​Iryna Begu played one of the best matches of her career on Thursday and reached the quarterfinals of the WTA 500 tournament in Adelaide, beating Jelena Ostapenko (18 WTA, favorite 7).

With a score of 3-1 in favor of her opponent, Iryna Begu won 11 games in a row

Begu, who is ranked 34th in the world, had a more difficult start to the match and surrendered her serve first (1-3).

Our athlete made the necessary changes, played better and won the next 11 games against the champion of Roland Garros-2017 (Ostapenko then beat Simona Halep in the final).

After an hour and 13 minutes of play, Iryna beat a player from Latvia with a score of 6-3, 6-0.

Know:

• Begu will fight Veronika Kudermetova (WTA 9, favorite 4) for a place in the semifinals. A similar victory was achieved by the Russian over Bianka Andreescu.

• Having qualified in the quarters, Iryna secured a prize worth $20,465 and 100 WTA points.

• Romania is also represented in Adelaide by Sorana Kirstia (45 WTA), who will meet Ons Jaber (2 WTA, main favorite) in the round of 16.

They also played in the round of 16 at the WTA Adelaide on Thursday

Linda Noskova (102 WTA) – Claire Liu (59 WTA) 6-2, 6-2

Victoria Azarenka (26 WTA) – Qinwen Zheng (28 WTA) 6-2, 7-5.

WTA Adelaide 1, quarter-finals

Ons Jabeur (1) / Sorana Cîrstea – Marta Kostiuk

Linda Noskova – Victoria Azarenka

Iryna Begu – Veronika Kudermetova (4)

Marketa Vondrousova – Aryna Sabalenko (2).

WTA Adelaide 1 is part of the WTA 500 category, the competition is held from January 1 to 8 on hard, its total prize money is $826,837, and the title champion is Karolina Pliskova (in 2020).