Anna Alexandrovna Lapushchenko

Anna Lapushchenko
Nation:	Russia
Birthday:	October 24, 1986
Size:	172 cm
1st professional season:	2002
Playing hand:	Right, two-handed backhand
Prize money:	$ 293,618
singles
Career record:	186: 114
Career title:	0 WTA , 11 ITF
Highest ranking:	93 (May 24, 2010)
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	41:41
Career title:	0 WTA, 1 ITF
Highest ranking:	157 (March 9, 2009)
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Anna Alexandrovna Lapuschtschenkowa ( Russian Анна Александровна Лапущенкова ; born October 24, 1986 in Moscow ) is a former Russian tennis player .

Career

In October 2002, shortly before her sixteenth birthday, Lapushchenko played her first ITF tournament. From 2005 she won a total of eleven singles and one double title at ITF tournaments. In May 2010 she achieved her best placement in the WTA world rankings with position 93 .

Even if she always had to struggle to qualify for the main draw of a WTA tournament, she was able to beat several top 100 players in smaller tournaments and in qualifying rounds.

2010

At the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix 2010 in Stuttgart, Lapuschtschenkowa managed to jump into the main field through qualification. In the second round, she beat the world number nine Wiktoryja Asaranka 6: 3 and 6: 3, her first victory over a top ten player. In the quarterfinals she defeated the 38th in the world rankings, Lucie Šafářová , 7: 6 ¹ , 1: 6 and 6: 1. She then lost the semifinals to Samantha Stosur, despite a 5-2 lead in the first set and a break in the second set 5: 7, 3: 6. Nevertheless, she made a leap into the top 100 in the world rankings.

At the French Open , she failed in the first round of qualification. At Wimbledon she was qualified for the first time directly for the main draw of a Grand Slam tournament . She lost her first round encounter against Zwetana Pironkowa with 0: 6 and 6: 7 ⁷ .

Lapushchenko won her last title in August 2010 at an ITF tournament in Kazan . She played her last match on the women's tour on October 18, 2010 at the WTA tournament in Moscow , where she failed in the first round of qualification. Since October 2011 it is no longer included in the rankings.

Tournament victories

singles

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	July 9, 2006	Zhukovsky	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Julia Solonitskaya	1: 6, 7: 5, 7: 5
2.	September 24, 2006	Tbilisi	ITF $ 10,000	Hard court	Amina Rachim	7: 6 0 , 6: 2
3.	August 12, 2007	Moscow	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Xenia Palkina	6: 4, 6: 3
4th	August 19, 2007	Penza	ITF $ 50,000	sand	Kristina Antoniichuk	6: 4, 6: 2
5.	September 1, 2007	Moscow	ITF $ 50,000	sand	Galyna Kosyk	6: 3, 6: 1
6th	August 9, 2008	Moscow	ITF $ 75,000	sand	Anikó Kapros	5: 1 task
7th	November 15, 2009	Minsk	ITF $ 50,000	Hard court (hall)	Lyudmyla Kitschenok	5: 7, 7: 6 3 , 6: 2
8th.	March 7, 2010	Minsk	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court (hall)	Lesja Zurenko	6: 1, 3: 6, 7: 6 2
9.	March 28, 2010	Moscow	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court (hall)	Elena Kulikova	6: 4, 6: 2
10.	April 4, 2010	Khanty-Mansiysk	ITF $ 50,000	Carpet (hall)	Lyudmyla Kitschenok	6: 2, 6: 2
11.	August 15, 2010	Kazan	ITF $ 50,000	Hard court	Vitalia Dyachenko	6: 1, 2: 6, 7: 6 4

Double

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Partner	Final opponents	Result
1.	March 8, 2008	Minsk	ITF $ 25,000	Carpet (hall)	Julija Bejhelsymer	Ima Bohusch Ksenija Mileuskaja	6: 4, 7: 5

Web links

• WTA profile of Anna Alexandrovna Lapuschtschenkowa (English)
• ITF profile of Anna Lapuschtschenkowa (English)
• ITF junior profile Anna Lapuschtschenkowa (English)