Varvara Lepchenko

Seeded 21st at the Australian Open, she lost in the second round to Elena Vesnina.

However, in doubles, she and her partner, Zheng Saisai, reached the semifinals where they lost to Australian wildcards Ashleigh Barty and Casey Dellacqua.

Playing in the Fed Cup tie against Italy, Lepchenko won both of her matches over Roberta Vinci and Sara Errani.

However, Lepchenko's two wins were not enough as the USA fell to Italy 2-3.

Her next tournament was the Wimbledon Championships, where she defeated Austrian Patricia Mayr-Achleitner, and in the second round, 31st seed and former top-15 player, Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova before she lost against defending champion, Petra Kvitová, 1–6, 0–6.

She then advanced to the second round of the Carlsbad Open by defeating Nicole Gibbs, 6–3, 6–1.

She lost in the quarterfinals to Nadia Petrova, 4–6, 6–2, 6–7.

Lepchenko reached third round of the US Open, where she was defeated in straight sets by defending champion Samantha Stosur.

Lepchenko began the year by playing at the Brisbane International.

She lost in the first round to third seed and eventual champion, Serena Williams.

At the Sydney International, Lepchenko was defeated in the first round by Ekaterina Makarova.

Varvara Petrivna Lepchenko (Варвара Петрiвна Лепченко; born May 21, 1986) is an Uzbekistani-born American tennis player.

She is of Ukrainian descent, and she formerly played for Uzbekistan.

In her career, Lepchenko has won one singles title on the WTA Challenger Tour, with 13 singles titles and one doubles title on the ITF Women's Circuit.

She won all her 14 ITF titles in the United States.

Lepchenko was born into a Ukrainian family residing in Tashkent in 1986 and started playing tennis at age seven; her father Petr became her coach.

She turned pro in 2001.

She reached a junior career-high of 244 on 5 January 2004.

In 2006, she reached the second round of the US Open, and in October that year, she was ranked world No. 84.

In the 2009 Amelia Island Championships, as a lucky loser, she upset fourth seed Patty Schnyder in the first round.

She also reached the final of an ITF tournament in Cuneo this year.

Lepchenko reached the second rounds of the French Open and Wimbledon in 2010.

She lost to Dominika Cibulková and Alona Bondarenko, respectively.

After qualifying for the main draw at the Madrid Open, she beat 2010 French Open champion Francesca Schiavone in three sets in the first round.

After defeating Shahar Pe'er and Anabel Medina Garrigues, her run was ended by Agnieszka Radwańska.

Nevertheless, she rose to a career-high No. 59.

In round three, she defeated 14th seed 2010 French Open champion and defending finalist Francesca Schiavone, also in three sets.

In 2011 at the French Open, Lepchenko recorded the biggest win of her career by defeating 18th seed Flavia Pennetta, in the first round.

Lepchenko started the year at the Auckland Open where she lost in the second round of qualifying to Anne Keothavong.

At the Sydney International, she was defeated in the first round of qualifying by Maria Kirilenko.

Coming through qualifying at the Australian Open, she lost in the first round to 20th seed Daniela Hantuchová.

Seeded No. 7 for qualifying at the Open GdF Suez, Lepchenko lost in the final round of qualifying to top seed Mona Barthel, in straight sets.

However, she received entry as a lucky loser into the main draw, but was defeated in the first round by compatriot Christina McHale.

At the Qatar Open, Lepchenko advanced to the third round where she lost to world No. 6, Agnieszka Radwańska, after holding set points in the first set.

Her next tournament was the Memphis International where she made the quarterfinals and lost to Alberta Brianti, in two sets.

She lost in round four to fourth seed and 2011 Wimbledon Champion Petra Kvitová, 2–6, 1–6.

However, it was a breakthrough tournament for Lepchenko as she had never advanced further than the second round of a Grand Slam tournament previously.

She was provisionally suspended from the WTA Tour in 2016 after testing positive for the heart medication meldonium, although she was found to "bear no fault or negligence" by the International Tennis Federation.

In 2022, Lepchenko was suspended from tennis for four years (backdated to August 2021), after testing positive for the stimulant adrafinil, and its metabolite, modafinil.

She began the French Open with a three-set win over also unseeded Ksenia Pervak, before she upset 19th seed and former world No. 1, Jelena Janković.