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| Elena Jones in the Stade Roland Garros |
Elena Jones has decided to leave The Jones family to dedicate more time to her professional tennis career. She's preparing her next appearance in Roland Garros and she needs time to train and to be concentrated only in tennis.
The family has a mix of feelings: for one hand, they are very happy because she's going to reach her dream, but for other hand, they're going to miss her a lot because she's a loved member of the family. The Jones think that Elena deserves the best in her personal life and they're going to support her decision and cheer her to try to win as trophies as she can.
Roland Garros is going to start in less than a month and Elena wants to participate in the individual matches but also in the doubles. She's going to play with Tatiana Golovin, Elena's idol. They are old friends because they shared their childhood in Astana in the Republic of Kazakhstan and now they're going to stay together again playing in this new edition of the French Open. This event is very important to Tatiana because she is going to return to play tennis after some years being retired and she's going to move from New York, where she's living nowadays to Paris only to compete with Elena.
The Grandma wants to thank to Elena her commitment and her effort and she hopes the best for her because she deserves it. This old woman is a great tennis fan and she can't forget one of the best female finals in Roland Garros. It was in 1999, the final match between Steffi Graf and Martina Hingis, an incredible match full of emotion and amazing tennis.
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| Elena Jones is watching her idol, Tatiana Golovin |
Tatiana Golovin, in Russian Татья́на Григорьевна Голови́на was born in 1988. She's a Russian-born French retired professional tennis player.
She won the 2004 French Open mixed doubles event with Richard Gasquet, and reached the singles quarterfinal at the 2006 US Open, losing to the eventual champion Maria Sharapova.
Her highest singles ranking is world No. 12. In 2008, she was diagnosed with lower back inflammation and was forced to stop playing competitive tennis indefinitely.
Golovin was born in Moscow, and spent six years at Nick Bollettieri's tennis camp in Bradenton, Florida. In the latter part of her career she was coached by former World No. 1 Mats Wilander, having previously been coached by Brad Gilbert and Dean Goldfine.
Golovin made her ITF Circuit debut at Cagnes-sur-Mer in France in 2002. She played in three more ITF events, including one semifinal, later that year, but she failed to qualify for the French Open.
More information: Tatiana Golovin
At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, she had partnered with Pauline Parmentier, but the team had to withdraw due to Golovin's back injury. After missing a total of four successive months due to medical concerns with her back, she eventually pulled out of the 2008 U.S. Open.
I never look back, I look forward.
Steffi Graf
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