Career titles 0 WTA, 7 ITF Weight 67 kg Handed Right-handed Career record 183–128 Height 1.78 m Retired 2003 | Prize money US$420,868 Role Tennis player Plays Right-handed Name Irina Selyutina Turned pro 1996 | |
Highest ranking No. 85 (14 January 2002) | ||
Irina Gennadyevna Selyutina (Ирина Геннадьевна Селютина; born 7 November 1979) is a Kazakhstani tennis player. She is a former World No. 1 in junior doubles, winning French Open and Wimbledon in 1997 partnering with Cara Black. Black and Selyutina were also crowned ITF Junior Girls Doubles World Champion in 1997. Selyutina has won three WTA Tour doubles titles so far — J&S Cup with Cătălina Cristea in 1999, Canberra Women's Classic with Nannie De Villiers and Porto Open with Black in 2002. She also enjoyed success on ITF Circuit, winning seven singles and twenty doubles events.
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Personal life
Selyutina was born to Gennady and Tatyana Selyutina in Alma-Ata (Soviet Union then, Kazakhstan now). She has a brother, Nickolay. Selyutina began playing tennis aged eight, and has been coached by her first coach Valery Kovalyov for her entire career. Selyutina, who graduated from high school in 1996, prefers hard courts.