ROME — Amid the excitement of Jelena Ostapenko’s title run at the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix last month, eagle-eyed fashion fans might have noticed the 27-year-old sporting a new look.<\/p>\n
Rome:\u00a0Draws<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>|\u00a0<\/strong>Scores<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>|<\/strong>\u00a0Order of play<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n In her quarterfinal post-match interview following her sixth defeat of Iga Swiatek in six meetings, Ostapenko wore a turquoise T-shirt emblazoned with a cartoon of a female tennis player, swishing her racquet as hard as possible with an expression of pure effort and aggression. Sound familiar? Too familiar to be a mere off-the-shelf item.<\/p>\n After her 1-6, 6-4, 6-3 defeat of Rebecca Sramkova on Thursday at the Internazionali BNL d’Italia, she confirmed the year’s hottest tennis fashion news: a line of Jelena Ostapenko merch is coming soon to an outlet near you. For the past few years, Ostapenko’s self-designed collaborations with local Latvian brand DK One have made for the Hologic WTA Tour’s most original and colorful looks, and now she’s branching out.<\/p>\n “It’s not tennis stuff, like match outfits,” she said. “More T-shirts, hoodies and caps. It’s in process, and it may be ready in one or two months. There are going to be logos, and some really cute tennis prints.”<\/p>\n The project hasn’t been all smooth sailing, as Ostapenko originally imagined. “There are a lot of people involved and a lot of work,” she said with a sigh. But she’s doing her bit for promo, trailing select outfits while retaining that all-important exclusivity.<\/p>\n “A lot of people have been asking me, because me and my boyfriend wear some of that stuff,” she said. “Everyone is so curious and asking, ‘Where can I get it?'”<\/p>\n The grin returns to Ostapenko’s face.<\/p>\n “You can’t. It’s not out yet!”<\/p>\n The former Roland Garros champion is tight-lipped on further details:<\/p>\n “I cannot open up, it’s going to be a surprise,” she said. Though she did tease a double drop will eventually reveal the line.<\/p>\n In the meantime, she’ll have a third-round date in Rome to take care of — against lucky loser Laura Siegemund, who was a last-minute replacement for Karolina Muchova (who withdrew due to a left wrist injury). Siegemund defeated Lucia Bronzetti 6-2, 6-2.<\/p>\n Ostapenko bests Sramkova in three sets for second straight year in Rome<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ROME — Amid the excitement of Jelena Ostapenko’s title run at the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix last month,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[79,1068,661,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-86041","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-text","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114475189198243293","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}