Iroda Tulyaganova

Iroda Tulyaganova
	Tulyaganova at the 2001 Uzbekistan stamp
Country (sports)	Uzbekistan
Residence	Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Born	7 January 1982 (age 42); Tashkent, Uzbek SSR, Soviet Union
Height	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Turned pro	1999
Retired	2010
Plays	Right-handed (two–handed backhand)
Prize money	$973,334
Singles
Career record	205–142 (59.1%)
Career titles	3 WTA, 3 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 16 (17 June 2002)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	3R (2002)
French Open	3R (2002)
Wimbledon	3R (2001)
US Open	2R (2000)
Doubles
Career record	102–91 (52.8%)
Career titles	4 WTA, 4 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 28 (23 September 2002)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open	1R (2001, 2002)
French Open	3R (2003)
Wimbledon	2R (2002)
US Open	3R (2002)
Medal record
Asian Games

Iroda Tulyaganova (Uzbek: Ирода Тўлаганов, romanized: Iroda To'laganova; born 7 January 1982) is a former professional tennis player from Uzbekistan.

Tulyaganova has career-high WTA rankings of 16 in singles (reached in June 2002) and 28 in doubles (September 2002). She won three singles titles and four doubles titles on the WTA Tour.

Tulyaganova retired from professional tennis in 2010.

Career

She returned to the main tour in 2006 after a long injury absence, and in Kolkata in September 2006, she reached the semifinals as a qualifier, leaping more than 120 places in the rankings to No. 222 after her success. The following week, she reached the final of her home event in Tashkent, beating a string of players including top 60-ranked Olga Poutchkova. She also won the women's singles gold medal in the 2002 Asian Games in Busan by defeating Tamarine Tanasugarn of Thailand, and the mixed-doubles bronze medal in the same event.

WTA Tour career finals

Singles: 7 (3–4)

Legend
Grand Slam tournaments
WTA Tour Championships
Tier I (0–0)
Tier II (0–0)
Tier III, IV & V (3–4)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1–0	Jun 2000	Tashkent, Uzbekistan	Hard	Francesca Schiavone	6–3, 2–6, 6–3
Loss	1–1	Oct 2000	Shanghai, China	Hard	Meghann Shaughnessy	6–7^(2–7), 5–7
Win	2–1	Jul 2001	Vienna, Austria	Clay	Patty Schnyder	6–3, 6–2
Win	3–1	Jul 2001	Knokke-Heist, Belgium	Clay	Gala León García	6–2, 6–3
Loss	3–2	Jun 2002	Vienna, Austria	Clay	Anna Smashnova	4–6, 1–6
Loss	3–3	Feb 2003	Hyderabad, India	Hard	Tamarine Tanasugarn	4–6, 4–6
Loss	3–4	Oct 2006	Tashkent, Uzbekistan	Hard	Sun Tiantian	2–6, 4–6

Doubles: 7 (4–3)

Legend
Grand Slam tournaments
WTA Tour Championships
Tier I (0–0)
Tier II (0–1)
Tier III, IV & V (4–2)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	May 2000	Warsaw, Poland	Clay	Anna Zaporozhanova	Tathiana Garbin Janette Husárová	3–6, 1–6
Loss	0–2	Jun 2000	Tashkent, Uzbekistan	Hard	Anna Zaporozhanova	Li Na Li Ting	6–3, 2–6, 4–6
Win	1–2	Jul 2000	Knokke-Heist, Belgium	Clay	Giulia Casoni	Catherine Barclay Eva Dyrberg	2–6, 6–4, 6–4
Loss	1–3	Feb 2001	Tokyo, Japan	Hard	Anna Kournikova	Lisa Raymond Rennae Stubbs	6–7⁽⁵⁾, 6–2, 6–7⁽⁶⁾
Win	2–3	May 2001	Strasbourg, France	Clay	Silvia Farina Elia	Amanda Coetzer Lori McNeil	6–1, 7–6⁽⁰⁾
Win	3–3	Nov 2001	Pattaya City, Thailand	Hard	Åsa Carlsson	Liezel Huber Wynne Prakusya	4–6, 6–3, 6–3
Win	4–3	Feb 2003	Hyderabad, India	Hard	Elena Likhovtseva	Evgenia Kulikovskaya Tatiana Poutchek	6–4, 6–4

ITF finals

Singles (3–2)

$100,000 tournaments
$75,000 tournaments
$50,000 tournaments
$25,000 tournaments
$10,000 tournaments

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Winner	1.	9 May 1999	Seoul, South Korea	Clay	Shiho Hisamatsu	6–2, 6–2
Winner	2.	3 October 1999	Seoul, South Korea	Hard	Tamarine Tanasugarn	6–0, 6–2
Winner	3.	19 April 2000	Cagnes-sur-Mer, France	Hard	Giulia Casoni	6–2, 6–3
Runner-up	4.	4 June 2006	Galatina, Italy	Clay	Corina-Claudia Corduneanu	3–6, 4–6
Runner-up	5.	6 November 2006	Shenzhen, China	Hard	Yuan Meng	6–4, 5–7, 1–6

Doubles (4–4)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Winner	1.	7 November 1998	Moulins, France	Hard (i)	Diane Asensio	Debby Haak Andrea van den Hurk	7–5, 2–6, 6–2
Winner	2.	15 November 1998	Le Havre, France	Clay	Cindy Schuurmans	Chloé Carlotti Stéphanie Foretz	6–2, 7–5
Runner-up	3.	22 November 1998	Deauville, France	Carpet (i)	Lubomira Bacheva	Emmanuelle Curutchet Samantha Schoeffel	1–6, 6–2, 6–7
Winner	4.	7 February 1999	Istanbul, Turkey	Hard (i)	Tatiana Perebiynis	Nadejda Ostrovskaya Aliénor Tricerri	6–3, 6–4
Winner	5.	9 May 1999	Seoul, South Korea	Clay	Samantha Schoeffel	Choi Young-ja Kim Eun-sook	6–3, 4–6, 6–4
Runner-up	6.	10 April 2000	Cagnes-sur-Mer, France	Hard (i)	Anna Zaporozhanova	Angelika Bachmann Giulia Casoni	5–7, 1–6
Runner-up	7.	5 November 2006	Shanghai, China	Hard	Akgul Amanmuradova	Ji Chunmei Sun Shengnan	4–6, 5–7
Runner-up	8.	5 November 2006	Shenzhen, China	Hard	Akgul Amanmuradova	Hsieh Su-wei Alla Kudryavtseva	0–2 ret.

External links

Official website
Iroda Tulyaganova at the Women's Tennis Association
Iroda Tulyaganova at the International Tennis Federation
Iroda Tulyaganova at the Billie Jean King Cup