Yet, there are areas to improve that would give her a better chance of beating Ostapenko at her best. Swiatek’s first and second serve have improved in the last 18 months. The 23-year-old’s ...

Swiatek’s elite defense and heavy groundstrokes have allowed her to improve against other ... it’s the Swiatek serve, which often ends up in Ostapenko’s strike zone, but for nearly the ...

Ostapenko got her hands on three set points on the Swiatek serve at 5-3 and converted her third opportunity to scoop the first set in 35 minutes. The start of the second set followed a similar ...

Jelena Ostapenko is a Latvian professional tennis player and a former world no.5. Ostapenko was born in Riga, Latvia on June 8, 1997. As of March 2025, she has eight career singles and ten doubles ...

Jelena Ostapenko improved to 5-0 against Iga Swiatek after ending the No. 2 seed and three-time defending champion's 15-match Qatar TotalEnergies Open winning streak in the 2025 semifinals. Ostapenko ...

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 ...

It sometimes seemed as if Jelena Ostapenko was up against more than one opponent when she took on Coco Gauff in the fourth round of the Australian Open. The American teenager should have proven a ...

Qualifier Anna Kalinskaya upset No.9 seed Jelena Ostapenko at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships to reach her third quarterfinal at WTA 1000 level or above (following Guadalajara 2022 and the ...

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 ...

Victoria Azarenka showed no signs of ending her feud with Jelena Ostapenko following their infamous clash at the Qatar Open last year. The former world No. 1 recorded a comfortable 6-0 ...