Jeļena Ostapenko

2014: Wimbledon Junior Champion and WTA Main Draw debut

Ostapenko won the singles event at the junior 2014 Wimbledon Championships and was ranked the number 2 junior tennis player in the world in September 2014. She made her WTA tour main draw debut at the 2014 Tashkent Open. Having been awarded a wild card, she played Israeli Shahar Pe'er in the first round, defeating the former world number 11 in straight sets. In round two, she lost to Russian Ksenia Pervak.

2015: Grand Slam Main Draw Debut, Breakthrough

At the Ladies Neva Cup, Ostapenko went through qualifying and won the biggest title of her career. During the process, she managed to cause upsets over Olga Govortsova and Aliaksandra Sasnovich.

At the Prague Open, Ostapenko lost in the final round of qualifying to Olga Govortsova, before heading to Slovakia for the Empire Slovak Open. There, she upset World No. 82 Yanina Wickmayer and World No. 63 Tereza Smitková before losing to World No. 95 Danka Kovinić.

At the French Open, Ostapenko lost in the first round of qualifying to Russian Vera Dushevina in 3 sets, and this ended her clay court season.

Ostapenko began her grass court season at the Topshelf Open, where she surprisingly fell in the final round of qualifying to Jessica Pegula. Ostapenko then participated in Aegon Ilkley Trophy, but lost in the second round to Anett Kontaveit.

At Wimbledon, Ostapenko defeated the ninth seed Carla Suárez Navarro 6–2, 6–0, which is her first Top 10 win in her career, in the first round before losing 4–6, 5–7 to Kristina Mladenovic in the second.

The only WTA event Ostapenko played before the US Open was the İstanbul Cup. She managed to get past qualifying but fell in the 1st round of the main draw to Kirsten Flipkens, only able to win 2 games in the whole match.

At the US Open the same year, she beat Annika Beck in the first round, but lost her second-round match to Sara Errani.

In September she reached her career first WTA final at the Coupe Banque Nationals, where she lost to Annika Beck. In the process, she upset No.3 seed Mona Barthel.

Seeded for the first time at a WTA event, Ostapenko lost in the first round of the Tashkent Open to Serbian Bojana Jovanovski. She then lost in the qualifying rounds of the Generali Ladies Linz and the Kremlin Cup.

She ended the season as the World No. 79, her first top 100 season, reaching her 1st WTA final, and having her first Top 10 win.

2016: First Premier 5 Final, Top 40 ranking, Wimbledon Mixed Doubles Semifinalist

In her first WTA event of 2016, she fell in the second round of the ASB Classic to Naomi Broady in a match full of drama and controversies, in which Broady demanded for Ostapenko to be disqualified after Ostapenko threw her racquet at a ball boy. Ostapenko then lost to Daniela Hantuchová in the first qualifying round in Sydney and then lost to Hsieh Su-wei in the first round of the Australian Open despite winning the first set.

Ostapenko then lost her third match in a row against Yanina Wickmayer in the first round of the inaugural St. Petersburg Ladies' Trophy.

She then won her first qualifying match in the Dubai Tennis Championships against Nao Hibino, but fell in the second round of qualifying to Bethanie Mattek-Sands.

Ostapenko then reached the final of the 2016 Qatar Total Open, a Premier 5 tournament, in Doha in February 2016, beating world no. 8 Petra Kvitová on the way. She was beaten by Carla Suarez Navarro in the final, but still went from no. 88 to no. 41 in the world rankings. Ostapenko was in the qualifying draw at first, but was promoted to the main draw after a few players withdrew before the tournament.

Ostapenko competed as the number one seed in the qualifying draw at the Miami Open, but lost in the first round. Her next tournament was the Katowice Open. She easily beat Daniela Hantuchová and Kristýna Plíšková in the first two rounds. She won her quarterfinals match against Tímea Babos in three sets, but lost to Camila Giorgi in the semifinals.

She opened the clay court season with a first round loss to Ana Konjuh at the Prague Open. She would also lose in the first round of the Mutua Madrid Open to Elena Vesnina. One week later at the Italian Open she beat Kristina Mladenovic and Mónica Puig in the first two rounds, but lost to Garbiñe Muguruza in the third round.

At the 2016 French Open Ostapenko was seeded in the singles for the first time in her Grand Slam career. In the first round of the singles tournament she failed to beat Naomi Osaka, though.

Ostapenko started her grass court season at the 2016 Ricoh Open. Seeded 4th, she won her first round match in straight sets against Jovana Jakšić in the first round. However, she lost in the second round to Kateryna Kozlova. Her next event was the 2016 Aegon Classic. She beat Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in straight sets during the first round. She had a big win in the second set by defeating two time Wimbledon Champion, Petra Kvitová in the second round. Jeļena won in three sets, but was defeated by Madison Keys in the quarterfinals. She made it to the second round of the 2016 Eastbourne International, but lost to eventual Champion Dominika Cibulková. At the 2016 Wimbledon, Ostapenko lost in the first round to Kiki Bertens. She also made the Semifinals of the Mixed doubles at Wimbledon. She partnered with Oliver Marach, but fell to the eventual champions Heather Watson and Henri Kontinen.

Ostapenko started the second half of the hard court season by losing to Monica Niculescu, in the first round of the 2016 Rogers Cup. She was seeded 4th at the 2016 Brasil Tennis Cup – Singles. She cruised to the quarterfinals after two straight set win matches, but lost to the 6th seed, Tímea Babos. Ostapenko made her Olympic debut at the 2016 Summer Olympics. She lost to the 13th seed Samantha Stosur in the first round. She followed her first round loss at the Olympics with a win in the first round of the 2016 Western & Southern Open. However, she lost in the second round to the eventual champion, Karolína Plíšková. She lost in the second round of the 2016 Connecticut Open. She lost in the first round of the 2016 US Open to Petra Kvitová.

Ostapenko again lost in the first round of the 2016 Wuhan Open to Petra Kvitová. She finished her season by losing in the first round of both the 2016 Linz Open and the 2016 Kremlin Cup.

2017: First Grand Slam Third Round Appearance

Ostapenko started her year off with a semifinal appearance at the 2017 ASB Classic. Seeded 7th, Ostapenko beat Marina Erakovic, Mirjana Lučić-Baroni, and Madison Brengle in the first three rounds. She battled Lauren Davis in the semifinals, but was forced to retire in the third set because of illness. Her next tournament was the 2017 Australian Open. She had an easy straight sets win over qualifier Zhu Lin. In the second round, Ostapenko beat the 31st seed Yulia Putintseva to make it to her first third round appearance of grand slam. In the third round, she lost to the 5th seed, Karolína Plíšková in a tough three set match. She lost 6-4,0-6,8-10.

Performance Timeline

Current through 2017 Dubai Tennis Championships.

Head-to-head record against top 20 players

Ostapenko win–loss record against players who have been ranked world No. 20 or higher is as follows:

Awards