Ksenia Pervak


Ksenia Yuryevna Pervak is a retired tennis player from Russia.
Pervak won one singles title on the WTA Tour, as well as nine singles and three doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 19 September 2011, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 37. On 30 January 2012, she peaked at No. 123 in the doubles rankings.
Pervak won the 2009 Australian Open – Girls' Singles tournament, defeating Laura Robson in straight sets in the final.
In November 2015, she announced her retirement from professional tennis due to chronic injuries. However, she returned to tennis on 19 September 2016, making her comeback at an ITF St. Petersburg tournament.

Career

2009

Pervak made it to the second round of the PTT Pattaya Women's Open where she lost to second seed Caroline Wozniacki in three sets. She then won three qualifying matches to advance to the main draw in 's-Hertogenbosch where she defeated Czech Petra Cetkovská in the first round. Pervak also won the Australian Open junior tournament in that year, defeating Laura Robson in the final.

2010

In early February, Pervak lost in the first round of the Pattaya City Open to then world No. 14 Vera Zvonareva. Pervak then reached the Malaysian Open main draw but lost to Noppawan Lertcheewakarn in the first round. At the French Open, she reached the main draw where she lost to Maria Sharapova in the first round. At the Banka Koper Slovenia Open, Pervak reached her first WTA Tour semifinal against Johanna Larsson but she had to retire due to a wrist injury.
At the Guangzhou International Women's Open, she defeated the No. 2 seed Chan Yung-jan in the first round. She then reached the quarterfinals by defeating Russian compatriot Alexandra Panova, winning 24 of 27 points in the final set.

2011

Pervak kicked off her 2011 season in Brisbane, Australia, where she was seeded seventh for the qualifying draw of the Brisbane International. She defeated Jessica Moore and Alexandra Panova but was defeated by Anastasia Pivovarova in the third qualifying round. She gained entry into the main draw as a lucky loser and defeated Anna Chakvetadze in the first round, before losing in the second to Petra Kvitová.
Pervak played in the first round of the main draw of the Australian Open for the first time in her career, but lost to 13th seed and fellow Russian Nadia Petrova.
Pervak made the semifinals of the $100,000 ITF event in Midland, losing to eventual champion Lucie Hradecká.
She made two consecutive quarterfinals of WTA events in Memphis and Monterrey, losing to Hradecká and Gisela Dulko respectively.
Pervak lost in qualifying at the BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells to Jamie Hampton. However, she qualified for the Sony Ericsson Open in Miami, defeating Zuzana Kučová and Junri Namigata.
She lost in the fourth round of Wimbledon to Tamira Paszek in three sets.

2013

Pervak began her 2013 season at the Brisbane International. Coming through qualifying, she upset eighth seed Caroline Wozniacki in the first round. Her win over Wozniacki was her first career victory over a top ten player.

WTA career finals

Singles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner–up)

ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScore
Loss0–1Jul 2011Baku Cup, AzerbaijanInternationalHard Vera Zvonareva1–6, 4–6
Win1–1Sep 2011Tashkent Open, UzbekistanInternationalHard Eva Birnerová6–3, 6–1

Doubles: 1 (1 runner–up)

ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScore
Loss0–1Feb 2010Pattaya Women's Open, ThailandInternationalHard Anna Chakvetadze Marina Erakovic
Tamarine Tanasugarn
5–7, 1–6

ITF finals

Singles (9–8)

ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScore
Win1–0Sep 2007ITF Batumi, Georgia25,000Hard Corinna Dentoni6–4, 6–3
Loss1–1May 2008ITF Moscow, Russia25,000Clay Nina Bratchikova6–3, 1–6, 5–7
Win2–1Aug 2008ITF Penza, Russia50,000Clay Sofia Shapatava6–4, 6–1
Win3–1Aug 2008ITF Moscow, Russia25,000Clay Elena Kulikova3–6, 6–3, 6–1
Loss3–2Sep 2008ITF Ruse, Bulgaria25,000Clay Lenka Wienerová4–6, 4–6
Loss3–3Oct 2008ITF Podolsk, Russia50,000Carpet Alisa Kleybanova6–7, 0–6
Win4–3Aug 2009ITF Moscow, Russia25,000Clay Ekaterina Ivanova4–6, 6–4, 6–2
Win5–3Aug 2009ITF Moscow, Russia25,000Clay Ekaterina Ivanova6–0, 6–2
Loss5–4Aug 2009ITF Katowice, Poland25,000Clay Camila Giorgi2–6, 3–6
Loss5–5Sep 2009ITF Denain, France50,000Clay Stéphanie Cohen-Aloro3–6, 4–6
Win6–5Sep 2009ITF Helsinki, Finland25,000Hard Stéphanie Foretz6–4, 6–2
Win7–5Jun 2010ITF Toruń, Poland25,000Clay Magda Linette6–4, 6–1
Loss7–6Jun 2011ITF Zlín, Сzech Republic50,000Clay Patricia Mayr-Achleitner1–6, 0–6
Win8–6Oct 2013ITF Istanbul, Turkey25,000Hard Anhelina Kalinina6–0, 7–5
Win9–6Nov 2013ITF Istanbul, Turkey50,000Hard Eva Birnerová6–4, 7–6
Loss9–7Feb 2014ITF Midland, United States100,000Hard Heather Watson4–6, 0–6
Loss9–8Jul 2015ITF Astana, Kazakhstan25,000Hard Natela Dzalamidze6–6 ret.

Doubles (3–1)

OutcomeNo.DateTournamentSurfacePartnerOpponentsScore
Winner1.8 September 2008Ruse, BulgariaClay Alexandra Panova Vitalia Diatchenko
Eugeniya Pashkova
6–2, 6–7,
Winner2.3 November 2008Ismaning, GermanyCarpet Oxana Lyubtsova Julia Görges
Laura Siegemund
6–2, 4–6,
Winner3.30 March 2010Khanty-Mansiysk, RussiaCarpet Alexandra Panova Lyudmyla Kichenok
Nadiia Kichenok
7–6, 2–6,
Runner-up1.31 May 2010Maribor, SloveniaClay Alexandra Panova Andreja Klepač
Tadeja Majerič
3–6, 6–7

Grand Slam performance timeline

Singles

Doubles