Elena Dementieva
Elena Viatcheslavovna Dementieva (in Russian, ЕленаВячеславовнаДементьева ) is a Russian player of Tennis born the October 15th 1981 with Moscow. She arrives finally of the Olympic Games of summer of Sydney but inclines herself vis-a-vis Venus Williams. She speaks three languages: Russian, English and French.
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Career
Dementieva played and gained its first international tournament, the Small Aces, in France at the 13 years age. In 1997, it entered the classification WTA of the 500 best players. It passed professional in 1998 and entered among the 100 first in 1999.In 1999, it represented Russia in the competition of Fed Cup, finally against the the United States marking the only point of its team. 1999 were also the year which saw it disputing its first tournaments of the large slam, being qualified for the Open of Australia, Roland-Garros and Wimbledon and entering directly the table of the US Open. It reached the second turn of open of Australia and Roland Garros, had left to the first turn of Wimbledon and went to the third the US turn Open one.
In 2000, it made its entry in 20 the best while gaining more than 40 matches of simple and while gaining more than 600.000 dollars. It reached its first semi-final of large slam to US Open losing against Lindsay Davenport; it was the Russian first to reach this stage of the competition in this tournament. With the Olympic Games of summer of 2000 with Sydney, it gained the money medal, losing finally against another American, Venus Williams.
2001 was the second year when it succeeds in being maintained in 20 the best with classification WTA. During this year, it took the Russian place of n°1, position occupied previously by Anna Kournikova since December 1997.
In 2003, it played a majority of tournaments by occupying a place among 10 the best and gained 900.000 dollars of price roughly. With the tournament of Amelia Island, it gained its first title, beating the head of series n°8 Amanda Coetzer, the n°4 Daniela Hantuchová, the world n°1 of then Justine Henin as well as the n°2 Lindsay Davenport and consequently became occasion the smallest head of series (n°10) to gain this tournament of 24 years of history. It gained also titles with Bali and Shanghai against Chanda Rubin twice. It finishes the year 2003 in signal 10. In double, it reached the semi-finals of Wimbledon in team with her compatriot Lina Krasnoroutskaya, beating the Williams sisters in way.
In 2004, Dementieva appeared with the more high level. Its season began world in January with Sydney like n°8 and head of series n°6, losing in quarterfinals against the n°5 Lindsay Davenport. It preserved its row at Open of Australia where it was beaten by promising the n°79, Jankovic. In February, she declared fixed price before disputing a tournament and resigned herself to make in the same way with Indian Wells in March. With Miami, head of series n°5, it eliminated Venus Williams in semi-final to meet Serena Williams. April 5th, Dementieva reached the world place of n°6. With Myskina n°5 and Nadia Petrova n°9, it was the first time that three Russian appeared in signal 10 female. In May, in Roland Garros, then head of series n°9, it succeeds in reaching for the first time the final of a tournament of the large slam, beating with the passage old the n°1 Lindsay Davenport in two sets. It lost against its compatriot, head of series n°6 Anastasia Myskina in a finale Russo-Russian without precedent. The former Russian president, Boris Ieltsine, attended this confrontation. For the first time of the Open era three Russian players (Dementieva, Myskina and Sharapova) had reached the quarterfinals of a tournament of the large slam. When Myskina and they entered in semi-finals, there still it was without precedent. Last the Russian to have reached a final of large slam was then Olga Morozova in 1974, the trainer of Dementieva. In Wimbledon, n°6, it was made surprise with the first turn by the n°129 Kleinova in 3 sets. Later, this same year, with US Open, it reached its second final of large slam, beating the heads of series n°8 Jennifer Capriati and n°2 Amélie Mauresmo. At 19 years, Svetlana Kuznetsova beat Dementieva in two sets at the time of this final, to become the consecutive Russian third to gain its first tournament of the large slam here. It was the second finale Russo-Russian of the Open era.
Prize list Elena Dementieva
Course in Large Slam
Cut of the Federation
Classifications at the end of the season (simple)
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