Evgeniya Rodina
Rodina at the 2015 Wimbledon Championships
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| Country (sports) |
 Russia |
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| Residence | Moscow, Russia |
| Born |
4 February 1989 Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) |
| Turned pro | 2004 |
| Plays | Right-handed (two-handed backhand) |
| Prize money | US$ 1,320,534 |
| Singles | |
| Career record | 376–252 |
| Career titles | 1 WTA 125K, 13 ITF |
| Highest ranking | No. 74 (28 February 2011) |
| Current ranking | No. 85 (2 January 2017) |
| Grand Slam Singles results | |
| Australian Open | 2R (2011) |
| French Open | 1R (2008, 2011, 2015) |
| Wimbledon | 3R (2008) |
| US Open | 2R (2015, 2016) |
| Doubles | |
| Career record | 144–118 |
| Career titles | 0 WTA, 6 ITF |
| Highest ranking | No. 99 (24 October 2011) |
| Current ranking | No. 135 (2 January 2017) |
| Grand Slam Doubles results | |
| Wimbledon | 2R (2011) |
| US Open | 2R (2008) |
| Last updated on: 6 June 2016. | |
Evgeniya Sergeyevna Rodina (Russian: Евгения Сергеевна Родина, born 4 February 1989) is a Russian professional tennis player. She achieved her career-high ranking of No. 74 on 28 February 2011.
Rodina has made strong progress up through the world rankings to reach a career high of World No. 120 by the end of 2007, and has won fourteen career ITF singles titles to date.
Rodina began her career on the ITF circuit with the assistance of a wildcard into the first round of the main draw of a $25,000 tournament at Moscow in late August 2004, when she was just fifteen and a half years old, and justified the award by taking a set from up-and-coming fellow Russian star Elena Vesnina, though she lost the match in three.
Further wildcards into two successive $10,000 events at Dubrovnik, Croatia that October gave her the opportunity to win her first and second main-draw ITF matches without ever having had to qualify for an ITF event, though she lost in the second round on both occasions.
These two results were sufficient to put her onto the tail end of the rankings board at World No. 1138 by the end of the year.
After taking a six-month break from competition, she was granted a further wildcard directly into the main draw of a $10,000 event at Cavtat, Croatia in late April, 2005, a couple of months after her sixteenth birthday, and this time won two rounds before losing in the quarter-finals.
At the end of that same week, she at last entered a $10,000 qualifying draw on the merit of her ranking alone, and proved her capability by qualifying and then winning four rounds of the main draw without dropping a set, only to lose in the final to a little-known player called Vanja Ćorović of Serbia and Montenegro.
Her next significant breakthrough followed in mid-August, as she came through qualifying into a $25,000 draw for the first time at Moscow, and defeated Oxana Lyubtsova in the main draw on the way to a quarter-final defeat by up-and-coming fellow Russian star Vasilisa Bardina.
The following week, she was wildcarded directly into a $25,000 draw at Balashikha, also in Russia, and bettered her career-best result set the previous week by battling through to the semifinals, after knocking out competent Israeli player Yevgenia Savransky in the quarter-finals, before she was once again defeated by Bardina in straight sets.
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