Victoria Azarenka
Victoria Azarenka at Australian Open (2012)
Birth Date: 1989
Turned pro: 2003
Joined the Belarus national tennis team in 2005
Victoria Azarenka is Belarus' representative in the world's women tennis elite.
Victoria Azarenka entered the Top 10 in the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour Rankings in March 2009. Two years later, in March 2011, she became the 3rd in the world rankings.
Victoria Azarenka is the first Belarusian tennis player ever to reach № 1. Victoria Azarenka secured her maiden Grand Slam title at Australian Open in January, 2012.
She is the second woman from Belarus ever to be ranked that high, following Natasha Zvereva who was ranked World Number 5 in the late 1980s.
Career Highlights:
World Number 1 in the current WTA rating list (as of 2012, 30 January).
The best WTA singles ranking – Number 3 (as of 2012, 30 January).
In 2005 Azarenka won the junior competition at both the Australian and US Open, and was subsequently named ITF Junior Girl’s World Champion of the year, a title never before earned by a player from Belarus.
The winner of the two Grand Slam mixed doubles – the 2007 US Open (teaming up with Max Mirnyi) and the 2008 French Open (with Bob Bryan).
The winner of the singles WTA titles in Brisbane, Miami and Memphis (2009), Moscow and Stanford (2010), Miami, Marbella and Luxemburg (2011), Sydney (2012). She is the winner of Grand Slam at Australian Open (2012).
Azarenka’s stunning victories:
over Martina Hingis at the US Open (2007)
over Nadezhda Petrova in Luxembourg (2007)
over Maria Sharapova at the Kremlin Cup (2007)
over Dinara Safina in Indian Wells (2009)
over Serena Williams in Miami (2009)
over Maria Sharapova in Stanford (2010)
over Maria Kirilenko at the Kremlin Cup (2010)
over Maria Sharapova at Australian Open (2012)
In 2009 Victoria Azarenka won a spot in the WTA Tour’s Sony Ericsson Championships. In 2010 and 2011 she also took part in these championships. In 2011 Petra Kvitova defeated Victoria in the Madrid Open final.
In 2012 Victoria Azarenko won two WTA Tournaments: in Sydney and Melbourne.
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