Anastasia Sevastova is a famous Latvian tennis player of Russian origin. Semi-finalist of the Grand Slam singles tournament, the holder of four WTA tournaments titles in singles.
Biography
The future athlete was born in April 1990 on the thirteenth in the small Latvian town of Liepaja. Nastya was a very active child and from an early age showed an increased interest in sports.
In the nineties in the countries of the post-Soviet space tennis became very popular. Nastya fell in love with this sport, and the family decided to send her daughter to the tennis section. True, the girl had congenital problems with her legs, but in tennis this shortcoming turned out to be uncritical and quite solvable due to special shoes.
Career
For the first time in the BTA ranking, Sevastova appeared at the age of fifteen, she made her debut in a professional tournament for the national team in 2005 as part of the Federation Cup. In the summer of that year, the girl played in a series held in Germany. The next year, she tried her hand on unpaved surfaces and reached the finals twice, in one of them Sevastova won the first trophy in her career. In the same 2006, Anastasia was noted in the BTA world ranking, in which she occupied a rather effective 529 line.
2007 also brought several major victories, including a match against Anastasia Ekimova. This was the first rival from the top 100 in the career of Sevastova. Over the year, she rose from 529 to 267 place in the overall ranking. In the summer of 2008, a promising tennis player tried her hand at the most prestigious tennis competition, in the Grand Slam tournament. The start was the qualification for Wimbledon, but unfortunately Sevastova could not win in any match, and she left the tournament with nothing.
In 2011, Sevastova started having problems with her hip. The season was very unsuccessful, and the girl on emotions decided to end her career. After several performances at the beginning of 2012, she left the big sport. And three years later, the Latvian tennis player returned to the court, and with renewed vigor began to take one height after another. It has not yet been possible to win large trophies, but progress is obvious. For three years after the break, Sevastova reached the top 20 in the world ranking and gained a foothold in twelfth position.
