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Tatiana Kovalchuk (born 24 July 1979) is a former professional tennis player from Ukraine.

Tatiana Kovalchuk

Full name	Tatiana Kovalchuk
Country (sports)	Ukraine
Born	(1979-07-24) 24 July 1979 (age 42)
Retired	2010
Prize money	$60,860
Singles
Career record	114-83
Career titles	0 WTA, 2 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 184 (12 June 2000)
Grand Slam singles results
French Open	1R (2000)
Doubles
Career record	44-48
Career titles	0 WTA, 4 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 217 (23 October 2000)

Biography

Kovalchuk was 16 years of age when she began playing Fed Cup tennis for Ukraine 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 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.[1]

In 2000 she competed in the main draw of WTA Tour tournaments at Antwerp and Tashkent, 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.[2]

Most notably she competed in the main draw of the women's singles at the 2000 French Open. She made it through the qualifying competition by beating Yuka Yoshida, Conchita Martínez Granados and Gréta Arn, then lost to Anne Kremer in the first round.[3] 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.

ITF finals

Legend
$25,000 tournaments
$10,000 tournaments

Singles (2–2)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Winner	1.	8 September 1996	Donetsk, Ukraine	Clay	Tatiana Poutchek	7–5, 1–0 ret.
Runner-up	2.	21 September 1997	Cluj, Romania	Clay	Mira Radu	7-6, 0-6, 1-6
Runner-up	3.	26 April 1999	Maglie, Italy	Clay	Aurélie Védy	3–6, 2–6
Winner	4.	19 September 1999	Reggio Calabria, Italy	Clay	Alice Canepa	6-3, 2-6, 6-2

Doubles (4–3)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Winner	1.	15 September 1997	Cluj, Romania	Clay	Anna Zaporozhanova	Adriana Barna Magda Mihalache	6–4, 5–7, 6–3
Runner-up	2.	9 May 1998	Prešov, Slovakia	Clay	Anna Zaporozhanova	Magdalena Zděnovcová Jana Lubasová	2–6, 4–6
Runner-up	3.	17 May 1998	Nitra, Slovakia	Clay	Anna Zaporozhanova	Patrícia Marková Silvia Uricková	0–6, 3–6
Winner	4.	13 July 1998	Kharkiv, Ukraine	Clay	Nadejda Ostrovskaya	Natalia Bondarenko Natalia Nemchinova	6–1, 3–6, 6–1
Winner	5.	17 September 2000	Reggio Calabria, Italy	Clay	Syna Schreiber	Andreea Vanc Maria Paola Zavagli	w/o
Runner-up	6.	18 June 2001	Gorizia, Italy	Clay	Andreea Vanc	Milena Nekvapilová Hana Šromová	7–5, 1–6, 1–6
Winner	7.	26 May 2002	Kyiv, Ukraine	Clay	Anna Zaporozhanova	Darya Kustova Magdalena Marszałek	6–2, 6–3

References

External links

• Tatiana Kovalchuk at the Women's Tennis Association
• Tatiana Kovalchuk at the Billie Jean King Cup
• Tatiana Kovalchuk at the International Tennis Federation

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