https://www.scmp.com/rss/524291/feed The latest news and top stories on Jelena Ostapenko. Known for her aggressive playing style and powerful groundstrokes, she is a Latvian professional tennis player. She won the 2017 French Open singles title and the 2024 US Open women's doubles title with Lyudmyla Kichenok. Ostapenko has secured nine singles and eleven doubles titles on the WTA Tour. She achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 5 and a doubles ranking of world No. 3, demonstrating her expertise in both formats. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Agencies Agencies In the last match of the day in the first round at the Australian Open, former world number one Naomi Osaka emerged at Rod Laver Arena and stole the show clutching a white parasol and wearing a matching wide-brimmed hat and veil. The 28-year-old from Japan is well known for her on- and off-court fashion statements. She wore her latest outfit as she came out for her night match against Croatia’s Antonia Ruzic on Tuesday. She waved regally to the crowd and the four-time grand slam champion then... https://www.scmp.com/sport/tennis/article/3340589/australian-open-chinas-wang-xinyu-wu-yibing-progress-second-round-sinner-strolls?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/tennis/article/3340589/australian-open-chinas-wang-xinyu-wu-yibing-progress-second-round-sinner-strolls?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 20 Jan 2026 12:25:57 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse Novak Djokovic threw up, Alexander Zverev poured sweat out of his shoe and Emma Raducanu quit her match with dizziness – and the bad news for the world’s top tennis players is that more baking weather is to come in China this week. Denmark’s Holger Rune called the temperatures of more than 30 degrees Celsius (86 Fahrenheit) and humidity soaring past 80 per cent at the Shanghai Masters “brutal”. “Do you want a player to die on court?” Rune was heard to ask this week in the fierce conditions. The... https://www.scmp.com/sport/china/article/3328253/chinas-temperatures-set-rise-tennis-finals-after-djokovic-vomits-again?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/china/article/3328253/chinas-temperatures-set-rise-tennis-finals-after-djokovic-vomits-again?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 08 Oct 2025 10:35:01 +0000 Reuters Reuters Naomi Osaka said using words such as “no education” and “no class” to criticise a black tennis player were among the worst things to say as the debate over a heated row between Taylor Townsend and Jelena Ostapenko raged on at the US Open on Thursday. Townsend, who is black, overcame 2017 French Open champion Ostapenko 7-5, 6-1 in a tough second-round battle a day earlier. But the real tension came shortly after match point, when the pair verbally duelled at the net, with the Latvian repeatedly... https://www.scmp.com/sport/tennis/article/3323624/us-open-naomi-osaka-steps-slam-jelena-ostapenko-over-heated-row-black-player?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/tennis/article/3323624/us-open-naomi-osaka-steps-slam-jelena-ostapenko-over-heated-row-black-player?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 29 Aug 2025 07:42:03 +0000