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Defending Champion Ostapenko Out Of French Open In First Round

Muhammad Rameez Published May 27, 2018 | 11:10 PM

Defending champion Ostapenko out of French Open in first round

Paris, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 27th May, 2018 ) :Latvia's fifth seed Jelena Ostapenko became only the second defending champion to lose in the first round of Roland Garros when she slumped to a shock 7-5, 6-3 defeat by Kateryna Kozlova of Ukraine on Sunday.

Russia's Anastasia Myskina was the only other defending champion to lose in the first round in the Open era in 2005. Kozlova, the world number 66, will face either former world number one Victoria Azarenka or Katerina Siniakova of the Czech Republic for a place in the last 32.

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