Tatiana Kovalchuk (born 24 July 1979) is a former professional
tennis
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player from Ukraine.
Biography
Kovalchuk was 16 years of age when she began playing
Fed Cup
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tennis for
Ukraine
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in 1996. In the same year she started on the ITF circuit and had her first tournament win at that season's $10,000 ITF event in Donetsk. She had a win over
Anastasia Myskina
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in the qualifying draw of a tournament on the ITF circuit in 1998. Her biggest title came in 1999, the $25,000 ITF tournament in Reggio Calabria.
In 2000 she competed in the main draw of WTA Tour tournaments at
Antwerp
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and
Tashkent
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, both in the singles and doubles draws. She was beaten in the first round of the singles at both events but was a doubles quarter-finalist in Antwerp's Belgian Open.
Most notably she competed in the main draw of the women's singles at the
2000 French Open
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. She made it through the qualifying competition by beating
Yuka Yoshida
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In her career, she won three doubles titles on the WTA Tour: 1995 in Tokyo, 1996 in Pattaya
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,
Conchita Martínez Granados and
Gréta Arn
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She has won two titles on the WTA Tour, the 2007 Estoril Open in Portugal, and the 2011 ASB Classic in Auckland, New Ze ...
, then lost to
Anne Kremer
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Kremer completed her schooling at the Athénée de Lu ...
in the first round.
This brought her world ranking to a career high 184 in the world.
She made the last of her 11 Fed Cup tie appearances in 2001, ending her representative career by beating Estonia's
Kaia Kanepi
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Described as a 'resident Grand Slam up ...
.
ITF finals
Singles (2–2)
Doubles (4–3)
References
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1979 births
Living people
Ukrainian female tennis players