Kaia Kanepi has become the first Estonian ever (I think) to make it to the quarter finals of the French Open, seeing her WTA ranking shoot up from where it used to be, probably somewhere in the three digits, to somewhere close to the top 40.
She is set to face Russian world #4 Svetlana Kuznetsova in today's round of play, and if she manages to make it past her to the semi-finals she will have pulled off the biggest coup of her tennis life. Let's just hope she doesn't make a hash of it, otherwise her budding ambitions might go to pot. And other such puns based on the fact that her name means 'cannabis' in Estonian.
It is a bit of a Baltic onslaught at Roland Garros this year, incidentally, with not only our Kaia making it to the final eight, but also Ernests Gulbis in the men's draw. But then he's from Latvia, so we don't care about him.
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The highest an Estonian has ever been ranked on the world scale was #69 a few decades ago, so Kanepi has already made history.
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