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AUSTRALIAN OPEN WOMEN'S PROFILES

(6) Anna Chakvetadze
PRE-TOURNAMENT ODDS:	25/1
NATIONALITY:	RUS
BIRTH DATE:	05/03/87
BECAME PRO:	2003
WORLD RANKING:	6

VERDICT

The pony-tailed Russian is a gritty performer and showed in 2007 that she's a seriously good player. She picked up four WTA titles - only Justine Henin won more - and helped Russia win the Fed Cup. She also reached her first Grand Slam semi-final in New York and has a solid, if not spectacular, game. Having climbed the rankings for the past three years, her aim this season will to start beating her top-10 colleagues on a regular basis, something she may struggle to do here. During the close-season, Chakvetadze was tied up by burglars who raided her Moscow home.

TEN-YEAR GRAND SLAM HISTORY
	07	06	05	04	03	02	01	00	99	98
Australian Open	QF	2R	2R	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
French Open	QF	2R	3R	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Wimbledon	3R	3R	1R	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
US Open	SF	4R	3R	3R	-	-	-	-	-	-

Women's Profiles

(1) J Henin
(2) S Kuznetsova
(3) J Jankovic
(4) A Ivanovic
(5) M Sharapova
(6) A Chakvetadze
(7) S Williams
(8) V Williams
(9) D Hantuchova
(10) M Bartoli
(11) E Dementieva
(12) N Vaidisova
(13) T Golovin
(14) N Petrova
(15) P Schnyder
(16) D Safina
(17) S Peer
(18) A Mauresmo
(19) S Bammer
(20) A Szavay
(21) A Bondarenko
(22) L Safarova
(23) V Zvonareva
(24) Na Li
(25) F Schiavone
(26) V Azarenka
(27) M Kirilenko
(28) K Srebotnik
(29) A Radwanska
(30) V Razzano
(31) S Mirza
(32) J Vakulenko

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