Tetyana Arefyeva

Tetyana Arefyeva
Тетяна Арефиева

Country (sports)	Ukraine
Born	(1991-09-03) 3 September 1991 Kiev, Ukraine
Turned pro	2005
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	US$ 95,011
Singles
Career record	186–168
Career titles	0 WTA (2 ITF)
Highest ranking	No. 241 (19 March 2012)
Current ranking	No. 264 (7 October 2013)
Doubles
Career record	76–81
Career titles	0 WTA (2 ITF)
Highest ranking	No. 182 (29 August 2011)
Current ranking	No. 460 (7 October 2013)
Last updated on: 12 October 2013.

Tetyana Arefyeva (Ukrainian: Тетяна Арефиева) is a Ukrainian tennis player. She began tennis at the age of 6 and is coached by Igor Dernovskyy. She mainly plays on the ITF Women's Circuit.

2005

Tetyana played her first professional tournament at the $10,000 tournament in Kiev. She received a wildcard into the tournament. She managed to take a set of off her opponent before losing in three sets 1–6, 6–1, 6–2.

2006

Tetyana played in Kiev once more, this time advancing past the first round, before losing to Agnese Zucchini 6–1, 0–6, 6–3. She also played in Kharkiv and Volos. She qualified for Kharkiv and received a wildcard into Volos. She played in the qualifying draws of all the ITF Cairo tournaments. She fell in qualifying for all three of them. But she managed to win two doubles matches in Cairo.

2007

Tetyana played lots more tournaments on the ITF Circuits, even reaching a quarter final at Tampere in Finland. She finished the year ranked at 769. In doubles Tetyana along with Elena Jirnova reached the final at Gausdal in Norway but they lost in the final to two Slovenian players in a tight match 6–7⁽³⁾, 7–5, 3–6.

2008

In February 2008 Tetyana won her first ITF title at Melilla in Spain. She also reached finals in Astana and Athens but she lost in the final to Alice Moroni and Zarina Diyas respectively. She also reached a final in Arezzo but lost 7–5, 6–1. She ended the year ranked 613 in singles and 727 in doubles.

2009

In 2009 Tetyana became 18 and began to soar up the rankings with a series of successful results. In Portimão in Portugal she reached the semi final defeating Stéphanie Vongsouthi en route. She lost to Sandra Soler-Sola in the semi final 4–6, 6–1, 6–0.
In the $50,000 event in Khanti-Mansiysk she managed to qualify despite being ranked far below most of the other players. She lost in the final round of qualifying but received main draw entry via a lucky loser entry. She then went on to back-to-back finals at Antalya-Belek and Almaty She lost in Turkey to Irini Georgatou but won Almaty, defeating Daria Kuchmina. At the $25,000 event in Namangan, Uzbekistan Tetyana managed to reach the final by defeating Ksenia Palkina, Çağla Büyükakçay and Sofia Kvatsabaia. She lost in the final however to Kristina Antoniychuk 6–0, 6–1. She will play in the Kharkiv tournament in a few weeks time.

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 7 (2–5)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Winner	1.	23 February 2008	Melilla, Spain	Hard	Dessislava Mladenova	6–1, 7–6
Runner-up	2.	24 March 2008	Athens, Greece	Hard	Alice Moroni	3-6, 4-6
Runner-up	3.	17 November 2008	Astana, Kazakhstan	Hard	Zarina Diyas	5–7, 4–6
Runner-up	4.	13 April 2009	Antalya, Turkey	Hard	Eirini Georgatou	3–6 7–6 5–7
Winner	5.	20 April 2009	Almaty, Kazakhstan	Hard	Daria Kuchmina	6-2 6-1
Runner-up	6.	27 April 2009	Namangan, Uzbekistan	Hard	Kristina Antoniychuk	0-6, 1–6
Runner-up	7.	25 April 2011	Karshi, Uzbekistan	Hard	Isabella Holland	5–7, 4–6

Doubles: 9 (2–7)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	1.	22 July 2007	Gausdal, Norway	Hard	Elena Jirnova	Maja Kambic Petra Pajalič	6–7, 7–5, 3–6
Runner-up	2.	11 February 2008	Arezzo, Italy	Clay	Aude Vermoezen	Giulia Gatto-Monticone Federica Quercia	5–7, 1–6
Runner-up	3.	13 April 2009	Antalya, Turkey	Hard	Anastasiya Lytovchenko	Cagla Buyukakcay Pemra Ozgen	4–6, 2–6
Winner	4.	20 April 2009	Almaty, Kazakhstan	Hard	Anastasiya Lytovchenko	Ima Bohush Eugeniya Pashkova	6–4, 6–4
Runner-up	5.	28 June 2010	Ystad, Sweden	Clay	Anastasiya Lytovchenko	Mervana Jugić-Salkić Emma Laine	1–6, 1–6
Runner-up	6.	1 November 2010	Ismaning, Germany	Carpet	Yuliana Fedak	Kristina Barrois Anna-Lena Groenefeld	1–6, 6–7
Runner-up	7.	6 December 2010	Dubai, United Arab Emirates	Hard	Yuliana Fedak	Elena Chalova Ksenia Palkina	2–6, 4–6
Winner	8.	25 April 2011	Karshi, Uzbekistan	Hard	Eugeniya Pashkova	Isabella Holland Naomi Broady	6–7, 7–5, 6–4
Runner-up	9.	11 March 2013	Orlando, United States	Clay	Katerina Kramperova	Nikola Frankova Nathalia Rossi	5–7, 6–2, 8–10

External links

• Tetyana Arefyeva at the Women's Tennis Association
• Tetyana Arefyeva at the International Tennis Federation
• Tetyana Arefyeva at the International Tennis Federation Junior Profile