Elena Baltacha, Tennis Player, - Biography,
Ukranian / British / Scottish tennis player.
Height 5 foot 7
Weight 68 KG
born August 14, 1983 in Kiev, Ukraine.
Elena Baltacha is
a Ukrainian-born tennis player who has played for Great Britain & Scotland
Baltacha
comes from a very sporty family. Father Sergei used to play professional football
. He represented the USSR & played in the United Kingdom with Ipswich Town
& St Johnstone. Her mother Olga represented the USSR in the pentathlon &
heptathlon at the Olympic Games. Brother Sergei played football, for Scottish
Football League First Division team St Mirren of Paisley & Millwall.
Currently
living in Enfield, London, England, with her mother, she practices at the Hazelwood
Lawn Tennis & Squash Club, in Winchmore Hill, North London, where she is coached
by Alan Jones & Jo Durie. She is part of a tennis academy set up at Hazelwood,
aimed at grooming talented young players into future professionals. The club boasts
7 outside courts & 3 indoor tennis courts along with a further 3 squash (sport)
courts.
After arriving at Heathrow Airport on January 13, 1989, Elena moved
to Ipswich where her father Sergei was to play football for the next year before
moving to Scotland. The family lived in Perth where she grew up & spent her
teenage years. The British No. 1 tennis player reached her highest world ranking
in March 2005, when she was ranked 118 overall. Most of her career so far has
been plagued by injury. The 2006 Wimbledon Tournament was no different as she
was forced to pull out of the main women's draw. Many critics believe that this
vulnerability to injury has hampered her claim to become a major player on the
tennis circuit.
She is quite heavy for her height it seems, and had the 3rd fastest serve in the women's game at one point.
She says she has a scientific approach to her game, aiming for strengh.
In her teens her career was delayed by a health scare.
She wears a cap and glasses when playing. and is said to laugh allot.
Her
father also managed Inverness
Caledonian Thistle
This site was written in February 2007
Some pictures of Elena Baltacha is not spelt Elena Balacha
Picture of her with her strong legs
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