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Jeļena "Aļona" Ostapenko (born 8 June 1997) is a Latvian professional tennis player. She has career-high rankings of world No. 5 in singles and No. 3 in doubles by the WTA. Ostapenko has won nine WTA Tour-level singles and eleven doubles titles, including a singles major at the 2017 French Open and a doubles major at the 2024 US Open, partnering Lyudmyla Kichenok.
Ostapenko has also won 15 singles titles and 15 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit, and the junior singles event at the 2014 Wimbledon Championships. She is a member of the Latvia Billie Jean King Cup team.
Personal life
Ostapenko was born on 8 June 1997 in Riga, Latvia to former Ukrainian footballer, Jevgēnijs Ostapenko (d. 2020) and Latvian-Russian tennis coach and former player, Jeļena Jakovļeva. Jevgēnijs played professional football for Metalurh Zaporizhzhia in the southeastern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia, where Jeļena's grandmother lives. Jeļena has one half-brother, Maksim, who lives in the United States.
Ostapenko was introduced to tennis at age five by her mother and idolised Serena Williams while growing up. She also started dancing at that age, going on to compete in the national ballroom dance championships of Latvia. At the age of 12, she chose to focus on tennis, but she credits her good coordination and skilled footwork to the years she danced competitively. Ostapenko speaks Latvian, Russian, and English.
Her legal name is Jeļena, but she is known to her family and friends as Aļona. When she was born, her parents' desired name of Aļona was not on the Latvian name calendar, so she was named Jeļena after her mother. Latvian authorities, however, have claimed that there were no restrictions in place at that time to register any name, and that there had been some misunderstanding. Fans in Latvia and elsewhere had always called her Aļona, but the name was unknown in the West until her win at Roland Garros in 2017. She uses her legal name professionally in order to avoid administrative confusion.
Aside from tennis, Ostapenko is an avid baker and enjoys cooking in her free time. She also has a dedicated Instagram page for her hobby where she regularly shares images of her culinary creations.
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