{"id":42440,"date":"2017-06-10T19:25:01","date_gmt":"2017-06-10T19:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=42440"},"modified":"2025-04-21T19:58:42","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T19:58:42","slug":"french-open-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=42440","title":{"rendered":"French Open 2017: Ostapenko\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bonvoyage.ireneeng.com\/?p=45787\">2017 trip<\/a> to Roland Garros, for a memorable final: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_6767.mov.mp4\">Jelena Ostapenko<\/a> beat Halep 4\u20136, 6\u20134, 6\u20133 to win the title. Both girls go for broke, which makes the match so much more thrilling &#8211; by far, it&#8217;s the best match I&#8217;ve seen at RG over the years.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2015 Stuttgart Open, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/?p=12225\">Reddit<\/a> similar; the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/tennis\/s\/VsR6b5JpT9\">2nd posting<\/a> duplicate;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The two wore identical outfit &#8211; a first.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_6758.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-42931\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_6758-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_6795.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-42936\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_6795-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_6757.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-42930\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_6757-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I found an excellent seat at the very last moment &#8211; couldn&#8217;t believe it. There I go -:) &#8230; with an expensive airline ticket &#8230; oh well.<\/p>\n<p>Never heard of Jelena Ostapenko before, who played with gusto. She takes so many daring shots, which made the match so exciting to watch. I&#8217;m overjoyed for her to win, especially beating out Halep, the loud screamer.<\/p>\n<p>\u21d3 the winning point \u21d3<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 480px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-42440-1\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_6767.mov.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_6767.mov.mp4\">https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_6767.mov.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>&#8230; a few more pix<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_6780.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-42937\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_6780-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_6769.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-42910\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_6769-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_6740.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-42926\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_6740-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_6750.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-42928\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_6750-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_6753.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-42929\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_6753-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_6761.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-42932\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_6761-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2017 trip to Roland Garros, for a memorable final: Jelena Ostapenko beat Halep 4\u20136, 6\u20134, 6\u20133 to win the title. Both girls go for broke, which makes the match so much more thrilling &#8211; by far, it&#8217;s the best match I&#8217;ve seen at RG over the years. 2015 Stuttgart Open, Reddit similar; the 2nd [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tennis-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}