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Victoria Azarenka

Country	Belarus
Residence	Scottsdale, Arizona, U.S.
Date of birth	July 31, 1989 (1989-07-31) (age 18)
Place of birth	Minsk, Belarus
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight	60 kg (132 lb)
Turned Pro	2003
Plays	Right; Two-handed backhand
Career Prize Money	$639,904
Singles
Career record:	97-50
Career titles:	0 WTA, 1 ITF
Highest ranking:	No. 26 (November 5, 2007)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	3rd (2007)
French Open	1st (2006)
Wimbledon	3rd (2007)
U.S. Open	4th (2007)
Doubles
Career record:	41-20
Career titles:	1 WTA, 3 ITF
Highest ranking:	No. 29 (October 15, 2007)

Victoria Azarenka (Belarusian: Вікторыя Азарэнка, Азаранка, Russian: Виктория Азаренко; born July 31, 1989) is a tennis player from Minsk, Belarus, who became junior world champion in 2005. She won the 2007 U.S. Open mixed doubles title with her partner Max Mirnyi, and also finished runner-up at the 2007 Australian Open with him. Currently she lives in Scottsdale, Arizona and trains in Marbella, Spain. On November 5, 2007 she reached a career high of No. 26 in singles and No. 29 in doubles.

Contents 1 Career 2 Singles titles (0) 2.1 Runner-up (2) 3 Doubles titles (1) 3.1 Runner-up (5) 4 Grand Slam mixed doubles finals 4.1 Win (1) 4.2 Runner Up (1) 5 Singles performance timeline 6 External links

In 2005, Azarenka won the Australian Open and U.S. Open as a junior and was named the ITF Junior Girls World Champion for that year, the first player from Belarus to do so. That year as well Azarenka won her first ITF title in Petange, Luxembourg. In Guangzhou, China, she reached her first pro-level semifinal, winning three qualifying rounds and defeating Martina Suchá and Shuai Peng in the main draw before losing to eventual champion Yan Zi.

In 2006, at the event in Memphis, Azarenka defeated her first top 20 player, Nicole Vaidišová, and two months later defeated her second top 30 player in Jelena Janković at Miami. On clay, Azarenka pushed 2004 French Open champion Anastasia Myskina to 7-6 in the third in Rome and took clay-court specialist Anabel Medina Garrigues to 9-7 in the third set in the first round at Roland Garros. At the 2006 US Open, she had her first win over Myskina in the first round and lost to Anna Chakvetadze in the third round, her best result in a grand slam event to that date. In her next tournament, Azarenka reached her second pro-level semifinal in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, losing to Tiantian Sun. She finished the year reaching the final of an ITF event in Pittsburgh, losing to Aleksandra Wozniack.

Ranked #96 at the start of 2007, Azarenka reached her second straight slam third round at the Australian Open, losing to Janković in straight sets. She made consecutive third rounds at Indian Wells and Miami as well, losing to Vera Zvonareva and Vaidisova, respectively. In Estoril, Azarenka reached her first final on the tour, defeating Virginie Razzano, Francesca Schiavone, Gisela Dulko, and top seed Lucie Šafářová on the way. She lost to Greta Arn 2-6, 6-1, 7-6(3). Following Estoril, she made her fourth overall semifinal in Prague, retiring to eventual champion Akiko Morigami.

On grass, Azarenka pushed Chakvetadze to three sets at s-'Hertogenbosch and lost in the third round to Vaidisova at Wimbledon. For her hardcourt swing, she lost in three-sets to Maria Kirilenko in Stanford, Daniela Hantuchová in San Diego, and Janković in Los Angeles, where she reached her first Tier II quarterfinal. At the 2007 US Open, in singles, she defeated Martina Hingis 3-6, 6-1, 6-0 in the third round to reach her first slam fourth round, losing to 2004 US Open champion Svetlana Kuznetsova. In mixed doubles, she and countryman Max Mirnyi won the title, defeating Meghann Shaughnessy and Leander Paes in the final 6-4, 7-6(6), coming back from 2-6 down in the tiebreak.

In the fall indoor season, Azarenka reached her second Tier II quarterfinal in Luxembourg after upsetting fourth seed Nadia Petrova 6-2, 6-1 in the second round. The victory over Petrova was her first top 10 victory of her career. She then lost to Vera Zvonareva. Her next event was the Tashkent Open, where she beat Elena Vesnina in a straight-set semifinal win to advance to her second WTA Tour final. However, she lost to Pauline Parmentier 7-5, 6-2. The WTA tour points from Tashkent boosted her ranking to a career high of 32.

In her next tournament, the Kremlin Cup, she advanced to the singles quarterfinals after beating Sybille Bammer ranked 21 and Maria Sharapova ranked fourth. Her victory over Sharapova was her second top 10 victory of her career. In that match she saved 6 set points in the first set. She was down love-40 and 3-5 and came back to force a first set tie break. During that tie break she saved set points at 5-6, 6-7, and 8-9 before prevailing 11-9. She then lost to the eventual winner of the tournament, Elena Dementieva, in the quarterfinals. At the same tournament, in doubles, she advanced to the finals with her partner Tatiana Poutchek also of Belarus, losing to the WTA number one ranked doubles team of Huber and Black in three sets. Her strong showing at this tournament elevated her WTA ranking to a career high of 27th in singles and 29th in doubles.

Legend

Grand Slam (0)

WTA Championships (0)

Tier I (0)

Tier II (0)

Tier III (0)

Tier IV (0)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	May 6, 2007	Estoril, Portugal	Clay	Greta Arn	2-6, 6-1, 7-6(3)
2.	October 7, 2007	Tashkent, Uzbekistan	Hard	Pauline Parmentier	7-5, 6-2

Legend

Grand Slam (0)

WTA Championships (0)

Tier I (0)

Tier II (0)

Tier III (0)

Tier IV (1)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	May 14, 2006	Tashkent, Uzbekistan	Hard	Tatiana Poutchek	Maria Elena Camerin Emmanuelle Gagliardi	W/O

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partnering	Opponents in the final	Score
1.	February 26, 2006	Memphis, U.S.	Hard	Caroline Wozniacki	Lisa Raymond & Sam Stosur	7-6(2), 6-3
2.	July 29, 2007	Stanford, U.S.	Hard	Anna Chakvetadze	Sania Mirza Shahar Peer	6-4, 7-6(5)
3.	August 5, 2007	San Diego, U.S.	Hard	Anna Chakvetadze	Cara Black Liezel Huber	7-5, 6-4
4.	September 30, 2007	Luxembourg City, Luxembourg	Hard (i)	Shahar Pe'er	Iveta Benešová Janette Husárová	6-4, 6-2
5.	October 14, 2007	Moscow, Russia	Supreme (i)	Tatiana Poutchek	Cara Black Liezel Huber	4-6, 6-1,10-7

Year	Championship	Partnering	Opponents in Final	Score in Final
2007	U.S. Open	Max Mirnyi	Leander Paes Meghann Shaughnessy	6-4, 7-6(6)

Year	Championship	Partnering	Opponents in Final	Score in Final
2007	Australian Open	Max Mirnyi	Daniel Nestor Elena Likhovtseva	6-4, 6-4

To prevent confusion and double counting, information in this table is updated only once a tournament when the player's participation in the tournament has concluded. This table is current through the Kremlin Cup, which ended for Azarenka in singles on October 12th,2007. Victoria's complete 2007 match record can be found here[1]

Tournament	2006	2007	Career Win-Loss
Australian Open	1R	3R	2-2
French Open	1R	1R	0-2
Wimbledon	1R	3R	2-2
U.S. Open	3R	4R	5-2
Grand Slam Win-Loss	2-4	7-4	9-8
WTA Tour Championships	A	A	0-0
Tokyo	A	A	0-0
Indian Wells	A	3R	2-1
Miami	3R	3R	4-2
Charleston	A	A	0-0
Berlin	A	A	0-0
Rome	1R	A	0-1
San Diego	A	2R	1-1
Montréal/Toronto	A	A	0-0
Moscow	A	QF	2-1
Zurich	A	A	0-0
Tournaments Won	0	0
Year End Ranking	92	29	N/A

A = did not participate in the tournament

• 2005 ITF World Champions
• ITF Junior Profile
• Victoria Azarenka profile on the WTA Tour's official website

Preceded by Michaëlla Krajicek

ITF Junior World Champion 2005

Succeeded by Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova