# Elena Pridankina

Elena Ivanovna Pridankina (Russian: Елена Ивановна Приданкина, born 30 August 2005) is a Russian tennis player.
Pridankina has career-high rankings by the WTA of world No. 175 in singles and No. 103 in doubles, achieved in February 2025.

## Personal life

Elena's father Ivan Pridankin is a former coach of Daniil Medvedev.

## Career

In November 2023, Pridankina won her biggest ITF title thus far at a W40 tournament in Funchal, Portugal, partnering with Anastasia Kovaleva. The following week, she also won the W25 doubles tournament in Lousada, Portugal.
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.
She secured her first WTA Tour win at the 2024 Jiangxi Open, defeating Ella Seidel, before losing in the second round to fifth seed Kamilla Rakhimova.

## WTA Challenger finals
### Doubles: 1 (1 titles)

| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
| Win | 3–1 | Feb 2025 | Mumbai Open, India | Hard | Amina Anshba | Arianne Hartono Prarthana Thombare | 7–6$^{(4)}$, 2–6, [10–7] |

## ITF Circuit finals
### Singles: 11 (6 titles, 5 runner-ups)

* Legend
* W75 tournaments
* W50 tournaments
* W25 tournaments
* W15 tournaments
* 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 | Alexandra Iordache | 6–1, 6–1 |
| Win | 2–0 | Sep 2022 | ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt | W15 | Hard | 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 | Wang Meiling | 6–3, 6–1 |
| Win | 5–0 | Sep 2023 | ITF Kursumlijska Banja, Serbia | W15 | Clay | Mara Guth | 7–6$^{(4)}$, ret. |
| Loss | 5–1 | Dec 2023 | ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt | W25 | Hard | Mariam Bolkvadze | 2–6, 1–6 |
| Loss | 5–2 | Feb 2024 | ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt | W35 | Hard | 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 | Giorgia Pedone | 6–2, 2–6, 5–7 |
| Win | 6–4 | Aug 2024 | Amstetten, Austria | W75 | Clay | Valeriya Strakhova | 6–0, 6–4 |
| Loss | 6–5 | Feb 2025 | Empire Women's Indoor, Slovakia | W75 | Hard (i) | Antonia Ružić | 2–6, 6–4, 3–6 |

### Doubles: 18 (9 titles, 9 runner-ups)

* Legend
* W100 tournaments
* W80 tournaments
* W75 tournaments
* W40 tournaments
* W25 tournaments
* W15 tournaments
| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
| Loss | 0–1 | Aug 2022 | ITF Cairo, Egypt | W15 | Clay | Elizaveta Shebekina | Yasmin Ezzat Dimitra Pavlou | 5–7, 3–6 |
| Win | 1–1 | Sep 2022 | ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt | W15 | Hard | Aglaya Fedorova | Yasmin Ezzat Aliona Falei | 7–5, 6–1 |
| Loss | 1–2 | Oct 2022 | ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt | W15 | Hard | Aglaya Fedorova | Anastasia Abbagnato Beatrice Stagno | 6–2, 3–6, [5–10] |
| Win | 2–2 | Oct 2022 | ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt | W15 | Hard | Anastasiia Gureva | Cho I-hsuan Cho Yi-tsen | 6-7$^{(3)}$, 6–1, [10-6] |
| Win | 3–2 | Jul 2023 | ITF Aschaffenburg, Germany | W25 | Clay | Ivana Šebestová | Manon Léonard Lucie Nguyen Tan | 2–6, 6–2, [10–5] |
| Loss | 3–3 | Sep 2023 | ITF Kursumlijska Banja, Serbia | W15 | Clay | Mara Guth | Eleni Christofi Katarina Jokić | 2–6, 3–6 |
| Loss | 3–4 | Oct 2023 | Internationaux de Poitiers, France | W80 | Hard (i) | Ekaterina Maklakova | Jessika Ponchet Bibiane Schoofs | 5–7, 4–6 |
| Win | 4–4 | Nov 2023 | ITF Funchal, Portugal | W40 | Hard | Anastasia Kovaleva | Yasmine Mansouri Inês Murta | 6–2, 6–3 |
| Win | 5–4 | Nov 2023 | ITF Lousada, Portugal | W25 | Hard (i) | Mara Guth | Alicia Melosch Johanna Silva | 6–1, 6–1 |
| Loss | 5–5 | Nov 2023 | ITF Lousada, Portugal | W25 | Hard (i) | Kayla Cross | Eliessa Vanlangendonck Stéphanie Visscher | w/o |
| Loss | 5–6 | Jul 2024 | Open de Montpellier, France | W75 | Clay | Ekaterina Yashina | Mariana Dražić Iryna Shymanovich | 6–1, 4–6, [8–10] |
| Win | 6–6 | Aug 2024 | Přerov Cup, Czech Republic | W75 | Clay | Julie Štruplová | Noma Noha Akugue Sapfo Sakellaridi | 6–3, 6–4 |
| Win | 7–6 | Oct 2024 | Slovak Open, Slovakia | W75 | Hard (i) | Isabelle Haverlag | Katarína Kužmová Nina Vargová | 7–5, 6–2 |
| Loss | 7–7 | Dec 2024 | Al Habtoor Tennis Challenge, United Arab Emirates | W100 | Hard | Isabelle Haverlag | Anastasia Dețiuc Anastasia Tikhonova | 3–6, 7–6$^{(7)}$, [8–10] |
| Loss | 7–8 | Jan 2025 | ITF Bengaluru, India | W100 | Hard | Amina Anshba | Jessie Aney Jessica Failla | 2–6, 6–4, [6–10] |
| Win | 8–8 | Jan 2025 | Pune, India | W75 | Hard | Alevtina Ibragimova | Maria Kozyreva Iryna Shymanovich | 6–2, 1–6, [10–8] |
| Loss | 8–9 | Feb 2025 | Empire Women's Indoor, Slovakia | W75 | Hard (i) | Céline Naef | Jesika Malečková Miriam Škoch | 7–5, 3–6, [2–10] |
| Win | 9–9 | Mar 2025 | Empire Women's Indoor, Slovakia | W75 | Hard (i) | Isabelle Haverlag | Magali Kempen Jessika Ponchet | 6–2, 6–3 |