Anastasiya Yakimova ( be, Настасся Аляксееўна Якімава; russian: Анастасия Алексеевна Екимова; born 1 November 1986) is a former
tennis
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player from Belarus. She made it to the third round of the
2007 Australian Open, defeating
Ai Sugiyama
is a Japanese former tennis player. She reached the world No. 1 ranking in women's doubles on the WTA Tour and had a career-high singles ranking of world No. 8, achieved on February 9, 2004. In her career, she won six singles and 38 doubles t ...
of Japan, a seeded player, on the way in the second round.
The last tournament on the
ITF Women's Circuit
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History
It serves as a developmental ...
she played in August 2017, in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
Career
Yakimova began the year by qualifying for the
2009 Medibank International Sydney. She defeated
Stéphanie Cohen-Aloro,
Sophie Ferguson
Sophie Ferguson (born 19 March 1986, in Sydney) is a former professional Australian tennis player.
She won nine titles on the ITF Women's Circuit (six in doubles) and played on the WTA Tour. She reached a career-high singles ranking of world ...
and
Klára Zakopalová en route to qualifying. She faced
Annabel Medina Garrigues in the first round and lost in three sets. She then headed to the
Australian Open
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where she lost to
Gisela Dulko
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, also in three sets. She played her first
ITF tournament of the year at the $50k event in Cali, Colombia. As the fourth seed, Yakimova battled through to the final where she defeated
Rossana de los Ríos
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to take her seventh ITF title.
She then qualified for both
Indian Wells and
Miami
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, two Premier Mandatory events. In Indian Wells, she defeated
Varvara Lepchenko Varvara (Cyrillic: Варвара; el, Βαρβάρα, ''Varvára''), a variant of " Barbara", may refer to:
Places
*Varvara, Azerbaijan
* Varvara, Prozor, on the Rama river, Bosnia and Herzegovina
* Varvara, Burgas Province, Bulgaria
* Varvara ...
before falling to reigning champion
Ana Ivanovic. In Miami, she beat fellow
Olga Govortsova
Olga Alekseyevna Govortsova ( be, Вольга Аляксееўна Гаварцова (Volha Alyakseyeuna Havartsova); ; born 23 August 1988) is a Belarusian professional tennis player. On 23 June 2008, she achieved a career-high singles ranki ...
and then 13th seed
Marion Bartoli
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to reach the third round. There she lost to
Alisa Kleybanova
Alisa Mikhailovna Kleybanova (russian: Алиса Михайловна Клейбанова, born 15 July 1989) is a Russian former tennis player. Her career-high singles ranking is world No. 20, achieved in February 2011. In her career. she wo ...
.
At the
2009 Barcelona Ladies Open, Yakimova qualified and managed to make it to her first WTA quarterfinal of the year. She defeated
Sorana Cîrstea
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and
Magdaléna Rybáriková
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before falling to eventual champion,
Roberta Vinci
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. She then played in the $50k Saint-Gaudens event as the top seed. She made it to the final where she defeated
Yanina Wickmayer
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for her second title of the year. Then, in
Strasbourg
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she received main-draw entry without qualifying. She defeated
Maret Ani
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At the start of 2006, she was the top-ranked player in Estonia, before losing that spot to Kaia Kanepi.
Ani was a junior basketball champion, but devoted herself to tenni ...
in the first round before falling to eventual finalist
Aravane Rezaï
Aravane Rezaï (; fa, ارغوان رضایی ''Arghavān-e Rezāyi'' , born 14 March 1987) is an Iranian–French tennis player. She has defeated many top players on the WTA Tour, such as Justine Henin, Venus Williams, Victoria Azarenk ...
.
At the
2009 French Open, she was drawn against comeback player
Maria Sharapova
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in the first round, losing in three sets.
In 2011, she won the $100k
Bahamas Open.
WTA career finals
Doubles: 3 (2 titles, 1 runner-up)
ITF Circuit finals
Singles: 25 (13–12)
Doubles: 18 (11–7)
Performance timelines
Singles
Doubles
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1986 births
Living people
Tennis players from Minsk
Belarusian female tennis players
Belarusian expatriates in Spain