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Alla Alexandrovna Kudryavtseva (Russian: Алла Александровна Кудрявцева; born 3 November 1987) is a Russian professional tennis player.

Kudryavtseva has won one singles and eight doubles title on the WTA tour, as well as two singles and thirteen doubles titles on the ITF tour in her career. On 4 October 2010, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 56. On 8 September 2014, she peaked at No. 15 in the doubles rankings. Currently coached by Canadian Alain Humblet.

Early career

Kudryavtseva debuted at the WTA Tour in the 2004 Kremlin Cup, where she could not succeed beyond the qualifying round. In the following season her best result in the WTA tour was reaching the 1st Rounds of the Nordea Nordic Light Open in Stockholm in singles and the Banka Koper Slovenia Open in doubles.

Her first Major appearance was at the 2006 Australian Open, where she could not win a qualification round. The same result was seen at the other three Grand Slams. Among her more notable results in that season were reaching the singles quarterfinals of the Sunfeast Open in Kolkata, India, and the semifinals in doubles of the Tashkent Open, with Canadian Stéphanie Dubois.

2007–11: Steady progress

In 2007, Kudryavtseva qualified for main draw of the Australian Open, reaching the 2nd Rounds in singles and doubles. With Hsieh Su-wei she reached her first WTA final at the Sony Ericsson International in Bangalore, India, losing to a pair from Taipei. At French open Kudryavtseva qualified for the second grand slam in a row and reached the third round, beating Gisela Dulko in the second round, and eventually losing to Maria Sharapova. Her best result in singles at a WTA tournament was reaching quarterfinal at the Barcelona KIA tournament. At Wimbledon Kudryavtseva earned first Grand Slam direct entry but drew the eventual champion Venus Williams and lost in three sets. Later that year in Kolkata, Kudryavtseva with Vania King won her first title.

In 2008 partnering with Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, she reached the final at the Internazionali Femminili di Palermo, losing to Sara Errani and Nuria Llagostera Vives. She played alongside several doubles partners, including King and Vera Dushevina. In singles, Kudryavtseva fought her way through the 4th Round of Wimbledon, defeating 3rd-sedded Maria Sharapova in the second round, which is to date her best result in a Grand Slam singles event.

2009. Kudryavtseva progressed in doubles in the next season, climbing with Ekaterina Makarova to the final of the Premier Mandatory China Open, eventually losing to Chinese pair Hsieh Su-wei and Peng Shuai. Kudryavtseva/Dushevina reached the quarterfinals of the Rogers Cup.

2010. The Russian two times in succession reached the finals in singles, becoming champion in Tashkent and before that runner-up Guangzhou. As a result, she reached a carrier high ranking of 56 and finished the year at number 61 in the world in singles. With her new partner Anastasia Rodionova she also reached two finals in doubles, winning the UNICEF Open.

In the 2011 season she and Olga Govortsova reached three WTA finals at the Cellular South Cup, Aegon Classic and Citi Open, the first two of which they won.

Kudryavtseva and Makarova became quarterfinalists of the 2012 Australian Open, eventually losing to Errani/Vinci; this became her best result in a Grand Slam doubles tournament. However, her 2012 season was rather poor, eventually skipping the WTA tour for ITF tournaments at season end.

From 2013: Breakthrough in doubles

The back and forth switching of ITF and WTA tournaments continued until showing with Rodionova significant results since late April. They won the Challenge Bell, and also reached the final of the Kremlin Cup. Furthermore, the two became semifinalists at the Premier 5 events Internezionali BNL d'Italia and Toray Pan Pacific Open. Kudryavtseva returned to the top 50in doubles as a result of her successful season.

In 2014,

Kudryavtseva/Rodionova continued their successful partnership starting the year with a title at Brisbane. The second title came in February in Dubai, where they defeated Kops-Jones and Spears in the final. Their biggest Grand Slam result came at Wimbledon Championships, where they lost in the quarterfinal against Babos/Mladenovic. They also reached the semifinals in Cincinnati and Beijing, the quarterfinals in Miami, Doha and Wuhan. Their last title of the season came at an international event in Tianjin, which also led them into the WTA Championship in Singapore.

In their debut Championships in Singapore appearing Kudryavtseva/Rodionova beat a fourth seeded team of Makarova/Vesnina, 4–6, 6–2, [10–6]. In the semifinals they were defeated by title defenders Su-wei/Shuai, 6–1, 6–4. As a consequence Kudryavtseva pushed into the top-20 in doubles, reaching a career-high ranking of 15.

In addition to the success in doubles Kudryavtseva qualified for 9 singles events including 3 grand slams; Australian open, French open and Wimbledon. She was able to finish the year in the top 100 at No. 96 for the first time since 2010.

2015

Kudryavtseva started 2015 with a quarterfinal showing at Brisbane in singles defeating world No. 23 Karolina Pliskova in the second round. She paired with Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of Russia in hopes for Olympics and reached semifinals at Dubai, Charleston, Rome and Washington DC. They also reached quarterfinal of US Open but fell one spot short of qualifying for the WTA Finals and went to Singapore as an alternate. Kudryavtseva finished the year at 170 in singles and 29 in doubles.

Premier Mandatory/Premier 5 finals

Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	2009	Beijing	Hard	Ekaterina Makarova	Hsieh Su-wei Peng Shuai	3–6, 1–6

Singles: 2 (1 title, 1 runners-up)

Legend
Grand Slam tournaments (0–0)
WTA Tour Championships (0–0)
Tier I / Premier Mandatory & Premier 5 (0–0)
Tier II / Premier (0–0)
Tier III, IV & V / International (1–1)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss		Sep 2010	Guangzhou Open, China	International	Hard	Jarmila Groth	1–6, 4–6
Win		Sep 2010	Tashkent Open, Uzbekistan	International	Hard	Elena Vesnina	6–4, 6–4

Doubles: 20 (9 titles, 11 runners-up)

Legend (pre/post 2009)
Grand Slam tournaments (0–0)
WTA Tour Championships (0–0)
Tier I / Premier Mandatory & Premier 5 (0–1)
Tier II / Premier (3–3)
Tier III, IV & V / International (5–7)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	1.	February 18, 2007	Bangalore Open, Bangalore, India	Hard	Hsieh Su-wei	Chan Yung-jan Chuang Chia-jung	7–6, 2–6, [9–11]
Winner	1.	September 23, 2007	Sunfeast Open, Kolkata, India	Hard	Vania King	Alberta Brianti Mariya Koryttseva	6–1, 6–4
Runner-up	2.	July 13, 2008	Internazionali Femminili di Palermo, Palermo, Italy	Clay	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	Sara Errani Nuria Llagostera Vives	6–2, 6–7, [4–10]
Runner-up	3.	October 11, 2009	China Open, Beijing, China	Hard	Ekaterina Makarova	Hsieh Su-wei Peng Shuai	3–6, 1–6
Runner-up	4.	May 22, 2010	Internationaux de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France	Clay	Anastasia Rodionova	Alizé Cornet Vania King	6–3, 4–6, [7–10]
Winner	2.	June 20, 2010	UNICEF Open, 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands	Grass	Anastasia Rodionova	Vania King Yaroslava Shvedova	3–6, 6–3, [10–8]
Winner	3.	February 19, 2011	Cellular South Cup, Memphis, United States	Hard (i)	Olga Govortsova	Andrea Hlaváčková Lucie Hradecká	6–3, 4–6, [10–8]
Winner	4.	June 12, 2011	Aegon Classic, Birmingham, Great Britain	Grass	Olga Govortsova	Sara Errani Roberta Vinci	1–6, 6–1, [10–5]
Runner-up	5.	July 31, 2011	Citi Open, Washington, D.C., United States	Hard	Olga Govortsova	Sania Mirza Yaroslava Shvedova	3–6, 3–6
Winner	5.	September 15, 2013	Challenge Bell, Quebec City, Canada	Carpet (i)	Anastasia Rodionova	Andrea Hlaváčková Lucie Hradecká	6–4, 6–3
Runner-up	6.	October 20, 2013	Kremlin Cup, Moscow, Russia	Hard (i)	Anastasia Rodionova	Svetlana Kuznetsova Samantha Stosur	1–6, 6–1, [8–10]
Winner	6.	January 4, 2014	Brisbane International, Brisbane, Australia	Hard	Anastasia Rodionova	Kristina Mladenovic Galina Voskoboeva	6–3, 6–1
Runner-up	7.	February 2, 2014	PTT Pattaya Open, Pattaya, Thailand	Hard	Anastasia Rodionova	Peng Shuai Zhang Shuai	6–3, 6–7, [6–10]
Winner	7.	February 22, 2014	Dubai Tennis Championships, Dubai, United Arab Emirates	Hard	Anastasia Rodionova	Raquel Kops-Jones Abigail Spears	6–2, 5–7, [10–8]
Winner	8.	October 12, 2014	Tianjin Open, Tianjin, China	Hard	Anastasia Rodionova	Sorana Cîrstea Andreja Klepač	6–7, 6–2, [10–8]
Runner-up	8.	June 19, 2016	Aegon Classic, Birmingham, Great Britain	Grass	Vania King	Karolína Plíšková Barbora Strýcová	3–6, 6–7
Runner-up	9.	September 18, 2016	Coupe Banque Nationale, Quebec City, Canada	Carpet (i)	Alexandra Panova	Andrea Hlaváčková Lucie Hradecká	6–7, 6–7
Runner-up	10.	July 29, 2017	Jiangxi Open, Nanchang, China	Hard	Arina Rodionova	Jiang Xinyu Tang Qianhui	3–6, 2–6
Runner-up	11.	February 4, 2018	St. Petersburg Ladies' Trophy, St. Petersburg, Russia	Hard (i)	Katarina Srebotnik	Timea Bacsinszky Vera Zvonareva	6–2, 1–6, [3–10]
Winner	9.	April 8, 2018	Volvo Car Open, Charleston, United States	Clay (green)	Katarina Srebotnik	Andreja Klepač María José Martínez Sánchez	6–3, 6–3

Singles

**Key**
W	F	SF	QF	#R	RR	Q#	A	P	Z#	PO	G	F-S	SF-B	NMS	NH

(W) Won; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (A) absent; (P) postponed; (Z#) Davis/Fed Cup Zonal Group (with number indication) or (PO) play-off; (G) gold, (F-S) silver or (SF-B) bronze Olympic medal; a (NMS) downgraded Masters Series/1000 tournament; (NH) not held. SR=strike rate (events won/competed)

To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated at the conclusion of a tournament or when the player's participation has ended.

Current through 2015 US Open

Tournament	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	SR	W–L
Australian Open		Q1	2R	1R	1R	2R	1R	1R	Q1	2R	1R	Q1	0 / 8	3–8
French Open		Q1	3R	1R	2R	1R	1R	Q1	Q3	Q1	Q1	A	0 / 5	3–5
Wimbledon		Q1	1R	4R	1R	2R	1R	Q1	Q2	1R	Q1	Q1	0 / 6	4–6
US Open		Q1	1R	1R	1R	1R	3R	1R	Q1	2R	Q3	Q1	0 / 7	3–7
Win–Loss	0–0	0–0	3–4	3–4	1–4	2–4	2–4	0–2	0–0	2–3	0–1	0–0	0 / 26	13–26
WTA Premier Mandatory Tournaments
Indian Wells				2R	1R		2R	LQ		LQ	1R		0 / 4	2–4
Miami					2R	2R	1R	Q1		Q1	Q1		0 / 3	2–3
Madrid	Not Held						LQ	LQ		Q1	Q1		0 / 0	0–0
Beijing	Tier II				1R	1R	LQ			LQ			0 / 2	0–2
WTA Premier 5 Tournaments
Dubai	Tier II							Not Premier 5			Q1		0 / 0	0–0
Doha	Tier II				Not Held		NP5	Q1		1R			0 / 2	0–2
Rome						1R	Q1	Q1			Q1		0 / 1	0–1
Montréal / Toronto				2R	2R	Q1	Q1	Q2			LQ		0 / 2	2–2
Cincinnati	Tier III				LQ	1R	Q1						0 / 1	0–1
Tokyo					LQ					NP5			0 / 0	0–0
Career Statistics	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	No.
Tournaments played	1	4	14	18	21	22	24	6	6	15	6		137
Titles	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0			1
Finals Reached	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0		2
Win–Loss	0–1	4–4	7–14	12–18	12–21	18–21	14–23	2–7	5–6	8–15	2–4		84–134
Year-End Ranking	216	138	90	71	90	61	104	208	176	98

Doubles

**Key**
W	F	SF	QF	#R	RR	Q#	A	P	Z#	PO	G	F-S	SF-B	NMS	NH

(W) Won; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (A) absent; (P) postponed; (Z#) Davis/Fed Cup Zonal Group (with number indication) or (PO) play-off; (G) gold, (F-S) silver or (SF-B) bronze Olympic medal; a (NMS) downgraded Masters Series/1000 tournament; (NH) not held. SR=strike rate (events won/competed)

To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated at the conclusion of a tournament or when the player's participation has ended.

Only Main Draw results in WTA Tour, Grand Slam Tournaments and Olympic Games are included in Win–Loss records.

This table is current through the 2018 Volvo Car Open

Tournament	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	SR	W–L
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open	2R	2R	2R	2R	3R	QF	1R	1R	3R	QF		2R	0 / 11	15–11
French Open	2R	1R	1R	3R	2R	1R	3R	1R	2R	1R	2R		0 / 11	8–11
Wimbledon	1R	3R	3R	3R	2R	1R	1R	QF	3R	2R	1R		0 / 11	13–11
US Open	1R	1R	3R	2R	3R	1R	2R	3R	QF	3R	2R		0 / 11	16–11
Win–Loss	2–4	3–4	5–4	6–4	6–4	3–4	3–4	5–4	8–4	6–4	2–3	1–1	0 / 44	51–44
National representation
Summer Olympics	NH		Not Held				Not Held				NH		0 / 2	0–0
Year-End championships
Tour Championships								SF					0 / 1	1–1
WTA Premier Mandatory tournaments
Indian Wells	2R	1R	3R		1R	1R		1R	2R	QF		1R	0 / 9	6–9
Miami		1R	1R	2R	1R	1R		QF	2R	QF		QF	0 / 9	8–9
Madrid	Not Held		2R	1R	1R	1R		1R	2R	SF	1R		0 / 8	5–8
Beijing	Tier II		F	1R	1R		1R	SF	2R		1R		0 / 7	8–7
WTA Premier 5 tournaments
Dubai	Tier II			QF		Not Premier 5			SF	NP5		NP5	0 / 2	5–2
Doha	T II		Not Held		NP5	2R		QF	NP5		NP5	2R	0 / 3	4–3
Rome		2R		1R	1R	1R	SF	1R	SF				0 / 7	7–7
Montréal / Toronto		2R	QF	1R	1R	1R	2R	1R		1R			0 / 8	4–8
Cincinnati	Tier III		1R	2R	2R	1R	2R	SF			2R		0 / 7	7–7
Tokyo							SF	NP5					0 / 1	2–1
Wuhan	Not Held							QF	2R				0 / 2	3–2
Career statistics
Tournaments played	13	21	22	23	24	19	19	23	14	14	13	9	214
Titles	1	0	0	1	2	0	1	3	0	0	0	1	9
Finals	2	1	1	2	3	0	2	4	0	1	1	2	19
Overall Win–Loss	15–12	17–21	18–22	23–22	23–22	9–19	24–18	37–20	23–16	24–14	10–13	11–8	382–361
Year-End Ranking	56	49	33	41	39	73	31	18	29	25	71		No. 15

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