Vesna Dolonc

Vesna Dolonc
Весна Долонц

Dolonc during the 2014 Wimbledon qualifying
Country (sports)	Russia (2006–April 2012)  Serbia (May 2012–2017)
Residence	Moscow, Russia
Born	(1989-07-21) 21 July 1989 (age 32) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Height	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Turned pro	2006
Retired	14 February 2017
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	US$ 900,034
Singles
Career record	323–219 (59.6%)
Career titles	3 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 84 (8 July 2013)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	3R (2011)
French Open	2R (2011)
Wimbledon	3R (2013)
US Open	1R (2009, 2011, 2013)
Doubles
Career record	126–103 (55.0%)
Career titles	5 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 93 (4 February 2013)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Wimbledon	1R (2011, 2012, 2013, 2014)
Team competitions
Fed Cup	1–4

Vesna Ratkovna Dolonc (Serbian Cyrillic and Russian: Весна Ратковна Долонц; née Manasieva, Манасиева; born 21 July 1989) is a retired Serbian tennis player. She earned career-highs of 84 in singles and 93 in doubles.

Career[]

Dolonc began competing on the ITF Circuit in September 2005, soon after her 16th birthday, and had risen to world No. 152 by 28 January 2008.

In February 2006, she won seven successive matches to come through qualifying and reached the semifinals of the $10k event at Portimão, Portugal, and in May 2006, she reached her first $10k final at Kiev, Ukraine. In 2007, she reached the semifinals at Stockholm-Salk ($25k level); Monzón, Spain ($75k level); Moscow ($25k level); and Podolsk, Russia ($25k level). In September 2007, she made it to the finals at the $100k tournament inn Kharkiv, Ukraine.

In 2008, she qualified for her third career WTA Tour main draw at Pattaya, defeated fifth-seeded Angelique Kerber of Germany with the loss of only three games, and reached her first WTA Tour quarterfinals.

Dolonc qualified for the 2011 Australian Open, and in the second round, defeated No. 17 Marion Bartoli in three sets.

In July 2012, she won her second career title in Donetsk.

2013[]

Dolonc began her season at the Brisbane International. She lost in the first round of qualifying to María José Martínez Sánchez. Despite qualifying for the Australian Open, Dolonc was defeated in the second round by eleventh seed Marion Bartoli.^[1]

In Paris at the Open GdF Suez, Dolonc lost in the final round of qualifying to Monica Niculescu. During the Fed Cup tie versus Slovakia, Dolonc won her first rubber when Dominika Cibulková retired due to a leg muscle strain.^[2] In her second rubber, she was defeated by Daniela Hantuchová. Slovakia ended up winning the tie 3-2.^[3]

2014[]

Dolonc announced her retirement from pro circuit on 14 February 2017 (her last match she played in November 2016).

WTA career finals[]

Doubles: 1 (runner–up)[]

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	Sep 2012	Tashkent Open, Uzbekistan	International	Hard	Anna Chakvetadze	Paula Kania Polina Pekhova	2–6, ret.

ITF Circuit finals[]

Singles: 11 (3–8)[]

Result	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	1.	May 2006	ITF Kiev, Ukraine	Clay	Veronika Kapshay	2–6, 6–0, 5–7
Loss	2.	Sep 2007	ITF Kharkiv, Ukraine	Hard	Alona Bondarenko	1–6, 1–6
Loss	3.	Feb 2008	ITF Capriolo, Italy	Carpet (i)	Anne Keothavong	1–6, 6–2, 3–6
Win	1.	Nov 2008	Open Nantes Atlantique, France	Hard (i)	Stefanie Vögele	6–3, 6–2
Loss	4.	Feb 2009	ITF Belfort, France	Carpet (i)	Lucie Hradecká	3–6, 2–6
Loss	5.	Mar 2009	ITF Moscow, Russia	Hard (i)	Vitalia Diatchenko	6–2, 3–6, 1–4 ret.
Loss	6.	Jul 2009	ITF La Coruña, Spain	Hard	Neuza Silva	3–6, 1–6
Loss	7.	Oct 2010	Open de Touraine, France	Hard (i)	Alison Riske	7–5, 4–6, 4–6
Win	2.	Jul 2012	Viccourt Cup Donetsk, Ukraine	Hard	Maria João Koehler	6–2, 6–3
Loss	8.	Mar 2016	ITF Mâcon, France	Hard (i)	Claire Feuerstein	2–6, 6–4, 4–6
Win	3.	May 2016	ITF Győr, Hungary	Clay	Anastasiya Shoshyna	6–3, 7–5

Doubles: 14 (5–9)[]

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	1.	2 October 2005	ITF Podgorica, Serbia and Montenegro	Clay	Neda Kozić	Ani Mijačika Dijana Stojić	6–1, 3–6, 4–6
Runner-up	2.	11 May 2007	Torneo Conchita Martínez, Spain	Hard	Iryna Brémond	Estrella Cabeza-Candela María Emilia Salerni	2–6, 1–6
Winner	1.	25 August 2007	ITF Moscow, Russia	Clay	Maria Kondratieva	Nina Bratchikova Sophie Lefèvre	6–2, 6–1
Runner-up	3.	10 November 2007	ITF Minsk, Belarus	Hard (i)	Ekaterina Lopes	Alla Kudryavtseva Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	0–6, 2–6
Winner	2.	10 April 2009	ITF Monzón, Spain	Hard	Chen Yi	Alberta Brianti Margalita Chakhnashvili	2–6, 6–4, [10–8]
Runner-up	4.	11 July 2009	ITF La Coruña, Spain	Hard	Ksenia Milevskaya	María Irigoyen Florencia Molinero	2–6, 4–6
Runner-up	5.	14 November 2009	ITF Minsk, Belarus	Hard (i)	Evgeniya Rodina	Lyudmyla Kichenok Nadiya Kichenok	3–6, 6–7(7)
Runner-up	6.	25 September 2010	GB Pro-Series Shrewsbury, United Kingdom	Hard (i)	Claire Feuerstein	Vitalia Diatchenko Irena Pavlovic	4–6, 6–4, [6–10]
Runner-up	7.	2 July 2011	ITF Cuneo, Italia	Clay	Eva Birnerová	Mandy Minella Stefanie Vögele	3–6, 2–6
Runner-up	8.	12 February 2012	Dow Corning Midland, United States	Hard (i)	Stéphanie Foretz Gacon	Andrea Hlaváčková Lucie Hradecká	6–7(4), 2–6
Winner	3.	18 May 2012	Open Saint-Gaudens, France	Clay	Irina Khromacheva	Naomi Broady Julia Glushko	6–2, 6–0
Winner	4.	22 September 2012	GB Pro-Series Shrewsbury, United Kingdom	Hard (i)	Stefanie Vögele	Karolína Plíšková Kristýna Plíšková	6–1, 6–7(3), [15–13]
Winner	5.	4 November 2012	GB Pro-Series Barnstaple, United Kingdom	Hard (i)	Akgul Amanmuradova	Aliaksandra Sasnovich Diāna Marcinkēviča	6–3, 6–1
Runner-up	9.	2 August 2013	Viccourt Cup Donetsk, Ukraine	Hard	Alexandra Panova	Yuliya Beygelzimer Renata Voráčová	1–6, 4–6

Performance timelines[]

Singles[]

Only main-draw results in WTA Tour, Grand Slam tournaments and Fed Cup are included in win/loss records.

	Russia						Serbia
Tournament	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	SR	W–L
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open	A	A	Q3	Q1	Q3	3R	Q1	2R	2R	A	A	0 / 3	4–3
French Open	A	A	Q1	Q1	Q3	2R	Q2	1R	Q3	A	A	0 / 2	1–2
Wimbledon	A	A	Q2	1R	Q3	1R	1R	3R	Q1	A	A	0 / 4	2–4
US Open	A	A	Q1	1R	Q2	1R	Q2	1R	Q1	A	A	0 / 3	0–3
Win–Loss	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–2	0–0	3–4	0–1	3–4	1–1	0–0	0–0	0 / 12	7–12
National representation
Fed Cup	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	QF	WG2	A	A	0 / 2	1–3
Premier Mandatory tournaments
Indian Wells Open	A	A	A	A	A	Q2	A	Q1	A	A	A	0 / 0	0–0
Miami Open	A	A	A	A	Q1	1R	A	Q1	A	A	A	0 / 1	0–1
China Open	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	Q1	A	A	A	0 / 0	0–0
Premier 5 tournaments
Dubai / Qatar Opens[1]	A	A	A	Q2	1R	Q2	A	A	A	A	A	0 / 1	0–1
Cincinnati Open	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	Q2	A	A	A	0 / 0	0–0
Tier I tournaments before 2009[2]
Moscow	A	A	Q1	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	0 / 0	0–0
Career statistics
Tournaments played	0	1	3	4	4	10	4	10	4	0	0	40
Overall Win–Loss	0–0	1–1	3–3	2–4	0–4	6–10	2–4	8–11	2–6	0–0	0–0	0 / 40	24–43
Year-end ranking	393	162	144	131	140	111	117	103	208	445	418	36%

Notes

• ¹ The first Premier 5 event of the year has switched back and forth between the Dubai Tennis Championships and the Qatar Open since 2009. The Dubai Championships were classified as a Premier 5 event from 2009–2011 before being succeeded by the Qatar Open for the 2012–2014 period. In 2015, the Dubai Championships regained its Premier 5 status while the Qatar Open was demoted to Premier status. The two tournaments have since alternated status every year.
• ² WTA Tier I held until 2008 (8, 9 or 10 tournaments per year), after this split up between Premier Mandatory (4 per year) and Premier 5 tournaments (5 per year)

Doubles[]

	Russia						Serbia
Tournament	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	SR	W–L
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	0 / 0	0–0
French Open	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	0 / 0	0–0
Wimbledon	A	A	A	A	Q2	1R	1R	1R	1R	A	0 / 4	0–4
US Open	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	0 / 0	0–0
National representation
Fed Cup	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	QF	WG2	A	0 / 2	0–1
Career statistics
Tournaments played	0	1	5	2	2	4	3	9	1	0	27
Titles / Finals	0 / 0	0 / 0	0 / 0	0 / 0	0 / 0	0 / 0	0 / 1	0 / 0	0 / 0	0 / 0	0 / 1
Overall Win–Loss	0–0	0–1	2–5	1–2	4–2	3–4	3–3	4–9	0–1	0–0	0 / 27	17–27
Year-end ranking	582	202	292	160	144	158	103	124	481	647	39%

Personal life[]

She was born to a Serbian father Ratko Manasiev and a Russian mother.^[4][5] She changed her surname from "Manasieva" to "Dolonc" (Dolonts) when she was married to Arsen Dolonts on 1 October 2010.^[6]

References[]

External links[]

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