By the middle of the tournament she had beaten a Grand Slam champion, Sam Stosur, and in the quarter-finals she biffed a player who had once been world number one, Caroline Wozniacki. "NEGATIVE EFFECT"Fellow former French champion Kim Clijsters feels for the faltering Latvian, and sympathises with her about the pressure and expectation she carries. "When I look back to my path, I'm very happy that I didn't win a Grand Slam when I was 17 or so. "When you win a Grand Slam, management, sponsors and everything gets added on to that and I'm sure that can have a negative effect." Still, Ostapenko enters this Grand Slam as a former champion, and if anything can bolster her confidence it must be this.

Source: The Star May 24, 2019 03:42 UTC