{"id":288802,"date":"2023-09-05T20:34:41","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T20:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportslifetale.com\/?p=288802"},"modified":"2023-09-05T20:34:41","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T20:34:41","slug":"ostapenko-us-open-organizers-told-me-wrong-start-time-for-gauff-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportslifetale.com\/tennis\/ostapenko-us-open-organizers-told-me-wrong-start-time-for-gauff-match\/","title":{"rendered":"Ostapenko: US Open organizers told me WRONG start time for Gauff match"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Jelena Ostapenko claims US Open organizers told her the WRONG start time for Coco Gauff quarterfinal- leaving her scrambling to prepare for a 12pm start before losing in 68 minutes<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><b>REPORT: Coco Gauff beats Jelena Ostapenko to reach the US Open semifinals<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>The quarterfinal was the first match on Arthur Ashe Stadium on Tuesday<\/b><\/li>\n<li><strong>DailyMail.com provides all the latest international sports news<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Jelena Ostapenko hit out at US Open organizers following her quarterfinal defeat by Coco Gauff, claiming they made a &#8216;crazy&#8217; late change to the schedule which favored the home hope.<\/p>\n<p>Ostapenko claimed she was told after her win over world No 1 Iga Swiatek on Sunday that she would be playing on Tuesday night. Instead she and Gauff were first on at around midday &#8211; barely 36 hours after the climax of her three-set win over Swiatek.<\/p>\n<p>Gauff, by contrast, finished her last-16 win over Caroline Wozniacki shortly before 5.30pm on Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Two days later, the American dropped only two games en route to a first US Open semifinal, taking just one hour and eight minutes to triumph on Arthur Ashe Stadium.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I think it&#8217;s a little bit crazy,&#8217; said Ostapenko, who claimed she struggled to sleep until around 6am on Monday and had not recovered by Tuesday&#8217;s quarterfinal.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/05\/20\/75091061-12483971-image-a-1_1693942779529.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Jelena Ostapenko hit out at US Open organizers following her defeat by Coco Gauff<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/05\/20\/75087685-12483971-image-a-11_1693942975350.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The American teenager\u00a0dropped only two games en route to a first US Open semifinal<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I was pretty sure I&#8217;m gonna play at night session, because that&#8217;s what they told me. When the schedule came out, I saw I&#8217;m playing first match and was: &#8220;Wow, that&#8217;s a little bit strange scheduling&#8221;&#8230;\u00a0<span>when I saw the schedule I was a little bit surprised, not in a really good way.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>She added: &#8216;You never know with the people who are doing schedule, sometimes you feel like you better not ask anything.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Because sometimes it&#8217;s working your way or sometimes it&#8217;s working against you completely&#8230; so I think it was better for her the schedule, because obviously she played much earlier the day I played night session.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>A tournament spokesperson denied her assertion that she had been told she would not play until later.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ostapenko made 36 unforced errors as she struggled to lay a glove on Gauff on Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The Latvian said her problem was not physical tiredness. Rather she struggled to recharge fully following victory over Swiatek.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/05\/20\/75091219-12483971-image-a-12_1693942994603.jpg\" height=\"355\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I was pretty sure I&#8217;m gonna play at night, because that&#8217;s what they told me,&#8217; Ostapenko said<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Today was not really good match from me. I think it&#8217;s really hard to recover from those night matches, because after beating the world No 1, I went to sleep at like five in the morning,&#8217; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;You sleep for maybe seven, eight hours, but you completely don&#8217;t recover. Yesterday the whole day I felt very low energy. I thought today I was going to wake up and feel better. But honestly, I didn&#8217;t really feel much better.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Ostapenko explained: &#8216;I didn&#8217;t really feel physically very tired, but I felt like I didn&#8217;t really recover from that night. Because I got back to the hotel around 2:00 a.m. and even I tried to go to sleep at 3:00 in the morning but I had all this adrenaline and it was impossible to fall asleep.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Then when you go to sleep at 5:00 or 6:00 in the morning, the whole day where you need a few days just to recover. 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