ELENA Baltacha has Olympic blood coursing through her veins.
Her father, Sergei, won a bronze medal on home soil as part of the Soviet Union football team in 1980, the same year her mother Olga declined to take part in the pentathlon and heptathlon because of her one-year-old son. So it is little wonder that being informed by Fed Cup captain Judy Murray last week that she was to receive a wild card for the singles should evoke strong emotions in the 28-year-old.
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