Elena Bovina


Elena Olegovna Bovina is a professional tennis player from Russia. She reached her career-high singles ranking of World No. 14 in April 2005. Her best performance at a Grand Slam came when she got to the quarter finals 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 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. 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 the year.

Grand Slam finals

Mixed doubles: 2 (1–1)

WTA career finals

Singles: 6 (3–3)

OutcomeNo.DateTournamentSurfaceOpponentScore
Runner-up1.7 Apr 2001Estoril, PortugalClay Ángeles Montolio6–3, 3–6, 2–6
Winner2.12 May 2002Warsaw, PolandClay Henrieta Nagyová6–3, 6–1
Winner3.22 Sep 2002Quebec City, CanadaCarpet Marie-Gayanay Mikaelian6–3, 6–4
Winner4.28 Aug 2004New Haven, United StatesHard Nathalie Dechy6–2, 2–6, 7–5
Runner-up5.3 Oct 2004Hasselt, BelgiumCarpet Elena Dementieva0–6, 6–0, 4–6
Runner-up6.31 Oct 2004Linz, AustriaHard Amélie Mauresmo2–6, 0–6

Doubles: 8 (5–3)

OutcomeNo.DateTournamentSurfacePartnerOpponentsScore
Winner1.21 October 2001Bratislava, SlovakiaHard Dája Bedáňová Nathalie Dechy
Meilen Tu
6–3, 6–4
Winner2.28 October 2001Luxembourg, LuxembourgHard Daniela Hantuchová Bianka Lamade
Patty Schnyder
6–3, 6–3
Winner3.14 April 2002Estoril, PortugalClay Zsófia Gubacsi Barbara Rittner
María Vento-Kabchi
6–3, 6–1
Runner-up4.21 April 2002Budapest, HungaryClay Zsófia Gubacsi Catherine Barclay
Émilie Loit
6–4, 3–6, 3–6
Runner-up5.5 May 2002Bol, CroatiaClay Henrieta Nagyová Tathiana Garbin
Angelique Widjaja
5–7, 6–3, 4–6
Winner6.20 October 2002Zurich, SwitzerlandCarpet Justine Henin Jelena Dokić
Nadia Petrova
6–2, 7–6
Winner7.2 February 2003Tokyo, JapanCarpet Rennae Stubbs Lisa Raymond
Lindsay Davenport
6–3, 6–4
Runner-up8.10 August 2003Los Angeles, USAHard Els Callens Mary Pierce
Rennae Stubbs
3–6, 3–6

ITF Finals

Singles: 11 (8-3)

OutcomeNoDateTournamentSurfaceOpponent in the finalScore in the final
Winner1.31 May 1998El Paso, United StatesHard Diana Ospina3–6, 7–6, 7–6
Winner2.6 February 2000Jersey, United KingdomHard Helen Reesby6–2, 6–3
Winner3.13 February 2000Birmingham, United KingdomHard Anna Zaporozhanova6–1, 6–2
Winner4.20 Feb 2000Redbridge, United KingdomHard Julie Pullin2–6, 6–0, 6–1
Runner-up1.5 March 2000Chengdu, ChinaHard Yi Jingqian1–6, 2–6
Winner5.17 August 2008The Bronx, United StatesHard Anna-Lena Grönefeld6–3, 7–5
Winner6.16 March 2009Tenerife, SpainHard Rebecca Marino6–2, 6–4
Winner7.7 February 2010Belfort, FranceCarpet Romina Oprandi7–6, 5–7, 6–4
Winner8.9 August 2010Tallinn, EstoniaHard Anne Keothavong6–4, 4–1 Ret.
Runner-up2.19 February 2012Portimão, PortugalHard Justine Ozga6–4, 1–6, 1–6
Runner-up3.8 April 2012Jackson, United StatesGreen Clay Heidi El Tabakh0–6, 4–6

Doubles: 17 (11–6)

Grand Slam performance timeline

Singles

To prevent confusion and double counting, information in this table is updated only once a tournament or the player's participation in the tournament has concluded.
Tournament199819992000200120022003200420052006200720082009201020112012Career SRCareer Win-Loss
Australian OpenAAA1R1R4R2RAA1RAQ1Q2Q1A0 / 54–5
French OpenAA1R3R1R2R3R4RAAAQ1Q2AA0 / 68–6
WimbledonAAQ12R2R2R2RAAAAAQ2AA0 / 44–4
US OpenAAQ21RQF1R3RAAAQ2Q1Q2AA0 / 46–4
Grand Slam SR0 / 10 / 40 / 40 / 40 / 40 / 1N/A0 / 1N/AN/AN/AN/A0 / 20N/A--
Grand Slam Win-Loss0–13–45–45–46–43–1N/A0–1N/AN/AN/AN/AN/A22–19--
Year End Ranking3823981354926211562324186225154301214--

Doubles

Mixed