Elena Pridankina

Elena Pridankina
Full nameElena Ivanovna Pridankina
Country (sports) Russia
Born (2005-08-30) 30 August 2005
Vidnoye, Russia
PlaysRight-handed
Prize money$625,172
Singles
Career record188–95
Career titles0 WTA, 6 ITF
Highest rankingNo. 168 (19 May 2025)
Current rankingNo. 188 (10 August 2026)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian OpenQ2 (2026)
French Open1R (2026)
WimbledonQ3 (2026)
US OpenQ3 (2026)
Doubles
Career record141–80
Career titles1 WTA, 5 WTA Challengers
Highest rankingNo. 70 (27 July 2026)
Current rankingNo. 75 (10 August 2026)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open1R (2026)
French Open2R (2025, 2026)
Wimbledon1R (2025, 2026)
US Open1R (2025)
Last updated on: 20 August 2026.

Elena Ivanovna Pridankina (Russian: Елена Ивановна Приданкина, born 30 August 2005) is a Russian professional tennis player.[1] She has a career-high singles ranking by the WTA of No. 168, achieved on 19 May 2025, and a best doubles ranking of No. 70, reached on 27 July 2026.[2]

Pridankina has won one WTA Tour doubles title, at the 2025 Jiangxi Open with Quinn Gleason, and five WTA 125 doubles titles.

Personal life

Pridankina's father, Ivan Pridankin, is a former coach of Daniil Medvedev.[3]

Career

Ranked No. 179, Pridankina made her WTA Tour debut at the 2024 Guangzhou Open, after entering the main draw as a lucky loser but lost to Caroline Dolehide.[4][5]

She secured her first WTA Tour win at the 2024 Jiangxi Open defeating Ella Seidel,[6][7] before losing in the second round to fifth seed Kamilla Rakhimova.[8]

Teaming with Quinn Gleason, Pridankina won her first career doubles title at the 2025 Jiangxi Open, defeating Ekaterina Ovcharenko and Emily Webley-Smith in the final.[9]

She qualified to make her Grand Slam tournament main-draw debut at the French Open,[10] losing to Oleksandra Oliynykova in the first round.[11]

WTA Tour finals

Doubles: 1 (title)

Legend
WTA 250 (1–0)
Finals by surface
Hard (1–0)
Finals by setting
Outdoor (1–0)
Result W–L    Date    Tournament Tier Surface Partner Opponents Score
Win 1–0 Nov 2025 Jiangxi Open, China WTA 250 Hard United States Quinn Gleason Ekaterina Ovcharenko
United Kingdom Emily Webley-Smith
6–4, 2–6, [10–6]

WTA 125 finals

Doubles: 6 (5 titles, 1 runner-up)

Result W–L    Date    Tournament Surface Partner Opponents Score
Win 1–0 Feb 2025 Mumbai Open, India Hard Amina Anshba Netherlands Arianne Hartono
India Prarthana Thombare
7–6(4), 2–6, [10–7]
Loss 1–1 Jun 2025 Makarska Open, Croatia Clay Georgia (country) Oksana Kalashnikova Czech Republic Jesika Malečková
Czech Republic Miriam Škoch
6–2, 3–6, [4–10]
Win 2–1 Oct 2025 Jinan Open, China Hard Ekaterina Reyngold India Rutuja Bhosale
China Zheng Wushuang
6–1, 6–3
Win 3–1 Feb 2026 Mumbai Open, India (2) Hard Polina Iatcenko Argentina Nicole Fossa Huergo
Thailand Mananchaya Sawangkaew
7–6(3), 1–6, [10–5]
Win 4–1 Apr 2026 Open Villa de Madrid, Spain Clay Spain Irene Burillo Romania Irina Bara
Latvia Darja Semeņistaja
4–6, 6–3, [10–3]
Win 5–1 May 2026 Catalonia Open, Spain Clay China Tang Qianhui Slovakia Tereza Mihalíková
United Kingdom Olivia Nicholls
6–1, 6–3

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 11 (6 titles, 5 runner-ups)

Legend
W75 tournaments (1–1)
W50 tournaments (0–2)
W25 tournaments (0–2)
W15 tournaments (5–0)
Finals by surface
Hard (3–4)
Clay (3–1)
Result W–L    Date    Tournament Tier Surface Opponent Score
Win 1–0 Aug 2022 ITF Cairo, Egypt W15 Clay Romania Alexandra Iordache 6–1, 6–1
Win 2–0 Sep 2022 ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt W15 Hard Slovakia Katarína Kuzmová 3–6, 6–4, 6–4
Win 3–0 Oct 2022 ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt W15 Hard Anastasiia Gureva 6–7(5), 6–4, 7–6(2)
Win 4–0 Apr 2023 ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt W15 Hard China Wang Meiling 6–3, 6–1
Win 5–0 Sep 2023 ITF Kursumlijska Banja, Serbia W15 Clay Germany Mara Guth 7–6(4), ret.
Loss 5–1 Dec 2023 ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt W25 Hard Georgia (country) Mariam Bolkvadze 2–6, 1–6
Loss 5–2 Feb 2024 ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt W35 Hard Georgia (country) Mariam Bolkvadze 0–6, 3–6
Loss 5–3 Mar 2024 Trnava Indoor, Slovakia W50 Hard (i) Anastasiia Gureva 6–3, 3–6, 4–6
Loss 5–4 Aug 2024 Zagreb Open, Croatia W50 Clay Italy Giorgia Pedone 6–2, 2–6, 5–7
Win 6–4 Aug 2024 ITF Amstetten, Austria W75 Clay Ukraine Valeriya Strakhova 6–0, 6–4
Loss 6–5 Feb 2025 Trnava Indoor, Slovakia W75 Hard (i) Croatia Antonia Ružić 2–6, 6–4, 3–6

Doubles: 21 (11 titles, 10 runner-ups)

Legend
W100 tournaments
W80 tournaments
W75 tournaments
W40 tournaments
W25 tournaments
W15 tournaments
Finals by surface
Hard (8–7)
Clay (3–3)
Result W–L Date Tournament Tier Surface Partner Opponents Score
Loss 0–1 Aug 2022 ITF Cairo, Egypt W15 Clay Elizaveta Shebekina Egypt Yasmin Ezzat
Greece Dimitra Pavlou
5–7, 3–6
Win 1–1 Sep 2022 ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt W15 Hard Aglaya Fedorova Egypt Yasmin Ezzat
Aliona Falei
7–5, 6–1
Loss 1–2 Oct 2022 ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt W15 Hard Aglaya Fedorova Italy Anastasia Abbagnato
Italy Beatrice Stagno
6–2, 3–6, [5–10]
Win 2–2 Oct 2022 ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt W15 Hard Anastasiia Gureva Chinese Taipei Cho I-hsuan
Chinese Taipei Cho Yi-tsen
6-7(3), 6–1, [10-6]
Win 3–2 Jul 2023 ITF Aschaffenburg, Germany W25 Clay Czech Republic Ivana Šebestová France Manon Léonard
France Lucie Nguyen Tan
2–6, 6–2, [10–5]
Loss 3–3 Sep 2023 ITF Kursumlijska Banja, Serbia W15 Clay Germany Mara Guth Greece Eleni Christofi
Serbia Katarina Jokić
2–6, 3–6
Loss 3–4 Oct 2023 Internationaux de Poitiers, France W80 Hard (i) Ekaterina Maklakova France Jessika Ponchet
Netherlands Bibiane Schoofs
5–7, 4–6
Win 4–4 Nov 2023 ITF Funchal, Portugal W40 Hard Anastasia Kovaleva France Yasmine Mansouri
Portugal Inês Murta
6–2, 6–3
Win 5–4 Nov 2023 ITF Lousada, Portugal W25 Hard (i) Germany Mara Güth Germany Alicia Melosch
Germany Johanna Silva
6–1, 6–1
Loss 5–5 Nov 2023 ITF Lousada, Portugal W25 Hard (i) Canada Kayla Cross Belgium Eliessa Vanlangendonck
Netherlands Stéphanie Visscher
walkover
Loss 5–6 Jul 2024 Open de Montpellier, France W75 Clay Ekaterina Yashina Croatia Mariana Dražić
Iryna Shymanovich
6–1, 4–6, [8–10]
Win 6–6 Aug 2024 Přerov Cup, Czech Republic W75 Clay Czech Republic Julie Štruplová Germany Noma Noha Akugue
Greece Sapfo Sakellaridi
6–3, 6–4
Win 7–6 Oct 2024 Bratislava Open, Slovakia W75 Hard (i) Netherlands Isabelle Haverlag Slovakia Katarína Kužmová
Slovakia Nina Vargová
7–5, 6–2
Loss 7–7 Dec 2024 Dubai Tennis Challenge, UAE W100 Hard Netherlands Isabelle Haverlag Czech Republic Anastasia Dețiuc
Anastasia Tikhonova
3–6, 7–6(7), [8–10]
Loss 7–8 Jan 2025 Bengaluru Open, India W100 Hard Amina Anshba United States Jessie Aney
United States Jessica Failla
2–6, 6–4, [6–10]
Win 8–8 Jan 2025 Pune Championships, India W75 Hard Alevtina Ibragimova Maria Kozyreva
Iryna Shymanovich
6–2, 1–6, [10–8]
Loss 8–9 Feb 2025 Trnava Indoor, Slovakia W75 Hard (i) Switzerland Céline Naef Czech Republic Jesika Malečková
Czech Republic Miriam Škoch
7–5, 3–6, [2–10]
Win 9–9 Mar 2025 Trnava Indoor, Slovakia W75 Hard (i) Netherlands Isabelle Haverlag Belgium Magali Kempen
France Jessika Ponchet
6–2, 6–3
Win 10–9 Jul 2025 Ladies Open Hechingen, Germany W75 Clay Slovakia Renáta Jamrichová China Feng Shuo
China Li Zongyu
6–2, 6–2
Loss 10–10 Jan 2026 ITF Fujairah Championships, UAE W100 Hard Netherlands Isabelle Haverlag United Kingdom Harriet Dart
United Kingdom Maia Lumsden
1–6, 0–6
Win 11–10 Mar 2026 Open Nantes Atlantique, France W50 Hard (i) Kira Pavlova France Tiphanie Lemaître
Ukraine Veronika Podrez
6–4, 6–3

References

  1. ↑ "Гурьева Анастасия Вячеславовна". rustennistur.com (in Russian). RTT. Retrieved 15 June 2023.
  2. ↑ "Elena Pridankina | Player Stats & More – WTA Official". Women's Tennis Association.
  3. ↑ "Елена Приданкина победила на международных соревнованиях по теннису". mst.mosreg.ru.
  4. ↑ "Alex Eala qualifies for WTA Guangzhou Open main draw". Rappler.
  5. ↑ "2024 Guangzhou; Dolehide advances past lucky loser Pridankina into Guangzhou second round". WTATennis. 22 October 2024.
  6. ↑ "Pridankina garners first tour-level win in Jiujiang opening round". Women's Tennis Association. Retrieved 30 October 2024.
  7. ↑ "Jiangxi Open: Pridankina books spot in second round". Tennis Majors. Retrieved 30 October 2024.
  8. ↑ "Jiangxi Open: Rakhimova into last eight". Tennis Majors. Retrieved 30 October 2024.
  9. ↑ "Blinkova's tennis and language skills both on show in Jiujiang title run; Gleason, Pridankina take doubles title, Webley-Smith breaks through after 26 years". Women's Tennis Association. Retrieved 2 November 2025.
  10. ↑ "Roland Garros 2026's Grand Slam debuts: Tagger, Vandewinkel, Quevedo and more". Women's Tennis Association. Retrieved 27 May 2026.
  11. ↑ "Oleksandra Oliynykova crushes Elena Pridankina, reaches Roland Garros second round". Mezha. Retrieved 27 May 2026.