Elena Baltacha
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British tennis player (1983-2014)
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It is catalogued under topics including 1983 births, 2014 deaths and 21st-century Scottish sportswomen.
Its subject is documented across 32 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Country sports
- United Kingdom
- Born
- ( 1983-08-14 ) 14 August 1983, Kyiv , Ukrainian SSR , Soviet Union (now Ukraine )
- Died
- 4 May 2014 (2014-05-04) (aged 30), Ipswich , Suffolk, England
- Height
- 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
- Plays
- Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
- Prize money
- $1,190,893
- Career record
- 324–243
- Career titles
- 11 ITF
- Highest ranking
- No. 49 (13 September 2010)
- Australian open
- 3R ( 2005 , 2010 )
- French open
- 2R ( 2011 )
- Wimbledon
- 3R ( 2002 )
- Us open
- 2R ( 2010 , 2011 )
- Fed cup
- 33–16
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Eliena/Jelena/Yelena
- Family name
- Baltacha
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Kyiv
- Place of death
- Ipswich
- Father
- Sergei Baltacha
- Sibling
- Sergei Baltacha
- Occupation
- tennis player
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Participant in
- 2012 Summer Olympics
- Hair colour
- blond hair
- Sport
- tennis
- Member of team
- Great Britain Billie Jean King Cup team
- Country for sport
- United Kingdom
- Mass
- 70
- Official website
- elenabaltachafoundation.org
- Image
- Elena Baltacha.jpg
- Height
- 175
- Number of children
- 0
- Residence
- Ipswich
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- date of death
- 2014-05-04
- Commons category
- Elena Baltacha
- doubles record
- 59–59
- date of birth
- 1983-08-14
- singles record
- 324–243
- cause of death
- liver cancer
- manner of death
- natural causes
- medical condition
- primary sclerosing cholangitis
- prize money
- 1190893
- ranking
- 211
- end of work period
- 2013-00-00
- start of work period
- 1997-00-00
- name in native language
- Олена Балтача
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Encyclopedic overview
Elena Sergeevna Baltacha (Ukrainian: Олена Сергіївна Балтача; 14 August 1983 – 4 May 2014) was a Ukrainian-born British professional tennis player. Being a four-time winner of the AEGON Awards, she was also a long-term British No. 1, a position she held intermittently from 2002 to 2012. However, as a result of her absence from competition due to knee surgery, she dropped down the world rankings and at the time of her retirement on 18 November 2013, she was ranked as the world No. 221 and British No. 6. Her career-high ranking of world No. 49 was achieved in September 2010.
Over the course of her career, she won 11 ITF singles titles (five $25k, two $50k, two $75k, and two $100k) and four ITF doubles titles (all $25k). She was also a runner-up in three ITF events in singles and four in doubles. In 2010, Baltacha had victories over top 10-players, including two victories over Li Na (the second of which came via retirement) and one against Francesca Schiavone, who at the time was the reigning French Open champion. In 2011, Baltacha won her highest ranked tournament on the ITF Circuit, the Nottingham Challenge.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Elena Baltacha” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.