Maria Yuryevna Kirilenko

Maria Kirilenko
Training at the London 2012 Olympics
Nickname:	Makiri
Nation:	Russia
Birthday:	January 25, 1987
Size:	174 cm
1st professional season:	2001
Playing hand:	Right, two-handed backhand
Prize money:	$ 6,855,919
singles
Career record:	364: 257
Career title:	6 WTA , 3 ITF
Highest ranking:	10 (June 10, 2013)
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	255: 150
Career title:	12 WTA, 0 ITF
Highest ranking:	5 (October 24, 2011)
Grand Slam record
Mixed
Grand Slam record
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

2006 at the US Open

2007 at Wimbledon

Marija Jurjewna Kirilenko ( Russian Мария Юрьевна Кириленко , scientific transliteration Marija Jur'evna Kirilenko ; born January 25, 1987 in Moscow , Soviet Union ) is a former Russian tennis player .

Career

Kirilenko started playing tennis at the age of seven. At the age of twelve she was discovered by Jelena Brjutschowez, who put together a very special training program for her. Less than three years later she was the best in her age group and the second best U-18 player. In addition, she was supported by well-known tennis players such as Evgeni Kafelnikow , Andrei Olchowski and Max Mirny , who also accompanied her to competitions.

In 2002 she was one of the youngest players to win the Canadian Open and the US Junior Open . From September 2002 she played regularly on the WTA Tour . Persecuted by bad luck with injuries, she made little progress in the world rankings at first. In 2005 she won her first WTA title at the Beijing tournament .

2006

At the opening tournament in Auckland Kirilenko reached her first quarter-finals, in which she failed at the eventual finalist Vera Swonarjowa . At the Australian Open , where she presented the Adidas collection by Stella McCartney , she met Lindsay Davenport , to whom she lost 4-6, 6-4, 2-6. The following week she reached the quarter-finals again in Tokyo, but clearly lost to Martina Hingis (2: 6, 1: 6). In Dubai she achieved a respectable success when she defeated Nadja Petrowa 6: 4, 6: 1, then she lost to Svetlana Kuznetsova in three sets.

In Miami she lost in the round of 16 against the later finalist Marija Sharapova in a high-class match 6: 3, 4: 6 and 1: 6. After the first round in Warsaw (again against Hingis, who demanded everything at 5: 7, 6: 7), the clay court season was quite passable. The following week she was defeated by Justine Henin in the second round of the Qatar Telecom German Open . At the French Open , Anna-Lena Grönefeld was eliminated in the third round, but Kirilenko reached 20th place in the world rankings for the first time.

The second half of the year was worse. At Wimbledon , she lost in round one. This was followed by first round defeats in San Diego , Los Angeles and New Haven . Only in Montreal could she win a match. At the US Open she reached the third round, in which she had to admit defeat to Aravane Rezaï . Another series of defeats followed: in Beijing the defending champion came out in round two, in Seoul as well as in Tokyo and Moscow it was the end of the line in round one, so that she slipped to 33rd position. In Zurich she then moved into the quarter-finals. A week later she had to give up her first round game in Linz due to hip problems and thus ended the season.

2007

At the start of the season, Kirilenko lost in the second round of Gold Coast against the eventual winner Dinara Safina and in Hobart her opening match against Sania Mirza . At the Australian Open she was defeated by Kuznetsova 1: 6, 4: 6 after victories over Karolina Šprem and Julia Wakulenko in round three.

In the first round of the Toray Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo she had to compete against Shahar Peer both in singles and - with her compatriot Wera Duschewina  - in doubles. They defeated the Israeli woman and her partner Marion Bartoli , the next day Kirilenko also beat Shahar Peer in the singles. It was her first win over a top 20 player in a year. Then she was defeated by the local hero Ai Sugiyama . Seeded at number 2, she had to admit defeat to Nicole Pratt in three sets in Pattaya .

In Dubai she first won against Monica Niculescu , but then lost in three close sets against Daniela Hantuchová . In doubles, Kirilenko and Hingis were eliminated in round one. A week later in Doha she won her opening match against Anne Kremer without any problems , she lost the round of 16 in two straight sets against her doubles partner Hingis. In doubles, the pairing entered with a wildcard won the tournament. In Indian Wells, Kirilenko made it to the third round and suffered a clear defeat there against her compatriot Anna Tschakwetadze .

In Miami the end came after a bye in round two against Venus Williams , followed by a three-week break. In Budapest she lost again her opening match against Anne Kremer, followed by three more first round defeats: in three sets in Oeiras against a qualifier, in Berlin against Li Na and in Rome against Ai Sugiyama. At the French Open she reached round two, but lost to Samantha Stosur after a big fight in three sets. At the tournament in Birmingham Kirilenko defeated Raquel Kops-Jones 6: 3, 6: 3 and then defeated Nathalie Dechy 5: 7, 6: 2 and 6: 0; in the last sixteen she lost just about the eventual winner Jelena Janković (6: 3, 3: 6 and 5: 7). In Eastbourne she failed in round one to Sybille Bammer (2: 6, 3: 6).

At Wimbledon, she lost in round one against Alizé Cornet, who had moved into the main draw as a lucky loser . In Stanford she reported back with a first round win against Viktoria Asaranka , who was two places better in the world rankings , after which she failed with 0: 6 and 6: 7 ⁵ to Katarina Srebotnik . At the tournament in San Diego she reached the quarterfinals with wins over Hana Šromová, Lucie Šafářová and Jelena Janković, but then lost to Jelena Dementjewa . At the subsequent WTA tournament in Los Angeles , she reached the quarter-finals again with straight wins over Jelena Bowina , Marion Bartoli and Gisela Dulko , in which she was eliminated 4-6 and 4-6 against the eventual winner Ana Ivanović .

At the tournament in Toronto Kirilenko beat Martina Müller in the first round before she had to retire against Bartoli due to an injury. At the US Open she reached round three with victories over Martina Müller and Katerina Srebotnik, in which she was defeated by Julia Wakulenko. After a two-week break, she reported back in Kolkata ; with victories over Flavia Pennetta and Hantuchová she reached the final, in which she secured her second WTA title with a 6-0, 6-2 win over Marija Korytzewa . A week later in Seoul she moved into the final again, in which she was defeated by Venus Williams in three sets. Then she suffered four defeats in a row. Kirilenko finished the season with a record of 34 wins and 27 losses in the top 30.

2008

The year began for her in Auckland with the quarter-finals, in which she was defeated by Tamira Paszek in two sets. At the Australian Open, she reached the round of 16 of a Grand Slam tournament for the first time in her career, in which she narrowly lost to Daniela Hantuchová. In Doha, she failed in the second round to Anabel Medina Garrigues . After finishing the opening round in Dubai, Bengaluru , Indian Wells and Miami, Kirilenko won the Oeiras Tier IV tournament . In Berlin she had to fend off three match points against Jelena Wesnina in the first round ; she lost her round of 16 against Jelena Janković. Also in the round of 16 in Rome , she was eliminated by Janković. At the French Open, she surprisingly lost to qualifier Zheng Jie in the second round . With 15 wins from 18 clay court games, she managed to jump back into the top 20 after two years. At the grass tournaments in 's-Hertogenbosch and Wimbledon, she again lost her opening match. The hard court season got off to a promising start: the quarter-finals in Portorož and the semi-finals in Cincinnati, where she also won the doubles competition with Nadja Petrowa. This was followed by three defeats in a row, in New Haven, at the US Open and in Tokyo. This time she won the tournament in Seoul , where she had already reached the final the year before. In Tokyo and Moscow, she lost in round one. In Zurich and Linz , she made it into round two (defeats against Francesca Schiavone and Alizé Cornet). Your season balance: three single and one double titles.

2009

Kirilenko started with three defeats in a row in Sydney , Melbourne and Dubai. In Monterrey, she gave up in the second round against Lucie Šafářová due to injury. In Indian Wells she lost her opening match again, in Miami she lost to Flavia Pennetta in round two. In Miami she again reached the final as defending champion, but this time had to bow to Roberta Vinci . In Fez , she lost again in the opening round to Marta Domachowska from Poland. In Oeiras, as the defending champion, she lost the quarter-finals in three sets against Ekaterina Makarova . This was followed by four first round defeats in Madrid , at the French Open, in Birmingham and in Eastbourne. At Wimbledon, Kirilenko survived the first round for the first time since 2005, before losing to Caroline Wozniacki 0: 6, 4: 6. At the clay court tournament in Båstad , she failed again in the quarter-finals to Wozniacki. At the beginning of the hard court season, Kirilenko reached the second round in Stanford, Los Angeles and Cincinnati . After surviving the qualification, she lost in Toronto in round one against Pennetta, in New Haven she had to give up in the qualification. As in 2003, 2006 and 2007, she then reached the third round of the US Open with a victory over Agnieszka Radwańska , but was defeated by Li Na in two sets.

After a three-week break, Kirilenko started in Seoul and lost as the defending champion in the semifinals to the eventual winner Kimiko Date Krumm . In the third set she fought her way up after a 0: 5, but finally lost 4: 6. The opening game was over in Beijing and Osaka. In Moscow she was able to record a single victory for the first time; in the quarterfinals she was defeated by the eventual winner Francesca Schiavone. The season balance: 23:25 wins.

In doubles she reached the round of 16 of the Australian Open with Pennetta, and even the final with Agnieszka Radwańska in Dubai. With Pennetta she made it to the semi-finals in Indian Wells, in Miami the two failed in the second round. Together with Sorana Cîrstea she reached the final in Fès and lost the quarter-finals in Oeiras. In Madrid, she started again with Pennetta, but had to retire on lap one. At the French Open, she was eliminated in the round of 16. The lawn season was disappointing. With Radwańska she reached the final in LA, at the US Open she reached the quarter-finals with Wesnina. At the end of the season she and her compatriot Petrowa won the doubles competition in Moscow, it was the second title win for the pairing Kirilenko / Petrowa.

2010

In Auckland, she failed in the quarterfinals to Shahar Peer. In Melbourne she made it into the quarter-finals of a Grand Slam tournament for the first time. In her opening match, she beat Sharapova, the 2008 winner; in the round of 16 she profited from the surrender of her compatriot Dinara Safina with a score of 5: 4 before losing to Zheng Jie in two sets. For the first time Kirilenko reached the semi-finals in doubles (with Radwańska), from which Cara Black and Liezel Huber emerged as winners after three sets.

In Dubai she failed in the opening round, at the tournaments in Indian Wells and Miami in the third round against Caroline Wozniacki. In Marbella and Barcelona she was eliminated in round one and two respectively. After a weak start to the clay court season, she reached the quarter-finals in Rome (including beating Svetlana Kuznetsova), in which she was defeated by Serena Williams 1: 6, 4: 6. In the 2010 season she played doubles on the side of Radwańska (exception: Rome), with whom she reached the quarter-finals in Indian Wells, Miami and at the clay court tournaments. After a first round defeat in Madrid, Kirilenko made it into the round of 16 at the French Open. First she defeated Kuznetsova again, before she lost to the eventual winner Francesca Schiavone.

Her short grass season began in 's Hertogenbosch with a win over Ioana Raluca Olaru , but she had to retire in round two against Kirsten Flipkens . In Wimbledon she reached the third round for the first time and was eliminated there against Kim Clijsters (3: 6, 3: 6). In Stanford, the first tournament of the US Open Series , it was not over until the quarterfinals against Radwańska. In San Diego, Cincinnati and Montreal she won only one match in singles, but in doubles the tournaments in San Diego (with Jie Zheng) and Cincinnati (with Asaranka).

A week before the US Open, Kirilenko lost to Nadja Petrowa in the New Haven semi-finals. At the US Open itself, she reached the third round again, this time drawing the short straw against Kuznetsova. In Seoul, she was eliminated in round two against Safina. A week later in Tokyo, she reached round two, in which she lost to Pennetta. In Beijing she lost to Vera Swonaryova in round three. In Osaka, she gave up her match in round two.

She played her last tournament of the season in Moscow, where she reached the final, but lost to her doubles partner Asaranka 3: 6, 4: 6 after she was already 4: 0 in the second set.

2011/2012

Kirilenko won her ninth WTA tournament in doubles when she defeated the pairing Květa Peschke / Katarina Srebotnik in Madrid with Asaranka in straight sets. At the French Open, she made it to the last sixteen in both 2011 and 2010. At Wimbledon, she was eliminated in round three with a two-set defeat to defending champion Serena Williams. In the round of 16 at Stanford, she was able to take a set from Serena. In doubles she won another title with Asaranka with a final victory over Huber / Raymond. At the US Open she came with victories over Makarowa, Duschewina and Christina McHale to the second round; In the second set against Stosur, she won the longest tiebreak (17:15) in the history of the women's Grand Slam tournaments at 2: 6, 7: 6, 3: 6. At the WTA tournament in Beijing , she reached the quarter-finals with victories over Julia Görges , Sam Stosur and Tamira Paszek, but lost to Monica Niculescu in a close match of three. On October 24, 2011 Kirilenko reached fifth, her highest position in the double world rankings.

With constant performance, she also moved up in the individual world rankings, on May 14, 2012 she set a new personal record with 16th place. At the French Open, however, the end came in round two against Klára Zakopalová (4: 6, 6: 3, 3: 6). In doubles, she stood alongside Petrowa in the final, which the pairing Roberta Vinci and Sara Errani won in three sets. She continued her good run at Wimbledon, where she made it to the quarter-finals for the first time. In the end, she had to admit defeat to the later finalist Radwańska 5: 7, 6: 4 and 5: 7. In August Kirilenko was number 12 in the individual world rankings. At the Olympic Games in London she reached the semi-finals, which she lost to Sharapova with 2: 6 and 3: 6. In the decision for the bronze medal, she lost to Asaranka 3: 6 and 4: 6. At the WTA Tour Championships in Istanbul, she then celebrated her twelfth double title on the tour. At the end of 2012 she was 14th in singles and 7th in doubles.

Since 2013

In February (against Slovakia) and in April (against Japan), she played three individual games for the Russian Fed Cup team in 2013 ; she lost to Daniela Hantuchová , but defeated Dominika Cibulková and Kimiko Date-Krumm. Your Fed Cup balance sheet now shows three wins and four losses. Her first highlight on the WTA Tour was her entry into the semi-finals of Indian Wells, in which she had to admit defeat to Sharapova in two straight sets. Three weeks later, in Monterrey , Mexico , she was again in the semifinals, this time she was defeated by Angelique Kerber (4-6, 6-2, 2-6). In Madrid and Rome she reached the last sixteen, at the French Open she was eliminated in the quarterfinals 6: 7, ³ , 2: 6 against Asaranka. After another quarter-final in Eastbourne, it was a first-round defeat against Laura Robson at Wimbledon (3: 6, 4: 6). At the US Open she was eliminated in round three with 1: 6, 0: 6 against Simona Halep . In Beijing she lost 5-7, 5-7 against Serena Williams in the round of 16 before she had to give up her opening game against Cornet in the first set of the WTA Tournament of Champions . That ended the 2013 season for her.

She played her last match on the tour in September 2014. In July 2015, she announced that she had become a mother.

Tournament victories

singles

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	September 25, 2005	Beijing	WTA Tier II	Hard court	Anna-Lena Grönefeld	6: 3, 6: 4
2.	September 23, 2007	Calcutta	WTA Tier III	Hard court (hall)	Maria Korytseva	6-0, 6-2
3.	April 20, 2008	Oeiras	WTA Tier IV	sand	Iveta Benešová	6: 4, 6: 2
4th	June 15, 2008	Barcelona	WTA Tier IV	sand	María Martínez Sánchez	6-0, 6-2
5.	September 28, 2008	Seoul	WTA Tier IV	Hard court	Samantha Stosur	2: 6, 6: 1, 6: 4
6th	3rd February 2013	Pattaya	WTA International	Hard court	Sabine Lisicki	5: 7, 6: 1, 7: 6 1

Double

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Partner	Final opponents	Result
1.	June 12, 2004	Birmingham	WTA Tier III	race	Maria Sharapova	Lisa McShea Milagros Sequera	6: 2, 6: 1
2.	October 9, 2005	Tokyo	WTA Tier III	Hard court	Gisela Dulko	Shinobu Asagoe Maria Vento-Kabchi	7: 5, 4: 6, 6: 3
3.	March 2, 2007	Doha	WTA Tier II	Hard court	Martina Hingis	Ágnes Szávay Vladimíra Uhlířová	6: 1, 6: 1
4th	April 19, 2008	Oeiras	WTA Tier IV	sand	Flavia Pennetta	Mervana Jugić-Salkić İpek Şenoğlu	6: 4, 6: 4
5.	August 17, 2008	Cincinnati	WTA Tier III	Hard court	Nadia Petrova	Hsieh Su-wei Jaroslawa Schwedowa	6: 3, 4: 6, [10: 8]
6th	October 24, 2009	Moscow	WTA Premier	Hard court (hall)	Nadia Petrova	Marija Kondratjewa Klára Zakopalová	6: 2, 6: 2
7th	August 7, 2010	San Diego	WTA Premier	Hard court	Zheng Jie	Lisa Raymond Rennae Stubbs	6: 4, 6: 4
8th.	August 14, 2010	Cincinnati	WTA Premier 5	Hard court	Viktoriya Azaranka	Lisa Raymond Rennae Stubbs	7: 6 4 , 7: 6 8
9.	May 8, 2011	Madrid	WTA Premier Mandatory	sand	Viktoriya Azaranka	Květa Peschke Katarina Srebotnik	6: 4, 6: 3
10.	July 30, 2011	Stanford	WTA Premier	Hard court	Viktoriya Azaranka	Liezel Huber Lisa Raymond	6: 1, 6: 3
11.	March 31, 2012	Miami	WTA Premier Mandatory	Hard court	Nadia Petrova	Sara Errani Roberta Vinci	7: 6 0 , 4: 6, [10: 4]
12.	October 28, 2012	Istanbul	WTA Tour Championships	Hard court (hall)	Nadia Petrova	Andrea Hlaváčková Lucie Hradecká	6: 1, 6: 4

Performing in Grand Slam tournaments and the WTA Tour Championships

singles

competition	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	Balance sheet	Career
Australian Open	-	-	2	3	3	AF	1	VF	2	3	AF	-	18: 9	VF
French Open	-	2	1	3	2	2	1	AF	AF	2	VF	1	16:11	VF
Wimbledon	-	1	2	1	1	1	2	3	3	VF	1	2	11:11	VF
US Open	3	2	2	3	3	1	3	3	AF	3	3	1	19:12	AF

Double

competition	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	Balance sheet	Career
Australian Open	1	VF	AF	1	AF	HF	F.	AF	2	-	19: 9	F.
French Open	2	AF	1	2	AF	VF	VF	F.	-	1	17: 9	F.
Wimbledon	-	1	AF	2	1	2	1	2	2	-	6: 8	AF
US Open	AF	AF	1	1	VF	AF	HF	VF	-	-	16: 8	HF
WTA Tour Championships	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	S.	-	-	2-0	S.

Web links

Commons : Marija Kirilenko  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• WTA profile of Marija Jurjewna Kirilenko (English)
• ITF profile Marija Kirilenko (English)
• Fed Cup Statistics for Marija Kirilenko (English)
• Marija Kirilenko in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Just one year after separation from Alex Ovechkin - Maria Kirilenko is mother , tennisnet.com from July 25, 2015, accessed on July 26, 2015