Anastasiya Yakimova

Anastasiya Yakimova
Настасся Якімава

Yakimova at the 2011 US Open
Country	Belarus
Residence	Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Born	(1986-11-01) 1 November 1986 Minsk, Soviet Union
Height	1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Turned pro	2001
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	$1,030,450
Singles
Career record	338–227
Career titles	0 WTA, 12 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 49 (31 July 2006)
Current ranking	No. 107 (18 June 2012)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	3R (2007)
French Open	2R (2006, 2008)
Wimbledon	2R (2011, 2012)
US Open	2R (2011)
Doubles
Career record	122–98
Career titles	2 WTA, 10 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 67 (19 June 2006)
Team Competitions
Fed Cup	10–13
Last updated on: 14 June 2010.

Anastasiya Yakimova (Belarusian: Настасся Аляксееўна Якімава; Russian: Анастасия Алексеевна Екимова; born 1 November 1986 in Minsk, Soviet Union) is a tennis player from Belarus. She made it to the third round of the 2007 Australian Open, defeating Ai Sugiyama of Japan, a seeded player, on the way in the second round.

2009–present

Yakimova began the year by qualifying for the Medibank International. She defeated Stéphanie Cohen-Aloro, Sophie Ferguson and Klára Zakopalová en route to qualifying. She faced Annabel Medina Garrigues in the first round and lost in three sets. She then headed to the Australian Open where she lost to Gisela Dulko, also in three sets. She then played her first ITF tournament of the year at the $50,000 Cali event in Colombia. As the fourth seed Yakimova battled through to the final where she defeated Rossana de los Ríos to take her seventh ITF title.

She then qualified for both Indian Wells and Miami, two premier mandatory events. In Indian Wells she defeated American Varvara Lepchenko before falling to reigning champion Ana Ivanovic. In Miami she defeated fellow Belarusian Olga Govortsova and then 13th seed Marion Bartoli to reach the third round. Here she lost to Alisa Kleybanova.

At the 2009 Barcelona Ladies Open, Yakimova qualified and managed to make it to her first WTA quarter final of the year. She defeated Sorana Cîrstea and Magdaléna Rybáriková before falling to eventual champion Roberta Vinci. She then played in the $50,000 Saint-Gaudens event as the number 1 seed. She made it to the final where she defeated Yanina Wickmayer for her second title of the year. Then, in Strasbourg she received main draw entry without qualifying. She defeated Maret Ani in the first round before falling to eventual finalist Aravane Rezaï.

At the 2009 French Open she was drawn against comeback player Maria Sharapova in the first round, losing in three sets.

In 2011 she won a $100,000 ITF event in The Bahamas.

Career titles

Singles

Legend
Grand Slam (0)
WTA Championships (0)
Tier I (0)
Tier II (0)
Tier III (0)
Tier IV & V (0)
ITF Circuit (9)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
1.	9 February 2003	Vale do Lobo	Hard	Caroline Ann Basu	6–3, 6–1
2.	28 March 2004	St. Petersburg	Hard Indoors	Emma Laine	3–6, 6–2, 6–1
3.	28 November 2004	Poitiers	Hard Indoors	Marie-Gayanay Mikaelian	7–5, 6–2
4.	2 October 2005	Batumi	Hard	Ana Timotić	6–4, 6–1
5.	6 July 2008	Mont-de-Marsan	Clay	Anna Gerasimou	6–3, 1–6, 6–4
6.	17 November 2008	Phoenix	Hard	Patricia Mayr	3–6, 6–2, 1–0 ret.
7.	15 February 2009	Cali	Clay	Rossana de los Ríos	6–3, 6–0
8.	24 May 2009	Saint-Gaudens	Clay	Yanina Wickmayer	7–5, 7–6(7–0)
9.	8 August 2009	Astana	Hard	Nikola Hofmanova	6–0, 6–4
10.	3 April 2010	Monzón	Hard	Zuzana Kučová	6–4, 4–6, 6–3
11.	19 March 2011	Nassau	Hard	Angelique Kerber	6–3, 6–2

Doubles

Legend
Grand Slam (0)
WTA Championships (0)
Tier I (0)
Tier II (0)
Tier III (1)
Tier IV & V (1)
ITF Circuit (6)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
1.	31 October 2004	Minsk	Carpet	Darya Kustova	Irina Bulykina Katarína Kachlíková	6–4, 6–0
2.	25 September 2005	Jounieh	Clay	Mariya Koryttseva	Olena Antypina Hana Šromová	7–5, 6–2
3.	2 October 2005	Batumi	Hard	Nadejda Ostrovskaya	Anna Bastrikova Nina Bratchikova	2–6, 6–2, 7–6
4.	14 May 2006	Jounieh	Clay	Tatiana Poutchek	María José Argeri Leticia Sobral	6–4, 7–6
5.	27 May 2006	Istanbul	Clay	Alyona Bondarenko	Sania Mirza Alicia Molik	6–2, 6–4
6.	13 May 2007	Jounieh	Clay	Tatiana Poutchek	Mădălina Gojnea Monica Niculescu	7–5, 6–0
7.	29 July 2007	Pétange	Clay	Carla Suárez Navarro	Martina Müller Claudine Schaul	6–7, 6–1, 7–6
8.	1 October 2007	Tashkent	Hard	Ekaterina Dzehalevich	Tatiana Poutchek Anastassia Rodionova	2–6, 6–4, [10–7]

Singles performance timeline

Tournament	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	SR	W–L
Grand Slam Tournaments
Australian Open	A	A	A	A	1R	1R	3R	QR	1R	1R	Q1	1R	0 / 6	2–6
French Open	A	A	A	Q1	1R	2R	1R	2R	1R	Q2	1R	1R	0 / 7	2–7
Wimbledon	A	A	A	Q1	Q2	1R	1R	QR	1R	1R	2R	2R	0 / 6	2–6
US Open	A	A	A	A	QR	1R	Q1	Q1	1R	Q2	2R		0 / 3	1–3
Win–Loss	0 – 0	0 – 0	0 – 0	0 – 0	0 – 2	1 – 4	2 – 3	1 – 1	0 – 4	0 – 2	2 – 3		0 / 21	6 – 21
Olympic Games
Summer Olympics	Not Held			A	Not Held			A	Not Held				0 / 0	0 – 0
WTA Premier Mandatory Tournaments
Indian Wells	A	A	A	A	1R	2R	1R	A	2R	Q1	Q1	1R	0 / 5	2–5
Miami	A	A	A	A	QR	2R	2R	A	3R	Q1	2R	1R	0 / 5	5–5
Madrid	Not Held								A	A	A	A	0 / 0	0–0
Beijing	Not Held			Not Tier I					A	A	A		0 / 0	0–0
WTA Premier 5 Tournaments
Dubai	Not Tier I								A	A	A	NP5	0 / 0	0–0
Doha	Not Tier 1							A	Not Held		NP5	1R	0 / 1	0–1
Rome	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A		0 / 0	0–0
Canada	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A		0 / 0	0–0
Cincinnati	Not Held			Not Tier I					A	A	A		0 / 0	0–0
Tokyo	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	1R		0 / 1	0–1
Career Statistics
Tournaments played	0	1	11	17	25	24	25	28	22	31	31		215
Titles	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0
Finals	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0
Overall Win–Loss	0 – 0	4 – 1	26 – 11	37 – 17	36 – 25	39 – 24	24 – 26	44 – 26	36 – 20	36 – 30	42 – 29		0 / 215	338 – 227
Year End Ranking	–	–	288	177	101	69	121	113	98	121	62		$1,030,450

Doubles performance timeline

Tournament	2005	2006	2011	2012	SR	W–L
Grand Slam Tournaments
Australian Open				1R	0 / 6	2–6
French Open		1R		1R	0 / 2	0–2
Wimbledon	1R	1R			0 / 2	0–2
US Open		2R	1R		0 / 2	1–2
Win–Loss	0 – 1	1 – 3	0 – 1	0 – 2	0 / 9	1 – 9

External links

• Anastasiya Yakimova at the Women's Tennis Association
• Anastasiya Yakimova at the International Tennis Federation
• Anastasiya Yakimova at the Fed Cup