Sharapova in QF, ending her match win streak that included Wimbledon, then Zvonareva 62 67 4 76 15 in SF after trailing in third set, saving 9mp, eight in tie-break, and closing out longest singles third-set tie-break in Tour history on fifth mp, also the longest tie-break this year, falling to Davenport in final ; SF at Indian Wells l. Koukalova with right rib strain , Olympics l.
Dementieva and No. Williams in 3s; qualified for SF, falling to eventual champion Sharapova in 3s for first time in four meetings ; reached QF five other times, incl.
Australian Open l. Dechy, Golovin in singles, d. Williams in 3s and 4r at Miami l. Sprem in final , finishing runner-up at Stockholm l. Craybas and new Wimbledon champion V. Williams and in final victory over France l.
Groenefeld, Dulko, Schiavone ; withdrew from Rome due to personal reasons, from New Haven due to left ankle sprain, and from QuTbec City due to right shoulder injury.
US Open as No. She debuted at Roland Garros which she would later win and Wimbledon. Myskina was plagued by injury that forced her to miss the Australian Open. As a result, she fell out of the top She then had a solid indoor performance, reaching the quarterfinals in Leipzig and the semifinals in Moscow, her first career Tier I semifinal. Myskina reached back-to-back grass court finals in Birmingham and Eastbourne, and rose to No. She finished the season in the top 15 for the first time in her career.
She was born in Moscow, Russia and made her professional debut in Myskina successfully defended her Doha title, afterwards becoming the second Russian woman to break into the top 5, the first was Natasha Zvereva, who rose to No.
Prior to her French Open victory, she had never made it past the second round at Roland Garros. Following her win in Paris, she rose to No. She lost in the Athens Olympics semifinal to Justine Henin, having led 5—1 in the final set. She rose to a career-high No. Myskina recovered from the tough loss to win the Kremlin Cup for the second straight year, and beat No.
She finished on the top of her group at the WTA Championships, and scored her second win over a world No. Myskina led Russia to its first Fed Cup title, winning eight out of nine matches played, including winning all of her three matches in the final. Finished the season as world No. In October , she had a series of photos taken for GQ magazine by the photographer Mark Seliger for a spread in the October edition of GQ, in which one approved photo of her fully clothed was published.
After she won the French Open in , some photographs from the shoot, in which she appeared topless, were published in the Russian magazine Medved Bear. On 19 June , U. Her latest venture has brought her back to India, in the very country where she had won her last singles title as a player in Kolkata in The only thing is that you can help them only when they are off court.
She recounts an incident earlier in the day when she went to a food counter to bring Gasparyan a glass of juice. Realising the year-old was in the company of three more players, Myskina brought back four glasses. Back when she was 23 though, she had become the first Russian woman to win a Grand Slam singles title. The competition within the country helped them get the results, Myskina says.
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