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Ukrainian professional tennis player Elina Svitolina nude topless from XXL Ukraine (December 2017)
Elina Mykhaylivna Svitolina (Ukrainian: Еліна Михайлівна Світоліна, pronounced [ɛˈlʲinɑ sβiˈtɔlʲinɑ]; born 12 September 1994) is a Ukrainian professional tennis player. Having turned professional in 2010, she has reached her career-high ranking of world No. 3 on September 11, 2017.
Svitolina has won nine WTA singles titles, her biggest coming at Premier 5-level tournaments, the Dubai Tennis Championships, Italian Open and Canadian Open, all in 2017. At the 2015 French Open, she reached her first Grand Slam quarterfinal where she was defeated by former champion Ana Ivanovic. In February 2017, after winning the title in Dubai, Svitolina made history by becoming the first Ukrainian woman to break into the top 10 rankings.
Svitolina has scored victories over the likes of Grand Slam champions Ivanovic, Serena Williams, Angelique Kerber, Garbiñe Muguruza and Petra Kvitová, defeating the latter in 2014 for her first top 10 win. She also has four wins over a world No. 1 to her name, three over Kerber and one over Williams. In doubles, Svitolina has won two titles, both at the İstanbul Cup, in 2014 and 2015. Her career-high ranking in doubles play is world No. 108, which she reached on May 4, 2015.
Svitolina was born in Odessa to parents Mikhaylo Svitolin (a former wrestler) and Olena Svitolina (a former competitive draughts player). She has a nine year older brother named Yulian. When Svitolina was a child Yulian was playing tennis, Elina then also started to play tennis because she felt that her brother got a lot of attention because he played tennis and if she would start to play tennis too this would catch the attention of her father. She started playing tennis at the age of five. Svitolina and her family moved to Kharkiv when she was 13 years old, after businessman Yuriy Sapronov had become her sponsor. Sapronov had saw her play at one of his children’s tournaments when she was aged 12 and was impressed, leading to his investment in her training and further professional development.
Svitolina officially still resides in Kharkiv, however she trains abroad, which limits her presence in Odessa and/or Kharkiv.
Her favourite surfaces are grass and clay. Svitolina claims that in her early career she turned down offers to change her citizenship in exchange for “large financial sums”.
As of 2017 Svitolina is dating English cricket player Reece Topley.
