Elena Olegovna Bovina ( rus, link=no, Елена Олеговна Бовина, , ɪ̯ɪˈlʲenə ˈbovʲɪnə; born 10 March 1983) is a former professional
tennis
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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
Clarisa Fernández
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She is best known for her semifinal appearance at the 2002 French Open, the first Argentine since Sabatini in 1992 to reach that stage. Fernández was ranked 87th i ...
,
Jelena Dokic,
Stéphanie Foretz
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Foretz won nine singles and 16 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 24 February 2003, she reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 62. On 19 May ...
and
Francesca Schiavone
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before losing to
Lindsay Davenport
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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
WTA Tour
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WTA Tour tou ...
at the
Kremlin Cup 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
Rennae Stubbs, and the Swisscom Challenge in Zurich, with
Justine Henin-Hardenne
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. 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.
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
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1983 births
Living people
Tennis players from Moscow
Russian female tennis players
Grand Slam (tennis) champions in mixed doubles
Australian Open (tennis) champions