2000 - Played first two events of career on ITF Circuit.
2001 - Played first Tour qualifying at Madrid and Moscow; won one singles title and one doubles title on ITF Circuit.
2002 - First Top 100 season; played first Tour main draw at Estoril, reaching SF (l. to Barna); won first Tour singles title at Sopot (d. Nagyova in final); made Top 100 debut afterwards on July 29 (rose from No.169 to No.90); reached 2r in four other Tour main draws (incl.
US Open); fell in Tour qualifying twice (incl.
Wimbledon); won three singles titles and two doubles titles on ITF Circuit.
2003 - Another Top 100 season; won second Tour singles title at Palermo (d. Srebotnik in final); made Top 50 debut on July 14 (rose from No.64 to No.50); QF three times, at Doha, Sopot and Shanghai; best Grand Slam was 4r at
US Open (l. to Henin).
2004 - First Top 50 season; runner-up at Luxembourg (l. to Molik in final); SF at Paris [Indoors] (l. to Clijsters); QF twice, at Gold Coast and Guangzhou; best Grand Slam was 3r at
Australian Open (l. to Clijsters); one Tour doubles title.
2005 - First Top 20 season; won third and fourth Tour singles titles at Paris [Indoors] (d. No.4 Mauresmo in final for first Top 10 win) and Prague (d. Ondraskova in final); SF four times, at Estoril (l. to Li), Luxembourg (l. to Groenefeld), Moscow (d. No.1 Sharapova en route for second Top 10 win; l. to Pierce) and Hasselt (l. to Clijsters); made Top 20 debut on October 17 (after Moscow; rose from No.24 to No.20); QF at 's-Hertogenbosch; best Grand Slam was 3r at
Wimbledon (l. to Davenport); won one Tour doubles title; member of winning Russian Fed Cup team, most notably partnering Dementieva to win decisive doubles rubber vs. France in final (d. Mauresmo/Pierce).
2006 - Second straight Top 20 season; runner-up twice, at Rome (l. to Hingis in final) and 's-Hertogenbosch (l. to Krajicek in final); SF twice, at Gold Coast (l. to Safarova) and Montréal (l. to Ivanovic); QF nine times, incl. first two Grand Slam QF at
Roland Garros (l. to Kuznetsova) and
US Open (l. to Mauresmo) but also at Paris [Indoors], Antwerp, Indian Wells, Charleston, Berlin, Los Angeles and Luxembourg; notched third through sixth Top 10 wins of career during season, at Rome (No.2 Clijsters, No.8 Dementieva, No.10 Kuznetsova) and at
Roland Garros (No.4 Sharapova); made her own Top 10 debut on October 2 (after Luxembourg; rose from No.11 to No.10); won two Tour doubles titles.
2007 - Third straight Top 20 season; won fifth Tour singles title at Gold Coast (d. Hingis in final); runner-up at Charleston (l. to Jankovic in final); SF twice, at 's-Hertogenbosch (l. to Jankovic) and Moscow (l. to Dementieva); notched seventh and eighth Top 10 wins of career at Gold Coast (No.7 Hingis) and Moscow (No.6 Chakvetadze); QF seven times, at Paris [Indoors], Antwerp, Amelia Island, Berlin, Rome, New Haven and Linz; best Grand Slams were 4r at
Roland Garros (l. to S.Williams) and
US Open (l. to Henin); won two Tour doubles titles, incl. first Grand Slam title of any kind at
US Open (w/Dechy).
2008 - Breakthrough season culminating in first Top 10 finish; slow start, going 11-10 before Berlin, a stretch highlighted by QF finishes at Gold Coast (as No.3 seed, l. to No.5 seed Peer 46 61 76(3); held 5mp third set) and Miami (as No.13 seed, l. to No.19 seed Zvonareva); seven pre-QF exits in that stretch, at Sydney (l. to No.6 seed Hantuchova 57 64 64 in 1r; led 4-2 third set),
Australian Open (as No.16 seed, l. to qualifier Lisicki in 3s in 1r), Doha (as No.11 seed, l. to Zvonareva in 3r), Dubai (l. to No.6 seed Chakvetadze in 3s in 2r), Indian Wells (as No.8 seed, l. to Harkleroad in 3r), Amelia Island (as No.6 seed, l. to No.10 seed A.Bondarenko 76(5) 06 75 in 3r; led 4-1 third set) and Charleston (as No.8 seed, l. to No.10 seed Szavay in 3r) and went 0-1 in singles in Russia's Fed Cup 1r tie vs. Israel (l. to Peer in 3s); phenomenal turnaround at Berlin, going 44-7 during rest of regular season, a stretch highlighted by sixth through ninth Tour singles titles at Berlin (as No.13 seed, d. top seed Henin, No.5 seed S.Williams and No.7 seed Dementieva in QF, SF and final), Los Angeles (as No.4 seed, d. top seed Jankovic and No.10 seed Pennetta in SF, final), Montréal (as No.7 seed, d. No.4 seed Kuznetsova en route to final, then d. Cibulkova for title) and Tokyo [Pan Pacific] (as No.4 seed, d. No.5 seed Kuznetsova in final); runner-up three times, at
Roland Garros (as No.13 seed, d. top seed Sharapova, No.7 seed Dementieva and No.4 seed Kuznetsova in 4r, QF and SF; l. to No.2 seed Ivanovic in final), 's-Hertogenbosch (as No.3 seed, d. top seed Dementieva in SF; l. to qualifier Tanasugarn in final) and Olympics (as No.6 seed, d. No.2 seed Jankovic en route to final; l. to No.5 seed Dementieva in 3s); SF twice, at
US Open (as No.6 seed, l. to No.4 seed and eventual champion S.Williams) and Moscow (as No.2 seed, d. No.5 seed Kuznetsova en route; l. to No.7 seed Zvonareva); QF at Stuttgart (as No.3 seed, l. to No.6 seed V.Williams); only two pre-QF exits since Berlin, falling in 3r at
Wimbledon (as No.9 seed, l. to No.24 seed Peer 75 67(4) 86; led 5-3 third set) and in RR portion of first Tour Championships (as No.2 seed, went 0-3 in RR stage; l. to No.7 seed V.Williams, No.3 seed S.Williams and No.5 seed Dementieva); had 12 Top 10 wins during season, at Berlin (No.1 Henin, No.6 S.Williams, No.9 Dementieva),
Roland Garros (No.1 Sharapova, No.8 Dementieva, No.4 Kuznetsova), 's-Hertogenbosch (No.5 Dementieva), Los Angeles (No.2 Jankovic), Montréal (No.4 Kuznetsova), Olympics (No.1 Jankovic), Tokyo [Pan Pacific] (No.7 Kuznetsova) and Moscow (No.7 Kuznetsova), bringing career tally to 20 Top 10 wins; beat three different reigning world No.1s during season, a Tour first (Henin, Sharapova, Jankovic); having fallen out of Top 10 in May 2007, made Top 10 return on June 9 (after Roland Garros; rose from No.14 to No.9, her previous career-high), then made consistent moves up Top 10 throughout season, bettering previous career-high of No.9 by rising to No.8 on July 28 (after Los Angeles; had spent 19 non-consecutive weeks inside Top 10 previously, but all at No.10 or No.9), making Top 5 debut on September 8 (after
US Open), eventually reaching new career-high of No.2 on October 13 (after Moscow; fourth Russian to crack Top 2, after Myskina, Sharapova and Kuznetsova); won seventh and eighth Tour doubles titles at Gold Coast (w/Szavay) and Indian Wells (w/Vesnina); made doubles Top 10 debut on March 15 (rose from No.15 to No.10); withdrew from Rome (May), Birmingham (June) and Beijing (September) w/low back injury.
