Akgul Charievna Amanmuradova ( uz, Oqgul Omonmurodova; born June 23, 1984) is a professional

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player from

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. At 1.90 metres in height, she is one of the tallest female tennis players in history. Amanmuradova has won two doubles titles on the

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, as well as ten singles and 16 doubles titles on the

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. On 26 May 2008, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 50. On 18 January 2010, she peaked at No. 36 in the WTA doubles rankings. Amanmuradova has twice reached the final of the

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in her native Uzbekistan, losing in 2005 to

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and in 2009 to

Shahar Pe'er Shahar Pe'er ( he, שחר פאר, ; born ) is an Israeli retired tennis player. Pe'er won five singles and three doubles titles on the WTA Tour, as well as four singles and three doubles titles on the ITF circuit in her career. She reached ...

. She has also reached the final of the 2011 President's Cup in

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Career

2000–2006

Amanmuradova played her first WTA Tour match in her home town of

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where she lost in the first round. She played her first ITF tournaments in 2002, and reached the semifinals in Mysore and finals in Manila and Hyderabad, both times losing to

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. 2003 was a successful year for Amanmuradova; she won four singles titles, including a $25k tournament in Mumbai. She secured victories in Incheon, Pune and Mumbai. In August 2004, Amanmuradova won a $10k tournament in Coimbra, Portugal. She reached the semifinals in New Delhi and Mumbai and won two more titles in Pune and Bangkok. In 2005, she qualified for her first ever WTA Tour tournament in Pattaya City. She reached the semifinals in Phuket and Coimbra but her real success story came when she reached the final at the Tashkent Open. This run pushed her into the top 200 for the first time. Amanmuradova received a wild-card entry into the

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, where she defeated

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in three sets in the first round. In the second round, she faced 17th seed

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and was defeated in two sets. Amanmuradova then tried to qualify for Pattaya City and Bangalore but lost in the qualifying tournaments. She represented Uzbekistan in the Fed Cup again, this time playing in the Asia/Oceania Group 1. She lost to

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of Australia and Mi Yoo of South Korea. Uzbekistan was made to play New Zealand in the relegation play-off and Amanmuradova was matched up against

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. She lost in straight sets and Uzbekistan was relegated. Amanmuradova tried to qualify for

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, the

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and the US Open, but lost in the qualifying tournaments. She returned to Tashkent but failed to replicate her run from the previous year, falling to

Tamarine Tanasugarn Tamarine Tanasugarn ( th, แทมมารีน ธนสุกาญจน์, , ; born 24 May 1977) is a Thai former tennis player. Born in Los Angeles, she turned professional in 1994, and has been in the top 20 in both singles and doubl ...

in the first round. This meant she fell out of the top 200 for the first time in 2006. In November, Amanmuradova played the Shanghai $50k tournament and defeated the first, third and fifth seeds to reach the final. Here she faced Tamarine Tanasugarn again, and again she was unable to defeat her. At the end of 2006, Amanmuradova reached the final at Pune, a tournament she had won two times before. However, she was forced to retire with a knee strain. She ended the year with a 21–21 record and a ranking of 227.

2007–2009: Cincinnati Semifinalist and top 50 debut

Amanmuradova began the year by losing in the qualifying tournament at the

. This meant a significant drop in rankings as she had reached the second round in the previous year. In March, Amanmuradova headed to the $25k Mumbai tournament, which she won for the third time, dispatching

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in the final. At the

she managed to qualify by defeating

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and

Gréta Arn Gréta Arn (born 13 April 1979) is a Hungarian retired tennis player of Danube Swabian German descent. She has won two titles on the WTA Tour, the 2007 Estoril Open in Portugal, and the 2011 ASB Classic in Auckland, New Zealand, as well as ...

. In the first round she faced world No. 74,

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, whom she defeated in a tight match. In the second round Amanmuradova came up against world No. 10,

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, to whom she lost in two sets. This success boosted her ranking back into the top 200, and she reached a new career high of 141. In July, Amanmuradova headed to

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. Here she managed to qualify and make it to the semifinals, defeating

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along the way. However, she lost to Akiko Morigami in the semifinals, the same woman she had lost to in the fed cup five years prior. This success pushed her ranking up to 108. After another good performance in Tashkent, she moved into the top 100 for the first time. She ended the year with a record of 32–20 and a ranking of 97. Amanmuradova began the year 2008 with a direct acceptance into the 2008 Australian Open, the first time she had ever been accepted straight into a grand slam. She lost in the first round to 26th seed

Victoria Azarenka Victória Fyódarauna Azárenka ( be, Вікторыя Фёдараўна Азаранка; Russian: Виктория Фёдоровна Азаренко; born 31 July 1989) is a Belarusian professional tennis player. Azarenka is a former w ...

in two sets. Playing in the Fed Cup, Amanmuradova defeated

Chan Yung-jan Latisha Chan (born 17 August 1989), formerly known by her Chinese name Chan Yung-jan (; ), is a Taiwanese tennis player who is a former world No. 1 in doubles. She has won 33 career titles in doubles, including a Grand Slam title at the 2017 ...

of Chinese Taipei and Tamarine Tanasugarn for a chance of promotion. However, she lost to

of New Zealand in the promotion playoff. At Pattaya City, Amanmuradova made it to the semifinals, losing to American

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. After this, she rose to a career high of 85. In

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Amanmuradova managed to qualify for the premier event. After knocking out

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of France, she faced world No. 2, Ana Ivanovic. This was the first time she had played a top five player. She held her own, pushing the first set to a tie-break before losing the match in straight sets. Amanmuradova was playing some of her best tennis. At the 2008 İstanbul Cup, she made it to the semifinals, defeating

Nadia Petrova Nadezhda Viktorovna "Nadia" Petrova (russian: Надежда Викторовна Петрова ; born 8 June 1982) is a Russian former professional tennis player. A former top-five player in both singles and doubles, she reached a career-high ...

en route. Here she fell to world No. 7,

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. After this she reached her highest ever ranking of World No. 50. For the rest of the year she didn't excel as much as previously. She made it to the second round of the

for the second year running. She represented Uzbekistan at the Beijing Olympics, losing to

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in the first round. She ended the year with a 22–29 singles record and a ranking of 80. Amanmuradova began the year 2009 by reaching the second round at the 2009 Australian Open, defeating

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in the first round before falling to

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. Her ranking slipped throughout the year as she had little success on the

. She went to play at the $100k Biarritz event and reached the semifinals, defeating world No. 86,

Mathilde Johansson Mathilde Johansson (born 28 April 1985) is a Swedish-born retired French tennis player.Julia Görges. The next week she reached another semifinal at a $50k tournament in Contrexéville. She returned to the WTA Tour, but had little success until her home tournament, the

, where she reached her second WTA Tour final. She defeated

and

Yaroslava Shvedova Yaroslava Vyacheslavovna Shvedova (; born 12 September 1987) is a Kazakhstani former professional tennis player. Before 2008, she represented her country of birth, Russia. She won one singles title and 13 doubles titles on the WTA Tour, plus o ...

in straight sets en route to the final. In the final, she was defeated by

in two sets. Amanmuradova and partner

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won the

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at Eastbourne, the only WTA Premier event played on grass. She also won the $100k doubles tournament in Cuneo alongside

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. She ended the 2009 season ranked 85 with a win–loss record of 25–27.

2010: French Open third round

Amanmuradova began the year with three consecutive losses in qualifying at the

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and the Sydney International. She followed this up with a first-round loss at the

to Croatian

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. At the first round of the Pattaya Open, Amanmuradova was forced to retire with an abdominal strain whilst trailing Sabine Lisicki 6–0. In doubles, she had a successful start to the year, reaching the semifinals of the Brisbane International alongside Chan Yung-jan. After this, she rose to her career high in doubles: No. 36. Ammanmuradova then had some recent success in singles as she qualified for the Indian Wells Open after defeating

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and

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. However, in the first round she was defeated by

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. Amanmuradova then lost to

again the following week, this time in the first round of the qualifying draw of the Miami Open. She then qualified for the main draw of the Italian Open by defeating

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, and Chanelle Scheepers. She then lost to 12th seed

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in the first round. Amanmuradova then qualified for a Premier Mandatory

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, by defeating

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and

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. She again lost in the first round, this time 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

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, she was upset by world No. 537,

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, in the first round of the qualifying draw. At the

, her ranking enabled her to be directly entered into the main draw. In the first round, she caused one of the biggest upsets of the day by defeating 20th seed and well established clay-court player

. She then defeated

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to move into the third round for the first time in her career. She then lost to Chanelle Scheepers in two sets. Amanmuradova was unable to shift her good form onto the grass and suffered a first-round loss at the

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to Craybas and a first-round loss at

to Svetlana Kuznetsova. At the

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, Amanmuradova defeated

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in the first round before falling to

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in the second. Amanmuradova then suffered two more first-round losses. At the Italian Open, she was defeated again by Jill Craybas. She then lost in the first round of the

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. To begin preparations for the US Open, she entered the first tournament of the

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, the San Diego Open. Her ranking was too low for her to gain direct entry into the main draw, so she had to qualify. She won her first qualifying match against

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, but lost her second to Chanelle Scheepers. Then, next tournament Amanmuradova entered was the Cincinnati Masters. Again, she had to qualify to enter the main draw, and she did so by defeating

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and

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. In the first round of the main draw, she upset Japanese veteran

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. In the second round, she defeated

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to book a third-round encounter with top seed and world No. 2,

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. Despite being 112 places below Janković in the rankings, Amanmuradova won to record her first ever top-5 win. She ran out of steam in the quarterfinals, losing to another Serbian, resurgent Ana Ivanovic in two sets. At the US Open, Amanmuradova qualified by winning all three matches in the qualifying tournament. She defeated

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, and

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. In the first round of the main draw, she defeated Chanelle Scheepers for the third time that year. Her run was ended by No. 31 seed

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, in straight sets. Amanmuradova gained direct entry into the Guangzhou International Open and defeated

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in the first round. She was defeated in straight sets by Sania Mirza in the second round. Seeded No. 2 at her home tournament in

where she made the final in 2005 and 2009, Amanmuradova defeated

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in the first round. In the second, she defeated American veteran Jill Craybas for the first time, in three sets. In the quarterfinals, she was defeated in straight sets by No. 7 seed

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. She ended the year in the top 100 for the fourth year in a row with a ranking of 70.

2011–present

Amanmuradova failed to win a single match in Australia, losing in the first round of the

, the

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and the

. She won her first match of the season in Pattaya, Thailand, competing at the Pattaya Open where she defeated seventh seed

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in the first round. She then defeated Chanelle Scheepers to book a quarterfinal place against No. 4 seed

. Her run ended, however, after a drubbing by Hantuchová. She then competed at the

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, but lost in the first round to wildcard receiver

Amanmuradova started off the 2012 season falling in the qualifying draws of both

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and the Australian Open. She then represented Uzbekistan at the 2012 Fed Cup in

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, China. She won her singles match against

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, but lost both doubles matches. Amanmuradova then lost early in

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and

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and

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, respectively. She failed to qualify for the Premier Mandatory tournaments in Indian Wells and

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, and also lost in the first round at

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. As the clay-court season began, she managed to make it to the main draw of Charleston, but was beaten by Jill Craybas. She was given a

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spot in

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where she upset

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. She was also beaten in the qualifications at Roland Garros. On grass, she lost in round one at the Rosmalen Open. She also lost in the first round of Wimbledon, to Petra Kvitová in straight sets. As of 2019, she is playing on the ITF Circuit. She won her first title since 2014 at the $25k event at Almaty in September, defeating Valeriya Yushchenko in the final.

Grand Slam performance timelines

Singles

Doubles

WTA career finals

Singles: 2 (2 runner-ups)

Doubles: 4 (2 titles, 2 runner-ups)

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 20 (10 titles, 10 runner–ups)

Doubles: 47 (16 titles, 31 runner–ups)

Notes

References

External links

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Akgul Amanmuradova – official site
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