Alona Bondarenko

Alona Bondarenko

Country (sports)	Ukraine
Residence	Kharkiv, Ukraine
Height	1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Turned pro	1999
Plays	Right; Two-handed backhand
Prize money	$1,967,428
Singles
Career record	296-223
Career titles	1 WTA, 5 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 19 (14 April 2008)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	3r (2007, 2009)
French Open	2r (2007)
Wimbledon	3r (2005, 2007)
US Open	3r (2007, 2008)
Doubles
Career record	166-147
Career titles	3 WTA, 8 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 11 (29 September 2008)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open	W (2008)
French Open	SF (2008)
Wimbledon	2r (2007)
US Open	3r (2008)
Last updated on: July 13, 2009.

Alona Volodymyrivna Bondarenko (Ukrainian: Альона Володимирівна Бондаренко, born 13 August 1984) is a Ukrainian tennis player. She has a younger sister Kateryna Bondarenko who also plays on the Tour. She formerly paired with her older sister Valeria in doubles. She is currently ranked 34 in singles and 52 in doubles by the WTA.

Her career high singles ranking was Number 19, achieved on 14 April 2008.

She won the 2008 Australian Open women's doubles tournament with sister Kateryna, beating Victoria Azarenka and Shahar Pe'er in the finals.

Tennis career

In 2005, she made her grand slam debut at the Australian Open, where she suffered a first round loss to sixth seeded Elena Dementieva of Russia, 6–3 6–3. Two weeks later, she reached her first WTA tour quarter-final at Pattaya City, Thailand, where she lost to eventual runner-up, Anna-Lena Grönefeld of Germany, in straight sets.

The following week at Hyderabad, she reached her first tour final as the tournament's ninth seeded player, falling to hometown favourite Sania Mirza, in three tight sets. Following her loss, she made her first appearance in the women's top 100 rankings. The rest of 2005 saw many more successes for the Ukrainian. She made numerous appearances in top WTA tour events, including making the third-round of Wimbledon, defeating Tatiana Golovin of France on the way. She also made the quarter-finals of a Tier III event in Bali. In that tournament she beat Alicia Molik for the best win of her career thus far at that point, with Molik being ranked No. 14.

2006 has seen Bondarenko's rise up into the top 100 and closing in on the top 50. She has reached three quarter-final appearances at Hobart, Bangalore and Prague respectively, and a semi-final at Rabat. She has also won an ITF title at Orange in California. Her success in doubles is also growing with her first WTA tour doubles title at Istanbul partnering Anastasiya Yakimova.

Bondarenko won her first WTA tour singles title on October 1, 2006 at the FORTIS Championships in Luxembourg City in a surprising title run at the Tier II event, defeating Mary Pierce 6–3, 6–3 in the first round, Katarina Srebotnik 4–6, 6–4, 6–3 in the second, Nathalie Dechy 5–7, 6–4, 6–0 in the quarter-finals, Květa Peschke 6–3, 5–7, 7–5 in the semi-finals, where she trailed 5–2 and saved one match point in the first set and No. 5 seed Francesca Schiavone in the finals 6–3, 6–2. The win meant that she was the second lowest-ranked player ever to win a Tier II title, being ranked a lowly number 62. The record is held by Kim Jones-Schaefer who was ranked number 64.

On 7 May 2007 she finished runner-up to Justine Henin at the Tier II J&S Cup held in Warsaw, Poland losing 6–1, 6–3. In the semi-finals, she got the first top ten win of her career over then number five Svetlana Kuznetsova in straight sets 6–2, 7–6 (7-4). The performance saw her rise into the top 30 for the first time, at Number 29.

She followed it by making the semi-finals of the Istanbul Cup, losing to Elena Dementieva, the eventual winner, and five other quarter-finals through the year: Birmingham, 's-Hertogenbosch, New Haven, Zurich and Linz.

She hit her career high shortly after Wimbledon, where she made the third round before losing to Patty Schnyder 6–4, 3–6, 8–6 after holding a 4–1 lead in the final set.

On 17 October 2007 Bondarenko beat Amélie Mauresmo 2–6, 6–4, 6–1 at the 2007 Zürich Open to reach her first ever Tier I quarter-final, but lost to Nicole Vaidišová there. On 22 October 2she passed $1 million in career prize money, the first player representing Ukraine to pass that prize money milestone.

On 25 January 2008, Alona won the Australian Open women's doubles title, partnering with her younger sister Kateryna. They defeated the pairing Shahar Peer and Victoria Azarenka 2–6, 6–2, 6–4. They became only the second pairing of sisters to win the title, the first being the Williams sisters.

At the MPS Group Championships, Bondarenko reached her first quarter-final since the Linz tournament last October. In the first round, she defeated Sania Mirza 6-4, 6–3 to set up a clash with sister Kateryna. Bondarenko came from a set down to win 4–6, 6–4, 6–3.

At the 2009 Madrid Masters, Bondarenko defeated Svetlana Kuznetsova in the second round and Anna Chakvetadze in the third before falling to World Number 1 Dinara Safina in the quarter-finals.

Bondarenko defeated Maria Sharapova in the quarter-finals of the 2009 Warsaw Open and Anne Keothavong in the semi-finals. She fell to Alexandra Dulgheru in the final, 6-7, 6-3, 0-6.

At the 2009 French Open, Bondarenko fell to 20th seed Dominika Cibulkova in the first round in three sets. She lost in the first round of Wimbledon 2009 to Elena Baltacha.

Sponsors

She is coached by her mother Natalia Bondarenko.

Career finals (20)

Singles titles (6)

Legend: Before 2009	Legend: Starting in 2009
Grand Slam tournaments (0)
Olympic Gold (0)
WTA Championships (0)
Tier I (0)	Premier Mandatory (0)
Tier II (1)	Premier 5 (0)
Tier III (0)	Premier (0)
Tier IV & V (0)	International (0)
ITF Circuit (5)

Num	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	24 June 2002	Fontanafredda, Italy	Clay	Mara Santangelo	6–3, 6–0
2.	1 September 2003	Zhukovsky, Russia	Clay	Olga Savchuk	6–2, 6–3
3.	1 April 2004	Bari, Italy	Clay	Katerina Bondarenko	2–6, 6–2, 6–4
4.	14 March 2006	Orange, California, U.S.	Hard	Yvonne Meusburger	6–3, 7–5
5.	25 September 2006	Luxembourg City	Hard (I)	Francesca Schiavone	6–3, 6–2
6.	10 September 2007	Kharkiv, Ukraine	Hard	Vesna Manasieva	6–1, 6–1

Singles runner-ups (3)

Num	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	12 February 2004	Hyderabad, India	Hard	Sania Mirza	4–6, 7–5, 3–6
2.	6 May 2007	Warsaw, Poland	Clay	Justine Henin	1-6, 3-6
3.	23 May 2009	Warsaw, Poland	Clay	Alexandra Dulgheru	6-7, 6-3, 0-6

Doubles titles (11)

Legend

Grand Slam (1)

WTA Championships (0)

Tier I (0)

Tier II (1)

Tier III (1)

Tier IV & V (0)

ITF Circuit (8)

Num	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Finalists	Score
1.	18 June 2000	Kędzierzyn-Koźle, Poland	Clay	Valeria Bondarenko	Elena Kovalchuk Olga Lazarchuk	6–4, 6–2
2.	14 October 2002	Joué-lès-Tours, France	Hard (I)	Valeria Bondarenko	Michaela Paštiková Jasmin Wöhr	7–6, 4–6, 6–3
3.	1 June 2003	Warsaw	Clay	Valeria Bondarenko	Iryna Kuryanovich Olga Lazarchuk	6–3, 6–4
4.	7 September 2003	Zhukovsky, Russia	Clay	Valeria Bondarenko	Gulnara Fattakhetdinova Maria Kondratieva	6–7, 6–4, 6–3
5.	4 July 2004	Orbetello, Italy	Clay	Galina Fokina	Yuliana Fedak Andreea Vanc	6–7, 6–2, 7–5
6.	25 July 2004	Innsbruck, Austria	Clay	Galina Fokina	Stanislava Hrozenska Lenka Nemeckova	6–2, 6–4
7.	26 September 2004	Batumi, Georgia	Hard	Galina Fokina	Anna Bastrikova Irina Kotkina	6–2, 6–2
8.	19 March 2006	Orange, California, U.S.	Hard	Kateryna Bondarenko	Stéphanie Dubois Lilia Osterloh	6–2, 6–4
9.	27 May 2006	Istanbul	Clay	Anastasiya Yakimova	Sania Mirza Alicia Molik	6–2, 6–4
10.	26 January 2008	Australian Open	Hard	Kateryna Bondarenko	Victoria Azarenka Shahar Pe'er	2–6, 6–1, 6–4
11.	10 February 2008	Paris	Hard (i)	Kateryna Bondarenko	Vladimíra Uhlířová Eva Hrdinová	6–1, 6–4

Performance timelines

Singles

NM5				means an event that is neither a Premier Mandatory nor a Premier 5 tournament.

To prevent confusion and double counting, information in this table is updated only once a tournament or the player's participation in the tournament has concluded. This table is current through the Sony Ericsson Open in Key Biscayne, Florida, which ended 5 April 2009.

Tournament	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	Career SR	Career Win-Loss
Grand Slam Tournaments
Australian Open	A	A	A	A	LQ	LQ	1R	1R	3R	2R	3R	0 / 7	7–7
French Open	A	A	A	A	LQ	LQ	1R	1R	2R	1R	1R	0 / 7	1–7
Wimbledon	A	A	A	A	LQ	LQ	3R	1R	3R	2R	1R	0 / 7	6-7
US Open	A	A	A	A	LQ	LQ	1R	2R	3R	3R		0 / 11	22–11
SR	0 / 0	0 / 0	0 / 0	0 / 0	0 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 3	0 / 39	N/A
Win-Loss	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	2–4	4–4	2–4	1–4	7–4	4–4	2–3	N/A	22–27
Olympic Games
Summer Olympics	Not Held	A	Not Held			A	Not Held			2R	Not Held	0 / 1	1–1
Year-End Championship
WTA Tour Championships	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A		0 / 3	2–5
WTA Premier Mandatory Tournaments
Indian Wells	A	A	A	A	A	A	2R	1R	3R	4R	2R	0 / 5	5–6
Key Biscayne	A	A	A	A	A	A	1R	3R	2R	2R	2R	0 / 5	6–5
Madrid	Not Held										QF	0 / 1	4-1
Beijing	Not Held					Not Tier I						0 / 1	1–1
WTA Premier 5 Tournaments
Dubai	Not Tier I										2R	0 / 1	1–1
Rome	A	A	A	A	A	A	2R	A	3R	2R	1R	0 / 4	4–4
Cincinnati	Not Held					Not Tier I						0 / 0	0–0
Montreal / Toronto	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	1R	1R	A		0 / 2	0–2
Tokyo	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A		0 / 3	6–3
Former WTA Tier I Tournaments (currently neither Premier Mandatory nor Premier 5 events)
Charleston	A	A	A	A	A	A	LQ	4R	A	A	NM5	0 / 2	4–2
Moscow	Not Tier I	A	A	A	A	LQ	LQ	LQ	1R	1R		0 / 5	4–5
Doha	Not Held		Not Tier I							A	Not Held	0 / 0	0–0
Berlin	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	2R	QF		10 / 2	5–2
San Diego	Not Tier I					A	2R	2R	A	Not Held		0 / 2	2–2
Zurich	A	A	A	A	A	A	1R	2R	QF	Not Tier I		0 / 3	3–3
Career Statistics
Win-Loss Record	6-7	17-11	19-9	35-14	26-31	42-30	24-30	42-27	36-24	28-23	18-16	N/A	293-222
Tournaments Played	6	10	9	15	30	31	29	29	25	23	16	N/A	223
Finals reached	0	1	0	2	1	3	1	2	2	0	1	N/A	13
Tournaments Won	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	2	1	0	0	N/A	6
Year End Ranking	652	493	376	191	190	126	73	32	22	32		N/A	N/A

• ¹A walkover counts as neither a win nor a loss.

External links

• Alona Bondarenko at the Women's Tennis Association
• Official Site of Alona Bondarenko
• Alona's page at the Ukrainian FedCup team Official site