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 | ||||||||||||
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Double | |||||||||||||
Career record: | 110: 67 | ||||||||||||
Career title: | 0 WTA, 8 ITF | ||||||||||||
Highest ranking: | 115 (May 28, 2018) | ||||||||||||
Current placement: | 227 | ||||||||||||
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Last update of the infobox: May 20, 2019 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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
- WTA profile of Lessja Zurenko (English)
- ITF profile Lesya Zurenko (English)
- Fed Cup statistics from Lessja Zurenko (English)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Zurenko, Lessja |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Zurenko, Lessja Viktorivna (full name); Цуренко, Леся Вікторівна (Ukrainian) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ukrainian tennis player |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 30, 1989 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Volodymyrez , Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic , USSR |