Biography of Maria Kirilenko

Maria Yuryevna Kirilenko-Stepanova, known simply as Maria Kirilenko, is a professional Russian tennis player.She was born on January 25, 1987 in Moscow, Russia.She is the winner of the 2002 US Open Girls Singles and the 2005 WTA Tour title. She has reached three Grand Slam singles quarterfinals: the 2010 Australian Open, the 2012 Wimbledon Championships,

Date of Birth:1987, January 25
Years:33 years old
Nation of birth:Russia
Height:5 feet 8 inches
NameMaria Kirilenko
DadYuri Kirilenko
MotherOlga
NationalityRussian
Place of birth / cityMoscow
ProfessionTennis player
Net worth$30 million.
eye colorBlue
Hair colorBlonde
breast size32
waist size24
hip size3. 4
Shoe size8.5 United States
weight in kg(59.9kg)
Married to: Alexei Stepanov (d. 2015)

SYNOPSIS

Maria Yuryevna Kirilenko-Stepanova, known simply as Maria Kirilenko, is a professional Russian tennis player. She was born on January 25, 1987 in Moscow, Russia. She is the winner of the 2002 US Open Girls Singles and the 2005 WTA Tour title. She has reached three Grand Slam singles quarterfinals: the 2010 Australian Open, the 2012 Wimbledon Championships, and the French Open. of 2013.

Maria Kirilenko is also a bronze medalist at the 2012 London Olympics and has reached a career high, ranked world no. June 10, 2013.

EARLY LIFE AND CAREER

Maria Kirilenko was trained by her father Yuri Kirilenko. She started playing at the age of 7 when her father introduced her to the game at the Central Dinamo Stadium in Moscow. Her professional career began in 2002 when she became one of the youngest winners of the Canadian Open and US Open junior tournaments. After that, she started participating in WTA events.

At the 2004 French Open, Maria Kirilenko took the first set against Serena Williams before losing in three sets. She won her first title in Beijing in 2005 and broke into the world’s top 20 on June 12, 2006 for the first time. At the 2006 US Open, Kirilenko was seeded 20th and reached the third round, before losing to Aravane Reza.

In 2007, Maria Kirilenko participated in the 2007 Australian Open, 2007 Toray Pan Pacific Open, and the Dubai Tennis Championships, where she advanced to the third round, second round, and again second round, respectively. At the Acura Classic in San Diego, she advanced to the quarterfinals before losing to fellow Russian Elena Dementieva and at the East West Bank Classic in Los Angeles, she lost to Ana Ivanovic in the quarterfinals.

In 2009, she participated in the Australian Open, losing to Sara Errani in the first round. At the Dubai doubles tournament, Maria Kirilenko teamed up with Agnieszka Radwanska and reached the final, where they lost to Liezel Huber and Cara Black, the world no. 1 doubles pairing at the time. At the 2010 Australian Open, she beat Maria Sharapova and advanced to the quarterfinals, before losing to Zheng Jie.

She reached her second Grand Slam quarterfinal at the 2012 Wimbledon Championships and her third at the 2013 French Open. The same year she rose to world No. 10, suffering a knee injury. In 2014, he missed the Australian Open due to injury, but after recovering, he participated in various events.

PERSONAL LIFE

On January 24, 2015, she married Alexei Stepanov, head of the Moscow Committee for Public Services. The name of her husband was not revealed immediately, but only a few days after the wedding. Before that, she had been engaged to the Russian hockey player Alexander Ovechkin.

Following a lengthy, unexplained absence from professional tennis, Kirilenko was reported to have given birth to a baby boy. There is currently no further information available about her children. As for her salary, her career prize money stands at $6,855,919. The net worth of her is $12.5 million.

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