Elena Likhovtseva

Elena Likhovtseva
Елена Лиховцева

Country	Russia
Residence	Moscow, Russia
Born	8 September 1975 (1975-09-08) Alma-Ata, Soviet Union
Height	1.74 m (5' 8½")
Weight	60 kg (132 lb)
Turned pro	1992
Retired	Inactive (last match: 2008)
Plays	Right (two-handed backhand)
Career prize money	$6,237,556
Singles
Career record	433–372
Career titles	3[2]
Highest ranking	No. 15 (25 October 1999)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	QF (2000)
French Open	SF (2005)
Wimbledon	QF (2002)
US Open	4r (1994, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005)
Doubles
Career record	526–314
Career titles	27[7]
Highest ranking	No. 3 (27 September 2004)
Last updated on: 13 October 2008.

Elena Alexandrovna Likhovtseva (Russian: Елена Лиховцева [jelena lixɔftseva]; born 8 September 1975 in Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union, now Kazakhstan) is a Russian tennis player, currently inactive. She turned professional in January 1992 at the age of 16.

Likhovtseva's career best appearance in a Grand Slam was when she reached the semi finals of the French Open 2005 before she was defeated by Mary Pierce, 6–1 6–1. Elena is also one of the few people in either the men's or women's game to have lost a tiebreaker from 6–0 up (this was also against Mary Pierce, in Moscow; Pierce went on to win the tournament). Together with Mahesh Bhupathi, she won the Wimbledon Mixed Doubles championship in 2002. She has also been a runner-up in a number of other contests, including the Australian Open women's doubles event in 2004, French Open Women's Doubles in 2004 and Mixed Doubles in 2003, and the 2000 and 2004 US Open Women's Doubles. In the 2004 Summer Olympics, she won the first round of the Women's Doubles with partner Svetlana Kuznetsova, but was defeated in the second. She won the 2007 Australian Open Mixed Doubles championship with Daniel Nestor. After losing all four singles of the year, Likhovtseva's best performance in 2008 was the quarter-finals at the Sony Ericsson Open in Miami with Lisa Raymond.

Grand Slam record

• Australian Open
  • Doubles finalist: 2004 (w/ Kuznetsova)
  • Mixed Doubles finalist: 2006 (w/ Nestor)
  • Mixed Doubles champion: 2007 (w/ Nestor)

• French Open
  • Doubles finalist: 2004 (w/ Kuznetsova)
  • Mixed Doubles finalist: 2003 (w/ Bhupathi, 2006 (w/ Nestor)

• Wimbledon
  • Mixed Doubles champion: 2002 (w/ Bhupathi)

• US Open
  • Doubles finalist: 2000 (w/ Black), 2004 (w/ Kuznetsova)

Major finals

Grand Slam finals

Doubles: 4 (0–4)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score in the final
Runner-up	2000	U.S. Open	Hard	Cara Black	Julie Halard-Decugis Ai Sugiyama	6–0, 1–6, 6–1
Runner-up	2004	Australian Open	Hard	Svetlana Kuznetsova	Virginia Ruano Paola Suárez	6–4, 6–3
Runner-up	2004	French Open	Clay	Svetlana Kuznetsova	Virginia Ruano Paola Suárez	6–0, 6–3
Runner-up	2004	U.S. Open 2	Hard	Svetlana Kuznetsova	Virginia Ruano Paola Suárez	6–4, 7–5

Mixed doubles: 5 (2–3)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score in the final
Winner	2002	Wimbledon	Grass	Mahesh Bhupati	Daniela Hantuchová Kevin Ullyett	6–2, 7–5
Runner-up	2003	French Open	Clay	Mahesh Bhupathi	Lisa Raymond Mike Bryan	6–3, 6–4
Runner-up	2006	Australian Open	Hard	Daniel Nestor	Martina Hingis Mahesh Bhupathi	6–3, 6–3
Runner-up	2006	French Open (2)	Clay	Daniel Nestor	Katarina Srebotnik Nenad Zimonjić	6–3, 6–4
Winner	2007	Australian Open	Hard	Daniel Nestor	Victoria Azarenka Max Mirnyi	6–4, 6–4

Likhovtseva during the 2006 Australian Open.

Career finals

Singles

Wins (3)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score in the final
1.	17 October 1993	Montpellier, France	Carpet	Dominique Monami	6–3, 6–4
2.	5 January 1997	Gold Coast, Australia	Hard	Ai Sugiyama	3–6, 7–6(7), 6–3
3.	28 August 2004	Forest Hills, USA	Hard	Iveta Benešová	6–3, 6–2

Doubles

Wins (27)

Legend (Doubles)
Tier I (4)
Tier II (10)
Tier III (7)
Tier IV (4)
VS (2)
Grand Slam Title (0)
WTA Tour Championship (0)

No.	Date	Tournament	Category	Partner	Opponent in the final	Score in the final
1.	11 January 1998	Gold Coast, Australia	III	Ai Sugiyama	Sung-Hee Park Shi-Ting Wang	1–6, 6–3, 6–4
2.	1 November 1998	Luxembourg, Luxembourg	III	Ai Sugiyama	Larisa Neiland Elena Tatarkova	6–7(3), 6–3, 2–0 ret.
3.	8 November 1998	Leipzig, Germany	II	Ai Sugiyama	Manon Bollegraf Irina Spîrlea	6–3, 6–7(2), 6–1
4.	15 November 1998	Philadelphia, U.S.	II	Ai Sugiyama	Monica Seles Natasha Zvereva	7–5, 4–6, 6–2
5.	17 January 1999	Sydney, Australia	II	Ai Sugiyama	Mary Joe Fernandez Anke Huber	6–3, 2–6, 6–0
6.	4 April 1999	Hilton Head, U.S.	I	Jana Novotná	Barbara Schett Patty Schnyder	6–1, 6–4
7.	23 May 1999	Strasbourg, France	III	Ai Sugiyama	Alexandra Fusai Nathalie Tauziat	2–6, 7–6(6), 6–1
8.	14 January 2001	Hobart, Australia	VS	Cara Black	Ruxandra Dragomir Virginia Ruano Pascual	6–4, 6–1
9.	6 May 2001	Hamburg, Germany	II	Cara Black	Květa Peschke Barbara Rittner	6–2, 4–6, 6–2
10.	20 May 2001	Rome, Italy	I	Cara Black	Paola Suárez Patricia Tarabini	6–1, 6–1
11.	17 June 2001	Birmingham, Great Britain	III	Cara Black	Kimberly Po-Messerli Nathalie Tauziat	6–1, 6–2
12.	5 August 2001	San Diego, U.S.	II	Cara Black	Martina Hingis Anna Kournikova	6–4, 1–6, 6–4
13.	25 August 2001	New Haven, U.S.	II	Cara Black	Jelena Dokić Nadia Petrova	6–0, 3–6, 6–2
14.	30 September 2001	Leipzig, Germany	II	Nathalie Tauziat	Květa Peschke Barbara Rittner	6–4, 6–2
15.	7 April 2002	Sarasota, U.S.	IV	Jelena Dokić	Els Callens Conchita Martínez	6–7(5), 6–3, 6–3
16.	12 January 2003	Hobart, Australia	VS	Cara Black	Barbara Schett Patricia Wartusch	7–5, 7–6(1)
17.	9 February 2003	Hyderabad, India	IV	Iroda Tulyaganova	Evgenia Kulikovskaya Tatiana Poutchek	6–4, 6–4
18.	10 January 2004	Gold Coast, Australia	III	Svetlana Kuznetsova	Liezel Huber Magdalena Maleeva	6–3, 6–4
19.	6 March 2004	Doha, Qatar	II	Svetlana Kuznetsova	Janette Husárová Conchita Martínez	7–6(4), 6–2
20.	31 October 2004	Linz, Austria	II	Janette Husárová	Nathalie Dechy Patty Schnyder	6–2, 7–5
21.	8 January 2005	Gold Coast, Australia	III	Magdalena Maleeva	Maria Elena Camerin Silvia Farina Elia	6–3, 5–7, 6–1
22.	6 February 2005	Tokyo (Pan Pacific), Japan	I	Janette Husárová	Lindsay Davenport Corina Morariu	6–4, 6–3
23.	8 May 2005	Berlin, Germany	I	Vera Zvonareva	Cara Black Liezel Huber	4–6, 6–4, 6–3
24.	25 September 2005	Kolkata, India	III	Anastasia Myskina	Neha Uberoi Shikha Uberoi	6–1, 6–0
25.	7 January 2006	Auckland, Australia	IV	Vera Zvonareva	Émilie Loit Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová	6–3, 6–4
26.	7 May 2006	Warsaw, Poland	II	Anastasia Myskina	Anabel Medina Garrigues Katarina Srebotnik	6–3, 6–4
27.	13 January 2007	Hobart, Australia	IV	Elena Vesnina	Anabel Medina Garrigues Virginia Ruano Pascual	2–6, 6–1, 6–2

Performance timelines

Singles

Tournament	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	Career SR	Career Win-Loss
Australian Open	A	3R	1R	4R	1R	3R	3R	QF	1R	1R	1R	3R	3R	2R	1R	A	0 / 14	18–14
French Open	A	A	2R	3R	2R	3R	3R	1R	1R	3R	1R	2R	SF	1R	2R	A	0 / 13	17–13
Wimbledon	A	1R	1R	4R	2R	3R	3R	2R	3R	QF	2R	2R	4R	3R	2R	A	0 / 14	23–14
U.S. Open	2R	4R	1R	3R	3R	1R	4R	3R	4R	2R	4R	1R	4R	3R	2R	A	0 / 15	26–15
Grand Slam SR	0 / 1	0 / 3	0 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 0	0 / 56	N/A
Grand Slam Win-Loss	1–1	5–3	1–4	10–4	4–4	6–4	9–4	7–4	5–4	7–4	4–4	4–4	13–4	5–4	3–4	0–0	N/A	84–56
WTA Tour Championships	A	A	A	A	A	A	1R	1R	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	0 / 2	0–2
Doha	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	A	A	F	2R	A	1R	A	1R	0 / 1	0–1
Indian Wells	A	2R	QF	2R	3R	1R	2R	4R	2R	3R	3R	2R	2R	A	3R	A	0 / 13	13–13
Miami	A	2R	1R	2R	4R	3R	4R	4R	2R	2R	3R	3R	4R	3R	1R	1R	0 / 15	15–16
Charleston	A	A	A	A	1R	2R	QF	3R	QF	2R	2R	A	1R	A	A	A	0 / 8	11–8
Berlin	A	1R	1R	SF	1R	2R	3R	A	1R	3R	QF	2R	2R	1R	2R	A	0 / 13	15–13
Rome	A	A	A	A	3R	2R	1R	1R	3R	2R	1R	3R	1R	1R	A	A	0 / 10	8–10
San Diego	QF	2R	2R	1R	1R	1R	1R	2R	1R	1R	QF	3R	3R	1R	A	-	0 / 14	13–14
Montreal/Toronto	1R	3R	1R	3R	1R	2R	3R	1R	2R	1R	2R	F	A	A	A	A	0 / 12	16–12
Tokyo	A	A	A	A	1R	2R	2R	A	2R	1R	2R	1R	QF	QF	2R	A	0 / 10	9–10
Moscow	A	QF	QF	A	1R	2R	1R	1R	1R	A	1R	2R	QF	2R	A	A	0 / 11	9–11
Zurich	LQ	A	A	A	A	A	1R	1R	A	A	LQ	A	1R	A	A	-	0 / 5	4–5
Tournaments Played	14	19	17	22	25	29	32	29	26	28	29	25	22	20	18	4	N/A	359
Finals Reached	1	0	1	0	1	0	1	1	0	0	1	2	0	0	0	0	N/A	8
Tournaments Won	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	N/A	3
Overall Win-Loss	38–13	20–19	17–17	30–22	24–25	35–29	37–32	31–29	25–26	27–28	29–29	28–24	30–22	16–20	16–18	0–4	N/A	433–372
Year End Ranking	67	62	45	23	31	26	18	21	36	42	37	24	17	42	66	1046	N/A	N/A

A = did not participate in the tournament

SR = the ratio of the number of singles tournaments won to the number of those tournaments played

LQ = lost in the qualifying tournament

Doubles

Tournament	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	Career SR	Career Win-Loss
Australian Open	1R	1R	1R	1R	QF	2R	3R	2R	1R	3R	F	2R	QF	1R	0 / 14	18–14
French Open	A	2R	2R	3R	3R	QF	1R	3R	3R	SF	F	3R	3R	1R	0 / 13	26–13
Wimbledon	A	1R	2R	2R	3R	2R	1R	2R	SF	3R	QF	QF	3R	QF	0 / 13	23–13
U.S. Open	1R	1R	QF	3R	A	1R	F	SF	SF	SF	F	2R	3R	1R	0 / 13	30–13
Grand Slam SR	0 / 2	0 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 3	0 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 53	N/A
Grand Slam Win-Loss	0–2	1–4	5–4	5–4	7–3	5–4	8–4	8–4	10–4	12–4	18–4	7–4	9–4	2–4	N/A	97–55
WTA Tour Championships	A	A	A	QF	QF	QF	F	F	SF	SF	SF	A	A		0 / 8	4–8

External links

• Elena Likhovtseva at the Women's Tennis Association
• Elena Likhovtseva at the Fed Cup