Olga Govortsova

Country	Belarus
Residence	Minsk, Belarus
Date of birth	August 23, 1988 (1988-08-23) (age 21)
Place of birth	Pinsk, Belarus then Soviet Union
Height	1.82 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in)
Weight	67 kg (150 lb; 10.6 st)
Turned pro	2002
Retired	Active
Plays	Right (two-handed backhand)
Career prize money	$804,707
Singles
Career record	174–108
Career titles	0 WTA, 2 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 35 (June 23, 2008)
Current ranking	No. 52 (November 9, 2009)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	1r (2008, 2009)
French Open	3r (2008, 2009)
Wimbledon	2r (2007, 2009)
US Open	2r (2007, 2008)
Doubles
Career record	47–52
Career titles	3 WTA, 1 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 47 (August 18, 2008)
Last updated on: October 26, 2009.

Olga Govortsova (Belarusian: Вольга Гаварцова, born 23 August 1988 in Pinsk, Brest Voblast) is a professional Belarusian tennis player. After a few WTA-level events and never winning a match, she made back to back quarterfinals at Cincinnati and Stanford, where she beat Shahar Pe'er for the best win of her career thus far. She beat Pe'er again in Memphis. As of June 23, 2008, her highest singles ranking on the WTA is World Number 35.

She reached her first WTA Tour final at the 2008 Cellular South Open in Memphis, Tennessee. There she lost in straight sets to Lindsay Davenport.

Contents 1 2009 2 WTA Tour titles (2) 2.1 Singles runner-up (2) 2.2 Doubles (3) 2.3 Runner-up (1) 3 External links

[edit] 2009

She began her year at the 2009 Brisbane International, here she defeated 8th seed Francesca Schiavone 7-5 6-2 en route to the quarter finals. She fell here however against world no 41. Sara Errani 6-3 6-3.

At the Australian Open she received main draw entry but was drawn against 20th seed Amelie Mauresmo in the first round, she lost in straight sets 6-4 6-3.

She then played in Indian Wells, a premier mandatory event. She defeated British no 1 Anne Keothavong in the first round before falling to Shuai Peng.

In Miami the second premier mandatory event she lost in the first round to Belarussian qualifier Anastasiya Yakimova.

In October, she reached the finals of the Kremlin Cup, losing 6-3 6-0 to Francesca Schiavone of Italy.

[edit] WTA Tour titles (2)

Legend (Doubles)

Grand Slam Title (0)

WTA Tour Championship (0)

Tier I (0)

Premier (0)

Tier II (0)

Tier III (0)

Tier IV (0)

International (0)

[edit] Singles runner-up (2)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	March 1, 2008	Memphis, USA	Hard (i)	Lindsay Davenport	6–2, 6–1
2.	25 October 2009	Moscow, Russia	Hard(i)	Francesca Schiavone	6-3, 6-0

[edit] Doubles (3)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score
1.	May 19, 2008	Istanbul, Turkey	Clay	Jill Craybas	Marina Erakovic Polona Hercog	6–1, 6–2
2.	September 20, 2009	Guangzhou, China	Hard	Tatiana Poutchek	Kimiko Date Krumm Sun Tiantian	3–6, 6–2, 10–8
3.	September 26, 2009	Tashkent, Uzbekistan	Hard	Tatiana Poutchek	Vitalia Diatchenko Ekaterina Dzehalevich	6–2, 6(1)–7, 10–8

[edit] Runner-up (1)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score
1.	April 14, 2008	Charleston, USA	Green Clay	Edina Gallovits	Katarina Srebotnik Ai Sugiyama	6–2, 6–2

[edit] External links

• Olga Govortsova profile on the WTA Tour's official website
• Olga Govortsova at the International Tennis Federation

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