Jeļena Ostapenko

Jeļena Ostapenko (born 8 June 1997 in Riga) is a Latvian tennis player.

Ostapenko has won seven singles and eight doubles titles on the ITF tour in her career. On 21 September 2015, she reached her best singles ranking of world number 77. On 9 November 2015, she peaked at world number 152 in the doubles rankings.

Career

2014

Ostapenko won the singles event at the junior 2014 Wimbledon Championships and was ranked the number 2 junior tennis player in the world in September 2014.

She made her WTA tour main draw debut at the 2014 Tashkent Open. Having been awarded a wild card, she played Israeli Shahar Pe'er in the first round, defeating the former world number 11 in straight sets. In round two, she lost to Russian Ksenia Pervak.

2015

At Wimbledon in 2015, Ostapenko defeated the ninth seed Carla Suárez Navarro 6-2 6-0 in the first round before losing 6-4 7-5 to Kristina Mladenovic in the second. In September she reached her career first WTA final at the Coupe Banque Nationals, where she lost to Annika Beck. At the US Open the same year, she beat Annika Beck in the first round, but lost her second-round match to Sara Errani.

Jelena

Jelena is a Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Russian, Serbian, Montenegrin, Bulgarian, Ukrainian and Belarussian female given name. (Originally russian) The name is slavicised version of Greek name Ελένη (gr. Eleni, eng. Helen)

Notable people

WTA

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Qatar Ladies Open

The Qatar Ladies Open, known as the Qatar Total Open for sponsorship reasons, is a tennis tournament held in Doha, Qatar. Held since 2001, this WTA Tour event was a Tier I-tournament in 2008, and was played on outdoor hardcourts. Total S.A. was the main tournament sponsor. After a two year break the tournament returned in 2011.

History

The first tournament was held in 2001 as Qatar Total FinaElf Open for the prize money of $170,000, as a Tier III tournament. In 2004, the tournament got Tier II category because of an increase in prize money to $600,000, and in 2007 to $1,340,000. For the 2008 season, which was the last season it was held, the tournament became Tier I, for the prize money of $2,500,000. The tournament then took a two year break due to the venue hosting the WTA Tour Championship thus not being played in 2009 or 2010. The tournament returned in 2011 as a Premier Event with the prize money of $721,000 and a 32-competitor singles draw (16-pair doubles draw). In 2012, The tournament got Premier 5 status due to the success of last year's tournament that featured seven of the top ten players and also due to the recent history of the Dubai Tennis Championships. In the 2015 WTA Season, the tournament has got back its Premier status, while the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships has got back its Original status of Premier 5.

2016 Qatar Total Open

The 2016 Qatar Total Open will be a professional women's tennis tournament played on hard courts. It will be the 14th edition of the event and part of the WTA Premier 5 series of the 2016 WTA Tour. It will take place at the International Tennis and Squash complex in Doha, Qatar between 21 and 27 February 2016.

Points and prize money

Point distribution

Prize money

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Singles main draw entrants

Seeds

Other Entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

Withdrawals

Peng Shuai →replaced by Tsvetana Pironkova

Maria Sharapova →replaced by Bethanie Mattek-Sands

Doubles main draw entrants

Seeds

Other entrants

The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:

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Champions

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