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In Paris her fearless, aggressive baseline game always seemed to come good when it mattered most — Ostapenko won in three sets five times, including in the final against Halep. Halep was chosen by many to open her Grand Slam account because she won in Madrid in May and made the final a week later in Rome. Destiny seemed to be on her side, too, since the Romanian came back from a set and 5-1 down — saving a match point — in the quarterfinals against Elina Svitolina. When the 2014 finalist raced to a set and 3-0 advantage against Ostapenko and held three break points for 4-0, onlookers were no doubt ready to proclaim that the occasion got to the 20-year-old. But striking one winner after another, Ostapenko earned the key break at 3-3 in the third set on a net cord and the then world No. 47 ran out a 46 64 63 winner. "I'm really happy to win here," Latvia's maiden Grand Slam winner said. "I still cannot believe it, because it was my dream and now it came true. I think I'm going to only understand this in maybe a couple of days or couple of weeks." Ostapenko's ability and resolve were witnessed at Wimbledon, as well. She would become only the third female player in the last 10 years — after Serena Williams and Justine Henin — to capture the Roland Garros title and go on to reach the Wimbledon quarterfinals in the same season. Three North Americans were crowned champions in doubles in Paris. American Ryan Harrison and New Zealand's Michael Venus beat Mexico's Santiago Gonzalez and Donald Young 76(5) 67(4) 63 in men's doubles; Bethanie Mattek-Sands of the US — before a horrific knee injury at Wimbledon — and Lucie Safarova of the Czech Republic defeated Australians Ashleigh Barty and Casey Dellacqua 62 61 in women's doubles; and Canada's Gabriela Dabrowski and India's Rohan Bopanna beat Germany's Anna-Lena Groenefeld and Colombia's Robert Farah 26 62 1210 in mixed doubles. Timea Bacsinszky reached the last four Jelena Ostapenko stunned everyone with her Roland Garros triumph Lukasz Kubot and Marcelo Melo won a marathon Wimbledon doubles final

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