Elena Vesnina - Russian tennis player

Elena Vesnina - Honored Master of Sports, Russian tennis player. In the list of her achievements winning in two Grand Slam tournaments in 2013 and 2014, wins in 14 WTA tournaments and the Federation Cup 2007 and 2008. He is an eight-time finalist of the Grand Slam tournaments, three of them in the mix and five times in the doubles.

early years

Elena Vesnina was born in 1986 in the Ukrainian city of Lviv. At the age of 6 I started playing tennis, when my parents wrote a daughter to the section of Yuri Yudkin in Sochi. He became her first coach and brought up in Elena Elena's interest in sports. Not surprisingly, by the age of 18 she had already had many awards. The future sportswoman won several children's tournaments in different age groups and to practice tennis professionally decided to continue her career as an athlete.

Parents fully supported the decision of the child and even insisted that Elena associated her life with sports. The school in Sochi was the first step and opened the doors to competitions at a higher level. Elena is still grateful to mother Irina Vesnina and father Sergei Vesnin for this opportunity. Parents also influenced the younger brother of the sportswoman, Dmitry, who works as a tennis coach in Sochi.

Carier start

At the first big competition, Elena Vesnina came in as early as 16 years. She had to play against Dushevina for the N. Ozerov Cup. The tournament is a traditional competition in Sochi and is declared as one of the most prestigious. Then the unknown girl was able to win a difficult match and get WC from the International Tennis Federation (from the English ITF). This victory gave her confidence and confidence that this is only the beginning. And it turned out: at the moment Elena has 6 ITF titles in doubles and 2 singles.

For the first time she took part in the International WTA Tournament in Moscow in 2003. Elena played against the Czech tennis player Mikaela Pasticova, and the latter was stronger: the victory of the Russian athlete did not fall.

However, already in 2005, Elena Vesnina paired with Anastasia Rodionova were able to win the WTA title in the Canadian city of Quebec, and two years later to win the tournament in Hobart, paired with Elena Likhovtseva. It is worth noting that at the beginning of her career, Elena was experiencing financial problems and could hardly afford to go to tournaments. However, a series of victories in competitions with prize funds of millions of dollars saved the tennis player from such worries.

Sports achivments

In 2006, the athlete took part in the Australian Open Tennis Championship, which is one of the Grand Slam tournaments. Tennis player Elena Vesnina was able to go 3 rounds, but in the fourth gave victory to Nadezhda Petrova. However, in general, the debut was very successful.

One of the most significant events in the life of the tennis player is the Federation Cup, which Elena won in 2007. These are the biggest competitions held in women's tennis, in which Russia has won only 4 times.

The next title was won in a pair with Dinara Safina in 2008 at the tournament in Indian Wells. A year later I took part in the WTA tournament in Oakland. According to Elena, she was very nervous before the competition, since this was her first final and she had already met her rival, the Russian tennis player Elena Dmitrievna, earlier on the court. Elena Vesnina recognized her as an excellent player and could not win. In the Australian Championships her luck, too, did not smile, and Elena did not go beyond the first round. However, later she was able to earn the title of 39 rackets of the world, and this list includes only the strongest tennis players.

Personal life

Elena Vesnina, whose personal life is carefully hidden, very rarely talks about any events not related to sports. However, some facts are still known.

In late November 2015, a Russian tennis player married. The media learned about the wedding after, thanks to social networks and messages that guests left there. The wedding was held secretly and without the participation of journalists, even the name of the spouse was not called. It is known that his name is Pavel. Elena, like many Russian athletes, until the last kept everything a secret, unlike many Western stars. Perhaps she did not want to frighten off her happiness.

Some moments from life fans are most often learned from social networks. Elena Vesnina, whose photo rarely appears in the media, quite actively updates her page in "Instagram", "Twitter" and "Facebook", often adds pictures and shares news. Perhaps soon there will appear a photograph of her husband athletes.