Yaroslava Shvedova

She then defeated 23rd seed Sabine Lisicki in the second round after she retired whilst trailing 3–6, 1–0.

In the third round, Shvedova advanced against unseeded Andrea Petkovic by winning another close match.

She fell to sixth seed Agnieszka Radwańska in the fourth round, in straight sets.

At the Barcelona Open, Shvedova defeated Anabel Medina Garrigues in the first round before upsetting fourth-seeded Maria Kirilenko in the second.

Next, she defeated Iveta Benešová, before falling to eventual tournament and the eventual French Open champion Francesca Schiavone in the semifinals.

Shvedova enjoyed arguably her best career result at the French Open.

There, she advanced to the quarterfinals in the singles competition.

She defeated eighth seed Agnieszka Radwańska, avenging her loss to her in Miami, en route to the quarterfinals.

As the last unseeded player in the tournament, Shvedova was defeated by fourth seed Jelena Janković in the quarterfinal.

In mixed doubles, she partnered with Julian Knowle to reach the final, beating doubles legends Cara Black and Leander Paes, the second seeds, along the way.

They fell in a close final to sixth seeds Katarina Srebotnik and Nenad Zimonjić.

At the Wimbledon Championships, Shvedova entered the doubles competition unseeded with partner Vania King.

The two began playing together at the start of the grass-court season two weeks before, and were only in their third event together.

In a stunning string of upsets, Shvedova and King won the tournament, beating Elena Vesnina and Vera Zvonareva (who themselves beat Serena and Venus Williams in the quarterfinals) in the final.

Both Shvedova and King continued their good form onto the hardcourts of the US Open.

Seeded sixth, the team continued to win match after match, before taking a spot in their second consecutive major final, this time facing Liezel Huber and Nadia Petrova.

Yaroslava Vyacheslavovna Shvedova (Яросла́ва Вячесла́вовна Шве́дова; born 12 September 1987) is a Kazakhstani former professional tennis player.

In February 2007, she unexpectedly reached the final of the Bangalore Open, beating home-crowd favourite and No. 2 seed Sania Mirza in the quarterfinals.

In the final, she defeated top-seeded defending champion Mara Santangelo in straight sets, to win her first WTA Tour title.

This win caused her to be in the top 100 for the first time, at 78.

At the 2007 Miami Open, she came through qualifying and impressively recorded her first-ever top 20 win over future No. 1, Ana Ivanovic, in the second round, beating her in two sets.

However, Tathiana Garbin beat her in the third round.

Before 2008, she represented her country of birth, Russia.

She won one singles title and 13 doubles titles on the WTA Tour, plus one singles and one doubles title on WTA 125 tournaments, as well as four singles and three doubles titles on the ITF Circuit.

In August 2008, she won an ITF Circuit title in Monterrey, Mexico, defeating Magdaléna Rybáriková in the final in two sets.

Just over a week later, she won through the qualifying rounds for US Open, but lost to Agnieszka Radwańska in the first round.

In 2009, Shvedova qualified for the main draw at Roland Garros, defeating Americans Shenay Perry in the first qualifying round and Angela Haynes in the second.

She then beat Elena Baltacha in the final qualifying round to enter the main draw.

She beat Kaia Kanepi and advanced to the third round after defeating Arantxa Rus, also a qualifier.

There, she lost in a close three-sets match to former world No. 1, Maria Sharapova, returning from a long-lasting shoulder injury and then ranked 102.

At Wimbledon, she faced Monica Niculescu in the first round and defeated her with the loss of just one game, but lost to American teenager Melanie Oudin in the second.

At the US Open, Shvedova pulled off the biggest win of her career by beating then No. 5 Jelena Janković in three sets, in a match where she saved two match points.

Shvedova experienced a good run at the Miami Open.

She gained direct entry into the main draw and won a tight first-round match against wildcard Ajla Tomljanović.

Shvedova made three major singles quarterfinals: at the 2010 and the 2012 French Open, and also at the 2016 Wimbledon Championships.

She won two Grand Slam women's doubles titles, at the 2010 Wimbledon Championships and the 2010 US Open, partnering American player Vania King in both.

Shvedova is also one of only seven players to record a golden set in the Open era.

On 29 October 2012, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 25.

She achieved this feat 2012 at Wimbledon in her match against Sara Errani, the only time a golden set was recorded in a Grand Slam championship.

On 22 February 2016, she peaked at No. 3 in the doubles rankings.