page_title: Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
section_title: 2016: Wimbledon quarterfinal
hierarchical_section_title: Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova / Career / 2016: Wimbledon quarterfinal
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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 began her 2016 season at the Brisbane International, reaching the quarterfinals by beating fifth seed Timea Bacsinszky and Alizé Cornet. There, she fell to eventual runner-up Angelique Kerber. The following week in Sydney, she lost to Karolína Plíšková in the second round. She then suffered a second consecutive first round loss at the Australian Open when she fell to Lauren Davis in her opening match. She then reached the quarterfinals on home soil in St. Petersburg after seeing off Klára Koukalová and Carina Witthöft but there, she was beaten by eventual runner-up Belinda Bencic. She then made the quarterfinals in Acapulco where she lost to Yanina Wickmayer, but then suffered her first ever opening-round defeat in Monterrey where she lost to Pauline Parmentier in straight sets.
  After a going winless in tournaments throughout the months of March and April, which includes the BNP Paribas Open and Miami Open, Pavlyuchenkova advanced to the round of 16 at the Mutua Madrid Open for the third year in a row. There, she succumbed to eventual runner-up Dominika Cibulková in three sets. At the Internazionali BNL d'Italia, she lost to 13th seed Ana Ivanovic in the first round. At the French Open, Pavlyuchenkova won back-to-back matches at a Grand Slam tournament for the first time since the 2014 Australian Open, defeating the likes of Sara Sorribes Tormo and Çağla Büyükakçay to book her spot in the third round where she was beaten by compatriot Svetlana Kuznetsova.
  Pavlyuchenkova started the grass-court season with opening round losses to Jeļena Ostapenko and Madison Brengle in Birmingham and Eastbourne respectively. At the Wimbledon Championships, Pavlyuchenkova was the 21st seed and she moved past Hsieh Su-wei and Yulia Putintseva to reach the third round where she upset Timea Bacsinszky to advance to the second week of a Grand Slam tournament for the first time since the 2011 US Open. In the fourth round, she defeated Coco Vandeweghe for a place in her third Grand Slam quarterfinal, also her first since the 2011 US Open. There, she faced Serena Williams and was defeated by the defending champion in straight sets. Following the conclusion of Wimbledon, Pavlyuchenkova re-entered the top 20 rankings for the first time in more than four years at No. 19.
  Carrying her good form into the Rogers Cup, she was seeded 16th and she saw off Putintseva and Christina McHale before upsetting fourth seed Agnieszka Radwańska for a place in her fifth quarterfinal of the year. There, she was defeated by eventual runner-up Madison Keys in three sets. Making her debut appearance at the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Pavlyuchenkova defeated Pole Magda Linette in the opening round but was then beaten by eventual gold medallist Monica Puig in the second round. She then lost in the round of 16 at Cincinnati to Garbiñe Muguruza. At the US Open, Pavlyuchenkova reached the third round where she was beaten by eventual runner-up Plíšková.
  After an unfruitful Asian swing, where she managed just one win from three tournaments, Pavlyuchenkova then went on to finish the year by recording another two quarterfinal appearances, in Linz, where she was the defending champion but fell to eventual champion Cibulková, and in Moscow, to eventual runner-up Daria Gavrilova. The loss to Gavrilova meant Pavlyuchenkova had failed to reach a semifinal throughout the season, her best result being seven quarterfinal showings. Nevertheless, she maintained her year-end ranking from the previous year, world No. 28.
caption: Pavlyuchenkova at the 2016 US Open
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