Anna Chakvetadze
Anna Chakvetadze Dschambulilowna (Russian Анна Джамбулиловна Чакветадзе; born March 5, 1987 in Moscow, then the Soviet Union) is a former Russian tennis player of Georgian origin.
Career
2004 moved Chakvetadze, which is since 2003 a professional player, one at her Grand Slam debut with a win over the former number three in the world, Anastasia Myskina in the third round of the U.S. Open. In the same year she was the first time among the top 100 in the world.
In 2005, she reached the third round of the French Open and again the third round of the U.S. Open and made so that a jump into the top 50 in the world rankings. At the end of the year she was ranked 33
2006 Chakvetadze won the Tier I event in Moscow. On the way to the title she defeated by Dinara Safina, Elena Dementieva and Nadia Petrova three top ten players. They also won the tournament of Guangzhou and came at the U.S. Open last sixteen. At the end of the year she was ranked 13 in the world rankings.
In 2007 she won the WTA tournaments in Hobart and 's- Hertogenbosch. They also reached the quarter -finals at the Australian Open and the French Open. The end of July Chakvetadze won the tournament by Stanford. In August, she arrived in San Diego to the semifinals, but it lost to Maria Sharapova in straight sets. At the U.S. Open she reached the first Grand Slam semifinal of her career. There, she defeated her compatriot Svetlana Kuznetsova 6-3, 1:6 and 1:6. On 10 September 2007 Chakvetadze was number 5 in the world rankings, their personal best until today. With her victory over Francesca Schiavone ( 6:4, 4:6, 6:4 ) was Russia defending champion Italy defeat and won the Fed Cup.
At the Porsche Cup in Stuttgart Chakvetadze lost their first match against Tatiana Golovin with 6:7, 1:6. Also in the Kremlin Cup in Moscow, she had to put up against defending champion Dinara Safina a first round defeat ( 6:7 and 2:6 ). When Masters of the eight best players of the season in Madrid in 2007 it reached with victories over Jelena Jankovic and Serena Williams the semi-finals, but lost again her compatriot Maria Sharapova bow. Chakvetadze ended the year 2007 as number 6 in the world.
The start of the 2008 season was rather modest. One first round defeat in Sydney against Katarina Srebotnik of Slovenia was followed by a defeat in the third round of the Australian Open against Maria Kirilenko (7:6, 1:6, 2:6 ). In February, they then celebrated their seventh against Ágnes Szávay tournament victory in the final of Paris. In New Haven they reached the finals, where they the Dane Caroline Wozniacki had to admit defeat. Until then, they had won all their WTA finals.
In 2009 and 2010 she was able to keep in the top 100. From mid-July to end of August 2010, she won 15 of 16 matches and realized this also their last two tournament victories in Portoroz and Bronx. Only the semi-final against the world number one Wozniacki at the tournament in Copenhagen was lost. In 2011, she said some tournaments off due to illness and, according to WTA last several because hoax.
In January 2012, it reached at the WTA tournament in Hobart, which she won in 2007, once the quarter-finals, but had to give up on set tie early in the third set of her match against Shahar Peer. Her last WTA tournament she played in September 2012 in Tashkent, where she reached the final in the last sixteen single and doubles. A year later, in September 2013, it was due to a persistent back injury her career end known.