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Anastasia Myskina - Definition and Overview
Anastasia Myskina.

Anastasia Andreyevna Myskina (Анастасия Мыскина in Russian) (ah-nass-TAH-seeya MUYSS-kee-nah) (born July 8, 1981, Moscow, Russia) is a professional tennis player from Russia.

Contents
1 Tennis career
2 Titles (9)

2.1 Performance Timeline

3 External links

Tennis career

Myskina turned professional in 1998, the year in which she broke into the WTA top 500. The very next year, she entered the top 100 and went on to end 2002 in the top 20 and 2003 in the top 10.

Myskina has won 9 WTA tour singles titles in her career. In 2004 she won Roland Garros, her first grand slam. She routed fellow Russian Elena Dementieva 6-2, 6-1 in the final to become the first Russian woman to win a grand slam singles event. Myskina led Russia to its first Fed Cup title in dramatic final against France in 2004.

Myskina, who has won over 4 million in career prize money, reached a career high #2 in the world on September 13, 2004. This position is the highest of any female Russian tennis player in history. She finished the 2004 season as world's #3 and was named the 2004 ITF world champion.

Titles (9)

Legend
Grand Slam (1)
WTA Championships (0)
WTA Tour (8)
No. Date Tournament Opponent in the final Score
1. 1999-07-12 Palermo Angeles Montolio (Spain) 3-6 7-6 6-2
2. 2002-09-09 Bahia Eleni Daniilidou (Greece) 6-3 0-6 6-2
3. 2003-02-10 Doha Elena Likhovtseva (Russia) 6-3 6-1
4. 2003-03-31 Sarasota Alicia Molik (Australia) 6-4 6-1
5. 2003-09-22 Leipzig Justine Henin-Hardenne (Belgium) 3-6 6-3 6-3
6. 2003-09-29 Moscow Amelie Mauresmo (France) 6-2 6-4
7. 2004-03-01 Doha Svetlana Kuznetsova (Russia) 4-6 6-4 6-4
8. 2004-05-24 Roland Garros Elena Dementieva (Russia) 6-1 6-2
9. 2004-10-11 Moscow Elena Dementieva (Russia) 7-5 6-0

Performance Timeline

Tournament 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999
Australian Open 4r QF QF 2r - - -
Roland Garros W 2r 1r 1r 1r -
Wimbledon 3r 4r 3r 2r 3r -
US Open 2r QF 3r 1r 1r 2r
WTA Tour Championships SF 1r 4r - - -
Finals reached
Tournaments Won 0 3 4 1 0 0 1
Win-Loss 1-1 55-18 46-22 50-29 24-18 22-20 19-8
Year End Ranking 3 7 11 59 58 65

External links

  • WTA Tour Profile (http://www.wtatour.com/players/playerprofiles/playerbio.asp?PlayerID=130533)
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