Alyona Bondarenko

Alyona Bondarenko
Aljona Bondarenko at the 2008 French Open
Nation:	Ukraine
Birthday:	13th August 1984 (age 36)
Size:	168 cm
Weight:	59 kg
1st professional season:	1999
Resignation:	2017
Playing hand:	Right, two-handed backhand
Prize money:	$ 2,785,303
singles
Career record:	363: 294
Career title:	2 WTA , 5 ITF
Highest ranking:	19 (April 14, 2008)
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	195: 193
Career title:	4 WTA, 8 ITF
Highest ranking:	11 (September 29, 2008)
Grand Slam record
Mixed
Grand Slam record
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Aljona Wolodymyriwna Bondarenko ( Ukrainian Альо́на Володи́мирівна Бондаре́нко ; born August 13, 1984 in Krivoy Rog , then Ukrainian SSR ) is a former Ukrainian tennis player .

Career

Aljona is the older sister of tennis player Kateryna Bondarenko (also the eldest of the sisters, Valerija Bondarenko , was a professional tennis player; she ended her career in 2008).

Aljona Bondarenko became a professional player in 1999. She made her debut at a Grand Slam tournament in 2005 at the Australian Open .

She won her first individual title on the WTA Tour in 2006 in Luxembourg at the FORTIS Championships . At her first tournament in 2010 she won her second title on the tour. In the final of the Moorilla Hobart International she defeated the number 4 of the tournament, the second seeded Shahar Peer 6: 2, 6: 4.

At the side of her sister Kateryna, she won her only Grand Slam title in 2008 when they won the doubles competition at the Australian Open with a final victory over the pairing Asaranka / Peer.

Aljona Bondarenko played a total of 34 games for the Ukrainian Fed Cup team from 2002 to 2010, of which she won 22.

She also competed for the Ukraine at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. In the individual, she lost in the second round to Jelena Janković (who started for Serbia) 5: 7, 1: 6. In doubles, she and her sister were defeated by the pairing Yan Zi / Zheng Jie from China in the bronze medal match with 2: 6, 2: 6.

At the WTA tournament in Moscow in October 2011, Aljona Bondarenko had her last appearance on the tour for the time being. Her sister returned to the courts in spring 2014 after taking a baby break.

After a break of almost five years, Bondarenko took part in a tournament for the first time on August 2, 2016. At the $ 10,000 tournament in Tarvisio , she won her first round game against Erika Vogelsang 2: 6, 7: 6, ⁴ and 6: 0.

Tournament victories

singles

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	June 30, 2002	Fontanafredda	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Mara Santangelo	6: 3, 6: 0
2.	September 7, 2003	Zhukovsky	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Olha Savchuk	6: 2, 6: 3
3.	April 25, 2004	Bari	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Kateryna Bondarenko	2: 6, 6: 2, 6: 4
4th	March 19, 2006	orange	ITF $ 50,000	Hard court	Yvonne Meusburger	6: 3, 7: 5
5.	October 1, 2006	Luxembourg	WTA Tier II	Hard court (hall)	Francesca Schiavone	6: 3, 6: 2
6th	September 16, 2007	Kharkiv	ITF $ 100,000	Hard court	Wesna Manassieva	6: 1, 6: 2
7th	January 16, 2010	Hobart	WTA International	Hard court	Shahar Peer	6: 2, 6: 4

Double

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Partner	Final opponents	Result
1.	June 17, 2000	Kędzierzyn-Koźle	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Valeria Bondarenko	Elena Kovalchuk Olga Lazarchuk	6: 4, 6: 2
2.	October 19, 2002	Joué-lès-Tours	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court (hall)	Valeria Bondarenko	Michaela Paštiková Jasmin Wöhr	7: 6 4 , 4: 6, 6: 3
3.	May 31, 2003	Warsaw	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Valeria Bondarenko	Iryna Kuryanovich Olga Lazarchuk	6: 3, 6: 4
4th	September 6, 2003	Zhukovsky	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Valeria Bondarenko	Gjulnara Fattachetdinova Maria Kondratyeva	6: 7 6 , 6: 4, 6: 3
5.	July 3, 2004	Orbetello	ITF $ 75,000	sand	Galina Fokina	Juliana Fedak Andreea Vanc	6: 7 5 , 6: 2, 7: 5
6th	July 24, 2004	innsbruck	ITF $ 50,000	sand	Galina Fokina	Stanislava Hrozenská Lenka Nemecková	6: 2, 6: 4
7th	September 25, 2004	Batumi	ITF $ 50,000	Hard court	Galina Fokina	Anna Bastrikova Irina Kotkina	6: 2, 6: 2
8th.	March 18, 2006	orange	ITF $ 50,000	Hard court	Kateryna Bondarenko	Stéphanie Dubois Lilia Osterloh	6: 2, 6: 4
9.	May 27, 2006	Istanbul	WTA Tier III	sand	Nastassja Jakimawa	Sania Mirza Alicia Molik	6: 3, 7: 5
10.	January 26, 2008	Australian Open	Grand Slam	Hard court	Kateryna Bondarenko	Wiktoryja Asaranka Shahar Peer	2: 6, 6: 1, 6: 4
11.	February 10, 2008	Paris	WTA Tier II	Carpet (hall)	Kateryna Bondarenko	Vladimíra Uhlířová Eva Hrdinová	6: 1, 6: 4
12.	July 19, 2009	Prague	WTA International	sand	Kateryna Bondarenko	Iveta Benešová Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová	6: 1, 6: 2

Performing in Grand Slam tournaments

singles

competition	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	Career
Australian Open	1	1	3	2	3	AF	-	AF
French Open	1	1	2	1	1	3	1	3
Wimbledon	3	1	3	2	1	3	1	3
US Open	1	2	3	3	2	3	1	3

Double

competition	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	Career
Australian Open	2	-	2	S.	1	1	-	S.
French Open	-	AF	2	HF	2	VF	1	HF
Wimbledon	1	1	2	-	1	1	-	2
US Open	-	2	2	AF	1	2	2	AF

Personal

Bondarenko has been married to her trainer Nikolai Dijatschok since 2010, and they have had a son since May 30, 2015.

Web links

Commons : Aljona Bondarenko  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• WTA profile Alyona Bondarenko (English)
• ITF profile Alyona Bondarenko (English)
• ITF junior profile Alyona Bondarenko (English)
• Fed Cup stats by Alyona Bondarenko (English)
• Aljona Bondarenko in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Alona Bondarenko also returns to the tour as a mother. In: tennisnet.com. August 3, 2016, accessed August 3, 2016 . 
2. ↑ $ 10,000 Tarvisio. In: itftennis.com. Retrieved August 3, 2016 . 
3. ↑ Alona Bondarenko and Nikolay Dyachok share their wedding photos , womenstennisblog.com from August 24, 2010, accessed on August 5, 2014
4. ↑ Alona Bondarenko gives birth to son Evgen. In: womenstennisblog.com. June 12, 2015, accessed April 5, 2016 .