Elena Baltacha

Elena Baltacha
Elena Baltacha at the 2010 US Open
Nickname:	Bally
Nation:	United Kingdom
Birthday:	August 14, 1983
Date of death:	May 4, 2014
Size:	175 cm
1st professional season:	1997
Resignation:	18th November 2013
Playing hand:	Right, two-handed backhand
Prize money:	$ 1,190,893
singles
Career record:	324: 243
Career title:	0 WTA, 11 ITF
Highest ranking:	49 (September 13, 2010)
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	59:59
Career title:	0 WTA, 4 ITF
Highest ranking:	211 (January 17, 2011)
Grand Slam record
Mixed
Grand Slam record
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Elena Sergejewna Baltacha ( Ukrainian Олена Сергіївна Балтача , trans. Olena Serhijivna Baltatscha , born  August 14, 1983 in Kiev , Ukrainian SSR , as Оле́на Балта́ча ; † May 4, 2014 in Ipswich ) was a British Tenniss .

Personal

Baltacha came from a sporty family. Her father Sergei Baltatscha was a national soccer player of the USSR, her mother Olga Baltatscha heptathlete and her brother Sergei Baltatscha jr. Football player in the Scottish Premier League . Elena Baltacha was number 1 in the UK singles ranking for 132 weeks, from December 2009 to June 2012. In the WTA world rankings , she climbed to 49th place (September 2010).

In 2012 she took part in the Olympic tennis tournament in singles and doubles . She played for the UK Fed Cup team for eleven years . She won eleven singles and four doubles titles at the ITF Women's Circuit . She ended her career at the end of the 2013 season and married her coach Nino Severino on December 8, 2013.

At the age of 19, Baltacha was diagnosed with primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC), a chronic inflammation of the biliary tract inside and / or outside the liver. In mid-January 2014 she was diagnosed with liver carcinoma , from the consequences of which she died in Ipswich in May 2014 at the age of 30.

The winner's cup of the WTA tournament in Nottingham , the Elena Baltacha Trophy , was named after her in her honor.

Tournament victories

singles

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	July 14, 2002	Felixstowe	ITF $ 25,000	race	Kelly Liggan	4: 6, 6: 2, 6: 3
2.	July 28, 2002	Pamplona	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court (hall)	Virginie Pichet	6: 2, 6: 1
3.	October 16, 2005	jersey	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court (hall)	Daniella Kix	6: 4, 6: 4
4th	March 30, 2008	jersey	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court (hall)	Ana Vrljić	6: 1, 6: 3
5.	April 6, 2008	Torhout	ITF $ 75,000	Hard court (hall)	Iveta Benešová	6: 7 5 , 6: 1, 6: 4
6th	April 26, 2009	Changwon	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Junri Namigata	6: 3, 6: 1
7th	September 26, 2009	Shrewsbury	ITF $ 75,000	Hard court (hall)	Katie O'Brien	6: 3, 4: 6, 6: 3
8th.	February 14, 2010	Midland	ITF $ 100,000	Hard court (hall)	Lucie Hradecká	5: 7, 6: 2, 6: 3
9.	June 6, 2010	Nottingham	ITF $ 50,000	race	Carly Gullickson	6: 2, 6: 2
10.	June 12, 2011	Nottingham	ITF $ 100,000 + H	race	Petra Cetkovská	7: 5, 6: 3
11.	June 16, 2013	Nottingham	ITF $ 50,000	race	Tadeja Majerič	7: 5, 7: 6 7

Double

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Partner	Final opponents	Result
1.	July 21, 2002	Valladolid	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Natacha Randriantefy	Leanne Baker Manisha Malhotra	6: 7 6 , 7: 6 1 , 6: 3
2.	July 28, 2002	Pamplona	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court (hall)	Kelly Liggan	Yvonne Doyle Susanne Trik	6: 7 6 , 7: 6 1 , 6: 3
3.	October 17, 2004	Sunderland	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court (hall)	Jane O'Donoghue	Eva Fislová Stanislava Hrozenská	6: 1, 4: 6, 6: 2
4th	September 25, 2005	Glasgow	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Margit Rüütel	Anne Keothavong Karen Paterson	6: 3, 6: 7 2 , 6: 2

Performing in Grand Slam tournaments

singles

competition	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	Career
Australian Open	-	-	1	-	3	-	-	-	2	3	2	1	-	3
French Open	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	2	1	1	2
Wimbledon	1	3	1	1	1	-	1	2	2	1	2	2	1	3
US Open	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	2	-	-	2

Double

competition	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	Career
Australian Open	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	-	-	-	2
French Open	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Wimbledon	1	1	1	1	2	-	1	1	1	2	-	1	-	2
US Open	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Web links

Commons : Elena Baltacha  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• WTA profile of Elena Baltacha (English)
• ITF profile Elena Baltacha (English)
• Fed Cup Statistics for Elena Baltacha (English)
• Elena Baltacha in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Website of the Elena Baltacha Academy of Tennis (EBAT) (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Elena Baltacha Passes Away. Report on the homepage of the Women's Tennis Association from May 5, 2014 (accessed May 5, 2014)
2. ↑ Elena Baltacha: Nottingham trophy named after late tennis player. In: bbc.com. May 4, 2015, accessed June 17, 2018 .