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Yaroslava Vyacheslavovna Shvedova (Russian: Ярослава Вячеславовна Шведова, born September 12, 1987 in Moscow) is a Russian-born professional tennis player representing Kazakhstan[1]. She has achieved a career high ranking of No. 50 as of August 3, 2009. She has won 1 WTA singles title, 3 ITF Women's Circuit singles titles and 2 doubles titles. She was taught tennis at the age of six by her father who is currently her coach.[2]
[edit] CareerIn February 2007, she unexpectedly reached the final of the Sony Ericsson International, beating homecrowd favourite and No.2 seed Sania Mirza in the quarterfinals, 6–7 (2–7), 6–4, 6–4. In the final, she defeated top-seeded defending champion Mara Santangelo 6–4, 6–4, to win her first WTA Tour title.[3][4] This win caused her to be in the top 100 for the first time, at 78. At the Miami Masters, she came through qualifying and recorded her first-ever top 20 win over Ana Ivanović in the second round, beating her 7–5 6–4. Tathiana Garbin beat her 4-6 6-3 6-2 in the third round. In August 2008, she won an ITF title in Monterrey, defeating Magdaléna Rybáriková in the final 6-4 6-1. Just over a week later, she won through the qualifying rounds for 2008 US Open, but lost to Agnieszka Radwanska in the first round 4-6 2-6.[5] In 2009, Shvedova qualified for the main draw of Roland Garros, defeating Shenay Perry in the first round 6-4 6-4, Angela Haynes 6-1 6-2 in the second round, and Elena Baltacha 6-2 6-2 in the final round. She beat Kaia Kanepi in the first round and advanced to the third round after defeating Arantxa Rus who also a qualifier. However she lost the 3rd round match to Maria Sharapova then ranked 102, 6-1, 3-6, 4-6. At the 2009 Wimbledon Championships in the first round she faced Romanian Monica Niculescu demolishing her 6-1, 6-0 but in the second round she, surprisingly, lost 6-3, 2-6, 4-6 to American teenager Melanie Oudin. At the 2009 U.S. Open, Shvedova pulled off the biggest win of her career by beating No. 5 Jelena Janković 6-3, 6-7(4), 7-6(6), in a match where she saved two match points.[6] [edit] PersonalShvedova was born to father Vyacheslav and mother Nurzia, who used to be a professional runner. Shvedova has one brother named Pavel who is a student. She began playing tennis at age 8 when her father introduced her to the sport in Moscow. Although she was born in Russia, Shvedova changed her nationality from Russia to Kazakhstan in 2008.[7] [edit] WTA Tour titles (2)
[edit] Doubles (1)
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