Evgenia Simonovna Linetskaya (russian: Евгения Симоновна Линецкая, he, יבגניה לינצקיה; born 30 November 1986) is an Israeli professional tennis player. She won seven singles titles and one doubles title on the ITF Circuit in her career. On 4 July 2005, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 35. On 20 February 2006, she peaked at No. 283 in the doubles rankings. Linetskaya made it to the fourth round of the

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, where she lost to

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Biography

Linetskaya was born in Moscow, and is Jewish and plays with a

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necklace around her neck. She is coached by George Akopian. Her mother introduced her to tennis at age 6; she hit balls against school building for practice. Her father's Simon Linetsky is a professor of mathematics with a black belt in karate, and her mother Maria is an artist. She studied psychology for three years at

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and plans to study via online education to receive an

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. She speaks Russian, English and some Dutch. She is superstitious about stepping on court lines.

Tennis career

Early success

In February 2005, Linetskaya beat world No. 11,

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, 6–4, 6–2 in

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, Thailand. In March, she defeated world No. 2

in the third round in Indian Wells.

Problems

In late November 2005, her coach Joe Giuliano was barred for life by the

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for violating section 14, part IV, of the WTA code of conduct, which bars coaches from "non-consensual sexual contact". Her father, Simon Linetskiy, was suspended for two years. The bans resulted from events incidents at La Costa's

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in August 2005. Linetskiy was charged with suspicion of

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after his daughter had injuries treated at a hospital. Linetskaya did not play between January 2006 and February 2007. She dropped off the rankings computer altogether.

Comeback

In February 2007, she won the Montechoro tournament in Portugal. The following month, she won both the Ramat HaSharon 2 and the Raanana tournaments in Israel, without dropping a set in either tournament. In doubles, she won at Raanana with

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ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 12 (7–5)

Doubles: 2 (1–1)

References

External links

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Interview, 3/13/05
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Linetskaya, Evgenia 1986 births Living people Israeli female tennis players Israeli people of Russian-Jewish descent Jewish tennis players Russian emigrants to Israel Tennis players from Moscow