Jeļena Ostapenko also known as Aļona Ostapenko, is a Latvian professional tennis player with a career-high WTA rankings of world No. 5 in singles, achieved on 19 March 2018, and world No. 17 in doubles, reached on 2 March 2020.
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Ostapenko won the 2017 French Open singles title, becoming the first player from Latvia to win a Grand Slam singles tournament and the first unseeded player to win the French Open since 1933.
Ostapenko has won seven singles and eight doubles titles on the ITF Women’s Circuit.
Jeļena Ostapenko Husband
Is Jeļena Ostapenko Married? Ostapenko is engaged to soccer player Arturs Karasausks and she went public with their relationship in 2017, annoucing it via Instagram.
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Ostapenko’s boyfriend Karasausks hails from Riga, Latvia, just like her.
Karasausks plays as a forward in the Latvian Higher League for FK Liepāja.
Karasausks was signed by the Latvian Higher League club JFK Olimps/RFS in January 2009, making his top flight debut at the age of 17.
He scored his first goal for the club in a 1–1 league draw against SK Blāzma on 11 June 2009, being just 17 years, 4 months and 17 days old.
In less than a month after Karašausks managed to score his first ever hat-trick in a 7–0 league victory over Rīgas Futbola skola.
All in all he scored 10 goals in 18 league appearances and was named Young Player of the Year, receiving the Ilmārs Liepiņš prize at the end of the season.
Olimps/RFS finished fifth in the league table, which is, to date, the best result in the club’s history
Karasausks was formerly married to Nikola Karasauska.
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