Elena Baltacha

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Elena Baltacha
Elena Baltacha

Elena Baltacha (Ukrainian: Олена Балтача; is a Ukrainian-born tennis player who has played for Great Britain [1] [2]and Scotland[3][4].

Baltacha was born August 14, 1983 in Kiev, Ukraine. She comes from a sporting family. Father Sergei used to play professional football . He represented the USSR and played in the United Kingdom with Ipswich Town and St Johnstone. Her mother Olga represented the USSR in the pentathlon and heptathlon at the Olympic Games. Brother Sergei played football, for Scottish Football League First Division team St Mirren of Paisley and Millwall.

Currently living in Enfield, London, England, with her mother, she practices at the Hazelwood Lawn Tennis and Squash Club, in Winchmore Hill, North London, where she is coached by Alan Jones and Jo Durie. She is part of a tennis academy set up at Hazelwood, aimed at grooming talented young players into future professionals. The club has seven outside courts and three indoor tennis courts and three squash (sport) courts.

After arriving at Heathrow Airport on January 13, 1989, Elena moved to Ipswich where her father Sergei was to play football for the next year before moving to Scotland. The family lived in Perth where she grew up and spent her teenage years. The British No. 1 tennis player reached her highest world ranking in March 2005, when she was ranked 118 overall. Most of her career so far has been plagued by injury. The 2006 Wimbledon Tournament was no different as she was forced to pull out of the main women's draw. Many critics believe that this vulnerability to injury has hampered her claim to become a major player on the tennis circuit.

  1. ^ Baltacha: Britain's big hope
  2. ^ Player profile Elena Baltacha
  3. ^ "The teams for the 2006 Aberdeen Cup are: Scotland - Andy Murray, Jamie Murray, Elena Baltacha and a leading Scottish Boy and Girl", Aberdeen Cup 2006, Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre
  4. ^ "Scotland's Elena Baltacha was denied a dream clash with..." The Scotsman, 17 January 2005

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