page_title: Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
section_title: 2015: Slow start and late-season surge
hierarchical_section_title: Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova / Career / 2015: Slow start and late-season surge
caption_attribution_description: Pavlyuchenkova RG15 (12)
context_page_description: Anastasia Sergeyevna Pavlyuchenkova is a Russian tennis player. A junior prodigy, Pavlyuchenkova won two junior Grand Slam titles, and became the junior World No. 1 in January 2006 at the age of 14.
  She continued her success after turning professional, reaching a career-high singles ranking of world No. 13 on 4 July 2011, and as of 3 February 2020, is ranked world No. 33.
  Pavlyuchenkova has also been continuously ranked inside the top 50 since 3 November 2008, when she entered the top-50 rankings for the first time in her career. She trained at the Mouratoglou Academy from 2006 to 2009.
  Pavlyuchenkova has won twelve singles and five doubles titles on the WTA Tour, as well as five singles and eight doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. Her biggest singles titles to date have come at two Premier-level tournaments, the 2014 Open GDF Suez and the 2014 Kremlin Cup. She is a six-time Grand Slam quarterfinalist, having reached that stage at all four Grand Slams.
context_section_description: Pavlyuchenkova endured a three-match losing streak to start off her 2015 season, a stretch which includes the Australian Open and Dubai, which culminated in her ranking falling to as low as No. 41, her lowest since 2009. At the Monterrey Open, Pavlyuchenkova recorded her first victories of the year by defeating Anna Karolína Schmiedlová and Johanna Larsson to reach the quarterfinals where she lost to second seed Sara Errani. It was her first ever defeat at the tournament. 
  At the BNP Paribas Open, Pavlyuchenkova scored wins over Larsson and 17th seed Barbora Strýcová to reach the third round where she lost to 12th seed Carla Suárez Navarro. The following week in Miami, she lost to Errani in the second round. Pavlyuchenkova then retired in her opening match against Sara Sorribes Tormo in Charleston due to a shoulder injury. In the Fed Cup semifinal tie against Germany, Pavlyuchenkova won her singles rubber over Sabine Lisicki and then partnered Elena Vesnina to defeat Lisicki and Andrea Petkovic in the decisive doubles match, thus sending Russia into its first Fed Cup final since 2011. 
  After an early exit in Prague, Pavlyuchenkova made the last 16 in Madrid where she lost to eventual champion Petra Kvitová, and the second round in Rome where he lost to defending champion Serena Williams. At the French Open, where Pavlyuchenkova was unseeded at a Grand Slam for the first time since the 2010 Australian Open, she fell to eventual runner-up Lucie Šafářová at the first hurdle. On grass, Pavlyuchenkova lost in the second round of the Topshelf Open to Kiki Bertens in straight sets. At the Wimbledon Championships, she was defeated in the second round by 10th seed Angelique Kerber.
  After exiting in the first round of İstanbul, Pavlyuchenkova made her first semifinal of the year the following week in Baku by defeating Elizaveta Kulichkova, Kateryna Bondarenko and Kirsten Flipkens. There, she was upset by Romanian Patricia Maria Țig. She then advanced to her first final of the season at the Citi Open, her second at the tournament, but was denied the title once again, this time by American Sloane Stephens. At the Western & Southern Open, Pavlyuchenkova advanced to the last eight but was defeated by third seed Simona Halep. At the US Open, 31st-seeded Pavlyuchenkova bowed out in the second round to qualifier Anett Kontaveit.
  After another loss to Halep in the second round of Wuhan, Pavlyuchenkova cruised into her second quarterfinal at the China Open where she fell to sixth seed Ana Ivanovic in straight sets. In Linz, she cruised into the last four without the loss of a set, with wins over Kateřina Siniaková, Stefanie Voegele and Aleksandra Krunić. There, she moved past Flipkens in three sets, and then defeated German Anna-Lena Friedsam in the final in straight sets for her eighth career title. It was also her third straight title indoors. As the defending champion in Moscow, she carried on her good form by advancing to her third final of the year but saw her title defence come to an end in the hands of compatriot Svetlana Kuznetsova. Pavlyuchenkova finished the year ranked world No. 28, her fifth overall top 30 finish to a season. In the Fed Cup final against Czech Republic, Pavlyuchenkova lost both her singles rubbers and then teamed up with Vesnina in the decisive doubles match but came up second best to the Czech team in the end.
caption: Pavlyuchenkova at the 2015 French Open
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