Azarenka: Is The World Number 11 Will Make It Into The World Number 1?
Victoria Azarenka was born on July 31, 1989 in Minsk, Belarus. She is a tennis player who was known to be the Junior World Champion in 2005. She con...
Victoria Azarenka was born on July 31, 1989 in Minsk, Belarus. She is a tennis player who was known to be the Junior World Champion in 2005. She conquered the 2007 US Open Mixed Doubles Title with her teammate Max Mirny and also the 2008 French Open with Bob Bryan. She resides in Scottsdale, Arizona and trains in Marbella, Spain. On February 23, 2009 she achieved a career high of No. 11 in Singles.
In 2005, Azarenka got both the Australian and US Open as a Junior and was named the ITF Junior Girls World Title for that year. She was the pioneer player from Belarus to do that. She also triumphed her first ITF title in Petange, Luxembourg in the same season. In China, she reached her first pro-level semifinal, winning 3 qualitfying rounds and beating both Martina Such and Shuai Peng in the primary draw before being defeated by the event champ, Yan Zi.
Everyday Azarenka have been one of the first players to be out in the field to work out. Together with her trainer, Mark Wellington, they started gradually. Headphones on, she swings her arms forward and backward then gently tosses and kicks a soccer ball with him. The drills and the ball eventually speed up until both player and trainer are quick-stepping to keep it before them. Usually, you will see tennis players take small breaks during those workouts and share a laugh with their instructor. But not this lady. When the ball gets past her, she stamps her foot in frustration.
The 19-year-old Azarenka won her first WTA Tour Singles Title earlier this year by conquering the Brisbane International. The World No.14 Belorussian is now 13-1 this year. The only defeat to date was against Serena Williams in the Australian Open when she disappointingly had departed from the fourth-round match because of faintness and illness.
Azarenka posted a 6-7 (4-7) 6-1 6-3 Quarterfinals victory over Safina, who would have claimed the World’s No.1 ranking from Serena Williams by reaching the final. But for Azarenka, she ran as an athlete filled with assurance right after capturing her first two career WTA Titles this year in Brisbane and Memphis. Safina appeared to achieve the match in her grasp when she took a 3-1 lead during the third set, but she couldn’t hold on to the supremacy.
Shahar Pe’er’s excellent run in the singles draw at Indian Wells came to an abrupt end, but at the very least she could console herself with moving forward towards the Semi-finals of the doubles event hours later. Despite converting four of her five break points, Pe’er was on her back foot for most of the fight, with Azarenka governing the Israeli’s service games, breaking six times.
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