Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova

Infobox Tennis player
playername= Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova


country= flagcountry|Russia
residence= Samara, Russia
datebirth= birth date and age|1991|7|3
placebirth= Samara, Russia
height= height|m=1.76
weight= convert|68|kg|lb st|abbr=on|lk=on
turnedpro= December, 2005
plays= Right; Two-handed backhand
careerprizemoney= $234,717
singlesrecord= 75–36
singlestitles= 0 WTA, 3 ITF titles
highestsinglesranking= No. 68 (October 6, 2008)
AustralianOpenresult= -
FrenchOpenresult= 2R (2008)
Wimbledonresult= 3R (2008)
USOpenresult= 2R (2008)
doublesrecord= 54–16
doublestitles= 1 WTA, 8 ITF titles
highestdoublesranking= No. 83 (October 6, 2008)
updated= October 6, 2008

Anastasia Sergeyevna Pavlyuchenkova (Russian: Анастасия Сергеевна Павлюченкова) (born July 3, 1991) is a professional tennis player from Russia and a multiple junior Grand Slam champion.

Junior career

Born in Samara, Russia Pavlyuchenkova first made headlines by winning the 2006 Australian Open junior title, defeating Caroline Wozniacki. She then won the US Open junior title against Tamira Paszek and defended her Australian Open title in 2007, defeating Madison Brengle.

Pro career

Her success in juniors enabled her to enter ITF and WTA tournaments, winning a small ITF tournament in Italy in May 2006. In October 2006 Pavlyuchenkova received a wildcard into the Kremlin Cup losing in the first round to rising Czech Nicole Vaidišová 6–3 6–3. She then barely missed out on qualifying for the 2007 Australian Open, losing to Julia Vakulenko in the final round of qualifying.

Pavlyuchenkova then received a wildcard into The Championships, Wimbledon in 2007, but was beaten by tenth seed Daniela Hantuchová 6–0 6–1 in just forty minutes, winning only fourteen points. In 2008, she was entered into Wimbledon as the youngest in the ladies' singles tournament. She won the first round against the French 17th seed, Alize Cornet.

WTA Tour titles (1)

Doubles Wins (1)

External links

*wta|id=313796|name=Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
* [http://www.coretennis.net/majic/pageServer/0l01000009/en/pid/641/index.html Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova's] CoreTennis Profile