TENNIS PLAYERS from Kazakhstan

Top 2

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Kazakhstani Tennis Players of all time. This list of famous Kazakhstani Tennis Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

1. Elena Likhovtseva (1975 - )

With an HPI of 36.03, Elena Likhovtseva is the most famous Kazakhstani Tennis Player.  Her biography has been translated into 26 different languages on wikipedia.

Elena Alexandrovna Likhovtseva (Елена Александровна Лиховцева ; born 8 September 1975) is a Kazakhstani-born Russian former tennis player. She turned professional in January 1992, at the age of 16. Together with Mahesh Bhupathi she won the Wimbledon Mixed doubles in 2002 and the Australian Open mixed-doubles championship with Daniel Nestor in 2007. She also was runner-up in a number of other contests, including the 2000 and 2004 US Open – Women's doubles, the French Open mixed doubles in 2003, the Australian Open women's doubles in 2004, the French Open mixed doubles in 2006. In the 2004 Summer Olympics, she won the first round of the women's doubles competition with partner Svetlana Kuznetsova but was defeated in the second.

2. Zarina Diyas (1993 - )

With an HPI of 29.41, Zarina Diyas is the 2nd most famous Kazakhstani Tennis Player.  Her biography has been translated into 25 different languages.

Zarina Diyas (born 18 October 1993) is an inactive professional tennis player from Kazakhstan. She has been ranked as high as No. 31 in the world by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA). In her career, Diyas won one WTA Tour singles title, at the 2017 Japan Women's Open, as well as nine singles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. Diyas mostly played on the ITF Circuit until 2014, her breakthrough season. During that year, she started outside the top 150, before progressing into the top 40 by September. This helped her enter tournaments on the WTA Tour more consistently, though she still plays ITF tournaments. She is one of the most successful female tennis players representing Kazakhstan, along with Elena Rybakina and Yulia Putintseva. Diyas became a member of the Kazakhstan Fed Cup team in 2011 and is tied for her country's most singles wins with Yaroslava Shvedova, but with a much better winning percentage.