Elena Rybakina, who recently defeated US Open champion, Emma Raducanu in Sydney Opener is a Kazakh Russian professional tennis player, know her age, ranking, biography
Let’s us know about the player who has reached her career-high ranking of No. 13 at the WTA.
Elena Rybakina Biography, Age, Husband, Parents, Family, Ranking, Coach, Tennis Career
Elena Rybakina’s Age, Height And Ranking
Her full name is Elena Andreyevna Rybakina who was born in Russia and a professional tennis player of Kazakhstan. Elena is just 22 years old who was born on 17 June in the year 1999.
She is lucky to have tall stature at 1.84 metres (6ft) because of which, she serves excellent and her height helps her to be able to generate power with both her fore and as well backhand.
The player is currently ranked No. 13 which is her highest ranking so far by WTA. She got this ranking this year on January 10th.
Elena Rybakina’s Parents, Family, Siblings
Elena has one sibling, an older sister named Anna Rybakina. Her parents’ names are not disclosed as of now.
Rybakina started to get committed to the sports world from a very young age along with her sister who is according to Wikipedia is older than her. Earlier, the player was mainly focused on sports like gymnastics and ice skating but she was told she doesn’t suit these sports as she was very tall.
Because of her huge interest in sports, Elena’s father asked her to try Tennis instead of gymnastics and skating (on being told that she is very tall for all these). She was just six years old when she started playing tennis.
Elena Rybakina’s Relationships
Seems like the player is very private with her personal life information as there is no trace of her dating anyone or about her past relationships. The player is married.
Elena Rybakina Coach
Elena Rybakina is currently managed under a coach named Stefano Vukov who is a former tennis player from Croatia and he has been advising the player from the year 2019 till now. He is her first travelling coach. Under his training, she jumped from the top 200 of WTA rankings to the top 30 within a year.
Before Vukov, Andrei Chesnokov of Russia was hired by Elena in the year 2018 when she was 18 years old. She had already worked with him earlier at Spartak Tennis Club and he was her first individual coach.
Elena Rybakina Tennis Career And Record
The 13th ranked player started her career by being No. 3 at the junior stage which was a career-high ranking.
In 2017 at the age of 17, she advanced to the junior Grand Slam semifinals twice. Rybakina won her first Grade A title at the Trofeo Bonfiglio the same year.
One year later in 2018, the player jumped under the top 200 ranking by WTA for the first time and after a month she changed her federation to Kazakhstan from Russia in June.
In mid-2019 she earned her first consistent success on the WTA Tour and at the Bucharest Open, she grabbed her very first WTA trophy before she made it to advance to five finals in the year 2020. The season of 2020 was very favourable for the player.
She has been awarded 2 WTA and 4 ITF. She advanced to get her very first Grand Slam qualifying draw while she started playing for Kazakhstan but failed to enter the main draw. She then managed to advance to the main draw at the age of 21 but was defeated in the first round.
In 2021, she reached the quarter-finals of the Roland Garros tournament in singles and doubles and advanced to the final in doubles of Indian Wells.
Elena Rybakina Net-Worth
Rybakina, who became famous very quickly has earned $1,466,978 till date.
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