Player Profile: Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova

Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova; born July 3, 1991, Samara, Russia), is a professional tennis player from Russia and a multiple junior Grand Slam champion.

Junior career

Pavlyuchenkova first made headlines by winning the 2006 Australian Open junior title, defeating Caroline Wozniacki. She then won the US Open junior title against Tamira Paszek and defended her Australian Open title in 2007, defeating Madison Brengle.


Pro career

Her success in juniors enabled her to enter ITF and WTA tournaments, winning a small ITF tournament in Italy in May 2006. In October 2006 Pavlyuchenkova received a wildcard into the Kremlin Cup losing in the first round to rising Czech Nicole Vaidišová 6–3 6–3. She then barely missed out on qualifying for the 2007 Australian Open, losing to Julia Vakulenko in the final round of qualifying.

Pavlyuchenkova then received a wildcard into The Championships, Wimbledon in 2007, but was beaten by tenth seed Daniela Hantuchová 6–0 6–1 in just forty minutes, winning only fourteen points.

She is current No. 188 on Sony Ericsson WTA Tour Ranking List.

Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova profile on the WTA Tour's official website.

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