NEW DELHI: Jelena Ostapenko, the 2017 French Open winner, advanced to the Wimbledon quarter-finals on Monday after defeating Yulia Putintseva 6-2, 6-3. Putintseva had previously eliminated Iga Swiatek from the tournament.
Throughout the match, Ostapenko, 27, from Latvia, managed to break Putintseva's serve five times. She struck 29 winners but also committed 26 unforced errors during the encounter.
"This is one of my my favourites on the tour," said Ostapenko, as quoted by AFP.
"I won it at juniors (in 2014) and I have great memories here.
"I feel like I'm playing really good players but I'm good in deciding moments. I think that's the key and I'm doing pretty OK."
The 13th seed, who was a semi-finalist at Wimbledon in 2018, will next face either the US 11th seed Danielle Collins or Barbora Krejcikova of the Czech Republic.
Russian-born Putintseva, currently ranked 35th, defeated world number one Swiatek in the last 32 on Saturday.