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Alla Kudryavtseva

Alla Kudryavtseva
Алла Кудрявцева
Alla Kudryavtseva 5, 2015 Wimbledon Qualifying - Diliff.jpg
Country (sports)  Russia
Residence Boynton Beach, United States
Born (1987-11-03) November 3, 1987 (age 29)
Moscow, Soviet Union
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Turned pro February 2005
Plays Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money US$ 2,716,496
Singles
Career record 327–304
Career titles 1 WTA, 2 ITF
Highest ranking 56 (4 October 2010)
Current ranking 192 (8 February 2016)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open 2R (2007, 2010, 2014)
French Open 3R (2007)
Wimbledon 4R (2008)
US Open 3R (2011)
Doubles
Career record 299–226
Career titles 8 WTA, 13 ITF
Highest ranking 15 (8 September 2014)
Current ranking 23 (8 February 2016)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open QF (2012, 2016)
French Open 3R (2010, 2013)
Wimbledon QF (2014)
US Open QF (2015)
Other doubles tournaments
Tour Finals SF (2014)
Grand Slam Mixed Doubles results
Australian Open 2R (2016)
French Open 2R (2016)
Wimbledon QF (2016)
US Open 2R (2014)
Last updated on: 8 February 2016.

Alla Alexandrovna Kudryavtseva (Russian: Алла Александровна Кудрявцева; born 3 November 1987) is a Russian professional tennis player.

Kudryavtseva has won one singles and eight doubles title on the WTA tour, as well as two singles and thirteen doubles titles on the ITF tour in her career. On 4 October 2010, she reached her best singles ranking of world number 56. On 8 September 2014, she peaked at world number 15 in the doubles rankings.

Kudryavtseva debuted at the WTA Tour in the 2004 Kremlin Cup, where she could not succeed beyond the qualifying round. In the following season her best result in the WTA tour was reaching the 1st Rounds of the Nordea Nordic Light Open in in singles and the Banka Koper Slovenia Open in doubles.

Her first Major appearance was at the 2006 Australian Open, where she could not win a qualification round. The same result was seen at the other three Grand Slams. Among her more notable results in that season were reaching the singles quarterfinals of the Sunfeast Open in Kolkata, India, and the semifinals in doubles of the Tashkent Open, with Canadian Stéphanie Dubois.

In 2007, Kudryavtseva qualified for main draw of the Australian Open, reaching the 2nd Rounds in singles and doubles. With Hsieh Su-wei she reached her first WTA final at the Sony Ericsson International in Bangalore, India, losing to a pair from Taipei. At French open Kudryavtseva qualified for the second grand slam in a row and reached the third round, beating Gisela Dulko in the second round, and eventually losing to Maria Sharapova. Her best result in singles at a WTA tournament was reaching quarterfinal at the Barcelona KIA tournament. At Wimbledon Kudryavtseva earned first Grand Slam direct entry but drew the eventual champion Venus Williams and lost in three sets. Later that year in Kolkata, Kudryavtseva with Vania King won her first title.


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