosa

China Open - Beijing · 2nd Round

76⁵

Oct 3

Taylah Preston

Korea Open - Seoul · 2nd Round

Sep 24

Anastasia Zakharova

Korea Open - Seoul · 1st Round

Sep 22

Tatjana Maria

U.S. Open - New York · 1st Round

Sep 3

Magdalena Frech

Cincinnati Open - Cincinnati · 2nd Round

Aug 15

Shuai Zhang

National Bank Open - Toronto · 2nd Round

Aug 4

Aryna Sabalenka

Wimbledon - London · 3rd Round

Jul 3

Townsend

WLWWWLWL

Tatjana Maria

Guadalajara Open Akron - Guadalajara · 1st Round

6⁰7

Sep 14

Aryna Sabalenka

U.S. Open - New York · 4th Round

Sep 6

Diana Shnaider

U.S. Open - New York · 3rd Round

6³7

Sep 4

Taylah Preston

U.S. Open - New York · 2nd Round

Sep 2

Maja Chwalinska

U.S. Open - New York · 1st Round

Aug 31

Elena Rybakina

Cincinnati Open - Cincinnati · 2nd Round

Aug 16

Maria Victoria Quinde Serrano

Cincinnati Open - Cincinnati · 1st Round

Aug 13

Belinda Bencic

National Bank Open - Toronto · 3rd Round

76⁵

6⁴7

Aug 8

Rivalry momentum

Cumulative head-to-head lead over time

↑ OstapenkoTownsend ahead↓ Townsend

Win rate

Matches, sets and games won · Last 12 months · 35–42 matches

Metric	Ostapenko	Townsend
Matches won	57%	63%
Sets won	57%	60%
Games won	53%	54%

Record by tier

Head-to-head record by tournament tier

Stage	Ostapenko	Townsend
Grand Slam	1	1
WTA 1000	0	1

By surface

Head-to-head record per surface

Surface	Ostapenko	Townsend
Hard	1	2

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Jelena Ostapenko vs Taylor Townsend FAQ

Taylor Townsend leads the head-to-head 2–1 over 3 meetings.

Spread & Straight-Sets Form

Style Matchup

Previous meetings

Prop Research

Player ROI

Travel

Common opponents

Recent Form

Rivalry momentum

Win rate

Record by tier

By surface

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