![]() Īt the French Open, Ostapenko, then ranked 47th in the world, defeated Louisa Chirico, Monica Puig, Lesia Tsurenko, and Samantha Stosur. Īt the Charleston Open, she reached the final losing to fellow 19-year-old Daria Kasatkina. Ostapenko made her Olympic debut at the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics where she lost to Samantha Stosur in the first round.Ģ017: French Open champion, top-10 debut Īt the Australian Open, she advanced to the third round of a major for the first time, losing to Karolína Plíšková in three sets despite serving for the match in the third set. She reached the semifinals of the mixed doubles at Wimbledon with Oliver Marach, but they fell to the eventual champions Heather Watson and Henri Kontinen. She was defeated by Madison Keys in the quarterfinals. Īt the French Open, Ostapenko was seeded in the singles at a Grand Slam tournament for the first time in her career, but she dropped her opening match to Naomi Osaka.Īt the Birmingham Classic, she beat Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in straight sets during the first round, and she defeated two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitová in the second. She was beaten by Carla Suárez Navarro in the final, nevertheless she rose to No. She reached the final of the Qatar Open, a Premier 5 tournament in Doha, beating world No. Ostapenko at the 2016 Eastbourne International 79.Ģ016: First Premier-5 final, Wimbledon mixed-doubles semifinalist In September, she reached her first career WTA Tour final at the Coupe Banque Nationale, where she lost to Annika Beck. Īt the US Open, she lost her second-round match to Sara Errani. She made her WTA Tour main-draw debut at the Tashkent Open, having been awarded a wildcard.Ģ015: Grand Slam main-draw debut Īt the Ladies Neva Cup, Ostapenko went through qualifying and won the biggest title up to then.Īt Wimbledon, Ostapenko defeated the ninth-seeded Carla Suárez Navarro in straight sets (dropping only two games in the match and grabbing her first win over a top-ten player) in the first round before losing to Kristina Mladenovic. 2 junior tennis player in the world in September 2014. Ostapenko won the singles event at the junior Wimbledon Championships and was ranked the No. ![]() ![]() Career 2014: Wimbledon junior champion and pro debut She uses her legal name professionally in order to avoid administrative confusion. Fans in Latvia and elsewhere in Eastern Europe had always called her Aļona, but the name was unknown in the West until her win at Roland Garros in 2017. Latvian authorities have now clarified, though, that there have been no restrictions in place that would not allow to register the desired name and most likely there has been some misunderstanding. When she was born, her parents' desired name of Aļona was not on the Latvian name calendar, so she was named Jeļena after her mother. Her legal name is Jeļena, but she is known to her family and friends as Aļona. She speaks Latvian, Russian, and English. At the age of 12 she chose to focus on tennis, but she credits her good coordination and skilled footwork to her years of dancing. She also started dancing at that age, going on to compete in the National Latvian Championships for Ballroom Dancing. ![]() She was introduced to tennis at age five by her mother and idolized Serena Williams while growing up. Jeļena has one half-brother, Maksim, who lives in the United States. ![]() Jevgēnijs played professional football for Metalurh Zaporizhzhia in the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia where Jeļena's grandmother lives. 2020) and Latvian-Russian tennis coach and former player Jeļena Jakovļeva. Ostapenko was born in Riga to former Ukrainian footballer Jevgēnijs Ostapenko (d. ![]()
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