Olga Mykolayivna Savchuk ( uk, Ольга Миколаївна Савчук; born 20 September 1987) is a retired
tennis
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player from
Ukraine
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. Savchuk grew up in the city of Makiyivka in Donetsk province. She resides in Nassau, Bahamas.
Her best accomplishment to date was reaching the third round of the 2006 Australian Open. Her career-high singles ranking is world No. 79, which she achieved on 19 May 2008.
Since the beginning of 2020, Savchuk is one of the two coaches of top-ten player Karolína Plíšková, along with Daniel Vallverdú and since November 2020 along with Sascha Bajin.
Career
On 5 August 2007, in
Washington, D.C.
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, Savchuk reached the Legg Mason USTA Women's Pro Circuit final as the No. 2 seed, but was defeated by Melinda Czink of Hungary in two sets.
Savchuk won three doubles titles on the
WTA Tour
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, 2008 the
Tashkent Open
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Raluca Olaru
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WTA 125K series
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In the past (2012–2015) sometimes called the WTA Challenger seriesNingbo International Open where she won with
Arina Rodionova
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Rodionova has won nine singles and 42 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. In 2007, ...
in 2014.
She was also runner-up in doubles finals in 2010 at the
Copa Colsanitas
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with
Anastasiya Yakimova
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, and in 2015 at the Malaysian Open with Yuliya Beygelzimer, the
Swedish Open
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with
Tatjana Maria
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She has won two singles ...
Vitalia Diatchenko
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. On 23 October 2017, she peaked at No. 33 in the WTA doubles rankings.
She was the winner of three singles and seven doubles titles on the ITF Circuit.
Playing for Ukraine Fed Cup team, Savchuk has a win–loss record of 21–8 in
Fed Cup
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