Anna Alyabyeva began to compete in the senior circuit in 2009 as the second gymnasts of her home country. Her highest achievement that year was a top 24 ranking at the 2009 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships held in Mie. In 2010 she became the number one gymnast of Kazakhstan after the retirement of Aliya Yussupova. Alyabyeva was invited in Russia's National rhythmic gymnastics training center in Novogorsk under Irina Viner's class; there she improved her difficulty and execution.