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Should you win the first trick in any one of these cases, endeavour to prevent your right-hand adversary from obtaining the lead.
When the adversaries can take two tricks in your long suit, it is better to win the first and third than the first and second tricks in their suit.
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In this case a low card is led, and you can win the first trick with the queen. By doing this you are forced to take the first and second rounds. If you take the first trick with the ace, your queen will be sacrificed to the king, but your jack controls the third round.
Unless there is another suit against you, it is safer to win the second and third tricks of the adversaries’ suit than the first and third.
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Should you wait to win the second trick with the ace, there is a chance that your right-hand adversary will be exhausted in the suit, and unless the original leader has two cards of re-entry his suit cannot be made.