Jeļena Ostapenko
Latvian tennis player (born 1997) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dear Wikiwand AI, let's keep it short by simply answering these key questions:
Can you list the top facts and stats about Jeļena Ostapenko?
Summarize this article for a 10 year old
Jeļena "Aļona" Ostapenko[2] (born 8 June 1997) is a Latvian professional tennis player. She has career-high WTA rankings of No. 5 in singles, achieved on 19 March 2018, and No. 7 in doubles, reached on 12 September 2022.[3]
Native name | Jeļena Ostapenko | |||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Country (sports) | Latvia | |||||||||||
Residence | Riga, Latvia | |||||||||||
Born | (1997-06-08) 8 June 1997 (age 26) Riga | |||||||||||
Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) | |||||||||||
Turned pro | 2012 | |||||||||||
Plays | Right-handed (two-handed backhand) | |||||||||||
Coach | Stas Khmarsky, Jeļena Jakovļeva | |||||||||||
Prize money | US$ 14,939,612[1] | |||||||||||
Singles | ||||||||||||
Career record | 361–217 (62.5%) | |||||||||||
Career titles | 8 | |||||||||||
Highest ranking | No. 5 (19 March 2018) | |||||||||||
Current ranking | No. 10 (8 April 2024) | |||||||||||
Grand Slam singles results | ||||||||||||
Australian Open | QF (2023) | |||||||||||
French Open | W (2017) | |||||||||||
Wimbledon | SF (2018) | |||||||||||
US Open | QF (2023) | |||||||||||
Other tournaments | ||||||||||||
Tour Finals | RR (2017) | |||||||||||
Olympic Games | 1R (2016, 2020) | |||||||||||
Doubles | ||||||||||||
Career record | 220–148 (59.8%) | |||||||||||
Career titles | 7 | |||||||||||
Highest ranking | No. 7 (12 September 2022) | |||||||||||
Current ranking | No. 19 (8 April 2024) | |||||||||||
Grand Slam doubles results | ||||||||||||
Australian Open | F (2024) | |||||||||||
French Open | SF (2022) | |||||||||||
Wimbledon | SF (2022) | |||||||||||
US Open | QF (2019) | |||||||||||
Other doubles tournaments | ||||||||||||
Tour Finals | SF (2022) | |||||||||||
Olympic Games | 1R (2020) | |||||||||||
Mixed doubles | ||||||||||||
Career record | 17–11 (60.7%) | |||||||||||
Career titles | 0 | |||||||||||
Grand Slam mixed doubles results | ||||||||||||
Australian Open | QF (2023) | |||||||||||
French Open | 1R (2017, 2018, 2023) | |||||||||||
Wimbledon | F (2019) | |||||||||||
US Open | QF (2022) | |||||||||||
Team competitions | ||||||||||||
Fed Cup | 37–21 (63.8%) | |||||||||||
Medal record
| ||||||||||||
Last updated on: 16 May 2014. |
Ostapenko won the 2017 French Open singles title, becoming the first player from Latvia to win a major singles tournament and the first unseeded player to win the French Open since 1933. In addition, she has won another seven singles and seven doubles titles on the WTA Tour.
She has also won fifteen singles titles[4] and fifteen doubles titles[5] on the ITF Women's Circuit, and she also won the junior singles event at the 2014 Wimbledon Championships.
In addition to her singles career, she has played as a member of the Latvia Fed Cup team.