In an all-Adidas and all-Wilson Roland Garros final, fresh 20-year-old Jelena Ostapenko stuck to her aggressive and fearless game, even when unforced errors were going through the roof, and recorded a close victory over third seed Simona Halep, preventing the Romanian from becoming a new world No.1.
The 47th-ranked Ostapenko, who will rise to No.12 after this superb French Open run, stunned us all by opening the championship match with a fearless break of Halep’s serve, without losing a point! However, that impressive start was just that, a start, as Halep broke back right away and the set evolved into a tense affair in which Ostapenko’s aggressiveness didn’t turn out to be fruitful, being accompanied by too many unforced errors.