Elina Svitolina
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Person

Elina Svitolina

b. 1994

Ukrainian tennis player (born 1994)

Born
12 Sept 1994 · Odesa

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

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  1. 12 Sept 1994BornBorn in Odesa
  2. 2012TeamUkraine Billie Jean King Cup team

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1994 – today).

  1. 19941994 FIFA World Cup
  2. 1994 – 1996First Chechen War
  3. 19981998 FIFA World Cup
  4. 2001 – 2021War in Afghanistan
  5. 2003 – 2011Iraq War
  6. 20042004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
  7. 20062006 FIFA World Cup
  8. 20082008 Summer Olympics
  9. 2008Russo-Georgian War
  10. 20102010 Haiti earthquake
  11. 2010 – 2012Arab Spring
  12. 20112011 Norway attacks
  13. 2011Libyan civil war
  14. 2011 – 2024Syrian civil war
  15. 20122012 Summer Olympics
  16. 20142014 FIFA World Cup
  17. 2014Russo-Ukrainian war
  18. 2015Paris Agreement
  19. 20182018 FIFA World Cup
  20. 2020COVID-19 pandemic
  21. 20212020 Summer Olympics
  22. 2022Russo-Ukrainian war
  23. 2023Gaza war
  24. 20242024 Summer Olympics
  25. 20262026 Iran war

Biography

Elina Mykhailivna Svitolina (Ukrainian: Еліна Михайлівна Світоліна, pronounced [eˈl⁽ʲ⁾inɐ s⁽ʲ⁾wiˈtɔl⁽ʲ⁾inɐ]; born 12 September 1994) is a Ukrainian professional tennis player. She has career-high rankings of world No. 3 in singles and No. 108 in doubles from the WTA. Svitolina has won 20 WTA Tour singles titles, including the 2018 WTA Finals and five WTA 1000-level tournaments, and has reached four major semifinals.

Svitolina first broke into the world's top 50 in July 2013 and the top 10 in May 2017, making her the highest-ranked Ukrainian woman in history. Svitolina reached two major semifinals in 2019 at Wimbledon and the US Open. In 2021, she won an Olympic bronze medal in the women's singles tournament at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics to become the first Olympian to win a medal in tennis for Ukraine.

In 2022, Svitolina took a break from professional tennis to give birth to her first child. She made a strong comeback upon her return to competition in 2023, reaching the French Open quarterfinals and the Wimbledon semifinals in her first few tournaments back. She achieved consistent success in the following years, culminating in an Australian Open semifinal and return to the world's top 10 in 2026.

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