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Elena Bovina

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Elena Bovina
Елена Бовина
Bovina in 2002
Country (sports) Russia
ResidenceQuebec City, Canada
Born (1983-03-10) 10 March 1983 (age 41)
Moscow, Soviet Union
Height1.89 m (6 ft 2+12 in)
Turned pro1998
PlaysRight (two-handed backhand)
CoachIni Ghidirmic
Prize money$1,997,443
Singles
Career record397–237
Career titles3 WTA, 8 ITF
Highest rankingNo. 14 (4 April 2005)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open4R (2003)
French Open4R (2005)
Wimbledon2R (2001, 2002, 2003, 2004)
US OpenQF (2002)
Doubles
Career record171–105
Career titles5 WTA, 11 ITF
Highest rankingNo. 14 (3 February 2003)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open3R (2003)
French OpenQF (2003)
Wimbledon1R (2002)
US OpenQF (2003)

Elena Olegovna Bovina (Russian: Елена Олеговна Бовина, IPA: [ɪ̯ɪˈlʲenə ˈbovʲɪnə]; born 10 March 1983) is a former professional tennis player from Russia. She reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 14 in April 2005. Her best performance at a Grand Slam tournament came when she got to the quarterfinals of the 2002 US Open, defeating Clarisa Fernández, Jelena Dokic, Stéphanie Foretz, and Francesca Schiavone, before losing to Lindsay Davenport.

In June 2005, Bovina sustained a right shoulder injury, which forced her to withdraw from all tournaments through the end of the year. She pulled out of all events she had entered in early 2006, and for some time, she was unranked in both singles and doubles. She returned to the WTA Tour at the Kremlin Cup in October 2006.

She won three career singles titles, including the Tier II Pilot Pen Tennis Open. She was a finalist in three singles tournaments, and won five career doubles titles, including the Pan Pacific Open (with Rennae Stubbs), and the Swisscom Challenge in Zurich with Justine Henin-Hardenne. In addition, she won the 2004 Australian Open mixed doubles title with Nenad Zimonjić, and was the runner-up in the 2002 French Open mixed doubles tournament. She also was on the victorious 2005 Russian Fed Cup squad and was also on the team from 2001 to 2003.

In 2017, Bovina returned to tennis after a four-year hiatus. She competed in some ITF events during 2017 and the following year.[1]

Grand Slam tournament finals

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Mixed doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)

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Result Year Championship Surface Partner Opponents Score
Loss 2002 French Open Clay The Bahamas Mark Knowles 3–6, 3–6
Win 2004 Australian Open Hard Serbia and Montenegro Nenad Zimonjić 6–1, 7–6(7–3)

WTA Tour finals

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Singles: 6 (3 titles, 3 runner-ups)

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Legend
Grand Slam tournaments
Tier I (0–0)
Tier II (1–1)
Tier III, IV & V (2–2)
Result No. Date Tournament Surface Opponent Score
Loss 1. Apr 2001 Estoril Open, Portugal Clay Spain Ángeles Montolio 6–3, 3–6, 2–6
Win 2. May 2002 Warsaw Open, Poland Clay Slovakia Henrieta Nagyová 6–3, 6–1
Win 3. Sep 2002 Bell Challenge, Canada Carpet (i) Switzerland Marie-Gayanay Mikaelian 6–3, 6–4
Win 4. Aug 2004 New Haven Open, United States Hard France Nathalie Dechy 6–2, 2–6, 7–5
Loss 5. Oct 2004 Hasselt, Belgium Carpet (i) Russia Elena Dementieva 0–6, 6–0, 4–6
Loss 6. Oct 2004 Linz Open, Austria Hard (i) France Amélie Mauresmo 2–6, 0–6

Doubles: 8 (5 titles, 3 runner-ups)

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Legend
Grand Slam
Tier I (2–0)
Tier II (0–1)
Tier III, IV & V (3–2)
Result No. Date Tournament Surface Partner Opponents Score
Win 1. Oct 2001 Bratislava Open, Slovakia Hard (i) Czech Republic Dája Bedáňová France Nathalie Dechy
United States Meilen Tu
6–3, 6–4
Win 2. Oct 2001 Luxembourg Open Hard (i) Slovakia Daniela Hantuchová Germany Bianka Lamade
Switzerland Patty Schnyder
6–3, 6–3
Win 3. Apr 2002 Estoril Open, Portugal Clay Hungary Zsófia Gubacsi Germany Barbara Rittner
Colombia María Vento-Kabchi
6–3, 6–1
Loss 4. Apr 2002 Budapest Grand Prix, Hungary Clay Hungary Zsófia Gubacsi Australia Catherine Barclay
France Émilie Loit
6–4, 3–6, 3–6
Loss 5. May 2002 Bol Open, Croatia Clay Slovakia Henrieta Nagyová Italy Tathiana Garbin
Indonesia Angelique Widjaja
5–7, 6–3, 4–6
Win 6. Oct 2002 Zurich Open, Switzerland Carpet (i) Belgium Justine Henin Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Jelena Dokic
Russia Nadia Petrova
6–2, 7–6(7–2)
Win 7. Feb 2003 Pan Pacific Open, Japan Carpet (i) Australia Rennae Stubbs United States Lisa Raymond
United States Lindsay Davenport
6–3, 6–4
Loss 8. Aug 2003 LA Championships, US Hard Belgium Els Callens France Mary Pierce
Australia Rennae Stubbs
3–6, 3–6

ITF finals

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Singles: 11 (8–3)

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Legend
$100,000 tournaments
$75,000 tournaments
$50,000 tournaments
$25,000 tournaments
$10,000 tournaments
Finals by surface
Hard (7–2)
Clay (0–1)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (1–0)
Result No. Date Tournament Surface Opponent Score
Win 1. 31 May 1998 ITF El Paso, United States Hard United States Diana Ospina 3–6, 7–6, 7–6
Win 2. 6 February 2000 ITF Jersey, United Kingdom Hard (i) United Kingdom Helen Reesby 6–2, 6–3
Win 3. 13 February 2000 Birmingham, United Kingdom Hard (i) Ukraine Anna Zaporozhanova 6–1, 6–2
Win 4. 20 February 2000 Redbridge, United Kingdom Hard (i) United Kingdom Julie Pullin 2–6, 6–0, 6–1
Loss 1. 5 March 2000 Chengdu, China Hard China Yi Jingqian 1–6, 2–6
Win 5. 17 August 2008 Bronx Open, United States Hard Germany Anna-Lena Grönefeld 6–3, 7–5
Win 6. 16 March 2009 Tenerife, Spain Hard Canada Rebecca Marino 6–2, 6–4
Win 7. 7 February 2010 Belfort, France Carpet (i) Switzerland Romina Oprandi 7–6(3), 5–7, 6–4
Win 8. 9 August 2010 Tallinn, Estonia Hard United Kingdom Anne Keothavong 6–4, 4–1 ret.
Loss 2. 19 February 2012 Portimão, Portugal Hard Germany Justine Ozga 6–4, 1–6, 1–6
Loss 3. 8 April 2012 ITF Jackson, United States Clay Canada Heidi El Tabakh 0–6, 4–6

Doubles: 17 (11–6)

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Outcome No. Date Tournament Surface Partner Opponents Score
Winner 1. 6 February 2000 ITF Jersey, United Kingdom Hard (i) Ukraine Anna Zaporozhanova Tunisia Selima Sfar
United Kingdom Jo Ward
6–3, 6–2
Winner 2. 13 February 2000 Birmingham, United Kingdom Hard (i) Ukraine Anna Zaporozhanova Russia Natalia Egorova
Russia Ekaterina Sysoeva
6–3, 6–4
Runner-up 3. 4 September 2000 Denain, France Clay Argentina Mariana Díaz Oliva Spain Lourdes Domínguez Lino
Spain María José Martínez Sánchez
4–6, 0–6
Winner 4. 6 June 2009 Galatina, Italy Clay Russia Regina Kulikova 6–2, 6–1
Runner-up 5. 12 June 2009 Open de Marseille, France Clay Switzerland Timea Bacsinszky Italy Tathiana Garbin
Argentina María Emilia Salerni
7–6(4), 3–6, [7–10]
Winner 6. 7 February 2010 Belfort, France Carpet (i) France Irena Pavlovic Austria Nikola Hofmanova
Russia Karina Pimkina
6–2, 2–6, [10–6]
Winner 7. 6 March 2010 Minsk, Belarus Hard (i) France Irena Pavlovic Estonia Maret Ani
Russia Vitalia Diatchenko
6–0, 6–1
Winner 8. 8 November 2010 Minsk, Belarus Hard (i) Russia Ekaterina Bychkova Poland Paula Kania
Poland Katarzyna Piter
6–4, 6–0
Winner 9. 3 April 2011 Monzón, Spain Hard Russia Valeria Savinykh Georgia (country) Margalita Chakhnashvili
Croatia Ivana Lisjak
6–1, 2–6, [10–4]
Winner 10. 16 October 2011 Troy, United States Hard Russia Valeria Savinykh United States Varvara Lepchenko
United States Mashona Washington
7–6(6), 6–3
Runner-up 11. 6 March 2012 Fort Walton Beach, United States Hard France Alizé Lim United States Madison Brengle
Poland Paula Kania
3–6, 4–6
Winner 12. 8 April 2012 Jackson, United States Clay Croatia Tereza Mrdeža Argentina Mailen Auroux
Argentina María Irigoyen
6–3, 6–3
Runner-up 13. 14 April 2012 Pelham, United States Clay Russia Ekaterina Bychkova France Julie Coin
Canada Marie-Ève Pelletier
5–7, 4–6
Runner-up 14. 29 April 2012 Charlottesville Open, United States Clay Israel Julia Glushko United States Maria Sanchez
United States Yasmin Schnack
2–6, 2–6
Winner 15. 18 June 2012 ITF Kristinehamn, Sweden Clay Russia Valeria Solovyeva Belarus Viktoryia Kisialeva
Belarus Ilona Kremen
6–2, 6–2
Runner-up 16. 30 September 2012 Las Vegas Open, United States Hard Romania Edina Gallovits-Hall Australia Anastasia Rodionova
Australia Arina Rodionova
2–6, 6–2, [6–10]
Winner 17. 18 June 2012 ITF New Braunfels, United States Hard Croatia Mirjana Lučić-Baroni Colombia Mariana Duque Mariño
Venezuela Adriana Pérez
6–3, 4–6, [10–8]

Grand Slam performance timelines

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Key
W  F  SF QF #R RR Q# DNQ A NH
(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.

Singles

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Tournament 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 Career W-L
Australian Open A A A 1R 1R 4R 2R A A 1R A Q1 Q2 Q1 A 4–5
French Open A A 1R 3R 1R 2R 3R 4R A A A Q1 Q2 A A 8–6
Wimbledon A A Q1 2R 2R 2R 2R A A A A A Q2 A A 4–4
US Open A A Q2 1R QF 1R 3R A A A Q2 Q1 Q2 A A 6–4
GS Win–loss 0–1 3–4 5–4 5–4 6–4 3–1 N/A 0–1 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A 22–19
Year-end ranking 382 398 135 49 26 21 15 62 324 186 225 154 301 214

Doubles

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Tournament 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2007 2009 2010 2011 2012 Career
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open A A 1R 3R A A 2R A A A A 0 / 3
French Open A A 3R QF A 2R A A A A A 0 / 3
Wimbledon Q1 A 1R A A A A A A A A 0 / 1
US Open A 1R 1R QF A A A A A A A 0 / 3
Premier Mandatory tournaments
Indian Wells A A QF QF A 2R A A A A A 0 / 3
Miami A A 2R 1R A QF A A A A A 0 / 3
Premier 5 tournaments
Rome A A A A QF A A A A A A 0 / 1
Montréal / Toronto A 1R 1R A A A A A A A A 0 / 2
Tokyo A A A W A A A A A A A 1 / 1
Former Tier I tournaments
Charleston A A A QF A A A A A A A 0 / 1
Berlin A A A A 1R 2R A not
held
0 / 2
Zurich A A W A A A A 1 / 1
Moscow 1R A SF A SF A A A A A A 0 / 3
Finals 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
Titles 0 2 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5
Overall win–loss 14–6 11–10 23–18 21–9 9–7 5–4 2–2 9–3 20–10 21–14 15–11 134–83
Year-end ranking 377 88 27 22 68 142 278 255 185 105 116 N/A

Mixed doubles

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Tournament 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 Career W-L
Australian Open A A W A A 1R 5–1
French Open F A SF A A A 7–2
Wimbledon 1R QF A A A A 2–2
US Open QF A A A A A 2–1

References

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  1. ^ Myles, Stephanie (23 July 2017). "30-somethings still chasing the dream". Granby, Québec: Tennis Life. Retrieved 19 November 2017.
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