General information. Place of birth: Krivoy Rog (Ukraine, Dnepropetrovsk region).
Residence: Kharkov (Ukraine).
Physical data: height – 1 m 68 cm, weight – 59 kg.
Plays with the right hand. Two-handed backhand.
Professional status: since 1999.
Coach: Natalia Bondarenko (Ukraine), mother.
Member of the national team of Ukraine.
Sports achivments. As of January 10, 2010, WTA ranking (singles): 53. Doubles: 105.
Highest WTA career ranking (singles): 19 (April 14, 2008).
Current WTA ranking (doubles): 48.
Highest WTA career ranking (doubles): 11 (September 29, 2008)
WTA End of Season Rankings (singles): 2009 – 32, 2008 – 32, 2007 – 22; 2006 – 32; 2005 – 73; 2004 – 126; 2003 – 190; 2002 – 191; 2001 – 378; 2000 – 493; 1999 – 652.
Prize money: $2518506.
Matches in WTA tournaments (singles): 327 wins – 244 losses.
Matches in WTA tournaments (doubles): 181 wins – 162 losses.
Matches for the national team in the Fed Cup: 22 wins – 12 losses.
WTA tournament winner (singles): 2 (2006 – Luxembourg, 2010 – Hobart, Australia).
WTA tournament finalist (singles): 3 (2009 – Warsaw, 2007 – Warsaw, 2005 – Hyderabad).
Winner of WTA tournaments (doubles): 4 (2009 – Prague (together with younger sister Katerina Bondarenko), 2008 – “Australian Open” (with K. Bondarenko), Paris (with K. Bondarenko); 2006 – Istanbul (with Anastasia Yakimova from Belarus).
ITF tournament winner (singles): 5.
ITF tournament winner (doubles): 8.
As of July 2010, Alena Bondarenko’s best rating is: 19. In doubles: 11.
In 2008, the performance at the XXIX Olympic Games in Beijing was unsuccessful. There was a good chance to win medals in the doubles event. In a duet with her sister Katerina, she made it to the semi-finals of the competition, but in the end, in the match for a set of bronze medals, the Ukrainians lost to the Chinese pair Yang/Jeng in two sets – 2:6, 2:6.
In 2011, due to a series of injuries, he decided to end his career.
In 2016 Alena Bondarenko returns to professional tennis. The first tournament for her was the ITF competition in Italy.
Family bonds. In July 2010, Alena married her coach Nikolai Dyachka. On May 30, 2015, the couple had a son, Eugene.
Alena has two sisters: the eldest Valeria and younger Katerina Both also play tennis professionally.
07/30/2021