Elena Chalova is a professional Russian

Russians

The Russian people are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Russia, speaking the Russian language and primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries....

 tennis player playing in the ITF Women's Circuit

ITF Women's Circuit

The ITF Women's Circuit is a series of professional tennis tournaments run by the International Tennis Federation for female professional tennis players. It serves as the developmental circuit for the WTA Tour, which is run by the independent Women's Tennis Association...

. On November 9, 2009, she reached her highest WTA

Women's Tennis Association

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 singles ranking of 151. Her current singles ranking is 160 as of 19 April 2010. She is currently coached by Valeri Chalov.

Personal life

Elena Chalova was born to Valeri Chalov and Irina Chalova, and has a brother named Michael. She was born on 16 May 1987 in Ufa, Russia, where she currently resides. She started played tennis at the age of seven. Her favourite surface is hard. She speaks English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

 and Russian

Russian language

Russian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics...

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ITF Wins (8)

#	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent in Final	Score in Final
1.	June 21, 2004	Protvino Protvino Protvino is a town in Moscow Oblast, Russia, located about south of Moscow and west of Serpukhov, on the left bank of the Protva River. Population: -History:... , Russia	ITF	Carpet	Vasilisa Bardina Vasilisa Bardina Vasilisa Alekseyevna Bardina is a Russian professional tennis player.As of August 10, 2007, her highest ranking was World Number 48, achieved in early 2007...	6–2, 6–1
2.	July 4, 2005	Krasnoarmeisk, Russia	ITF	Hard	Irina Bulykina	6–4, 6–0
3.	August 8, 2005	Rebecq Rebecq Rebecq is a Walloon municipality located in the Belgian province of Walloon Brabant. On 1 January 2006 the municipality had 10,241 inhabitants. The total area is 39.08 km², giving a population density of 262 inhabitants per km².-Notable people:... , Belgium	ITF	Clay	Noémie Scharle	6–1 ret.
4.	September 12, 2005	Lleida Lleida Lleida is a city in the west of Catalonia, Spain. It is the capital city of the province of Lleida, as well as the largest city in the province and it had 137,387 inhabitants , including the contiguous municipalities of Raimat and Sucs. The metro area has about 250,000 inhabitants... , Spain	ITF	Clay	Núria Roig	6–2, 3–6, 7–6(1)
5.	July 16, 2006	Chongquing, China	ITF	Hard	Shuai Zhang Zhang Shuai (tennis) Zhang Shuai is a Chinese professional female tennis player. , she is the fourth-highest ranked women's singles player from China, at World number 90.-Career Summary:...	6–4, 4–6, 6–2
6.	February 18, 2008	Portimão Portimão Portimão is a Portuguese town located in the District of Faro in the Region of Algarve, the southern coast of Portugal. It was formerly known as Vila Nova de Portimão . In 1924, it was incorporated as a cidade and became known merely as Portimão. The town has 41,000 inhabitants and the Portimão... , Portugal	ITF	Hard	Nina Bratchikova Nina Bratchikova Nina Bratchikova |Zhukovskiy]], Russia) is a professional Russian tennis player playing in the ITF Women's Circuit. On 24 May 2010, she reached her highest WTA singles ranking of 133. Her current singles ranking is 147 as of 13 November 2010...	6–4, 6–4
7.	March 10, 2008	Cairo Cairo Cairo , is the capital of Egypt and the largest city in the Arab world and Africa, and the 16th largest metropolitan area in the world. Nicknamed "The City of a Thousand Minarets" for its preponderance of Islamic architecture, Cairo has long been a centre of the region's political and cultural life... , Egypt Egypt Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...	ITF	Clay	Alexandra Cadanţu Alexandra Cadanţu Alexandra Cadanțu is a professional Romanian tennis player playing in the ITF Women's Circuit. On October 3, 2011, she reached her highest WTA singles ranking of 102. Her highest doubles ranking was nr. 207 on October 3, 2011...	6–2, 6–3
8.	July 27, 2009	Almaty Almaty Almaty , also known by its former names Verny and Alma-Ata , is the former capital of Kazakhstan and the nation's largest city, with a population of 1,348,500... , Kazakhstan Kazakhstan Kazakhstan , officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Ranked as the ninth largest country in the world, it is also the world's largest landlocked country; its territory of is greater than Western Europe...	ITF	Hard	Oksana Kalashnikova Oksana Kalashnikova Oksana Vyacheslavovna Kalashnikova Russian : Оксана Вячеславовна Калашникова is a professional Georgian tennis player playing in the ITF Women's Circuit. On June 7, 2010, she reached her highest WTA singles ranking of 156. On June 7, 2010, she reached her highest WTA doubles ranking of 110.She is...	6–3, 6–4

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