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Victoria Azarenka

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Victoria Fiodaraus Azarenka, born on 31 July 1989, is a Belarusian tennis player who is now inactive. She has been ranked world number one in singles by the WTA for a total of 51 weeks, including as year-end number one in 2012, and has won 21 WTA Tour-level singles titles. Her two major singles titles came at the Australian Open in 2012 and 2013, which made her the first Belarusian to win a major singles title. She was runner-up at the US Open three times, twice to Serena Williams and once to Naomi Osaka, and took the singles bronze medal at the 2012 London Olympics. In doubles she has won ten WTA Tour titles, and in mixed doubles she won the 2007 US Open with Max Mirnyi, the 2008 French Open with Bob Bryan, and Olympic gold in London with Mirnyi.

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1989 1
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is a Belarusian inactive tennis player
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1. Victoria Azarenka (Wikipedia)
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    born 31 July 1989
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    is a Belarusian inactive tennis player
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    Azarenka has won 21 WTA Tour-level singles titles
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    She has won three mixed doubles titles
  • Competed In: Australian Open, Lead paragraph [competed-in]
    two majors at the 2012 and 2013 Australian Opens
  • Competed In: US Open (Tennis), Lead paragraph [competed-in 2]
    a three-time finalist at the US Open
  • Competed In: 2012 Summer Olympics, Lead paragraph [competed-in 3]
    the singles bronze medal at the 2012 London Olympics
  • Competed In: French Open, Lead paragraph [competed-in 4]
    the 2008 French Open with Bob Bryan
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