Svitolina Elina Mikhailovna - professional Ukrainian tennis player. Known to fans and spectators from all over the world as the winner of a junior grand slam tournament and performances at the Olympics.
Consider in detail the biography of Elina Svitolina.
Childhood
The famous Ukrainian tennis player was born on September 12, 1994 in Odessa. The girl was brought up in the most ordinary and ordinary Ukrainian family. Elina has an older brother. Initially, parents expected that he would become a professional tennis player, so he gave all his strength. Each morning, Elina went to training with her family to support her brother, but he was not particularly successful. Today, Elina's older brother lives and works in Los Angeles.
Career
Even before starting to study in high school, a little girl decided to connect her life with tennis. In 2007, the family moved to Kharkov to find great prospects for the continued development of their daughter in tennis, since this sport is poorly developed in Ukraine.
Yuri Sapronov discerned the talent in the little girl, saying that the future Ukrainian tennis star is growing up in the family. It was Yuri who took under his care a little girl, allowing Elina to rise to Olympus.
From childhood, the girl went to training and constantly participated in various tournaments in order to break into adult competitions.
Already at the age of 14 in youth tennis, Elina Svitolina made her debut at the local ITF tournament. And two years later the girl took part in the junior championship in France. A few years later, the Ukrainian tennis player defended the colors of the national team and was able to make her debut at the Junior Wimbledon tournament, where she reached the final.
At the age of 18, a Ukrainian tennis player exchanged the first hundred victories in her professional career. Then Elina won the first title and was able to debut at TBS in Australia. However, it was not possible to achieve particular success in the tournament, since Elina lost in the first round.
Then Elina steadily won titles. In Azerbaijan, the girl won the second title in her professional career, and in Morocco she won the third title. At the age of 21, the girl was able to get to the semi-final stage of Rolan Garros. It was the victory in the quarterfinal match that allowed Ukrainian tennis player Elina Svitolina to make her debut in the top twenty of the world ranking.
The following year, a Ukrainian tennis player was able to win a two hundredth victory in her professional career. The first significant success occurred at the Olympics, where the Ukrainian tennis player was able to beat the first racket of the world - Serena Williams.
Successful results of Elina Svitolina helped the athlete become the first racket of Ukraine. According to experts and specialists, the Ukrainian tennis player is constantly progressing. In just 4.5 years, the Ukrainian was able to get 100 victories in her professional career.
The beginning of the current season was successful and fruitful for Elina. Already in the first tournament, the Ukrainian tennis player was able to win the title in Brisbane, beating the Belarusian tennis player Alexander Sosnovich in three games in the final. The victory allowed the athlete to rise to two lines of the ranking, settling in fourth place.
In the second tournament, Elina was able to reach the quarterfinal stage, which allowed her to rise to the third line of the rating. She lost only to Danish Caroline Wozniacki and Romanian Simone Halep. The following month, Elina was able to win her second title of the season at a tournament in Dubai, where she defeated Russian tennis player Daria Kasatkina in two sets in the final.
To date, the Ukrainian tennis player is on the fifth line in the world ranking. Crumpled performances in the middle of the season did not allow Elina to break into the first line of the rating.
Personal life
Elina Svitolina met with the famous English cricket player Rice Topley in early 2016. The first acquaintance took place in training, when Elina trained on the court.
The couple was extremely rare, since the main goal in the lives of athletes was sports. From the very beginning of the relationship, the couple in love agreed that the relationship should not interfere with career development.
The relationship could not last long, so already in early 2018, the couple in love broke up. To date, the Ukrainian tennis player is in active search, but devotes the main time to training, and not to finding a life partner.
Awards
Over a short career, the Ukrainian tennis player won eight trophies. The most successful were 2013 and 2017, when Elina won two titles in a year.
In the summer of 2017 she received the Order of Merit of the third degree for outstanding achievements in sports.
Rating
At the very beginning of her professional career, the Ukrainian tennis player occupied 498th place in the world ranking. In just three years of hard work in tennis, Elina Svitolina was able to debut in the top 40 of the world ranking. And by the end of 2017, the Ukrainian hit the top ten ranking, ranking in sixth place.