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Biography of Tatiana Perebiynis - Tennis
Biography
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| Country: || Ukraine
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| Residence: || Kharkov, Ukraine
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| Height: || 5'8 1/4 (1.73 m)
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| Weight: || 130 lbs. (59 kg)
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| Plays: || Right-Handed (two-handed both sides)
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| Turned pro: || 1996
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| Highest singles ranking: || 73 (9th
August, 2004)
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| Highest doubles ranking: || 45 (16th
May, 2005)
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| Singles titles: || 0 WTA Titles, 3 ITF
Titles
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| Doubles titles: || 4 WTA Titles, 4 ITF
Titles
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| Career Prize Money: || $645,947
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! colspan="2" bgcolor="#ffffff" | Grand Slam
Record (Singles)
Titles: 0
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| Australian Open
| 2nd Round (2005)
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| French Open
| 3rd Round (2004)
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| Wimbledon
| 3rd Round(2004)
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| U.S. Open
| 2nd Round (2003)
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Tatiana Perebiynis born on December 15, 1982 is a
female professional tennis player born in Kharkov,
Ukraine, where she lives. She is an only child.
She reached the Wimbledon junior girls' singles
final in 2000, and won the Wimbledon juniors
doubles final that year. She is currently ranked
132 in the world in singles and 53 in doubles.
==Biography==
Tatiana Perebiynis is coached by Simon Walsh, and
has been her coach since since February 2001. Her
father, Yuriy Perebiynis, is retired and her
mother, Alla Lihova, is an economist at a bank.
Her most memorable tennis experience was when she
played doubles for the first time on Arthur Ashe
Stadium at the US Open (in 2002). She likes to
listen to all kinds of music. Her hobbies are
playing guitar, bowling, fishing and dancing, and
her favourite city is Sydney.
==Tennis career==
Although she has not won a WTA Tour singles title,
she has won quite a few WTA Tour Doubles titles.
She nearly won a Mixed Doubles Grand Slam in 2005,
when she partnered Australia's Paul Hanley, but
lost in straight sets to Mahesh Bhupathi and Mary
Pierce, 6-4 6-2. She is the Ukrainian Number 3 in
Tennis, behind Alyona Bondarenko and Yuliana
Fedak.
==WTA Titles (4)==
===Singles (0)===
====Finalist (1)====
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|No.
|Date
|Tournament
|Surface, Tier
|Opponent in the final
|Score
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| 1.
| 8 August, 2004
| Nordea Nordic Light Open, Stockholm, Sweden
| Clay, Tier IV
| Alicia Molik, (Australia)
| 1-6 1-6
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===Doubles (4)===
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|No.
|Date
|Tournament
|Surface, Tier
|Partnering
|Opponents in the final
|Score
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| 1.
| 16 June, 2002
| Tashkent, Uzbekistan
| Hard, Tier IV
| Tatiana Poutchek, (Belarus)
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| 2.
| 3 August, 2003
| Sopot, Poland
| Clay, Tier III
| Silvija Talaja, (Croatia)
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| 3.
| 27 February, 2005
| Acapulco, Mexico
| Clay, Tier III
| Alina Jidkova, (Russia)
| R.Andres and C.Martinez (Spain)
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| 4.
| 1 May 2005
| Warsaw, Poland
| Clay, Tier II
| Barbora Strycova, (Czech Republic)
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==External links==
*wta|id=160405|name=Tatiana Perebiynis
*http://tatianaperebiynis.bravehost.com/Home.html
Tatiana Perebiynis Fan Site
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