Wimbledon, 2003
An unseeded finalist
Neither girl in the 2003 Wimbledon girls' singles final was seeded. Chakvetadze took the second set from Kirsten Flipkens before losing 6-4, 3-6, 6-3.
Source: Wimbledon Compendium 2025The 21st century
Anna Chakvetadze
Russia · born Moscow, 1987 · right-handed · 's-Hertogenbosch champion 2007
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5
Career-high WTA singles ranking, September 2007
8
WTA singles titles
4
Titles in 2007, among them 's-Hertogenbosch
2003
Wimbledon girls' singles runner-up
SF
US Open 2007, her best result at a major
Playing career
Anna Chakvetadze was born in Moscow in 1987. She reached the Wimbledon girls' singles final in 2003, losing to Kirsten Flipkens 6-4, 3-6, 6-3, and a year later, as a 17-year-old qualifier at the US Open, beat the fourth seed and French Open champion Anastasia Myskina 7-6 (7-3), 6-3.
2007 was her best season. She reached the quarter-finals of the Australian Open and the French Open, losing both times to Maria Sharapova, won four of her eight WTA singles titles, among them her only grass title at 's-Hertogenbosch, reached the US Open semi-finals and rose to No. 5 in the world on 10 September.
In December 2007 masked robbers broke into the family's country house outside Moscow, tied up her parents and took cash and valuables worth about 5 million roubles. She later said the attack had affected her. Illness and injury followed, and in September 2013, aged 26, she announced her retirement, citing a chronic back injury.
On grass
| 's-Hertogenbosch 2007 | Beat Daniela Hantuchová on the way to the final and Jelena Janković 7-6 (7-2), 3-6, 6-3 in it, her second title of the year and first on grass |
|---|---|
| Wimbledon girls' final 2003 | Unseeded, lost to the unseeded Kirsten Flipkens 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 |
| Wimbledon | Third round in 2007, the week after her 's-Hertogenbosch title, when she lost to Michaëlla Krajicek; fourth round in 2008, her best result there |
| Eastbourne 2009 | Beat the third seed, Jelena Janković, in the first round |
Every grass title: 1
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| 's-Hertogenbosch (Rosmalen) | ||
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| 2007 | Women's singles Rosmalen Grass Court Championships | |
Leading grass titles only: the grass majors, tour-level grass events since 1968 and the leading grass championships before 1968. †single source; ‡ sources disagree. Roll of champions
Anecdotes
The person behind the player.
US Open, 2004
The 17-year-old qualifier
In her first Grand Slam main draw, at the 2004 US Open, the 17-year-old qualifier beat her compatriot Anastasia Myskina, the fourth seed and that year's French Open champion, 7-6 (7-3), 6-3.
Source: DawnMoscow, December 2007
The robbery
At about 4 a.m. five or six masked men climbed the fence of the family's country house in south-west Moscow, tied up her parents and took money and valuables worth about 5 million roubles. A 2011 newspaper investigation reported that her father needed two shoulder operations and that the robbers had demanded a Rolex she had been given the day before at an exhibition in Belgium.
Source: New Zealand Herald; Tennis.comMoscow, September 2013
Retiring at 26
She announced her retirement to Sport Express: "I have a chronic back injury." She had decided, she said, "to stop and start a new life".
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Where they won on grass
- Autotron, Rosmalen ('s-Hertogenbosch)
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Rivals and partners
- Jelena Janković
- Maria Sharapova
- Kirsten Flipkens
- Daniela Hantuchová
- Anastasia Myskina
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Elsewhere online
Sources
- Anna Chakvetadze, WTA profile
- Libéma Open, history and complete winners' list
- Wimbledon Compendium 2025, girls' singles finals
- "Henin-Hardenne struggles, Agassi rolls on", Dawn, 2004
- "Russian star unharmed after house robbery", New Zealand Herald, 2007
- "Chakvetadze has nightmares about mugging", Tennis.com, 2011
- "Former No. 5 Chakvetadze retires", Tennis.com, 2013
- Anna Chakvetadze, Wikipedia
- Rosmalen Grass Court Championships, Wikipedia
- GTC roll of grass champions, checked against a second source where one exists
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