Anna Chakvetadze

At Wimbledon, however, she was defeated in the third round by 31st-seeded Michaëlla Krajicek in three sets.

Chakvetadze then played five tournaments during the North American summer hard-court season.

At the Tier III Cincinnati Open, she was the top seed and won the title, defeating Akiko Morigami in the final.

She won her second consecutive tournament the following week at the Bank of the West Classic in Palo Alto, the first tournament of the US Open Series.

She defeated Sania Mirza in the final.

Anna Djambuliovna Chakvetadze (Анна Джамбулиевна Чакветадзе ; born 5 March 1987) is a Russian former professional tennis player.

In her career, Chakvetadze won eight WTA Tour singles titles.

Chakvetadze debuted on the ITF Women's Circuit in November 2001, losing in the first round in Minsk.

In July 2002, she won her first doubles title in Istanbul, teaming with fellow Russian Irina Kotkina.

In 2003, she made it to the final of the Junior Championships at Wimbledon before falling to Kirsten Flipkens in three sets.

The same year, she won the International Bavarian Junior Challenge, defeating Marta Domachowska in two sets.

Her record as a junior was 67–19 in singles, and 22–14 in doubles; her highest world ranking was No. 22, achieved in December 2003.

At the 2004 US Open, Chakvetadze won three qualifying matches to reach the main draw of her first Grand Slam singles tournament.

In the second round, she defeated world No. 3, Anastasia Myskina, before losing in the third round to Eleni Daniilidou.

With this result, she became tied for the second fastest player to defeat a top-ten player in WTA history, tying Serena Williams.

She broke into the top 100 in the WTA rankings in September, reaching world No. 91.

She reached the top 50 in June 2005, coming in at world No. 44.

On 25 September 2006, Chakvetadze won her first WTA Tour singles tournament at the Tier III event in Guangzhou, defeating Anabel Medina Garrigues in the final.

Two weeks later, she won her second WTA title at the Tier I Kremlin Cup in Moscow even though she was unseeded, beating Elena Dementieva and Nadia Petrova en route to the title.

These wins helped boost her ranking to world No. 16.

Chakvetadze started the year by winning the Tier IV Hobart International in Australia, her third WTA tournament title.

She defeated fellow Russian Vasilisa Bardina in the final.

She reached her highest singles ranking of world No. 5 in September 2007, after reaching the US Open semifinals.

She also made the quarterfinals of the Australian Open and French Open that same year.

She hit her peak of world No. 5 in 2007 after a semifinal appearance at the US Open.

Also in that year, she reached the quarterfinals at the Australian Open and the French Open, both of which were career bests for those events.

Four of her eight career singles titles also occurred in 2007.

At the Australian Open, where she was seeded 12th, she defeated eighth-seeded Patty Schnyder in the fourth round before losing in the quarterfinals to top-seeded Maria Sharapova.

In February, Chakvetadze reached the quarterfinals of the Open Gaz de France in Paris, where she lost to Amélie Mauresmo.

She then competed at the Proximus Diamond Games in Antwerp, where she lost in the semifinals to Mauresmo in three sets.

On February 19, she made her top-ten debut on the WTA rankings, at world No. 10.

At the Tier I Indian Wells Open, she lost in the fourth round to Shahar Pe'er.

She then reached the semifinals of the Tier I Sony Ericsson Open in Key Biscayne, where she was defeated by world No. 1, Justine Henin, in straight sets.

Chakvetadze then played four tournaments in Europe on red clay courts.

Chakvetadze lost in the quarterfinals of the Tier II Warsaw Open to Jelena Janković, the second round of the Tier I German Open in Berlin, and the second round of the Tier I Italian Open in Rome.

At the French Open, Chakvetadze lost to second-seeded Sharapova in the quarterfinals.

She won her second title of the year and first grass court title in 's-Hertogenbosch, with wins over Daniela Hantuchová and Janković.

She announced her retirement on 11 September 2013, due to a persisting back injury.

She is currently a commentator on the Eurosport channel.

Chakvetadze began playing tennis at the age of eight after being introduced to the sport by her mother.