Peyton Stearns highlighted a day of upsets by recording a 6–3, 1–6, 6–2 win over 17th-seeded Jelena Ostapenko on Wednesday, May 31, at the French Open in Paris.
Russians Anna Blinkova and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, and Kazakhstan’s Yulia Putintseva also knocked off seeded foes to advance at Roland Garros.
Stearns, a former player at the University of Texas, benefited from 28 unforced errors to lower the boom on Ostapenko, the 2017 French Open champion.
“It was definitely crazy, nerve-wracking, overwhelming — all of the emotions into one,” the 21-year-old Stearns said. “But I think at the end I settled down and was really able to come to peace with myself and play my tennis instead of who I was playing, where I was playing and whatnot….