One of the strangest head-to-heads in tennis got a little bit stranger last week. Jelena Ostapenko extended her record against the five-time Grand Slam champion and current world No. 2 Iga Swiatek ...

Ostapenko thrived on knowing where the second serve was going to land and punished it several times. In the face of that pressure, Swiatek did not have a kick serve to fall back on.

Anisimova beat former French Open champion Jelena Ostapenko 6-4, 6-3 in a final disrupted twice by showers. After the second rain delay, Anisimova won the last three games to become the first ...

With a barrage of crispy clean winners, Jelena Ostapenko had just dispatched Iga Swiatek for the fifth time in her career -- in five matches -- and was asked how she did it. “Well,” Ostapenko said in ...

Iga Swiatek hit just eight winners compared to 31 by Jelena Ostapenko Iga Swiatek suffered her worst defeat in two years as Jelena Ostapenko breezed past the world number two in straight sets to ...

Jelena Ostapenko scored her first Top 10 win since 2023 with a 6-2, 6-2 defeat of No. 4 seed Jasmine Paolini in the Qatar TotalEnergies Open third round. Doha: Draws | Scores | Order of Play The ...

Latvian tennis professional Jelena "Alona" Ostapenko was born on June 8, 1997. She has won a total of 17 ATP titles, including eight singles and nine doubles as of December 2024. The most notable ...

Going into the semi-final against Iga Swiatek, Jelena Ostapenko was confident of winning the match and progressing into the final of the Qatar Open here on Friday. Ostapenko maintained her record ...

Three-time defending Qatar Open champion Iga Swiatek suffered a crushing 6-3, 6-1 defeat by Jelena Ostapenko in the semi-finals on Friday, her fifth loss in as many meetings with the mercurial ...

Three-times defending champion Iga Swiatek was bundled out of the Qatar Open by Latvian Jelena Ostapenko, who beat the Polish second seed 6-3, 6-1 in the semi-finals on Friday to set up a final ...