Background and career
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.
