Not even missing a succession of match points stopped Jelena Ostapenko swinging her racket with brutal intent.
The French Open champion, who has shaken up women’s tennis with her high-risk game, passed up seven chances to finish off Wimbledon opponent Elina Svitolina, but rather than go into her shell she merely took her aggressive game up a notch.
She eventually blasted her way into the quarter-finals for the first time with a 6-3 7-6(6) victory on Monday in which she struck a remarkable 42 winners and made 39 unforced errors.
To put those stats into perspective, her opponent, the Ukrainian fourth seed, hit …read more
Source: Gulf times
