Elena Olegovna Bovina ( rus, link=no, Елена Олеговна Бовина, , ɪ̯ɪˈlʲenə ˈbovʲɪnə; born 10 March 1983) is a former professional

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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

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, Stéphanie Foretz and

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before losing to

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. 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

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at the

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in October 2006. She has won three career singles titles, including the Tier II Pilot Pen Tennis Open. She has been a finalist in three singles tournaments, and has five career doubles titles, including the Pan Pacific Open, which she won with

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, and the Swisscom Challenge in Zurich, with

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. In addition she won the 2004 Australian Open mixed doubles title with

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, 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.

Grand Slam finals

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

WTA career finals

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

Doubles: 8 (5–3)

ITF finals

Singles: 11 (8-3)

Doubles: 17 (11–6)

Grand Slam performance timelines

Singles

Doubles

Mixed doubles

References

External links

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