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Evgeniya Rodina
Евгения Родина

Rodina at the2019 French Open
Country (sports)	Russia
Residence	Moscow
Born	(1989-02-04)4 February 1989 (age 36) Moscow,Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Height	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Turned pro	2004
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	US$ 2,587,974
Singles
Career record	448–352
Career titles	1 WTA 125, 13 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 67 (6 May 2019)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	2R (2011)
French Open	1R (2008,2011,2015,2017,2019)
Wimbledon	4R (2018)
US Open	2R (2015,2016,2017,2022)
Doubles
Career record	159–142
Career titles	1WTA 125, 6ITF
Highest ranking	No. 99 (24 October 2011)
Grand Slam doubles results
French Open	1R (2017)
Wimbledon	2R (2011)
US Open	2R (2008)

Evgeniya Sergeyevna Rodina (Евгения Сергеевна Родина, born 4 February 1989) is an inactive Russiantennis player. On 6 May 2019, she achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 67.

Rodina has won 13 singles and six doubles titles on theITF Women's Circuit along with one singles and one doubles title onWTA 125 tournaments.

Rodina is married to her coach Denis Shteyngart.^[1] They have a daughter, born in November 2012.^[2]

Rodina began her career on the ITF Circuit with the assistance of a wildcard into the first round of the main draw of a $25k tournament at Moscow in late August 2004, when she was fifteen and a half years old, and took a set from up-and-coming fellow RussianElena Vesnina, though she lost the match in three.

Further wildcards into two successive $10k events at Dubrovnik, Croatia that October gave her the opportunity to win her first and second main-draw ITF matches without qualifying. She lost in the second round on both occasions. But these two results were sufficient to put her onto the tail end of the rankings board at world No. 1138, by the end of the year.

After taking a six-month break from competition, she was granted a further wildcard directly into the main draw of a $10k event at Cavtat, Croatia in late April 2005, after her 16th birthday, and this time won two rounds before losing in the quarterfinals. At the end of that same week, she at last entered a $10k qualifying draw on the merit of her ranking alone, and qualified and then won four rounds of the main draw without dropping a set, only to lose in the final to a little-known player called Vanja Ćorović of Serbia and Montenegro. Her next breakthrough followed in mid-August, as she came through qualifying into a $25k draw for the first time at Moscow, and defeatedOxana Lyubtsova in the main draw on the way to a quarterfinal defeat by fellow RussianVasilisa Bardina.

The following week, she was wildcarded directly into a $25k draw at Balashikha, also in Russia, and bettered her career-best result set the previous week by battling through to the semifinals, after knocking out Israeli playerYevgenia Savransky in the quarterfinals, before she was once again defeated by Bardina in straight sets.

On her next attempt to qualify for a $25 tournament, at Tbilisi, Georgia in September, she lost in the qualifying round toKristina Antoniychuk in straight sets, but was allowed into the main draw as a lucky loser, only to face Bardina for a third time in the first round. Despite winning a set from her fellow Russian for the first time, she lost the match in three.

Wildcarded into the $50kBatumi Ladies Open main draw, also in Georgia, at the end of that month, she reached the second round, then lost to another compatriot,Alla Kudryavtseva.

The next week, in early October, she was favoured with yet another wildcard into a main draw, and this time it was to be her firstWTA Tour main draw. Nonetheless, she defeated compatriotTatiana Panova in Round One and Hungarian talentMelinda Czink in round two to reach the quarterfinal stage at her début WTA event, but then lost a three-set clash to her compatriotEkaterina Bychkova.

The ranking points accrued by this run of results were sufficient to afford her direct entry into the main draw of the next $25k contest she entered, which took place at Minsk in Belarus, early in November. In this instance, she won through to the quarterfinals, but was stopped a round short of her career-best performance at this level by emerging starAgnieszka Radwańska.

In mid-November she was forced to fight through qualifying to enter the popular $25k event at Průhonice in the Czech Republic, and succeeded in defeating future top-50 starDominika Cibulková andMaša Zec Peškirič to achieve this end. But in the first round of the main draw she lost in two sets toMichaela Paštiková.

She did not play another match for the next three months, but ended the year ranked world No. 323.

Returning to competition towards the end of February, she gained direct entry into a $50 tournament at St. Paul, Minnesota, and won her first-round tie before losing toAhsha Rolle.

In her next two $25k tournaments, she endured early losses, but on returning from a month's break early in May to compete in a $25k event at Antalya-Manavgat, Turkey, she reached the quarterfinals after beatingAurélie Védy in a three-set second-round clash, but then was demolished 6–1, 6–1 byRomina Oprandi.

The following week, she gained entry into the qualifying draw of her first $75k tournament at Jounieh, Indonesia, and won through all three qualifying rounds in close three-set matches against little-known opponents to score her career-best qualifying achievement yet, but finally succumbed to compatriot Alla Kudryavtseva in the first round of the main draw. In July, she suffered another early loss in the main draw of a $25k tournament at Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine, as she was trounced by unheralded Ukrainian Galyna Kosyk in the second round in straight sets.

But in August she returned to form by breezing through into the finals of a $25k tournament at Moscow and then vanquishing compatriotEkaterina Makarova in a closely fought final, to win the first ITF title of her career at any level.

The following month, she qualified for her second $75k draw, and this time came away with two main-draw victories also to extend her winning streak to ten, at the expense ofJorgelina Cravero andAleksandra Wozniak. In the quarterfinals, she lost to PeruvianKristina Brandi.

The very next week, she won through qualifying into a $50k event at Ashland, Kentucky, and defeatedVarvara Lepchenko in the second round of the main draw before losing to future top-20 starÁgnes Szávay in the quarterfinals.

As a direct entrant into the main draw of her next $50k tournament the following week, in early October, she was stopped in the second round by Ahsha Rolle, who this time defeated her easily for the loss of just two games.

Back in action again the week after at a $50k event at San Francisco, California, she lost in three sets at the first hurdle to AmericanNeha Uberoi.

After returning to Russia, she reached another $25k quarterfinal at Podolsk at the end of that month before losing to compatriotEugenia Grebenyuk, 2–6, 5–7.

But the very next week, at the start of November, she turned the tables on Grebenyuk in the quarterfinals of a $25k tournament at Minsk, dismissing her, and then narrowly defeated compatriotAnna Lapushchenkova at the semifinal stage, before sealing a comprehensive straight-sets tournament victory overAnastasia Pavlyuchenkova in the final, to take her career ITF singles title tally to two.

Later that month at Přerov in the Czech Republic, she cruised to the semifinals of another $25k event, before losing to British playerAnne Keothavong 6–7, 2–6 in what would be the Russian's last match of the year.

Rodina had ended the year ranked 90 places higher than she began, at world No. 233, and had compiled a win–loss record for the year of 34–12.

In January she entered qualifying for a WTA Tour event for the first time in her career. But far from being a minor-level event, it was a major that she chose to tackle first, more specifically the Australian Open. In the first round of the qualifying draw, she defeatedAngela Haynes, but then she lost in the second to another American,Bethanie Mattek.

After taking the next month off from competition, she entered qualifying for the Tier-III tournament at Bogotá, Colombia in mid-February, and reached the qualifying round with two victories over South American players, before losing to a little-known Spaniard,Estrella Cabeza Candela.

A week later, she entered qualifying for another Tier-III event in the Americas, this time at Acapulco, Mexico. But she was drawn against German playerGréta Arn in the first round of qualifying, and ceded to her a close three-setter.

Returning to the ITF Circuit in March, she suffered a close first-round loss toDarya Kustova in the $25k event at Minsk before winning through to the finals at Moscow with victories over fellow-RussiansOxana Lyubtsova andAlisa Kleybanova, but then lost a very close final to Ekaterina Makarova, who thereby avenged her defeat at the hands of Rodina in the finals of another $25k event at Moscow the previous August.

Staying with $25k events in April, she lost a very close first-round match toCasey Dellacqua at Biarritz, France, but the following week won through to the semifinals at Calvià, Spain, with a three-set quarterfinal victory againstPetra Cetkovská, only to lose her semifinal tie toMaría José Martínez Sánchez in straight sets.

Late that month, she stepped back up to the $50k level at Torrent, Valencia, but lost in the second round toMaret Ani.

Travelling to the Lebanon in May for the $75k tournament at Jounieh, she was upended in the first round by a little-known player from Slovakia,Zuzana Kučová, 6–1, 6–4.

The following week, she reached the quarterfinals of a $50k tournament at Saint-Gaudens, France with wins overMargalita Chakhnashvili andJoanna Sakowicz, but was then demolished byTatiana Perebiynis who allowed her only one game in the match.

Towards the end of the month, she entered qualifying for a Grand Slam championships for the second time in her career, this time at the French Open, and defeatedHana Šromová of the Czech Republic in the first round, but then lost to UzbekAkgul Amanmuradova.

In June, Rodina tried again atWimbledon, but despite defeating her compatriotGalina Voskoboeva in the first round of qualifying, she then lost rather easily to BelarusianOlga Govortsova, 1–6, 2–6.

After another month's break, she returned to action in late July at the $75k tournament at Pétange, Luxembourg, and made it through to the quarterfinal stage, before losing toCarla Suárez Navarro, 6–7, 1–6.

In mid-August, she reached the quarterfinals of another $50k event at the Bronx, New York with wins over Swedish starSofia Arvidsson and Dutch campaignerElise Tamaëla, but then lost a quarterfinal to AustrianYvonne Meusburger.

The very next week, she entered qualifying for her fourth straight major of the year, and this time won two rounds at the expense ofElena Baltacha and Hana Šromová, but was defeated in three sets in the qualifying round byOlivia Sanchez.

In September, as a direct entrant to the $100k tournament atKharkov, Ukraine, she reached the quarterfinal after notching up a straight-sets victory over another British player,Katie O'Brien, in the first round, but then lost toAnne Kremer from Luxembourg in the quarterfinals, 4–6, 1–6.

At the end of the month, she achieved a career-first at Tashkent, Uzbekistan in qualifying for a WTA Tour main draw, by successively defeating bothMarta Domachowska of Poland and her compatriot Anna Lapushchenkova in straight sets. Although it was only a Tier-IV event, these were both strong opponents to encounter in a qualifying draw; and she capitalised on her achievement byZhang Shuai in the first round of the main draw, 6–3, 7–6. But then she facedVictoria Azarenka in round two, and ceded the match to her in two sets, so failing to equal her career best result set at the same event two years previously, although on that past occasion she had entered the tournament thanks to the award of a wildcard and did not encounter such tough second-round opposition.

Later the same week, she entered qualifying for the Tier-I event at Moscow, and toughed out three-set victories against compatriots Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova andAnastasia Pivovarova before ultimately losing a three-setter to Australian former top-ten starAlicia Molik, in the qualifying round.

Towards the end of the month, Rodina returned to the ITF Circuit once more at Podolsk, Russia, and this time fought pastGalyna Kosyk in a three-set quarterfinal to avenge her crushing defeat at her hands back in July 2006. At the semifinal stage, she ousted Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in another three-set tussle, but in the final she defeated Anna Lapushchenkova, against whom she has never yet lost, to earn her third career ITF singles title, and third at $25k level.

In early November, she entered a $50k tournament at Minsk, and after edging past a little-known fellow Russian in round one she successively defeatedViktoriya Kutuzova,Aravane Rezaï, andEkaterina Dzehalevich to reach her career-first $50k final, having never previously made it past the quarterfinals at or above this level of event. Ironically, the final proved to be her easiest match of the tournament, as she virtually bulldozed RomanianSorana Cîrstea for the loss of just one game each set, to take home her career-first $50k title.´The next two weeks were to prove less successful for Rodina. She first encounteredEkaterina Bychkova in the first round of the $50k event at Deauville, France, and was edged out by her in three sets. Next, after gaining direct entry into the main draw of the $100k event at Poitiers, France, she ran intoStéphanie Foretz and was defeated by her 6–3, 6–2.

In December, however, she entered the $75k tournament at Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and enjoyed further success, with another victory over Anna Lapushchenkova in the second round, followed by the avenging of her previous defeat byAlla Kudryavtseva in the quarterfinals, though it was to be another close three-set match between them. These victories took her to her career-first $75k semifinal, where she metYuliana Fedak of Ukraine, and vanquished her in two close sets, 6–4, 6–4. But in the first $75k final, she was faced with the challenge of playing erstwhile top-25 starMaria Kirilenko; and though the first set was close, it was to be Kirilenko who eventually ran away with the match, 7–5, 6–2.

Nonetheless, this performance lifted Rodina to a career-high ranking of world No. 120 on 17 December, a position she maintained at the end of the year, which had seen her surge upwards by a further one 113 places.

Back in Australia a couple of days before the start of January 2008, she again tried her luck at qualifying for events on the WTA Tour, but suffered a rare bleak run of results as she lost in the first rounds of qualifying in all three tournaments she entered, falling toJulia Schruff of Germany at Gold Coast, toYaroslava Shvedova at Hobart, and toJunri Namigata at the Australian Open.

But with few ranking points to defend from that time of year in 2007, she had slipped only three places on the WTA rankings list to world No. 123 by the start of February; and even a further first-round loss toKaia Kanepi (3–6, 4–6) at the first tournament she played that month, the Tier-III event atViña del Mar, Chile, was enough to drop her ranking only to 127th by the last week of February.

In late February, she reached the second round of the Tier-III tournament at Memphis, Tennessee by defeating former top-100 player (but then world No. 158)Anastasiya Yakimova of Belarus in round one, before losing heavily toLindsay Davenport, 1–6, 1–6. The following week, early in March, she reached the second round of the $50kLas Vegas Open with a 6–1, 6–4 win overVarvara Lepchenko, before losing to world No. 87Yuan Meng, 2–6, 2–6 in the second round.

A reprieve from this disappointing run of finishes was just around the corner, however, as at the annual Tier-I event atIndian Wells held over two weeks in the middle of March, she came through two tough rounds of qualifying by defeating resurgent former top-50 starSesil Karatantcheva of Bulgaria and world No. 117Rossana de los Ríos of Paraguay, and then went on to defeat wildcarded fellow Russian Anastasia Pivovarova and French world No. 26,Virginie Razzano, to reach the third round of the main draw, before losing to world No. 31,Anabel Medina Garrigues. Her string of four victories at this tournament, albeit two in qualifying, was sufficient to lift her to a new career-high ranking of world No. 102 in the week beginning 24 March.In the French Open, her first direct entry into a major main draw, she took on the top seed and her compatriot, Maria Sharapova on the Philippe Chatrier Court, the largest court at Roland Garros. Rodina fought gamely and made a good account of herself, before Sharapova won 6–1, 3–6, 8–6.

Rodina qualified for Wimbledon and then made it to the third round where she defeated No. 10 seedMadison Keys. In the fourth round, she lost toSerena Williams 2–6, 2–6. She got her best new ranking of No. 71, her previous career-high ranking of No. 74 last held on 28 February 2011.

After more than three years of absence from WTA Tour and major events, she made her comeback at the2022 US Open under a protected ranking. She defeatedMartina Trevisan in the first round but lost toAjla Tomljanović when the Aussie staged a come-from-behind win.^[3]

She entered the2023 Australian Open also under a protected ranking but lost to qualifier and debutante at this major,Katie Volynets. She again used protected ranking to enter the WTA 1000Indian Wells Open and theMiami Open, where she defeatedAlizé Cornet andBernarda Pera, respectively, and at theCharleston Open, theRosmalen Open, and theBad Homburg Open.

Only main-draw results in WTA Tour, Grand Slam tournaments, Fed Cup/Billie Jean King Cup and Olympic Games are included in win–loss records.

Current through the 2023 Miami Open.

Result	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	Jul 2016	Swiss Open Gstaad	International[a]	Clay	Annika Beck	Lara Arruabarrena Xenia Knoll	1–6, 6–3, [8–10]

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1–0	Nov 2016	Taipei Open, Taiwan	Carpet (i)	Chang Kai-chen	6–4, 6–3
Loss	1–1	Nov 2018	Open de Limoges, France	Hard (i)	Ekaterina Alexandrova	2–6, 2–6

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1–0	Mar 2019	Indian Wells Challenger, United States	Hard	Kristýna Plíšková	Taylor Townsend Yanina Wickmayer	7–6(7), 6–4

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0–1	May 2005	ITF Dubrovnik, Croatia	10,000	Clay	Vanja Ćorović	4–6, 0–6
Win	1–1	Aug 2006	ITF Moscow, Russia	25,000	Clay	Ekaterina Makarova	7–6(4), 6–3
Win	2–1	Nov 2006	ITF Minsk, Belarus	25,000	Carpet (i)	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	6–4, 6–3
Loss	2–2	Apr 2007	ITF Moscow, Russia	25,000	Hard (i)	Ekaterina Makarova	4–6, 7–6(6), 3–6
Win	3–2	Oct 2007	ITF Podolsk, Russia	25,000	Hard (i)	Anna Lapushchenkova	6–1, 6–3
Win	4–2	Nov 2007	ITF Minsk, Belarus	50,000	Hard (i)	Sorana Cîrstea	6–1, 6–1
Loss	4–3	Dec 2007	Dubai Tennis Challenge, UAE	75,000	Hard	Maria Kirilenko	5–7, 2–6
Win	5–3	Apr 2009	ITF Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia	50,000	Carpet (i)	Anna Lapushchenkova	6–3, 6–2
Win	6–3	Nov 2009	ITF Bratislava, Slovakia	50,000	Hard (i)	Renata Voráčová	6–4, 6–2
Win	7–3	Aug 2010	President's Cup, Kazakhstan	50,000	Hard	Ekaterina Dzehalevich	4–6, 6–1, 6–4
Loss	7–4	Nov 2010	ITF Bratislava, Slovakia	25,000	Hard (i)	Kateryna Bondarenko	6–7(3–7), 2–6
Loss	7–5	Sep 2013	ITF Moscow, Russia	25,000	Clay	Anastasiya Vasylyeva	2–6, 1–6
Win	8–5	Jul 2014	ITF Middelburg, Netherlands	25,000	Clay	Angelique van der Meet	7–5, 7–5
Loss	8–6	Aug 2014	ITF Fleurus, Belgium	25,000	Clay	Kristína Kučová	3–6, 4–6
Win	9–6	Sep 2014	ITF Moscow, Russia	25,000	Clay	Xenia Knoll	7–6(2), 6–1
Loss	9–7	Sep 2014	ITF Moscow, Russia	25,000	Clay	Vitalia Diatchenko	3–6, 1–6
Win	10–7	Sep 2014	ITF Dobrich, Bulgaria	25,000	Clay	Andreea Mitu	3–6, 7–5, 6–3
Win	11–7	Nov 2014	ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt	25,000	Hard	Laura Siegemund	6–2, 6–2
Win	12–7	Nov 2014	ITF Sharm El Sheikh	25,000	Hard	Laura Siegemund	5–7, 6–3, 6–2
Win	13–7	Jun 2016	Ilkley Trophy, UK	50,000	Grass	Rebecca Šramková	6–4, 6–4

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1–0	May 2005	ITF Dubrovnik, Croatia	10,000	Clay	Natalia Bogdanova	Tina Obrez Meta Sevšek	4–6, 6–4, 6–4
Loss	1–1	Jul 2006	ITF Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine	25,000	Clay	Kristina Antoniychuk	Olena Antypina Nina Bratchikova	1–6, 7–5, 5–7
Loss	1–2	Aug 2006	ITF Moscow, Russia	25,000	Clay	Mihaela Buzărnescu	Maria Kondratieva Ekaterina Makarova	6–4, 4–6, 1–6
Win	2–2	Oct 2006	ITF Podolsk, Russia	25,000	Hard (i)	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	Vasilisa Davydova Ekaterina Dzehalevich	6–1, 6–2
Loss	2–3	Nov 2006	ITF Minsk, Belarus	25,000	Carpet (i)	Ekaterina Dzehalevich	Darya Kustova Ekaterina Makarova	4–6, 4–6
Loss	2–4	Mar 2007	ITF Minsk, Belarus	25,000	Carpet (i)	Ekaterina Makarova	Darya Kustova Ekaterina Dzehalevich	6–4, 4–6, 4–6
Win	3–4	Mar 2007	ITF Moscow, Russia	25,000	Hard (i)	Alisa Kleybanova	Arina Rodionova Ekaterina Dzehalevich	7–6(2), 6–0
Win	4–4	Apr 2007	Open de Biarritz, France	25,000	Clay	Yevgenia Savransky	Ekaterina Lopes Iryna Brémond	2–6, 6–1, 6–3
Win	5–4	Apr 2007	ITF Torrent, Spain	50,000	Clay	Ekaterina Lopes	Marta Marrero Carla Suárez Navarro	7–6(7), 3–6, 6–2
Loss	5–5	Nov 2009	ITF Minsk, Belarus	50,000	Hard (i)	Vesna Dolonc	Lyudmyla Kichenok Nadiia Kichenok	3–6, 6–7(7–9)
Loss	5–6	Jun 2011	Nottingham Trophy, UK	100,000	Grass	Regina Kulikova	Eva Birnerová Petra Cetkovská	3–6, 2–6
Win	6–6	Aug 2013	Kazan Open, Russia	50,000	Hard	Veronika Kudermetova	Alexandra Artamonova Martina Borecká	5–7, 6–0, [10–8]
Loss	6–7	Dec 2013	ITF Madrid, Spain	25,000	Hard	Elitsa Kostova	Demi Schuurs Eva Wacanno	1–6, 2–6
Loss	6–8	May 2014	Empire Slovak Open, Slovakia	75,000	Clay	Margarita Gasparyan	Stephanie Vogt Zheng Saisai	4–6, 2–6
Loss	6–9	May 2014	ITF Moscow, Russia	25,000	Clay	Ekaterina Bychkova	Anna Danilina Xenia Knoll	3–6, 2–6
Loss	6–10	Jul 2014	ITF Middelburg, Netherlands	25,000	Clay	Veronika Kudermetova	Angelique van der Meet Bernice van de Velde	6–7(4), 6–3, [5–10]
Loss	6–11	Aug 2014	ITF Westende, Belgium	25,000	Hard	Marina Melnikova	Ysaline Bonaventure Elise Mertens	2–6, 2–6
Loss	6–12	May 2016	Empire Slovak Open	100,000	Clay	Anastasija Sevastova	Anna Kalinskaya Tereza Mihalíková	1–6, 6–7(4)

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