Anastasiya Yakimova


Anastasiya Yakimova is a former tennis player from Belarus. She made it to the third round of the 2007 Australian Open, defeating Ai Sugiyama of Japan, a seeded player, on the way in the second round.
The last tournament on the ITF Women's Circuit she played in August 2017, in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.

Career

Yakimova began the year by qualifying for the 2009 Medibank International Sydney. She defeated Stéphanie Cohen-Aloro, Sophie Ferguson and Klára Zakopalová en route to qualifying. She faced Annabel Medina Garrigues in the first round and lost in three sets. She then headed to the Australian Open where she lost to Gisela Dulko, also in three sets. She then played her first ITF tournament of the year at the $50k event in Cali, Colombia. As the fourth seed, Yakimova battled through to the final where she defeated Rossana de los Ríos to take her seventh ITF title.
She then qualified for both Indian Wells and Miami, two Premier Mandatory events. In Indian Wells, she defeated Varvara Lepchenko before falling to reigning champion Ana Ivanovic. In Miami, she defeated fellow Olga Govortsova and then 13th seed Marion Bartoli to reach the third round. There she lost to Alisa Kleybanova.
At the 2009 Barcelona Ladies Open, Yakimova qualified and managed to make it to her first WTA quarterfinal of the year. She defeated Sorana Cîrstea and Magdaléna Rybáriková before falling to eventual champion, Roberta Vinci. She then played in the $50k Saint-Gaudens event as the top seed. She made it to the final where she defeated Yanina Wickmayer for her second title of the year. Then, in Strasbourg she received main-draw entry without qualifying. She defeated Maret Ani in the first round before falling to eventual finalist Aravane Rezaï.
At the 2009 French Open, she was drawn against comeback player Maria Sharapova in the first round, losing in three sets.
In 2011, she won a $100k event in the Bahamas.

WTA career finals

Doubles: 3 (2 titles, 1 runner-up)

OutcomeNo.DateTournamentSurfacePartnerOpponentsScore
Winner1.27 May 2006Istanbul, TurkeyClay Alona Bondarenko Sania Mirza
Alicia Molik		6–2, 6–4
Winner2.1 October 2007Tashkent, UzbekistanHard Ekaterina Dzehalevich Tatiana Poutchek
Anastassia Rodionova		2–6, 6–4,
Runner-up1.21 February 2010Bogotá, ColombiaClay Olga Savchuk Gisela Dulko
Edina Gallovits-Hall		2–6, 6–7

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 25 (13–12)

OutcomeNo.DateTournamentSurfaceOpponentScore
Runner-up1.29 October 2002Minsk, BelarusCarpet Evgenia Linetskaya2–6, 1–6
Winner1.9 February 2003Vale do Lobo, PortugalHard Caroline Ann Basu6–3, 6–1
Runner-up2.13 July 2003Toruń, PolandClay Marta Domachowska5–7, 6–3, 4–6
Winner2.28 March 2004St. Petersburg, RussiaCarpet Emma Laine3–6, 6–2, 6–1
Runner-up3.30 August 2004Balashikha, RussiaClay Yvonne Meusburger3–6, 7–6, 0–6
Runner-up4.25 October 2004MinskCarpet Olga Savchuk4–6, 4–6
Winner3.28 November 2004Poitiers, FranceCarpet Marie-Gayanay Mikaelian7–5, 6–2
Winner4.2 October 2005Batumi, GeorgiaHard Ana Timotić6–4, 6–1
Runner-up5.24 April 2006Cagnes-sur-Mer, FranceClay Martina Müller6–7, 6–2, 0–6
Runner-up6.8 May 2006Jounieh, LebanonClay Selima Sfar4–6, 5–7
Runner-up7.3 September 2007Denain, FranceClay Olivia Sanchez2–6, 6–1, 1–6
Winner5.6 July 2008Mont-de-Marsan, FranceClay Anna Gerasimou6–3, 1–6, 6–4
Runner-up8.6 October 2008JouniehClay Irina-Camelia Begu2–6, 0–6
Winner6.17 November 2008Phoenix, MauritiusHard Patricia Mayr-Achleitner3–6, 6–2, 1–0 ret.
Winner7.15 February 2009Cali, ColombiaClay Rossana de los Ríos6–3, 6–0
Winner8.24 May 2009Saint-Gaudens, FranceClay Yanina Wickmayer7–5, 7–6
Winner9.8 August 2009Astana, KazakhstanHard Nikola Hofmanova6–0, 6–4
Winner10.3 April 2010ITF Monzón, SpainHard Zuzana Kučová6–4, 4–6, 6–3
Runner-up9.19 April 2010ITF Dothan, United StatesClay Edina Gallovits-Hall1–6, 4–6
Winner11.Mar 2011ITF Nassau, BahamasHard Angelique Kerber6–3, 6–2
Runner-up10.15 May 2011Reggio Emilia, ItalyClay Sloane Stephens3–6, 1–6
Winner12.Sep 2011ITF Ningbo, ChinaHard Erika Sema7–6, 6–3
Runner-up11.22 April 2012ITF Les Franqueses del Vallès, SpainHard Ksenia Milevskaya5–7, 7–6, 4–6
Runner-up12.29 April 2012ITF Vic, SpainClay Ksenia Milevskaya4–6, 2–6
Winner13.15 August 2015ITF Las Palmas, SpainClay Irene Burillo Escorihuela6–1, 6–7, 6–2

Doubles: 18 (11–7)

OutcomeNo.DateTournamentSurfacePartnerOpponentsScore
Winner1.31 October 2004Minsk, BelarusCarpet Darya Kustova Irina Bulykina
Katarína Kachlíková		6–4, 6–0
Runner-up1.16 August 2005The Bronx, United StatesHard Tatiana Poutchek Li Ting
Sun Tiantian		6–2, 2–6, 4–6
Winner2.25 September 2005Jounieh, LebanonClay Mariya Koryttseva Olena Antypina
Hana Šromová		7–5, 6–2
Winner3.2 October 2005Batumi, GeorgiaHard Nadejda Ostrovskaya Anna Bastrikova
Nina Bratchikova		2–6, 6–2, 7–6
Runner-up2.30-Jan-2006Urtijëi, ItalyCarpet Tatiana Poutchek Lucie Hradecká
Vladimíra Uhlířová		4–6, 2–6
Winner4.14 May 2006JouniehClay Tatiana Poutchek María José Argeri
Letícia Sobral		6–4, 7–6
Winner5.13 May 2007JouniehClay Tatiana Poutchek Mădălina Gojnea
Monica Niculescu		7–5, 6–0
Winner6.29 July 2007Pétange, LuxembourgClay Carla Suárez Navarro Martina Müller
Claudine Schaul		6–7, 6–1, 7–6
Runner-up3.12 November 2007Deauville, FranceCarpet Akgul Amanmuradova Renata Voráčová
Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová		3–6, 5–7
Winner7.31 March 2008Patras, GreeceClay Tzipora Obziler María José Martínez Sánchez
Arantxa Parra Santonja		7–5, 6–1
Runner-up4.14 April 2008Saint-Malo, FranceClay Renata Voráčová María José Martínez Sánchez
Arantxa Parra Santonja		2–6, 1–6
Runner-up5.1 September 2008Maribor, SloveniaClay Kyra Nagy Carmen Klaschka
Andrea Petkovic		0–6, 6–2,
Winner8.6 October 2008JouniehClay Chayenne Ewijk Carmen Klaschka
Laura Siegemund		7–5, 7–5
Runner-up6.9 February 2009Cali, ColombiaClay Frederica Piedade Betina Jozami
Arantxa Parra Santonja		3–6, 1–6
Winner9.19 April 2010Dothan, United StatesClay Alina Jidkova María Irigoyen
Teodora Mirčić		6–4, 6–2
Runner-up7.10 May 2010Saint-Gaudens, FranceClay Olga Savchuk Claire Feuerstein
Stéphanie Foretz Gacon		2–6, 4–6
Winner10.7 February 2011Stockholm, SwedenHard Arantxa Rus Claire Feuerstein
Ksenia Lykina		6–3, 2–6, 6–4
Winner11.11 August 2017Las Palmas, SpainClay Carlota Molina Megías Fatma Al-Nabhani
Arabela Fernández Rabener		6–4, 6–3

Singles performance timeline

Grand Slam doubles performance timeline