Vitalia Diatchenko

Career

Diatchenko's first Grand Slam tournament was the Roland Garros 2009, where she qualified for the main draw. In the tournament, Diatchenko upset world No. 75 player Mathilde Johansson to reach the second round before she eventually lost to world No. 1 Dinara Safina.

In 2009, she lost the 2009 Pattaya Women's Open with Yulia Beygelzimer, in Thailand to opponents Tamarine Tanasugarn and Yaroslava Shvedova with the score 3–6, 2–6, and 2009 Tashkent Open with Ekaterina Dzehalevich in Uzbekistan to opponents Tatiana Poutchek and Olga Govortsova with the score 6–2, 6–7, [10–8].

In 2010, she lost a one WTA International tournament with Aurélie Védy, losing the 2010 Estoril Open in Portugal to opponents Anabel Medina Garrigues and Sorana Cîrstea with the score 1–6, 5–7.

In this year, at the 2010 French Open, she lost in the third round in qualifying to Misaki Doi with the score 6–7, 0–6. At the 2010 Wimbledon Championships she lost in the second round in qualifying to Romanian player Monica Niculescu with the score 5–7, 2–6.

This year Diatchenko participated in the ITF Women's Circuit where she won the ITF tournament in Darmstadt, Germany; in the final, she beat the 8th seeded German player Julia Schruff with the score 6–4, 5–7, 6–4.

She lost her fourth WTA International doubles tournament with partner Tatiana Poutchek. Then she lost the 2010 Copenhagen tournament to pair Anna-Lena Grönefeld and Julia Görges with the score 4–6, 4–6.

2011

Vitalia lost in the 2011 Australian Open – Women's Singles Qualifying in the second round to Sania Mirza 6–3, 6–7, 6–4. She then entered the qualifying at Dubai but lost in the first round to Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 4–6, 3–6, despite being 3–1 ahead in the second set.

Vitalia qualified for the main draw of the Wimbledon Championships for the first time in her career after defeating Julia Glushko, Maria Elena Camerin and Stéphanie Dubois in the qualifying stages of the Grand Slam. In the first round she was defeated by the 25th seed Daniela Hantuchová, 4–6, 7–6, 6–3. Vitalia was also in the women's doubles with compatriot Maria Kondratieva but were defeated by Vera Dushevina and Ekaterina Makarova in the first round.

Vitalia played in the Aegon GB Pro-Series Foxhills. She was seeded 1st and defeated Alenka Hubacek in the first round and Lucy Brown in the second round. She defeated the 5th seed Marta Sirotkina in the quarterfinals. In the semifinals, Vitalia retired whilst trailing 2–6, 0–2 to Johanna Konta.

On July 30, Vitalia won the biggest singles title of her career so far at the President's Cup, an ITF $100,000 tournament held in Astana, Kazakhstan. She defeated the 6th seed, Akgul Amanmuradova in the final 6–4, 6–1. She also won the women's doubles with Galina Voskoboeva. They defeated Akgul Amanmuradova and Alexandra Panova in the final 6–3, 6–4.

Vitalia participated in the Tatarstan Open in singles and doubles. Alexandra Panova was her doubles partner. Diatchenko was seeded 5th in the singles and 1st in the doubles. In the first round of the singles, she defeated Evgeniya Pashkova 6–1, 6–1. In the second round, Vitalia beat Pemra Özgen 6–3, 6–2. In the quarterfinals, she beat Valentyna Ivakhnenko 6–2, 6–2. In the semifinals, Vitalia retired against the wildcard (and eventual champion), Yulia Putintseva, after suffering an ankle injury. In the doubles, after winning their first round and quarterfinal matches, Vitalia and Alexandra faced the 3rd seeds, Evgeniya Rodina and Valeria Solovyeva in the semifinals. They won 6–3, 6–2. Due to Vitalia suffering an injury in the semifinals of the singles, she was unable to play the doubles final and so the 2nd seeds, Ekaterina Ivanova and Andreja Klepač, got a walkover.

Diatchenko played at the US Open, the final Grand Slam of 2011. In the first round of the Qualifying Stages, she beat Laura Siegemund 6–3, 7–5. In the second round, she defeated Sesil Karatantcheva on a scoreline of 7–5, 6–2. In the final round, Vitalia defeated Marta Domachowska 4–6, 6–2, 6–4 for a place in the Main Draw. This is her first time to qualify for the main draw of the US Open. In the first round, Vitalia was defeated by Zheng Jie 4–6, 7–5, 6–2.

Vitalia's next tournament was the Tashkent Open. In the first round, she fought past Olga Govortsova on a scoreline of 7–6, 3–6, 6–4. Vitalia lost to Alla Kudryavtseva in the second round 1–6, 6–2, 3–6. In the women's doubles, Vitalia and her partner, Eleni Daniilidou, beat Lyudmyla Kichenok and Nadiya Kichenok in the final 6–4, 6–3. This was Vitalia's first time to win a WTA Tour doubles title in her career.

Vitalia qualified for the Generali Ladies Linz but lost in the first round to Ksenia Pervak 4–6, 1–6.

Vitalia suffered a knee injury playing doubles at the Kremlin Cup. This injury has ruled her out from playing tennis for 6 months.

2014

After the Russian's brief appearance in the 2012 WTA tour and her return to the ITF tour, she showed her first notable game for years at the Kremlin Cup, where the 140-ranked Vitalia eliminated No. 14, Dominika Cibulková, in the Round of 16, until being knocked down by Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova. Diatchenko completed the year by winning her first WTA singles title at the WTA 125K event of Taipei.

Singles

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Doubles

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