Elena Tatarkova or Olena Tatarkova (
Ukrainian
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: Олена Tатаркова, born 22 August 1976) is a former professional tennis player from Ukraine.
She won four doubles titles on
WTA Tour
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WTA Tour tourna ...
, and four singles and 25 doubles titles on the
ITF Women's Circuit
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History
It serves as a developmental ...
. Her best career result came in doubles; she reached the
1999 Wimbledon final with partner
Mariaan de Swardt
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, which they lost to
Lindsay Davenport
Lindsay Ann Davenport Leach (born June 8, 1976) is an American former professional tennis player. Davenport was ranked singles world No. 1 for a total of 98 weeks, and was the year-end singles world No. 1 four times (1998, 2001, 2004, and 2005) ...
and
Corina Morariu
Corina Maria Morariu (born January 26, 1978) is an American former professional tennis player.
Morariu (pronounced: mo-RA-R'ju) was born in Detroit, Michigan and is of Romanian descent. She turned professional in 1994. Mainly known as a doubles ...
. Tatarkova also made the
2001 French Open
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Seniors
Men's singles
Gustavo Kuerten def ...
doubles semifinals with
Justine Henin
Justine Henin (; born 1 June 1982) is a Belgian former professional tennis player. She spent a total of 117 weeks as the world No. 1 and was the year-end No. 1 in 2003, 2006 and 2007. Henin, coming from a country with limited success in te ...
. She reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 45, and highest doubles ranking of No. 9, both in 1999.
Since retiring from professional tennis in 2004, she married Timothy Feltham in September 2007 and is mother to Stanley (Apr 2009) and Austin (Feb 2012)
Grand Slam performance timelines
Singles
Doubles
Grand Slam tournament finals
Doubles: 1 (runner-up)
WTA career finals
Doubles: 12 (4 titles, 8 runner-ups)
ITF Circuit finals
Singles: 11 (4–7)
Doubles: 36 (25–11)
Top 10 wins
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Ukrainian female tennis players
1976 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Dushanbe
Olympic tennis players of Ukraine
Tennis players at the 2000 Summer Olympics