Nina Bratchikova Biography

Nina Bratchikova (born 28 June 1985) is a Russian tennis player.

Bratchikova has won nine singles and thirty-five doubles titles on the ITF tour in her career. On 10 December 2012, she reached her best singles ranking of world number 79. On 10 September 2012, she peaked at world number 63 in the doubles rankings.

Tennis career

2010

In 2010, Bratchikova entered the ITF Tournament in Moscow, where she won the doubles event partnering French Irena Pavlovic against Ukrainian sisters Lyudmyla Kichenok & Nadiia Kichenok.

She also won the ITF singles event against Tamarine Tanasugarn in Johannesburg.

2012

Bratchikova made it to the third round of the 2012 Australian Open where she lost to Iveta Beneov. She made her Top 100 debut (at 92) the following week.

In November, she won the doubles title at the 2012 Royal Indian Open, together with Georgian Oksana Kalashnikova.

2013

Brathchikova lost in the first round of the 2013 Australian Open to Kirsten Flipkens.

In May, Bratchikova changed her nation of representation to Portugal in time for the French Open, reasons are yet to be confirmed. In the first round, she lost to world no. 12 Maria Kirilenko by 6-0, 6-1 in only 1h7m.

In June, Bratchikova lost in the first round of Nrnberger Versicherungscup to no. 56 Annika Beck by 6-2, 6-2 in only 1h5m. Later, in Wimbledon she played again with Annika Beck and lost by 6-3, 6-2 in 1h33m.

In July, Bratchikova lost in the first round in Budapest to Spanish no. 71 Mara Teresa Torr by 6-1, 7-5 in only 1h12m. But in doubles with Anna Tatishvili she reached the final and lost against Andrea Hlav?kov and Lucie Hradeck from Czech Republic by 6-4, 6-1. A week later, Bratchikova played in Bstad and defeated no. 331 Lesley Kerkhove by 6-3, 6-1. In the second round, she lost to no. 76 Johanna Larsson by 6-2, 6-3.

In August, Bratchikova won the first round in the qualifying of the US Open, beating World no. 201 Anne Schfer by 6-3, 6-3. In the second round, she lost to world no. 166 Chanel Simmonds by 6-0, 6-2.

WTA finals

Doubles: 3 (0-3)

Winner "? Legend (pre/post 2010) Grand Slam tournaments (0-0) WTA Tour Championships (0-0) Tier I / Premier Mandatory & Premier 5 (0-0) Tier II / Premier (0-0) Tier III, IV & V / International (0-3)

Titles by Surface Hard (1/1) Grass (0/0) Clay (0/2) Carpet (0/0)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponent in final	Score in final
Runner-up	1.	5 October 2008	Tashkent Open, Tashkent, Uzbekistan	Hard	Kathrin Wrle-Scheller}}	Raluca Olaru Olga Savchuk	7-5, 5-7, [7-10]
Runner-up	2.	24 April 2011	Grand Prix SAR La Princesse Lalla Meryem, Fes, Marocco	Clay	Sandra Klemenschits	Andrea Hlav?kov Renata Vor?ov	3-6, 4-6
Runner-up	3.	14 July 2013	Budapest Grand Prix, Budapest, Hungary	Clay	Anna Tatishvili	Andrea Hlav?kov Lucie Hradeck	4-6, 1-6

WTA 125 Series Finals

Doubles: 1 (1 title)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponent in final	Score in final
Winner	3.	11 November 2012	Royal Indian Open, Pune, India	Hard	Oksana Kalashnikova	Julia Glushko Noppawan Lertcheewakarn}}	6-0, 4-6, [10-8]

ITF Circuit Finals

Singles (9-8)

Legend $100,000 tournaments $75,000 tournaments $50,000 tournaments $25,000 tournaments $10,000 tournaments

Finals by surface Hard (5-5) Clay (4-3) Grass (0-0) Carpet (0-0)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Runner-up	1.	12 May 2002	Zaton, Croatia	Clay	Delia Sescioreanu	4-6 4-6
Runner-up	2.	1 June 2003	Campobasso, Italy	Clay	Catalina Castao	2-6 2-6
Winner	1.	6 December 2003	Tel Aviv, Israel	Hard	Shahar Pe'er	6-4 6-4
Winner	2.	7 March 2004	Melilla, Spain	Hard	Frederica Piedade	6-2 6-4
Runner-up	3.	2 May 2004	Taranto, Italy	Clay	Martina Mller	3-6 2-6
Winner	3.	9 July 2006	Mont-de-Marsan, France	Clay	Raluca Olaru	6-4 4-6 6-0
Runner-up	4.	24 February 2008	Portimo, Portugal	Hard	Elena Chalova	4-6 4-6
Winner	4.	25 May 2008	Moscow, Russia	Clay	Ksenia Pervak	3-6 6-1 7-5
Winner	5.	1 June 2008	Togliatti, Russia	Hard	Patricia Mayr-Achleitner	6-3 6-0
Runner-up	5.	22 February 2009	Portimo, Portugal	Hard	Sandra Soler-Sola	6-3 2-6 3-6
Winner	6.	17 May 2009	Vila Real de Santo Antnio, Portugal	Clay	Irene Santos-Bravo	7-5 2-6 6-4
Runner-up	6.	25 October 2009	Lagos, Nigeria	Hard	Zuzana Ku?ov	0-6 6-7(7)
Winner	7.	18 April 2010	Johannesburg, South Africa	Hard	Tamarine Tanasugarn	7-5 7-6(7)
Winner	8.	31 October 2010	Lagos, Nigeria	Hard	Zuzana Ku?ov	7-5 6-1
Runner-up	7.	26 December 2010	Pune, India	Hard	Bojana Jovanovski	4-6 4-6
Winner	9.	6 February 2011	Rabat, Morocco	Clay	Maria Joao Koehler	3-6 6-4 6-1
Runner-up	8.	27 October 2013	Lagos, Nigeria	Hard	Gioia Barbieri	6-3 3-6 0-3 ret.

Doubles: 61 (35-26)

$100,000 tournaments

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$50,000 tournaments

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$10,000 tournaments

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Winner	1.	14 October 2001	Catania, Italy	Clay	Anna Floris	Georgia Mortello Lisa Tognetti	6-2 5-7 7-6(8)
Runner-up	1.	15 April 2003	Cavtat, Croatia	Clay	Raissa Gourevitch	Mervana Jugi?-Salki? Darija Jurak	6-2 5-7 7-6(8)
Winner	2.	29 November 2003	Haifa, Israel	Hard	Olena Antypina	Veronika Kapshay Barbara Pocza	7-5 6-4
Winner	3.	6 December 2003	Tel Aviv, Israel	Hard	Olena Antypina	Oksana Karyshkova Elena Yaryshka	6-1 5-7 6-3
Winner	4.	1 March 2004	Melilla, Spain	Hard	Alla Kudryavtseva	Anastasia Dvornikova Irena Nossenko	7-5 6-3
Runner-up	2.	30 May 2004	Tongliao, China	Hard	Anna Bastrikova	L?ga Dekmeijere ?pek ?eno?lu	5-7 6-7
Runner-up	3.	28 June 2004	Mont-de-Marsan, France	Clay	Frederica Piedade	Lourdes Domnguez Lino Paula Garca	3-6 6-3 4-6
Runner-up	4.	9 August 2004	Martina Franca, Italy	Clay	Giulia Casoni	Aurlie Vdy Jasmin Whr	1-6 6-3 6-7
Runner-up	5.	14 November 2004	Barcelona, Spain	Clay	Ekaterina Kozhokina	Lourdes Domnguez Lino Laura Pous Ti	4-6 6-7
Winner	5.	20 March 2005	St. Petersburg, Russia	Hard (i)	Ekaterina Makarova	Alla Kudryavtseva Ekaterina Kosminskaya	7-6 6-2
Winner	6.	11 April 2005	Mumbai, India	Hard	Francesca Lubiani	Rushmi Chakravarthi Sai Jayalakshmy Jayaram	6-3 6-4
Runner-up	6.	12 June 2005	Gorizia, Italy	Clay	Olena Antypina	Giulia Casoni Valentina Sulpizio	2-6 0-6
Runner-up	7.	18 July 2005	Les Contamines, France	Clay	Ekaterina Kosminskaya	Nadejda Ostrovskaya Yevgenia Savransky	1-6 6-2 4-6
Winner	7.	29 Aug 2005	Balashikha, Russia	Clay	Anna Bastrikova	Ekaterina Lopes Olga Panova	6-2 6-2
Runner-up	8.		Batumi, Georgia	Hard (i)	Anna Bastrikova	Nadejda Ostrovskaya Anastasiya Yakimova	6-2 2-6 6-7
Runner-up	9.	21 November 2005	Poitiers, France	Hard (i)	Akgul Amanmuradova	Maret Ani Mervana Jugi?-Salki?	6-7 1-6
Winner	8.	5 March 2006	Las Palmas, Spain	Hard	Alla Kudryavtseva	Karolina Kosi?ska Alicja Rosolska	6-1 6-3
Winner	9.	12 March 2006	Telde, Spain	Clay	Alla Kudryavtseva	Sara Errani Giulia Gabba	6-1 6-1
Winner	10.	11 April 2006	Biarritz, France	Clay	Yaroslava Shvedova	Klaudia Jans-Ignacik Alicja Rosolska	6-3 6-2
Runner-up	10.	23 May 2006	Beijing, China	Hard (i)	L?ga Dekmeijere	Chia-Jung Chuang Tamarine Tanasugarn	6-4 2-6 3-6
Runner-up	11.	2 July 2006	Prigueux, France	Clay	Lioudmila Skavronskaia	Monique Adamczak Marie-ve Pelletier	3-6, 4-6
Runner-up	12.	3 July 2006	Mont-de-Marsan, France	Clay	Akgul Amanmuradova	Raluca Olaru Margalita Chakhnashvili	5-7 6-1 1-6
Winner	11.	22 July 2006	Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine	Clay	Olena Antypina	Evgeniya Rodina Kristina Antoniychuk	6-1 5-7 7-5
Winner	12.	18 February 2007	Biberach, Germany	Hard	Urszula Radwa?ska	Darija Jurak Sandra Martinovi?	6-2, 6-0
Winner	13.	23 March 2007	Mumbai, India	Hard	Akgul Amanmuradova	Olga Panova Stefanie Vgele	6-2 6-3
Runner-up	13.	5 June 2007	Madrid, Spain	Clay	Neuza Silva	Jorgelina Cravero Betina Jozami	4-6 4-6
Winner	14.	9 July 2007	Mont-de-Marsan, France	Clay	Neuza Silva	Joana Cortez Teliana Pereira	6-3, 7-6(7-3)
Runner-up	14.	25 August 2007	Moscow, Russia	Clay	Sophie Lefvre	Maria Kondratieva Vesna Dolonc	6-2 6-1
Runner-up	15.	28 October 2007	Podolsk, Russia	Hard (i)	Anastasia Poltoratskaya}}	Vasilisa Davydova Arina Rodionova	3-6, 0-6
Runner-up	16.	14 January 2008	Stuttgart, Germany	Hard (i)	Kateryna Herth	Vasilisa Davydova Elizaveta Tochilovskaya	2-6 5-7
Winner	15.	4 February 2008	Algarve, Portugal	Hard	Kateryna Herth	Neuza Silva Danielle Harmsen	6-4 6-3
Runner-up	17.	17 March 2008	St. Petersburg, Russia	Hard (i)	Vasilisa Davydova	Nikola Fra?kov Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova}}	2-6 2-6
Winner	16.	5 May 2008	Jounieh, Lebanon	Clay	Veronika Kapshay	Kristna Ku?ov Stefanie Vgele	7-5, 3-6, [10-6]
Winner	17.	26 May 2008	Togliatti, Russia	Clay	Vasilisa Davydova	Nikola Fra?kov Patricia Mayr-Achleitner	6-3 5-7 10-3
Runner-up	18.	3 August 2008	Vigo, Spain	Hard	Frederica Piedade	Neuza Silva Nicole Thijssen	2-6, 4-6
Runner-up	19.	4 July 2009	Pozoblanco, Spain	Hard	gnes Szatmri	Andrea Hlav?kov Olga Savchuk	3-6, 3-6
Runner-up	20.	1 August 2009	Almaty, Kazakhstan	Hard	gnes Szatmri	Elena Chalova Oksana Kalashnikova	1-6, 0-6
Runner-up	21.	8 August 2009	Astana, Kazakhstan	Hard	gnes Szatmri	Yuliana Fedak Darya Kustova	4-6, 5-7
Winner	18.		Napoli, Italy	Clay	Oksana Kalashnikova	Betina Jozami Mara Irigoyen	7-6 (5) 2-6 10-8
Winner	19.		Madrid, Spain	Hard	Irena Pavlovic	Claire Feuerstein Constance Sibille	6-2, 6-4
Winner	20.	3 October 2009	Granada, Spain	Hard	Arina Rodionova	Betina Jozami Valeria Savinykh	6-1, 3-6, [10-5]
Winner	21.	16 October 2009	Lagos, Nigeria	Hard	Anna Gerasimou	Anna Brazhnikova Anastasia Mukhametova	7-6 7-6
Winner	22.	23 October 2009	Lagos, Nigeria	Hard	Anna Gerasimou	Chen Astrogo Keren Shlomo	6-4 7-5
Winner	23.	31 October 2009	Istanbul, Turkey	Hard (i)	Ksenia Palkina	Petra Cetkovsk Renata Vor?ov	W/O
Runner-up	22.	16 November 2009	Pune, India	Hard	Ksenia Palkina	Anastasiya Vasylyeva Nicole Clerico	6-4 3-6 11-13
Winner	24.	28 March 2010	Moscow, Russia	Carpet (i)	Irena Pavlovic	Lyudmyla Kichenok Nadiia Kichenok	6-7(4-7), 6-2, [10-3]
Winner	25.	12 July 2010	Contrexville, France	Clay	Ekaterina Lopes	Jelena Dokic Sharon Fichman	6-4 4-6 6-4
Winner	26.	2 August 2010	Astana, Kazakhstan	Hard	Ekaterina Lopes	Yuliana Fedak Anastasiya Vasylyeva	6-4 6-4
Winner	27.	22 October 2010	Lagos, Nigeria	Hard	gnes Szatmri	Anna Brazhnikova Anastasia Mukhametova	6-4, 6-3
Runner-up	23.	29 October 2010	Lagos, Nigeria	Hard	gnes Szatmri	Melanie Klaffner Karolina Kosi?ska	6-3, 5-7, [7-10]
Winner	28.	20 December 2010	Pune, India	Hard	Alexandra Panova	Anna Shkudun Sachie Ishizu	6-3, 7-6(7-2)
Runner-up	24.	2 May 2011	Bukhara, Uzbekistan	Hard	Ksenia Palkina	Han Sung-hee Liang Chen	6-4 6-7(5) 4-6
Winner	29.	11 June 2011	Marseille, France	Clay	Irina-Camelia Begu	Laura-Ioana Andrei M?d?lina Gojnea	6-2, 6-2
Winner	30.	27 June 2011	Pozoblanco, Spain	Clay	Irena Pavlovic	Marina Melnikova Sofia Shapatava	6-2 6-4
Winner	31.		Sofia, Bulgaria	Clay	Darija Jurak	Alexandra Cadan?u Ioana Raluca Olaru	6-4, 7-5
Winner	32.		Saint-Malo, France	Clay	Darija Jurak	Johanna Larsson Jasmin Whr	6-4, 6-2
Winner	33.	17 October 2011	Lagos, Nigeria	Hard	Melanie Klaffner	Tadeja Majeri? Aleksandrina Naydenova	7-5, 5-7, [10-6]
Winner	34.	28 November 2011	Dubai, United Arab Emirates	Hard	Darija Jurak	Akgul Amanmuradova Alexandra Dulgheru	6-4, 3-6, [10-6]
Winner	35.	19 December 2011	Ankara, Turkey	Hard (i)	Darija Jurak	Janette Husrov Katalin Marosi	6-4, 6-2
Runner-up	25.	15 October 2012	Lagos, Nigeria	Hard	Margarita Lazareva	Conny Perrin Chanel Simmonds	1-6, 1-6
Runner-up	26.	22 July 2013	Astana, Kazakhstan	Hard	Valeria Solovyeva	Lyudmyla Kichenok Nadiia Kichenok	2-6, 2-6

Singles Performance timeline

Tournament	2012	2013	2014	W-L
Grand Slam Tournaments
Australian Open	3R	1R	A	2-2
French Open	3R	1R	A	2-2
Wimbledon	1R	1R	A	0-2
US Open	1R	Q2		0-2
Win-loss	4-4	0-3		4-7

Doubles Performance timeline

Tournament	2012	2013	2014	W-L
Grand Slam Tournaments
Australian Open	1R	1R	A	0-2
French Open	3R	2R	A	3-2
Wimbledon	1R	Q1	A	0-2
US Open	2R	1R		1-2
Win-loss	3-4	1-3		4-7