Latvian with a passion for danger and sky jumps played a fearless brand of tennis to secure victory over Simona Halep in the French Open final In January a young Latvian with a taste for danger arrived in Auckland for her opening tennis event of the year, but thinking most about jumping off the city's Sky Tower. The 192-metre vertical drop is not for the faint-hearted and had her mother not intervened, Jelena Ostapenko would have joined the hundreds of people who have leapt off the tallest man-m...
Jelena Ostapenko scales new heights in unlikely French Open triumph
The Guardian - 11 Jun 2017 16:45
Latvian with a passion for danger and sky jumps played a fearless brand of tennis to secure victory over Simona Halep in the French Open final In January a young Latvian with a taste for danger arrived in Auckland for her opening tennis event of the year, but thinking most about jumping off the city's Sky Tower. The 192-metre vertical drop is not for the faint-hearted and had her mother not intervened, Jelena Ostapenko would have joined the hundreds of people who have leapt off the tallest man-m...
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