The Doha Open, currently known as the Qatar ExxonMobil Open for sponsorship reasons, is a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It is currently part of the ATP Tour 250 series of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) Tour. It is held annually in January at the Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex in Doha, Qatar, since 1993.
Doha Open: WTA| 2022| Draw| Prize money
WTA:
The result puts Kontaveit into her seventh final since last August, five of which she has converted into titles so far. The last of those was in St. Petersburg a fortnight ago, and the Estonian has extended her winning streak from that tournament to nine matches so far in Doha.
Kontaveit also sealed a place in her second career WTA 1000 final following Wuhan 2018, where she was runner-up to Aryna Sabalenka.
2022:
Dubai champion Ostapenko carried her own career-best nine-match winning streak into the all-Baltic clash, but came away with her fourth loss in five pro encounters with Kontaveit.
The Latvian’s only win in the series was in the Eastbourne final on grass last July, but following her 6-3, 6-4 loss in the St. Petersburg semifinals, she has yet to win a set from Kontaveit since.
Surface: Hard
Draw:
This came as early as the fourth game of the match. Both players had started strongly on serve, and Ostapenko had seemingly wrapped up a love hold for 2-2 with her first ace.
A Kontaveit challenge overturned the call, though – and elicited a cascade of errors from a rattled Ostapenko that did not stop until she trailed by a double break in the second set.
Following that challenge, Kontaveit won 24 of the next 26 points, mostly on wildly slapped Ostapenko errors on the first or second stroke of the rally.
Prize Money:
Latvia’s Jelena Ostapenko took home $104,180 after winning the women’s WTA 500 event by beating Veronika Kudermetova in the final last weekend.
The men’s ATP 500 event, which ends on Saturday, will result in the winner receiving prize money worth $523,740.
Ostapenko had been in top form the day before, striking 39 winners against Garbiñe Muguruza in just 66 minutes, but she leaked 20 unforced errors in a 25-minute first set. Kontaveit captured it having tallied only three winners and two unforced errors, and her eight-game streak took her to a 3-0 lead in the second set.
