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Zvonareva won the title at the Tier III event in Bol, beating Conchita Martínez Granados in the final, and reached three other semifinals ( including the Tier II event in Linz ).
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Following the US Open, Capriati lost in the quarterfinals of Philadelphia to No. 11 Vera Zvonareva 6 – 1, 6 – 0, her worst loss since 1999 ( where she won only one game against Graf in Miami ).
In the quarter-finals, Petrova won again in three sets over 21st seed Vera Zvonareva 6 – 1, 4 – 6, 6 – 3 to reach her first ever Grand Slam Semi-Final.
Zvonareva has won twelve WTA Tour singles titles and reached the finals of the 2008 WTA Tour Championships, 2010 Wimbledon Championships, and 2010 US Open.
Zvonareva won her second ITF Circuit title in Naples, Florida and in July reached her first singles final on the WTA Tour at Palermo, losing to Mariana Díaz-Oliva in three sets.
Zvonareva won three qualifying matches at the French Open to reach the main draw for the first time at a Grand Slam tournament.
Zvonareva won her first career Grand Slam title, winning the mixed doubles competition at the US Open with Bob Bryan.
Zvonareva and Myskina teamed up in the final of the Fed Cup, playing in the crucial final rubber against Marion Bartoli and Émilie Loit, which the pair won, 7 – 6 ( 5 ), 7 – 5, to seal Russia's first Fed Cup title.
In 2006, Zvonareva won her first women's doubles Grand Slam tournament at the US Open, partnering Nathalie Dechy of France.
In May, Zvonareva won her first WTA title in nearly two years.
Zvonareva won the opening match of the tie in Madrid, defeating Anabel Medina Garrigues, 6 – 3, 6 – 4.
By virtue of the highest games won percentage of her group after Kvitová, Zvonareva became the second qualifier for the semifinals from the Red Group.
During the 2007 Kremlin Cup, Zvonareva won their first meeting in straight sets.
Prior to her first retirement in 2007, Clijsters won all five of her matches with Zvonareva.
Since then, Stosur has won eight consecutive meetings, with Zvonareva only winning three sets in the eight losses.
This was proven when Zvonareva won the Indian Wells tournament in 2009 against Ana Ivanovic, despite the windy conditions.
She played Vera Zvonareva in the fourth round, and saved four match points at her serve at 5 – 6 in the second set ; and then saved another two in the second set tie-break, before she won 3 – 6, 7 – 6, 6 – 0.
Williams did, however, make the mixed doubles final, losing to Vera Zvonareva who won her second Grand Slam in mixed doubles, partnering with Bob Bryan.
In the doubles tournament, Nathalie Dechy and Vera Zvonareva won the title in only their fourth tournament as a team.
She competed at the Hong Kong Tennis Classic and won the Gold Group Championship with her compatriots Vera Zvonareva and Yevgeny Kafelnikov.
In the final against Russia, Svetlana Kuznetsova had lost both of her matches, and Anastasia Myskina had won both of hers, making Bartoli's and Loit's doubles match against Myskina and Vera Zvonareva the decisive rubber.
In January 2006, Bartoli at 21 years of age won her first senior title at the ASB Classic in Auckland, New Zealand, beating Vera Zvonareva in the final, 6 – 2, 6 – 2.
In their first two meetings, Zvonareva won both of those matches.
In May, she won four matches in Rome ( Tier I ) before losing to world number 10 ( at the time ) Vera Zvonareva 6 – 1 5 – 7 6 – 2 in the round of 16.
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In the final of the Memphis event, Zvonareva trailed hometown favorite Lisa Raymond 5 – 2 in the third set, before saving three match points and winning the last five games of the match to win the title, 4 – 6, 6 – 4, 7 – 5.
At the 2011 PTT Pattaya Open, Zvonareva was the top seed and was seeking her third consecutive title and second title defense.
Zvonareva picked up her first title of 2011 in late February at the 2011 Qatar Ladies Open.
Zvonareva defeated Nigina Abduraimova, Kristína Kučová, Anna Tatishvili, and Mariya Koryttseva to reach the final, where she defeated Ksenia Pervak, 6 – 1, 6 – 4, for her twelfth WTA title.
Zvonareva and Kuznetsova defeated Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci 5 – 7, 6 – 4, 6 – 3 for the title.
Dechy is a three-time doubles Grand Slam champion, winning the 2006 US Open women's doubles title with Vera Zvonareva, the 2007 French Open mixed doubles title with Andy Ram, and the 2007 US Open women's doubles title with Dinara Safina.
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She then suffered her earliest exit at a Grand Slam tourmament in two years when she lost in the fourth round of the French Open to Vera Zvonareva.
On July 6, 2006, Navratilova played her last career match at Wimbledon, losing in the third round of mixed doubles to the eventual champions, Israel's Andy Ram and Russia's Vera Zvonareva.
Bouncing back from a first-round defeat at Stanford to Dominika Cibulková, Petrova reached the quarterfinals at Los Angeles, defeating 5th seed Vera Zvonareva 6 – 4, 7 – 5 en route before losing to Jelena Janković 7 – 5, 6 – 4.
Zvonareva started to compete on the ITF Circuit in 1999, debuting at an ITF tournament in Tbilisi, Georgia.
Because of several withdrawals, Zvonareva was able to compete at the WTA Tour Championships, an event reserved for the top eight players in the world.
Zvonareva at 2006 Kremlin Cup.
In March, at the Bangalore Open, Zvonareva lost in the quarterfinals to Venus Williams.
On clay, Zvonareva then reached her third final overall and second Tier I final of the year at the Family Circle Cup in Charleston, South Carolina.
On grass, Zvonareva lost her first match at the International Women's Open in Eastbourne, United Kingdom and her second-round match against Tamarine Tanasugarn at Wimbledon.
Two weeks later, Zvonareva was seeded eighth at the US Open, but lost in the second round to Tatiana Perebiynis of Ukraine, 3 – 6, 3 – 6.
In a second round match against Medina Garrigues at the Zurich Open, Zvonareva retired from the match while trailing 3 – 6, 0 – 3.
Vera Zvonareva at the 2009 US Open ( tennis ) | 2009 US Open.
Zvonareva was seventh seed at the Australian Open.
In March, Zvonareva was the fourth seed at the first Premier Mandatory event of the year, the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, California.
Zvonareva was seeded seventh at the Wimbledon and met Great Britain's Georgie Stoop in the first round.
Zvonareva at the 2010 US Open ( tennis ) | 2010 US Open
As the top seed and defending champion at the 2010 PTT Pattaya Open, Zvonareva defeated Ksenia Pervak in the first round, Alberta Brianti in the second round, fifth seed Sybille Bammer in the quarterfinals, and fourth seed Yaroslava Shvedova in the semifinals.
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