Varvara Lepchenko - professional tennis player from America

Varvara Lepchenko is a well-known professional tennis player performing at competitions for the USA. The winner of twelve ITF tournaments. Semifinalist "Australian Open - 2013" in doubles. In this article, a short biography of the athlete will be presented.

Carier start

Varvara Lepchenko was born in Tashkent (USSR) in 1986. In tennis, the girl started playing at the age of seven. Being a junior, she did not achieve any significant success. 2000 - this is the year when Lentchenko Varvara made her debut in the WTA. Tennis has become for girls not just a hobby, but a profession. Already in 2002, the athlete not only achieved a place in the classification, but also reached the final (hard 10-thousand in Virginia).

Improving results

Gradually, the level of the game Varvara grew, and it became much farther in major tournaments. In 2003, along with Julia Ditti, the girl went to the final of the 75-thousandth in Dotan. At that time, the tennis player lived in the US and collaborated with the USTA, so in the calendar athletes were mostly North American tournaments.

In 2004, Varvara Lepchenko gradually improved the results in singles. The girl steadily won on 25,000-thousanders and larger competitions. This allowed her to enter first in the third, and therefore in the second hundred of the rating. In August of the same year, Varvara defeated Rita Grande in New Haven, which is included in the top 100. In the next season Lepchenko continued to progress. She was more confident in ITF tournaments and won her first single title, making her debut on the US Open.

Top 20

In 2006, Varvara managed to pass the first hundred ratings. She continued to improve her game and was soon able to beat the athlete from the top 50 - Colombian Catalina Castaño. The next few years Lepchenko fed the rating exclusively in North American tournaments. The experience gained enabled her to overcome in 2009 Patty Schnyder, who is in the top 20. This gave the athlete confidence, and she decided to focus on a series of WTA tournaments.

2012-2016

In 2012, Varvara Lepchenko significantly improved her playing level. Having gained more and more victories at the tour of the association's tour, she was able to get to the top of the season in the top 20. Nevertheless, the tennis player has not managed to make it to the finals yet. But Varvara played well in status tournaments, gaining rating points.

In February 2013 Lepchenko went to the third round of the competition in Doha. In May, I was in the quarterfinals of the tournament in Madrid. And in June, for the first time in her career, she managed to get into the fourth round of the Grand Slam competitions. In the fall, the athlete was in the WTA semi-final in Seoul. In the next season, Varvara stably held in the first half of the rating, and in the doubles competitions (together with Zheng Sisai), she even managed to get into the quarter finals of Roland Garros and the semi-final of the Australian Open.

In 2014, Lepchenko had a single-player game. In March, the tennis player performed well in the US in several tournaments of the highest category, passing them in the third and fourth circles. And in August at the competitions in Stanford (WTA), Varvara first defeated the player from the top 5 Agnieszka Radwanska, reaching the semifinals. There the tennis player lost to Angelica Kerber. The next two years, the girl was stable in tournament results and was included in the top 100 single ranking. At the end of September 2016, the athlete takes 87th place.

National and national competitions

Lepchenko Varvara, whose biography is presented above, did not support Uzbekistan either in the Asian Games or in the Federation Cup. After receiving American citizenship, the athlete was immediately invited to the US team. The captain of the team named Mary-Joe Fernandez asked her to perform in the first round of the world group of competitions-2013. Lepchenko won in two single matches against the Italian team in the person of Robert Vinci and Sarah Errani. But in a decisive pair, she conceded to them along with Liesel Huber.

Twelve months before this event, Varvara was selected for the tennis tournament of the Olympics. There she played for the North American state. In a single competition Lepchenko managed to pass the whole circle.