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Elina Svitolina

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Elina Svitolina is a Ukrainian professional tennis player, born in Odesa on 12 September 1994 to a former wrestler and a former competitive rower. She won the French Open girls' event in 2010 as a junior, beating Ons Jabeur in the final, and broke into the world top 10 in May 2017, which made her the highest-ranked Ukrainian woman in history. Her career-high singles ranking is world No. 3. She has won 20 WTA Tour singles titles, including the 2018 WTA Finals and five WTA 1000-level tournaments, and has reached four major semifinals, among them Wimbledon and the US Open in 2019. In 2021 she won the Olympic bronze medal in the women's singles at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, the first Olympic tennis medal for Ukraine. After a break in 2022 to give birth to her first child, she returned in 2023 and reached the French Open quarterfinals and the Wimbledon semifinals.

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Birth Year
1994 1
Gender
Female 1
Medals or Titles Band
5+ 1
Titles
20 1
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Competed In

2020 Summer Olympics, Competitions
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Australian Open, Competitions
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French Open, Competitions
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US Open (Tennis), Competitions
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Wimbledon, Competitions
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Plays

Tennis, Sports
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Nationality

Ukraine

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is a Ukrainian professional tennis player
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    is a Ukrainian professional tennis player
  • Lead, birth
    born 12 September 1994
  • Lead, gender
    She has career-high rankings of world No. 3 in singles
  • Lead, singles titles total
    Svitolina has won 20 WTA Tour singles titles, including the 2018 WTA Finals and five WTA 1000-level tournaments
  • Competed In: 2020 Summer Olympics, Lead, Tokyo Olympics
    In 2021, she won an Olympic bronze medal in the women's singles tournament at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics
  • Competed In: Wimbledon, Lead, Wimbledon
    Svitolina reached two major semifinals in 2019 at Wimbledon and the US Open.
  • Competed In: US Open (Tennis), Lead, US Open
    Svitolina reached two major semifinals in 2019 at Wimbledon and the US Open.
  • Competed In: French Open, Lead, French Open
    She made a strong comeback upon her return to competition in 2023, reaching the French Open quarterfinals and the Wimbledon semifinals in her first few tournaments back.
  • Competed In: Australian Open, Lead, Australian Open
    culminating in an Australian Open semifinal
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