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After winning the first set 6-3, Ostapenko went on to take a 5-2 lead in the second, looking well on course to win the match. However, Ostapenko then lost five match points, and the gritty Svitolina took the set into a tie-break where Ostapenko prevailed by 8:6

Therefore Ostapenko has won already eleven Grand Slam matches in a row. In addition, for the second time in her career Ostapenko has defeated a top-five player. The first was when Ostapenko beat Romania's Simona Halep in the final match at the French Open.

In the quarterfinals on Tuesday, Ostapenko will play either the tenth-seeded Venus Williams (U.S.) or the talented Croatian Ana Konjuh.

Ostapenko has earned 430 WTA ranking points for reaching the tournament's quarterfinals.

As reported, Ostapenko is 13th in the WTA rankings at the moment, while Svitolina is in fifth place.

As a junior, Svitolina won the French Open girls event in 2010, while in 2012 she reached the final of the girls' singles event at the Wimbledon Championships. Just two years later, Ostapenko won the Wimbledon Championships girls event.

LETA also reported, Anastasija Sevastova, the other Latvian lady tennis player participating at the Wimbledon Championships, lost to Heather Watson (Great Britain) 0-6, 4-6 in the second round of the tournament. In the meantime, Ernests Gulbis reached the third round where he lost to Serbia's Novak Djokovic.