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Belarusian tennis player

Olga Govortsova

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Intro

Belarusian tennis player

Places

Belarus

Athlete Tennis player

Work field

Sports

Gender

Female

Birth

23 August 1988 People who share this birthday

Place of birth

Pinsk, Brest Region, Belarus

Star sign

Virgo People who share this birthday

Age

36 years

Residence

Minsk

Stats

Height:

182

Weight:

The details (from wikipedia)

Biography

Olga Govortsova (Belarusian: Вольга Аляксееўна Гаварцова (Volga Gavartsova); Russian: Ольга Алексеевна Говорцова; born 23 August 1988) is a professional Belarusian tennis player. Her highest WTA singles ranking was world number 35, which she reached on 23 June 2008.

Career

She reached her first WTA tour final at the 2008 Cellular South Open in Memphis, Tennessee. There she lost in straight sets to Lindsay Davenport.

Olga is sponsored by Wilsonand Chinese clothing company Peak. She is represented by French-based sports agency Lagardére Unlimited

Personal

She has two brothers and four dogs who reside in Minsk, Belarus.

2009

She began her year at the 2009 Brisbane International, here she defeated 8th seed Francesca Schiavone en route to the quarterfinals. She fell here however against world number 41 Sara Errani.

At the Australian Open she received main draw entry but was drawn against 20th seed Amélie Mauresmo in the first round, she lost in straight sets 6–4 6–3.

She then played in Indian Wells, a premier mandatory event. She defeated British number 1 Anne Keothavong in the first round before falling to Peng Shuai.

In Miami the second premier mandatory event she lost in the first round to Belarusian qualifier Anastasiya Yakimova.

In October, she reached the final of the Kremlin Cup, losing to Francesca Schiavone of Italy.

2010

She started the year 2010 with the 2010 Brisbane International where she lost in the first round to Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová. At the 2010 Medibank International Sydney she lost in the first qualifying round to Chanelle Scheepers.

At the 2010 Australian Open she lost in the first round to Angelique Kerber.

At the MPS Group Championships she beat second seed Alona Bondarenko in the first round, in the second round she beat Anna Tatishvili, in the quarterfinals she defeated Varvara Lepchenko, in the semifinal she defeated third seed Dominika Cibulková, to lose in the final to Caroline Wozniacki, and so lost the third WTA singles final of her career.

2015

In 2015 Internationaux de Strasbourg Olga Govortsova retired in the first round when she played against Mirjana Lučić-Baroni. In 2015 Olga Govortsova failed to qualify for 2015 French Open, losing 6:2,4:6,8:6 to Alexa Glatch.

At Wimbledon, Govortsova advanced to the fourth round of a Grand Slam for the first time, after defeating opponents such as Alizé Cornet (who had beaten Serena Williams the previous year) and Magdaléna Rybáriková in the early rounds. She eventually lost to Madison Keys.

At the Rogers Cup, Govortsova qualified for the main draw and defeated Irina-Camelia Begu in her opening match before losing to fifth seed Ana Ivanovic in straight sets in the second.

Significant finals

Premier Mandatory/Premier 5 finals

Doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	2008	Charleston	Hard	Edina Gallovits	Katarina Srebotnik Ai Sugiyama	2–6, 2–6
Winner	2010	Beijing	Hard	Chuang Chia-jung	Gisela Dulko Flavia Pennetta	7–6^(7-2), 1–6, [10–7]

WTA career finals

Singles: 4 (4 runners-up)

Legend (pre/post 2009)
Grand Slam tournaments (0-0)
WTA Tour Championships (0-0)
Tier I / Premier Mandatory & Premier 5 (0-0)
Tier II / Premier (0–1)
Tier III, IV & V / International (0–3)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Runner-up	1.	1 March 2008	Cellular South Cup, Memphis, United States	Hard (i)	Lindsay Davenport	2–6, 1–6
Runner-up	2.	25 October 2009	Kremlin Cup, Moscow, Russia	Hard (i)	Francesca Schiavone	3–6, 0–6
Runner-up	3.	11 April 2010	MPS Group Championships, Ponte Vedra Beach, United States	Clay	Caroline Wozniacki	2–6, 5–7
Runner-up	4.	14 September 2013	Tashkent Open, Tashkent, Uzbekistan	Hard	Bojana Jovanovski	6–4, 5–7, 6–7^(3–7)

Doubles: 14 (8 titles, 6 runners-up)

Legend (pre/post 2009)
Grand Slam tournaments (0-0)
WTA Tour Championships (0-0)
Tier I / Premier Mandatory & Premier 5 (1-1)
Tier II / Premier (1–0)
Tier III, IV & V / International (6–5)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	1.	14 April 2008	Family Circle Cup, Charleston, United States	Clay	Edina Gallovits	Katarina Srebotnik Ai Sugiyama	2–6, 2–6
Winner	1.	19 May 2008	İstanbul Cup, Istanbul, Turkey	Clay	Jill Craybas	Marina Erakovic Polona Hercog	6–1, 6–2
Winner	2.	20 September 2009	Guangzhou International Women's Open, Guangzhou, China	Hard	Tatiana Poutchek	Kimiko Date-Krumm Sun Tiantian	3–6, 6–2, [10–8]
Winner	3.	26 September 2009	Tashkent Open, Tashkent, Uzbekistan	Hard	Tatiana Poutchek	Vitalia Diatchenko Ekaterina Dzehalevich	6–2, 6–7^(1-7), [10–8]
Winner	4.	9 October 2010	China Open, Beijing, China	Hard	Chuang Chia-jung	Gisela Dulko Flavia Pennetta	7–6^(7-2), 1–6, [10–7]
Winner	5.	19 February 2011	Cellular South Cup, Memphis, United States	Hard (i)	Alla Kudryavtseva	Andrea Hlaváčková Lucie Hradecká	6–3, 4–6, [10–8]
Winner	6.	12 June 2011	Aegon Classic, Birmingham, United Kingdom	Grass	Alla Kudryavtseva	Sara Errani Roberta Vinci	1–6, 6–1, [10–5]
Runner-up	2.	31 July 2011	Citi Open, Washington, D.C., United States	Hard	Alla Kudryavtseva	Sania Mirza Yaroslava Shvedova	3–6, 3–6
Winner	7.	27 August 2011	New Haven Open at Yale, New Haven, United States	Hard	Chuang Chia-jung	Sara Errani Roberta Vinci	7–5, 6–2
Runner-up	3.	25 February 2012	Cellular South Cup, Memphis, United States	Hard (i)	Vera Dushevina	Andrea Hlaváčková Lucie Hradecká	3–6, 4–6
Winner	8.	26 May 2012	Internationaux de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France	Clay	Klaudia Jans-Ignacik	Natalie Grandin Vladimíra Uhlířová	6–7^(4–7), 6–3, [10–3]
Runner-up	4.	14 September 2013	Tashkent Open, Tashkent, Uzbekistan	Hard	Mandy Minella	Tímea Babos Yaroslava Shvedova	3-6, 3-6
Runner-up	5.	7 April 2014	Monterrey Open, Monterrey, Mexico	Hard	Tímea Babos	Darija Jurak Megan Moulton-Levy	6–7^(5–7), 6–3, [9–11]
Runner-up	6.	24 September 2016	Guangzhou International Women's Open, Guangzhou, China	Hard	Vera Lapko	Asia Muhammad Peng Shuai	2–6, 6–7^(3–7)

Performance timelines

**Key**
W	F	SF	QF	#R	RR	Q#	A	P	Z#	PO	G	F-S	SF-B	NMS	NH

Singles

Only Main Draw results in WTA Tour, Grand Slam Tournaments and Olympic Games are included in Win–Loss records.

This table is current through the 2015 Kremlin Cup.

Tournament	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	SR	W–L	Win %
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open	A	A	1R	1R	1R	1R	2R	2R	2R	LQ	1R	LQ	0 / 8	3–8	27%
French Open	A	A	3R	3R	2R	2R	2R	1R	1R	LQ	1R		0 / 8	7–8	47%
Wimbledon	A	2R	1R	2R	1R	1R	2R	1R	1R	4R	1R		0 / 10	6–10	38%
US Open	A	2R	2R	1R	1R	1R	3R	1R	1R	2R	LQ		0 / 9	5–9	36%
Win–Loss	0–0	2–2	3–4	3–4	1–4	1–4	5–4	1–4	1–4	4–2	0–3	0–0	0 / 35	21–35	38%
National representation
Summer Olympics	Not Held		1R	Not Held			A	Not Held			A	Not Held	0 / 1	0–1	0%
WTA Premier Mandatory tournaments
Indian Wells Masters	A	A	2R	2R	2R	1R	1R	2R	LQ	A			0 / 6	3–6	33%
Miami Open	A	A	1R	1R	1R	1R	LQ	2R	2R	A			0 / 6	2–6	25%
Madrid Open	Not Held			LQ	2R	1R	A	LQ	LQ	1R			0 / 3	1–3	25%
China Open	Not Tier I			1R	2R	LQ	1R	A	A	LQ			0 / 3	1–3	25%
WTA Premier 5 tournaments
Dubai Championships	Not Tier I			1R	3R	A	Not Premier 5			A	NP5		0 / 2	2–2	50%
Qatar Open	Not Tier I		2R	Not Held		NP5	A	1R	A	NP5			0 / 2	1–2	33%
Italian Open	A	A	2R	A	1R	LQ	1R	LQ	A	A			0 / 3	1–3	25%
Canadian Open	A	A	1R	A	1R	LQ	A	LQ	A	2R			0 / 3	1–3	25%
Cincinnati Masters	Not Tier I			2R	1R	LQ	LQ	LQ	A	LQ			0 / 2	1–2	33%
Pan Pacific Open	A	A	A	A	2R	A	A	A	NP5				0 / 1	1–1	50%
Wuhan Open	Not Held								A	LQ			0 / 0	0–0	–
Career statistics
Tournaments played	1	12	26	24	27	19	19	14	12	11			165
Titles	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0			0
Finals	0	0	1	1	1	0	0	1	0	0			4
Overall Win–Loss	0–1	14–12	21–26	26–24	13–27	6–19	12–19	12–14	5–12	7–11			0 / 165	116–165	41.28%
Win %	0%	54%	45%	52%	33%	24%	39%	46%	29%	39%			41.28%
Year-end ranking	334	49	49	52	74	114	57	95	145				$2,830,354

Doubles

Only Main Draw results in WTA Tour, Grand Slam Tournaments and Olympic Games are included in Win–Loss records.

This table is current through the 2015 US Open.

Tournament	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	SR	W–L	Win %
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open	A	A	2R	1R	1R	3R	1R	2R	1R	A	1R	A	0 / 8	4–8	33%
French Open	A	A	1R	1R	3R	1R	2R	2R	1R	A	A		0 / 7	4–7	36%
Wimbledon	A	A	1R	A	2R	2R	3R	1R	A	A	A		0 / 5	4–5	44%
US Open	A	1R	1R	3R	2R	1R	1R	1R	A	2R	A		0 / 8	4–8	33%
Win–Loss	0–0	0–1	1–4	2–3	4–4	3–4	3–4	2–4	0–2	1–1	0–1	0–0	0 / 28	16–28	36%
National representation
Summer Olympics	Not Held		2R	Not Held			A	Not Held			A	Not Held	0 / 1	1–1	50%
WTA Premier Mandatory tournaments
Indian Wells Masters	A	A	A	A	1R	1R	1R	1R	A	A			0 / 4	0–4	0%
Miami Open	A	A	A	A	2R	1R	1R	1R	A	A			0 / 4	1–4	20%
Madrid Open	Not Held			A	1R	1R	A	2R	A	A			0 / 3	1–3	25%
China Open	Not Tier I			1R	W	1R	1R	1R	2R	A			1 / 5	6–5	55%
WTA Premier 5 tournaments
Dubai Championships	Not Tier I			A	A	A	Not Premier 5			A			0 / 0	0–0	–
Qatar Open	Not Tier I		A	Not Held		NP5	A	1R	A	NP5			0 / 1	0–1	0%
Italian Open	A	A	A	A	2R	1R	1R	2R	A	A			0 / 4	2–3	40%
Canadian Open	A	A	A	A	1R	2R	A	2R	A	A			0 / 3	2–3	40%
Cincinnati Masters	Not Tier I			A	1R	1R	1R	A	A	A			0 / 3	0–3	0%
Pan Pacific Open	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	NP5				0 / 0	0–0	–
Wuhan Open	Not Held								A	A			0 / 0	0–0	–
Career statistics
Tournaments played	1	3	18	15	26	21	18	19	8	2			131
Titles	0	0	1	2	1	3	1	0	0	0			8
Finals	0	0	2	2	1	4	2	1	0	0			12
Overall Win–Loss	0–1	1–3	15–17	13–13	26–25	20–17	16–16	13–19	4–8	1–2			8 / 131	109–121	47.39%
Win %	0%	25%	47%	50%	51%	54%	50%	41%	33%	33%			47.39%
Year-end ranking	467	404	58	72	29	44	61	60	137