Victoria Fedorovna Azarenka was born on July 31, 1989 in the city of Minsk, the capital of the Republic of Belarus. The father of the future champion, Fedor Mikhailovich Azarenko, worked as a driving instructor, and her mother, Alla Valentinovna, worked as a methodologist at the Republican Olympic Training Center for Tennis. Victoria is the youngest child in the family and has an older brother, Maxim. Currently, the name Victoria Azarenka and tennis have become synonymous.
How did it all begin?
The future tennis player came to the sport at the age of seven. She was persuaded by her mother, who worked at the tennis training center at the time. From that time on, intensive training began. Victoria's first coach, Valentina Egorovna Rzhanykh, noted her special determination, endurance and desire to be first, no matter what. The tennis player's big break came when she was 15 years old.
The Belarusian champion's tenacity was noticed by the sponsors of the junior team, and Victoria went to the Marbella Tennis Academy (Spanish resort). By the age of 16, the girl went to America, to Scottsdale, which was facilitated by the famous NHL goalkeeper Nikolai Khabibulin and his wife Victoria, who was a good friend of the mother of the future champion. For the next four years, Victoria trained with the famous trainer Antonio van Griechen, a native of Portugal. These trainings led the athlete to serious results.
The end of participation in junior tennis was 2005. During this year, Azarenka took part in six tournaments, and only once did Victoria lose before the semifinals. On January 31, 2005, the tennis player proudly climbed to the very top of the junior top. ITF recognized Victoria Azarenka as the best junior tennis player of the year.
Playing style
As experts note, Victoria often plays tough, even aggressive play on the back line and uses powerful shots. It should also be noted that Azarenka’s weak point is serving the ball, but since 2016 this element of Victoria’s game has improved significantly. In addition, Victoria is considered the loudest tennis player. The sounds that the girl makes during the game, according to the equipment of the Wimbledon tennis tournament, reach 95 decibels, and their duration is one and a half seconds. Previously, aggressive play was accompanied by loss of self-control and obscene language during the tournament.
Victories of the Belarusian champion
It is significant that Azarenka is the first Belarusian tennis player to win a Grand Slam tournament. This is an open tennis championship that takes place in Australia. It was this stunning victory that allowed the famous tennis player to receive the title of first racket of the world. Currently, Azarenka is ranked 95th in the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) ranking (data as of April 16, 2018). Since January 30, 2012, for 52 weeks, Victoria took first place in this ranking. This is the best result of the athlete.
The Champion's Path
Victoria's awards are numerous. The loudest in the biography of tennis player Victoria Azarenka are the following:
- Winner of the Open Grand Slam Championship in America in 2007, paired with Maxim Mirny.
- Winner of the French Open Grand Slam tournament paired with Bob Bryan, 2008.
- Azarenka received a gold medal at the 2012 Olympics, which was held in London. She performed in pairs with Maxim Mirny.
- Bronze medal at the same Olympic Games, but alone.
- At the tennis championship in 2012 she took second place.
- First place in 26 Women's Tennis Association competitions, twenty of which were in singles and only six in doubles.
- On January 28, 2012, by the decision of the President of the Republic of Belarus, Victoria was awarded the Order of the Fatherland, third degree.
- At the Olympic Games in London, Azarenka was awarded the Order of Honor for achieving high results in sports and making a great contribution to the development of physical education and sports.
The year 2009 was marked by the fact that Victoria entered the Final Tournament of the Women's Tennis Association. This was a real breakthrough in the tennis player’s career.
Difficult period
The most difficult tournaments for Victoria were the 2010-2011 tournaments. The champion had serious health problems that required long-term treatment and rehabilitation. But Azarenka has always been distinguished by perseverance and determination, so the girl mustered her will and entered the top 5 in the world rankings at the next competitions. After which Victoria lost the title of first racket to the champion from Russia, Maria Sharapova.
A loud comeback
2012 was a very busy year: in addition to many awards, Victoria won six more Women's Tennis Association tournaments.
2013 began successfully for Azarenka: on January 26, she won first place at the Open Championship in Australia for the second time, and in February she confirmed the championship title, ahead of her rival, Serena Williams. The Qatar Total Open tournament was the first competition since 2009 where the tennis player managed to beat her American opponent. But the successful start to the season had to be suspended, as Victoria began to be bothered by injuries.
After recovery, Azarenka returned to the sport with great fanfare, immediately beating Serena Williams at the championship in Cincinnati. However, in the final of the world's best tennis players, the lot brought them together again, and Victoria lost the victory to Serena.
Old injuries
2014 was not so successful: Victoria failed to win any of the tournaments in which she took part. Old injuries haunted me and prevented me from playing my usual game. Only once, at the very beginning of the season, Azarenka managed to reach the final of the tournament in Australia, where Serena Williams won again. Finally, the signs were heard, and Victoria suspended her activities to take care of her health.
Recovery
After a recovery period in 2015, the Belarusian champion started the season with a bang, taking first place at the championship in Australia and at the tournament in Doha. However, at the end of the season, fate brought Azarenka and Williams together again on the court, where Victoria had to concede - Serena turned out to be stronger.
Victoria started the 2016 season quite successfully, winning first place at the Australian tournament. She managed to beat the German Angelique Kerber. This was the first high-profile victory in the last three years and the 18th in Azarenka’s entire career. Victoria made a real splash when she took first place at the Indian Wells tournament, leaving Serena Williams behind. In the photo, Victoria Azarenka looks very luxurious.
Return to former glory
Azarenka managed, for the first time in the history of tennis in Belarus, to bring the team into the top 8 strongest teams in the world. This significant event took place within the framework of the Fed Cup in April 2016, where Belarus beat Russia thanks to Victoria.
The winter-spring season of 2016 brought Azarenka 26 victories and fifth place in the Women's Tennis Association rankings. However, towards the end of the season, old injuries began to bother me again, and Victoria refused to play matches. The champion also had to refuse the Olympic Games in Rio, but for pleasant reasons - Victoria was pregnant.
Victoria returned to the court in 2018. After a long pause, Azarenka managed to reach the second round of the main draw. Immediately after returning to the sport, Victoria received an invitation to the main draw of the Miami tournament, the prize fund of which is more than $7 million.
Personal life
Victoria Azarenka's personal life is very eventful. Despite the fact that Victoria’s busy schedule was crazy: constant training, flights from one end of the globe to the other, competitions and tournaments, all this did not prevent the tennis player from building her personal life.
Azarenka’s first serious romance, which received worldwide publicity, was her relationship with performer Redfu from the famous group LMFAO. As Victoria herself said, she was a fan of the work of this group, and sympathy for each other began after Redfu was invited to Azarenka’s press conference. This event marked the beginning of the relationship. Everyone was talking about a whirlwind romance, but it never came to marriage. Although the proposal was made and the wedding date was set, for unknown reasons the couple separated.
Victoria was having a hard time breaking up with Redfoo. After some time, the tennis player was noticed in the company of Billy McKing, a former American hockey player. The couple's relationship developed quite rapidly and successfully. On December 20, 2016, Victoria published a photo on Instagram, where she announced the birth of her son. The whole world was happy for the couple. In the photo with her husband, Victoria Azarenka seemed happy, but in July 2017, Billy McKing went to Beverly Hills, where he immediately filed a lawsuit for kidnapping a child. According to the data, the court quickly decided to return the child to Los Angeles. The 7-month-old baby remained with his father, and Victoria was deprived of the right to spend the night with her son. Victoria won the next trial; she literally won the right to sleep with her child. After lengthy proceedings, the couple came to an agreement on equal communication with their son, but the trial is still ongoing. Azarenka hired the best Israeli family lawyer, and the hearing may take place on the territory of Belarus. According to the lawyer, Victoria has every chance of winning.
Victoria is a truly great athlete who has received many awards and received a worldwide calling, glorifying Belarus. The biography of Victoria Azarenka deserves respect: despite injuries and troubles, she always strived only forward.
Most sports fans know who Victoria Azarenka is. After all, only those who are not at all interested in world achievements in physical culture may not know about the former first singles tennis player.
Development of an athlete's personality
Everyone knows that Victoria Azarenka was born in the capital of Belarus, in the city of Minsk, this happened in 1989. From the age of seven (thanks to the influence of her mother Alla Valentinovna) she began playing tennis. Victoria felt an interest in the game from the first days; she had a desire to devote every free minute to it. Thanks to hard training, which took a lot of time from the young athlete, she was able to hone her technique very quickly.
Not the least role in Azarenka’s development as a professional tennis player was played by the fact that at the age of 14 she moved to the USA, where she continued training at the academy in the American city of Scottsdale. By the way, the move overseas was facilitated by a friend of Victoria’s mother, who is the wife of the famous hockey player Khabibullin.
Carier start
Many are interested in tennis player Victoria Azarenka, whose biography is very rich in sporting achievements. But she lost her first serious tournament, which took place in Minsk in 2002, to a Russian woman. True, the tennis player did not give up and rehabilitated her name the very next year. In 2003, she was able to win gold medals at the G3 tournament, which was held in Tashkent, and in the same year she took part in the G1 competition. These competitions helped her take a worthy place in the ranking of tennis players. In addition, she gained tremendous experience, which allowed her to take part in already in 2004. She got into the junior category.
The first participation in this tournament was not very successful; she left it already in the third round. But after that, Azarenka performed at Wimbledon and the US Open. Both there and there she showed good results, reaching the semi-finals.
Junior achievements
Subsequent competitions showed that it was not in vain that Victoria Azarenka chose tennis. Already 2005 was more than successful for her: she played in 6 tournaments, and in 4 of them she emerged victorious. Thanks to such a successful rise, the young athlete climbed to the top of the rankings among juniors; moreover, the international tennis association recognized that Azarenka became the best.
In 2005, she ended her junior career. By this time, Victoria was already ranked 149th in the popular WTA rankings. But her achievements did not end there; the athlete’s subsequent career was just as successful.
Pair competitions
Despite the fact that Victoria Azarenka became famous thanks to her single victories, working with partners was just as successful for her. Already in 2003, together with a Belarusian tennis player, she became the winner at Wimbledon. But this turned out to be not the limit, they also reached the semifinals of the US Open.
The results of pairs performances in 2006 were no worse. Of the five tournaments played, three were won. Moreover, in one of them she reached the final, but was unable to win.
From juniors to adulthood
Since 2006, Azarenka has been in the main lineup of Grand Slam participants. Although during this period she was unable to emerge victorious in any of the tournaments, the year was not in vain. Thanks to her achievements, victories in a number of qualifying matches, participation in Wimbledon and the US Open, she falls into the first hundred tennis players, taking 96th place in the WTA rankings.
2007 became more successful; according to its results, Victoria Azarenka was among the top 30 tennis players on the planet. From this moment on, her biography becomes more saturated with interesting facts, games and events. So, she showed herself well at the ongoing Grand Slam tournaments, moreover, she was able to reach the finals of the competitions in Estoril and Tashkent. But she didn’t win a single singles tournament in 2007, but paired with them they were able to beat everyone at the US Open.
2008 was also not rich in victories. But according to the WTA results, she was able to reach 15th place in the ranking. This was facilitated by participation in numerous tournaments, in which she showed good results. At her first Olympics, which took place that year, she only managed to get two places in the 1/8 finals.
Serious victories
Despite the good rating, until 2009 Victoria was not able to beat serious rivals on her own. But from this period she became one of the most successful tennis players. Thus, the 2009 sports season began with Victoria Azarenka winning at the Brisbane tournament. Thanks to this, she instantly became one of the top ten tennis players on the planet.
A month after her first victory, she wins a tournament in Memphis, and after that she immediately emerges victorious in Miami. In addition, she reaches the semi-finals of the WTA Championship in Italy. At the famous Roland Garros and Wimbledon competitions, Victoria reached the quarterfinals. Thanks to these victories, she not only entered the top ten of the WTA, taking sixth place there, but also one of the richest tennis players in the world.
But 2010 was marked by health problems, due to which Azarenka could not perform normally. Only in the second part of the season was she able to show good results - she won the Kremlin Cup and competitions in Stanford.
2011 was more successful: Victoria Azarenka was able to conquer the Miami and Marbella tournaments. At Wimbledon, the then world number five reached the semi-finals, which moved her to fourth place. In addition, she won in Luxembourg and even reached the final of the Game Tournament.
But 2012 is considered the best. Victoria not only conquered tournaments in Sydney, Indian Wales, and Doha, but also won the Grand Slam championship for the first time. From that moment on, she began to hold this title only until the Roland Garros competition, where Maria Sharapova won. After Wimbledon, where Azarenka lost only in the final, she managed to regain the first line of the ranking. Also, 2012 was marked by receiving silver in singles and gold in doubles competitions at the London Olympics. At the end of the year, she also reached the final of the US Open and won in Linz and Beijing.
Modern realities
But, unfortunately, starting from 2013, Azarenka has been losing ground. She, of course, defended her title at the games in Australia, at a serious tournament in Doha, but over time she began to lose to other tennis players. Last but not least, the athlete’s deteriorating well-being began to influence the results. Victoria Azarenka continues to play today, despite the difficult 2013. She prepares for tournaments and participates in competitions, although her legs are injured.
Personal life of an athlete
No matter how successful a tennis player is, many are interested not only in her career, but also in the events that happen off the court. Everyone is wondering if Victoria Azarenka and Redfoo, her boyfriend, a famous DJ, whose real name is Stefan Gordy, got married. Their relationship became public knowledge in January 2013. At the same time, they met at the US Open 2012 tournament. Their relationship developed well. The couple did not even hide their intentions regarding the purchase of joint property, which they planned to purchase in Australia, but no one talked about the wedding.
But the media leaked information that they were planning to get legally married in March 2014. Moreover, for the first time this information appeared in the Indian press. The wedding was supposed to take place in this country, presumably in the city of Jaipur. Some even said that the wedding took place in an intimate setting, in the presence of only a few friends. But there was no confirmation from either Azarenka or Redfu.
Everyone decides for themselves whether to believe these rumors, but for some reason Victoria Azarenka doesn’t want to talk about it. The personal life of every famous person should not be put on public display. Even if the young people secretly wanted to get married, they can afford it. But the tennis player’s mother claims that she is not aware that her daughter is going to, or even more so, has already gotten married.
Victoria Azarenka was born in Minsk in 1989 and became the most famous Belarusian tennis player. At the age of fourteen she moved to the United States, where she currently lives.
From the age of seven, Victoria became seriously interested in tennis, and since 2002 she began to play it professionally, competing for the first time in Minsk, but losing in the first round to the Russian tennis player Puchkova. Azarenka won her first tournament in 2003 in Tashkent, from which point her successful career in junior tennis began. In 2004, having won a series of tournaments, Victoria reached the semifinals at Wimbledon. 2005 was the final year in junior tennis and the most successful. Of the six tournaments held, Azarenka wins in five, wins the Grand Slam tournaments twice and wins the title - the best young tennis player of the year and breaks into the ranking of the most recognized tennis players in the world, managing to gain a foothold in the Top 300.
The next few years were successful in Victoria's career. Having held a number of successful tournaments in Europe, she rises in the ranking and secures a position in the TOP 200, but by the end of 2006, Azarenka rises in the ranking to 96th place. It is quite difficult to call the years 2007-2009 successful in the career of a tennis player; Azarenka did not win a single prestigious competition in singles tournaments. But health problems and failures did not break Victoria.
In 2012, she won the semi-finals at Wimbledon and won the singles title at the Olympic Games, losing only to Serina Williams. He successfully competes in the US Open, reaching the finals, winning tournaments in Beijing and Linz, thereby rising to the highest line of the rankings and becoming the first racket in the world.
In 2013, Azarenka held three unbeaten tournaments at the Australian Championship, won the tournament in Doha, and reached the finals at the championship in California. At the end of the year, Azarenka ranks third in the ranking, behind only Serena Williams and Maria Sharapova.
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Victoria Azarenka was born on 31 Jul 1989 (30) in Minsk, Belarus; currently residing in Monte Carlo, Monaco. Azarenka V. is a Right-handed player and is currently ranked 50th in the WTA rankings with 1115 points. Victoria Azarenka's total earnings this year are 897.1k €, but she has earned only 25.3M € in her career. Please note that total earnings are calculated only from tournament prize money, income from sponsors is not included in this amount.
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