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Anna Chakvetadze
Anna Chakvetadze is a young Russian professional tennis player born on March 5, 1987 in Moscow.
Despite her young age she has managed to win seven WTA professional circuit titles and is the world's ranking number seven.
Chakvetadze’s break through was at the 2002 ITF Juniors in Istanbul her first doubles title. In 2003, Anna conquered the Juniors Championship at Wimbledon by defeating the Belgian Kirsten Flipkens; she also defeated Marta Domachowska and won the International Bavarian Junior Challenge, which gave her a career high of number 22 in the world juniors ranking.
In 2004, Anna made her first Grand Slam appearance; by the end of the year Chakvetadze remained as #91 in the professional WTA top 100 rankings.
On September 2006, Anna won her first WTA singles tournament and one month later she won her second WTA tournament at the Kremlin Cup Tier 1 tournament in Russia. She then engaged into the #16 position in the world ranking.
In 2007, Chakvetadze showed a great performance at the Australian Open making it to the fourth round; she also had a hard fight in the quarterfinals against Maria Sharapova to whom she lost. Addicionally, Ana participated in 2007 Proximus Diamond Games, where she managed to reach the semifinals, but again was defeated by Mauresmo.
That same year and due to her good performance, Anna reached the position #10 in the WTA rankings. Anna entered the 2007 French Open with great hopes and managed to get to the quarterfinals, but lost against Sharapova again.
Previously at the Acura Classic Tournament, Ana defeated Wimbledon champion Venus Williams 6-7 (5), 7-6 (3), 6-2. The 2007 U.S. Open was the first American Grand Slam for the tennis player where she had a good performance as well.
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