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player from Russia. She has career-high

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of 89 in singles and 41 in doubles. Khromacheva was provisionally suspended by the

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for one month from September 2019.

Personal life

Irina was born to Pavel and Natalya Khromacheva, on 12 May 1995 in Moscow. She trained at the Justine Henin Academy in Belgium. Khromacheva states that she doesn't have a favourite surface and likes everything. She started playing tennis at the age of four. Khromacheva, after her unsuccessful partnership with a Belgian coach, is now coached by

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Junior tennis

Khromacheva had a breakthrough on the

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in 2008, in that year she won her first title at the Junior Zagreb Open. In 2009, she won four junior titles and competed for the first time at the

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and US Open. She lost in both tournaments in the first round. In 2010, she won four junior titles, and on 7 June, she was No. 1 of the juniors. At Roland Garros, she fared much better than in the last year where she lost in the semifinals to

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, with 3–6 and 2–6 score. At Wimbledon, she lost in the quarterfinals to

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, 1–6 and 2–6, and at the last junior Grand Slam tournament of the year, the US Open, she lost in the second round also to Ons Jabeur, 3–6 and 3–6. In 2011, she lost the junior singles final of the

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in two sets; in the junior doubles draw, she reached semifinals.

Performance timelines

Singles

Doubles

WTA career finals

Doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)

WTA Challenger finals

Singles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)

Doubles: 4 (1 title, 3 runner-ups)

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 29 (18 titles, 11 runner–ups)

Doubles: 45 (30 titles, 15 runner–ups)

Junior Grand Slam finals

Girls' singles: 1 (runner–up)

Girls' doubles: 5 (3 titles, 2 runner–ups)

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* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Khromacheva, Irina 1995 births Living people Tennis players from Moscow Russian female tennis players French Open junior champions US Open (tennis) junior champions Grand Slam (tennis) champions in girls' doubles Match fixing in tennis 20th-century Russian women 21st-century Russian women