Elina Switolina

Elina Switolina
2017 at Wimbledon
Nation:	Ukraine
Birthday:	September 12, 1994
Size:	174 cm
Weight:	60 kg
1st professional season:	2010
Playing hand:	Right, two-handed backhand
Trainer:	Thierry Ascione
Prize money:	$ 16,370,120
singles
Career record:	364/189
Career title:	13 WTA , 6 ITF , 1 WTA Challenger
Highest ranking:	3 (September 11, 2017)
Current placement:	4th
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	47:62
Career title:	2 WTA, 2 ITF
Highest ranking:	108 (May 4, 2015)
Current placement:	1134
Grand Slam record
Mixed
Grand Slam record
Last update of the infobox: October 12, 2019
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Elina Mychajliwna Switolina ( Ukrainian Еліна Михайлівна Світоліна ; born September 12, 1994 in Odessa ) is a Ukrainian tennis player .

Career

Switolina started playing tennis at the age of five and prefers grass courts. On June 6, 2010, she won the junior women's competition at the French Open when she defeated Ons Jabeur from Tunisia 6: 2, 7: 5 in the final.

She won her first ITF tournament in 2010 alongside her compatriot Kateryna Koslowa . Her first individual titles followed in 2011 at the ITF tournaments in Lagos and Istanbul.

Switolina secured her first title on the WTA Tour in November 2012 at the Challenger tournament in Pune . In La Marsa (Tunisia) and Telavi (Georgia) she had won two more ITF individual titles. In January 2013 she was successful in both singles and doubles in Eilat (Israel). This improved her to the top 100 in the WTA world rankings for the first time. In January 2014 she climbed to 38th place by advancing into the third round of the Australian Open . In July 2014 she won the hard court tournament in Baku , where she almost hit the Exactly one year earlier, she won the final against Shahar Peer , her third individual title on the tour. She won her fourth WTA title in May 2015 at the clay court tournament in Marrakech with a final victory over the Hungarian Tímea Babos .

After her final victory in Kuala Lumpur in March 2016 over Eugenie Bouchard , she climbed to 14th place in the world rankings ; after her first title win at a Premier 5 tournament in February 2017 in Dubai, she was in the top ten for the first time with place 10. With her victory at the clay court tournament in Rome , she improved to fourth place in August 2017.

Switolina has been playing for the Ukrainian Fed Cup team since 2012 , for which she has contributed ten wins in 19 games so far.

On February 11, 2016, Switolina announced that she will be strengthening her coaching team with the seven-time Grand Slam winner Justine Henin .

In 2017, Switolina finally achieved the breakthrough. After five tournament victories (in Taipei , Dubai , Istanbul , Rome and Toronto ) she was one of the world's best; from September 11th she was number 3 in the world for four weeks .

Tournament victories

singles

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	August 21, 2011	Istanbul	ITF $ 10,000	Hard court	Anja Prislan	6: 2, 6: 7 5 , 6: 0
2.	October 22, 2011	Lagos	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Donna Vekic	6: 4, 6: 3
3.	March 24, 2012	La Marsa	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Isabella Schinikova	7: 6 6 , 7: 6 5
4th	September 30, 2012	Telavi	ITF $ 50,000	sand	Lesja Zurenko	6: 1, 6: 2
5.	November 11, 2012	Pune	WTA Challenger	Hard court	Kimiko Date-Krumm	6: 2, 6: 3
6th	February 2, 2013	Eilat	ITF $ 75,000	sand	Marta Sirotkina	6: 3, 3: 6, 7: 5
7th	July 28, 2013	Baku (1)	WTA International	Hard court	Shahar Peer	6: 4, 6: 4
8th.	3rd August 2013	Donetsk	ITF $ 75,000	Hard court	Tímea Babos	3: 6, 6: 2, 7: 6 9
9.	July 27, 2014	Baku (2)	WTA International	Hard court	Bojana Jovanovski	6: 1, 7: 6 2
10.	May 2, 2015	Marrakech	WTA International	sand	Tímea Babos	7: 5, 7: 6 3
11.	March 6, 2016	Kuala Lumpur	WTA International	Hard court	Eugenie Bouchard	6: 7 5 , 6: 4, 7: 5
12.	5th February 2017	Taipei	WTA International	Hard court	Peng Shuai	6: 3, 6: 2
13.	February 25, 2017	Dubai (1)	WTA Premier 5	Hard court	Caroline Wozniacki	6: 4, 6: 2
14th	April 30, 2017	Istanbul	WTA International	sand	Elise Mertens	6: 2, 6: 4
15th	May 21, 2017	Rome (1)	WTA Premier 5	sand	Simona Halep	4: 6, 7: 5, 6: 1
16.	13th August 2017	Toronto	WTA Premier 5	Hard court	Caroline Wozniacki	6: 4, 6: 0
17th	January 6, 2018	Brisbane	WTA Premier	Hard court	Aljaksandra Sasnovich	6: 2, 6: 1
18th	February 24, 2018	Dubai (2)	WTA Premier	Hard court	Darja Kassatkina	6: 4, 6: 0
19th	20th May 2018	Rome (2)	WTA Premier 5	sand	Simona Halep	6-0, 6-4
20th	October 28, 2018	Singapore	WTA Tour Championships	Hard court (hall)	Sloane Stephens	3: 6, 6: 2, 6: 2
21st	March 8, 2020	Monterrey	WTA International	Hard court	Marie Bouzková	7: 5, 4: 6, 6: 4

Double

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Partner	Final opponents	Result
1.	July 23, 2010	Kharkiv	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Kateryna Koslowa	Valentina Iwachnenko Aljona Sotnykova	6: 3, 7: 5
2.	1st February 2013	Eilat	ITF $ 75,000	Hard court	Alla Kudryavtseva	Corinna Dentoni Aljaksandra Sasnowitsch	6: 1, 6: 3
3.	20th July 2014	Istanbul	WTA International	Hard court	Misaki Doi	Oksana Kalashnikova Paula Kania	6: 4, 6: 0
4th	July 26, 2015	Istanbul	WTA International	Hard court	Daria Gavrilova	Çağla Büyükakçay Jelena Janković	5: 7, 6: 1, [10: 4]

statistics

singles

competition	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	total
Australian Open	-	-	1R	3R	3R	2R	3R	VF	VF	3R	0
French Open	-	-	2R	2R	VF	AF	VF	3R	3R		0
Wimbledon	-	-	1R	1R	2R	2R	AF	1R	HF		0
US Open	-	1R	2R	1R	3R	3R	AF	AF	HF		0
Tour Championships	-	-	-	-	-	-	RR	S.	-		1
Doha	a. K.	-	-	1R	a. K.	1R	a. K.	AF	a. K.		0
Dubai	-	na or a. K.			2R	a. K.	S.	a. K.	HF	a. K.	1
Indian Wells	-	-	1R	2R	AF	3R	AF	3R	HF		0
Miami	-	-	-	AF	3R	AF	2R	VF	2R		0
Rome	-	-	-	1R	2R	1R	S.	S.	2R		2
Madrid	-	-	-	1R	2R	2R	1R	2R	1R		0
Cincinnati	-	-	-	VF	2R	2R	AF	VF	AF		0
Montreal / Toronto	-	-	-	-	HF	3R	S.	HF	VF		1
Tokyo	-	-	2R	other category							0
Wuhan	not carried out			HF	3R	2R	-	2R	-		0
Beijing	-	-	1R	-	2R	HF	VF	1R	-		0
Olympic games	n / A	-	not carried out			VF	not carried out				0
Fed Cup	-	PO	-	-	-	-	PO	-	-		0

Explanation of symbols: S = tournament victory; F, HF, VF, AF = entry into the final / semi-finals / quarter-finals / round of 16; 1, 2, 3 = elimination in the 1st / 2nd / 3rd main round; RR = Round Robin (group stage); na = not carried out; a. K. = other category; PO (playoff) = promotion and relegation round in the Fed Cup; K1, K2, K3 = participation in continental groups I, II, III in the Fed Cup.

	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	total
Tournament participation	0	3	19th	25th	25th	23	19th	19th	0	133
Finals reached	0	0	1	1	1	3	5	4th	0	15th
Title won	0	0	1	1	1	1	5	4th	0	13
Hard court wins / defeats	0-0	0: 3	9:12	26:15	25:18	36:16	32: 9	33:10	0-0	161: 83
Sand victories / defeats	0-0	0-0	4: 5	7: 7	14: 4	4: 4	14: 2	9: 3	0-0	52:25
Turf wins / defeats	0-0	0-0	0: 2	2: 2	1: 2	1: 2	4: 2	2: 2	0-0	10:12
Carpet victories / defeats	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0
Overall wins / losses	0-0	0: 3	13:19	35:24	40:24	41:22	50:13	44:15	0-0	223: 120
World ranking points	252	609	1160	1655	2590	2895	5500	5350	-	N / A
Year-end position	232	112	45	28	19th	14th	6th	4th	-	N / A

As of October 29, 2018

Double

competition	2013	2014	2016	2017	Career
Australian Open	-	1	1	-	1
French Open	-	2	1	-	2
Wimbledon	-	1	2	-	2
US Open	1	2	1	-	2

Mixed

competition	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	Career
Australian Open	-	1	1	HF	-	HF
French Open	-	AF	-	AF	-	AF
Wimbledon	AF	1	2	-	2	AF
US Open	1	1	-	-	AF	AF

Web links

Commons : Elina Switolina  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• WTA profile of Elina Switolina (English)
• ITF profile of Elina Switolina (English)
• ITF junior profile Elina Svitolina (English)
• Fed Cup stats by Elina Svitolina (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Henin To Help Rising Svitolina (wtatennis.com February 11, 2016, accessed February 14, 2016)