Julia Elbaba (born June 13, 1994) is an American former
tennis
Tennis is a List of racket sports, racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles (tennis), singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles (tennis), doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket st ...
player.
Elbaba has career-high
WTA rankings of 372 in singles and 301 in doubles.
She made her
WTA Tour
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main-draw debut at the
2019 Dubai Tennis Championships
The 2019 Dubai Tennis Championships (also known as the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships for sponsorship reasons) was an ATP Tour 500 event on the 2019 ATP Tour and a WTA Premier 5 event on the 2019 WTA Tour. Both events were held at the Aviati ...
in the doubles draw partnering
Alena Fomina.
Elbaba has one ITF singles title, won in 2012 in
New Orleans
New Orleans (commonly known as NOLA or The Big Easy among other nicknames) is a Consolidated city-county, consolidated city-parish located along the Mississippi River in the U.S. state of Louisiana. With a population of 383,997 at the 2020 ...
.
Elbaba is currently a journalist at NBC with a focus on tennis. She also covers the NBA, MLB, NFL, soccer and the Olympics. She started her media career at Newsday, covering New York professional sports and Long Island high school sports.
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1994 births
Living people
American female tennis players
People from Oyster Bay (town), New York
Sportspeople from Mineola, New York
Tennis players from Nassau County, New York
Virginia Cavaliers women's tennis players
21st-century American sportswomen
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