Elena Ivanovna Pridankina (Russian: Елена Ивановна Приданкина, born 30 August 2005) is a Russian tennis player.[1]
Pridankina has career-high rankings by the WTA of world No. 179 in singles and No. 138 in doubles, achieved in October 2024.[2]
Personal life
Elena's father Ivan Pridankin is a former coach of Daniil Medvedev.[3]
Career
In November 2023, Pridankina won her biggest ITF title thus far at a W40 tournament in Funchal, Portugal, partnering with Anastasia Kovaleva.[4] The following week, she also won the W25 doubles tournament in Lousada, Portugal.[5]
Ranked No. 179, Pridankina made her WTA Tour debut at the 2024 Guangzhou Open after entering the main draw as a lucky loser but lost to Caroline Dolehide.[6][7]
She secured her first WTA Tour win at the 2024 Jiangxi Open, defeating Ella Seidel,[8][9] before losing in the second round to fifth seed Kamilla Rakhimova.[10]
ITF Circuit finals
Singles: 10 (6 titles, 4 runner-ups)
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| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Opponent | Score |
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| Win | 1–0 | Aug 2022 | ITF Cairo, Egypt | W15 | Clay |  Alexandra Iordache
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6–1, 6–1 |
| Win | 2–0 | Sep 2022 | ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt | W15 | Hard |  Katarína Kuzmová
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3–6, 6–4, 6–4 |
| Win | 3–0 | Oct 2022 | ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt | W15 | Hard |  Anastasiia Gureva
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6–7(5), 6–4, 7–6(2) |
| Win | 4–0 | Apr 2023 | ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt | W15 | Hard |  Wang Meiling
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6–3, 6–1 |
| Win | 5–0 | Sep 2023 | ITF Kursumlijska Banja, Serbia | W15 | Clay |  Mara Guth
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7–6(4), ret. |
| Loss | 5–1 | Dec 2023 | ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt | W25 | Hard |  Mariam Bolkvadze
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2–6, 1–6 |
| Loss | 5–2 | Feb 2024 | ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt | W35 | Hard | Mariam Bolkvadze
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0–6, 3–6 |
| Loss | 5–3 | Mar 2024 | Trnava Indoor, Slovakia | W50 | Hard (i) | Anastasiia Gureva
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6–3, 3–6, 4–6 |
| Loss | 5–4 | Aug 2024 | Zagreb Open, Croatia | W50 | Clay |  Giorgia Pedone
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6–2, 2–6, 5–7 |
| Win | 6–4 | Aug 2024 | Amstetten, Austria | W75 | Clay |  Valeriya Strakhova
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6–0, 6–4 |
Doubles: 16 (8 titles, 8 runner-ups)
| Legend |
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| W100 tournaments |
| W80 tournaments |
| W75 tournaments |
| W40 tournaments |
| W25 tournaments |
| W15 tournaments |
| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
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| Loss | 0–1 | Aug 2022 | ITF Cairo, Egypt | W15 | Clay | Elizaveta Shebekina
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 Yasmin Ezzat  Dimitra Pavlou
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5–7, 3–6 |
| Win | 1–1 | Sep 2022 | ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt | W15 | Hard | Aglaya Fedorova
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Yasmin Ezzat  Aliona Falei
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7–5, 6–1 |
| Loss | 1–2 | Oct 2022 | ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt | W15 | Hard | Aglaya Fedorova
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Anastasia Abbagnato Beatrice Stagno
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6–2, 3–6, [5–10] |
| Win | 2–2 | Oct 2022 | ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt | W15 | Hard | Anastasiia Gureva
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 Cho I-hsuan Cho Yi-tsen
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6-7(3), 6–1, [10-6] |
| Win | 3–2 | Jul 2023 | ITF Aschaffenburg, Germany | W25 | Clay |  Ivana Šebestová
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 Manon Léonard Lucie Nguyen Tan
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2–6, 6–2, [10–5] |
| Loss | 3–3 | Sep 2023 | ITF Kursumlijska Banja, Serbia | W15 | Clay | Mara Guth
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Eleni Christofi  Katarina Jokić
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2–6, 3–6 |
| Loss | 3–4 | Oct 2023 | Internationaux de Poitiers, France | W80 | Hard (i) | Ekaterina Maklakova
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Jessika Ponchet  Bibiane Schoofs
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5–7, 4–6 |
| Win | 4–4 | Nov 2023 | ITF Funchal, Portugal | W40 | Hard | Anastasia Kovaleva
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Yasmine Mansouri  Inês Murta
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6–2, 6–3 |
| Win | 5–4 | Nov 2023 | ITF Lousada, Portugal | W25 | Hard (i) | Mara Guth
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Alicia Melosch Johanna Silva
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6–1, 6–1 |
| Loss | 5–5 | Nov 2023 | ITF Lousada, Portugal | W25 | Hard (i) |  Kayla Cross
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 Eliessa Vanlangendonck Stéphanie Visscher
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w/o |
| Loss | 5–6 | Jul 2024 | Open de Montpellier, France | W75 | Clay | Ekaterina Yashina
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 Mariana Dražić Iryna Shymanovich
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6–1, 4–6, [8–10] |
| Win | 6–6 | Aug 2024 | Přerov Cup, Czech Republic | W75 | Clay | Julie Štruplová
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Noma Noha Akugue Sapfo Sakellaridi
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6–3, 6–4 |
| Win | 7–6 | Oct 2024 | Slovak Open, Slovakia | W75 | Hard (i) | Isabelle Haverlag
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Katarína Kužmová Nina Vargová
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7–5, 6–2 |
| Loss | 7–7 | Dec 2024 | Al Habtoor Tennis Challenge, United Arab Emirates | W100 | Hard | Isabelle Haverlag
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Anastasia Dețiuc  Anastasia Tikhonova
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3–6, 7–6(7), [8–10] |
| Loss | 7–8 | Jan 2025 | ITF Bengaluru, India | W100 | Hard | Amina Anshba
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 Jessie Aney Jessica Failla
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2–6, 6–4, [6–10] |
| Win | 8–8 | Jan 2025 | Pune, India | W75 | Hard | Alevtina Ibragimova
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Maria Kozyreva Iryna Shymanovich
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6–2, 1–6, [10–8] |
References
- ^ "Гурьева Анастасия Вячеславовна". rustennistur.com (in Russian). RTT. Retrieved 15 June 2023.
- ^ "Elena Pridankina | Player Stats & More – WTA Official". Women's Tennis Association.
- ^ "Елена Приданкина победила на международных соревнованиях по теннису". mst.mosreg.ru.
- ^ "Inês Murta sagra-se vice-campeã de pares do Madeira Ladies Open". www.raquetc.com. 18 November 2023.
- ^ "Mara Guth e Elena Pridankina vencem final de pares". novumcanal.pt (in Portuguese). 25 November 2023.
- ^ "Alex Eala qualifies for WTA Guangzhou Open main draw". Rappler.
- ^ "2024 Guangzhou; Dolehide advances past lucky loser Pridankina into Guangzhou second round". WTATennis. 22 October 2024.
- ^ "Pridankina garners first tour-level win in Jiujiang opening round". Women's Tennis Association. Retrieved 30 October 2024.
- ^ "Jiangxi Open: Pridankina books spot in second round". Tennis Majors. Retrieved 30 October 2024.
- ^ "Jiangxi Open: Rakhimova into last eight". Tennis Majors. Retrieved 30 October 2024.
External links
- Elena Pridankina at the Women's Tennis Association
- Elena Pridankina at the International Tennis Federation