Mariya Serhiyivna Koryttseva (; born 25 May 1985) is a Ukrainian former
tennis
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player.
On 18 August 2008, she achieved her career-high singles ranking of world No. 50. On 23 June 2008, she peaked at No. 39 in the doubles rankings.
Career
Koryttseva made a surprising run to the final of the
Sunfeast Open, held in Kolkata, in September 2007. En route to her appearance in the final, she beat
Monique Adamczak,
Vania King, who had defeated the No. 1 seed
Marion Bartoli
Marion Bartoli (; born 2 October 1984) is a French former professional tennis player. Bartoli won the 2013 Wimbledon Championships – Women's singles, 2013 Wimbledon Championships singles title, after previously being runner-up in 2007 Wimbledo ...
in the previous round,
Tatiana Poutchek and
Anne Keothavong. Her run came to an end at the hands of
Maria Kirilenko
Maria Yuryevna Kirilenko ( rus, Мари́я Ю́рьевна Кириле́нко, p=mɐˈrʲijə kʲɪrʲɪˈlʲenkə, a=Ru-Maria_Kirilenko.ogg; born 25 January 1987) is a Russian former professional tennis player. A junior Grand Slam champio ...
, who beat her in the final. She lost the doubles final as well.
She has won six doubles titles on the
WTA Tour
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, two coming at
Palermo
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, where she won with
Giulia Casoni in 2005, and again with
Darya Kustova in 2007. She won the
2008 Auckland Open with
Lilia Osterloh. She was also the runner-up in doubles at Kolkata in 2007, where she lost the singles final, and lost the doubles final with
Alberta Brianti to
Vania King and
Alla Kudryavtseva
Alla Alexandrovna Kudryavtseva (; born 3 November 1987) is a retired Russian tennis player.
Kudryavtseva won one singles title and nine doubles titles on the WTA Tour, as well as two singles titles and 15 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circ ...
.
On the
ITF Circuit, where she has played the majority of her career, she won 7 singles and 20 doubles titles.
One of these came at the $100k event in Kharkiv.
In the second round of qualifying for the
2008 Kremlin Cup, Koryttseva beat
Anastasia Pivovarova 6–3, 6–7, 7–5 in 3 hours and 55 minutes, making it the third longest match in the
Open Era
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.
Between March 2012 and September 2015, Koryttseva didn't play any WTA or ITF tournament. She has not been on the professional tour since May 2017.
WTA career finals
Singles: 2 runner-ups
Doubles: 10 (6 titles, 4 runner-ups)
ITF finals
Singles: 14 (7–7)
Doubles: 30 (20–10)
Grand Slam singles performance timeline
Top 10 wins
External links
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Ukrainian FedCup team Official site
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References
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1985 births
Living people
Tennis players from Kyiv
Ukrainian female tennis players
Tennis players at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Olympic tennis players for Ukraine
21st-century Ukrainian sportswomen