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Olga Govortsova
Вольга Гаварцова

File:Olga Govortsova at the 2010 US Open 03.jpg
Country	Belarus
Residence	Minsk, Belarus
Born	(1988-08-23) 23 August 1988 Pinsk, Soviet Union
Height
Turned pro	2002
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	$2,280,058
Singles
Career record	261–216
Career titles	0 WTA, 3 ITF
Highest ranking	35 (23 June 2008)
Current ranking	98 (17 March 2014)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	2R (2012, 2013, 2014)
French Open	3R (2008, 2009)
Wimbledon	2R (2007, 2009, 2012)
US Open	3R (2012)
Doubles
Career record	129–136
Career titles	8 WTA, 1 ITF
Highest ranking	24 (29 August 2011)
Current ranking	62 (17 March 2014)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	3R (2011)
French Open	3R (2010)
Wimbledon	3R (2012)
US Open	3R (2009)
Team competitions
Fed Cup	24–9
Last updated on: 17 March 2014.

Olga Govortsova (Belarusian: Вольга Аляксееўна Гаварцова (Volha Havartsova); Russian: Ольга Алексеевна Говорцова; born 23 August 1988 in Pinsk, Brest Voblast) 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 Wilson and 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 Shuai Peng.

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 loosing 6:2,4:6,8:6 to Alexa Glatch.

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 Template:Country data JPN 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: 13 (8 titles, 5 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 (6–4)
WTA 125s tournaments (0–1)

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 Template:Country data JPN Ai Sugiyama	2–6, 2–6
Winner	1.	19 May 2008	Istanbul 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	Template:Country data JPN 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	Template:Country data IND Sania Mirza Template:Country data KAZ 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	Timea Babos Template:Country data KAZ Yaroslava Shvedova	3-6, 3-6
Runner-up	5.	7 April 2014	Monterrey Open, Monterrey, Mexico	Hard	Timea Babos	Darija Jurak Megan Moulton-Levy	6–7(5–7), 6–3, [9–11]

WTA 125s finals

Doubles: 1 (0-1)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponent	Score
Runner-up	1.	4 November 2012	OEC Taipei Ladies Open, Taipei, Chinese Taipei	Hard	Chang Kai-chen	Chan Hao-ching Kristina Mladenovic	7-5, 2-6, [8–10]

Singles performance timeline

Tournament	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	W–L
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open	A	1R	1R	1R	1R	2R	2R	2R	3–7
French Open	A	3R	3R	2R	2R	2R	1R	1R	7–7
Wimbledon	2R	1R	2R	1R	1R	2R	1R	1R	3–8
US Open	2R	2R	1R	1R	1R	3R	1R	1R	4–8
Win-Loss	2–2	3–4	3–4	1–4	1–4	5–4	1–4	1–4	17–29
Olympic Games
Summer Olympics	NH	1R	Not Held			A	NH		0–1
Year-End Championship
WTA Tour Championships	A	A	A	A	A	A	A		0–0
WTA Premier Mandatory Tournaments
Indian Wells	A	A	2R	2R	1R	1R	2R		3–5
Miami	A	1R	1R	1R	1R	Q1	2R		1–5
Madrid	Not Held		LQ	2R	A	A	LQ		1–3
Beijing	1R	LQ	1R	2R	LQ	1R	A		1–3
WTA Premier 5 Tournaments
Dubai	Not TierI		1R	3R	A	NP5	LQ		2–2
Rome	A	2R	A	1R	LQ	1R	LQ		1–3
Cincinnati	QF	A	2R	2R	LQ	LQ	LQ		4–3
Montréal / Toronto	A	A	A	1R	LQ	A	LQ		0–1
Tokyo	A	A	A	2R	A	A	A		1–1
Year End Ranking	49	49	52	74	114	57	95

Doubles performance timeline

Tournament	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	W–L
Grand Slam Tournaments
Australian Open	A	2R	1R	1R	3R	1R	2R	1R	4–7
French Open	A	1R	1R	3R	1R	2R	2R		4–6
Wimbledon		1R		2R	2R	3R	1R		4–5
US Open	1R	1R	3R	2R	1R	1R	1R		3–7
Win-Loss	0–1	1–4	2–3	4–4	3–4	3–4	2–4	0–1	15–25

Head vs. Head Record

• Venus Williams 0-2
• Lindsay Davenport 0-1
• Serena Williams 0-2
• Ana Ivanovic 0-2
• Caroline Wozniacki 0-1
• Carla Suárez Navarro 2-3
• Daniela Hantuchová 1-4
• Flavia Pennetta 0-2
• Jelena Janković 0-1
• Elena Dementieva 0-3
• Maria Sharapova 0-1
• Victoria Azarenka 2-1
• Elena Vesnina 1-1
• Agnieszka Radwańska 1-2
• Bojana Jovanovski 0-1
• Simona Halep 0-3
• Li Na 0-4

External links

• Olga Govortsova at the Women's Tennis Association
• Olga Govortsova at the International Tennis Federation
• Olga Govortsova at the Fed Cup