Iroda Tulyaganova

Iroda Tulyaganova (born January 7 1982) is a professional tennis player who comes from Uzbekistan.

She has been ranked as high as #16 on the WTA Tour and has won three WTA singles titles in her career. She returned to the main Tour in 2006 after a long injury absence, and in Kolkata in September 2006, she reached the semi-finals as a qualifier, leaping more than 120 places in the rankings to No. 222 after her success. The following week, she reached the final of her home event in Taskent, beating a string of players including Top 60-ranked Olga Poutchkova. She also won the women's singles gold medal in the 2002 Asian Games in Busan by defeating Tamarine Tanasugarn of Thailand.

She began 2008 losing in the first round of the Australian Open to Sania Mirza 4–6, 2–6.

WTA Tour titles (7)

ingles (6)

ingles finalist (4)

*2000: Shanghai (lost to Meghann Shaughnessy)
*2002: Vienna (lost to Anna Smashnova)
*2003: Hyderabad (lost to Tamarine Tanasugarn)
*2006: Tashkent (lost to Sun Tiantian)

Doubles (4)

*2000: Knokke-Heist (with Casoni)
*2001: Strasbourg (with Silvia Farina Elia)
*2001: Pattaya (with Carlsson)
*2003: Hyderabad (with Elena Likhovtseva)

External links

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* [http://www.iroda-tulyaganova.com official website of Iroda Tulyaganova]