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#4 Jelena Ostapenko
The Latvian star had a breakthrough year. Ostapenko actually started the season with two doubles titles before she won her first singles titles. She won the St. Petersburg trophy and the Stuttgart Open.
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The breakthrough moment came when she won the French, her maiden Grand Slam title, defeating Simona Halep in the final. She had a 15-3 win-loss record in Grand Slams in 2017 and her second-best performance came at Wimbledon, where she ended up making the quarter-finals.
Ostapenko had a disappointing end to the year as she could not make it past the round-robin stage in the WTA Finals. But finishing the year ranked at a career-best No. 7 was certainly a high point for the 20-year-old.
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Edited by Sudeshna Banerjee
