Alisa Kleybanova

Insights

Peak Grand Slam run came in 2008-2009

Her two best results were both R16 finishes, at the 2008 Wimbledon and 2009 Australian Open. Those are the only times she reached the second week, and both came before age 20 was over.

2010 was her most productive Slam season

She played all four majors in 2010 and reached the R32 at each one: Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon, and US Open. That is her only season with four identical results and accounts for four of her 19 match wins.

Her Slam record is narrowly positive despite a short career

Across 16 tournaments and 35 matches, she finished 19-16, a 54% win rate. The totals show a career that stayed above .500 even though her best result never went beyond the round of 16.

Late-career decline was abrupt in 2014

After reaching the US Open R64 in 2013 at age 24, she lost in the first round at both the 2014 French Open and Wimbledon, also at age 24. That left her final two Slam appearances as back-to-back R128 exits.

Her strongest results clustered early, not late

From 2008 through 2010 she produced all 19 of her match wins and all five of her deepest runs beyond R64. After that stretch, her only listed results were the 2011 Australian Open R64, the 2013 US Open R64, and the two 2014 R128 losses.