Vera Zvonareva

Vera Zvonareva is a Russian professional tennis player, currently competing on the WTA Tour. The two-time Grand Slam singles finalist has won 12 WTA events during her career, reaching the finals at the 2011 Wimbledon and U.S. Open. She also was a bronze medalist at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Zvonareva reached her career high of No. 2 in the world rankings in 2011.

Zvonareva came to the world's attention in the 2003 French Open by beating world number three Venus Williams in the fourth round, before losing in the quarterfinals to world no. 76 Nadia Petrova, resulting in the Russian climbing into the world's top-20 for the first time in her career, ending the year ranked 13th in the world. Zvonareva won her first career Grand Slam title in 2004, linking up with Bob Bryan to win the U.S. Open mixed doubles title.  

2005 saw Zvonareva begin the struggle with injuries, falling out of the world's top-40 after missing a large part of the season with injury. The Russian returned to action in 2006, going on to win her first women's doubles Grand Slam tournament at the US Open, alongside Nathalie Dechy of France. 

2007 saw Zvonareva once again pick up a serious injury that kept her sidelined for a large part of the season. A wrist problem kept her out of the European clay-court season, the grass-court season, and the majority of the North American hard-court season. 

Following an average 2008, Zvonareva returned to form in 2009, reaching her first Grand Slam semi-finals at the Australian Open before losing to world no. 3 Dinara Safina in the final. Zvonareva ended the year fifth in the world rankings, the highest of her career at the time.

2010 was by far Zvonareva's most successful season, reaching back-to-back grand slam finals at Wimbledon and then the U.S. Open, beating Sabine Lisicki, Alexandra Dulgheru, Andrea Petkovic, Kaia Kanepi, and top seed Caroline Wozniacki on her way to the final in New York. Zvonareva reached a career-high ranking of world no. 2 following the US Open runners-up finish. 

After a solid 2011, injuries began to plague the Russian, forcing her to miss much of the 2012 season and then the entire 2013 season with a serious shoulder injury, although Zvonareva announced she would return to the WTA Tour in 2014. 

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