Elina Svitolina was born on 12th September 1994, in Odessa, Ukraine to a mother who was a rower, and father a wrestler. Elina is a professional tennis player, who has risen to prominence having won 11 WTA titles, and reaching her best individual WTA ranking of 3rd in September 2017.
How rich is the tennis player? It has been reported by authoritative sources that the overall size of Elina Svitolina net worth is as much as $15 million, according to the data presented in early 2018. She earns around $3.2million per year from tennis, both from prize money and endorsements.
Elina Svitolina Net Worth $15 million
To begin with, Elina started playing tennis at the age of five. She was later supported by Ukrainian businessman Yuriy Sapronov, who spotted her ability, so she moved to Kharkov to train. Her first significant success came in 2010 at the age of 15, when she won the French Roland Garros Junior Women’s Tournament, beating the Tunisian Ons Jabeur. Elina reached her first ITF final in the Kharkiv tournament in 2010, and was the runner-up at the Wimbledon Junior Women’s Tournament in 2012. She qualified for the US Open of 2012, but fell in the first round to Ana Ivanovic, but won the 2012 WTA 125K Tournament in Pune, India, defeating, among others, Andrea Petkovic and the Japanese veteran Kimiko Date-Krumm in the final.
Concerning her professional career, Svitolina won her first WTA Tournament, the Bacu Cup 2013, defeating the Israeli Shahar Pe’er, thus reaching 49th WTA ranking. In the Australian Open of 2014, she defeated Svetlana Kuznetsova, and in the 2014 Western & Southern Open, she won against the Czech Petra Kvitová. In the Wuhan WTA Tournament, she won against Camila Giorgi, Sabine Lisicki, Garbiñe Muguruza and Angelique Kerber, but lost the semi-final to Kvitová. In 2015, she participated in Brisbane International and lost in semi-finals against the eventual champion Maria Sharápova. Elina reached the semi-finals of the 2015 Copa Colsanitas, in Bogotá, but then Svitolina won the 2015 Grand Prix SAR La Princesse Lalla Meryem of Marrakech, defeating Tímea Babos. At Roland Garros 2015, she lost in the quarter-finals against Ana Ivanovic, however, she rose to 17th position in the rankings. Svitolina reached the semi-finals of the 2015 Bank of the West Classic tournament, Stanford, in which she was defeated by the champion, Angelique Kerber. At the end of 2015, she reached the semi-finals of the WTA Elite Trophy in Zhuhai, losing to Karolína Plíšková, but confirming her status as one of the highest ranking players.
Svitolina started the year of 2016 representing Ukraine in the Hopman Cup (Australia). With Justine Henin as an advisor, she reached the semi-finals of 2016 Dubai Tennis Championships, losing to eventual champion Sara Errani. She then took her 4th WTA title, the Malaysian Open, defeating Eugenie Bouchard in the finals, to reach 14th place in the rankings. At Roland Garros she was defeated in the fourth round by eventual finalist, Serena Williams, however, she had something of a revenge victory at the Rio 2016 Olympics, beating London 2012 Olympics Champion Serena Williams to reach the quarter-finals, but was then defeated by Petra Kvitová.
Svitolina won the Taiwan Open title in 2017, and continued on to take the title in Dubai over Carolina Wozniacki in the finals, but Wimbledon did not bring a promising result, as she was eliminated by the champion Jelena Ostapenko in third round.
Most recently, Elina started the 2018 season in force, winning the Brisbane tournament, by defeating Belarusian Aliaksandra Sasnovich in the final.
Finally, in the personal life of the tennis player, she is in relationship with the professional cricket player Reece Topley.
