Vera Zvonareva showed stable and confident play, she won two tournaments in Prague and Guangzhou and was a finalist of six WTA tournaments: three of them were of tier 1 in Doha, Charleston and Moscow and the WTA Tour Championships in Doha.
Only the summer period was unsuccessful, when Vera was giving importance to dressage to Olympic doubles with her partner Elena Vesnina. However, it fell out that Maria Sharapova, being one of the four to go to Beijing, was seriously injured, and was not able to take part in the competition.
At the same time, Anna Chakvetadze refused to go to China. In the end, suddenly, Vera got an opportunity to take part in singles Olympic tournament. She was very successful and took the most precious prize in her life – the Olympic Games bronze medal.
Also, in that season, Vera Zvonareva became a two-time winner of the Fed Cup in the national team. In addition, at the year-end she took up the 7th place in the singles ranking.The season of 2009 was very contradictory. Its first half was the best period in Vera’s career (until 2010). She reached the semifinal of the Australian Open, where she lost to Dinara Safina.
Then Vera won her biggest title at a Premier Mandatory tournament in Indian Wells – in the final Vera beat Ana Ivanovic. Against the background of such success, the title of Pattaya turned out to be unnoticeable. And the crown of the season was attaining 5th place in the WTA Ranking, what was personal record of Vera.
However, there came then the unfortunate tournament in Charleston, where Vera sustained a very unpleasant ankle injury, which threw her off her stride for the rest of the year. Clay season was completely missed by our tennis player.
She managed to come back for the Eastbourne tournament, which happens before Wimbledon, but we can not call her performance on grass adequate. Vera was playing despite intolerable pain.
Only the summer period was unsuccessful, when Vera was giving importance to dressage to Olympic doubles with her partner Elena Vesnina. However, it fell out that Maria Sharapova, being one of the four to go to Beijing, was seriously injured, and was not able to take part in the competition.
At the same time, Anna Chakvetadze refused to go to China. In the end, suddenly, Vera got an opportunity to take part in singles Olympic tournament. She was very successful and took the most precious prize in her life – the Olympic Games bronze medal.
Also, in that season, Vera Zvonareva became a two-time winner of the Fed Cup in the national team. In addition, at the year-end she took up the 7th place in the singles ranking.The season of 2009 was very contradictory. Its first half was the best period in Vera’s career (until 2010). She reached the semifinal of the Australian Open, where she lost to Dinara Safina.
Then Vera won her biggest title at a Premier Mandatory tournament in Indian Wells – in the final Vera beat Ana Ivanovic. Against the background of such success, the title of Pattaya turned out to be unnoticeable. And the crown of the season was attaining 5th place in the WTA Ranking, what was personal record of Vera.
However, there came then the unfortunate tournament in Charleston, where Vera sustained a very unpleasant ankle injury, which threw her off her stride for the rest of the year. Clay season was completely missed by our tennis player.
She managed to come back for the Eastbourne tournament, which happens before Wimbledon, but we can not call her performance on grass adequate. Vera was playing despite intolerable pain.
