page_title: Akgul Amanmuradova
section_title: 2010
hierarchical_section_title: Akgul Amanmuradova / Career / 2010
caption_attribution_description: English: Akgul Amanmuradova at the US Open
context_page_description: Akgul Charievna Amanmuradova is a professional tennis player from Uzbekistan.
  Amanmuradova has won two doubles titles on the WTA Tour, as well as ten singles and 15 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 26 May 2008, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 50. On 18 January 2010, she peaked at No. 36 in the doubles rankings.
  Amanmuradova has twice reached the final of the Tashkent Open in her native Uzbekistan, losing in 2005 to Michaëlla Krajicek and in 2009 to Shahar Pe'er. She has also reached the final of the 2011 President's Cup in Kazakhstan.
context_section_description: Amanmuradova began the year with three consecutive losses in qualifying at the Brisbane International and the Medibank International Sydney. She followed this up with a first-round loss at the Australian Open to Croatian Karolina Šprem.
  At the first round of the Pattaya Open, Amanmuradova was forced to retire with an abdominal strain whilst trailing Sabine Lisicki 6–0.
  In doubles, she had a successful start to the year, reaching the semifinals of the Brisbane International alongside Chan Yung-jan. After this, she rose to her career high in doubles: No. 36.
  Ammanmuradova then had some recent success in singles as she qualified for the BNP Paribas Open after defeating Chanelle Scheepers and Patricia Mayr. However, in the first round she was defeated by Tsvetana Pironkova.
  Amanmuradova then lost to Tsvetana Pironkova again the following week, this time in the first round of the qualifying draw of the Sony Ericsson Open.
  She then qualified for the main draw of the Internazionali BNL d'Italia by defeating Giulia Gatto-Monticone, and Chanelle Scheepers. She then lost to 12th seed Flavia Pennetta in the first round.
  Amanmuradova then qualified for a Premier Mandatory Madrid Open, by defeating Roberta Vinci and Ayumi Morita. She again lost in the first round, this time to Alisa Kleybanova.
  At the Warsaw Open, she was upset by world No. 537, Natalie Grandin, in the first round of the qualifying draw.
  At the French Open, her ranking enabled her to be directly entered into the main draw. In the first round, she caused one of the biggest upsets of the day by defeating 20th seed and well established clay-court player María José Martínez Sánchez. She then defeated Johanna Larsson to move into the third round for the first time in her career. She then lost to Chanelle Scheepers in two sets.
  Amanmuradova was unable to shift her good form onto the grass and suffered a first-round loss at the Aegon International at Eastbourne to Craybas and a first-round loss at Wimbledon to Svetlana Kuznetsova.
  At the Swedish Open, Amanmuradova defeated Mariana Duque Marino in the first round before falling to Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová in the second.
  Amanmuradova then suffered two more first-round losses. At the Italian Open, she was defeated again by Jill Craybas. She then lost in the first round of the İstanbul Cup to Sorana Cîrstea.
  Amanmuradova flew to the U.S. to begin preparations for the US Open, and entered the first tournament in the US Open Series, the Mercury Insurance Open in San Diego. Her ranking was too low for her to gain direct entry into the main draw, so she had to qualify. She won her first qualifying match against Yurika Sema, but lost her second to Chanelle Scheepers.
  Then, next tournament Amanmuradova entered was the Cincinnati Masters. Again, she had to qualify to enter the main draw, and she did so by defeating Anna Tatishvili and Varvara Lepchenko. In the first round of the main draw, she upset Japanese veteran Kimiko Date-Krumm. In the second round, she defeated Bojana Jovanovski to book a third-round encounter with top seed and world No. 2, Jelena Janković. Despite being 112 places below Janković in the rankings, Amanmuradova won to record her first ever top-5 win. She ran out of steam in the quarterfinals, losing to another Serbian, resurgent Ana Ivanovic in two sets.
  At the US Open, Amanmuradova qualified by winning all three matches in the qualifying tournament. She defeated Dia Evtimova, Fuda Ryoko, and Valérie Tétreault. In the first round of the main draw, she defeated Chanelle Scheepers for the third time that year. Her run was ended by No. 31 seed Kaia Kanepi in straight sets.
  Amanmuradova gained direct entry into the Guangzhou International Open and defeated Olga Savchuk in the first round. She was defeated in straight sets by Sania Mirza in the second round.
  Seeded No. 2 at her home tournament in Tashkent where she made the final in 2005 and 2009, Amanmuradova defeated Eirini Georgatou in the first round. In the second, she defeated American veteran Jill Craybas for the first time, in three sets. In the quarterfinal
caption: Amanmuradova at the US Open, 2010
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