Akgul Amanmuradova

2000–2004

Amanmuradova played her first WTA Circuit match in her home town of Tashkent. She lost in the first round.

She played her first ITF Tournaments in 2002, and she reached the semifinals in Mysore and finals in Manila and Hyderabad, both times losing to Sania Mirza.

2003 was a successful year for Amanmuradova; she won four singles titles, including a $25,000 ITF Tournament in Mumbai. She secured victories in Incheon, Pune and Mumbai.

In August 2004 Amanmuradova won a $10,000 tournament in Coimbra, Portugal. She reached the semifinals in New Delhi and Mumbai and won two more titles in Pune and Bangkok.

2005

In 2005 Amanmuradova qualified for her first ever WTA Tour tournament in Pattaya City, Thailand. She reached the semifinals in Phuket and Coimbra but her real success story came when she reached the final at the Tashkent Open. This run pushed her into the top 200 for the first time.

2006

Amanmuradova received a wild card entry into the Australian Open, where she defeated Dally Randriantefy in three sets in the first round. In the second round she faced 17th seed Daniela Hantuchová and was defeated 6–4, 6–1.

Amanmuradova then tried to qualify for Pattaya City and Bangalore but lost in the qualifying tournaments. She represented Uzbekistan in the Fed Cup again, this time playing in the Asia/Oceania Group 1. She lost to Samantha Stosur of Australia and Mi Yoo of South Korea. Uzbekistan was made to play New Zealand in the relegation play-off and Amanmuradova was matched up against Marina Erakovic. She lost 7–5, 6–1 and Uzbekistan was relegated.

Amanmuradova tried to qualify for Wimbledon, the French Open and the US Open, but lost in the qualifying tournaments. She returned to Tashkent but failed to replicate her run from the previous year, falling to Tamarine Tanasugarn in the first round. This meant she fell out of the top 200 for the first time in 2006.

In November 2006 Amanmuradova headed to Shanghai to play the Shanghai $50,000 tournament. She played very well and defeated the first, third and fifth seeds to reach the final. Here she faced Tamarine Tanasugarn again, and again she was unable to defeat her, losing 6–3, 6–3. At the end of 2006, Amanmuradova reached the final at Pune, a tournament she had won two times before. However, she was forced to retire with a knee strain whilst trailing 7–6, 4–2.

She ended the year with a 21–21 record and a ranking of 227.

2007

Amanmuradova began the year by losing in the qualifying tournament at the Australian Open. This meant a significant drop in rankings as she had reached the second round in the previous year.

In March 2007 Amanmuradova headed to the $25,000 ITF Mumbai Tournament, which she won for the third time, dispatching Stefanie Vögele in the final.

At the French Open she managed to qualify by defeating María José Argeri, Evgeniya Rodina and Gréta Arn. In the first round she faced world no. 74 Vania King, whom she defeated in a tight match 7–6, 4–6, 6–3. In the second round Amanmuradova came up against world no. 10 Nicole Vaidišová, to whom she lost 6–2, 6–4. This success boosted her ranking back into the top 200, and she reached a career high of 141.

In July 2007 Amanmuradova headed to Cincinnati. Here she managed to qualify and make it to the semifinals, defeating Bethanie Mattek along the way. However, she lost to Akiko Morigami in the semifinals, 6–7, 6–4, 6–3, the same woman she had lost to in the fed cup five years prior. This success pushed her ranking up to 108.

After another good performance in Tashkent, Amanmuradova moved into the top 100 for the first time. She ended the year with a record of 32–20 and a ranking of 97.

2008

Amanmuradova began the year with a direct acceptance into the Australian Open, the first time she had ever been accepted straight into a grand slam. She lost in the first round to 26th seed Victoria Azarenka, 6–2, 7–5.

Playing in the fed cup, Amanmuradova defeated Yung-Jun Chan of Chinese Taipei and Tamarine Tanasugarn of Thailand for a chance of promotion. However, she lost to Marina Erakovic of New Zealand in the promotion playoff.

At Pattaya City Amanmuradova managed to make it to the semifinals, losing to American Jill Craybas, 6–4, 6–0. After this she rose to a career high of 85.

In Berlin Amanmuradova managed to qualify for the premier event. After knocking out Aravane Rezaï of France, Amanmuradova faced world no. 2 Ana Ivanovic. This was the first time she had played a top five player. She held her own, pushing the first set to a tie-break before losing the match: 7–6, 6–2.

Amanmuradova was playing some of her best tennis. At the 2008 İstanbul Cup she made it to the semifinals, defeating Nadia Petrova en route. Here she fell to world no. 7 Elena Dementieva. After this she reached her highest ever ranking of 50. For the rest of the year she didn't excel as much as previously. She made it to the second round of the French Open for the second year running. She represented Uzbekistan at the Beijing Olympics, losing to Francesca Schiavone in the first round.

She ended the year with a 22–29 singles record and a ranking of 80.

2009

Amanmuradova began the year by reaching the second round at the Australian Open, defeating Melanie Oudin in the first round before falling to María José Martínez Sánchez.

Her ranking slipped throughout the year as she had little success on the WTA Tour. She went to play at the $100,000 Biarritz event and reached the semifinals, defeating world no. 86 Mathilde Johansson in the process, before falling to Julia Görges. The next week she reached another semifinal at a $50,000 tournament in Contrexéville.

She returned to the WTA Tour, but had little success until her home tournament, the Tashkent Open, where she reached her second WTA Tour final. She defeated Stefanie Vögele and Yaroslava Shvedova in straight sets en route to the final. In the final she was defeated by Shahar Pe'er, 6–3, 6–4.

Amanmuradova and partner Ai Sugiyama won the 2009 Aegon International at Eastbourne. This is the only WTA Premier event played on grass. She also won the $100,000 ITF doubles tournament in Cueno alongside Darya Kustova.

She ended the 2009 season ranked 85 with a win-loss record of 25–27.

2010

Amanmuradova at the US Open 2010

Amanmuradova began the year with three consecutive losses in qualifying at the 2010 Brisbane International and the 2010 Medibank International Sydney. She followed this up with a first round loss at the 2010 Australian Open to Croatian Karolina Šprem 6–0, 7–6.

At the first round of the 2010 PTT Pattaya Open Amanmuradova was forced to retire with an abdominal strain whilst trailing Sabine Lisicki 6–0.

In doubles Amanmuradova had a successful start to the year, reaching the semifinals of the 2010 Brisbane International alongside Yung-Jan Chan. After this she rose to her career high in doubles: 36.

Ammanmuradova then had some recent success in singles as she qualified for the 2010 BNP Paribas Open after defeating Chanelle Scheepers 6–3, 5–7, 6–1 and Patricia Mayr 6–2, 6–0. In the first round she was defeated by Tsvetana Pironkova 6–3, 6–2.

Amanmuradova then lost to Tsvetana Pironkova again the following week, this time in the first round of the qualifying draw of the 2010 Sony Ericsson Open, 6–2, 6–2.

Amanmuradova then qualified for the main draw of the 2010 Internazionali BNL d'Italia by defeating Giulia Gatto-Monticone 6–2, 6–1 and Chanelle Scheepers 6–0, 7–6. She then lost to 12th seed Flavia Pennetta in the first round, 6–2, 6–3.

Amanmuradova then qualified for a Premier Mandatory event in Madrid, the 2010 Mutua Madrileña Madrid Open, by defeating Roberta Vinci 7–6, 6–3 and Ayumi Morita 6–3, 6–2. She again lost in the first round, this time to Alisa Kleybanova 6–3, 6–2.

At the 2010 Polsat Warsaw Open, Amanmuradova was upset by World No.537 Natalie Grandin in the first round of the qualifying draw, 6–2, 3–6, 6–1.

Amanmuradova then flew to Paris to compete at the 2010 French Open, where 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 6–2, 6–4. She then defeated Johanna Larsson 7–6, 6–2 to move into the third round for the first time in her career. She then lost to Chanelle Scheepers 6–3, 6–3.

Amanmuradova was unable to shift her good form onto the grass and suffered a first round loss at the 2010 Aegon International at Eastbourne to Jill Craybas 6–1, 6–4 and a first round loss at the 2010 Wimbledon Championships to Svetlana Kuznetsova 6–2, 6–7, 6–4.

At the 2010 Swedish Open, Amanmuradova defeated Mariana Duque Marino in the first round 6–7, 6–4, 6–0 before falling to Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová in the second 3–6, 6–4, 6–0.

Amanmuradova then suffered two more first round losses. At the 2010 Internazionali Femminili di Palermo she was defeated again by Jill Craybas. This time it was much closer, with a score of 7–6, 7–5. She then lost in the first round of the 2010 İstanbul Cup to Sorana Cîrstea 7–6, 6–3.

Amanmuradova then flew to the US to begin preparations for the US Open, and entered the first tournament in the US Open Series, the 2010 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 6–2, 6–1, but lost her second to Chanelle Scheepers 6–7, 7–6, 6–4.

Then next tournament Amanmuradova entered was the 2010 Western & Southern Financial Group Women's Open in Cincinnati. Again, she had to qualify to enter the main draw, and she did so by defeating Anna Tatishvili 6–4, 6–2 and Varvara Lepchenko 7–6, 6–4. In the first round of the main draw she upset Japanese veteran Kimiko Date-Krumm, crushing her 6–1, 6–2. In the second round she defeated Bojana Jovanovski 6–2, 6–0 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 with an impressive 7–6, 6–4 score to record her first ever top 5 win. She ran out of steam in the quarterfinals, losing to another Serbian, resurgent Ana Ivanovic 6–1, 6–3.

At the US Open, Amanmuradova qualified by winning all three matches in the qualifying tournament. She defeated Dia Evtimova 6–1, 6–4, Fuda Ryoko 6–3, 6–3 and Valérie Tétreault 6–4, 6–3. In the first round of the main draw she defeated Chanelle Scheepers for the third time that year, 6–3, 6–4. Her run was ended by no. 31 seed Kaia Kanepi, losing in straight sets to the Estonian, 6–2 and 6–4.

Amanmuradova gained direct entry into the 2010 Guangzhou International Women's Open and defeated Olga Savchuk in the first round, 7–5, 6–2. She was defeated in straight sets by Sania Mirza in the second round, 6–4 and 6–3.

Seeded no. 2 at her home tournament in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, where she made the final in 2005 and 2009, Amanmuradova defeated Eirini Georgatou 6–4, 6–3 in the first round. In the second round she defeated American veteran Jill Craybas for the first time, 7–5, 6–7, 6–2. In the quarterfinals she was defeated in straight sets by no. 7 seed Alla Kudryavtseva, 7–6, 6–3.

She ended the year in the top 100 for the 4th year in a row with a ranking of 70.

2011

Amanmuradova failed to win a single match in Australia, losing in the first round of the 2011 Brisbane International, the 2011 Moorilla Hobart International and the 2011 Australian Open.

She won her first match of the season in Pattaya, Thailand, competing at the 2011 PTT Pattaya Open where she defeated 7th seed Zheng Jie in the first round, 6–4, 7–6. She then defeated Chanelle Scheepers 6–2, 6–4 to book a quarterfinal place against no. 4 seed Daniela Hantuchová. Her run ended her however after a drubbing by Hantuchová, 6–2, 6–0.

She then competed at the 2011 Dubai Tennis Championships, but lost in the first round to wildcard receiver Sania Mirza.

2012

Amanmuradova with Petra Kvitová of Czech Republic at Wimbledon 2012

Amanmuradova started off the 2012 season falling in the qualifying draws of both Brisbane and the Australian Open. She then represented Uzbekistan at the 2012 Fed Cup in Shenzhen, China. She won her singles match against Ayu Fani Damayanti, but lost both doubles matches.

Amanmuradova then lost early in Pattaya and Kuala Lumpur, to Vera Zvonareva and Agnieszka Radwańska, respectively. She failed to qualify for the Premier Mandatory tournaments in Indian Wells and Miami, and also lost in the first round at Osprey.

As the clay court season began, she managed to make it to the main draw of Charleston, but was beaten by Jill Craybas. She was given a Lucky Loser spot in Stuttgart where she upset Dominika Cibulková in round one, her biggest win since 2010. However, she could not hold on to the good form, as she lost early in Budapest, Cagnes-sur-Mer and Prague. She was also beaten in the qualifications at Roland Garros.

On grass, she lost in round one of 's-Hertogenbosch. She also lost in the first round of Wimbledon, to Petra Kvitová, 6–4, 6–4.^[1]

Singles: 2 (0–2)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Runner-up	1.	October 9, 2005	Tashkent Open, Tashkent, Uzbekistan	Hard	Michaëlla Krajicek	6–0, 4–6, 6–3
Runner-up	2.	September 27, 2009	Tashkent Open, Tashkent, Uzbekistan	Hard	Shahar Pe'er	6–3, 6–4

Doubles: 4 (2–2)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponent	Score
Winner	1.	June 20, 2009	Aegon International, Eastbourne, United Kingdom	Grass	Ai Sugiyama	Samantha Stosur Rennae Stubbs	6–4, 6–3
Winner	2.	May 21, 2011	Internationaux de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France	Clay	Chuang Chia-jung	Natalie Grandin Vladimíra Uhlířová	6–4, 5–7 [10–2]
Runner-up	1.	September 23, 2012	Hansol Korea Open, Seoul, South Korea	Hard	Vania King	Raquel Kops-Jones Abigail Spears	6–2, 2–6 [8–10]
Runner-up	2.	February 3, 2013	PTT Pattaya Open, Pattaya, Thailand	Hard	Alexandra Panova	Kimiko Date-Krumm Casey Dellacqua	3–6, 2–6

Singles: 19 (9–10)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
Runner-up	1.	22 September 2002	Hyderabad, India	Hard	Sania Mirza	6–1, 6–2
Runner-up	2.	17 November 2002	Manila, Philippines	Hard	Sania Mirza	6–0, 4–6, 6–3
Winner	1.	6 April 2003	Mumbai, India	Hard	Rushmi Chakravarthi	6–4, 3–6, 7–5
Runner-up	3.	13 April 2003	Mumbai, India	Hard	Manisha Malhotra	2–6, 6–4, 7–6(12–10)
Winner	2.	21 June 2003	Inchon, South Korea	Hard	Khoo Chin-bee	7–5, 6–1
Winner	3.	9 November 2003	Mumbai, India	Hard	Isha Lakhani	6–2, 6–3
Winner	4.	16 November 2003	Pune, India	Hard	Meghha Vakaria	7–5, 6–3
Winner	5.	22 August 2004	Coimbra, Portugal	Hard	Irina Kotkina	6–2, 6–3
Winner	6.	30 October 2004	Pune, India	Hard	Rushmi Chakravarthi	6–0, 7–6(7–5)
Winner	7.	4 December 2004	Bangkok, Thailand	Hard	Napaporn Tongsalee	6–2, 6–3
Runner-up	4.	5 November 2006	Shanghai, China	Hard	Tamarine Tanasugarn	6–3, 6–3
Runner-up	5.	19 November 2006	Pune, India	Clay	Amina Rakhim	7–6(7–5), 4–2ret
Winner	8.	24 March 2007	Mumbai, India	Hard	Stefanie Vögele	6–0, 7–5
Runner-up	6.	30 July 2011	Astana, Kazakhstan	Hard	Vitalia Diatchenko	6–4, 6–1
Runner-up	7.	16 October 2011	Joué-lès-Tours, France	Hard	Alison Riske	2–6, 6–2, 7–5
Winner	9.	26 May 2014	Bukhara, Uzbekistan	Hard	Veronika Kapshay	6–3, 7–5
Runner-up	8.	20 December 2014	Ankara, Turkey	Hard (i)	Aleksandra Krunić	6–3, 2–6, 6–7(6–8)
Runner-up	9.	25 June 2016	Ystad, Sweden	Clay	Susanne Celik	1–6, 3–6
Runner-up	10.	2 September 2017	Almaty, Kazakhstan	Clay	Polina Leykina	3–6, 3–6

Doubles: 40 (14–26)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score
Winner	1.	8 December 2002	Pune, India	Hard	Kateryna Bondarenko	Sania Mirza Radhika Tulpule	6–3, 7–6(7–1)
Winner	2.	9 February 2003	Chennai, India	Hard	Ivanna Israilova	Rushmi Chakravarthi Sai Jayalakshmy Jayaram	6–4, 6–1
Winner	3.	31 March 2003	Mumbai, India	Hard	Khoo Chin-bee	Rushmi Chakravarthi Sai Jayalakshmy Jayaram	6–2, 6–2
Runner-up	4.	13 April 2003	Mumbai, India	Hard	Khoo Chin-bee	Ludmila Richterová Julia Efremova	5–7, 5–7
Winner	5.	27 June 2004	Alkmaar, Netherlands	Clay	Kika Hogendoorn	Kelly de Beer Eva Pera	6–2, 6–2
Winner	6.	22 August 2004	Coimbra, Portugal	Hard	Irina Kotkina	Sarah Raab Sandra Volk	2–6, 6–1, 6–1
Runner-up	7.	28 August 2004	New Delhi, India	Hard	Sania Mirza	Chuang Chia-jung Hsieh Su-wei	6–7(6–8), 4–6
Winner	8.	24 October 2004	Pune, India	Hard	Sai Jayalakshmy Jayaram	Wilawan Choptang Thassha Vitayaviroj	6–3, 4–6, 6–3
Winner	9.	1 November 2004	Mumbai, India	Hard	Sai Jayalakshmy Jayaram	Maria Abramović Hana Šromová	4–6, 6–4, 6–4
Winner	10.	4 December 2004	Bangkok, Thailand	Hard	Napaporn Tongsalee	Hwang I-hsuan Nudnida Luangnam	6–4, 6–4
Runner–up	11.	16 May 2005	Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam	Hard	Napaporn Tongsalee	Wynne Prakusya Romana Tedjakusuma	4–6, 0–6
Winner	12.	28 May 2005	Phuket, Thailand	Hard	Napaporn Tongsalee	Monique Adamczak Annette Kolb	6–1, 6–1
Runner–up	13.	20 June 2005	Périgueux, France	Clay	Antonia Matic	Katarína Kachlíková Lenka Tvarošková	5–7, 1–6
Runner-up	14.	21 November 2005	Poitiers, France	Hard (i)	Nina Bratchikova	Maret Ani Mervana Jugić-Salkić	6-7(0-7), 1-6
Runner–up	15.	28 March 2006	Hammond, United States	Hard	Romana Tedjakusuma	Tetiana Luzhanska Chan Chin-wei	1–6, 3–6
Runner-up	16.	3 July 2006	Mont-de-Marsan, France	Clay	Nina Bratchikova	Margalita Chakhnashvili Raluca Olaru	5–7, 6–1, 1–6
Runner-up	17.	25 July 2006	Lexington, Kentucky, United States	Hard	Varvara Lepchenko	Chan Chin-wei Abigail Spears	1–6, 1–6
Runner-up	18.	31 July 2006	Washington, United States	Hard	Varvara Lepchenko	Chan Chin-wei Tetiana Luzhanska	2–6, 6–1, 0–6
Runner-up	19.	5 November 2006	Shanghai, China	Hard	Iroda Tulyaganova	Ji Chunmei Sun Shengnan	4–6, 5–7
Runner-up	20.	5 November 2006	Shenzhen, China	Hard	Iroda Tulyaganova	Hsieh Su-wei Alla Kudryavtseva	0–2 ret.
Winner	21.	23 March 2007	Mumbai, India	Hard	Nina Bratchikova	Olga Panova Stefanie Vögele	6-2, 6-3
Runner-up	22.	17 May 2007	Saint-Gaudens, France	Hard	Iryna Brémond	Jorgelina Cravero Darya Kustova	1–6, 3–6
Runner-up	23.	12 November 2007	Deauville, France	Clay (i)	Anastasiya Yakimova	Renata Voráčová Barbora Strýcová	3–6, 5–7
Runner-up	24.	26 October 2008	Poitiers, France	Hard (i)	Monica Niculescu	Petra Cetkovská Lucie Šafářová	4–6, 4–6
Runner-up	25.	27 October 2008	Bratislava, Slovakia	Hard (i)	Monica Niculescu	Andrea Hlaváčková Lucie Hradecká	6–7(1–7), 1–6
Winner	26.	4 July 2009	Cuneo, Italy	Clay	Darya Kustova	Petra Cetkovská Mathilde Johansson	5–7, 6–1 [10–7]
Runner–up	27.	12 July 2009	Biarritz, France	Clay	Darya Kustova	Anastasia Rodionova Chan Yung-jan	6–3, 4–6 [7–10]
Runner-up	28.	31 October 2010	Poitiers, France	Hard (i)	Kristina Barrois	Lucie Hradecká Renata Voráčová	7–6(7-5), 2–6 [5–10]
Runner-up	29.	25 July 2011	Astana, Kazakhstan	Hard	Alexandra Panova	Vitalia Diatchenko Galina Voskoboeva	3–6, 4–6
Runner-up	30.	28 November 2011	Dubai, United Arab Emirates	Hard	Alexandra Dulgheru	Nina Bratchikova Darija Jurak	4–6, 6–3 [6–10]
Runner-up	31.	20 May 2012	Prague, Czech Republic	Clay	Casey Dellacqua	Alizé Cornet Virginie Razzano	2–6, 3–6
Winner	32.	29 October 2012	Barnstaple, United Kingdom	Hard (i)	Vesna Dolonc	Aliaksandra Sasnovich Diāna Marcinkēviča	6–3, 6–1
Runner-up	33.	26 May 2014	Bukhara, Uzbekistan	Hard	Nigina Abduraimova	Veronika Kapshay Sabina Sharipova	4–6, 4–6
Runner-up	34.	16 May 2016	Zhengzhou, China	Hard	Michaela Hončová	Xun Fangying You Xiaodi	6–1, 2–6 [7–10]
Runner-up	35.	2 July 2016	Toruń, Poland	Clay	Valentyna Ivakhnenko	Irina Bara Valeria Savinykh	3–6, 6–4 [7–10]
Runner-up	36.	3 June 2017	Andijan, Uzbekistan	Hard	Valeriya Strakhova	Olga Doroshina Polina Monova	2–6, 0–6
Winner	37.	15 June 2017	Moscow, Russia	Clay	Valentyna Ivakhnenko	Ilona Kremen Irina Shymanovich	6–4, 6–2
Runner-up	38.	2 September 2017	Almaty, Kazakhstan	Clay	Nigina Abduraimova	Gabriela Cé Yana Sizikova	4–6, 6–3 [7–10]
Winner	39.	22 June 2018	Klosters, Switzerland	Clay	Ekaterine Gorgodze	Lucie Hradecká Yuki Naito	6-2, 6-3
Runner-up	40.	21 July 2018	Astana, Kazakhstan	Hard	Ekaterine Gorgodze	Berfu Cengiz Anna Danilina	6–3, 3–6, [7–10]

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