Tessa Shapovalova

Tessa Shapovalova (טסה שפובלובה; Тесса Шаповалова born 14 March 1969) is an Israeli-Ukrainian tennis coach and former professional player.

Shapovalova is the mother of pro tennis player Denis Shapovalov.

Shapovalova was born in Lviv, Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union. She was on the Soviet national tennis team, but moved to Tel Aviv with Denis' father (Viktor Shapovalov) when the Soviet Union was collapsing. She eventually became a tennis coach there. She is Jewish.

Shapovalova has two children, Evgeniy and Denis, born in Israel. The family moved from Israel to Canada before Denis's first birthday.

She got a job as a tennis coach at the Richmond Hill Country Club where Denis Shapovalov started to play. Eventually, Denis couldn't get enough court time, so his mother left her job and opened a tennis academy in Vaughan called Tessa Tennis. Tessa is still coaching at her academy while Denis lives in the Bahamas. However, she still travels around the world with her son even though they hired former world no. 8 Mikhail Youzhny as Shapovalov's coach.