Jelena Ostapenko is a popular Latvian professional tennis player. She has a career WTA ranking of world No. 5 in singles, achieved on 19 March 2018, and world No. 9 in doubles, reached on 22 August 2022. Jelena won the 2017 French Open singles title. She has also won seven singles and eight doubles titles on the ITF Women’s Circuit, and she also won the junior singles event at the 2014 Wimbledon Championships. In this post, we will take a look at who Jelena Ostapenko’s parents are. But before then, let us take a look at how she started it all.
Jelena Ostapenko career summary
The 2017 French Open was won by Ostapenko, the first unseeded champion since 1933. The first Latvian to triumph in a Grand Slam singles match is Ostapenko.
She competed in singles and also competed for Latvia in the Fed Cup. On the ITF Women’s Circuit, she has won seven singles matches and eight doubles match. She also took first place in the junior singles event of the 2014 Wimbledon Championships.
Ostapenko participated in her first WTA qualifying round in Moscow in 2012, but she was unable to move on. She largely played on the ITF Circuit in the next years, but in 2015, she was able to break into the Top 100.
Ostapenko steadily advanced through the ranks in the years that followed, and by 2017, she had finished her maiden Top 10 season. In 2018, she was able to enter the top 10 and advance to the Wimbledon semifinals. She hasn’t won or advanced in a competition yet in 2019.
Ostapenko currently has a record of 214 wins and 128 losses. In addition to two WTA titles, she has won seven matches on the ITF Circuit.
Ostapenko was successful in winning the championship at the 2017 French Open as the pinnacle of her development in 2017, despite the fact that she has yet to win a title in any of the other Grand Slam competitions.
She reached her greatest ranking of No. 5 in March 2018. As of May 27, 2019, Ostapenko is presently ranked 39th in the world.
Jelena Ostapenko parents: Meet Jevgēnijd and Jelena Jakovleva
Ostapenko was born on 8 June 1997 in Riga to former Latvian/Ukrainian footballer Jevgēnijs Ostapenko and Latvian Jeļena Jakovļeva. Jelena was introduced to tennis by her mother when she was 5 years. Her father however died in 2020.
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