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Stuttgart Run Propels Ostapenko into French Open Reckoning
The Straits Times
|April 24, 2025
Jelena Ostapenko is starting to show shades of the form that saw her crowned French Open champion in 2017, with the Latvian beating the top two players in the world en route to winning the Stuttgart Open title on April 21.
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Jelena Ostapenko is starting to show shades of the form that saw her crowned French Open champion in 2017, with the Latvian beating the top two players in the world en route to winning the Stuttgart Open title on April 21.
She will be in action in Madrid this week and is also dreaming of another deep run at Roland Garros. The 27-year-old became the first woman to defeat the world No. 1 and No. 2 in the same clay-court event since Serena Williams at Madrid in 2012 by beating Aryna Sabalenka in the Stuttgart final and Iga Swiatek in the quarter-finals.
Her ninth tour-level title, and just her second on clay, lifted Ostapenko six places in the world rankings to 18th, marking her out as a dark horse ahead of the French Open, which begins on May 25.
This story is from the April 24, 2025 edition of The Straits Times.
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