Vera Zvonareva

Her ranking was high enough for a direct entry into the Wimbledon Championships, where she lost in the second round to the 23rd seed Iva Majoli.

At the US Open, Zvonareva lost to world No. 7, Kim Clijsters, in the third round.

Her ranking rose into the top 100 after the French Open and into the top 50 after the US Open.

Igor played Bandy in the USSR championship with Dynamo Moscow, and Nataliya played field hockey and was the bronze medalist at the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games.

Zvonareva was introduced to tennis at age six by her mother.

Vera Igorevna Zvonareva (Вера Игоревна Звонарёва; born 7 September 1984) is a Russian professional tennis player.

Zvonareva was born in 1984 in Moscow to Igor Zvonarev and Natalia Bykova.

Zvonareva started to compete on the ITF Women's Circuit in 1999, debuting at an ITF tournament in Tbilisi, Georgia.

She won three qualifying matches there to reach the main draw before losing in the first round.

The following year 2000, she turned professional and won an ITF event in Moscow, without dropping a set, despite being unranked.

The event was just the second event she had played in her professional career.

Five weeks later, she made her WTA-level debut at the Tier I tournament in Moscow, beating world No. 148, Elena Bovina, before losing to world No. 11, Anna Kournikova, in the second round.

During this time, she won the Orange Bowl Under-18s event in 2000 and 2001.

In 2001, she failed to qualify for WTA Tour events in Key Biscayne and Moscow, but reached a semifinal at the ITF tournament in Civitanova, Italy.

In 2002, Zvonareva won her second ITF title in Naples, Florida and in July reached her first singles final on the WTA Tour at Palermo, losing to Mariana Díaz Oliva, in three sets.

She also achieved semifinal finishes in Warsaw and Sopot, plus a quarterfinal finish in Bol, Croatia.

Zvonareva won three qualifying matches at the French Open to reach the main draw for the first time at a Grand Slam tournament.

She lost there in the fourth round to eventual champion, Serena Williams, in three sets.

In 2003, Zvonareva won the title at the Tier-III event in Bol, beating Conchita Martínez Granados in the final, and reached three other semifinals (including the Tier-II event in Linz).

She defeated a top-10 player for the first time when she beat world No. 10 Anastasia Myskina in Berlin.

At the French Open, Zvonareva defeated world No. 3, Venus Williams, in the fourth round, before losing in the quarterfinals to world No. 76, Nadia Petrova.

Her French Open results caused her ranking to enter the top 20.

She reached the quarterfinals in six out of the seven Tier I events she contested.

Her debut for the Russian Fed Cup team was in the World Group quarterfinals against Slovenia.

Russia won 5–0, but lost to France 2–3 in the semifinals.

In doubles, she reached her first WTA final at Moscow with Myskina.

She ended the year ranked world No. 13.

Her other two major titles came in mixed doubles, the first at the 2004 US Open with Bob Bryan, and her second at the 2006 Wimbledon Championships, with Andy Ram.

She also won the doubles title at the 2023 WTA Finals partnering Siegemund.

In 2004, Zvonareva won her first career Grand Slam title, winning the mixed doubles competition at the US Open with Bob Bryan.

She won one singles title, in Memphis and reached the final of the events in Cincinnati and Philadelphia, losing to top-10 players Lindsay Davenport and Amélie Mauresmo.

In the final of the Memphis event, Zvonareva trailed hometown favorite Lisa Raymond 5–2 in the third set, before saving three match points and winning the last five games of the match to win the title.

In addition to this, she reached the semifinals of three Tier-I tournaments in Rome, San Diego, and Montreal.

She lost in San Diego to fellow Russian Anastasia Myskina in a match that featured a final set tiebreak that ended 17–15.

Zvonareva and Myskina teamed in the final of the Fed Cup, playing in the crucial final rubber against Marion Bartoli and Émilie Loit, which the pair won, 7–6, 7–5, to seal Russia's first Fed Cup title.

Three came in women's doubles, first at the 2006 US Open, partnering Nathalie Dechy, and the 2012 Australian Open, with Svetlana Kuznetsova.

She was also a bronze medalist at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

In doubles, Zvonareva has won five major titles.

Her career-high singles ranking by the WTA is world No. 2 and in doubles world No. 7. Zvonareva has won twelve WTA Tour singles titles, including the 2009 Indian Wells Open, and reached the finals of the 2008 WTA Tour Championships, 2010 Wimbledon Championships, and 2010 US Open.

Following her return to tennis, Zvonareva won her third major title at the 2020 US Open, partnering Laura Siegemund.