Elina Avanesyan

Elina Araratovna Avanesyan (Элина Араратовна Аванесян; Էլինա Ավանեսյան; born 17 September 2002) is a Russian professional tennis player. She has career-high WTA rankings of No. 60 in singles, achieved on 12 February 2024, and No. 223 in doubles, achieved on 29 January 2024. Avanesyan has won five singles and nine doubles titles at tournaments of the ITF Circuit.

Early life
Avanesyan was born on 17 September 2002 in Pyatigorsk, Russia to an Armenian family. Her parents are from Nagorno-Karabakh and moved to Russia in 1992 during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War. She has a brother and a sister.

2021: ITF Tour success
She won her first big ITF title at the 2021 Reinert Open as a lucky loser.

2022: WTA Tour, WTA 1000 and major debuts
She made her WTA Tour debut at the 2022 Copa Colsanitas, where she reached the quarterfinals, and her Grand Slam debut as a qualifier at the US Open.

She also made her debut at the WTA 1000 level at the Italian Open as a qualifier and also entered the main draw of the new WTA 1000 Guadalajara Open as a lucky loser.

2023: French Open fourth round, top 65
Ranked No. 134, Avanesyan made her debut at the French Open as a lucky loser. In the first round, she upset 12th seed Belinda Bencic for her first major and top-20 win. She defeated French wildcard Léolia Jeanjean in the second round and qualifier Clara Tauson in the third, becoming the first lucky loser at Roland Garros in the last 16 in 35 years since 1988 and only the fifth overall at this major. As a result, she reached the top 80 rising 54 positions in the rankings on 12 June 2023. She made her WTA 500 debut at the German Open also as a lucky loser, and defeated eighth seed Daria Kasatkina. As a result, she reached a new career-high ranking of No. 64, on 26 June 2023.

She finished the year ranked 75.

2024: Australian Open debut, first two top-10 & WTA 1000 wins
On her debut at the Australian Open, she recorded two wins over Bai Zhuoxuan and eighth seed Maria Sakkari, her first top-10 win. On her debut at Indian Wells, she lost to Océane Dodin. Also on her debut at the Miami Open, she recorded her first WTA 1000-level win over wildcard and compatriot Erika Andreeva, and her second top 10 and biggest win of her career, over sixth seed Ons Jabeur, to reach her first third round at this level.

At the French Open, she reached a consecutive fourth round with wins over Lin Zhu, Anna Blinkova and seventh seed Zheng Qinwen.

In June 2024, it was announced that Avanesyan began the process of applying for Armenian citizenship and planned to compete under the flag of Armenia. She had previously completed in several junior tournaments in the Armenian capital Yerevan, winning four of them.

Performance timeline
Only main-draw results in WTA Tour, Grand Slam tournaments, Billie Jean King Cup, United Cup, Hopman Cup and Olympic Games are included in win–loss records.

Singles
Current through the 2024 French Open.