Varvara Lepchenko
Varvara Lepchenko (Russian Варвара Петровна Лепченко; born May 21, 1986 in Tashkent, then Soviet Union) is an American tennis player. She lives since 2000 in the U.S. and has since 24 September 2011, the U.S. citizenship. By September 2007, she played for Uzbekistan.
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Career
She started at the age of seven years playing tennis and won so far eleven individual tournaments and one doubles tournament on the ITF Women's Circuit.
On the WTA Tour in 2009 it celebrated its largest ever sporting success when she in Charleston the second round of the Family Circle Cup (Category: Premier) reached, in which they, however, Elena Dementieva defeated in two straight sets. In 2010 she retired in the quarterfinals of Ponte Vedra Beach: against Wolha Hawarzowa (Category International). Your best results in Grand Slam tournaments she scored by reaching the second round at the 2006 U.S. Open (two- set defeat against Marion Bartoli ) and in 2010 at the French Open (Off to 0:6 in the third set against Dominika Cibulková ) and Wimbledon ( 3:6 in the third set against the Ukrainian Alyona Bondarenko ). In 2011 she was able to confirm her performance in Paris.
In 2012 she caused a stir when she could advance into second round with a tight three-set victory over the former title holder Francesca Schiavone at the French Open. There, the blow came against the seeded Petra Kvitová 4 ( 2:6, 1:6 ). Nevertheless Lepchenko climbed in the WTA world rankings at number 51 in Wimbledon, they also reached the third round in 2012, where she again had against defending champion Petra Kvitová with 1:6 and 0:6 in the cold. After her quarter-finals in Carlsbad, California ( three-set defeat to Nadia Petrova ), and their second round participation in Montreal ( three-set defeat against Caroline Wozniacki ) it has again improved in the rankings. At the U.S. Open she was then for the third time this year in the third round of a Grand Slam tournament, where they defending champion Samantha Stosur was beaten. Your good results brought her in the WTA rankings with 19th place their previous record.
The year 2013, was along with Saisai Zheng from China to a " double year ". At the Australian Open, she reached the semi-finals, in which they had to defer to the local hero inside Casey Dellacqua and Ashleigh Barty in two sets. At the French Open, they were only stopped in the quarterfinals by eventual finalists Sara Errani / Roberta Vinci. In June Lepchenko reached logical space 40 of the double world rankings. At Wimbledon and at the U.S. Open, the two left against strong opponents of each in the second round.