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US OPEN WOMEN'S PROFILES

(5) Elena Dementieva
PRE-TOURNAMENT ODDS:	16/1
NATIONALITY:	RUS
BIRTH DATE:	15/10/81
BECAME PRO:	1998
WORLD RANKING:	5

VERDICT

This extremely experienced campaigner could be finally on the brink of her maiden Grand Slam title after she reached new heights by becoming the Olympic champion. Her failure to land any of the four majors has been largely down to her awful serve but the thrilling triumph over fellow Russian Dinara Safina in the Beijing final will no doubt boost her confidence of achieving more landmark success in the future. Dementieva, who won the Dubai Championships earlier this year, has been hit by several injury problems and illness throughout the season but her run to the semi-finals of Wimbledon was encouraging having previously failed to reach the last four of any major since the US Open of 2005.

TEN-YEAR GRAND SLAM HISTORY
	08	07	06	05	04	03	02	01	00	99
Australian Open	4R	4R	1R	4R	1R	1R	4R	3R	3R	2R
French Open	QF	3R	3R	4R	RU	1R	4R	2R	2R	2R
Wimbledon	SF	3R	QF	4R	1R	4R	4R	3R	1R	1R
US Open	-	3R	QF	SF	RU	4R	2R	4R	SF	3R

Women's Profiles

(1) A Ivanovic
(2) J Jankovic
(3) S Kuznetsova
(4) S Williams
(5) E Dementieva
(6) D Safina
(7) V Williams
(8) V Zvonareva
(9) A Radwanska
(10) A Chakvetadze
(11) D Hantuchova
(12) M Bartoli
(13) A Szavay
(14) V Azarenka
(15) P Schnyder
(16) F Pennetta
(17) A Cornet
(18) D Cibulkova
(19) N Petrova
(20) N Vaidisova
(21) C Wozniacki
(22) M Kirilenko
(23) L Davenport
(24) S Peer
(25) F Schiavone
(26) A Medina Garrigues
(27) A Bondarenko
(28) K Srebotnik
(29) S Bammer
(30) A Sugiyama
(31) V Razzano
(32) A Mauresmo

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