Vesna Ratkovna Dolonc (
Serbian Cyrillic
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and russian: link=yes, Весна Ратковна Долонц; née Manasieva, Манасиева; born 21 July 1989) is a retired Serbian tennis player. She earned career-highs of 84 in singles and 93 in doubles.
Career
Dolonc began competing on the
ITF Circuit in September 2005, soon after her 16th birthday, and had risen to world No. 152 by 28 January 2008.
In February 2006, she won seven successive matches to come through qualifying and reached the semifinals of the $10k event at Portimão, Portugal, and in May 2006, she reached her first $10k final at Kiev, Ukraine. In 2007, she reached the semifinals at Stockholm-Salk ($25k level); Monzón, Spain ($75k level); Moscow ($25k level); and Podolsk, Russia ($25k level). In September 2007, she made it to the finals at the $100k tournament inn Kharkiv, Ukraine.
In 2008, she qualified for her third career WTA Tour main draw at Pattaya, defeated fifth-seeded
Angelique Kerber
Angelique Kerber (; born 18 January 1988) is a German professional tennis player. She has been ranked as high as world No. 1, for a total of 34 weeks, and won three major titles at the 2016 Australian Open, the 2016 US Open, and the 2018 Wi ...
of Germany with the loss of only three games, and reached her first WTA Tour quarterfinals.
Dolonc qualified for the
2011 Australian Open, and in the second round, defeated No. 17
Marion Bartoli
Marion Bartoli (; born 2 October 1984) is a French former professional tennis player. Bartoli won the 2013 Wimbledon Championships singles title after previously being runner-up in 2007, and was a semifinalist at the 2011 French Open. She also ...
in three sets.
In July 2012, she won her second career title in Donetsk.
2013
Dolonc began her season at the
Brisbane International
The Brisbane International established in 2009 is a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hardcourts in Brisbane, Queensland in Australia. It is a WTA Premier tournament of the WTA Tour and was part of the ATP World Tour 250 seri ...
. She lost in the first round of qualifying to María José Martínez Sánchez. Despite qualifying for the
Australian Open, Dolonc was defeated in the second round by eleventh seed Marion Bartoli.
In Paris at the
Open GdF Suez, Dolonc lost in the final round of qualifying to Monica Niculescu. During the
Fed Cup
The Billie Jean King Cup (or the BJK Cup) is the premier international team competition in women's tennis, launched as the Federation Cup in 1963 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the International Tennis Federation (ITF). The name was chan ...
tie versus Slovakia, Dolonc won her first rubber when Dominika Cibulková retired due to a leg muscle strain. In her second rubber, she was defeated by Daniela Hantuchová. Serbia ended up losing the tie 2-3.
2014
Dolonc announced her retirement from pro circuit on 14 February 2017 (her last match she played in November 2016).
WTA career finals
Doubles: 1 (runner–up)
ITF Circuit finals
Singles: 11 (3–8)
Doubles: 14 (5–9)
Performance timelines
Singles
''Only main-draw results in WTA Tour, Grand Slam tournaments and Fed Cup are included in win–loss records.''
Notes
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The first Premier 5 event of the year has switched back and forth between the Dubai Tennis Championships
The Dubai Tennis Championships or Dubai Open (also known as the ''Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships'' for sponsorship reasons) (formerly known for sponsorship reasons as the ''Barclays Dubai Tennis Championships'' and the ''Dubai Duty Free Men's ...
and the Qatar Open since 2009. The Dubai Championships were classified as a Premier 5 event from 2009–2011 before being succeeded by the Qatar Open for the 2012–2014 period. In 2015, the Dubai Championships regained its Premier 5 status while the Qatar Open was demoted to Premier status. The two tournaments have since alternated status every year.
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WTA Tier I held until 2008 (8, 9 or 10 tournaments per year), after this split up between Premier Mandatory (4 per year) and Premier 5 tournaments (5 per year)
Doubles
Personal life
She was born to a Serbian father Ratko Manasiev and a Russian mother. She changed her surname from "Manasieva" to "Dolonc" (Dolonts) when she was married to Arsen Dolonts on 1 October 2010.
See the paragraph "Biography" from her profile on WTA Tour official website
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References
External links
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1989 births
Living people
Russian female tennis players
Serbian female tennis players
Tennis players from Moscow
Serbian people of Russian descent
Russian people of Serbian descent