Ostapenko, the first person from Latvia to win a Grand Slam singles competition, won the 2017 French Open, becoming the first unseeded player to win the Grand Slam since 1933.
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Jelena Ostapenko, also known as Aona Ostapenko and born on June 8, 1997, is a professional tennis player from Latvia. She earned career high WTA rankings of No. 5 in singles on March 19, 2018, and No. 17 in doubles on March 2, 2020. Ostapenko, the first person from Latvia to win a Grand Slam singles competition, won the 2017 French Open, becoming the first unseeded player to win the French Open since 1933. She has participated in the Latvia Fed Cup squad in addition to her singles career. On the ITF Women’s Circuit, she has won seven singles matches and eight doubles matches. She also took first place in the junior singles competition at the 2014 Wimbledon Championships.
Ostapenko participated in her first WTA qualifying round in Moscow in 2012, but she was unable to move on. She primarily competed on the ITF Circuit in the next years, although in 2015 she managed to break into the Top 100. Ostapenko rapidly advanced through the ranks in the years that followed, and by 2017, she had achieved her maiden Top 10 season. In 2018, she was able to make it to the Wimbledon semifinals and break into the top 10. She still hasn’t advanced or won a tournament in 2019.
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Ostapenko currently holds a record of 214 wins and 128 losses. She has holds two WTA titles in addition to seven ITF Circuit victories. Ostapenko was able to win the title at the 2017 French Open as the pinnacle of her advancement in 2017, even if she has yet to win a title for the other Grand Slam competitions. She achieved her greatest position of No. 5 in March 2018. As of May 27, 2019, Ostapenko is ranked 39th in the world.
Marion Bartoli is a former professional tennis player from France. Bartoli won the Wimbledon Championships singles title in 2013, after finishing runner-up in 2007. She was also a semifinalist at the 2011 French Open. She also won eight singles and three doubles titles on the WTA Tour. Bartoli was known for her unconventional style of play, which included using both hands on her forehand and backhand. She reached a career-high ranking of world No. 7 on January 30, 2012, and returned to this position on July 8, 2013, after winning Wimbledon.
Bartoli advanced to the quarterfinals of all four majors. Her Wimbledon victory made her only the sixth player in Open Era history to win the title without dropping a set. She is also one of only three players in history to have competed in both the WTA Tour Championships and the WTA Tournament of Champions (later renamed the WTA Elite Trophy) in the same year (2011), alongside Kiki Bertens and Sofia Kenin.
Bartoli began coaching former French Open champion Jelena Ostapenko at the Linz Open in October 2019. Their collaboration immediately paid off, as Ostapenko reached two finals in two weeks after not reaching a tournament final since March 2018, winning the title in Luxembourg the following week. Marion began working with Ostapenko when she was ranked 76th in the world WTA rankings, and she assisted her in returning to the top 20 WTA. Bartoli and Ostapenko’s partnership ended during the WTA Tour’s suspension due to the COVID-19 pandemic and Bartoli’s pregnancy. Marion remained Ostapenko’s part-time coach after giving birth.
