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FRENCH OPEN WOMEN'S PROFILES

(13) Elena Dementieva
PRE-TOURNAMENT ODDS:	66-1
NATIONALITY:	RUS
BIRTH DATE:	15/10/81
BECAME PRO:	1998
WORLD RANKING:	14 (as at 21/05/07)

VERDICT

If there's anyone left out there who doesn't know, Dementieva is a highly-talented player who is repeatedly let down by one facet of her game - the serve. When it cracks, Dementieva serves double fault after double fault. It's therefore hard to ever recommend her as a potential champion, even though she has reached two Grand Slam finals, including the 2004 version here. A first-week exit seemed on the cards but her win in Istanbul might just give her the impetus to go further.

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