Elena Dementieva

Elena Dementieva is an Olympic champion and one of the best Russian tennis players. She has built a brilliant career in professional sports and completed it in 2012. Every year journalists and fans remember the legend of tennis.

Elena Vyacheslavovna Dementyeva was born in Moscow on October 15, 1981. She was brought up in the family of an electrical engineer Vyacheslav Dementyev. There is a brother - Vsevolod. Mom Vera Dementieva devoted all her time to her daughter, helping in preparations for the competition. Elena has been playing tennis since she was seven.

Dementieva received her education at a specialized Moscow school, she is fluent in English and French. Diploma of higher education from an athlete from the Moscow State Pedagogical University, specialty "journalism". Elena graduated from this educational institution in 2015.

From the age of seven, Elena was in the section of the sports society "Spartak", the very first mentor of the future Olympic champion was Rauza Islanova. Dementieva participated in competitions with her peers, and in 1995 - in the ITF Junior Tour.

In 1996, Elena joined CSKA. In March, having gained experience, she reached the final of the singles tournament of the G3 competition, which took place in Indonesia. Later, Dementieva took the fourth line of the rating and ended up in the semifinals of the Grand Slam, where Elena Dokich won over her.

Elena Dementieva achieved success in big sports along with Anastasia Myskina, Nadezhda Petrova and other tennis stars who became members of one of the most powerful teams in the Confederations Cup.

Since 1998, Dementyeva is a professional player who entered the top 200 thanks to the WTA rating. In the summer of 1999, achievements in competitions brought Elena closer to the first hundred in the ranking. The tennis player scored enough points (at competitions in Tashkent and Palermo) and advanced to the main tournament of the US Open.

In the singles ranking in the same season, Dementieva settled in the seventh top ten. The most important achievement is participation in the Conference Cup at the suggestion of the captain of the Russian national team Konstantin Bogoroditsky.

In 2000-2003, Elena Dementieva won silver at the Olympic Games (2000) in singles, later knocked out in the top 20. Participates in Grand Slam tournaments. The results of the competition and the skill of the game allow Elena to enter the final competition, although in the early 2000s, according to tennis experts, serving was the weak point of the young athlete. Over the years, the skill has been developed.

By 2003, Elena had improved her rating to the top 10, winning her first title on green soil in Amelia Island. As for the doubles, this season can be considered the least successful. There was no duet with Gusarova, and for some time Dementyeva went to the competition in tandem with Lina Krasnorutskaya. However, in favor of singles tennis, Elena almost stopped playing doubles.

2004 was marked by playing in the Kremlin Cup final, as well as participating in the US Open in tandem with Ai Sugiyama. In general, the 2004/2005 season is an important page in a tennis player's sports career. Twice she reached the final of the Grand Slam tournaments of the USA and France, became the third racket of the world.

As a member of the Russian national team, in 2005 she won the Confederation Cup. Elena Dementieva's merits include victories in 22 WTA tournaments, 16 of which belong to singles. In 2008, she became the Olympic tennis champion in singles.

Dementieva made another attempt to win the Grand Slam tournament in 2009. Fifteen victories were overshadowed by one loss in the Australian Open semifinals to Serena Williams. The tennis player from the United States beat the Russian woman at Wimbledon.

The final season on the professional tour was in 2010. Elena Dementieva also remained in the top 10. However, for health reasons, she had to miss the Grand Slam tournament. This happened for the first time in a long period of a tennis player's sports career. In October, Elena played the final game at the final tournament, and then announced that she was ending her career.

Information about the personal life of Elena Dementieva was kept secret for a long time. Until 2010, the tennis player was engaged exclusively in her career. Although since 2004 there have been speculations on the Internet about a romantic relationship between Elena and Maxim Afinogenov. The man saw the athlete for the first time at the Roland Garros tournament. Young people met at a celebration in honor of the victory of Russian tennis players in the French Open tennis championship.

Famous hockey player Maxim Afinogenov and Olympic champion Elena Dementyeva kept in touch for several years, but did not show feelings to the public. Only in 2010, Elena, who left her career, announced that she was ready to start a family.

In the summer of 2011, the lovers played a wedding. The grandiose celebration took place on the roof of the Ritz Hotel. In 2014, a daughter, Veronica, was born into a family of athletes, and two years later, a son, Sergei.

After leaving big sports, Elena devoted her free time to journalism. She was educated in this profile in 2015. Elena periodically received offers to comment on tennis competitions, but with the advent of a family and children, the athlete decided to devote all her free time to them.

The name of the young mother appears in the news next to the name of the famous husband-hockey player, whom she invariably supports at every competition. The Vityaz forward Maxim Afinogenov said that his wife was emotionally rooting for him and his team at matches.

In 2017, the Olympic champion competed for the right to host the final WTA championship in Russia (namely, in St. Petersburg). This event would become especially significant for the country, the athlete believes. The level of play of Russian tennis players surpasses the level of foreign competitors. Russia has justly earned this right, Elena Dementieva shared in an interview for Sovsport.ru.

Honored Master of Sports of Russia Order of Friendship Order of Honor Order of Merit for the Fatherland IV degree Member of the Russian Tennis Hall of Fame

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