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Anna Chakvetadze 2009 to 2010 career information

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Chakvetadze was seeded 17th at the Australian Open where she lost in the second round to Jelena Dokić 6–4, 6–7(4), 6–3. She also lost the opening round of the Barclays Dubai Tennis Championships to Ayumi Morita.

At the Rome Masters, Chakvetadze lost a close three setter to Venus Williams in the third round. At the Madrid Masters, she defeated Virginia Ruano-Pascual in the first round. She then defeated Samantha Stosur in the second round, coming back from 4-1 down in the third set. She fell to Alona Bondarenko in the third round. Chakvetadze, who was seeded 26th at the French Open, suffered a first-round loss to Mariana Duque Marino in three sets 6–3, 4–6, 4–6, thus continuing her disastrous run.

In the grass court season, Chakvetadze was able to raise her game in the first round in Eastbourne, where she defeated a third seeded Jelena Janković 6-7(5), 6-3, 6-2. She lost to Marion Bartoli in the second round.

Chakvetadze was seeded 32nd at the 2009 Wimbledon Championships. She lost to Sabine Lisicki in the first round 4-6, 7-6, 6-2, meaning she was out of the top 50 for the first time in quite a while.

Chakvetadze began her 2009 US Open Series campaign at the Bank of the West Classic in Stanford, where she was unseeded. She was defeated in the first round by Maria Kirilenko 4-6, 7-5, 6-7. The following week, at the LA Women's Tennis Championships, she won her first two matches, against Virginie Razzano and Alisa Kleybanova, but then lost convincingly to Agnieszka Radwańska 6-3, 6-2 in the third round.

Having won the Western & Southern Financial Group Women's Open in Cincinnati in 2007, Chakvetadze went into the 2009 tournament unseeded, and suffered another early round loss to 9th seed Victoria Azarenka in straight sets.

At the Rogers Cup in Toronto she lost again in the first round, to Sybille Bammer 3-6 6-4 6-1, after leading 6-3 4-1. Her next tournament was the Pilot Pen Tennis tournament, in New Haven, where she had been a finalist in 2008. She reached her first quarter-final of the year, defeating Nadia Petrova and Sybille Bammer all in three sets. She then lost to her good friend Elena Vesnina 6-1 7-5.

Chakvetadze entered the US Open as an unseeded player for the first time since 2005. She defeated Yurika Sema 4-6 6-1 6-2, but then fell in the second round to compatriot Vera Zvonareva 3-6 6-1 6-1.

At her home tournament in Moscow Kremlin Cup she again lost in the first round, to Alona Bondarenko 6-4 6-3.

2010 career

Chakvetadze started the year with a first round loss at the ASB Classic in Auckland to wildcard Kimiko Date Krumm, 6-1, 6-2. At the Australian Open, she was defeated in the first round by 12th-seed Flavia Pennetta, 6-3, 3-6, 6-2.

At the PTT Pattaya Open, Chakvetadze defeated Jill Craybas in the first round and defeated Anastasia Rodionova in the second. She fell to Tamarine Tanasugarn in the quarterfinals.

In March, Chakvetadze competed at the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, where she had a 2-6, 6-3, 6-1 win over Anne Keothavong. In the second round, she retired with an ankle injury whilst trailing at 6-2, 5-3 to Agnieszka Radwańska. At the Sony Ericsson Open in Miami, Chakvetadze had a first round loss to Kimiko Date Krumm 7-5, 3-6, 6-4. Her next tournament is 2010 Polsat Warsaw Open where she will play in qualifying rounds.In first round she beat Katarzyna Kawa of Poland 6-2 6-2. In second round she beat Margo Linette 6-4 4-6 6-1 after one hour and 56 minutes. In the third round, she lost to Bojana Jovanovski 7-5 7-6(4).

At the French Open, she was two points away from winning the match in straight sets, before losing in the first round to Angelique Kerber 5-7 7-6 6-4.