Jelena Ostapenko

During her relatively short biography, Elena Ostapenko has won many titles, and today she is a famous Latvian tennis player. The solid right-hander recognizes the two-handed backhand as a key element of his game. A young and ambitious girl enjoys watching hockey matches in her free time.

Ostapenko Elena Evgenievna was born on June 8, 1997 in the city of Riga. The girl is a citizen of Latvia, but Elena's parents are of Ukrainian origin. The girl's father is a former professional footballer from Zaporozhye, played for the Metallurg team. Mom - Elena Yakovleva, played at the semi-amateur level, and later continued her career as a coach for her daughter. The athlete has a half-brother who lives in the United States.

Ostapenko has been playing tennis since the age of 6; the girl's favorite surface can be definitely called hard. At the same time, the girl was engaged in dancing. At the age of 12, Ostapenko chose to focus on her tennis career, gaining the good coordination she had gained over the years of dancing.

As for her career in Latvia, the girl is better known there as Alena Ostapenko. When she was born, they wanted to name the girl Alena, but this name was not in the Latin calendar, so Ostapenko received the name of her mother - Elena. Later, the Latvian authorities clarified, but there were no restrictions that would not allow registering the desired name. Most likely, there were some misunderstandings.

The efforts of the parents and the diligence of the daughter quickly gave good results. Even in children's tournaments, the girl gradually began to play at the level of the strongest in the country, and later in Europe. At the age of 13, Elena won the prestigious Les Petits As tournament, beating Belinda Bencic in the semifinals. Nevertheless, the debut in the senior junior series took place a little earlier: the girl won the home G5 in Jurmala in singles.

Gradually improving her skills, the Latvian athlete improved her results by participating in high-profile competitions. Thus, in the fall of 2011, together with Katerina Sinyakova, the girl reached the semifinals of the elite G1 tournament in Bradenton. And already in January 2012 she made her debut at the junior Grand Slam matches.

It took two seasons to stabilize the results and reach a new level of competitiveness. In 2013, Ostapenko reached the quarterfinals for the first time at the Grand Slam tournaments. The girl won several G1 competitions and already in 2014 was in the TOP-10 of the rating, having won the first junior Grand Slam tournament at Wimbledon in the history of Latvian women's tennis.

In the same year, the athlete took part in the tennis tournament of the II Youth Olympic Games. Together with Aquile Parazinskaite, the girl won bronze. The increased results lifted Elena to the third position of the classification, the highest in her career.

Elena spent her debut matches in the adult round in the winter of 2012, having participated in several small tournaments in Estonia. The growing skill allowed him to freely win small tournaments and win the first titles. At this time, Elena first tried her hand at qualifying for the WTA tournament in Moscow.

The accumulated experience allowed us to gradually climb up the rating classifications. In singles, the long period is limited to victories at 10,000, but in 2013 the girl managed to win two 25,000. One of them was won in Estonia, paired with Anette Kontaveit.

At the end of 2014, the athlete's results became one level higher. In Tashkent, the girl outplayed Shahar Peer in the first round. A couple of weeks later, the result was added to the quarter-finals of the 50,000 in Jouet-le-Tours, the final in the 25,000 in Poland and the semifinals of the 100,000 in Poitiers. After a series of successes, which allowed Elena to overcome the milestone in the TOP-200, the girl took 165th place.

A special invitation to the base of Wimbledon came in handy. In the first round, the girl hit Carla Suarez Navarro. The Latvian athlete took advantage of the rival's game crisis and gave a couple of games per match. The rest of the summer season brought a double final at 75,000 in Sobota and a semi-final at the doubles tournament in Vancouver. There the Latvian tennis player tried her hand at an alliance with Kiki Bertens.

At the US Open, the need arose again to play qualification, this time the girl successfully passed the stage and made her way to the 2nd round. But there she gave the right to go to the next round to Sarah Errani.

In May 2017, Ana Konyukh lost to Elena Ostapenko - the athlete won a strong-willed victory. A little later, in September of the same year, Ostapenko won the title in Seoul, defeating Beatrice Haddad-Maya. In a match with Caroline Wozniacki in June 2017, Ostapenko won, reaching the semifinals of Roland Garros.

In an interview, Elena was asked a question about her personal life. But the girl did not want to talk on this topic, confining herself to the answer: "Nothing." The girl's mother entered the conversation, confirming her daughter's words and adding that there is not enough time for boyfriends, given the constant employment and travel. Thus, we can conclude that Elena Ostapenko is a free young girl who, first of all, strives to build a career.

Now the girl lives in Riga (Latvia). In 2017, a postage stamp was issued in Latvia in honor of Ostapenko's victory at the French Open. The circulation was 50 thousand copies, and the face value was € 1.42.

The title "Riga's Resident of the Year 2017" and a certificate of honor were awarded to the tennis player for her sports achievements and popularization of Riga. Anyone who has reached the age of 18 can apply for the title, regardless of citizenship and nationality.

Nevertheless, in May 2018, the reigning champion Roland Garros in the first round flew out of the tournament, losing the victory to Ukrainian Katerina Kozlova. Ostapenko has lost the right to defend the champion's title.

In the same month, another spectacular match took place: Elena played with Maria Sharapova. Before that, the girls had never met on the court. The athletes fought for 3 hours and 10 minutes, the predictions were different, but Maria won in a tense struggle.

There are always a lot of people around the girl. Journalists often write that Daria Kasatkina and Elena Ostapenko are friends. But recently in an interview, Daria denied this information, calling the relationship far from smooth. The girl also clarified that there was no specific negative incident, just the negative gradually accumulated.

Ostapenko speaks fluent Russian. Elena has Ukrainian roots: her grandmother lives in Zaporozhye.

On July 8, 2018, the girl celebrated her 21st birthday. A special guest at the party was Oleg Miami, a participant in the "Voice" show, who specially visited Riga to sing and congratulate Elena. Photos from this event were published on Ostapenko's official account on the Instagram social network.

The girl's height is 177 cm.

2014 Latvian Sports Rising Star of the Year 2015 WTA Tour Breakthrough of the Month (February) 2017 WTA Tour Breakthrough of the Month (May) 2017 WTA Tour Best Player of the Year 2017 Latvian Sportswoman of the Year

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