Vasilisa Bardina

Vasilisa Bardina
Василиса Бардина

Country	Russia
Residence	Denver , USA
Born	November 30, 1987 Moscow, Soviet Union
Height	169 cm (5 ft 7 in)
Weight	60 kg (132 lb)
Turned pro	2003
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Career prize money	$226,238
Singles
Career record	137–67
Career titles	0 WTA (3 ITF titles)
Highest ranking	No. 48 (January 15, 2007)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	1R (2007)
French Open	1R (2007)
Wimbledon	1R (2007, 2006)
US Open	1R (2006)
Doubles
Career record	27–25
Career titles	0 WTA (3 ITF)
Highest ranking	117 (June 25, 2007)
Last updated on: December 29, 2007.

Vasilisa Alekseyevna Bardina (Russian: Василиса Алексеевна Бардина, born November 30, 1987) is a Russian professional tennis player.

As of August 10, 2007, her highest ranking was World Number 48, achieved in early 2007. She has won 3 ITF Women's Circuit singles titles and 3 ITF doubles titles, but not any WTA titles in singles or doubles.

Tennis career

Vasilisa made the final of Moorilla Hobart International in 2007, before losing to Anna Chakvetadze.

She was forced off the tour after Wimbledon in 2007 due to injury, she had suffered a stress fracture in her right shin. She tried to come back at the Australian Open in 2008, but it was too soon after her injury and she had only been practicing for two weeks before the event. She lost in straight sets to Sandra Kloesel in qualifying. It was around this time that Bardina spilt from her coach, her father Alexey Bardin, whom she has described as a "pushy Dad". Bardina made a few tentative appearances at ITF events in North America in 2009 with limited success.

Bardina moved to Denver and worked as a coach at the Evergreen Sports Center, which is where she met former pro Jeff Salzenstein in 2011, who has starting coaching her. Under Salzenstein's guidance, Bardina successfully won the US Open National Playoffs Intermountain Sectional Qualifying Tournament held at the Gates Tennis Center in Denver without dropping a set, which meant she could then play the US Open National Playoffs for a Wildcard into the qualifying draw of the main event.

Bardina's goal is to reach the top 10.

ITF Circuit finals

Singles 8 (5–3)

$100,000 tournaments

$75,000 tournaments

$50,000 tournaments

$25,000 tournaments

$10,000 tournaments

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
Runner-up	1.	27 June 2004	Protvino, Russia	Hard	Elena Chalova	2–6 1–6
Winner	2.	30 October 2004	Lagos, Nigeria	Hard	Jennifer Schmidt	6–1 6–3
Runner-up	3.	28 August 2005	Moscow, Russia	Clay	Alisa Kleybanova	2–6 2–6
Runner-up	4.	4 September 2005	Balashikha, Russia	Clay	Alla Kudryavtseva	6–2 5–7 4–6
Runner-up	5.	15 January 2006	Tampa, Florida, USA	Hard	Tiffany Dabek	7–5 6–7(3) 3–6
Runner-up	6.	12 February 2006	Midland, Michigan, USA	Hard	María Emilia Salerni	3–6 6–3 4–6
Winner	7.	9 April 2006	Pelham, Alabama, USA	Clay	Anda Perianu	6–1 6–4
Winner	8.	16 April 2006	Jackson, Mississippi, USA	Clay	Stéphanie Dubois	4–6 6–2 6–0

Doubles 5 (3–2)

$100,000 tournaments

$75,000 tournaments

$50,000 tournaments

$25,000 tournaments

$10,000 tournaments

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score
Winner	1.	21 September 2003	Sidi Fredj, Algeria	Clay	Eva Valkova	Liza Viplav Jennifer Schmidt	7–5 6–2
Winner	2.	27 June 2004	Protvino, Russia	Hard	Julia Vorobieva	Maria Gugel Elena Chalova	2–6 1–6
Runner-up	3.	4 July 2004	Krasnoarmeisk, Russia	Hard	Julia Vorobieva	Ekaterina Bychikova Vailiisa Davydova	6–7(4) 0–6
Runner-up	4.	10 July 2005	Darmstadt, Germany	Clay	Yaroslava Shvedova	Vanessa Henke Laura Siegemund	4–6 2–6
Winner	5.	25 March 2006	Redding, California, USA	Hard	Ahsha Rolle	Elena Baltacha Yevheniia Savransky	7–5 3–6 [8–10]

References

• ITF site

External links

• Vasilisa Bardina at the Women's Tennis Association