Alisa Kleybanova

The WTA caught up with Alisa Kleybanova in Australia and they interview her to get to know a little more about this Russian rising tennis player who upset Ana Ivanovic and made it to the 4th round of the Australian Open...How did you get into tennis?AK: I was four and a half and I got into tennis with my parents. They'd play for fun on weekends with their friends and as a little kid I was hanging around and playing with the balls. But from the beginning it wasn't like they wanted me to be a...Read Full Story

Q. What's the feeling after that win?ALISA KLEYBANOVA: It's just great to play one of the matches like this. It was definitely the best match in my career so far. I'm so happy that I pulled through, because it was not just a win, but I really felt that I played almost my best tennis today.It was so exciting to be out there. Just the moments that we train every day, we work hard and, you know, we live our life to be there and to play on this court, and for all those people that came to watch...Read Full Story

Asian veterans Ai Sugiyama and Tamarine Tanasugarn enjoyed contrasting fortunes at the French Open on Monday, with Thai star Tamarine winning but Sugiyama crashing out.Tamarine, 32, dismayed the French fans by seeing off home favourite Camille Pin 6-3, 5-7, 7-5 in a 2hr 55min first-round tie, but 33-year-old Japanese Sugiyama went down 6-3, 6-2 to another Frenchwoman, Aravane Rezai.Tamarine opened up a 4-1 first-set lead against 27-year-old Pin before being pegged back to 4-3, but a loose...Read Full Story

Ana Ivanovic was upset at the third round of the Australian Open after losing to Alisa Kleybanova 7-5 6-7 6-2.Alisa clawed her way back into the match in the first set, winning four games in succession to clinch the lead after finding herself 5-3 down. The Russian then won the first three games in the next and had a chance to wrap up the match when serving at 5-4 in the second set, but the Serbian broke back for a fourth time and took it to a tie-break.Kleybanova again had the edge courtesy...Read Full Story

Ana Ivanovic is out of the Australian Open, she fell in three sets to Alisa Kleybanova. This is an upset on paper, but with Ivanovic's form of late it is really not that surprising. It appears she has been receiving serving lessons from Elena Dementieva over the past couple of months, and her ground game hasn't been very consistent at all. Alisa Kleybanova, on the other hand, is a 19 year old Russian, currently ranked 31 in the world. She is the former number 1 junior in the world, and a very...Read Full Story

Ana Ivanovic score a 2 set win over Ai Sugiyama to give Serbia the first point in the first round of the Fed Cup World Group II... Check out some pictures of Ana Ivanovic and Ai Sugiyama during their match in Belgrade.... Continue reading for more pictures... Photos from Ap/Reuters/Getty images via Women's Tennis Photos Related Posts by CategoriesRead Full Story

Alisa Kleybanova claims she will bring a complete new approach to her tennis career when she returns to tournament action on Tuesday after a ten month battle with cancer. Last year it was revealed that Alisa had been diagnosed with Stage 2 Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. After undergoing chemotherapy in Italy, the 22-year-old is now ready to [...]Read Full Story

Alisa Kleybanova defeated Anna Lapushchenkova 3-6 6-3 6-2 to reach the second round of the the Dubai Tennis Championships.Kleybanova will play next against Ana Ivanovic, who had a first-round bye.Zheng Jie and Kaia Kanepi also advanced to the second round. Zheng defeated Anastasia Rodionova 6-1 6-1 while Kanepi beat Tamira Paszek 2-6 6-2 6-0.In other first round results from Sunday, Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova beat Maria Kirilenko 6-2 6-4 and Tsvetana Pironkova defeated Viktoriya Kutuzova 6-2 6...Read Full Story

(CNN) -- A tennis player's biggest challenge usually comes from the opposite baseline, but Alisa Kleybanova has taken on an opponent of an entirely different nature over the last 10 months.Read Full Story

Serb fifth seed Ana Ivanovic tumbled out of the Australian Open Friday, losing to Russian teenager Alisa Kleybanova 7-5, 6-7 (5/7), 6-2 as her form slump continued.Ivanovic, the reigning French Open champion and a losing finalist here last year, staged an epic fightback in the second set of the marathon third round match, but it was not enough to overcome the Russian 26th seed.Her loss is the second major upset in the women's draw in as many days, with the Serb pin-up following American sixth...Read Full Story