RIGA, Latvia — Make it big for Latvia and they do not wait long to mark the occasion.
Last June in Paris, the unseeded Jelena Ostapenko, barely 20 years old, aimed fearlessly for the lines at the French Open and hit just enough of them to win not only her first Grand Slam title but her first tour singles title.
By November, her home club, Enri, had inaugurated a new indoor facility named “A. Ostapenko Halle” with her own reserved practice court. (She prefers to be called Alona instead of Jelena, her given name.