page_title: Alona Bondarenko
section_title: 2008
hierarchical_section_title: Alona Bondarenko / Tennis career / 2008
caption_attribution_description: English: Alona Bondarenko - French Open 2008
context_page_description: Alona Volodymyrivna Bondarenko Dyachok is a Ukrainian tennis player. Her younger sister Kateryna Bondarenko also plays on the WTA Tour.
  Her career-high singles ranking is No. 19, achieved on 14 April 2008. She defeated former world No. 1 Jelena Janković in the third round of the 2010 Australian Open, and won the 2008 Australian Open women's doubles tournament with her sister Kateryna, beating Victoria Azarenka and Shahar Pe'er in the finals. She also formerly paired with her older sister Valeria in doubles.
context_section_description: The beginning of the year brought second-round exits at the Hobart and Melbourne, losing to lower-ranked players. On the other hand, Bondarenko won the Australian Open women's doubles title, partnering with her younger sister Kateryna. They defeated the pairing Shahar Pe'er and Victoria Azarenka 2–6, 6–2, 6–4. They became only the second pairing of sisters to win the title, the first being the Williams sisters.
  She then followed it up with first-round exits at Open Gaz de France and Proximus Diamond Games, once again losing to lower-ranked players. She also lost to eventual champion Dementieva at the Dubai Tennis Championships in the second round. She made her first third round of the year at the Pacific Life Open, losing to Maria Sharapova, this was the start of good showings from the Ukrainian. She, however, lost to Kaia Kanepi in the second round of the Sony Ericsson Open, after receiving a bye. Continuing her good form from Indian Wells she reached the quarterfinals of Bausch & Lomb Championships, Qatar Telecom German Open, and Internationaux de Strasbourg. In the middle of this she lost in the second round of Internazionali BNL d'Italia reasonably to Serena Williams. Her performance at a Major once again was a disappointment as she lost in the first round of the French Open to Petra Cetkovská.
  She then again made great showing at the grass. She reached the quarterfinals of DFS Classic by defeating Virginia Ruano Pascual and Sunitha Rao before falling to Marina Erakovic. Alona also reached the semifinals of the Ordina Open, losing to eventual champion Tamarine Tanasugarn, she however lost at the second round of Wimbledon. She then represented Ukraine at the 2008 Olympics, losing to Serbian Jelena Janković in the second round, in the doubles she partnered with sister Kateryna and they came in fourth place. She then reached the third round of the US Open, losing to Venus Williams. She then lost in the second rounds of Porsche Tennis Grand Prix and Zurich Open and the first round of Kremlin Cup to higher ranked players Jelena Janković, Venus Williams, and Katarina Srebotnik. She ended the year competing in the Generali Ladies Linz where she lost in the quarterfinals to Marion Bartoli.
caption: Bondarenko at the 2008 French Open
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