Biography
Elena Vesnina is a Russian professional tennis player who has achieved higher results in pair tests than in single categories. Stear Tennis player Elena turned out to be the third racket of the world, and the record in independent speeches was the 22nd place in the annual ranking. Included in the Top 10 WTA Championship Race. In 2016, the Olympic gold was won in a pair with Catherine Makarova.
She was born in the West Ukrainian city of Lviv, who is home to the father of the girl Sergey Spring. He was in his youth engaged in the Greek-Roman wrestling, subsequently began to constantly ride the competition together with his daughter. A direct attitude to sports had both Mama Irina Spring, which in the youth at a serious level act as an attending cell. But after the injury gained, the sports career collapsed.
The young woman went to study at the institute, where he met the future father of Elena. Even the spring has a native elder brother Dmitry. He also tried himself in a big tennis, but the guy's career came out not so lucky as the sister, so he switched to coaching work and today teaches young children.
In Lviv, the family lived for long, soon the little Lena found himself in the warm seaside city of Sochi. It was there when she was 7 years old, she first picked up a racket and began to go to the children-youth sports school. The girl was a cheerful and open child. In addition to tennis, the baby was interested in music, especially vocals, drawing and ballroom dancing. When it was time to be determined with the direction, Spring, without thinking, remained on the tennis court. As a further life showed, this choice was suspended, sound and correct.
Sport
In the younger, Elena Vesnina showed quite good results. At 16, a pair with Alice Cleabanova, she won the prestigious Lake Cup and got to the final of the Junior Cup Federation. The tennis player was released in 2005. A series of excellent fights allowed the girl to enter the top 200, which includes the best tennis players in the world. Then Elena debuted at adult competitions, namely, at the Tournament of the Grand Slam in the United States.
It should be noted that the most significant achievements of Vespenina sought in pair competitions. Together with Anastasia Rodionova, she won the tournament in Quebec, and with Catherine Makarova won the Cup's main trophy in Indian Wells and traveled to the semi-finals of the Australian Open high-fingered tournament. And along with Darya Raskin, Elena managed to interrupt the incredible 41th-match victorious series of the Duet of the Swiss athlete Martina Hingis and the Sani Sani.
Thanks to this, the Russian woman gradually began to be considered one of the strongest tennis players in the paired discharge. But in solo performances, not everything is so bad. Spring in 2013 won the first title in the Australian city of Hobart, the beat of Mona Bartel in the final. And then she reached the semifinal at Wimbledon tournament. On the account of the tennis players in different discharges of 14 victorious tournaments under the auspices of the women's tennis association.
At the 2016 Olympics, Elena Vesnina and Ekaterina Makarova became the Olympic champions in the steam discharge. So the Lena came true a dream of childhood. Later, the athlete admitted that she began to recognize on the street and approach to say: "Thank you!".
Personal life
For a long time Elena Vesnina thought only about Big tennis and did not consider any romantic relationships as serious. But in 2012, at the party of friends, she met a young man, whose name is Pavel Tabuntev. He is not a public person, but is engaged in its own business.
For three years, Elena and Paul met, and then in November 2015 played a wedding, which was held in Moscow, in the metropolitan restaurant "Fusion". Initially, the celebration was planned for the previous summer, but the participation of Lena in prestigious tournaments and the hard schedule of training did not allow the newlyweds to find time for the holiday.
All tennis bond was invited to the wedding, including a friend on the National and Olympic team Ekaterina Makarov, Anastasia Myskina and Elena Dementeyev. But the public found out about the event only postfactum.
Later, in an interview with the newlyweds, they shared that they were happy and as if complementing each other. Elena and Paul together watch competitions, they are sick for the same teams. If possible, go to relax. So, in 2017, the beloved visited Seychelles and now want to go to Switzerland.
The spouse is always and in everything supports Spring, sick for his wife at competitions.
Athlete has an officially verified "instagram", in which the girl is divided with subscribers of personal photos. Elena carefully monitors the image and pulls out pictures that reveal the details of the private side of life. Therefore, shots with her husband in microblog are rare. Still thousands of readers are watching tennis player entries in Twitter.
The fans even call the spouse of Elena Mr. X. Spring's herself confessed that Paul was not registered in any social network and does not like publicity.
Because of the frequent ruling athletes, the spouses are away from each other, but they find compromises. Tabuntev, if possible, comes to tournaments.
In March 2014, Elena appeared before fans in savory poses and almost naked in a photo shoot for the Russian version of the magazine Pleyboy. The girl showed the public an excellent figure: with height 176 cm, the weight of the tennis players is 65 kg.
After the Olympiad, Dmitry Medvedev presented all the winners of the BMW brand machine. Elena drove his prize in Sochi. Now the girl goes on the car.
Elena Vesnina now
The career biography of the girl did not stop after the 2016 Olympic Games.
In 2017, Elena entered the Top 10 WTA Championship. In this world ranking, Springnaya took the sixth position by losing three points of Caroline Wozniacki from Denmark and ahead of Christina Infanovich from France.
In 2018, an open championship of Austria took place. In a single game, the athlete did not go further the second circle. But in the steam discharge with Catherine Makarova reached the final. But in two sets, the girls lost to Christine Infanovich and Timea Babich.
In February, at the open championship, Dubai Vesnina reached the quarterfinal in a single discharge. February 19, the girl beat Kitanka Shuai Peng. But after three days, he lost another Russian athlete Daria Raskin. And in the tournament in Doha did not cope with Anna Blinky, giving way to the second in two sets.
Then the girl performed at competitions in Charleston. In the first round of the tournament, Elena walked around American Madison Brengle. But in the third, he gave herself to beat athlete from Czech Christine Plishkova.
In May 2018, Vesnina and Makarova took a revenge on the tournament in Madrid from Baby and Infantovich. As a result, the girls became the winners of the competition.
Awards
- 2007 - Federation Cup, Gold
- 2008 - Federation Cup, Gold
- 2013 - Open France Championship, Gold
- 2014 - Open US Championship, Gold
- 2016 - XXXI Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Gold
- 2016 - Final WTA Tournament, Gold
- 2016 - Order of Friendship
- 2017 - Wimbledon Tournament, Gold
- 2018 - Tournament in Madrid, Gold