Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova

Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova is a Russian tennis player. Having turned professional in December 2005, she has won 12 WTA singles titles, her biggest coming at Premier-level tournaments, the Open GDF Suez and the Kremlin Cup, both in 2014. She achieved a career-high ranking of world No. 13 on 4 July 2011 and is currently the third-highest ranked Russian woman in singles behind Daria Kasatkina and Maria Sharapova. Since making her top-50 debut in November 2008, Pavlyuchenkova has never dropped out of the top-50 rankings, for more than ten years running. She is a four-time Grand Slam quarter finalist, having reached that stage at the 2011 French Open, the 2011 US Open, the 2016 Wimbledon Championships, and the 2017 Australian Open. Pavlyuchenkova has enjoyed significant success in doubles as well, achieving a career-high ranking of No. 21 on 16 September 2013, reaching the quarterfinals at all four Grand Slams (at the Australian Open in 2013, the French Open in 2013, Wimbledon in 2014, and the US Open in 2015 and 2018) as well as winning five titles in the discipline, her biggest title coming at the 2013 Madrid Open where she partnered Lucie Safarova.