Anna Chakvetadze

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Anna Chakvetadze

Country	Russia
Residence	Moscow, Russia
Date of birth	March 5, 1987 (1987-03-05) (age 22)
Place of birth	Moscow, Soviet Union now Russia
Height	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight	58 kg (130 lb; 9.1 st)
Turned pro	2003
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Career prize money	$3,475,293
Singles
Career record	239–131
Career titles	7 WTA, 1 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 5 (September 10, 2007)
Current ranking	No. 67 (December 21, 2009)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	QF (2007)
French Open	QF (2007)
Wimbledon	4R (2008)
US Open	SF (2007)
Doubles
Career record	26–48
Career titles	0 WTA, 1 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 53 (August 6, 2007)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	1R (2007-2009)
French Open	QF (2006)
Wimbledon	2R (2007, 2009)
US Open	3R (2006)
Last updated on: August 31, 2009.

Anna Djambulilovna Chakvetadze Russian: Анна Джамбулиловна Чакветадзе; born March 5, 1987) is a Russian professional tennis player (with Georgian roots^[1]). On September 10, 2007, she reached her career-high professional singles ranking of World No. 5. She has won seven WTA Singles Titles. As of July 27 2009, she is ranked World No. 50.

She began playing tennis at the age of eight after being introduced to the sport by her mother, Natalia. She travels for tournaments with her father. She speaks both Russian and English.

Contents 1 Career 1.1 2001-2006 1.1.1 Junior tournaments 1.1.2 Professional tournaments 1.2 2007 1.3 2008 1.4 2009 2 Home invasion and robbery 3 WTA Tour singles finals (8) 3.1 Wins (7) 3.2 Runner-up (1) 4 Singles performance timeline 5 References 6 External links

[edit] Career

Chakvetadze hit her peak of World No. 5 in 2007 after a semifinal appearance at the US Open. Also in that year, she reached the quarterfinals at the Australian Open and the French Open, both of which were career bests for those events. Four of her seven career singles titles also occurred in 2007.

[edit] 2001-2006

[edit] Junior tournaments

In 2003, she made it to the final of the Junior Championships at Wimbledon before falling to Kirsten Flipkens of Belgium 6–4, 3–6, 6–3. The same year, she won the International Bavarian Junior Challenge, defeating Marta Domachowska of Poland 7–6, 6–5. Her record as a junior was 67-19 in singles, and 22-14 in doubles. Her highest world ranking as a junior was #22 achieved in December 2003.

[edit] Professional tournaments

Chakvetadze debuted on the ITF circuit in November 2001, losing in the first round in Minsk, Belarus. In July 2002, she won her first ITF doubles title in Istanbul, teaming with fellow Russian Irina Kotkina.

At the 2004 U.S. Open, Chakvetadze won three qualifying matchers to reach the main draw of her first Grand Slam singles tournament. In the second round, she defeated World No. 3 Anastasia Myskina 7–6(3), 6–3 before losing in the third round to Eleni Daniilidou. With this result, she became tied for the second fastest player to defeat a world top 10 in WTA history, tying Serena Williams.^{[citation needed]} She broke into the top 100 in the WTA rankings on September 13, reaching World No. 91. She reached the top 50 on June 6, 2005, coming in at World No. 44.

On September 25, 2006, Chakvetadze won her first WTA singles tournament at the Tier III event in Guangzhou, China, defeating Spain's Anabel Medina Garrigues in the final. Two weeks later, she won her second WTA tournament at the Tier I Kremlin Cup in Moscow even though she was unseeded, beating Elena Dementieva and Nadia Petrova en route to the title.^[2] These wins helped boost her ranking to World No. 16.

[edit] 2007

Chakvetadze started the year by winning the Tier IV Moorilla Hobart International in Australia, her third WTA tournament title. She defeated fellow Russian Vasilisa Bardina in the final.^[3] At the Australian Open, where she was seeded twelfth, she defeated eight-seeded Patty Schnyder in the fourth round before losing in the quarterfinals to top-seeded Maria Sharapova 7–6(5), 7–5.

In February, Chakvetadze reached the quarterfinals of the Open Gaz de France in Paris, where she lost to Amélie Mauresmo 7–6(5), 7–5. She then competed at the Proximus Diamond Games in Antwerp, where she lost in the semifinals to Mauresmo 6–3, 3–6, 6–2. On February 19, she made her top 10 debut on the WTA rankings, at World No. 10. At the Tier I Pacific Life Open in Indian Wells, California, she lost in the fourth round to Shahar Pe'er 6–4, 7–6. She then reached the semifinals of the Tier I Sony Ericsson Open in Key Biscayne, Florida, where she was defeated by World No. 1 Justine Henin 6–2, 6–3.

Chakvetadze then played four tournaments in Europe on red clay courts. Chakvetadze lost in the quarterfinals of the Tier II J&S Cup in Warsaw to Jelena Janković, the second round of the Tier I Qatar Telecom German Open in Berlin, and the second round of the Tier I Internazionali BNL d'Italia in Rome. At the French Open, Chakvetadze lost to second-seeded Sharapova in the quarterfinals.

Chakvetadze won her second title of the year, and first grass court title, in 's-Hertogenbosch, with wins over Daniela Hantuchová and Janković. At Wimbledon, however, she was defeated in the third round by 31st-seeded Michaella Krajicek in three sets.

Chakvetadze then played five tournaments during the North American summer hard court season. At the Tier III Western & Southern Financial Group Women's Open in Cincinnati, Ohio, Chakvetadze was the top-seed and won the title, defeating Akiko Morigami in the final. Chakvetadze won her second consecutive tournament the following week at the Bank of the West Classic in Palo Alto, California, the first tournament of the US Open Series. She defeated Sania Mirza in the final. That was her ninth consecutive match victory and resulted in her ranking rising to World No. 6. At the Acura Classic tournament in San Diego, her 12-match winning streak ended when she lost in the semifinals to top seeded Sharapova for the third time this year 6–3, 6–2 after Chakvetadze had defeated reigning Wimbledon champion Venus Williams in the semifinals 6–7(5), 7–6(3), 6–2. Two weeks later at the Tier I Rogers Cup in Toronto, Chakvetadze retired from her second round match after losing the first set to Virginie Razzano. At the US Open, Chakvetadze was the sixth seed and reached the semifinals of a Grand Slam tournament for the first time, losing to Svetlana Kuznetsova 3–6, 6–1, 6–1. This result caused her ranking to rise to a career high of World No. 5.

Chakvetadze was the defending champion at the Kremlin Cup in Moscow, but lost her second round match to Dinara Safina 7–6, 6–2.

Chakvetadze became the sixth player in 2007 to qualify for the year-ending Sony Ericsson Championships. She reached the semifinals of that tournament by winning two of her three round robin matches, defeating Serena Williams and Janković before losing to Henin 6–1, 7–6(4). She then lost her semifinal match with Sharapova 6–2, 6–2.

[edit] 2008

At the Australian Open, Chakvetadze lost in the third round to Maria Kirilenko 6–7(6), 6–1, 6–2. She then helped defending champion Russia win its first round tie against Israel in the Fed Cup by defeating Tzipora Obziler 6–4, 6–2.

Chakvetadze was the top-seed at the Tier II Open Gaz de France in Paris. She defeated Amélie Mauresmo in the quarterfinals, Marion Bartoli in the semifinals, and Ágnes Szávay in the final to win her seventh career singles title. She is now 7–0 in tournament finals.

At the Tier I Sony Ericsson Open in Key Biscayne, Florida, Chakvetadze lost in the third round to Sabine Lisicki.

At the French Open, sixth-seeded Chakvetadze lost in the second round to Kaia Kanepi 6–4, 7–6(2).

Chakvetadze was seeded eighth at Wimbledon. She defeated Stéphanie Dubois in the first round 2–6, 6–1, 8–6 after Chakvetadze saved two match points at 5–3 and an additional match point at 5–4 in the third set. Chakvetadze won her second and third round matches in straight sets but lost in the fourth round to eighteenth-seeded Nicole Vaidišová 4–6, 7–6(0), 6–3.

Chakvetadze played five tournaments during the North American summer hard court season. She was the second seeded player and defending champion at the Tier II Bank of the West Classic on the campus of Stanford University in California. She lost, however, to Bartoli in the quarterfinals 6–3, 6–4. The following week, she lost in the third round of the East West Bank Classic in Los Angeles to Sybille Bammer. Seeded sixth at the Tier I Rogers Cup in Montreal, Chakvetadze lost in the third round to tenth-seeded Bartoli 4–6, 7–5, 7–6(4). She then lost in the final of the Pilot Pen Tennis tournament in New Haven, Connecticut to Caroline Wozniacki. Chakvetadze was seeded tenth at the US Open but lost in the first round to Ekaterina Makarova.

[edit] 2009

Chakvetadze was seeded 17th at the Australian Open where she lost in the second round to Jelena Dokic 6–4, 6–7(4), 6–3. She also lost the opening round of the Barclays Dubai Tennis Championships to Ayumi Morita.

At the Rome Masters, Chakvetadze lost a close three setter to Venus Williams in the third round. At the Madrid Masters, she defeated Virginia Ruano-Pascual in the first round. She then defeated Samantha Stosur in the second round, coming back from 4-1 down in the third set. She fell to Alona Bondarenko in the third round. Chakvetadze, who was seeded 26th at the French Open, suffered a first-round loss to Mariana Duque Marino in three sets 6–3, 4–6, 4–6, thus continuing her disastrous run.

In the grass court season, Chakvetadze was able to raise her game in the first round in Eastbourne, where she defeated a third seeded Jelena Jankovic 6-7(5), 6-3, 6-2. She lost to Marion Bartoli in the second round.

Chakvetadze was seeded 32nd at the 2009 Wimbledon Championships. She lost to Sabine Lisicki in the first round 4-6, 7-6, 6-2, meaning she was out of the top 50 for the first time in quite a while.

Anna started her 2009 US Open Series campaign being unseeded in the Bank of West Classic tournament in Stanford, and was defeated in the first round by Maria Kirilenko 4-6, 7-5, 6-7. The following week in the LA Women's Tennis Championships, she had two good wins against Virginie Razzano and Alisa Kleybanova, but then lost convincingly to Agnieszka Radwańska 6-3, 6-2 in the third round.

Having won the Western & Southern Financial Group Women's Open in Cincinnati in 2007, Chakvetadze went into the tournament this year being unseeded again, and suffered another early round loss to 9th seed Victoria Azarenka in straight sets. At the Rogers Cup in Toronto she lost again in first round to Sybille Bammer 3-6 6-4 6-1.Chakvetadze lead 6-3 4-1, but lost. Her next tournament was Pilot Pen tennis open where she was last year runner-up. She reached first quarter-final of the year defeating Nadia Petrova an Sybille Bammer all in three sets. She then lost to her good friend Elena Vesnina 6-1 7-5. At US Open Chakvetadze was unseeded. She defeated Yurika Sema 4-6 6-1 6-2, but then lost to Vera Zvonareva 3-6 6-1 6-1.At her home tournament in Moscow Kremlin Cup she lost again in first round to Alona Bondarenko 6-4 6-3.

[edit] Home invasion and robbery

On December 18, 2007, Chakvetadze's home was burgled. Six invaders tied up and gagged Chakvetadze and beat her father, Djambuli. The six men left with over U.S.$300,000 worth of goods and cash.^{[4] [5]}

[edit] WTA Tour singles finals (8)

[edit] Wins (7)

Legend Grand Slam (0) WTA Championships (0) Tier I (1) Tier II (2) Tier III (3) Tier IV (1)

Titles by surface Hard 5 Clay 0 Grass 1 Carpet 1

No.	Date	Tournament Location	Surface	Opponent in Final	Score in Final
1.	September 25, 2006	Guangzhou, China	Hard	Anabel Medina Garrigues	6–3, 6–4
2.	October 15, 2006	Moscow	Carpet	Nadia Petrova	6–4, 6–4
3.	January 12, 2007	Hobart, Australia	Hard	Vasilisa Bardina	6–3, 7–6(3)
4.	June 17, 2007	Ordina Open	Grass	Jelena Janković	7–6(2), 3–6, 6–3
5.	July 22, 2007	Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.	Hard	Akiko Morigami	6–1, 6–3
6.	July 29, 2007	Stanford, California, U.S.	Hard	Sania Mirza	6–3, 6–2
7.	February 10, 2008	Paris	Hard (i)	Ágnes Szávay	6–3, 2–6, 6–2

[edit] Runner-up (1)

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

Runner-ups by surface Hard 1 Clay 0 Grass 0 Carpet 0

No.	Date	Tournament Location	Surface	Opponent in Final	Score in Final
1.	August 23, 2008	New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.	Hard	Caroline Wozniacki	6–3, 4–6, 1–6

[edit] Singles performance timeline

To help interpret the performance table, the legend below explains what each abbreviation and color coded box represents in the performance timeline.

Terms to know
SR	the ratio of the number of singles tournaments won to the number of those tournaments played	W-L	player's Win-Loss record
Performance Table Legend
NH	tournament not held in that calendar year	A	did not participate in the tournament
LQ	lost in qualifying draw	#R	lost in the early rounds of the tournament (RR = round robin)
QF	advanced to but not past the quarterfinals	SF	advanced to but not past the semifinals
F	advanced to the final, tournament runner-up	W	won the tournament

NM5				means an event that is neither a Premier Mandatory nor a Premier 5 tournament.

To prevent confusion and double counting, information in this table is updated only once a tournament or the player's participation in the tournament has concluded. This table is current through the Sony Ericsson Open in Key Biscayne, Florida, which ended April 5, 2009.

Tournament	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	Career SR	Career Win-Loss
Grand Slam Tournaments
Australian Open	A	A	2R	2R	QF	3R	2R	0 / 5	9–5
French Open	A	A	3R	2R	QF	2R	1R	0 / 5	8–5
Wimbledon	A	A	1R	3R	3R	4R	1R	0 / 5	7–5
US Open	A	3R1	3R	4R	SF	1R	2R	0 / 6	16–6
Win-Loss	0–0	5–1	5–4	7–4	15-4	6–4	2–4	N/A	40-21
SR	0 / 0	0 / 1	0 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 21	N/A
Year-End Championship
WTA Tour Championships	A	A	A	A	SF	A		0 / 1	2–2
WTA Premier Mandatory Tournaments
Indian Wells	A	A	3R	4R	4R	A	3R	0 / 4	7–4
Key Biscayne	A	A	1R	4R	SF	3R	3R	0 / 5	9–5
Madrid	Not Held						3R	0 / 1	2–1
Beijing	NH	Not Tier I					A	0 / 0	0–0
WTA Premier 5 Tournaments
Dubai	Not Tier I						1R	0 / 1	0–1
Rome	A	A	2R	1R	3R	SF	3R	0 / 5	7–5
Cincinnati	NH	Not Tier I					2R	0 / 1	1–1
Montréal / Toronto	A	A	A	SF	2R	3R	1R	0 / 4	5–4
Tokyo	A	A	A	A	A	1R	A	0 / 1	0–1
Former WTA Tier I Tournaments (currently neither Premier Mandatory nor Premier 5 events)
Doha	Not Tier I					2R	Not Held	0 / 1	0–1
Berlin	A	A	1R	3R	2R	2R		0 / 4	3–4
Zurich	A	A	1R	A	A	Not Tier I		0 / 1	0–1
Charleston	A	A	A	A	A	2R	NM5	0 / 1	0–1
Moscow	LQ	1R2	1R	W	2R	1R		1 / 6	8–4
San Diego	Not Tier I	A	QF	QF	SF	Not Held		0 / 3	9–3
Career Statistics								Career Total
Tournaments Won	0	0	0	2	4	1	0	7
Year End Ranking	374	84	33	13	6	18		N/A

• ¹She won three qualifying matches during the 2004 US Open.

• ²She won three qualifying matches during the 2004 Kremlin Cup in Moscow to reach the main draw.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Official site
• Anna Chakvetadze profile on the WTA Tour's official website
• Anna Chakvetadze at the International Tennis Federation
• Anna Chakvetadze at the International Tennis Federation Junior Profile

Persondata
NAME	Chakvetadze, Anna Djambulovna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Russian tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH	March 5, 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH	Moscow, Russia
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH