Jelena Rybakina

Jelena Rybakina
Rybakina 2019 at Wimbledon
Nation:	Russia 2013–2018 Kazakhstan 2018–
Birthday:	June 17, 1999
Size:	184 cm
Playing hand:	Right, two-handed backhand
Trainer:	Stefano Vukov
Prize money:	$ 1,198,876
singles
Career record:	161: 67
Career title:	2 WTA , 4 ITF
Highest ranking:	17 (February 24, 2020)
Current placement:	17th
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	32:24
Career title:	0 WTA, 4 ITF
Highest ranking:	344 (February 3, 2020)
Current placement:	359
Grand Slam record
Last update of the infobox: March 16, 2020
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Jelena Andrejewna Rybakina ( Russian Елена Андреевна Рыбакина , English transcription: Elena Rybakina ; born June 17, 1999 in Moscow ) is a Russian- born tennis player who has competed for Kazakhstan since 2018 .

Career

Rybakina, who started playing tennis at the age of five, already had her first successes as a junior. In 2017 she won the renowned Trofeo Bonfiglio and was in the semifinals of the junior competitions of the Australian Open and French Open . At the end of 2017 she achieved her highest position in the junior world rankings with third place .

Rybakina made her debut on the ITF Women's World Tennis Tour in 2014 . In 2017 she competed in the Kremlin Cup in her native Moscow for the first time at a tournament of the WTA Tour after she had received a wildcard for the qualification from the organizers . After three wins she immediately qualified for the main field and lost in the first round to Irina-Camelia Begu . At the beginning of 2018 she was allowed to enter the qualification with a wildcard again in St. Petersburg and qualified again for the main round, in which, after winning the second round match against Caroline Garcia , her first against a player from the top 10 in the world rankings, reached the quarter-finals, which she lost to Julia Görges . After winning her first professional title in Kazan , she reached the final of an ITF $ 60,000 tournament in Istanbul before stagnating for the rest of the year. During her first participation in the qualifying round of a Grand Slam tournament at the 2018 US Open , she started, like some Russian tennis players before her, under the Kazakh flag and was eliminated in the second round.

Rybakina's rise in the rankings began in early 2019 when she won an ITF $ 60,000 tournament in Launceston , followed by two other titles in $ 25,000 tournaments in Moscow and Kazan. She then reached the quarter-finals on clay court at the WTA tournament in Istanbul from qualification and was able to play in the main draw of a Grand Slam tournament for the first time at the French Open , but lost to Kateřina Siniaková at the beginning . In 's-Hertogenbosch on grass Rybakina then advanced to her first WTA semi-final before she celebrated her first WTA title in Bucharest after a success in the final against Patricia Maria Țig . She played her second final at the end of the season in Nanchang , but was there against Rebecca Peterson without a chance. By participating in the quarter-finals at a tournament in the Premier 5 category in Wuhan , where she benefited from Simona Halep's injury-related task , she made it into the top 50 for the first time at the end of 2019. In the round of the last eight she had to admit defeat to the eventual winner Aryna Sabalenka and ended the year with another semi-final in Luxembourg .

At the beginning of the year, Rybakina was in brilliant form. After a final victory over Zhang Shuai in Hobart , she won her second WTA title and stood in three other finals in Shenzhen , where she was defeated by Jekaterina Alexandrowa , and then at the two premier tournaments in St. Petersburg until the corona-related break of the season in March and Dubai ; there she lost to Kiki Bertens and Simona Halep. At the Australian Open , she made it into the third round of a Grand Slam tournament for the first time and achieved her highest world ranking position in February with 17th place.

Tournament victories

singles

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	17th March 2018	Kazan	ITF $ 15,000	Hard court (hall)	Daria Nazarkina	6: 4, 7: 6 5
2.	3rd February 2019	Launceston	ITF $ 60,000	Hard court	Irina Chromatschowa	7: 5, 3: 3 problem
3.	3rd March 2019	Moscow	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court (hall)	Hanna Posnichirenko	7: 5, 6: 0
4th	17th March 2019	Kazan	ITF $ 25,000 + H	Hard court (hall)	Urszula Radwańska	6: 2, 6: 3
5.	July 21, 2019	Bucharest	WTA International	sand	Patricia Maria Țig	6: 2, 6: 0
6th	January 18, 2020	Hobart	WTA International	Hard court	Zhang Shuai	7: 6 7 , 6: 3

Double

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Partner	Final opponents	Result
1.	April 1, 2017	Istanbul	ITF $ 15,000	Hard court (hall)	Ekaterina Kazionova	Eleni Daniilidou Vlada Ekshibarova	6: 1, 6: 3
2.	May 6, 2017	Antalya	ITF $ 15,000	sand	Amina Anschba	Daria Nazarkina Anna Ukolova	7: 5, 4: 6, [10: 8]
3.	March 16, 2018	Kazan	ITF $ 15,000	Hard court (hall)	Alena Fomina	Anastassija Frolova Ksenia Lykina	6: 4, 1: 6, [10: 6]
4th	2nd March 2019	Moscow	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court (hall)	Sofja Lansere	Vivian Heisen Hanna Posnichirenko	1: 6, 6: 3, [10: 4]

Performing in Grand Slam tournaments

singles

competition	2018	2019	2020	Balance sheet	Career
Australian Open	-	Q1	3	2: 1	3
French Open	-	1		0: 1	1
Wimbledon	-	Q3		0-0	-
US Open	Q2	1		0: 1	1

World ranking positions at the end of the season

year	2016	2017	2018	2019
singles	614	425	191	36
Double	1165	682	484	516

Web links

Commons : Jelena Rybakina  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• WTA profile Jelena Rybakina (English)
• ITF profile Jelena Rybakina (English)
• ITF junior profile Jelena Rybakina (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Getting to Know: Elena Rybakina's rocket rise. In: wtatennis.com. January 22, 2020, accessed on August 7, 2020 .