Olga Mykolayivna Savchuk ( uk, Ольга Миколаївна Савчук; born 20 September 1987) is a retired
tennis
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player from
Ukraine
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. Savchuk grew up in the city of Makiyivka in Donetsk province. She resides in
Nassau
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Canada
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, Bahamas.
Her best accomplishment to date was reaching the third round of the
2006 Australian Open
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Marat Safin could not defend his 2005 title, due to an injury he suffered in late 2005. Roger Federer won his second Australian Open title, defeating Marcos Baghdatis in the fin ...
. Her career-high singles ranking is world No. 79, which she achieved on 19 May 2008.
Since the beginning of 2020, Savchuk is one of the two coaches of top-ten player
Karolína Plíšková
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, along with
Daniel Vallverdú
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Vallverdú has formerly c ...
and since November 2020 along with
Sascha Bajin
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Biography
He is best known as the former hitting partner of Serena Williams when she won several of her major title wins; and for coachi ...
.
Career
On 5 August 2007, in
Washington, D.C.
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, Savchuk reached the Legg Mason USTA Women's Pro Circuit final as the No. 2 seed, but was defeated by
Melinda Czink
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Czink reached two WTA Tour singles finals. In 2005, she lost to Ana Iva ...
of Hungary in two sets.
Savchuk won three doubles titles on the
WTA Tour
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WTA Tour tourna ...
, 2008 the
Tashkent Open
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Since 2014, the event has been scheduled in early ...
, and 2017 the
Hobart International
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both with
Raluca Olaru
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Yuliya Beygelzimer
Yuliya Markovna Beygelzimer ( ua, Юлія Марківна Бейгельзимер; born 20 October 1983) is a retired tennis player from Ukraine.
Career
She is perhaps best known for nearly defeating Jennifer Capriati at the 2004 French Op ...
. She won one
WTA 125K series
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In the past (2012–2015) sometimes called the WTA Challenger seriesNingbo International Open where she won with
Arina Rodionova
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Rodionova has won nine singles and 42 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. In 2007, ...
in 2014.
She was also runner-up in doubles finals in 2010 at the
Copa Colsanitas
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A clay court is one of the types of tenni ...
with
Anastasiya Yakimova
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, and in 2015 at the Malaysian Open with Yuliya Beygelzimer, the
Swedish Open
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with
Tatjana Maria
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She has won two singles ...
, and the
Baku Cup
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with
Vitalia Diatchenko
Vitalia Anatolyevna Diatchenko ( rus, Виталия Анатольевна Дьяченко, , vʲɪˈtalʲɪjə dʲjɪˈtɕenkə, Ru-Vitalia_Diatchenko.ogg; born 2 August 1990) is a Russian professional tennis player. Her career-high singles ...
. On 23 October 2017, she peaked at No. 33 in the WTA doubles rankings.
She was the winner of three singles and seven doubles titles on the ITF Circuit.
Playing for Ukraine Fed Cup team, Savchuk has a win–loss record of 21–8 in
Fed Cup
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