Lessja Zurenko

Lessja Zurenko
Lessja Zurenko 2016 in Birmingham
Nation:	Ukraine
Birthday:	May 30, 1989
Size:	174 cm
Weight:	67 kg
1st professional season:	2007
Playing hand:	Right, two-handed backhand
Trainer:	Adriano Albanesi
Prize money:	$ 4,194,492
singles
Career record:	387: 261
Career title:	4 WTA , 6 ITF
Highest ranking:	23 (February 18, 2019)
Current placement:	27
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	110: 67
Career title:	0 WTA, 8 ITF
Highest ranking:	115 (May 28, 2018)
Current placement:	227
Grand Slam record
Last update of the infobox: May 20, 2019
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Lessja Viktoriwna Zurenko ( Ukrainian Леся Вікторівна Цуренко ; born May 30, 1989 in Volodymyrez , Ukrainian SSR , USSR ) is a Ukrainian tennis player .

Career

Zurenko began playing tennis at the age of six. When she was 17, she moved to Kiev , where she studied sport (for a teaching post ) for three semesters. In 2007 she became a professional tennis player.

In 2008 she won two singles and three doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit . In 2010 she won the ITF tournament in Minsk , followed by other individual titles in Tbilisi, Istanbul and Bratislava in 2011. In doubles, there were three more ITF tournament wins in 2009 and two in 2010.

After she made it to the semi-finals at the WTA tournament in Brisbane at the beginning of 2013, where she was defeated by Anastassja Pavlyuchenkova in three sets, Zurenko was in the top 100 of the world rankings for the first time . By moving into the third round at the subsequent Australian Open , she celebrated her best result in a Grand Slam tournament to date . At the US Open , she made it to the round of 16 for the first time in such a tournament in 2016.

In July 2015 she finally won her first title on the WTA Tour in Istanbul when she defeated Urszula Radwańska in two sets in the final.

In July 2017 it achieved its best ranking to date with 29th place in the individual world rankings. In 2018, she reached the quarter-finals of a women's singles Grand Slam for the first time in her career at the 2018 US Open .

Zurenko has been playing for the Ukrainian Fed Cup team since 2011 . She won ten of her 21 Fed Cup games to date in singles and three of her five doubles.

Tournament victories

singles

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	July 26, 2015	Istanbul	WTA International	Hard court	Urszula Radwańska	7: 5, 6: 1
2.	September 24, 2016	Guangzhou	WTA International	Hard court	Jelena Janković	6: 4, 3: 6, 6: 4
3.	5th March 2017	Acapulco	WTA International	Hard court	Kristina Mladenovic	6: 1, 7: 5
4th	4th March 2018	Acapulco	WTA International	Hard court	Stefanie Vögele	5: 7, 7: 6 2 , 6: 2

Performing in Grand Slam tournaments

singles

competition	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	Balance sheet	Career
Australian Open	2	2	3	1	1	1	1	2	2	6: 9	3
French Open	-	1	1	-	1	1	3	AF		5: 6	AF
Wimbledon	1	1	2	2	2	1	3	2		6: 8	3
US Open	-	1	1	1	2	AF	1	VF		8: 7	VF

Double

competition	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	Balance sheet	Career
Australian Open	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	0: 1	1
French Open	-	1	1	-	1	-	1	1	0: 4	1
Wimbledon	-	-	-	-	-	1	AF	-	2: 2	AF
US Open	-	-	-	-	2	-	-	-	1: 1	2

Web links

Commons : Lessja Zurenko  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• WTA profile of Lessja Zurenko (English)
• ITF profile Lesya Zurenko (English)
• Fed Cup statistics from Lessja Zurenko (English)