Victoria Azarenka is a tennis
player from Minsk, Belarus, who became junior world
champion in 2005. She won the 2007 U.S. Open mixed
doubles title with her partner Max Mirnyi, and also
finished runner-up at the 2007 Australian Open with
him. Currently she lives in Scottsdale, Arizona and
trains in Marbella, Spain. On January 28, 2008 she
reached a career high of No. 24 in singles.
In 2005, Azarenka won the Australian Open and U.S.
Open as a junior and was named the ITF Junior Girls
World Champion for that year, the first player from
Belarus to do so. That year as well Azarenka won her
first ITF title in Petange, Luxembourg. In
Guangzhou, China, she reached her first pro-level
semifinal, winning three qualifying rounds and
defeating Martina Suchá and Shuai Peng in the main
draw before losing to eventual champion Yan Zi.
