Biography
Elena Dementieva - Olympic champion and one of the best Russian tennis players. She built a brilliant career in a big sport and completed it in 2012. Journalists and fans each year remember the legend of the Big Tennis.Childhood and youth
Elena Vyacheslavovna Dementeyeva was born in Moscow on October 15, 1981. Brought up in the family of an electrician engineer Vyacheslav Dementeyev. There is a brother - Vsevolod. Mom Vera Dementeyeva devoted all the time her daughter, helping to prepare for competitions. Tennis Elena was engaged in seven years old.
Dementiev's education received in a specialized Moscow school, perfectly owns English and French. A diploma of higher education in athletes from the Moscow Pedagogical State University, the specialty "Journalism". This educational institution Elena graduated in 2015.
Tennis
From seven years, Elena consisted of Spartak Sports Society Section, the very first mentor of the future Olympic champion became Rausa Islanov. Dementiev participated in competitions with peers, and in 1995 - in the Junior Tue ITF.
In 1996, Elena joined CSKA. In March, having gained experience, reached the final of the Single Tournament of the G3 competitions, which were held in Indonesia. Later, Dementieva ranked the fourth line of the rating and was in the semifinals of a big helmet, where Elena Dokich won the victory over it.
Successes in Big Sport Elena Dementeyev sought along with Anastasia Myskina, the hope of Petrova and other tennis stars who became members of one of the most powerful teams in the Confederations Cup.
Since 1998, Dementieva has been a professional player who has entered the TOP-200 thanks to the WTA rating. In the summer of 1999, the achievements at the competition were brought to Elena to the first hundred rating. Tennis player gained enough points (at competitions in Tashkent and Palermo) and went into the main US Open tournament.
In a single ranking in the same season, Dementiev has been gained in the seventh dozen. The most important achievement is to participate in the Cup of the Conference with the filing of the captain of the Russian national team Konstantin Bogoroditsky.
In 2000-2003, Elena Dementieva won silver at the Olympic Games (2000) in a single discharge, later knocked out in the top 20. Participates in the tournaments of a big helmet. The results of the competition and skill of the game allow Elena to enter the final competition, although in the early 2000s, according to specialists in the field of tennis, the submission is a weak place of the young athlete. Over the years, the skill managed to work.
By 2003, Elena improved the rating to the top 10, won the first title on the green soil in Amelia-Island. As for the pair discharge, this season can be considered the least successful. There was no duet with Gusarova, and for some time Dementieva went to the competition in a pair with Lina Krasnodutsk. However, in favor of Single Tennis Elena almost ceased to hold steam games.
The year 2004 was marked by the game in the Kremlin Cup final, as well as participation in US Open in a pair with a ai Sugu. In total, the 2004/2005 season is an important page in the tennis player sports career. Twice she reached the final of the tournaments of the Grand Slam and France, became the third racket of the world.
As a member of the Russian national team, in 2005 he won the Confederation Cup. In the lists of merit Helena Dementieva - Victory in 22 WTA tournaments, 16 of which belong to a single discharge. In 2008, she became the Olympic Tennis champion in a single discharge.
Another attempt to win in the tournament of the Grand Slam Dementieva took in 2009. Fifteen victories overshadowed one loss in the semifinal of Australian Open (Serena Williams won the victory). Tennis player from the United States beat Russian and Wimbledon.
The final season in a professional tour fell in 2010. Elena Dementieva, everything remained in the top 10. However, as a state of health, she had to skip the big helmet tournament. It happened for the first time for the long period of the sports career of tennis players. In October, Elena played a final game at the final tournament, and then announced that she completes his career.
Personal life
Information about the personal life of Elena Dementieva for a long time kept secret. Until 2010, the tennis player was exclusively a career. Although since 2004, on the Internet, there were assumptions about the romantic relations of Elena and Maxim, Athenogenov. The man saw the athlete for the first time at the Roland Garros tournament. Young people met in celebration in honor of the victory of Russian tennis players in the open championship of France in Tennis.
The famous Hockey player Maxim Athenogenov and the Olympic champion Elena Dementiev for several years have supported the connection, but did not demonstrate feelings for the public. Only in 2010, Elena who left his career said he was ready to create a family.
In the summer of 2011, lovers played a wedding. Grand celebration took place on the roof of the Ritz Hotel. In 2014, Veronika daughter was born in the family of athletes, and in two years - Son Sergey.
Elena Dementeva now
After leaving the Big Sport, Elena devoted to the free time to journalism. This profile was educated in 2015. Elena periodically received proposals to comment on tennis competitions, but with the advent of family and children, all his free time an athlete decided to devote to them.
The name of the young mother appears in the news next to the name of the famous Hockey Player's husband, which she invariably supports every competition. Vitya striker Maxim Athenogenov said that the spouse is emotionally sick for him and his team on matches.
In 2017, the Olympic champion addressed the right to hold the final WTA championship in Russia (exactly in St. Petersburg). For the country, this event would be particularly significant, an athlete believes. The level of the game of Russian tennis players is superior to the level of foreign competitors. Russia rightly earned this right, shared in an interview for Sovsport.ru Elena Dementieva.
Awards
- Honored Master of Sports of Russia
- Order of Friendship
- Order of Honor
- Order "For Merit to Fatherland" IV degree
- Member of the Hall of Russian Tennis Glory