Iroda Tulyaganova

Iroda Tulyaganova
Country (sports)	Uzbekistan
Residence	Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Born	7 January 1982; Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Soviet Union
Height	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Turned pro	1999
Retired	2010
Plays	Right-handed (two–handed backhand)
Prize money	US$ 972,624
Singles
Career record	205–142
Career titles	3 WTA, 3 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 16 (17 June 2002)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	3R (2002)
French Open	3R (2002)
Wimbledon	3R (2001)
US Open	2R (2000)
Doubles
Career record	102–91
Career titles	4 WTA, 4 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 28 (23 September 2002)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	1R (2001, 2002)
French Open	3R (2003)
Wimbledon	2R (2002)
US Open	3R (2002)
Asian Games

Iroda Tulyaganova (Uzbek: Ирода Тўлаганов, translit. Iroda To'laganova, born 7 January 1982) is a former professional tennis player from Uzbekistan.

She reached her highest WTA singles ranking of No. 16 on June 17, 2002 and of No. 28 in doubles on September 23, 2002. She has won 3 WTA singles titles and 4 WTA doubles titles.

Tulyaganova retired from tennis in 2010.

Biography

She has been ranked as high as No.16 on the WTA Tour and has won three WTA singles titles in her career. She returned to the main Tour in 2006 after a long injury absence, and in Kolkata in September 2006, she reached the semi-finals as a qualifier, leaping more than 120 places in the rankings to No. 222 after her success. The following week, she reached the final of her home event in Tashkent, beating a string of players including Top 60-ranked Olga Poutchkova. She also won the women's singles gold medal in the 2002 Asian Games in Busan by defeating Tamarine Tanasugarn of Thailand, and the mixed doubles bronze medal in the same event.

WTA career finals

Singles: 7 (3–4)

Legend (pre/post 2009)
Grand Slam tournaments (0–0)
WTA Tour Championships (0–0)
Tier I / Premier Mandatory & Premier 5 (0–0)
Tier II / Premier (0–0)
Tier III, IV & V / International (3–4)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Winner	1.	18 June 2000	Tashkent, Uzbekistan	Hard	Francesca Schiavone	6–3, 2–6, 6–3
Runner-up	1.	22 October 2000	Shanghai, China	Hard	Meghann Shaughnessy	6–7^(2–7), 5–7
Winner	2.	15 July 2001	Vienna, Austria	Clay	Patty Schnyder	6–3, 6–2
Winner	3.	22 July 2001	Knokke-Heist, Belgium	Clay	Gala León García	6–2, 6–3
Runner-up	2.	16 June 2002	Vienna, Austria	Clay	Anna Smashnova	4–6, 1–6
Runner-up	3.	9 February 2003	Hyderabad, India	Hard	Tamarine Tanasugarn	4–6, 4–6
Runner-up	4.	8 October 2006	Tashkent, Uzbekistan	Hard	Sun Tiantian	2–6, 4–6

Doubles: 7 (4-3)

Legend (pre/post 2009)
Grand Slam tournaments (0–0)
WTA Tour Championships (0–0)
Tier I / Premier Mandatory & Premier 5 (0–0)
Tier II / Premier (0–1)
Tier III, IV & V / International (4–2)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	1.	14 May 2000	Warsaw, Poland	Clay	Anna Zaporozhanova	Tathiana Garbin Janette Husárová	3–6, 1–6
Runner-up	2.	18 June 2000	Tashkent, Uzbekistan	Hard	Anna Zaporozhanova	Li Na Li Ting	6–3, 2–6, 4–6
Winner	1.	23 July 2000	Knokke-Heist, Belgium	Clay	Giulia Casoni	Catherine Barclay Eva Dyrberg	2–6, 6–4, 6–4
Runner-up	3.	4 February 2001	Tokyo, Japan	Hard	Anna Kournikova	Lisa Raymond Rennae Stubbs	6–7^(5–7), 6–2, 6–7^(6–8)
Winner	2.	27 May 2001	Strasbourg, France	Clay	Silvia Farina Elia	Amanda Coetzer Lori McNeil	6–1, 7–6^(7–0)
Winner	3.	11 November 2001	Pattaya City, Thailand	Hard	Åsa Carlsson	Liezel Huber Wynne Prakusya	4–6, 6–3, 6–3
Winner	4.	9 February 2003	Hyderabad, India	Hard	Elena Likhovtseva	Evgenia Kulikovskaya Tatiana Poutchek	6–4, 6–4

ITF Finals

Singles Finals (3-2)

$100,000 tournaments
$75,000 tournaments
$50,000 tournaments
$25,000 tournaments
$10,000 tournaments

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score in the final
Winner	1.	9 May 1999	Seoul, South Korea	Clay	Shiho Hisamatsu	6-2, 6-2
Winner	2.	3 October 1999	Seoul, South Korea	Hard	Tamarine Tanasugarn	6-0, 6-2
Winner	3.	19 April 2000	Cagnes-sur-Mer, France	Hard	Giulia Casoni	6-2, 6-3
Runner-up	4.	4 June 2006	Galatina, Italy	Clay	Corina-Claudia Corduneanu	3-6, 4-6
Runner-up	5.	6 November 2006	Shenzhen, China	Hard	Yuan Meng	6-4, 5-7, 1-6

Doubles Finals (4-4)

Outcome	No	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score
Winner	1.	7 November 1998	Moulins, France	Hard (i)	Diane Asensio	Debby Haak Andrea van den Hurk	7-5, 2-6, 6-2
Winner	2.	15 November 1998	Le Havre, France	Clay	Cindy Schuurmans	Chloé Carlotti Stéphanie Foretz	6-2, 7-5
Runner-up	3.	22 November 1998	Deauville, France	Carpet (i)	Lubomira Bacheva	Emmanuelle Curutchet Samantha Schoeffel	1–6, 6–2, 6–7
Winner	4.	7 February 1999	Istanbul, Turkey	Hard (i)	Tatiana Perebiynis	Nadejda Ostrovskaya Aliénor Tricerri	6–3, 6–4
Winner	5.	9 May 1999	Seoul, South Korea	Clay	Samantha Schoeffel	Choi Young-ja Kim Eun-sook	6-3, 4-6, 6-4
Runner–up	6.	10 April 2000	Cagnes-sur-Mer, France	Hard (i)	Anna Zaporozhanova	Angelika Bachmann Giulia Casoni	5-7, 1-6
Runner-up	7.	5 November 2006	Shanghai, China	Hard	Akgul Amanmuradova	Ji Chunmei Sun Shengnan	4–6, 5–7
Runner-up	8.	5 November 2006	Shenzhen, China	Hard	Akgul Amanmuradova	Hsieh Su-wei Alla Kudryavtseva	0–2 ret.

External links

Official website
Iroda Tulyaganova at the Women's Tennis Association
Iroda Tulyaganova at the International Tennis Federation
Iroda Tulyaganova at the Fed Cup

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