Julia Efremova née Vorobieva (born 14 February 1985 in

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) is a former

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. She played under her maiden name of Vorobieva (aka Vorobeva) until February 2006. She married her coach Alexey Efremov and returned to the circuit in March 2007. In her career, Efremova won eleven titles on the ITF Circuit, one in singles and ten in doubles.

Career

She has played on the qualifying draws of

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tournaments on many occasions. Her career-high singles ranking was world No. 285, which she achieved on 14 November 2005, and her highest doubles ranking No. 193, achieved on 20 February 2006. In 2003, Julia tried to qualify for her first WTA event in

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, but fell to

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in the first round. In 2005, she played the qualifying draws of five tournaments (

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and

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) but was unsuccessful in each. In 2006, she tried qualifying in

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, but was overpowered in round one by

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. In

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, she fell in the qualifying draws of

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and

, losing to

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and

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, respectively. Julia's biggest title of her career was winning the Busan Challenger doubles event in 2005. She won the title with

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, defeating Seiko Okamoto and

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in the final. Her only singles title came in 2004 at Jakarta where she won an $10k event.

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 1 (1 title)

Doubles: 15 (10 titles, 5 runner-ups)

References

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ITF Player Profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Efremova, Julia Living people 1985 births Sportspeople from Kursk Russian female tennis players 21st-century Russian women 20th-century Russian women