Alyona Bondarenko

Alyona Bondarenko is a Soviet and Ukrainian tennis player. She won the 2008 Australian Open women's doubles tournament with her sister Katerina, beating Victoria Azarenka and Shahar Pe'er in the finals. Bondarenko started competing in the pro tour in 1999 at the age of 14. She began the year 2000 reaching her first ITF finals in Kalamata, Greece but ended up losing to Russian Ekaterina Kozhokina 5-7, 5-7, even though not losing a set before the finals. She made a shocking performance in Wimbledon 2005, claiming her first Grand Slam win and upsetting 20th seed Tatiana Golovin in the first round 6-3, 3-6, 7-5, before falling to Nathalie Dechy 1-6, 4-6 in the third round. She ended the 2005 year for the first time inside the top 100, at 73. She represented Ukraine at the 2008 Olympics, losing to Serbian Jelena Jankovic in the second round, in the doubles she partnered with sister Katerina, they came in fourth place.