Alexandra Panova Biography

Alexandra Alexandrovna Panova (, born 2 March 1989) is a professional Russian tennis player. Her highest WTA singles ranking is 71, which she reached on 30 July 2012. Her career high in doubles is 38, which she reached on 18 January 2016.

Career

2009

In January, Panova obtained an invitation from the Hong Kong Tennis Patrons' Association to play 2009 JB Group Classic with her compatriot Anna Chakvetadze (she replaced Maria Sharapova for injury) and Vera Zvonareva, and then she entered the Australian Open women's qualifying singles unseeded and made it to the qualifying third round before losing to unseeded Julia Schruff of Germany 7-6, 6-4.

2011

In August, Panova made her grand slam debut at the US Open by coming through qualifying. In the first round she faced the 8th Seed, Marion Bartoli, a match that she ended up losing 7-5, 6-3.

2012

In February Panova made it to her first WTA final at the 2012 Copa Sony Ericsson Colsanitas, upsetting the 5th seed Gisela Dulko along the way. She lost to Lara Arruabarrena-Vecino in the final, but won the doubles championship. She then won her second doubles title of the year at the 2012 Grand Prix SAR La Princesse Lalla Meryem.

At the 2012 US Open, Panova faced then-world No. 1 and eventual runner-up Victoria Azarenka in the first round and was heavily defeated, losing in straight sets and winning just one game.

2013

Panova participated in the 2013 Fed Cup final against Italy. She lost a marathon match against Roberta Vinci in the first rubber 5-7, 7-5, 8-6. Panova squandered a 7-5, 5-2, 40-15 lead. Italy went on to win the Fed cup tie 3-0.

2014

Panova made a positive start to 2014 by qualifying for the main draw of the 2014 Brisbane International by defeating Katarzyna Piter, Aliz Lim and No.3 seed Hsieh Su-wei. In the first round of the main draw she faced Kaia Kanepi and lost in three sets.

Panova won her fourth WTA doubles title at the Baku Cup, partnering with British Heather Watson. In the final they crushed Raluca Olaru and Shahar Pe'er.

Now with Margarita Gasparyan as her doubles partner, Panova reached the finals of the 2014 Tashkent Open, losing to Kruni?/Siniakov. This was Gasparyan's first WTA final in her career.

2015

Panova entered the main draw at the 2015 Australian Open through qualifying. She won her first ever match at a Grand Slam by beating Sorana Crstea in the first round. She then came up against fellow countrywoman Maria Sharapova in the second round and lost in three sets after having 2 match points on her serve.

2016

Panova started the new season losing in qualifying tournaments of Brisbane, Australian Open and St. Petersburg. She received her first main draw entry at the Malaysian Open, losing there in the first round. She renewed herself in Bogota, Mexico, where she has been traditionally playing well. There Panova defeated the first-seeded Elina Svitolina, saving five match points in the third set after being 3-6 behind Svitolina.

Performance timeline

Singles

Tournament	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	SR	W-L
Grand Slam Tournaments
Australian Open	A	Q1	Q1	Q3	1R	Q2	2R	0 / 2	1-2
French Open	Q2	Q1	Q1	1R	Q2	Q2	Q1	0 / 1	0-1
Wimbledon	A	Q1	Q1	1R	Q1	Q1	Q2	0 / 1	0-1
US Open	Q1	Q3	1R	1R	Q3	Q3	1R	0 / 2	0-2
Win-Loss	0-0	0-0	0-1	0-3	0-1	0-0	1-1	0 / 6	1-6

Doubles

Tournament	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	SR	W-L
Grand Slam Tournaments
Australian Open		1R	2R	1R	2R	0 / 4	2-4
French Open	1R	2R	1R	3R	2R	0 / 5	4-5
Wimbledon	1R	1R	1R	Q1	2R	0 / 4	1-4
US Open	2R	2R	1R	1R	2R	0 / 4	2-4
Win-Loss	1-3	2-4	1-4	2-3	3-3	0 / 17	9-17

WTA career finals

Singles: 1 (1 runner-up)

Winner "? Legend
Grand Slam tournaments (0-0)
WTA Tour Championships (0-0)
Tier I / Premier Mandatory & Premier 5 (0-0)
Tier II / Premier (0-0)
Tier III, IV & V / International (0-1)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Runner-up	1.	19 February 2012	Copa Sony Ericsson Colsanitas, Bogot, Colombia	Clay	Lara Arruabarrena-Vecino	2-6, 5-7

Doubles: 10 (6 titles, 4 runners-up)

Legend
Grand Slam tournaments (0-0)
WTA Tour Championships (0-0)
Tier I / Premier Mandatory & Premier 5 (0-0)
Tier II / Premier (0-0)
Tier III, IV & V / International (6-4)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Winner	1.	20 September 2010	Tashkent Open, Tashkent, Uzbekistan	Hard	Tatiana Poutchek	Alexandra Dulgheru Magdalna Rybrikov	6-3, 6-4
Winner	2.	18 February 2012	Copa Sony Ericsson Colsanitas, Bogot, Colombia	Clay	Eva Birnerov	Mandy Minella Stefanie Vgele	6-2, 6-2
Winner	3.	28 April 2012	Grand Prix SAR La Princesse Lalla Meryem, Fes, Morocco	Clay	Petra Cetkovsk	Irina-Camelia Begu Alexandra Cadan?u	3-6, 7-6(7-5), [11-9]
Runner-up	1.	3 February 2013	PTT Pattaya Open, Pattaya, Thailand	Hard	Akgul Amanmuradova	Kimiko Date-Krumm Casey Dellacqua	3-6, 2-6
Runner-up	2.	23 February 2013	Copa Sony Ericsson Colsanitas, Bogot, Colombia	Clay	Eva Birnerov	Tmea Babos Mandy Minella	4-6, 3-6
Winner	4.	27 July 2014	Baku Cup, Baku, Azerbaijan	Hard	Heather Watson	Raluca Olaru Shahar Pe'er	6-2, 7-6(7-3)
Runner-up	3.	13 September 2014	Tashkent Open, Tashkent, Uzbekistan	Hard	Margarita Gasparyan	Aleksandra Kruni? Kate?ina Siniakov	2-6, 1-6
Winner	5.	2 August 2015	Baku Cup, Baku, Azerbaijan	Hard	Margarita Gasparyan	Vitalia Diatchenko Olga Savchuk	6-3, 7-5
Winner	6.	3 October 2015	Tashkent Open, Tashkent, Uzbekistan	Hard	Margarita Gasparyan	Vera Dushevina Kate?ina Siniakov	6-1, 3-6, [10-3]
Runner-up	4.	18 September 2016	Coupe Banque Nationale, Quebec City, Canada	Carpet (i)	Alla Kudryavtseva	Andrea Hlav?kov Lucie Hradeck	6-7(2-7), 6-7(2-7)

ITF Career Finals

Singles (7-7)

$100,000 tournaments

$75,000 tournaments

$50,000 tournaments

$25,000 tournaments

$10,000 tournaments

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Winner	1.	29 May 2005	Kiev, Ukraine	Clay	Oxana Lyubtsova	3-6, 7-6(7-4), 2-0 ret.
Runner-up	2.	24 September 2006	Mytilini, Greece	Hard	Anna Gerasimou	4-6, 4-6
Winner	3.	1 October 2006	Thessaloniki, Greece	Clay	Madlen Kadur	6-7(7-9), 6-4, 6-2
Runner-up	4.	5 May 2008	Changwon, Korea	Hard	Xie Yanze	6-4, 6-4
Runner-up	5.	12 May 2008	Kurume, Japan	Carpet	Chang Kai-Chen	7-5, 6-3
Winner	6.	21 March 2010	St. Petersburg, Russia	Hard	Neuza Silva	6-1, 7-5
Runner-up	7.	18 July 2011	La Corua, Spain	Clay	Gail Brodsky	6-3, 6-4
Winner	8.	5 September 2011	Saransk, Russia	Clay	Marina Melnikova	6-0, 6-2
Winner	9.	2 October 2011	Telavi, Georgia	Clay	Alexandra Cadan?u	4-6, 6-1, 6-2
Winner	10.	16 September 2013	Batumi, Georgia	Hard	Kateryna Kozlova	6-4, 0-6, 7-5
Winner	11.	29 September 2013	Telavi, Georgia	Clay	Victoria Kan	7-5, 6-1
Runner-up	12.	9 March 2014	Campinas, Brazil	Clay	Irina-Camelia Begu	2-6 4-6
Runner-up	13.	16 March 2014	So Paulo, Brazil	Clay	Irina-Camelia Begu	5-7 6-4 4-6
Runner-up	14.	6 May 2017	La Marsa, Tunisia	Clay	Myrtille Georges	1-6, 1-6

Doubles (15-11)

$100,000 tournaments

$75,000 tournaments

$50,000 tournaments

$25,000 tournaments

$10,000 tournaments

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Winner	1.	10 April 2005	Minsk, Belarus	Carpet	Olga Panova	Olga Govortsova Kateryna Polunina	7-5, 6-3
Winner	2.	29 May 2005	Kiev, Ukraine	Clay	Olga Panova	Vasilisa Davydova Kristina Movsesyan	6-2, 6-0
Winner	3.	22 September 2006	Mytilini, Greece	Hard	Maja Kambi?	Anna Koumantou ?pek ?eno?lu	6-2, 6-1
Winner	4.	29 September 2006	Thessaloniki, Greece	Clay	Nicole Clerico	Amra Sadikovi? Stefanie Vgele	6-4, 7-6(10-8)
Winner	5.	12 September 2008	Rousse, Bulgaria	Clay	Ksenia Pervak	Vitalia Diatchenko Eugeniya Pashkova	6-2, 6-7(5-7), [10-5]
Winner	6.	8 March 2009	Fort Walton Beach, United States	Hard	Tomoko Yonemura	Ekaterina Bychkova Ekatarina Dzehalevich	6-2, 6-2
Runner-up	7.	22 March 2009	Redding, United States	Hard	Tomoko Yonemura	Anna Orlik Maa Zec Pekiri?	6-2, 6-2
Runner-up	8.	26 April 2009	Dothan, United States	Clay	Ekaterina Bychkova	Julie Ditty Carly Gullickson	6-2, 1-6, [6-10]
Runner-up	9.	20 March 2010	St. Petersburg, Russia	Hard	Eugeniya Pashkova	Alyona Sotnikova Maryna Zanevska	5-7, 3-6
Winner	10.	3 April 2010	Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia	Carpet	Ksenia Pervak	Lyudmyla Kichenok Nadiia Kichenok	7-6(9-7), 2-6, [10-7]
Runner-up	11.	9 May 2010	Fukuoka, Japan	Carpet	Marina Erakovic	Misaki Doi Kotomi Takahata	4-6, 4-6
Runner-up	12.	4 June 2010	Maribor, Slovenia	Clay	Ksenia Pervak	Andreja Klepa? Tadeja Majeri?	3-6, 6-7(6-8)
Winner	13.	20 December 2010	Pune, India	Hard	Nina Bratchikova	Anna Shkudun Sachie Ishizu	6-3, 7-6(7-2)
Runner-up	14.	21 March 2011	Moscow, Russia	Hard	Olga Panova	Lyudmyla Kichenok Nadiia Kichenok	6-3, 6-3
Winner	15.	8 July 2011	Biarritz, France	Clay	Urszula Radwa?ska	Erika Sema Roxane Vaisemberg	6-2, 6-1
Runner-up	16.	25 July 2011	Astana, Kazakhstan	Hard	Akgul Amanmuradova	Vitalia Diatchenko Galina Voskoboeva	6-3, 6-4
Runner-up	17.	8 August 2011	Kazan, Russia	Hard	Vitalia Diatchenko	Andreja Klepa? Ekaterina Lopes	W/O
Runner-up	18.	26 March 2012	Osprey, United States	Clay	Lesia Tsurenko	Lindsay Lee-Waters Megan Moulton-Levy	6-2, 4-6, [7-10]
Winner	19.	13 May 2012	Cagnes-sur-Mer, France	Clay	Urszula Radwa?ska	Katalin Marosi Renata Vor?ov	7-5, 4-6, [10-6]
Runner-up	20.	29 Jul 2013	Donetsk, Ukraine	Hard	Vesna Dolonc	Yuliya Beygelzimer Renata Vor?ov	1-6, 4-6
Winner	21.	7 March 2014	Campinas, Brazil	Clay	Lyudmyla Kichenok	Laura Thorpe Stephanie Vogt	6-1 6-3
Winner	22.	15 March 2014	So Paulo, Brazil	Clay	Irina-Camelia Begu	Mara Irigoyen Mara Fernanda lvarez Tern	6-4 3-6 [11-9]
Winner	23.	30 June 2014	Contrexville, France	Clay	Laura Thorpe	Irina-Camelia Begu Mara Irigoyen	6-3, 4-0, ret.
Winner	24.	15 November 2014	Dubai, United Arab Emirates	Hard	Vitalia Diatchenko	Lyudmyla Kichenok Olga Savchuk	3-6, 6-2, [10-4]
Runner-up	25.	30 April 2016	Charlottesville, United States	Clay	Shelby Rogers	Asia Muhammad Taylor Townsend	6-7(4-7), 0-6
Winner	26.	08 May 2016	Indian Harbour Beach, United States	Clay	Julia Glushko	Jessica Pegula Maria Sanchez	7-5, 6-4