Elena Vesnina

Vesnina's clothing sponsor used to be Lacoste but just before the 2017 Australian Open, she was signed by Nike. She is also endorsed by Babolat for her racquets. She endorses the Babolat Pure Strike range of racquets.

After qualifying for the Generali Ladies Linz, Vesnina got past the first round of the main draw against world No. 16, Daniela Hantuchová after the Slovak retired. World No. 12 Jelena Janković awaited her in round two, and although Vesnina won the first set on a tie-break, it was Janković who emerged victorious in three sets. In her last tournament at Gaz de France Stars she retired against Kirsten Flipkens. Vesnina finished the year still ranked 44th in the world, up 67 places year-on-year.

Vesnina and Makarova finally won their first tournament title of 2016 at the Rogers Cup and then won the gold medals at the Summer Olympics for Russia; this was the very first time that a Russian duo won in an Olympic doubles event. In singles, Vesnina lost to 10th seed Madison Keys in the Rogers Cup and to Elina Svitolina in Connecticut. Seeded 19th in the US Open, Vesnina defeated Anett Kontaveit and Annika Beck before losing to 11th seed Carla Suárez Navarro in the third round. In doubles, Vesnina and Makarova were seeded 5th. They saved match points against Samantha Stosur/Zhang Shuai in the second round, and defeated 10th seed Vania King/Monica Niculescu and 13th seed Andreja Klepač/Katarina Srebotnik to reach the semifinals where they lost to 12th seeds Mattek-Sands/Šafářová.

Vesnina opened her season with a win in the first round at the Sydney International over Lara Arruabarrena. She fell in the second round to Dominika Cibulková. She went into the Australian Open as the 16th seed and beat Ons Jabeur in the first round. However she lost to Naomi Osaka in the second. In October, Vesnina announced that she was pregnant.

In November 2015, Vesnina married businessman Pavel Tabuntsov.

Back in Australia for the beginning of the new season early in January, Vesnina suffered a poor start with a three-set loss in the first round at Gold Coast to an Australian wild card then ranked just 158th in the world, Monique Adamczak. Having failed to defend the points accrued from her quarterfinal finish at Gold Coast a year previously, she found her ranking slipping to 60th. But she mostly made up for it by reaching the quarterfinals at Hobart the following week with back-to-back straight-sets wins over world No. 48, Akiko Morigami, and Nuria Llagostera Vives. But her quarterfinal opponent, world No. 23 Vera Zvonareva, had the better of her.

In her first tournament of the year at the MAW Hardcourts, Vesnina reached the quarterfinals losing to Italian Tathiana Garbin. The following week, at the Hobart International she lost to Anabel Medina Garrigues in the first round. At the Australian Open she avenged that loss in the first round, but lost in the second to Maria Elena Camerin, in a very close three-set match. Following the Australian Open then proceeded to suffer a string of disappointing first round exits over the remainder of the winter season, including at the Toray Pan Pacific Open and at the Dubai Tennis Championships, losing seven straight matches in a row. Her losing streak ended in the hands of Urszula Radwańska in the first round of the J&S Cup, but lost in the next to Jelena Janković. At the German Open a week later, she suffered a heavy loss by 65th-ranked Spaniard Lourdes Domínguez Lino at the first round.

Vesnina then headed to the Australian Open, where she was seeded 14th in singles and third in the doubles, again, alongside Makarova. Vesnina would reach the third round in the singles and the quarterfinals in the doubles. Her singles form began to pick up, with a quarterfinal run in St Petersburg and last-16 appearances at the Qatar Open and the Dubai Tennis Championships. Vesnina and Makarova won their first title of the year in Dubai.

The next appearance for Vesnina would be at Indian Wells. Seeded 14th, Vesnina defeated Shelby Rogers and Timea Babos to set-up a fourth round meeting with Angelique Kerber, who was guaranteed to return to world No. 1 at the end of the tournament. Vesnina beat the US Open champion, before defeating Australian Open runner-up Venus Williams and the in-form Kristina Mladenovic to reach her first Premier Mandatory final. In an all-Russian final against Svetlana Kuznetsova, Vesnina came from a set down to win her third WTA singles title, the biggest of her career so far, in just over three hours. With this victory, Vesnina climbed to a career-high ranking of 13. She then traveled to Miami for the Miami Open and lost in the second round to Ajla Tomljanović.

At her first event of the US Open Series in the LA Women's Tennis Championships, Vesnina fell to Zheng Jie in the second round, it was followed by first round loses in the Rogers Cup to Anna Chakvetadze and in the Western & Southern Financial Group Masters and Women's Open to Zheng Jie. At the Pilot Pen Tennis, she upset two top-20 players – a fast-rising Samantha Stosur in the second round, and Amélie Mauresmo in the semifinals. She however lost to Caroline Wozniacki in her second WTA Tour final and her first in a Premier-event.

Vesnina finished the year with a 34–21 singles record and ranked world No. 24.

Vesnina's first tournament of the year was the ASB Classic where she was seeded No. 6. In the first round she beat Alberta Brianti. In the second she was defeated by Alizé Cornet. She made the quarterfinals in doubles, partnering Riza Zalameda, but lost to Vladimíra Uhlířová and Renata Voráčová. At the Medibank International Sydney, she faced No. 7 Vera Zvonareva in the first round, but at 3–3 Zvonareva retired due to a right ankle injury. In the second round she was defeated by Vera Dushevina.

Vesnina was seeded No. 28 at the Australian Open but was defeated in the first round by Tathiana Garbin. In the doubles, she partnered with Zheng Jie of China and they were seeded No. 9. In the first round, they beat Alizé Cornet and Sharon Fichman 7–5, 6–3 and in the second they won in a walkover. In the third round they lost to the 8th-seeds Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Yan Zi. Vesnina also entered mixed doubles with Andy Ram and were the No. 8 seeds. In the first round they defeated Alicia Molik and Matthew Ebden. In the second round they beat Anna-Lena Grönefeld and Christopher Kas but then fell to the top seeded Cara Black and Leander Paes in the quarterfinals. Her next tournament was the Open GDF Suez where she was seeded No. 8. She was knocked out in the second round by Tathiana Garbin.

Vesnina was able to break her seven match losing-streak at the İstanbul Cup defeating Bojana Jovanovski, Stefanie Vögele and Anastasia Rodionova in straight sets. She then upset 6th seed Andrea Petkovic, recovering from a break down to reach the finals. In the final where she faced fellow Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, Vesnina went down despite having led 4–0 in the second set and been a break up at 3–1 in the final set.

Vesnina next participated in the Tashkent Open where she beat Lesia Tsurenko and Olga Savchuk to reach the quarterfinals and demolished Darya Kustova. In the semifinals she defeated Monica Niculescu despite being down 3–0 in the third set, Elena won six of the last seven games. She lost to Alla Kudryavtseva in the final. Vesnina scored the biggest win of her career two weeks later in the China Open by defeating 12th seed Maria Sharapova. However, she lost to Timea Bacsinszky in the next round.

At the start of 2013, Vesnina claimed her first WTA title by beating defending champion Mona Barthel in the final of the Hobart International. At the Australian Open, Vesnina reached the fourth round, saving a match point against 16th seed Roberta Vinci in the third round en route. She was eventually defeated by the defending champion, Victoria Azarenka. She and Makarova then reached the doubles semifinal, losing to world No. 1 pairing Errani/Vinci.

Vesnina finished 2013 with a 31–21 record, winning two titles and finishing at No. 25. For doubles, she had a 33–12 record and also won two titles. She finished fifth in the rankings.

Vesnina failed to defend her title at the Hobart International, losing to qualifier Estrella Cabeza Candela in the second round. Also, at the Australian Open, Vesnina failed to defend fourth round points, losing to American Alison Riske in the first round. However, she reached the final of the doubles competition with Makarova, losing to Errani/Vinci 5–7 in the final set.

Vesnina finished the season with an 18–20 record in singles, with a ranking of 65. For doubles, Vesnina had a record of 24–14 and won one title, which is the US Open. Vesnina had a ranking of No. 7 for doubles in the year-end rankings.

Vesnina then participated in the Qatar Total Open, where she qualified for the main draw after beating Ons Jabeur and Naomi Broady. She faced Caroline Garcia in the first round, and caused an upset by winning in straight sets. Vesnina then created an even bigger upset by achieving her first top-2 win of her career against Simona Halep in three sets, despite being down 6–7, 1–4. She then caused her third straight upset against former world No. 1 Caroline Wozniacki, once again in three sets. However, her run ended in the quarterfinals after being defeated by eventual champion Carla Suárez Navarro in two tight sets. Nevertheless, this was her best showing at a Premier-5 tournament. In the doubles competition, Vesnina and partner Kasatkina caused a major upset when they ended world No. 1 pairing Hingis/Mirza's 41 match winning streak in the quarterfinals, despite losing the first set 2–6. However, despite winning the first set 6–3 against world No. 2 pairing Chan Hao-ching/Chan Yung-jan, they lost in three sets.

At the BNP Paribas Open, Vesnina fell in the first round of the qualifying to American wildcard Julia Boserup. In doubles, Vesnina once again partnered Daria Kasatkina but lost in the second round in three sets, despite winning the first set 6–1 to eventual finalists Julia Görges/Karolína Plíšková. In the Miami Open, Vesnina managed to get past qualifying after beating Kateryna Kozlova, avenging her loss in St. Petersburg, and Tsvetana Pironkova. She was drawn to face fellow qualifier Jana Čepelová in the first round and won in straight sets. In the second round, Vesnina caused a huge upset when she beat former world No. 1 and seven-time Grand Slam champion Venus Williams in three sets, despite serving for the match at 6–0, 5–4 and having a match point. Vesnina then faced in-form Britain Johanna Konta but lost in three sets despite being two points from victory. In doubles, Vesnina and Kasatkina fell to two-time Grand Slam champion Bethanie Mattek-Sands/Lucie Šafářová in the second round.

At the Volvo Car Open, the 85th-ranked Vesnina became the first qualifier to ever reach the championship match in the tournament's 44-year history, where she faced a determined Sloane Stephens. Vesnina won five main draw matches in a row just to reach the finals. However, Stephens ended up prevailing 7–6, 6–2 as the fatigue of 718 minutes – nearly 12 hours – of tournament tennis appeared to take a toll on Vesnina in the second set.

Vesnina again subdued the qualification, now in Madrid. In every match she performed a bagel (winning a set 6–0), except in the second round, where she fell to Kvitova. In doubles, she and Makarova played their first tournament together since late 2015 and reached the semifinals. In Rome, Vesnina could not qualify for the main draw. However, with Makarova she reached the final, losing to Hingis/Mirza.

Vesnina started her clay court season with a stunning loss at the Volvo Open to the 282nd ranked player in the world Fanny Stollár. She received a bye in the first round and lost in straight sets, 6–7, 6–7. She lost in the second round to Daria Kasatkina at the Grand Prix. Her clay-court season continued to spiral as she lost in the first round of the Madrid Open, Italian Open, and at Strasbourg. However, her and Makarova did make it to the finals in the doubles of the Italian Open. They lost to Latisha Chan and Martina Hingis. After a string of losses in the first round, Vesnina reached the third round of the French Open. After two three set matches in the first two rounds, she lost to Carla Suárez Navarro in the third round. Vesnina and Makarova lost in the quarterfinals during the doubles competition.

Vesnina began her season at Eastbourne. She received a bye in the first round and beat Verónica Cepede Royg in the second round. However, she lost to the eventual finalist Caroline Wozniacki in the third round. Entering Wimbledon, Vesnina was seeded 15th. She won a tough first round match against the young Russian Anna Blinkova. She was then defeated by the resurgent Victoria Azarenka in the second round. Vesnina's good fortune in her doubles partnership with Makarova carried on to the summer, where the team beat Chan Hao-ching and Monica Niculescu in the Wimbledon ladies' doubles final with a score of 6–0, 6–0, in 55 minutes. This was the first "double bagel" in the women's doubles tournament final since 1953.

Vesnina has an all-court game, but mainly focuses on having an offensive baseline game. She is right-handed and plays with a two-handed backhand. Her game is centred around getting control in rallies by using her groundstrokes to dominate play or move her opponents around the court in order to find an opening. Her forehand is consistent and powerful, but her backhand is her strongest shot. She uses it to find many angles on the court and dominate play. She possesses a good serve and regularly hits it between 100–110 mph (161–177 km/h), but relies on placement and accuracy to dominate and serve aces. However, she can also encounter problems with her second serve, and this can result in a few double faults in a match.

Vesnina traveled to Toronto for the Rogers Cup where she was defeated by Ashleigh Barty in the second round. However, Vesnina and Makarova won second Premier Mandatory doubles title of the year in the doubles competition. They beat Anna-Lena Grönefeld and Květa Peschke in the final. Vesnina beat Caroline Garcia in the first round of the Cincinnati Open before falling to Caroline Wozniacki in the second round. Before the US Open, Vesnina competed at the Connecticut Open, but lost in the first round to Ana Bogdan. Vesnina Opened her US Open with a win in the first round over Anna Blinkova. She followed this with a second round win over Kirsten Flipkens. Vesnina took it to Madison Keys in the third round, winning the first set, but lost the next two sets. Seeded first in the doubles competition, Vesnina and Makarova were the favorites to win. However, they lost in the third round to the 14th seeds Andreja Klepač and María José Martínez Sánchez.

Vesnina participated in the Australian Open but lost in the first round to Julie Coin. At Dubai, where she was a qualifier, Vesnina made it to the quarterfinals defeating Chinese player Li Na in the first round and achieving her first win over a top-10 player by defeating seventh-seeded Svetlana Kuznetsova. In the third round, she defeated 12th-seeded Dominika Cibulková, who retired after Vesnina was leading. In the quarterfinals her series of upsets ended when she lost to 16th-seeded Kaia Kanepi.

At her next tournament, the Rome Masters, she reached the second round by defeating Jill Craybas but lost to Zheng Jie. She then reached the third round of the Madrid Masters and lost to Jelena Janković. She lost to Ágnes Szávay in the second round of the French Open, the first time she'd reached the second round there. She did however reach her first Grand Slam final in the doubles at the French Open partnering Victoria Azarenka. The pair were seeded 12th but lost in the final to the third seeds and defending champions Virginia Ruano Pascual and Anabel Medina Garrigues.

Vesnina won her second Premier Mandatory doubles title with Ekaterina Makarova at the BNP Paribas Open, beating 3rd seeds Petrova/Srebotnik in the final. Vesnina won her first Grand Slam title at the French Open, capturing the doubles title alongside Ekaterina Makarova, beating Errani/Vinci in the final, after beating No. 2 seeds Hlaváčková/Hradecká.

Vesnina returned at the Wuhan Open where she lost in the third round to qualifier Maria Sakkari. She made another third round appearance at the China Open where she lost to Elina Svitolina. Vesnina and Makarova lost in the Semifinals to Tímea Babos and Andrea Sestini Hlaváčková. Vesnina had early round exits at both the Hong Kong Open and Kremlin Cup. Due to her success in doubles with Makarova, Elena qualified for the doubles tournament at the WTA Finals. They easily defeated Gabriela Dabrowski and Xu Yifan. However, they were stunned by Kiki Bertens and Johanna Larsson in the next round. Vesnina ended her season at the WTA Elite Trophy. She lost both of her matches in the round robins stage, ending her season. She ended the year 18th in singles and third in doubles. Her doubles ranking at the end of the year was a career high.

Vesnina debuted in the main draw of a WTA tournament in Québec. One of her best seasons was in 2009, reaching her first WTA final and attaining a ranking of 24 in the year end. She repeated her success in 2013, reaching her best for a long period ranking of 21 on 22 July. Then she won her first WTA titles in Hobart and Eastbourne. After falling out of the top 100 in October 2014, Vesnina experienced an upturn in fortunes in 2016, making her first Grand Slam semifinal at Wimbledon. She continued her good form into 2017 and won the biggest singles title of her career to date at Indian Wells, claiming her first Premier Mandatory level title.

Vesnina participated in the ASB Classic in Auckland in January. It was here that she advanced to her first final on the 2009 WTA Tour, upsetting the tournament's sixth-seed Nicole Vaidišová in the second round and the second-seed Caroline Wozniacki in the quarterfinals along the way. She then prevailed in a marathon semifinal against British No. 1, Anne Keothavong, with a score of to set up a meeting with fellow-Russian and tournament top-seed Elena Dementieva. She started strongly in the match with a 3–1 lead but eventually lost to Dementieva.

At her next tournament, the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, Vesnina defeated Sabine Lisicki in the first round and 32nd-seed Sorana Cîrstea in the second round. In the third round, she lost to 8th-seed Victoria Azarenka. Vesnina started her 2009 clay court season at the MPS Group Championships in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. She upset 6th-seeded Peng Shuai in the first round, and the 3rd-seed Dominika Cibulková in the quarterfinals. She lost to second-seeded Caroline Wozniacki in the semifinals after having four match points in the third set. She then reached the quarterfinals of the Tier I Family Circle Cup before losing to Sabine Lisicki while battling a leg strain.

Vesnina has been consistently one of the highest ranked doubles players during her career, ending every season since 2008 ranked within the top 30, and every season since 2011 in the top ten. In May 2012, she entered a regular partnership with Ekaterina Makarova, becoming one of the leading teams on tour. They have won twelve titles together, including three Grand Slam titles, the 2016 WTA Finals, as well as Olympic gold at Rio.

The following week, representing Russia in the 2007 Fed Cup final against Italy, Vesnina avenged her straight sets defeat by Mara Santangelo in their only previous meeting, by outplaying world No. 34 to win in straight sets herself this time around. Towards the end of the month, the Russian could reach only the second round of the Banka Koper Slovenia Open before she succumbed to Gisela Dulko.

Entering the Australian Open for the third year running, now ranked 55th, Vesnina enjoyed a marginally more successful run than she had done in 2007, in reaching the third round with successive wins over world No. 31 Julia Vakulenko and world No. 98 Jill Craybas. However, there was no stopping eventual tournament champion Maria Sharapova in the third round. Vesnina emerged from the tournament ranked No. 52. With only 16 ranking points for her to defend between February and April inclusive out of 549 to her credit, she was presented with a strong theoretical opportunity to return to or exceed her pre-existing career-high WTA world ranking of 41st by the beginning of May.

She started 2005 attempting to make headway in WTA Tour main draws and next entered the qualifying round of the Cellular South Cup but lost in straight sets to Varvara Lepchenko. The following week, she lost to Tatsiana Uvarova in the second qualifying round of an ITF tournament at St. Paul, Minnesota. Extending her bad start, she made a first-round exit at St. Petersburg an ITF event; she then qualified at Civitavecchia reaching the semifinals before losing to Maret Ani in three sets. In May, she entered qualifying for the Tier II event at Warsaw, and avenged her previous defeat by Adriana Barna, knocking her out but then fell again to Anna Chakvetadze in the second round.

Vesnina began the year with a second round exit at the ITF event in Bergamo. She then failed to qualify in Ortisei, an ITF event, exiting at the first round of the qualifying draw. She also lost in first round of the qualifying round of 2004 Hyderabad Open to an unranked Barbara Schwartz. At the ITF event in St. Petersburg, it was however a different scenario as she got past the qualifying round and then defeated compatriot Anastasia Rodionova in the first round proper on her way to a quarterfinal finish, where she was defeated by Ivana Lisjak of Croatia.

In 2003, Vesnina began the year entering two successive ITF events India, at Chennai and Bangalore, and not only succeeded in qualifying both times, but also reached her first semifinal and another quarterfinal in the main draws, losing to Akgul Amanmuradova at the quarterfinal stage at Bangalore. These results gave Vesnina her first ranking at world No. 750, enough to gain direct entry to her next $10k draw at Istanbul, where she beat her personal best result in reaching the final. The following week, at Antalya, she was knocked out in the first round by her then-compatriot Evgenia Linetskaya; and in May she met with mixed results in Lviv, Ukraine and Warsaw, Poland; but in June, she won the $10k event at Balashikha, without dropping a set.

In October 2002, aged 16 years and two months, Vesnina gained direct entry into the qualifying draw for her first $10k tournament at Giza, Egypt, and succeeded in qualifying for the main draw before losing a close three-set match. The next week, again qualifying at Al-Mansoura to enter the main draw, where she won two further matches in straight sets, beating Hana Šromová of the Czech Republic in the second round, to reach her first $10k quarterfinal in just her second event played. However, she defaulted her quarterfinal tie to her opponent.

Elena Sergeyevna Vesnina (Russian: Еле́на Серге́евна Веснина́ IPA: [jɪˈlʲɛnə vʲɪsnʲɪˈna] ; born 1 August 1986) is an inactive Russian professional tennis player. She is a four-time Grand Slam champion in doubles competition, having won the 2013 French Open, 2014 US Open, and 2017 Wimbledon tournaments with Ekaterina Makarova, and the 2016 Australian Open mixed-doubles title with Bruno Soares. In June 2018, Vesnina was the No. 1 in women's doubles. Her career-high singles ranking is No. 13, achieved in March 2017.

In November, at the Bell Challenge, Vesnina reached her second quarterfinals losing to 75th-ranked Swede Sofia Arvidsson. In the next two weeks, she came unstuck in early rounds of ITF events, losing to Emma Laine in the first round at Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, and to Estonian Kaia Kanepi in the second round at Deauville, France. She ended the year with a semifinal appearance at Poitiers in the final week of November and her last tournament, losing to Viktoriya Kutuzova en route she Marion Bartoli and world No. 96, Stéphanie Foretz. She ended the year ranked No. 111.

In her next main-draw appearance, Vesnina reached the quarterfinals at the Internationaux de Strasbourg she lost to Marion Bartoli for the first time in three meetings. At the French Open, she was drawn against No. 1 seed and eventual champion Justine Henin of Belgium in the first round, and lost in two relatively close sets. The following week, at the Ordina Open, she got through as a qualifier but lost in the second round to Angelique Kerber. Entering Wimbledon Championships world-ranked 67th in July, she enjoyed a strong start with successive comfortable straight-sets wins over fellow-Russian world No. 32 Olga Puchkova in the first round and world No. 43 Émilie Loit in the second, before losing once again to top-seed and eventual semifinalist Justine Henin, in the third round. Following Wimbledon she competed at the W&S Financial Group Women's Open where she reached the quarterfinals losing to eventual champion and compatriot Anna Chakvetadze, until retiring.

Returning to the Tashkent Open in October ranked 61st in the world, Vesnina exceeded her performance of the previous year by reaching the semifinals with successive victories over Alberta Brianti, Tatiana Poutchek, and Romanian youngster Ioana Raluca Olaru, but at this stage, she lost Belarusian teenager Victoria Azarenka. At the Kremlin Cup, she lost once again to Czech world No. 13 Nicole Vaidišová in the second round. At her last two tournaments of the year were the Zurich Open and Generali Ladies Linz she failed to qualify, losing to American Meilen Tu and German Sandra Klösel. She ended the year at No. 54, ten spots lower than the previous year.

Arriving at Miami at the end of March ranked 53rd, Vesnina finally achieved a measure of success for the first time in two months, reaching the fourth round with wins over Elena Likhovtseva, Hungarian world No. 18 Ágnes Szávay, and improved American world No. 60 Ashley Harkleroad, before succumbing to world No. 1 Justine Henin. The 70 ranking points she earned from this performance lifted her comfortably within the top 50 again at No. 45, with 638 ranking points, but still left her some 50 points adrift of the current standard required to match her previous best ranking of 41st.

Vesnina was seeded 31st at the US Open and it was the first time that she had been seeded at a Grand Slam event. She faced Lucie Hradecká in the first round where she came through. In the second round she defeated Jill Craybas to advance to third round at the US Open for the first time. There she faced fellow Russian and her former doubles partner Vera Zvonareva where she fell.

Finishing 25th at the end of the season, Vesnina qualified for the WTA Tournament of Champions held in Sofia, Bulgaria. Despite winning two matches and losing one in the round-robin, Vesnina finished third in the group, behind Samantha Stosur and Ana Ivanovic. This result meant that she failed to progress to the semifinals.

In the first round of the Australian Open, Vesnina lost to Virginie Razzano. She then also fell in the first rounds of Open GDF Suez, Dubai Tennis Championships, and BNP Paribas Open and the qualifying round in Qatar Ladies Open. At the Sony Ericsson Open she defeated higher-ranked players Gisela Dulko and 23rd seed Yanina Wickmayer, but lost to Anabel Medina Garrigues in the third round. At the Family Circle Cup, Vesnina defeated Rebecca Marino in the first round and then knocked out four consecutive seeds No. 14 seed Bethanie Mattek-Sands, second seed and defending champion Samantha Stosur, 12th seed Julia Görges and 11th seed Peng Shuai. Vesnina became runner-up at the Family Circle Cup by losing to Caroline Wozniacki in straight sets.