Young Elizaveta Tabunstova took her very first tennis lesson earlier this week and couldn’t have asked for a better coach across the net in mother Elena Vesnina.
The former doubles No. 1 left tennis in 2018 to give birth to her first child. After giving Liza, still just three years old, a front-row seat to her 2021 comeback—during which she reached two major finals and won an Olympic silver medal—Vesnina is now channeling that early exposure into part of what she plans to be a comprehensive education.