ST. PETERSBURG - RUSSIA Jan 30 - Feb 05, 2017 $776,000 PREMIER

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3 MATCH NOTES ST. PETERSBURG - RUSSIA Jan 30 - Feb 05, 2017 $776,000 PREMIER YULIA PUTINTSEVA (KAZ #34) vs. KRISTINA MLADENOVIC (FRA #51) Head to Head: INDIAN WELLS HARD O R2 YULIA PUTINTSEVA mins 2014 LIMOGES HARD I QF KRISTINA MLADENOVIC (5) 104 mins 2013 MARRAKECH CLAY O R16 KRISTINA MLADENOVIC mins 2012 CAGNES-SUR-MER CLAY O R1 YULIA PUTINTSEVA YULIA PUTINTSEVA (22) $85,862 $1,623,831 0 / 0 0 / / / / / / / / 2-1 WTA RANKING ROAD TO SINGAPORE LEADERBOARD DATE OF BIRTH (AGE) YTD PRIZE MONEY CAREER PRIZE MONEY SINGLES TITLES (YTD / CAREER) DOUBLES TITLES (YTD / CAREER) ST. PETERSBURG W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER 3-SET W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER TIE-BREAK W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER HARD W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER TOP 10 W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER TOP 20 W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER Left Hander W-L (MD) * * Updated through SF ST. PETERSBURG Tournament Performance KRISTINA MLADENOVIC (23) $98,664 $4,957,135 0 / 0 0 / / / / / / / / 6-9 * Qualifying match Rnd Result Duration SF Y. PUTINTSEVA d. D. CIBULKOVA 3-6,6-4, mins QF Y. PUTINTSEVA d. S. KUZNETSOVA 6-3,6-7(4), mins R16 Y. PUTINTSEVA d. A. BECK 6-4, mins R1 Y. PUTINTSEVA d. J. LARSSON 6-0,1-0 Ret'd 31 mins Rnd Result Duration SF K. MLADENOVIC d. N. VIKHLYANTSEVA 4-6,6-2, mins QF K. MLADENOVIC d. R. VINCI 6-1, mins R16 K. MLADENOVIC d. V. WILLIAMS 6-3, mins R1 K. MLADENOVIC d. E. MERTENS 7-6(5), mins ST. PETERSBURG Tournament History * Qualifying match KRISTINA MLADENOVIC 2016 R1 L - LAURA SIEGEMUND (GER #87) Follow WTA on Twitter: Facebook: YouTube: Insights from

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11 MATCH NOTES ST. PETERSBURG - RUSSIA Jan 30 - Feb 05, 2017 $776,000 PREMIER YULIA PUTINTSEVA (KAZ #34) vs. DOMINIKA CIBULKOVA (SVK #5) Head to Head: First meeting YULIA PUTINTSEVA (22) $85,862 $1,623,831 0 / 0 0 / / / / / / / / 2-1 WTA RANKING ROAD TO SINGAPORE LEADERBOARD DATE OF BIRTH (AGE) YTD PRIZE MONEY CAREER PRIZE MONEY SINGLES TITLES (YTD / CAREER) DOUBLES TITLES (YTD / CAREER) ST. PETERSBURG W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER 3-SET W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER TIE-BREAK W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER HARD W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER TOP 10 W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER TOP 20 W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER Left Hander W-L (MD) * * Updated entering 2017 St Petersburg SF ST. PETERSBURG Tournament Performance DOMINIKA CIBULKOVA (27) $128,690 $11,003,614 0 / 8 0 / / / / / / / / Rnd Result Duration QF Y. PUTINTSEVA d. S. KUZNETSOVA 6-3,6-7(4), mins R16 Y. PUTINTSEVA d. A. BECK 6-4, mins Rnd Result Duration QF D. CIBULKOVA d. E. VESNINA 6-3, mins R16 D. CIBULKOVA d. D. VEKIC 6-2, mins R1 Y. PUTINTSEVA d. J. LARSSON 6-0,1-0 Ret'd 31 mins R1 BYE - ST. PETERSBURG Tournament History DOMINIKA CIBULKOVA 2016 QF L - DARIA KASATKINA (RUS #63) R16 W - CAROLINE WOZNIACKI (DEN #18) R1 W - EVGENIYA RODINA (RUS #98) Follow WTA on Twitter: Facebook: YouTube: Insights from

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15 MATCH NOTES ST. PETERSBURG - RUSSIA Jan 30 - Feb 05, 2017 $776,000 PREMIER [WC] NATALIA VIKHLYANTSEVA (RUS #115) vs. KRISTINA MLADENOVIC (FRA #51) Head to Head: KRISTINA MLADENOVIC leads 'S-HERTOGENBOSCH GRASS O R16 KRISTINA MLADENOVIC mins NATALIA VIKHLYANTSEVA (19) $58,408 $155,421 0 / 0 0 / / / / / / / / 0-0 WTA RANKING ROAD TO SINGAPORE LEADERBOARD DATE OF BIRTH (AGE) YTD PRIZE MONEY CAREER PRIZE MONEY SINGLES TITLES (YTD / CAREER) DOUBLES TITLES (YTD / CAREER) ST. PETERSBURG W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER 3-SET W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER TIE-BREAK W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER HARD W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER TOP 10 W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER TOP 20 W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER Left Hander W-L (MD) * * Updated 2017 St. Petersburg SF ST. PETERSBURG Tournament Performance KRISTINA MLADENOVIC (23) $98,664 $4,957,135 0 / 0 0 / / / / / / / / 6-9 Rnd Result Duration Rnd Result Duration QF N. VIKHLYANTSEVA d. S. HALEP W/O QF K. MLADENOVIC d. R. VINCI 6-1, mins R16 N. VIKHLYANTSEVA d. D. KASATKINA 7-6(4), mins R16 K. MLADENOVIC d. V. WILLIAMS 6-3, mins R1 N. VIKHLYANTSEVA d. Y. SHVEDOVA 6-3, mins ST. PETERSBURG Tournament History R1 K. MLADENOVIC d. E. MERTENS 7-6(5), mins NATALIA VIKHLYANTSEVA 2016 R1 L - MONICA NICULESCU (ROU #37) KRISTINA MLADENOVIC 2016 R1 L - LAURA SIEGEMUND (GER #87) Follow WTA on Twitter: Facebook: YouTube: Insights from

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19 MATCH NOTES: ST. PETERSBURG LADIES TROPHY ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA JAN 30 FEB 5, 2017 USD $753,000 PREMIER EVENT WTA Website: facebook.com/wta Tournament Website: facebook.com/formulatx WTA Communications: Adam Lincoln Chris Whitmore Onsite Media Desk: ST. PETERSBURG LADIES TROPHY QF MATCH NOTES SIBUR ARENA [1] SIMONA HALEP (ROU #4) vs. [WC] NATALIA VIKHLYANTSEVA (RUS #115) Halep leads 1-0 [5] ELENA VESNINA (RUS #16) vs. [2] DOMINIKA CIBULKOVA (SVK #5) Vesnina leads 4-3 YULIA PUTINTSEVA (KAZ #34) vs. [3] SVETLANA KUZNETSOVA (RUS #8) First meeting KRISTINA MLADENOVIC (FRA #51) vs. [6] ROBERTA VINCI (ITA #21) Vinci leads 1-0 A LOOK AT THE LAST EIGHT PLAYER RANK NAT AGE ST PETE W-L* YTD W/L* YTD PRIZE $^ CAREER PRIZE $^ CAREER W/L* YTD TITLES [1] Simona Halep 4 ROU ,759 15,505, [2] Dominika Cibulkova 5 SVK ,690 11,003, [3] Svetlana Kuznetsova 8 RUS ,399 22,051, [5] Elena Vesnina 16 RUS ,178 9,097, [6] Roberta Vinci 21 ITA ,282 11,445, Yulia Putintseva 34 KAZ ,862 1,631, Kristina Mladenovic 51 FRA ,664 4,957, [WC] Natalia Vikhlyantseva 115 RUS , , *Includes current tournament / ^Does not include current tournament CAREER TITLES POTENTIAL SEMIFINAL HEAD to HEADS TOP HALF HALEP VIKHLYANTSEVA MLADENOVIC Mladenovic leads 2-1 Mladenovic leads 1-0 VINCI Halep leads 4-2 First meeting POTENTIAL SEMIFINAL HEAD to HEADS BOTTOM HALF PUTINTSEVA KUZNETSOVA VESNINA First meeting Series tied 1-1 CIBULKOVA First meeting Cibulkova leads 6-3 Follow WTA on Twitter: Facebook: YouTube: 1

20 MATCH NOTES: ST. PETERSBURG LADIES TROPHY ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA JAN 30 FEB 5, 2017 USD $753,000 PREMIER EVENT QUARTERFINAL QUICK HITS All eight of the 2017 St. Petersburg quarterfinalists are bidding for their first title of the season, while Yulia Putintseva, Natalia Vikhlyantseva and Kristina Mladenovic are gunning for the first WTA singles titles of their careers Reigning champion Roberta Vinci is looking to successfully defend a singles title for the first time in her career. She is on a six-match winning streak here in St. Petersburg following her 2016 triumph and reaching the last eight this year By reaching the quarterfinal, Vikhlyantseva has posted the best result of her professional career, bettering several second round efforts. Meanwhile Putintseva is looking to match the best result of her career by reaching the semifinal, having made the last four at a WTA event three times before. Both players are looking to reach their debut tour-level final this week At 19 years old, Vikhlyantseva is the youngest player remaining, with Vinci the oldest at 33 years old Dominika Cibulkova is closing in on her 400th career match win (all levels) she will need to win the title to hit this milestone Mladenovic is approaching USD $5 million in career prize money, and needs to make the final to reach this landmark Excluding Fed Cup results, Svetlana Kuznetsova has not been beaten in her home country of Russia since 2014 she won Moscow in 2015 and 2016, and has progressed to the quarterfinals this week in St. Petersburg (going 10-0). Her last loss on Russian soil came to Lucie Safarova at 2014 Moscow in the quarterfinals Among notable ranking projections, Putintseva could break into the Top 30 for the first time in her career should she reach the semifinal, while Vikhlyantseva already playing here in St. Petersburg on a career-high ranking of No.115 will break into Top 100 by virtue of reaching the quarterfinal PRIZE MONEY AND RANKING POINT BREAKDOWN SINGLES USD $ RANK RANK DOUBLES USD $ POINTS POINTS Winner 132, Winner 41, Runner-Up 70, Runner-Up 22, Semifinalist 37, Semifinalist 12, Quarterfinalist 20, Quarterfinalist 6, Round of 16 10, Round of 16 3,350 1 Round of 32 6,925 1 Follow WTA on Twitter: Facebook: YouTube: 2

21 MATCH NOTES ST. PETERSBURG - RUSSIA Jan 30 - Feb 05, 2017 $776,000 PREMIER [1] SIMONA HALEP (ROU #4) vs. [WC] NATALIA VIKHLYANTSEVA (RUS #115) Head to Head: SIMONA HALEP leads SHENZHEN HARD O R16 SIMONA HALEP mins SIMONA HALEP (25) $44,759 $15,505,547 0 / 14 0 / / / / / / / / WTA RANKING ROAD TO SINGAPORE LEADERBOARD DATE OF BIRTH (AGE) YTD PRIZE MONEY CAREER PRIZE MONEY SINGLES TITLES (YTD / CAREER) DOUBLES TITLES (YTD / CAREER) ST. PETERSBURG W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER 3-SET W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER TIE-BREAK W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER HARD W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER TOP 10 W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER TOP 20 W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER Left Hander W-L (MD) * * Updated entering 2017 St. Petersburg QF ST. PETERSBURG Tournament Performance NATALIA VIKHLYANTSEVA (19) $58,408 $155,421 0 / 0 0 / / / / / / / / 0-0 Rnd Result Duration R16 S. HALEP d. A. KONJUH 6-4,7-6(2) 97 mins Rnd Result Duration R16 N. VIKHLYANTSEVA d. D. KASATKINA 7-6(4), mins R1 BYE ST. PETERSBURG Tournament History R1 N. VIKHLYANTSEVA d. Y. SHVEDOVA 6-3, mins NATALIA VIKHLYANTSEVA 2016 R1 L - MONICA NICULESCU (ROU #37) Halep: Making debut appearance at St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy, and is No.1 seed this week in Russia Following 1r bye, defeated Konjuh in 2r in straight sets on Wednesday. Bidding for back-to-back wins for first time since making SFs at 2016 Wuhan, a run spanning four tournaments Faces No.115 and Russian wildcard Vikhlyantseva today last loss to a player outside Top 100 was almost a year ago, falling to No.118 Vesnina at 2016 Doha. Loss to Vesnina was also her last loss to a Russian, since then having beaten Makarova (2016 Indian Wells), Kasatkina (2016 Miami) and Kuznetsova (2016 Montréal) Follow WTA on Twitter: Facebook: YouTube: Insights from

22 Has won her last eight meetings with players entering a tournament on a wild card the last WC to defeat her was Mladenovic at 2014 Paris [Indoors], who is a potential SF opponent here in St. Petersburg Defeated today s opponent Vikhlyantseva at 2015 Shenzhen she went on to the lift the title there Coming off 1r exit at Australian Open for second successive year (l. Rogers in 2017, l. Zhang in 2016, who was 0-14 at Grand Slams entering match and ranked No.133 at the time) Opened 2017 season at Shenzhen, reaching 2r (d. Jankovic in 1r, l. eventual champion Siniakova) Spent pre-season training with coach Darren Cahill in Adelaide Posted third straight Top 5 season finish in 2016, at No.4, down from career-high No.2 in Season-ending ranking had improved eight years in a row until season highlighted by three titles, at Madrid (d. Cibulkova in F for second title at Premier Mandatory level, after 2015 Indian Wells), Bucharest (d. Sevatsova in F) and Montréal (d. Keys in F). Record in tour-level finals now stands at 14-8, eight of her titles coming on hardcourts Went on a 13-match winning streak thanks to titles at Bucharest (five wins) and Montréal (five wins) and SF run at Cincinnati (three wins). Was second-longest streak of 2016, after Azarenka (16) Also reached the first WTA doubles final of her career at Montréal (w/niculescu, l. Makarova/Vesnina) Qualified for WTA Finals in Singapore for the third time, going 1-2 in round-robin play d. Keys, l. Kerber and Cibulkova; did not progress to SF Other notable results in 2016 included reaching SF at Sydney (l. Kuznetsova), Cincinnati (l. Kerber) and Wuhan (l. Kvitova) and back-to-back QF at Indian Wells (l. S.Williams) and Miami (l. Bacsinszky) At the other Slams in 2016, made R16 at Roland Garros (l. Stosur) and posted QF runs at Wimbledon (l. eventual R-Up Kerber) and US Open (l. S.Williams) Withdrew from opening tournament of 2016 season at Brisbane (w/left Achilles injury) along with Birmingham (w/left Achilles injury) and Tokyo [PPO] (w/left hamstring injury) Following 1r loss at Australian Open, announced plan to undergo nasal surgery that would have entailed missing Fed Cup, Dubai and Doha, but changed mind and played throughout month of February Went 6-7 vs. Top 10 opponents in 2016, wins being over No.9 Kvitova (Fed Cup), No.9 Keys (Wimbledon and Wuhan), No.2 Kerber (Montreal), No.5 A.Radwanska (Cincinnati) and No.7 Keys (WTA Finals) Has reached at least the SF stage at all of the Grand Slams apart from Australian Open. Best results at the majors is R-Up at 2014 Roland Garros (l. Sharapova), SF at 2014 Wimbledon and 2015 US Open, and QF at Australian Open ( )

23 Record vs. reigning World No.1 players is 1-10, win coming at 2014 WTA Finals Singapore vs. S.Williams (group stage) Romania s highest ranked player of four women in current Top 100, ahead of Begu, Niculescu and Cirstea (week of January 30, 2017) Between May 2013 and August 2014, improved ranking from No.64 to as high as No.2 in the world, winning seven titles in this period Became third Romanian to break into the WTA Top 10 (after Ruzici, Spirlea) making Top 10 debut week of January 27, 2014; now highest-ranked Romanian woman ever Romanian Fed Cup Team, 2010, 2012, Roland Garros girls singles champion Coached by Australian Darren Cahill after parting ways with former coach Victor Ionita in June 2015 Vikhlyantseva: Making second appearance at St. Petersburg. In 2016, also entering main draw on a wildcard, fell 1r (l. Niculescu) Played first professional match in St. Petersburg in 2012 at the $10k ITF event held here (made 1r exit) Has posted career-best tour-level result having reached QF this week in St. Petersburg On Monday, defeated No.45 Shvedova for best win-by-ranking of career. Went on to better this on Wednesday with defeat over No.27 Kasatkina. Did not drop a set in either match Playing 2017 St. Petersburg on a career-high singles ranking of No.115, and having reached QF, is projected to break Top 100 Faces No.4 Halep today fell to the Romanian in 2r at 2015 Shenzhen, which was WTA main draw debut (lost 62 62) One of six Russians to begin main draw, with three advancing to QF (also Kuznetsova, Vesnina) 2017 St. Petersburg marks only sixth tour-level main draw appearance prior to QF run here, best result was making 2r at 2015 Shenzhen (as WC, l. Halep), 2016 s-hertogenbosch (as qualifier, l. Mladenovic) and 2017 Australian Open (as qualifier, l. Pavlyuchenkova) Other main draw results at tour level are 1r exits at 2015 Miami (l. Smitkova) and 2016 St. Petersburg (l. Niculescu). Also made SF run at WTA 125K Series event at 2016 Limoges (l. Garcia)

24 Owns six wins over Top 100 opponents, having now defeated No.93 Friedsam (2015 Shenzhen), No.80 Allertova (2016 s-hertogenbosch), No.69 Dodin (2016 Limoges), No.75 King (2017 Australian Open), No.45 Shvedova and No.27 Kasatkina (both 2017 St. Petersburg) Coming off making Grand Slam main draw debut at 2017 Australian Open, advancing to 2r (as qualifier, l. Pavlyuchenkova) Ended 2016 at No.161 for best year-end finish 2016 highlights include a SF run at WTA 125K Series event at Limoges (l. Garcia) and a 2r showing at s-hertogenbosch (as qualifier, l. Mladenovic in 3s) Won first ITF singles titles in 2016, at $25K ITF/Plzen-CZE and $100K ITF/Saint-Petersburg-RUS. Also owns one ITF doubles title, at 2016 $25k ITF/Wesley Chapel, FL-USA Began playing tennis aged seven; plays right handed with double-handed backhand Coached by Evgeniy Drozhin; currently trains at the Mouratoglou Tennis Academy Hobbies include learning languages, reading, and studying Describes gamestyle as fast and aggressive Favorite tournament is Wimbledon, favorite surface is grass

25 MATCH NOTES ST. PETERSBURG - RUSSIA Jan 30 - Feb 05, 2017 $776,000 PREMIER [5] ELENA VESNINA (RUS #16) vs. [2] DOMINIKA CIBULKOVA (SVK #5) Head to Head: ELENA VESNINA leads WIMBLEDON GRASS O QF ELENA VESNINA mins 2015 MOSCOW HARD I R1 DOMINIKA CIBULKOVA mins 2011 MOSCOW HARD I SF DOMINIKA CIBULKOVA mins 2009 WIMBLEDON GRASS O R3 ELENA VESNINA mins 2009 PONTE VEDRA BEACH CLAY O QF ELENA VESNINA (5) mins 2009 DUBAI HARD O R16 ELENA VESNINA mins 2008 MONTREAL HARD O R1 DOMINIKA CIBULKOVA mins ELENA VESNINA (30) $150,178 $9,097,385 0 / 2 0 / / / / / / / / WTA RANKING ROAD TO SINGAPORE LEADERBOARD DATE OF BIRTH (AGE) YTD PRIZE MONEY CAREER PRIZE MONEY SINGLES TITLES (YTD / CAREER) DOUBLES TITLES (YTD / CAREER) ST. PETERSBURG W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER 3-SET W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER TIE-BREAK W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER HARD W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER TOP 10 W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER TOP 20 W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER Left Hander W-L (MD) * * Updated entering 2017 St. Petersburg QF ST. PETERSBURG Tournament Performance DOMINIKA CIBULKOVA (27) $128,690 $11,003,614 0 / 8 0 / / / / / / / / Rnd Result Duration R16 E. VESNINA d. A. CORNET 2-6,6-3, mins Rnd Result Duration R16 D. CIBULKOVA d. D. VEKIC 6-2, mins R1 E. VESNINA d. E. MAKAROVA 6-3, mins R1 BYE ST. PETERSBURG Tournament History ELENA VESNINA 2016 R16 L - KATERYNA KOZLOVA (UKR #177) R1 W - PATRICIA MARIA TIG (ROU #124) DOMINIKA CIBULKOVA 2016 QF L - DARIA KASATKINA (RUS #63) R16 W - CAROLINE WOZNIACKI (DEN #18) R1 W - EVGENIYA RODINA (RUS #98) Follow WTA on Twitter: Facebook: YouTube: Insights from

26 Vesnina: Making second appearance at St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy. In 2016, reached 2r (d. Tig in opening match, l. Kozlova) Overcame longtime doubles partner Makarova in 1r on Tuesday, which was her first win against her on hard court (only previous win at tour, main draw level had been on grass). Makarova was a bridesmaid at Vesnina s wedding in November 2015 Win over leftie Makarova improves lifetime record vs. left-handed players to Defeated Cornet in 2r to advance to QF is first QF at Premier-level or above since 2016 New Haven (l. Svitolina in QF) Faces No.5 Cibulkova today owns a 2-23 record vs. Top 5 players in career, defeating No.5 Stosur at 2011 Charleston and No.5 Halep at 2016 Doha One of six Russians to begin main draw at 2017 St. Petersburg, with three making QF (also Kuznetsova, Vikhlyantseva) Coming off reaching 3r at Australian Open (l. No.116 Brady). Enjoyed her highest seeding at a Slam in Melbourne (at No.14) Opened 2017 season with back-to-back 1r exits, at Brisbane (l. eventual finalist Cornet) and Sydney (l. Vandeweghe, ret. due to low back injury) Finished 2016 ranked No.16, up from No.111 at the end of was first year-end finish outside the Top 100 in 10 years Is 9-40 in her career vs. Top 10 opponents, and was 3-2 in 2016 this was the first time in her career she achieved three Top 10 wins in a single season 2016 season highlight was reaching final at Charleston (l. Stephens in F) and winning gold medal in doubles at 2016 Rio Olympics (w/makarova, d. Bacsinszky/Hingis in F). Team also won Montréal and WTA Finals in 2016 Made SF at 2016 Wimbledon (l. eventual champion S.Williams), which marked bets singles result at a Grand Slam. Ranked No.50 at the time, was the 19th unseeded player to advance to a Grand Slam SF since 2001 Wimbledon (first Grand Slam with 32 seeds) Reached QF at 2016 Doha (l. Suarez Navarro) to return to Top 100 (from No.118). Upset No.4 Halep in 2r; was first Top 10 victory since defeated No.6 Li Na during title run at 2013 Eastbourne Went in singles main draw matches in 2016, most wins since 2013 (30-20) Owns two WTA singles titles, both coming from the 2013 season (Hobart and Eastbourne). A finalists on seven occasions most recently 2016 Charleston (l. Stephens). Owns a 2-7 record in singles finals (was 0-6 in singles finals before winning first title at 2013 Hobart)

27 Has enjoyed great success in doubles w/makarova - the team have won two Grand Slam doubles titles (2013 Roland Garros and 2014 US Open, and are six-time Slam runners-up), the gold medal at 2016 Rio Olympics and the 2016 WTA Finals Made WTA debut at 2003 Moscow Russian No.2 of seven in Top 100 (as at January 30, 2017) Husband is Pavel Tabuntsov (married November 2015) Coached by father, Sergey Vesnin Cibulkova: Making second appearance at St. Petersburg in 2016, reached QF (l. Kasatkina) Following 1r bye, defeated Vekic in opening match on Thursday to advance to second QF of 2017 (also Brisbane) Is approaching 400 career match wins, currently sat on 397 (all levels), and would hit this milestone should she lift the title on Sunday Face No.16 Vesnina today owns a record vs. Top 20 ranked opponents, and is first time facing a player inside the Top 20 this season Despite trailing 4-3 in the head-to-head with Vesnina, two of her victories have come in Russia in Moscow in 2011 (went on to win the title there) and 2015 Coming off 3r exit at Australian Open (l. Makarova) Opened 2017 season at Brisbane, reaching QF (l. Cornet). Made 2r at Sydney (l. Bouchard) Posted first Top 10 season of career in 2016, finishing at No.5 (which is her current ranking) Won 2016 WTA Comeback Player of the Year award ended 2015 ranked No.38 having been sidelined for four months with a left Achilles problem, with ranking dipping as low as No.66 in February 2016 Capped 2016 by winning biggest title of career to date at WTA Finals in Singapore went 1-2 in group stage before defeating No.9 Kuznetsova in semifinals and World No.1 Kerber in final At No.7, became lowest seeded player to triumph at WTA Finals since No.7 seed V.Williams in 2008; first player to win WTA Finals on debut since Kvitova in 2011 Won career-high 53 matches in 2016 (previous best was 42 matches in 2011) Won a WTA-leading four singles titles in 2016 qualified for Singapore by virtue of lifting trophy at Linz (d. Golubic in F) after earlier wins at Katowice (d. Giorgi in F) and Eastbourne (d. Ka.Pliskova in F). In 2016 also reached finals at Acapulco (l. Stephens), Madrid (l. Halep) and Wuhan (l. Kvitova)

28 Earlier titles came at 2011 Moscow, 2012 Carlsbad, 2013 Stanford, 2014 Acapulco; overall is 8-10 in singles finals Other notable results in 2016 season included SF runs at Hobart (l. eventual R-Up Bouchard) and Stanford (l. eventual champion Konta) Withdrew from Rio Olympics in singles and doubles (w/schmiedlova) w/left calf injury Owns 34 victories over Top 10 opponents (eight in 2016) including three over world reigning World No.1s: Wozniacki at 2011 Wimbledon, Azarenka at 2012 Roland Garros and Kerber at 2016 WTA Finals A Grand Slam runner-up at 2014 Australian Open (l. Li); defeated four seeds en route, including No.3 Sharapova and No.5 A.Radwanska. Became first player representing Slovakia (male or female) to reach a Grand Slam singles final First Slovak player (male of female) to reach a Grand Slam final Also a semifinalist at 2009 Roland Garros and has reached a further five Slam quarterfinals, most recently at 2016 Wimbledon (l. Vesnina, having saved 1mp against A.Radwanska in R16) Made Top 10 debut at No.10 on March 31, 2014 (after Miami) Broke into Top 20 on August 4, 2008 Made WTA qualifying debut at 2005 Rabat and main draw debut at 2006 Istanbul In February 2014 launched her own sportswear and accessories line, Domi, which incorporates her on court Slovak catch-cry Pome! ; proceeds go to her foundation which assists athletes and other notables in her native Slovakia who have fallen on tough times Married husband Michal Miso Navara in Bratislava in July 2016, after Wimbledon Coached by Matej Liptak

29 MATCH NOTES ST. PETERSBURG - RUSSIA Jan 30 - Feb 05, 2017 $776,000 PREMIER YULIA PUTINTSEVA (KAZ #34) vs. [3] SVETLANA KUZNETSOVA (RUS #8) Head to Head: First meeting YULIA PUTINTSEVA (22) $85,862 $1,623,831 0 / 0 0 / / / / / / / / 2-1 WTA RANKING ROAD TO SINGAPORE LEADERBOARD DATE OF BIRTH (AGE) YTD PRIZE MONEY CAREER PRIZE MONEY SINGLES TITLES (YTD / CAREER) DOUBLES TITLES (YTD / CAREER) ST. PETERSBURG W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER 3-SET W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER TIE-BREAK W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER HARD W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER TOP 10 W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER TOP 20 W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER Left Hander W-L (MD) * * Updated entering 2017 St. Petersburg QF ST. PETERSBURG Tournament Performance SVETLANA KUZNETSOVA (31) $194,399 $22,051,400 0 / 17 0 / / / / / / / / Rnd Result Duration R16 Y. PUTINTSEVA d. A. BECK 6-4, mins Rnd Result Duration R16 S. KUZNETSOVA d. D. GAVRILOVA 6-1, mins R1 Y. PUTINTSEVA d. J. LARSSON 6-0,1-0 Ret'd 31 mins R1 BYE Putintseva: Making debut appearance at St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy, which marks fourth event of 2017 Benefitted from retirement of Larsson in 1r (w/left hip injury) before dispatching Beck in 2r Faces No.8 Kuznetsova today owns a 2-10 record vs. Top 10 opponents, with wins against No.10 Petkovic at 2015 Nürnberg (via ret.) and No.9 Keys at 2016 Tokyo [PPO] Bidding to match best WTA result today by reaching SF also made last four at 2015 Bastad, 2016 Kaohsiung and 2016 Washington D.C. Coming off 2r exit at 2017 Australian Open (d. Arruabarrena, l. Ostapenko). Opened 2017 season at Brisbane (l. eventual champion Ka.Pliskova) and made 2r at Sydney (l. Wozniacki) Follow WTA on Twitter: Facebook: YouTube: Insights from

30 Posted new career-high ranking of No.31 after Sydney (week of January 16, 2017), and is projected to break Top 30 should she reach SF today Ended 2016 at career-best No.34, up from No.74 in 2015 Season highlight in 2016 was posting best Grand Slam result with QF run Roland Garros (l. eventual R-Up S.Williams). Was the first Kazakh to reach QF at Roland Garros or at any major since Shvedova in 2012 (l. QF) Was one of four unseeded players through to QF at Roland Garros (also Bertens, Pironkova, Rogers). The last time this happened at any Grand Slam was 2009 US Open (K.Bondarenko, Clijsters, Oudin, Wickmayer), and the last time at Roland Garros was 1988 (Fulco, Kelesi, Provis, Sanchez-Vicario note this was a 16-seed draw) Also in 2016 reached SFs at 2016 Kaohsiung (l. eventual champion V.Williams) and Washington D.C (l. eventual champion Wickmayer) Reached a further two QFs in 2016 at Premier-level Charleston (l. Errani) and Rabat (l. Bertens) Winner of six ITF Circuit singles titles Made WTA qualifying debut at 2009 Luxembourg and WTA main draw debut at 2012 Copenhagen A two-time junior Grand Slam runner-up (2010 US Open, 2012 Australian Open) Changed representation from Russia to Kazakhstan in May 2012 Kazakhstan Fed Cup Team, Coached by Roman Kislyanskiy Practiced at Spartak Club in Moscow as a junior before moving to Paris to attend Mouratoglou Academy Tennis idols were Martina Hingis and Justine Henin - still watches videos of Henin on YouTube Enjoys dancing, music, singing, Sudoku, playing cards and chess Kuznetsova: Making debut appearance at St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy, which marks fourth event of 2017 Following 1r bye, defeated Gavrilova in opening match on Wednesday. Now owns a 4-0 record against the Australian, dropping only one set in all previous meetings Faces Putintseva today is undefeated in her professional career vs. women from Kazakhstan, defeating Voskoboeva (2005 Miami, 2009 Roland Garros, 2013 Estoril) and Shvedova (2016 Roland Garros) Has now reached at least the QF stage at five of her last seven tournaments 2016 Tianjin (SF), 2016 Moscow (WON), 2016 WTA Finals (SF), 2017 Brisbane (QF) and 2017 Moscow (QF)

31 One of six Russians to begin main draw, with three advancing to QF (also Vikhlyantseva, Vesnina) Excluding Fed Cup, has not been beaten in her home country of Russia since 2014, having won Moscow and making QF this week (going 10-0). Her last loss on Russian soil came to Safarova at 2014 Moscow (QF) Coming off run to R16 at Australian Open (l. Pavlyuchenkova). Was 57th time contesting main draw at a Grand Slam, which is the seventh most among active players Prize money from Australian Open saw her pass the US$22 million mark only 12 other players have achieved this milestone Opened 2017 season at Brisbane, reaching QF (l. Muguruza). Posted 2r exit at Sydney (as defending champion, l. Pavlyuchenkova) Secured her 600th match win (all levels) at 2017 Brisbane (1r, d. Chirico) is fifth active player to reach the milestone, after V.Williams, S.Williams, Jankovic and Sharapova. Currently sits 18th on all-time list for match wins Made sixth appearance at WTA Finals in 2016, where she qualified for SF for the first time (l. Cibulkova); in five previous appearances (2004, ), had never progressed beyond group stage. Her gap of six years between WTA Finals (2009 to 2016) was most since Capriati and Frazier s seven year gaps (both from ) Defeat of Gavrilova in final at 2016 Moscow secured place at WTA Finals - entered tournament on a wildcard, knowing she would only qualify for Singapore should she successfully defend the title she won in After 1r bye, defeated Cornet (2r), Babos (QF) and Svitolina (SF) before emphatic victory against Gavrilova in the final Defeat of No.3 A.Radwanska and No.5 Ka.Pliskova at WTA Finals improved record vs. Top 5 opponents to 5-4 in 2016, with other wins against No.2 Halep (Sydney), No.1 S.Williams (Miami) and No.4 A.Radwanska (Wuhan) Including defeats of A.Radwanska and Ka.Pliskova in Singapore, won 22 three-set matches in 2016, the most on the WTA for the season, and most for three years (Kvitova, 25 in 2013) Won two singles titles in 2016, at Sydney (d. Puig in F) and Moscow (d. Gavrilova in F). Also finished R-Up at Miami (l. Azarenka in F). Record in WTA singles finals now stands at In Grand Slam play in 2016, reached R16 at Roland Garros (l. eventual champion Muguruza) and Wimbledon (l. eventual champion S.Williams) and 2r at Australian Open (l. K.Bondarenko) and US Open (l. Wozniacki) Wimbledon result saw her return to the Top 10 (at No.10) for first time since May 2010, before peaking at No.7 the week of Beijing her highest rank since May 2010 when she was No.6 heading into her Roland Garros title defence Other notable results in 2016 included SF run at Prague (conceded w/o vs. Stosur w/abdominal injury) and QF at Rome (l. eventual champion S.Williams), Montréal (l. eventual champion Halep) and Cincinnati (l. eventual champion Ka.Pliskova)

32 Advanced to 3r at Rio Olympics (l. Konta). Also competed in doubles w/kasatkina (l. Hlavackova/Hradecka in 3r) Owns seven wins over reigning world No.1s (7-20 record), most recently defeating S.Williams at 2016 Miami. Defeated Mauresmo, Safina and Henin twice each when they were No.1; one of only two players (also S.Williams) to beat Henin twice when she was No.1 A two-time Grand Slam champion, winning 2004 US Open (d. Dementieva in F) and 2009 Roland Garros (d. Safina in F). Has also achieved runner-up finishes at 2006 Roland Garros (l. Henin) and 2007 US Open (l. Henin). At Wimbledon, has reached QF three times, in 2003, 2005 and 2007 Her 16 career doubles titles (most recently 2013 Moscow w/stosur) includes two Grand Slam titles, both at the Australian Open in 2005 (w/molik) and 2012 (w/zvonareva) One of five Russians to rank in Top 2 (also Myskina, Sharapova, Zvonareva, Safina); had chance to become No.1 by winning 2008 Roland Garros (fell two matches short with SF loss to Safina); also achieved career-high No.3 in doubles (June 7, 2004) Ranked continuously in Top 20 from March 1, 2004 to July 11, 2010 (including over four years ranked continuously in Top 10 April 2006 to June 2010) Russian Fed Cup Team, 2004, , ; Russian Olympic Team, 2004, 2008, 2016 Coached by Carlos Martinez

33 MATCH NOTES ST. PETERSBURG - RUSSIA Jan 30 - Feb 05, 2017 $776,000 PREMIER KRISTINA MLADENOVIC (FRA #51) vs. [6] ROBERTA VINCI (ITA #21) Head to Head: ROBERTA VINCI leads US OPEN HARD O QF ROBERTA VINCI mins KRISTINA MLADENOVIC (23) $98,664 $4,957,135 0 / 0 0 / / / / / / / / 6-9 WTA RANKING ROAD TO SINGAPORE LEADERBOARD DATE OF BIRTH (AGE) YTD PRIZE MONEY CAREER PRIZE MONEY SINGLES TITLES (YTD / CAREER) DOUBLES TITLES (YTD / CAREER) ST. PETERSBURG W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER 3-SET W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER TIE-BREAK W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER HARD W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER TOP 10 W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER TOP 20 W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER Left Hander W-L (MD) * * Updated entering 2017 St. Petersburg QF ROBERTA VINCI (33) $70,282 $11,445,011 0 / 10 0 / / / / / / / / Rnd Result Duration ST. PETERSBURG Tournament Performance Rnd Result Duration R16 K. MLADENOVIC d. V. WILLIAMS 6-3, mins R16 R. VINCI d. A. PETKOVIC 6-4, mins R1 K. MLADENOVIC d. E. MERTENS 7-6(5), mins ST. PETERSBURG Tournament History R1 R. VINCI d. T. BABOS 6-3,3-6, mins KRISTINA MLADENOVIC 2016 R1 L - LAURA SIEGEMUND (GER #87) ROBERTA VINCI 2016 F W - BELINDA BENCIC (SUI #11) SF W - ANA IVANOVIC (SRB #20) QF W - TIMEA BABOS (HUN #51) 7-6(3) (4) R16 W - YANINA WICKMAYER (BEL #55) (2) R1 BYE Follow WTA on Twitter: Facebook: YouTube: Insights from

34 Mladenovic: Making second appearance at St. Petersburg. In 2016, fell 1r (l. Siegemund) In opening match this week, defeated qualifier Mertens in straight sets. Was first win of 2017 Defeated No.11 V.Williams in 2r on Thursday to advance to QF in a match lasting less than an hour result improves record vs. Top 20 ranked opponents to Has now won back-to-back matches for first time since run to Hong Kong F in October 2016 Is through to first QF at Premier-level or above since the grass court season, where she made QF at 2016 Eastbourne Can pass the USD $5 million prize money mark should she reach final this week in St. Petersburg Opened season with back-to-back 1r exits at Hobart (l. Mertens, whom she beat in 1r here) and Australian Open (l. Konjuh) Ended 2016 at No.42, down from career-best year-end finish of No.29 in 2015 Season highlight was teaming with Garcia to win her first Grand Slam doubles title at 2016 Roland Garros. They were the first French pair to win the doubles title at Roland Garros since 1971, when Gail Chanfreau and Francoise Durr triumphed Reached second and third WTA singles finals also in 2016, at s-hertogenbosch (l. Vandeweghe) and Hong Kong (l. Wozniacki). Is now 0-3 in WTA singles finals, also finishing as R-Up at 2015 Strasbourg (l. Stosur) Also in 2016 enjoyed SF run at Strasbourg (l. eventual R-Up Lucic-Baroni) and QF runs at Eastbourne (l. Puig) and Washington D.C. (l. eventual champion Wickmayer) Member of French Fed Cup Team that advanced to competition final vs. Czech Republic in 2016 (l. Ka.Pliskova) Won four doubles titles in 2016 with Garcia: Charleston (d. Mattek-Sands/Safarova), Stuttgart (d. Hingis/Mirza), Madrid (d. Hingis/Mirza) and Roland Garros (d. Makarova/Vesnina). In addition, also finished runners-up at Sydney, Dubai, US Open and Beijing (all w/garcia). Team qualified for WTA Finals Singapore, losing in SF. By winning the tournament, could have become joint-world No.1s Also qualified for 2015 WTA Finals in Singapore in doubles w/babos. Went 1-2 in RR stage and failed to progress further Overall, owns record in career doubles finals Across all Grand Slams, QF at 2015 US Open remains best result. Has achieved 3r showings at each of the other majors: Australian Open (2016), Roland Garros ( ) and Wimbledon (2015) Owns two career Top 5 wins: No.2 Li (2014 Roland Garros) and No.3 Halep (2015 Birmingham)

35 Prior to defeat of Halep at 2015 Birmingham, all previous Top 10 wins of career had come in France: No.2 Li (2014 Roland Garros), No.10 Halep (2014 Paris [Indoors]), No.6 Kvitova (2013 Paris [Indoors]) and No.6 Bouchard (2015 Roland Garros) Won mixed doubles titles at 2013 Wimbledon and 2014 Australian Open, and finished runner-up at 2013 Roland Garros and 2015 Australian Open (all w/nestor) Won WTA 125K Series event at Taipei in Roland Garros girls singles champion Played first events of career on ITF Circuit in 2007 Coached by Luka Mladenovic and Georges Goven Vinci: Making second appearance at St. Petersburg, and returning in 2017 as defending champion (d. Bencic in F). Bidding to defend a title for the first time in her career The closest she has come to a title defense was in Barcelona, lifting the title in 2009 (d. Kirilenko) and finishing as R-Up in 2010 (l. Schiavone). Additionally, won title again in 2011 (d. Hradecka in F) 2016 St. Petersburg was her 10th career singles title and first at Premier level. Owns a 10-5 record in singles finals. St Petersburg win marked her first singles title since winning 2013 Palermo At 33-years-old, was the second oldest player to begin main draw, behind V.Williams (36-years-old, who lost in 2r to today s opponent Mladenovic) Defeated Babos in 1r on Tuesday also defeated the Hungarian during run to title here in 2016 (at QF stage) before overcoming qualifier Petkovic in 2r. Faces No.51 Mladenovic today - loss would be worst-by-ranking since falling to No.62 Larsson at 2016 New Haven Defeated today s opponent Mladenovic during historic run to final at 2015 US Open. This was also the last time she faced French opposition Coming off 1r exit at Australian Open (l. eventual semifinalist Vandeweghe) in what was her 12th consecutive main draw appearance in Melbourne 2017 Australian Open marked her 49th Grand Slam main draw 12th most among active players Opened 2017 season at Brisbane, reaching QF (l. eventual champion Ka.Pliskova) and made 2r exit at Sydney (l. Strycova)

36 2017 marks her 20th season since making her WTA debut (1998 Palermo, in qualifying) Ended 2016 at No.18 for fourth non-consecutive Top 20 finish, going across the season Season highlight was making Top 10 debut the week of Doha (February 22, 2016). At 33 years and 4 days old, is oldest Top 10 debutant in WTA history. Became fourth Italian to debut in world s Top 10 (after Pennetta, Schiavone and Errani). Went on to post career-high singles ranking of No.7 (May 9, 2016) Other notable results in 2016 saw QF runs at Brisbane (l. Azarenka), Doha (l. A.Radwanska), Stuttgart (l. Siegemund), New Haven (l. Larsson) and US Open (l. eventual champion Kerber). Subsequently qualified for WTA Elite Trophy-Zhuhai, losing both group stage matches (l. Strycova, eventual champion Kvitova) and failed to progress Represented Italy at the 2016 Rio Olympics in singles (l. Schmiedlova in 1r) and doubles (w/errani, l. Safarova/Strycova in QF) Is a Grand Slam finalist, reaching the title match at 2015 US Open (l. Pennetta). The final between Pennetta and Vinci was the oldest combined age (at 66 years, 19 days) of any Grand Slam final match up in the Open Era Vinci became the second-oldest first-time Grand Slam finalist at 32 years, 6 months, after her fellow finalist, Pennetta, who was 33 years, 6 months. The all-italian showdown was the first time two Italian women had met in a Grand Slam final in the Open Era Vinci was third unseeded player to advance to the US Open final, after V.Williams in 1997 (R-Up) and Clijsters in 2009 (champion). En route to the final, Vinci ended WTA World No.1 S.Williams 33-match Grand Slam winning streak at the SF stage, ending her bid for the calendar year Grand Slam. It was the Italian s second career victory over a World No.1 (after Wozniacki at 2011 Toronto) Aside from 2015 US Open, has reached the QF stage there three times 2012 (l. Errani), 2013 (l. Pennetta) and 2016 (l. eventual champion Kerber) Owns three career wins vs. Top 2 ranked opponents: No.1 Wozniacki (2011 Toronto), No.2 A.Radwanska (2012 US Open) and No.1 S.Williams (2015 US Open) Won 25th career doubles title at 2015 Auckland (w/errani); team announced the end of their partnership during 2015 Indian Wells (while both ranked No.1). Re-united to play the 2016 Rio Olympics Team of Errani/Vinci qualified for WTA Finals three straight years, , but dropped opener on each occasion; Vinci also qualified for the season finale in 2001 (w/testud) Completed career doubles Grand Slam by winning 2014 Wimbledon title (w/errani); pair won five Grand Slam doubles titles from eight finals

37 In total, spent 110 weeks as doubles world No.1 (seventh on all-time list for weeks in top spot) Member of Italian Fed Cup team that won the competition four times (2006, 2009, 2010, 2013) Coached by Francesco Cina

38 MATCH NOTES: ST. PETERSBURG LADIES TROPHY ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA JAN 30 FEB 5, 2017 USD $753,000 PREMIER EVENT WTA Website: facebook.com/wta Tournament Website: facebook.com/formulatx WTA Communications: Adam Lincoln Chris Whitmore Onsite Media Desk: ST. PETERSBURG LADIES TROPHY MATCH NOTES DAY 4 SIBUR ARENA [LL] DONNA VEKIC (CRO #88) vs. [2] DOMINIKA CIBULKOVA (SVK #5) Series tied 1-1 [4] VENUS WILLIAMS (USA #11) vs. KRISTINA MLADENOVIC (FRA #51) First meeting [5] ELENA VESNINA (RUS #16) vs. ALIZÉ CORNET (FRA #44) Series tied 1-1 [Q] ANDREA PETKOVIC (GER #52) vs. [6] ROBERTA VINCI (ITA #21) Series tied 1-1 PRIZE MONEY AND RANKING POINT BREAKDOWN SINGLES USD $ RANK RANK DOUBLES USD $ POINTS POINTS Winner 132, Winner 41, Runner-Up 70, Runner-Up 22, Semifinalist 37, Semifinalist 12, Quarterfinalist 20, Quarterfinalist 6, Round of 16 10, Round of 16 3,350 1 Round of 28 6,925 1 Follow WTA on Twitter: Facebook: YouTube: 1

39 MATCH NOTES ST. PETERSBURG - RUSSIA Jan 30 - Feb 05, 2017 $776,000 PREMIER [LL] DONNA VEKIC (CRO #88) vs. [2] DOMINIKA CIBULKOVA (SVK #5) Head to Head: KUALA LUMPUR HARD O F DONNA VEKIC (4) 2hrs 51 mins 2014 INDIAN WELLS HARD O R2 DOMINIKA CIBULKOVA mins DONNA VEKIC (20) $71,081 $1,178,455 0 / 1 0 / / / / / / / / 1-1 WTA RANKING ROAD TO SINGAPORE LEADERBOARD DATE OF BIRTH (AGE) YTD PRIZE MONEY CAREER PRIZE MONEY SINGLES TITLES (YTD / CAREER) DOUBLES TITLES (YTD / CAREER) ST. PETERSBURG W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER 3-SET W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER TIE-BREAK W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER HARD W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER TOP 10 W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER TOP 20 W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER Left Hander W-L (MD) * * Updated entering 2017 St. Petersburg 2r ST. PETERSBURG Tournament Performance DOMINIKA CIBULKOVA (27) $128,690 $11,003,614 0 / 8 0 / / / / / / / / * Qualifying match Rnd Result Duration R1 D. VEKIC d. J. OSTAPENKO 6-0, mins Rnd Result Duration R1 BYE - R3* K. FLIPKENS d. D. VEKIC 6-4,5-7, mins R2* D. VEKIC d. V. KAMENSKAYA 6-2, mins R1* D. VEKIC d. A. SABALENKA 6-4, mins ST. PETERSBURG Tournament History DOMINIKA CIBULKOVA 2016 QF L - DARIA KASATKINA (RUS #63) R16 W - CAROLINE WOZNIACKI (DEN #18) R1 W - EVGENIYA RODINA (RUS #98) Follow WTA on Twitter: Facebook: YouTube: Insights from

40 Vekic: Making debut appearance at St. Petersburg, entering main draw as lucky loser following withdrawal of Voegele (w/right wrist injury). Had fallen in final round of qualifying to Flipkens Overcame No.33 Ostapenko in 1r on Tuesday, which was best win-by-ranking since 2016 Cincinnati (d. No.25 Ivanovic) Faces No.5 Cibulkova today the first time facing a Top 5 ranked opponent in career. Owns a 1-5 record over Top 10 ranked opponents, sole win coming over today s opponent No.10 Cibulkova (2014 Kuala Lumpur). Losses were to No.10 Wozniacki (2013 Australian Open), No.8 Kvitova (2014 Miami), No.7 Ivanovic (2015 Roland Garros), No.8 V.Williams (2016 Wimbledon) and No.8 Kuznetsova (2016 Tianjin) Bidding for back-to-back main draw wins for first time since September 2015 (run to F at Tashkent) Coming off 2r exit at Australian Open (d. Cabrera, l. Wozniacki). 1r win was first Grand Slam main draw win since reaching 3r at 2015 Roland Garros Opened 2017 season with 1r exits at Brisbane (as wildcard, l. Muhammed) and Sydney (as qualifier, l. Gavrilova) Ended at No.101. Posted best year-end finish in 2014, at No.84 Reached two ITF finals at the end of 2016 season, winning the title at $100k ITF/Sharm El Sheikh. Also reached QF at WTA 125/Limoges to round out the year Posted four main draw wins across 2016, defeating Al Nabhani at Doha, Riske at Kaohsiung, Ivanovic at Cincinnati and Zhang at Tianjin Defeat of No.25 Ivanovic at 2016 Cincinnati was fourth Top 25 win of career, and first in more than two years. Wins have come over: No.24 Cirstea (2013 Birmingham), No.10 Cibulkova (2014 Kuala Lumpur), No.21 Vinci (2014 Wimbledon), No.25 Ivanovic (2016 Cincinnati) 2015 highlights were reaching final at Tashkent (l. Hibino) and QF at Baku At Grand Slam level, best result came with 3r appearance at 2015 Roland Garros (l. Ivanovic) Won first career singles title at 2014 Kuala Lumpur. At 17 years, 10 months, became youngest player to win a WTA singles title since 2006 Bangkok (Vania King); defeated today s opponent Cibulkova in final for first career Top 10 win Reached first WTA career final at 2012 Tashkent. In what was her first WTA main draw appearance, became youngest WTA finalist since 15-year-old Tamira Paszek won Portoroz in Also finished runner-up on grass at 2013 Birmingham (l. Hantuchova) and 2015 Tashkent (l. Hibino). Owns a 1-3 record in singles finals Broke into Top 100 (at No.93) on January 28, 2013 On ITF Circuit has won five singles and one doubles title

41 Member of Croatian Fed Cup Team, Both parents played professional sports: mother, Brankica (track/hurdles) and father, Igor (goalkeeper) Coached by David Felgate. Has also worked with former Roland Garros champion Iva Majoli Cibulkova: Making second appearance at St. Petersburg in 2016, reached QF (l. Kasatkina) Faces No.88 Vekic today in opening match (after 1r bye). Loss would be worst-by-ranking since falling to No.99 Tsurenko at 2016 US open Last opening match loss (excluding WTA Finals group stage) came at 2016 Beijing (after 1r bye, l. Cornet) Coming off 3r exit at Australian Open (l. Makarova) Opened 2017 season at Brisbane, reaching QF (l. Cornet). Made 2r at Sydney (l. Bouchard) Posted first Top 10 season of career in 2016, finishing at No.5 (which is her current ranking) Won 2016 WTA Comeback Player of the Year award ended 2015 ranked No.38 having been sidelined for four months with a left Achilles problem, with ranking dipping as low as No.66 in February 2016 Capped 2016 by winning biggest title of career to date at WTA Finals in Singapore went 1-2 in group stage before defeating No.9 Kuznetsova in semifinals and World No.1 Kerber in final At No.7, became lowest seeded player to triumph at WTA Finals since No.7 seed V.Williams in 2008; first player to win WTA Finals on debut since Kvitova in 2011 Won career-high 53 matches in 2016 (previous best was 42 matches in 2011) Won a WTA-leading four singles titles in 2016 qualified for Singapore by virtue of lifting trophy at Linz (d. Golubic in F) after earlier wins at Katowice (d. Giorgi in F) and Eastbourne (d. Ka.Pliskova in F). In 2016 also reached finals at Acapulco (l. Stephens), Madrid (l. Halep) and Wuhan (l. Kvitova) Earlier titles came at 2011 Moscow, 2012 Carlsbad, 2013 Stanford, 2014 Acapulco; overall is 8-10 in singles finals Other notable results in 2016 season included SF runs at Hobart (l. eventual R-Up Bouchard) and Stanford (l. eventual champion Konta) Withdrew from Rio Olympics in singles and doubles (w/schmiedlova) w/left calf injury Owns 34 victories over Top 10 opponents (eight in 2016) including three over world reigning World No.1s: Wozniacki at 2011 Wimbledon, Azarenka at 2012 Roland Garros and Kerber at 2016 WTA Finals

42 A Grand Slam runner-up at 2014 Australian Open (l. Li); defeated four seeds en route, including No.3 Sharapova and No.5 A.Radwanska. Became first player representing Slovakia (male or female) to reach a Grand Slam singles final First Slovak player (male of female) to reach a Grand Slam final Also a semifinalist at 2009 Roland Garros and has reached a further five Slam quarterfinals, most recently at 2016 Wimbledon (l. Vesnina, having saved 1mp against A.Radwanska in R16) Made Top 10 debut at No.10 on March 31, 2014 (after Miami) Broke into Top 20 on August 4, 2008 Made WTA qualifying debut at 2005 Rabat and main draw debut at 2006 Istanbul In February 2014 launched her own sportswear and accessories line, Domi, which incorporates her on court Slovak catch-cry Pome! ; proceeds go to her foundation which assists athletes and other notables in her native Slovakia who have fallen on tough times Married husband Michal Miso Navara in Bratislava in July 2016, after Wimbledon Coached by Matej Liptak

43 MATCH NOTES ST. PETERSBURG - RUSSIA Jan 30 - Feb 05, 2017 $776,000 PREMIER [4] VENUS WILLIAMS (USA #11) vs. KRISTINA MLADENOVIC (FRA #51) Head to Head: First meeting VENUS WILLIAMS (36) $1,353,995 $35,785,743 0 / 49 0 / / / / / / / / WTA RANKING ROAD TO SINGAPORE LEADERBOARD DATE OF BIRTH (AGE) YTD PRIZE MONEY CAREER PRIZE MONEY SINGLES TITLES (YTD / CAREER) DOUBLES TITLES (YTD / CAREER) ST. PETERSBURG W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER 3-SET W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER TIE-BREAK W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER HARD W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER TOP 10 W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER TOP 20 W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER Left Hander W-L (MD) * * Updated entering 2017 St. Petersburg 2r ST. PETERSBURG Tournament Performance KRISTINA MLADENOVIC (23) $98,664 $4,957,135 0 / 0 0 / / / / / / / / 6-9 Rnd Result Duration Rnd Result Duration R1 BYE R1 K. MLADENOVIC d. E. MERTENS 7-6(5), mins ST. PETERSBURG Tournament History KRISTINA MLADENOVIC 2016 R1 L - LAURA SIEGEMUND (GER #87) V.Williams: Making debut appearance at St. Petersburg, and playing first match since historic run to Australian Open singles final (l. S.Williams) Title match in Melbourne marked 15th Grand Slam singles final of career, and first in seven and half years (2009 Wimbledon - l. S.Williams). In the Open Era, no player has waited so long to reach another Grand Slam final Amelie Mauresmo waited seven years between finishing runner-up at 1999 Australian Open and winning 2006 Australian Open Follow WTA on Twitter: Facebook: YouTube: Insights from

44 At 36 years of age, is now the oldest finalist at the Australian Open in the Open Era. The match between Venus and Serena in Melbourne had the oldest combined age of any Grand Slam final match-up in the Open Era (71 years, and 351 days), beating the previous record set by Flavia Pennetta and Roberta Vinci (66 years, 19 days) at the 2015 US Open 2017 Australian Open marked 73rd Grand Slam main draw appearance the Open Era record Australian Open result saw her rise to No.11 in WTA rankings. She can return to the Top 10 by reaching the final this week in St. Petersburg. She already is the third oldest player to reach the Top 10 in WTA history behind Billie Jean King (39 years, 322 days) and Martina Navratilova (38 years, 75 days) Opened 2017 season at Auckland defeated New Zealand wildcard Jade Lewis in 1r before conceding w/o to Osaka in 2r, citing right arm injury Ended 2016 at No.17, down from No.7 in 2015, for 15th non-consecutive Top 20 finish; record includes six Top 5 year-end finishes 2016 season highlights including winning 49th career singles title at Kaohsiung (d. Doi), and reaching 80th career singles final at Stanford (l. Konta). Is fourth-oldest player to win a WTA singles title, behind Billie Jean King (39) at 1983 Birmingham, Kimiko Date (38) at 2009 Seoul, and Martina Navratilova (37) at 1994 Paris [Indoors] At Grand Slam level in 2016, advanced to SF at Wimbledon (l. Kerber) which was first time reaching that stage at a major since 2010 US Open. Also reached R16 at 2016 Roland Garros (l. Bacsinszky) and 2016 US Open (l. eventual R-Up Ka.Pliskova) Represented USA at Rio Olympics, falling 1r in singles (l. Flipkens), 1r in doubles (w/s.williams, l. eventual bronze medalists Safarova/Strycova) and winning a silver medal in the mixed doubles (w/ram, l. Mattek-Sands/Sock) Currently 11th on list of WTA title holders, chasing Monica Seles (53 titles). Of her 49 titles, 31 have been won on hard court In 2015, returned to Top 10 following 2015 WTA Elite Trophy Zhuhai triumph for first time since March At 35 years of age, was the oldest player to rank in Top 10 since 38-year-old Navratilova in December 1994 (whose run ended on January 1, 1995) At 2014 Montréal, defeated sister Serena for first win over a reigning world No.1 since d. Safina in SF at 2009 Wimbledon (owns a lifetime record vs. No.1s eight wins vs. Hingis, two wins vs. Davenport, one win vs. Safina, one win vs. Jankovic, two wins vs. Serena) Seven-time Grand Slam singles champion, having won Wimbledon five times (2000, 2001, 2005, 2007 and 2008) and the US Open twice ( ) Also a seven-time Grand Slam runner-up: Wimbledon ( and 2009), US Open (1997, 2002), Roland Garros (2002) and Australian Open (2003)

45 Owns 14 Grand Slam doubles titles (all w/s.williams), most recently winning 2016 Wimbledon (d. Babos/Shvedova in F) Won singles gold medal at 2000 Sydney Olympics (d. Dementieva in F); has won doubles gold three times with sister Serena, at Sydney, Beijing and London; claimed silver medal in mixed doubles at Rio (w/ram) Spent 11 weeks at world No.1 in singles (first ascended to top spot week of February 25, 2002) and topped the doubles rankings for eight weeks in 2010 Made WTA main draw debut at Oakland (now Stanford) in 1994; as unranked WC, defeated Stafford in 1r before falling to then-world No.2 Sanchez-Vicario in three sets Coached by Richard Williams, Oracene Price and David Witt; hitting partner here is Jermaine Jenkins Mladenovic: Making second appearance at St. Petersburg. In 2016, fell 1r (l. Siegemund) In opening match this week, defeated qualifier Mertens in straight sets. Was first win of 2017 Faces No.11 V.Williams today owns a record vs. Top 20 ranked opponents, most recent win coming over No.8 Bencic at 2016 s-hertogenbosch Opened season with back-to-back 1r exits at Hobart (l. Mertens, whom she beat in 1r here) and Australian Open (l. Konjuh) Ended 2016 at No.42, down from career-best year-end finish of No.29 in 2015 Season highlight was teaming with with Garcia to win her first Grand Slam doubles title at 2016 Roland Garros. They were the first French pair to win the doubles title at Roland Garros since 1971, when Gail Chanfreau and Francoise Durr triumphed Reached second and third WTA singles finals also in 2016, at s-hertogenbosch (l. Vandeweghe) and Hong Kong (l. Wozniacki). Is now 0-3 in WTA singles finals, also finishing as R-Up at 2015 Strasbourg (l. Stosur) Also enjoyed SF run at Strasbourg (l. eventual R-Up Lucic-Baroni) and QF runs at Eastbourne (l. Puig) and Washington D.C. (l. eventual champion Wickmayer) Member of French Fed Cup Team that advanced to competition final vs. Czech Republic in 2016 (l. Ka.Pliskova)

46 Won four doubles titles in 2016 with Garcia: Charleston (d. Mattek-Sands/Safarova), Stuttgart (d. Hingis/Mirza), Madrid (d. Hingis/Mirza) and Roland Garros (d. Makarova/Vesnina). In addition, also finished runners-up at Sydney, Dubai, US Open and Beijing (all w/garcia). Team qualified for WTA Finals Singapore, losing in SF. By winning the tournament, could have become joint-world No.1s Also qualified for 2015 WTA Finals in Singapore in doubles w/babos. Went 1-2 in RR stage and failed to progress further Overall, owns record in career doubles finals Across all Grand Slams, QF at 2015 US Open remains best result. Has achieved 3r showings at each of the other majors: Australian Open (2016), Roland Garros ( ) and Wimbledon (2015) Owns two career Top 5 wins: No.2 Li (2014 Roland Garros) and No.3 Halep (2015 Birmingham) Prior to defeat of Halep at 2015 Birmingham, all previous Top 10 wins of career had come in France: No.2 Li (2014 Roland Garros), No.10 Halep (2014 Paris [Indoors]), No.6 Kvitova (2013 Paris [Indoors]) and No.6 Bouchard (2015 Roland Garros) Won mixed doubles titles at 2013 Wimbledon and 2014 Australian Open, and finished runner-up at 2013 Roland Garros and 2015 Australian Open (all w/nestor) Won WTA 125K Series event at Taipei in Roland Garros girls singles champion Played first events of career on ITF Circuit in 2007 Coached by Luka Mladenovic and Georges Goven

47 MATCH NOTES ST. PETERSBURG - RUSSIA Jan 30 - Feb 05, 2017 $776,000 PREMIER [5] ELENA VESNINA (RUS #16) vs. ALIZÉ CORNET (FRA #44) Head to Head: ALIZÉ CORNET leads BRISBANE HARD O R1 ALIZÉ CORNET (5) 157 mins 2015 STRASBOURG CLAY O R16 ELENA VESNINA mins 2015 MIAMI HARD O R2 ALIZÉ CORNET mins 2013 TORONTO HARD O R1 ALIZÉ CORNET mins 2010 AUCKLAND HARD O R16 ALIZÉ CORNET mins 2009 MADRID CLAY O R1 ELENA VESNINA mins 2008 AMELIA ISLAND CLAY O R16 ALIZÉ CORNET mins ELENA VESNINA (30) $150,178 $9,097,385 0 / 2 0 / / / / / / / / WTA RANKING ROAD TO SINGAPORE LEADERBOARD DATE OF BIRTH (AGE) YTD PRIZE MONEY CAREER PRIZE MONEY SINGLES TITLES (YTD / CAREER) DOUBLES TITLES (YTD / CAREER) ST. PETERSBURG W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER 3-SET W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER TIE-BREAK W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER HARD W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER TOP 10 W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER TOP 20 W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER Left Hander W-L (MD) * * Updated entering 2017 St. Petersburg 2r ST. PETERSBURG Tournament Performance ALIZÉ CORNET (27) $173,036 $5,214,371 0 / 5 0 / / / / / / / / Rnd Result Duration R1 E. VESNINA d. E. MAKAROVA 6-3, mins Rnd Result Duration R1 A. CORNET d. K. FLIPKENS 6-4, mins ST. PETERSBURG Tournament History ELENA VESNINA 2016 R16 L - KATERYNA KOZLOVA (UKR #177) R1 W - PATRICIA MARIA TIG (ROU #124) Follow WTA on Twitter: Facebook: YouTube: Insights from

48 Vesnina: Making second appearance at St. Petersburg. In 2016, reached 2r (d. Tig in opening match, l. Kozlova) Overcame longtime doubles partner Makarova in 1r on Tuesday, which was her first win against her on hard court (only previous win at tour, main draw level had been on grass). Makarova was a bridesmaid at Vesnina s wedding in November 2015 Win over leftie Makarova improves lifetime record vs. left-handed players to One of six Russians to begin main draw at 2017 St. Petersburg Coming off reaching 3r at Australian Open (l. No.116 Brady). Enjoyed her highest seeding at a Slam in Melbourne (at No.14) Opened 2017 season with back-to-back 1r exits, at Brisbane (l. eventual finalist Cornet) and Sydney (l. Vandeweghe, ret. due to low back injury) Finished 2016 ranked No.16, up from No.111 at the end of was first year-end finish outside the Top 100 in 10 years Is 9-40 in her career vs. Top 10 opponents, and was 3-2 in 2016 this was the first time in her career she achieved three Top 10 wins in a single season 2016 season highlight was reaching final at Charleston (l. Stephens in F) and winning gold medal in doubles at 2016 Rio Olympics (w/makarova, d. Bacsinszky/Hingis in F). Team also won Montréal and WTA Finals in 2016 Made SF at 2016 Wimbledon (l. eventual champion S.Williams), which marked bets singles result at a Grand Slam. Ranked No.50 at the time, was the 19th unseeded player to advance to a Grand Slam SF since 2001 Wimbledon (first Grand Slam with 32 seeds) Reached QF at 2016 Doha (l. Suarez Navarro) to return to Top 100 (from No.118). Upset No.4 Halep in 2r; was first Top 10 victory since defeated No.6 Li Na during title run at 2013 Eastbourne Went in singles main draw matches in 2016, most wins since 2013 (30-20) Owns two WTA singles titles, both coming from the 2013 season (Hobart and Eastbourne). A finalists on seven occasions most recently 2016 Charleston (l. Stephens). Owns a 2-7 record in singles finals (was 0-6 in singles finals before winning first title at 2013 Hobart) Has enjoyed great success in doubles w/makarova - the team have won two Grand Slam doubles titles (2013 Roland Garros and 2014 US Open, and are six-time Slam runners-up), the gold medal at 2016 Rio Olympics and the 2016 WTA Finals Made WTA debut at 2003 Moscow Russian No.2 of seven in Top 100 (as at January 30, 2017) Husband is Pavel Tabuntsov (married November 2015)

49 Coached by father, Sergey Vesnin Cornet: Making debut appearance at the St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy, which marks her third event of 2017 In opening match, defeated qualifier Flipkens in straight sets Faces No.16 and home favourite Vesnina today a win would be her fourth Top 20 win of 2017, having only managed two such wins across the whole of 2016 (No.8 Cibulkova at Beijing and No.14 V.Williams at Hong Kong) Lifetime record vs. Top 20 ranked opponents stands at 28-84, going 3-1 in 2017 (defeating No.16 Vesnina, No.5 Cibulkova and No.5 Muguruza at Brisbane) Coming off a 2r exit at Australian Open (l. Sakkari) in what was her 44th Grand Slam main draw appearance Advanced to 11th career singles final (and second at Premier-level at 2017 Brisbane (l. Ka.Pliskova); first Premier-level final was at 2014 Dubai (l. V.Williams in F). Record in WTA singles finals stands at 5-6 Wins in Brisbane over No.5 Cibulkova (QF) and No.7 Muguruza (SF - via ret. w/right thigh injury) takes record vs. Top 10 opponents to Earlier wins came over No.5 Kuznetsova (2008 Rome), No.8 Chakvetadze (2008 Rome), No.9 Halep (2014 Dubai), No.1 S.Williams (2014 Dubai), No.3 A.Radwanska (2014 Katowice), No.1 S.Williams (2014 Wimbledon), No.1 S.Williams (2014 Wuhan), No.2 Halep (2015 Madrid), No.10 Suárez Navarro (2015 Toronto) and No.8 Cibulkova (2016 Beijing) Ended 2016 at No.46. Best year-end finish came at No.20 in 2014 Finished 2016 season with SF run at WTA 125K Series event in Limoges, France (l. Alexandrova) Member of French Fed Cup Team that advanced to competition final vs. Czech Republic in 2016 (l. Strycova) Did not play between 2016 Australian Open (l. Zhang in 2r) and Miami due to continuing back injury (bruised vertebrae). Had announced in February she would be out for six months, however recovery was quicker than expected Opened 2016 season at Brisbane (l. Pavlyuchenkova in 2r) before winning fifth singles title of her career at Hobart (d. Bouchard in F). Was first final since runner-up finish at 2014 Guangzhou. Owns 5-6 record in singles finals Aside from Hobart run, best result in 2016 was QF at Hong Kong later in season (l. Jankovic) Has advanced to R16 at a major on three occasions (2009 Australian Open, 2014 Wimbledon and 2015 Roland Garros). Best Slam results in 2016 were 3r efforts at Roland Garros (l. V.Williams) and Wimbledon (l. Keys) Currently the French No.2 behind Garcia, of five women in Top 100 (week of January 30, 2017)

50 Former world No.11 (achieved in February 2009) who broke back into Top 20 at end of 2014 for first time since May 2009; dropped out of Top 20 again after 2015 Dubai Owns four wins over Top 2 ranked opponents: No.1 S.Williams (2014 Dubai, 2014 Wimbledon and 2014 Wuhan via ret.) and No.2 Halep (2015 Madrid) Wins over S.Williams made her the first player to defeat the American in three straight meetings since Henin in 2007 Qualified for 2013 and 2014 Tournament of Champions in Sofia, Bulgaria Three-time doubles champion: 2008 Budapest (w/husarova), 2010 Strasbourg (w/king), 2015 Hong Kong (w/shvedova); owns a 3-2 record in doubles finals French Fed Cup Team, ; French Olympic Team, 2008, 2012, 2016 Made WTA debut at the age of 15 at 2005 Roland Garros, advancing to 3r Won 2007 Roland Garros girls singles (d. Duque Mariño in F). Coached by Benjamin Ebrahimzadeh

51 MATCH NOTES ST. PETERSBURG - RUSSIA Jan 30 - Feb 05, 2017 $776,000 PREMIER [Q] ANDREA PETKOVIC (GER #52) vs. [6] ROBERTA VINCI (ITA #21) Head to Head: CINCINNATI HARD O R2 ROBERTA VINCI (3) mins 2011 US OPEN HARD O R3 ANDREA PETKOVIC mins ANDREA PETKOVIC (29) $91,835 $6,274,670 0 / 6 0 / / / / / / / / WTA RANKING ROAD TO SINGAPORE LEADERBOARD DATE OF BIRTH (AGE) YTD PRIZE MONEY CAREER PRIZE MONEY SINGLES TITLES (YTD / CAREER) DOUBLES TITLES (YTD / CAREER) ST. PETERSBURG W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER 3-SET W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER TIE-BREAK W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER HARD W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER TOP 10 W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER TOP 20 W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER Left Hander W-L (MD) * * Updated entering 2017 St. Petersburg 2r ST. PETERSBURG Tournament Performance ROBERTA VINCI (33) $70,282 $11,445,011 0 / 10 0 / / / / / / / / * Qualifying match Rnd Result Duration R1 A. PETKOVIC d. I. BEGU 6-1, mins Rnd Result Duration R1 R. VINCI d. T. BABOS 6-3,3-6, mins R3* A. PETKOVIC d. A. KOMARDINA 6-2, mins R2* A. PETKOVIC d. B. HAAS 6-3, mins R1* A. PETKOVIC d. L. KERKHOVE 7-6(3), mins ST. PETERSBURG Tournament History ROBERTA VINCI 2016 F W - BELINDA BENCIC (SUI #11) SF W - ANA IVANOVIC (SRB #20) QF W - TIMEA BABOS (HUN #51) 7-6(3) (4) R16 W - YANINA WICKMAYER (BEL #55) (2) R1 BYE Follow WTA on Twitter: Facebook: YouTube: Insights from

52 Petkovic: Making debut appearance at St. Petersburg, entering main draw after three rounds of qualifying (d. Kerkhove, Haas and Komardina without dropping a set) It was her first time contesting the qualifying draw of a tour level event since 2014 Dubai (l. Giorgi), and the first time successfully coming through qualifying since 2013 Cincinnati Overcame No.28 Begu in 1r on Tuesday, which was first Top 30 win since 2016 Luxembourg (d. No.25 Garcia in 2r) Enters St. Petersburg following 2r appearances at Australian Open (l. Strycova) and Hobart (l. Cepede Royg) 2017 Australian Open was first time advancing passed the 1r at Melbourne Park since 2013 Owns a overall record vs. Top 20 players. Most recent wins came against No.20 Jankovic at 2016 Dubai and No.5 Muguruza at 2016 Doha German No.3 of six in Top 100, behind No.2 Kerber and No.6 Siegemund (as of January 30, 2017) Finished 2016 ranked No.56, dropping from No.24 in 2015 fourth straight season ranked inside the Top season highlights were one SF (Doha) and three QFs appearances (Luxembourg, Dubai and Brisbane); otherwise struggled to get passed the 2r only advancing one additional time (3r, Eastbourne) Bowed out of 2016 Rio Olympics in 1r of singles (l. Svitolina) and 1r of doubles (w/kerber, l. Errani/Vinci) Scored best result of 2016 with SF run at Doha (ret. vs. Ostapenko). Advanced to SF by defeating No.5 Muguruza; first win over a Top 5 opponent since d. No.2 Azarenka at 2013 Beijing Mixed results across 2015 saw her end season at No.24, qualifying for WTA Elite Trophy in Zhuhai. Lost both group matches opening match loss to Suárez Navarro in 51 minutes (60 60 first double bagel of career) followed by defeat to Svitolina Best result at a Grand Slam came at 2011 Roland Garros, where she advanced to SF (l. eventual R-Up Halep). Reached QF at 2011 Australian Open (l. Li) and at Wimbledon has progressed to 3r on three occasions Is a former Top 10 player, cracking the elite bracket at No.9 in September of 2011 and again in May of 2015 Won sixth WTA singles title at 2015 Antwerp (d. Suarez Navarro in F via w/o neck injury) Has won six singles titles from 11 finals appearances four of six titles have been won on clay Is a two-time doubles runner-up, at 2009 Bad Gastein (w/maria) and 2016 Brisbane (w/kerber)

53 Owns a lifetime record vs. Top 10 opponents, most recent win coming over No.5 Muguruza (2016 Doha). Other Top 10 wins were over No.9 Makarova (2015 Miami), No.2 Azarenka (2013 Beijing), No.10 Bartoli (2011 Beijing), No.6 Kvitova (2011 Cincinnati), No.7 Kvitova (2011 Toronto), No.7 Jankovic (2011 Stuttgart), No.6 Jankovic (2011 Miami), No.1 Wozniacki (2011 Miami), No.5 V.Williams (2011 Australian Open, by ret.) and No.6 Kuznetsova (2009 Tokyo) Suffered right knee injury at Hopman Cup at end of December 2012, which forced her to miss 2013 Australian and Middle East swings; returned to tour at Indian Wells. Ranking dropped as low as No.177 in March 2013 Member of German Fed Cup Team, 2007, , Made first WTA appearances as a WC in qualifying at 2002 Hamburg and Leipzig Coached by Jan De Witt and Simon Goffin Vinci: Making second appearance at St. Petersburg, and returning in 2017 as defending champion (d. Bencic in F). Bidding to defend a title for the first time in her career The closest she has come to a title defense was in Barcelona, lifting the title in 2009 (d. Kirilenko) and finishing as R-Up in 2010 (l. Schiavone). Additionally, won title again in 2011 (d. Hradecka in F) 2016 St. Petersburg was her 10th career singles title and first at Premier level. Owns a 10-5 record in singles finals. St Petersburg win marked her first singles title since winning 2013 Palermo At 33-years-old, was the second oldest player to begin main draw, behind V.Williams (36-years-old) Defeated Babos in 1r on Tuesday defeated the Hungarian during run to title here in 2016 (at QF stage) Faces No.52 Petkovic today loss would be worst-by-ranking since falling to No.62 Larsson at 2016 New Haven Coming off 1r exit at Australian Open (l. eventual semifinalist Vandeweghe) in what was her 12th consecutive main draw appearance in Melbourne 2017 Australian Open marked her 49th Grand Slam main draw 12th most among active players Opened 2017 season at Brisbane, reaching QF (l. eventual champion Ka.Pliskova) and made 2r exit at Sydney (l. Strycova) 2017 marks her 20th season since making her WTA debut (1998 Palermo, in qualifying) Ended 2016 at No.18 for fourth non-consecutive Top 20 finish, going across the season

54 Season highlight was making Top 10 debut the week of Doha (February 22, 2016). At 33 years and 4 days old, is oldest Top 10 debutant in WTA history. Became fourth Italian to debut in world s Top 10 (after Pennetta, Schiavone and Errani). Went on to post career-high singles ranking of No.7 (May 9, 2016) Other notable results in 2016 saw QF runs at Brisbane (l. Azarenka), Doha (l. A.Radwanska), Stuttgart (l. Siegemund), New Haven (l. Larsson) and US Open (l. eventual champion Kerber). Subsequently qualified for WTA Elite Trophy-Zhuhai, losing both group stage matches (l. Strycova, eventual champion Kvitova) and failed to progress Represented Italy at the 2016 Rio Olympics in singles (l. Schmiedlova in 1r) and doubles (w/errani, l. Safarova/Strycova in QF) Is a Grand Slam finalist, reaching the title match at 2015 US Open (l. Pennetta). The final between Pennetta and Vinci was the oldest combined age (at 66 years, 19 days) of any Grand Slam final match up in the Open Era Vinci became the second-oldest first-time Grand Slam finalist at 32 years, 6 months, after her fellow finalist, Pennetta, who was 33 years, 6 months. The all-italian showdown was the first time two Italian women had met in a Grand Slam final in the Open Era Vinci was third unseeded player to advance to the US Open final, after V.Williams in 1997 (R-Up) and Clijsters in 2009 (champion). En route to the final, Vinci ended WTA World No.1 S.Williams 33-match Grand Slam winning streak at the SF stage, ending her bid for the calendar year Grand Slam. It was the Italian s second career victory over a World No.1 (after Wozniacki at 2011 Toronto) Aside from 2015 US Open, has reached the QF stage there three times 2012 (l. Errani), 2013 (l. Pennetta) and 2016 (l. eventual champion Kerber) Owns three career wins vs. Top 2 ranked opponents: No.1 Wozniacki (2011 Toronto), No.2 A.Radwanska (2012 US Open) and No.1 S.Williams (2015 US Open) Won 25th career doubles title at 2015 Auckland (w/errani); team announced the end of their partnership during 2015 Indian Wells (while both ranked No.1). Re-united to play the 2016 Rio Olympics Team of Errani/Vinci qualified for WTA Finals three straight years, , but dropped opener on each occasion; Vinci also qualified for the season finale in 2001 (w/testud) Completed career doubles Grand Slam by winning 2014 Wimbledon title (w/errani); pair won five Grand Slam doubles titles from eight finals In total, spent 110 weeks as doubles world No.1 (seventh on all-time list for weeks in top spot) Member of Italian Fed Cup team that won the competition four times (2006, 2009, 2010, 2013) Coached by Francesco Cina

55 MATCH NOTES: ST. PETERSBURG LADIES TROPHY ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA JAN 30 FEB 5, 2017 USD $753,000 PREMIER EVENT WTA Website: facebook.com/wta Tournament Website: facebook.com/formulatx WTA Communications: Adam Lincoln Chris Whitmore Onsite Media Desk: ST. PETERSBURG LADIES TROPHY MATCH NOTES DAY 3 SIBUR ARENA [1] SIMONA HALEP (ROU #4) vs. ANA KONJUH (CRO #39) First meeting DARIA GAVRILOVA (AUS #26) vs. [3] SVETLANA KUZNETSOVA (RUS #8) Kuznetsova leads 3-0 [5] ELENA VESNINA (RUS #16) vs. EKATERINA MAKAROVA (RUS #37) Makarova leads 7-2 (6-1 art WTA main draw level) [WC] NATALIA VIKHLYANTSEVA (RUS #115) vs. [8] DARIA KASATKINA (RUS #27) First meeting PRIZE MONEY AND RANKING POINT BREAKDOWN SINGLES USD $ RANK RANK DOUBLES USD $ POINTS POINTS Winner 132, Winner 41, Runner-Up 70, Runner-Up 22, Semifinalist 37, Semifinalist 12, Quarterfinalist 20, Quarterfinalist 6, Round of 16 10, Round of 16 3,350 1 Round of 28 6,925 1 Follow WTA on Twitter: Facebook: YouTube: 1

56 MATCH NOTES ST. PETERSBURG - RUSSIA Jan 30 - Feb 05, 2017 $776,000 PREMIER [1] SIMONA HALEP (ROU #4) vs. ANA KONJUH (CRO #39) Head to Head: First meeting SIMONA HALEP (25) $44,759 $15,505,547 0 / 14 0 / / / / / / / / WTA RANKING ROAD TO SINGAPORE LEADERBOARD DATE OF BIRTH (AGE) YTD PRIZE MONEY CAREER PRIZE MONEY SINGLES TITLES (YTD / CAREER) DOUBLES TITLES (YTD / CAREER) ST. PETERSBURG W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER 3-SET W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER TIE-BREAK W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER HARD W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER TOP 10 W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER TOP 20 W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER Left Hander W-L (MD) * * Updated entering 2017 St. Petersburg 2r ST. PETERSBURG Tournament Performance ANA KONJUH (19) $86,105 $1,363,446 0 / 1 0 / / / / / / / / 4-1 Rnd Result Duration R1 BYE - Rnd Result Duration R1 A. KONJUH d. M. NICULESCU 1-6,6-3, mins Halep: Making debut appearance at St. Petersburg Faces No.39 Konjuh today in opening match following 1r bye has fallen to opponents her rank or lower at both tournaments contested so far in 2017, losing to No.52 Siniakova (Shenzhen) and No.52 Rogers (Australian Open) Coming off 1r exit at Australian Open for second successive year (l. Rogers in 2017, l. Zhang in 2016, who was 0-14 at Grand Slams entering match and ranked No.133 at the time) Opened 2017 season at Shenzhen, reaching 2r (d. Jankovic in 1r, l. eventual champion Siniakova) Spent pre-season training with coach Darren Cahill in Adelaide Follow WTA on Twitter: Facebook: YouTube: Insights from

57 Posted third straight Top 5 season finish in 2016, at No.4, down from career-high No.2 in Season-ending ranking had improved eight years in a row until season highlighted by three titles, at Madrid (d. Cibulkova in F for second title at Premier Mandatory level, after 2015 Indian Wells), Bucharest (d. Sevatsova in F) and Montréal (d. Keys in F). Record in tour-level finals now stands at 14-8, eight of her titles coming on hardcourts Went on a 13-match winning streak thanks to titles at Bucharest (five wins) and Montréal (five wins) and SF run at Cincinnati (three wins). Was second-longest streak of 2016, after Azarenka (16) Also reached the first WTA doubles final of her career at Montréal (w/niculescu, l. Makarova/Vesnina) Qualified for WTA Finals in Singapore for the third time, going 1-2 in round-robin play d. Keys, l. Kerber and Cibulkova; did not progress to SF Other notable results in 2016 included reaching SF at Sydney (l. Kuznetsova), Cincinnati (l. Kerber) and Wuhan (l. Kvitova) and back-to-back QF at Indian Wells (l. S.Williams) and Miami (l. Bacsinszky) At the other Slams in 2016, made R16 at Roland Garros (l. Stosur) and posted QF runs at Wimbledon (l. eventual R-Up Kerber) and US Open (l. S.Williams) Withdrew from opening tournament of 2016 season at Brisbane (w/left Achilles injury) along with Birmingham (w/left Achilles injury) and Tokyo [PPO] (w/left hamstring injury) Following 1r loss at Australian Open, announced plan to undergo nasal surgery that would have entailed missing Fed Cup, Dubai and Doha, but changed mind and played throughout month of February Went 6-7 vs. Top 10 opponents in 2016, wins being over No.9 Kvitova (Fed Cup), No.9 Keys (Wimbledon and Wuhan), No.2 Kerber (Montreal), No.5 A.Radwanska (Cincinnati) and No.7 Keys (WTA Finals) Has reached at least the SF stage at all of the Grand Slams apart from Australian Open. Best results at the majors is R-Up at 2014 Roland Garros (l. Sharapova), SF at 2014 Wimbledon and 2015 US Open, and QF at Australian Open ( ) Record vs. reigning World No.1 players is 1-10, win coming at 2014 WTA Finals Singapore vs. S.Williams (group stage) Romania s highest ranked player of four women in current Top 100, ahead of Begu, Niculescu and Cirstea (week of January 30, 2017) Between May 2013 and August 2014, improved ranking from No.64 to as high as No.2 in the world, winning seven titles in this period Became third Romanian to break into the WTA Top 10 (after Ruzici, Spirlea) making Top 10 debut week of January 27, 2014; now highest-ranked Romanian woman ever

58 Romanian Fed Cup Team, 2010, 2012, Roland Garros girls singles champion Coached by Australian Darren Cahill after parting ways with former coach Victor Ionita in June 2015 Konjuh: Making debut appearance at St. Petersburg Overcame Niculescu in 1r on Tuesday in three sets Faces No.4 Halep today owns a 1-2 record Top 5 ranked opponents, defeating No.4 A.Radwanska at 2016 US Open. Losses came to No.4 Li at 2014 Australian Open and No.3 A.Radwanska at 2016 Wimbledon Coming off falling in 2r at Australian Open (d. Mladenovic, l. Gavrilova) Opened 2017 season by reaching second career singles final at Auckland (l. Davis). Rose to new career-high ranking of No.36 following result (January 9, 2017) Ended 2016 at No.48 for career-best year-end finish Season highlight was posting best result at a Grand Slam with QF run at 2016 US Open (l. eventual R-Up Ka.Pliskova). Became first Croatian woman to reach the QF at Flushing Meadows, and first at any Grand Slam since Karolina Sprem at 2004 Wimbledon (l. QF). Unranked players aside, at No.92 Konjuh was the equal second-lowest ranked player through to quarterfinals at the US Open since rankings began in November 1975 (Kerber was also ranked No.92 in 2011) Opened 2017 season by reaching second career singles final at Auckland (l. Davis). Rose to new career-high ranking of No.36 following result (January 9, 2017) Ended 2016 at No.48 for career-best year-end finish Season highlights US Open aside were SF at Guangzhou (l. Jankovic) and QF at Moscow (as LL, l. Svitolina) Represented Croatia at Rio Olympics, falling 2r in singles (l. Suarez Navarro) Forced to withdraw from Nottingham as defending champion with w/lower back injury. Won first WTA singles title at 2015 Nottingham (d. Niculescu in F) Made WTA main draw debut as wildcard at 2014 Auckland (d. top seed Vinci in 1r, l. Davis in 3s) Played first pro events of career on ITF Circuit in Croatia and Turkey in 2012 On ITF circuit won one singles title at $10k ITF/Montpellier-FRA (d. Khromacheva in F)

59 Claimed junior girls No.1 ranking after winning the Australian Open singles and doubles titles in 2013; also won 2013 US Open girls singles title Won girls doubles title at 2013 Australian Open w/zhao; also reached doubles final at 2012 Wimbledon w/bencic (l. Bouchard/Townsend in F) Currently coached by Croatian Jelena Kostanic Tosic, a former WTA player. Also assisted by Croatian Grand Slam champion Iva Majoli, the country s Fed Cup captain. Was coached by Kristijan Schneider until March this year

60 MATCH NOTES ST. PETERSBURG - RUSSIA Jan 30 - Feb 05, 2017 $776,000 PREMIER DARIA GAVRILOVA (AUS #26) vs. [3] SVETLANA KUZNETSOVA (RUS #8) Head to Head: SVETLANA KUZNETSOVA leads MOSCOW HARD I F SVETLANA KUZNETSOVA mins 2016 ROME CLAY O R16 SVETLANA KUZNETSOVA mins 2013 DUBAI HARD O R16 SVETLANA KUZNETSOVA mins DARIA GAVRILOVA (22) $182,691 $1,868,049 0 / 0 0 / / / / / / / / 6-8 WTA RANKING ROAD TO SINGAPORE LEADERBOARD DATE OF BIRTH (AGE) YTD PRIZE MONEY CAREER PRIZE MONEY SINGLES TITLES (YTD / CAREER) DOUBLES TITLES (YTD / CAREER) ST. PETERSBURG W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER 3-SET W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER TIE-BREAK W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER HARD W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER TOP 10 W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER TOP 20 W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER Left Hander W-L (MD) * * Updated entering 2017 St. Petersburg 2r ST. PETERSBURG Tournament Performance SVETLANA KUZNETSOVA (31) $194,399 $22,051,400 0 / 17 0 / / / / / / / / Rnd Result Duration R1 D. GAVRILOVA d. A. KALINSKAYA 6-4, mins Rnd Result Duration R1 BYE - Gavrilova: Making debut appearance at the St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy Overcame Kalinskaya in 1r on Monday in straight sets Faces No.8 Kuznetsova today owns a 7-16 lifetime record vs. Top 10 opponents, with wins over No.1 Kerber (2016 Hong Kong), No.5 Halep (2016 Rome), No.6 Kvitova (2016 Madrid), No.7 Kvitova (2016 Australian Open), No.7 Safarova (2015 Toronto), No.7 Ivanovic (2015 Rome) and No.2 Sharapova (2015 Miami) Lost to today s opponent Kuznetsova in first WTA singles final, at 2016 Moscow In doubles action this week, partnering Mladenovic. Team face Schuurs/Voracova in 1r Follow WTA on Twitter: Facebook: YouTube: Insights from

61 Is coming off a R16 exit at the Australian Open, equaling her best result at Melbourne, having reached this stage in became first Australian to reach R16 at Australian Open since Dellacqua in Was seeded at a Slam for the first time at Melbourne (at No.22) 2017 Australian Open marked 10th Grand Slam main draw appearance. Other best Grand Slam results include 2r showings at 2015 Roland Garros and 2016 Wimbledon. Has never progressed from 1r at US Open ( ) Defeat of No.15 Bacsinszky at Australian Open 3r improved record vs Top 20 ranked opponents to 15-26, which included eight wins in 2016: No.7 Kvitova (Australian Open), No.19 Svitolina and No.6 Kvitova (Madrid), No.5 Halep (Rome), No.19 Svitolina (Cincinnati), No.15 Bacsinszky (Beijing), No.1 Kerber (Hong Kong) and No.12 Suárez Navarro (Moscow) Made a 2r exit at Sydney (l. eventual champion Konta) Opened up 2017 season at Hopman Cup exhibition in Perth, partnering Nick Kyrgios Enjoyed strong run of form to close 2016 season, reaching QF at Beijing (l. Svitolina), SF at Hong Kong (l. Mladenovic) and first WTA singles final at Moscow (l. Kuznetsova) In Hong Kong QF, scored first victory over reigning World No.1 with defeat of Kerber Other notable 2016 result was QF run at 2016 Madrid (l. qualifier Chirico) Represented Australia at the 2016 Rio Olympics. Fell in 1r of singles (l. S.Williams) and doubles (w/stosur, l. eventual silver medalists Bacsinszky/Hingis) In April 2016, represented Australia for first time in Fed Cup competition - USA d. AUS 4-0; Gavrilova went 0-1 in singles (l. Keys) and 0-1 in doubles (w/ar.rodionova l. Mattek-Sands/Vandeweghe) Currently ranked No.26. Earned a career-high ranking of No.24 on October 24, 2016 following run to Moscow final Catapulted from No.233 at end of 2014 season to No.36 at end of named WTA s Most Impressive Newcomer for 2015 (media vote) Season highlights in 2015 included reaching first WTA semifinal at Rome (l. eventual champion Sharapova) and quarterfinals at Eastbourne and Hong Kong Won first WTA doubles title at 2015 Istanbul w/svitolina, their debut tournament together (d. Büyükakçay/Jankovic in F) Made Top 100 debut in March 2015, and Top 50 debut in May 2015 Secured permanent residence in Australia in 2013 and has represented AUS in Grand Slam play since 2014 US Open. Australian passport came through in December 2015 and now represents Australia at WTA events as well Watched 2014 Australian Open on crutches; she tore ACL in right knee at WTA 125k Series event in Taipei in November 2013; following surgery, did not play a tournament until July 2014, at ITF level

62 Made WTA main draw debut at 2012 s-hertogenbosch, scoring first career Top 40 win over No.35 Wickmayer in 1r before losing to Flipkens in 2r Played first WTA qualifying event at 2009 Moscow Played first professional events of career on ITF Circuit in Russia in 2008 On ITF Circuit, winner of four singles titles, including two 50k events in Tasmania after the 2015 Australian Open (Burnie and Launceston); also owns two ITF doubles titles 2010 US Open junior singles champion and Youth Olympics champion Coached by Nicole Pratt and Biljana Veselinovic Kuznetsova: Making debut appearance at St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy Faces Gavrilova today in opening match following 1r bye. Owns a 3-0 record against the Australian, dropping only one set in three previous meetings Defeat of Gavrilova in final at 2016 Moscow secured place at WTA Finals - entered tournament on a wildcard, knowing she would only qualify for Singapore should she successfully defend the title she won in After 1r bye, defeated Cornet (2r), Babos (QF) and Svitolina (SF) before emphatic victory against Gavrilova in the final Hasn t suffered opening match loss since 2016 Eastbourne (after 1r bye, l. Ka.Bondarenko), a run stretching 13 tournaments Coming off run to R16 at Australian Open (l. Pavlyuchenkova). Was 57th time contesting main draw at a Grand Slam, which is the seventh most among active players Prize money from Australian Open saw her pass the US$22 million mark only 12 other players have achieved this milestone Opened 2017 season at Brisbane, reaching QF (l. Muguruza). Posted 2r exit at Sydney (as defending champion, l. Pavlyuchenkova) Secured her 600th match win (all levels) at 2017 Brisbane (1r, d. Chirico) is fifth active player to reach the milestone, after V.Williams, S.Williams, Jankovic and Sharapova. Currently sits 18th on all-time list for match wins Made sixth appearance at WTA Finals in 2016, where she qualified for SF for the first time (l. Cibulkova); in five previous appearances (2004, ), had never progressed beyond group stage. Her gap of six years between WTA Finals (2009 to 2016) was most since Capriati and Frazier s seven year gaps (both from )

63 Defeat of No.3 A.Radwanska and No.5 Ka.Pliskova at WTA Finals improved record vs. Top 5 opponents to 5-4 in 2016, with other wins against No.2 Halep (Sydney), No.1 S.Williams (Miami) and No.4 A.Radwanska (Wuhan) Including defeats of A.Radwanska and Ka.Pliskova in Singapore, won 22 three-set matches in 2016, the most on the WTA for the season, and most for three years (Kvitova, 25 in 2013) Won two singles titles in 2016, at Sydney (d. Puig in F) and Moscow (d. Gavrilova in F). Also finished R-Up at Miami (l. Azarenka in F). Record in WTA singles finals now stands at In Grand Slam play in 2016, reached R16 at Roland Garros (l. eventual champion Muguruza) and Wimbledon (l. eventual champion S.Williams) and 2r at Australian Open (l. K.Bondarenko) and US Open (l. Wozniacki) Wimbledon result saw her return to the Top 10 (at No.10) for first time since May 2010, before peaking at No.7 the week of Beijing her highest rank since May 2010 when she was No.6 heading into her Roland Garros title defence Other notable results in 2016 included SF run at Prague (conceded w/o vs. Stosur w/abdominal injury) and QF at Rome (l. eventual champion S.Williams), Montréal (l. eventual champion Halep) and Cincinnati (l. eventual champion Ka.Pliskova) Advanced to 3r at Rio Olympics (l. Konta). Also competed in doubles w/kasatkina (l. Hlavackova/Hradecka in 3r) Owns seven wins over reigning world No.1s (7-20 record), most recently defeating S.Williams at 2016 Miami. Defeated Mauresmo, Safina and Henin twice each when they were No.1; one of only two players (also S.Williams) to beat Henin twice when she was No.1 A two-time Grand Slam champion, winning 2004 US Open (d. Dementieva in F) and 2009 Roland Garros (d. Safina in F). Has also achieved runner-up finishes at 2006 Roland Garros (l. Henin) and 2007 US Open (l. Henin). At Wimbledon, has reached QF three times, in 2003, 2005 and 2007 Her 16 career doubles titles (most recently 2013 Moscow w/stosur) includes two Grand Slam titles, both at the Australian Open in 2005 (w/molik) and 2012 (w/zvonareva) One of five Russians to rank in Top 2 (also Myskina, Sharapova, Zvonareva, Safina); had chance to become No.1 by winning 2008 Roland Garros (fell two matches short with SF loss to Safina); also achieved career-high No.3 in doubles (June 7, 2004) Ranked continuously in Top 20 from March 1, 2004 to July 11, 2010 (including over four years ranked continuously in Top 10 April 2006 to June 2010) Russian Fed Cup Team, 2004, , ; Russian Olympic Team, 2004, 2008, 2016 Coached by Carlos Martinez

64 MATCH NOTES ST. PETERSBURG - RUSSIA Jan 30 - Feb 05, 2017 $776,000 PREMIER [5] ELENA VESNINA (RUS #16) vs. EKATERINA MAKAROVA (RUS #37) Head to Head: EKATERINA MAKAROVA leads BEIJING HARD O R1 EKATERINA MAKAROVA mins 2016 WIMBLEDON GRASS O R16 ELENA VESNINA mins 2015 ROLAND GARROS CLAY O R3 EKATERINA MAKAROVA mins 2015 INDIAN WELLS HARD O R2 EKATERINA MAKAROVA mins 2014 MONTRÉAL HARD O R2 EKATERINA MAKAROVA mins 2012 US OPEN HARD O R2 EKATERINA MAKAROVA mins 2008 LINZ HARD I Q - QF EKATERINA MAKAROVA (5) 113 mins 2008 MOSCOW HARD I R1 EKATERINA MAKAROVA 7-6(4) 7-6(1) 147 mins 2004 $25k ITF/BALASHIKHA-RUS CLAY O R16 ELENA VESNINA N/A ELENA VESNINA (30) $150,178 $9,097,385 0 / 2 0 / / / / / / / / WTA RANKING ROAD TO SINGAPORE LEADERBOARD DATE OF BIRTH (AGE) YTD PRIZE MONEY CAREER PRIZE MONEY SINGLES TITLES (YTD / CAREER) DOUBLES TITLES (YTD / CAREER) ST. PETERSBURG W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER 3-SET W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER TIE-BREAK W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER HARD W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER TOP 10 W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER TOP 20 W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER Left Hander W-L (MD) * EKATERINA MAKAROVA (28) $215,887 $10,174,616 0 / 2 0 / / / / / / / / ST. PETERSBURG Tournament Performance Rnd Result Duration Rnd Result Duration ST. PETERSBURG Tournament History ELENA VESNINA 2016 R16 L - KATERYNA KOZLOVA (UKR #177) R1 W - PATRICIA MARIA TIG (ROU #124) Follow WTA on Twitter: Facebook: YouTube: Insights from

65 Vesnina: Making second appearance at St. Petersburg. In 2016, reached 2r (d. Tig in opening match, l. Kozlova) Faces longtime doubles partner Makarova today in opening match. Between them, the team have won two Grand Slam doubles titles (2013 Roland Garros and 2014 US Open, and are six-time Slam runners-up), the gold medal at 2016 Rio Olympics and the 2016 WTA Finals. The pair own a record in career doubles finals, are their lifetime record together stands at (tour-level) This is their 10th meeting, with Makarova undefeated against Vesnina on hard court Makarova was a bridesmaid at Vesnina s wedding in November 2015 Owns a lifetime record vs. left-handed players Coming off reaching 3r at Australian Open (l. No.116 Brady). Enjoyed her highest seeding at a Slam in Melbourne (at No.14) Opened 2017 season with back-to-back 1r exits, at Brisbane (l. eventual finalist Cornet) and Sydney (l. Vandeweghe, ret. due to low back injury) Finished 2016 ranked No.16, up from No.111 at the end of was first year-end finish outside the Top 100 in 10 years Is 9-40 in her career vs. Top 10 opponents, and was 3-2 in 2016 this was the first time in her career she achieved three Top 10 wins in a single season 2016 season highlight was reaching final at Charleston (l. Stephens in F) and winning gold medal in doubles at 2016 Rio Olympics (w/makarova, d. Bacsinszky/Hingis in F). Team also won Montréal and WTA Finals in 2016 Made SF at 2016 Wimbledon (l. eventual champion S.Williams), which marked bets singles result at a Grand Slam. Ranked No.50 at the time, was the 19th unseeded player to advance to a Grand Slam SF since 2001 Wimbledon (first Grand Slam with 32 seeds) Reached QF at 2016 Doha (l. Suarez Navarro) to return to Top 100 (from No.118). Upset No.4 Halep in 2r; was first Top 10 victory since defeated No.6 Li Na during title run at 2013 Eastbourne Went in singles main draw matches in 2016, most wins since 2013 (30-20) Owns two WTA singles titles, both coming from the 2013 season (Hobart and Eastbourne). A finalists on seven occasions most recently 2016 Charleston (l. Stephens). Owns a 2-7 record in singles finals (was 0-6 in singles finals before winning first title at 2013 Hobart) Made WTA debut at 2003 Moscow Russian No.2 of seven in Top 100 (as at January 30, 2017) Husband is Pavel Tabuntsov (married November 2015) Coached by father, Sergey Vesnin

66 Makarova: Making debut appearance at St. Petersburg Faces longtime doubles partner Vesnina today in opening match. Between them, the team have won two Grand Slam doubles titles (2013 Roland Garros and 2014 US Open, and are six-time Slam runners-up), are Olympic gold medalists (at 2016 Rio Olympics) and reigning doubles champions at the WTA Finals. The pair s lifetime record together stands at (tour-level) This is their 10th meeting, with Makarova undefeated against Vesnina on hard court In November 2015, was a bridesmaid at Vesnina s wedding Owns a record vs. Top 20 opponents faces No.16 Vesnina today Coming off run to R16 at Australian Open (l. Konta) was seventh year in a row reaching R16 or better in Melbourne Defeat of No.6 Cibulkova in 3r at Australian Open (and loss to No.9 Konta in R16) takes lifetime record vs. Top 10 players to In doubles at Australian Open, team of Makarova/Vesnina reached QF (l. eventual R-Up Hlavackova/Peng) 2017 Australian Open marked 38th successive main draw appearance at a Grand Slam has now not missed a major since making debut at 2007 US Open (as qualifier, l. Henin in 2r) Opened 2017 season with 1r losses at Brisbane (l. Doi) and Sydney (l. Strycova); was runner-up (w/vesnina) in doubles at Brisbane (l. Mattek-Sands/Mirza in F) Posted fifth consecutive Top 30 singles season in 2016 (at No.30) and fourth straight Top 10 doubles season (No.8) Singles highlights in 2016 included four QFs, at Sydney (l. Bencic), Miami (l. Kuznetsova), Eastbourne (l. Konta) and New Haven (l. Kvitova) Also in 2016 reached R16 at Australian Open (l. Konta), Wimbledon (l. Vesnina) and Rio Olympics (l. Kvitova) Made 1r exit at 2016 US Open (l. S.Williams) in what was her first opening round loss at a major since 2013 Roland Garros (l. Kuznetsova) Stellar doubles season in 2016 included winning gold medal for Russia at Rio Olympics (w/vesnina; d. Bacsinszky/Hingis in F) and titles at Montréal (d. Halep/Niculescu in F) and WTA Finals in Singapore (d. Mattek-Sands/Safarova in F). Also were runners-up at Rome (l. Hingis/Mirza) and Roland Garros (l. Garcia/Mladenovic) Is now 9-16 in career doubles finals Career-best singles wins-by-ranking so far have been over No.3 Azarenka (2013 Madrid) and No.3 Halep (2015 Australian Open) Posted three Top 10 wins in 2016 d. No.7 Kvitova (Miami), No.7 Vinci (Eastbourne) and No.10 Kvitova (Wimbledon)

67 Right lower leg injury forced her off tour after 2015 US Open; missed the Asian swing; forced to withdraw from doubles at 2015 WTA Finals (having qualified with Vesnina), and the Russian Fed Cup team which contested the final against Czech Republic Made Top 10 debut in January 2015; the 110th player to move into the Top 10 in WTA history and 12th Russian to do so; reached career-best ranking of No.8 on April 6, 2015 Russian No.5 of seven in Top 100 (as at January 30, 2017) Best result across the Slams is SF runs at 2015 Australian Open (l. Sharapova) and 2014 US Open (l. eventual champion S.Williams). Has made QF at 2013 US Open (l. Li) and 2014 Wimbledon (l. Safarova). Has reached R16 at Roland Garros in 2011 and 2015 One of three players who ve never held No.1 ranking and defeated both Williams sisters in Grand Slam play (S.Williams at 2012 Australian Open and V.Williams at 2014 Australian Open). Since joined by Sloane Stephens, who defeated Serena at 2013 Australian Open and Venus at 2015 Roland Garros, and Ka.Pliskova, who defeated both Williams sisters at 2016 US Open Won 2012 US Open mixed doubles title (w/soares) Member of Russian Fed Cup side that won competition in 2008 Made WTA qualifying debut at 2004 Moscow and main draw debut at 2007 Los Angeles Coached by Evgenia Manyukova

68 MATCH NOTES ST. PETERSBURG - RUSSIA Jan 30 - Feb 05, 2017 $776,000 PREMIER [WC] NATALIA VIKHLYANTSEVA (RUS #115) vs. [8] DARIA KASATKINA (RUS #27) Head to Head: First meeting NATALIA VIKHLYANTSEVA (19) $58,408 $155,421 0 / 0 0 / / / / / / / / 0-0 WTA RANKING ROAD TO SINGAPORE LEADERBOARD DATE OF BIRTH (AGE) YTD PRIZE MONEY CAREER PRIZE MONEY SINGLES TITLES (YTD / CAREER) DOUBLES TITLES (YTD / CAREER) ST. PETERSBURG W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER 3-SET W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER TIE-BREAK W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER HARD W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER TOP 10 W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER TOP 20 W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER Left Hander W-L (MD) * * Updated entering 2017 St. Petersburg 2r DARIA KASATKINA (19) $80,552 $1,219,381 0 / 0 0 / / / / / / / / 3-1 Rnd Result Duration ST. PETERSBURG Tournament Performance Rnd Result Duration R1 N. VIKHLYANTSEVA d. Y. SHVEDOVA 6-3, mins R1 D. KASATKINA d. B. BENCIC 6-2, mins ST. PETERSBURG Tournament History * Qualifying match NATALIA VIKHLYANTSEVA 2016 R1 L - MONICA NICULESCU (ROU #37) DARIA KASATKINA 2016 SF L - BELINDA BENCIC (SUI #11) QF W - DOMINIKA CIBULKOVA (SVK #66) R16 W - LAURA SIEGEMUND (GER #87) R1 W - KIRSTEN FLIPKENS (BEL #69) Follow WTA on Twitter: Facebook: YouTube: Insights from

69 Vikhlyantseva: Making second appearance at St. Petersburg. In 2016, also entering on a wildcard, fell 1r (l. Niculescu) Played first professional match in St. Petersburg in 2012 at the $10k ITF event held here (fell 1r) On Monday, defeated No.45 Shvedova for best win-by-ranking of career, without dropping a set in the process. Can better that today with win over No.27 Kasatkina Win was fifth over a Top 100 opponent, having also defeated No.93 Friedsam (2015 Shenzhen), No.80 Allertova (2016 s-hertogenbosch), No.69 Dodin (2016 Limoges) and No.75 King (2017 Australian Open) 2017 St. Petersburg marks only sixth tour-level main draw appearance One of six Russians to begin main draw this week in St Petersburg Coming off making Grand Slam main draw debut at 2017 Australian Open, advancing to 2r (as qualifier, l. Pavlyuchenkova) Enters 2017 St. Petersburg on a career-high singles ranking of No.115 after her 2r appearance in Melbourne (as of January 30, 2017) Ended 2016 at No.161 for best year-end finish 2016 highlights include a SF run at WTA 125K Series event at Limoges (l. Garcia) and a 2r showing at s-hertogenbosch (as qualifier, l. Mladenovic in 3s) Won first ITF singles titles in 2016, at $25K ITF/Plzen-CZE and $100K ITF/Saint-Petersburg-RUS. Also owns one ITF doubles title, at 2016 $25k ITF/Wesley Chapel, FL-USA Made WTA main draw debut at 2015 Shenzhen, advancing to 2r (l. Halep); second main draw appearance came at 2015 Miami (l. Smitkova) Began playing tennis aged seven; plays right handed with double-handed backhand Coached by Evgeniy Drozhin; currently trains at the Mouratoglou Tennis Academy Kasatkina: Making second main draw appearance at St. Petersburg. Advanced to SF in 2016 (l. Bencic, whom she defeated in straight sets in opening match on Tuesday) Faces No.115 and countrywoman Vikhlyantseva today last loss to a player outside Top 100 came at 2016 Linz (l. No.102 Allertova)

70 Coming off disappointing 1r exit at Australian Open last week (l. Peng). Enjoyed highest seeding at a Slam in Melbourne (No.23) Opened 2017 season with a 2r exit at Brisbane (l. Muguruza) and QF showing at Sydney (d. No.1 Kerber in R16, l. eventual champion Konta) Defeat of No.1 Kerber was first such victory over a reigning No.1; is now 1-1 vs. No.1 players (l. S.Williams at 2016 Australian Open 3r) With win over No.1 Kerber, became 6th teenager to defeat a World No.1 since the beginning of 2009 Teenager Age Reigning No.1 Tournament Round Score Daria Kasatkina 19 Angelique Kerber 2017 Sydney R16 7-6(5) 6-2 Belinda Bencic 18 Serena Williams 2015 Toronto S Christina McHale 19 Caroline Wozniacki 2011 Cincinnati R Chang Kai-Chen 18 Dinara Safina 2009 Tokyo [PPO] R32 7-6(5) Petra Kvitova 19 Dinara Safina 2009 US Open R (5) Victoria Azarenka 19 Serena Williams 2009 Miami F Owns a 3-11 record vs. Top 10 opponents, wins coming over No.7 V.Williams (2016 Auckland), No.8 Vinci (2016 Montreal) and No.1 Kerber (2017 Sydney) Ended 2016 at career-best No.27, up from No.72 in Also posted new career-high ranking in 2016, at No.24 (week of August 15, 2016) 2016 highlights include reaching second WTA SF at St. Petersburg (l. eventual R-Up Bencic) and QF stage at Indian Wells (l. Ka.Pliskova), Charleston (l. eventual champion Stephens having held MPs), Montreal (l. Kerber), Rio Olympics (l. Keys) and Moscow (l. Goerges) In doubles, fell one match short of defending 2015 title at Moscow (w/vesnina), finishing as R-Up w/gavrilova (l. Hlavackova/Hradecka in F). Also ended Hingis/Mirza s 41-match unbeaten streak at 2016 Doha (w/vesnina) In Grand Slam play in 2016, reached 3r at Australian Open (l. eventual R-Up Serena Williams), Roland Garros (l. Bertens 10-8 in third set. Was also first time seeded at a Slam) and Wimbledon (l. V.Williams). Fell 1r at US Open (l. Wang) 2015 saw her reach her first WTA SF at 2015 Moscow (l. Pavlyuchenkova, having recorded first Top 20 win over No.14 Suarez Navarro in QF) QF run at 2015 Bad Gastein (as qualifier) was first time reaching last eight at WTA-level tournament Won five singles titles on ITF Circuit in 2015, taking total to seven Made WTA qualifying debut at 2013 Moscow; made main draw debut as WC also at Moscow in 2014 (l. Riske 1r) Born and resides in Togliatty, Russia

71 Began playing tennis at age six when older brother, Alexsandr Timkovskii, introduced her to the game; he is now her fitness trainer and travels with her Currently attending Sport College in Samara, Russia; three years into a five year degree Mother is Tatiana Timkovskaya and father is Sergey Kasatkin Loves football; favorite team is Barcelona FC Coached by Vladimir Platenik since October 2014

72 MATCH NOTES: ST. PETERSBURG LADIES TROPHY ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA JAN 30 FEB 5, 2017 USD $753,000 PREMIER EVENT WTA Website: facebook.com/wta Tournament Website: facebook.com/formulatx WTA Communications: Adam Lincoln Chris Whitmore Onsite Media Desk: ST. PETERSBURG LADIES TROPHY MATCH NOTES DAY 2 SIBUR ARENA TIMEA BABOS (HUN #30) vs. [6] ROBERTA VINCI (ITA #21) Vinci leads 4-1 [Q] ANDREA PETKOVIC (GER #52) vs. IRINA-CAMELIA BEGU (ROU #28) Petkovic leads 1-0 ALIZÉ CORNET (FRA #44) vs. [Q] KIRSTEN FLIPKENS (BEL #76) Cornet leads 5-3 (5-2 at tour-level) [Q] STEFANIE VOEGELE (SUI #114) vs. JELENA OSTAPENKO (LAT #33) Voegele leads 2-0 BELINDA BENCIC (SUI #80) vs. [8] DARIA KASATKINA (RUS #27) Series tied 1-1 PRIZE MONEY AND RANKING POINT BREAKDOWN SINGLES USD $ RANK RANK DOUBLES USD $ POINTS POINTS Winner 132, Winner 41, Runner-Up 70, Runner-Up 22, Semifinalist 37, Semifinalist 12, Quarterfinalist 20, Quarterfinalist 6, Round of 16 10, Round of 16 3,350 1 Round of 28 6,925 1 Follow WTA on Twitter: Facebook: YouTube: 1

73 MATCH NOTES ST. PETERSBURG - RUSSIA Jan 30 - Feb 05, 2017 $776,000 PREMIER TIMEA BABOS (HUN #30) vs. [6] ROBERTA VINCI (ITA #21) Head to Head: ROBERTA VINCI leads ST. PETERSBURG HARD I QF ROBERTA VINCI 7-6(3) (4) 153 mins 2015 BUCHAREST CLAY O R1 ROBERTA VINCI mins 2015 BIRMINGHAM GRASS O R1 TIMEA BABOS (5) 7-6(5) 128 mins 2013 US OPEN HARD O R1 ROBERTA VINCI mins 2011 BUDAPEST CLAY O R16 ROBERTA VINCI mins TIMEA BABOS (23) $84,361 $3,077,196 0 / 1 1 / / / / / / / / 3-9 WTA RANKING ROAD TO SINGAPORE LEADERBOARD DATE OF BIRTH (AGE) YTD PRIZE MONEY CAREER PRIZE MONEY SINGLES TITLES (YTD / CAREER) DOUBLES TITLES (YTD / CAREER) ST. PETERSBURG W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER 3-SET W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER TIE-BREAK W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER HARD W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER TOP 10 W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER TOP 20 W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER Left Hander W-L (MD) * * Updated through entering 2017 St. Petersburg 1r ST. PETERSBURG Tournament Performance ROBERTA VINCI (33) $70,282 $11,445,011 0 / 10 0 / / / / / / / / * Qualifying match Rnd Result Duration Rnd Result Duration ST. PETERSBURG Tournament History * Qualifying match TIMEA BABOS 2016 QF L - ROBERTA VINCI (ITA #16) 7-6(3) (4) R16 W - MONICA NICULESCU (ROU #37) R1 W - KATERINA SINIAKOVA (CZE #109) 7-6(0) 7-5 ROBERTA VINCI 2016 F W - BELINDA BENCIC (SUI #11) SF W - ANA IVANOVIC (SRB #20) QF W - TIMEA BABOS (HUN #51) 7-6(3) (4) R16 W - YANINA WICKMAYER (BEL #55) (2) R1 BYE Follow WTA on Twitter: Facebook: YouTube: Insights from

74 Babos: Making second main draw appearance at St. Petersburg. Advanced to QF in 2016 (l. eventual champion and today s opponent Vinci); loss went to a third-set tiebreak Coming off a 1r loss at the Australian Open (l. Gibbs). Has not advanced passed 1r yet this season; Fell in 1r at Sydney (l. Kasatkina) and Shenzhen (l. Stojanovic) 2017 Australian Open marked her 18 th Grand Slam appearance; best Grand Slam result was at 2016 US Open (3r, l. Halep) Finished 2016 ranked No.26 just one spot shy of her career-high ranking of No.25 (September 19, 2016) marks her fifth consecutive season within the Top 100 Qualified for the WTA Elite Trophy Zhuhai; fell in round robin stage (0-2) to No.18 Bacsinszky and No.28 S.Zhang Runner-up in two Grand Slam doubles finals: 2014 Wimbledon (w/mladenovic, l. Errani/Vinci) and 2016 Wimbledon (w/shvedova, l. S.Williams/V.Williams) Qualified for the 2016 WTA Finals w/shvedova - fell in 1r (l. Mattek-Sands/Safarova); also qualified for 2015 WTA Finals w/mladenovic - pair exited at RR stage Owns 0-7 record vs. Top 5 players in career. Losses came to No.1 S.Williams (2015 Wimbledon), No.2 Halep (2015 Guangzhou), No.5 Muguruza (2016 Doha), No.3 Kerber (2016 Miami), No.4 Muguruza (2016 Stuttgart), No.3 Muguruza (2016 Cincinnati) and No.5 Halep (US Open) Made a 3r run at 2016 US Open to highlight her season; in addition reached seventh QF of season at Moscow (l. eventual champion Kuznetsova). Defeated No.11 Cibulkova at Cincinnati to improve career record vs. Top 20 opponents to Four of those wins came in 2016: No.17 Errani (Doha), No.14 Ka.Pliskova (Miami), No.14 V.Williams (Rome) and No.11 Cibulkova (Cincinnati). Other Top 20 wins were over No.18 Stosur (2015 Cincinnati) and No.17 Ivanovic (2013 Monterrey) Reached third singles final of career at 2016 Florianopolis (l. Begu in F). Record in singles finals now stands at 1-2, with sole title coming in only fourth tour-level event at 2012 Monterrey (d. Cadantu in F) Represented Hungary at 2016 Rio Olympics, falling 1r in singles (l. Kvitova) and doubles (w/jani, l. Mitu/Olaru) Played six tournaments across the 2016 clay swing, highlighted by SF appearance at Rabat (l. eventual champion Bacsinszky). Also reached 3r at Rome (l. Keys); other clay court results included 2r at Stuttgart (l. Muguruza), 1r at Madrid (l. Suarez Navarro), 2r at Strasbourg (l. Lucic-Baroni) and 2r at Roland Garros (l. Mladenovic) Made solid start to 2016 season, advancing to SF at Shenzhen (l. Riske), before achieving best result at Australian Open by reaching 2r (l. Bencic); during 2016 spring US hardcourt swing, fell 1r at Indian Wells (l. Tsurenko), before reaching R16 at Miami (l. Kerber), which matched the best performance by a Hungarian there (Szavay in 2009). Also on hardcourts, reached QF at Katowice (l. Ostapenko) In doubles, won 2017 Sydney earlier this month (w/pavlyuchenkova). Now owns 11-8 record in doubles finals 2015 season was highlighted by a runner-up finish at Marrakech (l. Svitolina in F), winning the WTA 125K Series event in Taipei (d. Doi in F), and three doubles titles, at Dubai, Marrackech and Rome (all w/mladenovic) Is only Hungarian woman ranked in the current Top 100 (as of January 30, 2017) Received WC into first WTA event of career at 2010 Budapest (l. Bacsinszky in 1r) On ITF Circuit, has won 13 singles and 10 doubles titles

75 Hungarian Fed Cup Team, and Hungarian Olympic Team, 2012, 2016 In juniors, was three-time doubles Grand Slam champion (2010 Roland Garros/Wimbledon/US Open all with Sloane Stephens) and two-time runner-up (2009 Roland Garros, 2010 Australian Open) Coached by Thomas Drouet Vinci: Making her second appearance at St. Petersburg as the defending champion (d. Bencic in F). Bidding to defend a title for the first time in her career At 33-years-old, is the second oldest player in the main draw behind V.Williams (36-years-old) Coming off an early exit at the Australian Open (l. Vandeweghe in 1r) in her 12th consecutive main draw appearance 2017 Australian Open marked her 49th Grand Slam main draw 12th most among active players Opened 2017 season at Brisbane, reaching QF (l. eventual champion Ka.Pliskova) and made a 2r exit at Sydney (l. Strycova) 2017 marks her 20th season since making her WTA debut (1998 Palermo, in qualifying) Plays No.30 Babos today in their sixth career meeting and second in St. Petersburg Is a Grand Slam finalist, reaching the title match at 2015 US Open (l. Pennetta). The final between Pennetta and Vinci was the oldest combined age (at 66 years, 19 days) of any Grand Slam final match up in the Open Era Vinci became the second-oldest first-time Grand Slam finalist at 32 years, 6 months, after her fellow finalist, Pennetta, who was 33 years, 6 months The all-italian showdown was the first time two Italian women had met in a Grand Slam final in the Open Era Vinci was third unseeded player to advance to the US Open final, after V.Williams in 1997 (R-Up) and Clijsters in 2009 (champion) En route to the final, Vinci ended WTA World No.1 S.Williams 33-match Grand Slam winning streak at the SF stage, ending her bid for the calendar year Grand Slam. It was the Italian s second career victory over a World No.1 (after Wozniacki at 2011 Toronto) Aside from 2015 US Open, has reached the QF stage there three times 2012 (l. Errani), 2013 (l. Pennetta) and 2016 (l. eventual champion Kerber) Ended 2016 at No.18 for fourth non-consecutive Top 20 finish, going across the season Season highlight was making Top 10 debut the week of Doha (February 22, 2016). At 33 years and 4 days old, is oldest Top 10 debutant in WTA history. Became fourth Italian to debut in world s Top 10 (after Pennetta, Schiavone and Errani). Went on to post career-high singles ranking of No.7 (May 9, 2016) Won her 10th career singles title and first at Premier level at 2016 St Petersburg (d. Bencic in F); owns a 10-5 record in singles finals. St Petersburg win marked her first singles title since winning 2013 Palermo Other notable results in 2016 saw QF runs at Brisbane (l. Azarenka), Doha (l. A.Radwanska), Stuttgart (l. Siegemund), New Haven (l. Larsson) and US Open (l. eventual champion Kerber). Subsequently qualified for WTA Elite Trophy-Zhuhai, losing both group stage matches (l. Strycova, eventual champion Kvitova) and failed to progress Represented Italy at the 2016 Rio Olympics in singles (l. Schmiedlova in 1r) and doubles (w/errani, l. Safarova/Strycova in QF)

76 Owns three career wins vs. Top 2 ranked opponents: No.1 Wozniacki (2011 Toronto), No.2 A.Radwanska (2012 US Open) and No.1 S.Williams (2015 US Open) Won 25th career doubles title at 2015 Auckland (w/errani); team announced the end of their partnership during 2015 Indian Wells (while both ranked No.1). Re-united to play the 2016 Rio Olympics Team of Errani/Vinci qualified for WTA Finals three straight years, , but dropped opener on each occasion; Vinci also qualified for the season finale in 2001 (w/testud) Completed career doubles Grand Slam by winning 2014 Wimbledon title (w/errani); pair won five Grand Slam doubles titles from eight finals In total, spent 110 weeks as doubles world No.1 (seventh on all-time list for weeks in top spot) Member of Italian Fed Cup team that won the competition four times (2006, 2009, 2010, 2013) Coached by Francesco Cina

77 MATCH NOTES ST. PETERSBURG - RUSSIA Jan 30 - Feb 05, 2017 $776,000 PREMIER [Q] ANDREA PETKOVIC (GER #52) vs. IRINA-CAMELIA BEGU (ROU #28) Head to Head: ANDREA PETKOVIC leads MADRID CLAY O R2 IRINA-CAMELIA BEGU W/O 2014 WIMBLEDON GRASS O R2 ANDREA PETKOVIC mins ANDREA PETKOVIC (29) $91,835 $6,274,670 0 / 6 0 / / / / / / / / WTA RANKING ROAD TO SINGAPORE LEADERBOARD DATE OF BIRTH (AGE) YTD PRIZE MONEY CAREER PRIZE MONEY SINGLES TITLES (YTD / CAREER) DOUBLES TITLES (YTD / CAREER) ST. PETERSBURG W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER 3-SET W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER TIE-BREAK W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER HARD W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER TOP 10 W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER TOP 20 W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER Left Hander W-L (MD) * * Updated through entering 2017 St. Petersburg 1r ST. PETERSBURG Tournament Performance IRINA-CAMELIA BEGU (26) $84,322 $3,248,515 0 / 3 0 / / / / / / / / 9-11 * Qualifying match Rnd Result Duration Rnd Result Duration R3* A. PETKOVIC d. A. KOMARDINA 6-2, mins R2* A. PETKOVIC d. B. HAAS 6-3, mins R1* A. PETKOVIC d. L. KERKHOVE 7-6(3), mins ST. PETERSBURG Tournament History * Qualifying match Follow WTA on Twitter: Facebook: YouTube: Insights from

78 Petkovic: Making debut appearance at St. Petersburg, having gone through three rounds of qualifying (d. Kerkhove, Haas and Komardina without dropping a set) Enters St. Petersburg following two 2r appearances at Australian Open (l. Strycova) and Hobart (l. Cepede Royg) 2017 Australian Open was first time advancing passed the 1r at Melbourne Park since Australian Open marked 29th Grand Slam main draw appearance. Best result at a major came at 2011 Roland Garros, where she advanced to SF (l. eventual R-Up Halep). Reached QF at 2011 Australian Open (l. Li) and at Wimbledon has progressed to 3r on three occasions Plays No.28 Begu today. Last win over a Top 30 player came at 2016 Luxembourg (d. No.25 Garcia in R16) Owns a overall record vs. Top 20 players. Most recent wins came against No.20 Jankovic at 2016 Dubai and No.5 Muguruza at 2016 Doha Is currently the third ranked German behind No.2 Kerber and No.6 Siegemund (of six in the Top 100) - as of January 30, 2017 Finished 2016 ranked No.56, dropping from 2015 s finish at No.24 fourth straight season ranked inside the Top 100 Is a former Top 10 player, cracking the elite bracket at No.9 in September of 2011 and again in May of 2015 Made a QF run at 2016 Luxembourg (l. Davis) def. No.25 Garcia en route prior to QF run, had not won back-to-back matches since 2016 Eastbourne (3r, l. Makarova)) Bowed out of 2016 Rio Olympics in 1r of singles (l. Svitolina) and 1r of doubles (w/kerber, l. Errani/Vinci) 2016 season highlights were one SF (Doha) and three QFs appearances (Luxembourg, Dubai and Brisbane); otherwise struggled to get passed the 2r only advancing one additional time (3r, Eastbourne) Scored best result of 2016 with SF run at Doha (ret. vs. Ostapenko). Advanced to SF by defeating No.5 Muguruza; first win over a Top 5 opponent since d. No.2 Azarenka at 2013 Beijing Was in Fed Cup action in April 2016; went 1-1 in singles (l. Halep, d. Niculescu) as Germany beat Romania 4-1 in WG play-off tie Mixed results across 2015 saw her end season at No.24, qualifying for WTA Elite Trophy in Zhuhai. Lost both group matches opening match loss to Suárez Navarro in 51 minutes (60 60 first double bagel of career) followed by defeat to Svitolina Won sixth WTA singles title at 2015 Antwerp (d. Suarez Navarro in F via w/o neck injury) Has won six singles titles from 11 finals appearances four of six titles have been won on clay Is a two-time doubles runner-up, at 2009 Bad Gastein (w/maria) and 2016 Brisbane (w/kerber) Owns a lifetime record vs. Top 10 opponents, most recent win coming over No.5 Muguruza (2016 Doha). Other Top 10 wins were over No.9 Makarova (2015 Miami), No.2 Azarenka (2013 Beijing), No.10 Bartoli (2011 Beijing), No.6 Kvitova (2011 Cincinnati), No.7 Kvitova (2011 Toronto), No.7 Jankovic (2011 Stuttgart), No.6 Jankovic (2011 Miami), No.1 Wozniacki (2011 Miami), No.5 V.Williams (2011 Australian Open, by ret.) and No.6 Kuznetsova (2009 Tokyo) Suffered right knee injury at Hopman Cup at end of December 2012, which forced her to miss 2013 Australian and Middle East swings; returned to tour at Indian Wells. Ranking dropped as low as No.177 in March 2013 Member of German Fed Cup Team, 2007, , Made first WTA appearances as a WC in qualifying at 2002 Hamburg and Leipzig

79 Coached by Jan De Witt and Simon Goffin Begu: Making debut appearance at St. Petersburg Coming off a 2r appearance at the Australian Open (l. Kr.Pliskova) Opened her 2017 season with 1r exits at Brisbane (l. Kasatkina) and Sydney (l. Kuznetsova) Faces No.52 Petkovic today; is looking for second win of season. 1r win over Shvedova at Melbourne marked sole win so far in 2017 Equaled best Grand Slam result at 2016 Roland Garros by reaching R16 (l. Rogers) also advanced to R16 at 2015 Australian Open (l. Bouchard). With Halep also reaching R16 at 2016 Roland Garros, was first time since 1997 two Romanian women reached R16 at Paris since 1997 (Spirlea and Dragomir) After clinching third WTA singles title at 2016 Florianopolis in July (d. Babos in final), did not surpass the 2r for the rest of the season (eight tournaments) Represented Romania at 2016 Rio Olympics, making 1r exits in singles (l. Hibino) and doubles (w/niculescu, l. Chan/Chan) Other notable results in 2016 included SF at Rome (l. S.Williams), QF at Charleston (l. Kerber) and QF at Madrid (l. Halep) In run to QF at Madrid was one of four Romanians for reach QF which was first time this had occurred at a Premier Mandatory event (also Halep, Cirstea and Tig). Secured two milestones during Madrid: career-best win vs. No.4 Muguruza, and 300th match win of career (all levels) with R16 defeat of McHale Currently the No.2 ranked Romanian behind Halep, of four in Top 100 (as at January 30, 2017) Owns a 5-21 lifetime record vs. Top 10 opponents, wins coming over No.9 Wozniacki (2012 US Open), No.9 Kerber (2015 Australian Open), No.4 Muguruza (2016 Madrid), No.6 Azarenka (2016 Rome), No.8 Bencic (2016 Birmingham via ret.) Posted fourth non-consecutive Top 50 finish in 2016 (at No.29) a career best year-end ranking Won maiden singles title at 2012 Tashkent and is a three-time runner-up: 2011 Marbella, 2011 Budapest, and at Premier-level 2014 Moscow (l. Pavlyuchenkova in F) Owns four WTA doubles titles from nine finals, most recently at 2014 Rio de Janeiro (w/irigoyen) Struggled with right shoulder injury in 2013 first felt pain at 2013 Australian Open and missed three months of action; says confidence as well as ranking suffered Won 11 singles titles and 19 doubles titles on ITF Circuit Voted WTA Newcomer of the Year in 2011 (media vote) Coached by Artemon Apostu

80 MATCH NOTES ST. PETERSBURG - RUSSIA Jan 30 - Feb 05, 2017 $776,000 PREMIER ALIZÉ CORNET (FRA #44) vs. [Q] KIRSTEN FLIPKENS (BEL #76) Head to Head: ALIZÉ CORNET leads ROLAND GARROS CLAY O R1 ALIZÉ CORNET mins 2015 ISTANBUL HARD O R16 KIRSTEN FLIPKENS mins 2015 DUBAI HARD O R1 ALIZÉ CORNET (6) mins 2014 WUHAN HARD O R16 ALIZÉ CORNET 7-6(4) mins 2014 ROME CLAY O R1 ALIZÉ CORNET mins 2014 DUBAI HARD O R16 ALIZÉ CORNET mins 2012 LINZ HARD I R1 KIRSTEN FLIPKENS mins 2006 BIARRITZ CLAY O R16 KIRSTEN FLIPKENS n/a ALIZÉ CORNET (27) $173,036 $5,214,371 0 / 5 0 / / / / / / / / WTA RANKING ROAD TO SINGAPORE LEADERBOARD DATE OF BIRTH (AGE) YTD PRIZE MONEY CAREER PRIZE MONEY SINGLES TITLES (YTD / CAREER) DOUBLES TITLES (YTD / CAREER) ST. PETERSBURG W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER 3-SET W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER TIE-BREAK W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER HARD W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER TOP 10 W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER TOP 20 W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER Left Hander W-L (MD) * * Updated through entering 2017 St. Petersburg 1r ST. PETERSBURG Tournament Performance KIRSTEN FLIPKENS (31) $53,821 $3,351,551 0 / 1 0 / / / / / / / / * Qualifying match Rnd Result Duration Rnd Result Duration R3* K. FLIPKENS d. D. VEKIC 6-4,5-7, mins R2* K. FLIPKENS d. P. GONCALVES 3-6,6-2, mins R1* K. FLIPKENS d. V. TOMOVA 6-1, mins ST. PETERSBURG Tournament History * Qualifying match KIRSTEN FLIPKENS 2016 R1 L - DARIA KASATKINA (RUS #63) Follow WTA on Twitter: Facebook: YouTube: Insights from

81 Cornet: Making debut appearance at the St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy; playing third event of 2017 Coming off a 2r exit at Australian Open (l. Sakkari) in her 44th Grand Slam main draw appearance (43 consecutive) Advanced to second career final at a Premier-level event at 2017 Brisbane (l. Ka.Pliskova); first Premier-level final was at 2014 Dubai (l. V.Williams in F) Quarterfinal defeat of No.5 Cibulkova at Brisbane marked 11th career win over a Top 10 opponent and SF defeat of No.7 Muguruza (via retirement; right thigh injury) is the 12th, earlier wins coming over No.5 Kuznetsova (2008 Rome), No.8 Chakvetadze (2008 Rome), No.9 Halep (2014 Dubai), No.1 S.Williams (2014 Dubai), No.3 A.Radwanska (2014 Katowice), No.1 S.Williams (2014 Wimbledon), No.1 S.Williams (2014 Wuhan), No.2 Halep (2015 Madrid), No.10 Suárez Navarro (2015 Toronto) and No.8 Cibulkova (2016 Beijing) Plays No.76 Flipkens today in their ninth career meeting (eighth at tour-level) Currently the French No.2 behind Garcia, of five women in Top 100 (week of January 30, 2017) Advanced to R16 at a major on three occasions (2009 Australian Open, 2014 Wimbledon and 2015 Roland Garros) Best Slam results in 2016 were 3r efforts at Roland Garros (l. V.Williams) and Wimbledon (l. Keys) Finished 2016 season with SF run at WTA 125K Series event in Limoges, France (l. Alexandrova) Member of French Fed Cup Team that advanced to competition final vs. Czech Republic in 2016 (l. Strycova) Did not play between 2016 Australian Open (l. Zhang in 2r) and Miami due to continuing back injury (bruised vertebrae). Had announced in February she would be out for six months, however recovery was quicker than expected Opened 2016 season at Brisbane (l. Pavlyuchenkova in 2r) before winning fifth singles title of her career at Hobart (d. Bouchard in F). Was first final since runner-up finish at 2014 Guangzhou. Owns 5-6 record in singles finals Aside from Hobart run, best result in 2016 was QF at Hong Kong later in season (l. Jankovic) Former world No.11 (achieved in February 2009) who broke back into Top 20 at end of 2014 for first time since May 2009; dropped out of Top 20 again after 2015 Dubai Owns four wins over Top 2 ranked opponents: No.1 S.Williams (2014 Dubai, 2014 Wimbledon and 2014 Wuhan via ret.) and No.2 Halep (2015 Madrid) Wins over S.Williams made her the first player to defeat the American in three straight meetings since Henin in 2007 Qualified for 2013 and 2014 Tournament of Champions in Sofia, Bulgaria Three-time doubles champion: 2008 Budapest (w/husarova), 2010 Strasbourg (w/king), 2015 Hong Kong (w/shvedova); owns a 3-2 record in doubles finals French Fed Cup Team, ; French Olympic Team, 2008, 2012, 2016 Made WTA debut at the age of 15 at 2005 Roland Garros, advancing to 3r Won 2007 Roland Garros girls singles (d. Duque Mariño in F). Coached by Benjamin Ebrahimzadeh

82 Flipkens: Making second appearance at St. Petersburg, having gone through three rounds of qualifying (d. Tomova, Goncalves and Vekic). Fell in 1r in 2016 (l. Kasatkina) Enters St. Petersburg following a 1r exit at Australian Open (l. Konta); now holds a 5-22 record vs. Top 10 opponents, with wins over No.5 Stosur (2012 s-hertogenbosch), No.8 Kvitova (2013 Miami), No.8 Kvitova (2013 Wimbledon) and No.2 Muguruza (2016 Mallorca) and No.6 V.Williams (2016 Rio Olympics) Opened 2017 season at Auckland, falling 1r (l. eventual runner-up Konjuh), followed by 2r exit at Hobart (l. eventual runner-up Niculescu) Faces No.44 Cornet today; a win today would mark best victory by ranking since 2016 New Haven in August (d. No.27 Garcia in R16 and No.26 Bencic in 1r) Career-best Grand Slam result is a SF appearance at 2013 Wimbledon (d. Kvitova in QF, l. eventual champion Bartoli). Best result at Australian Open is reaching R16 in 2013 (l. Sharapova); US Open is 3r in 2009 (l. eventual champion Clijsters); at Roland Garros, she is yet to pass 2r 2016 marked seventh Top 100 season in past eight years, including a Top 20 finish in 2013 (at No.20) Posted 24 main draw match wins in 2016, the most since 2013 when she won 32 matches Season highlighted by third WTA singles final of career at 2016 Monterrey (l. Watson); record now stands at 1-2 in singles finals, having won 2012 Québec City (d. Hradecka in F) and also finished runner-up at 2013 s-hertogenbosch (l. Halep) Posted best win of career by ranking at 2016 Mallorca (grass) when she defeated No.2 Muguruza in 1r for fifth career win against a Top 5 opponent. Advanced to SF (l. eventual champion Garcia) Reached QF at 2016 New Haven (as LL, l. eventual champion A.Radwanska) marked first QF at Premier level in two years, since her run to same stage at 2014 New Haven. Also a quarterfinalist at International-level Auckland, Katowice and Tashkent in 2016 Represented Belgium at Rio Olympics, advancing to R16 in singles (l. Siegemund) upset No.6 V.Williams in 1r and reaching 2r in doubles (w/wickmayer, l. Muguruza/Suárez Navarro) Won first WTA doubles title of career at 2016 Seoul (w/larsson) Underwent surgery on right wrist on October 25, Battled injuries in first half of 2012, including blood clots in calf discovered in April; was off tour for two months and as a result her ranking dropped as low as No.262 in June that year Currently the second-ranked of three Belgian women in Top 100, behind Wickmayer, ahead of Mertens (week of January 30, 2017) Set career-high singles ranking of No.13 on August 5, 2013 Member of the Belgian Fed Cup team that reached the competition s final in Played on the team , On ITF Circuit won 12 singles and one doubles title; played first events of career on ITF Circuit in 2001 Junior champion at 2003 Wimbledon (d. Chakvetadze in F) and 2003 US Open (d. Krajicek in F); subsequently named ITF Junior World Champion Currently coached by Michiel Antheunis

83 MATCH NOTES ST. PETERSBURG - RUSSIA Jan 30 - Feb 05, 2017 $776,000 PREMIER [Q] STEFANIE VOEGELE (SUI #114) vs. JELENA OSTAPENKO (LAT #33) Head to Head: STEFANIE VOEGELE leads LINZ HARD I QF STEFANIE VOEGELE (1) 101 mins 2015 CONTREXEVILLE CLAY O R16 STEFANIE VOEGELE (3) STEFANIE VOEGELE (26) $63,106 $1,809,992 0 / 0 0 / / / / / / / / 6-5 WTA RANKING ROAD TO SINGAPORE LEADERBOARD DATE OF BIRTH (AGE) YTD PRIZE MONEY CAREER PRIZE MONEY SINGLES TITLES (YTD / CAREER) DOUBLES TITLES (YTD / CAREER) ST. PETERSBURG W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER 3-SET W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER TIE-BREAK W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER HARD W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER TOP 10 W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER TOP 20 W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER Left Hander W-L (MD) * * Updated through entering 2017 St. Petersburg 1r JELENA OSTAPENKO (19) $113,824 $1,048,118 0 / 0 0 / / / / / / / / 3-3 ST. PETERSBURG Tournament Performance * Qualifying match Rnd Result Duration Rnd Result Duration R3* S. VOEGELE d. E. KOSTOVA 6-3, mins R2* S. VOEGELE d. D. ALLERTOVA 7-5, mins R1* S. VOEGELE d. V. STRAKHOVA 6-0, mins ST. PETERSBURG Tournament History * Qualifying match JELENA OSTAPENKO 2016 R1 L - YANINA WICKMAYER (BEL #55) Follow WTA on Twitter: Facebook: YouTube: Insights from

84 Voegele: Making debut appearance at St. Petersburg, having gone through three rounds of qualifying (d. Strakhova, Allertova and Kostova) Coming off a 2r exit at Australian Open (as qualifier, l. eventual runner-up V.Williams). Was top seed in qualifying competition 2017 Australian Open marked 23rd main draw appearance at a Grand Slam. Equaled best result at Melbourne by advancing to 2r. Best Grand Slam result to date came at 2013 Roland Garros advanced to 3r (l. Kirilenko). Best result at US Open is 2r in 2010; yet to pass 1r at Wimbledon Opened 2017 season by winning way through qualifying at Shenzhen (l. Jabeur in 1r) Plays No.33 Ostapenko today in their third career meeting; owns a 2-0 record over the Latvian. A win today would mark best victory by ranking since 2014 Linz (d. No.28 Strycova in 1r) Has five career wins over Top 20 players, most recently defeating No.12 Stephens in QF at 2013 Luxembourg Owns one Top 10 win d. No.10 Wozniacki in QF at 2013 Charleston Finished 2016 season ranked No.113. Previously posted three Top 100 seasons, most recently in 2014, including a Top 50 season in 2013 (at No.44) 2016 season highlighted by SF run at Istanbul (l. eventual champion Buyukakcay) and QF efforts at Kaohsiung (ret. vs. Putintseva) and Tashkent (l. Kozlova) At tour level, also reached 2r at 2016 Katowice. Across the season fell in 1r at nine events (including Wimbledon and US Open) and in qualifying on nine occasions (including Australian Open and Roland Garros) Also reached QF at two WTA 125K Series events Bol (l. Hibino) and Limoges (l. Cornet) In 2016 won seventh ITF Circuit singles title of career at $50k ITF/Andrezieux-Boutheon-FRA; also has won five doubles titles on ITF Circuit Currently the Swiss No.4 behind Bacsinszky, Golubic and Bencic (week of January 30, 2017) Reached career-high ranking of No.42 in November 2013 after reaching back-to-back semifinals at Linz and Luxembourg Reached sole Premier-level SF at 2013 Charleston In doubles, runner-up at 2012 Bogotá (w/minella); sole WTA final to date Played first events of career on ITF Circuit in 2004 and made WTA main draw debut at 2008 Estoril (as qualifier) Made Fed Cup debut for Switzerland in 2005 Mother Edith, and father Bruno (passed away in 2014), introduced her to tennis at age four; has three sisters Longtime coach is Ivo Werner Ostapenko: Making second main draw appearance at St. Petersburg. Fell in 1r last year (l. Wickmayer) Enters St. Petersburg following a 3r showing at Australian Open (l. Ka.Pliskova), achieving best Grand Slam run to date Previous best Grand Slam result was making 2r at 2015 Wimbledon and US Open. Fell 1r at 2016 Roland Garros in only main draw appearance in Paris Defeat of No.31 seed Putintseva at Melbourne was second time defeating a seed at a Grand Slam, after knocking out No.9 seed Suarez Navarro at 2015 Wimbledon

85 At 19 years old, is one of five teenagers remaining in the main draw at St. Petersburg, including Bencic, Kasatkina, Konjuh and Vikhlyantseva. Wildcard Kalinskaya fell in 1r Faces No.114 Voegele today. Last loss to a player ranked outside the Top 100 came at 2016 Linz (l. No.127 Sorribes Tormo in 1r) Opened 2017 season by reaching SF at Auckland (l. eventual champion Davis) Earned a career-high ranking of No.33 following Australian Open result Owns two Top 10 wins in career (2-3 lifetime record), defeating No.9 Suarez Navarro (2015 Wimbledon) and No.8 Kvitova (2016 Doha) Ended 2016 ranked No.44 for her second consecutive Top 100 year-end finish 2016 season highlight was reaching biggest final of career to date at Premier-5 Doha (l. Suarez Navarro). Is 0-2 in WTA singles finals, after also finishing R-Up at 2015 Québec City (l. Beck) Made Top 40 debut by virtue of reaching final at 2016 Doha (No.34) Represented Latvia at 2016 Rio Olympics, losing 1r in singles (l. Stosur) Ended 2015 at No.79 for first Top 100 finish (up from No.308 in 2014). Having leapt 229 spots, was second-highest year-end rankings jump, after Kasatkina who went from No.370 to No.72 (298 spots) Began playing ITF Circuit events in Has won seven singles and eight doubles titles Made WTA main draw debut at 2014 Tashkent (2r, l. Pervak) Latvian Fed Cup Team, ; Latvian Olympic Team, 2016 Second-highest ranked Latvian woman of two in Top 100, after Anastasija Sevastova (as of January 30, 2017); only one ranking spot separates the two Won junior Wimbledon singles title in 2014 (d. Kristina Schmiedlova in F) Mother and coach is Jelena Jakovleva; father and fitness trainer is Jevgenijs Ostapenko Half-brother is Maksim Ostapenko (graduated from art academy in Los Angeles and lives there now) Introduced to tennis at age five by mother Favorite shots are serve and backhand; favorite surfaces are grass and hard Speaks Russian, Latvian and English Tennis idols are Serena Williams and Ernests Gulbis Took ballroom dancing classes for seven years

86 MATCH NOTES ST. PETERSBURG - RUSSIA Jan 30 - Feb 05, 2017 $776,000 PREMIER BELINDA BENCIC (SUI #80) vs. [8] DARIA KASATKINA (RUS #27) Head to Head: MOSCOW HARD I R1 DARIA KASATKINA mins 2016 ST. PETERSBURG HARD I SF BELINDA BENCIC mins BELINDA BENCIC (19) $48,772 $2,985,362 0 / 2 0 / / / / / / / / 9-4 WTA RANKING ROAD TO SINGAPORE LEADERBOARD DATE OF BIRTH (AGE) YTD PRIZE MONEY CAREER PRIZE MONEY SINGLES TITLES (YTD / CAREER) DOUBLES TITLES (YTD / CAREER) ST. PETERSBURG W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER 3-SET W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER TIE-BREAK W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER HARD W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER TOP 10 W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER TOP 20 W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER Left Hander W-L (MD) * * Updated through entering 2017 St. Petersburg 1r ST. PETERSBURG Tournament Performance DARIA KASATKINA (19) $80,552 $1,219,381 0 / 0 0 / / / / / / / / 3-1 * Qualifying match Rnd Result Duration Rnd Result Duration ST. PETERSBURG Tournament History * Qualifying match BELINDA BENCIC 2016 F L - ROBERTA VINCI (ITA #16) SF W - DARIA KASATKINA (RUS #63) QF W - ANASTASIA PAVLYUCHENKOVA (RUS #26) 6-7(4) R16 W - ANNIKA BECK (GER #39) 7-6(3) 6-3 DARIA KASATKINA 2016 SF L - BELINDA BENCIC (SUI #11) QF W - DOMINIKA CIBULKOVA (SVK #66) R16 W - LAURA SIEGEMUND (GER #87) R1 W - KIRSTEN FLIPKENS (BEL #69) R1 BYE Follow WTA on Twitter: Facebook: YouTube: Insights from

87 Bencic: Making second main draw appearance at St. Petersburg. Advanced to the final in 2016 (as top teed, l. Vinci in F) Coming off a 1r exit at Australian Open (l. eventual champion S.Williams) in 12th main draw appearance at a Grand Slam Achieved best Grand Slam singles result when she advanced to QF at 2014 US Open; defeated two Top 10 players en route (No.7 Kerber in 3r, No.10 Jankovic in R16). At 17 years of age, was youngest player through to last eight at Flushing Meadows since 1997 when Hingis won the title Best result at Australian Open was in 2016, advancing to R16 (l. Sharapova) - first Swiss woman to reach R16 here since Hingis and Schnyder in 2007; at Wimbledon is R16 in 2015, while best result at Roland Garros is 2r in 2015 Opened 2017 season by representing Switzerland at Hopman Cup in Perth, partnering Roger Federer Subsequently fell 1r at Sydney (ret. vs. Putintseva w/right toe injury) Enters St. Petersburg ranked at World No.80 her lowest ranking since 2014 Nürnberg (No.81) At 19-years-old, is one of five teenagers in the St. Petersburg main draw, including today s opponent Kasatkina; also Konjuh, Ostapanko and Vikhlyantseva Best win of career came over No.1 S.Williams in semifinals at 2015 Toronto. At 18 years of age became youngest player to defeat S.Williams in a completed match since 2004 WTA Finals, when 17 year old Sharapova d. Serena in F (Serena also lost at 2007 Charleston to then 17 year old Chan Yung Jan via first set retirement at 5 3) Owns a record against Top 10 players posted one such win in 2016, over No.2 Kerber in Fed Cup play Posted third straight Top 50 finish in 2016, at No.43 down from No.14 in 2015 Struggled with injury in 2016 advanced to sixth career singles final at St Petersburg in February (as top seed for first time in career, l. Vinci) but after Charleston (April) was sidelined for more than two months missed most of clay season, including Roland Garros Run to St Petersburg final saw her break into Top 10 (at No.9) for the first time in her career; became 116th player to break into the Top 10 since computerized rankings were introduced in In the last 20 years, 11 players have made their Top 10 debut before their 19th birthday Reached a career-high ranking of No.7 (February 22, 2016) On return to tour in June 2016, advanced to SF at s-hertogenbosch (l. Mladenovic) but thereafter went 4-11 across rest of season, posting one win at Wimbledon (ret. vs. Boserup in 2r w/left wrist injury), two wins at US Open (l. Konta in 3r) and one win at Beijing Made 2r exit at 2016 Eastbourne (after 1r bye, l. Vesnina); was defending champion, and thereafter her ranking dropped from No.8 to No.13. Also fell 1r at Birmingham (ret. vs. Begu w/right thigh injury) After Wimbledon was off tour for another six weeks, which included withdrawal from Rio Olympics in August Opened Asian swing at Tokyo [PPO] (l. eventual finalist Wozniacki in 1r). Was runner-up at Tokyo in 2015, so ranking dropped from No.26 to No.40 when those points came off. The following week at Wuhan, retired (w/low back injury) vs. Kuznetsova in 1r Early in 2016 season, went 2-0 in singles and 1-0 in doubles (w/hingis) in Switzerland s 3-2 win over Germany in 2016 Fed Cup World Group I QF tie (d. Kerber, Petkovic) Reached four finals in 2015, winning first two career titles at Premier-level Eastbourne (d. A.Radwanska in F) and Toronto (d. Halep in F via ret.). Owns 2-4 record in finals, finishing runner-up at 2014 Tianjin (l. Riske), 2015 's-hertogenbosch (l. Giorgi), 2015 Tokyo [PPO] (l. A.Radwanska) and 2016 St Petersburg (l. Vinci)

88 At 2015 Eastbourne, aged 18 years, 109 days, became second youngest player to win a WTA Premier level final. Caroline Wozniacki won 2008 New Haven aged 18 years, 43 days With 2015 Toronto triumph, became first teenager to win an event at Premier 5 level or higher since Azarenka at 2009 Miami Qualified for 2015 WTA Elite Trophy in Zhuhai however withdrew due to hand injury Won second WTA doubles title of career in 2015 at Washington, DC (w/mladenovic), the first coming earlier in the year at Prague (w/siniakova) Currently No.3 Swiss of three in Top 100 (behind Bacsinszky and Golubic, as at January 30, 2017) Voted 2014 WTA Newcomer of the Year after rising 179 spots in the rankings to finish season at No.33 Played first WTA qualifying event at Luxembourg in October 2011, and first WTA main draw 12 months later at same event as WC (l. V.Williams, 1r); only 15 years, 7 months at the time Won junior singles titles at Roland Garros and Wimbledon in 2013; was named ITF Junior World Champion for 2013 Coached by father Ivan; has worked extensively with Melanie Molitor and Martina Hingis Also holds Slovak citizenship through her parents Kasatkina: Making second main draw appearance at St. Petersburg. Advanced to SF in 2016 (l. today s opponent Bencic) Made 1r exit at Australian Open last week (l. Peng) Opened 2017 season with a 2r exit at Brisbane (l. Muguruza) and QF showing at Sydney (d. No.1 Kerber in R16, l. eventual champion Konta) Defeat of No.1 Kerber was first such victory over a reigning No.1; is now 1-1 vs. No.1 players (l. S.Williams at 2016 Australian Open 3r) With win over No.1 Kerber, became 6th teenager to defeat a World No.1 since the beginning of 2009 Teenager Age Reigning No.1 Tournament Round Score Daria Kasatkina 19 Angelique Kerber 2017 Sydney R16 7-6(5) 6-2 Belinda Bencic 18 Serena Williams 2015 Toronto S Christina McHale 19 Caroline Wozniacki 2011 Cincinnati R Chang Kai-Chen 18 Dinara Safina 2009 Tokyo [PPO] R32 7-6(5) Petra Kvitova 19 Dinara Safina 2009 US Open R (5) Victoria Azarenka 19 Serena Williams 2009 Miami F Plays No.80 Bencic today in their third career meeting. First meeting was played here in 2016 (Bencic d. Kasatkina in SF) Owns a 3-11 record vs. Top 10 opponents, wins coming over No.7 V.Williams (2016 Auckland), No.8 Vinci (2016 Montreal) and No.1 Kerber (2017 Sydney) Ended 2016 at career-best No.27, up from No.72 in Also posted new career-high ranking in 2016, at No.24 (week of August 15, 2016)

89 2016 highlights include reaching second WTA SF at St. Petersburg (l. eventual R-Up Bencic) and QF stage at Indian Wells (l. Ka.Pliskova), Charleston (l. eventual champion Stephens having held MPs), Montreal (l. Kerber), Rio Olympics (l. Keys) and Moscow (l. Goerges) In doubles, fell one match short of defending 2015 title at Moscow (w/vesnina), finishing as R-Up w/gavrilova (l. Hlavackova/Hradecka in F). Also ended Hingis/Mirza s 41-match unbeaten streak at 2016 Doha (w/vesnina) In Grand Slam play in 2016, reached 3r at Australian Open (l. eventual R-Up Serena Williams), Roland Garros (l. Bertens 10-8 in third set. Was also first time seeded at a Slam) and Wimbledon (l. V.Williams). Fell 1r at US Open (l. Wang) 2015 saw her reach her first WTA SF at 2015 Moscow (l. Pavlyuchenkova, having recorded first Top 20 win over No.14 Suarez Navarro in QF) QF run at 2015 Bad Gastein (as qualifier) was first time reaching last eight at WTA-level tournament Won five singles titles on ITF Circuit in 2015, taking total to seven Made WTA qualifying debut at 2013 Moscow; made main draw debut as WC also at Moscow in 2014 (l. Riske 1r) Born and resides in Togliatty, Russia Began playing tennis at age six when older brother, Alexsandr Timkovskii, introduced her to the game; he is now her fitness trainer and travels with her Currently attending Sport College in Samara, Russia; three years into a five year degree Mother is Tatiana Timkovskaya and father is Sergey Kasatkin Loves football; favorite team is Barcelona FC Coached by Vladimir Platenik since October 2014

90 MATCH NOTES: ST. PETERSBURG LADIES TROPHY ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA JAN 30 FEB 5, 2017 USD $753,000 PREMIER EVENT WTA Website: facebook.com/wta Tournament Website: facebook.com/formulatx WTA Communications: Adam Lincoln Chris Whitmore Onsite Media Desk: ST. PETERSBURG LADIES TROPHY MATCH NOTES DAY 1 SIBUR ARENA [WC] ANNA KALINSKAYA (RUS #182) vs. DARIA GAVRILOVA (AUS #26) First meeting [7] KIKI BERTENS (NED #24) vs. ANNIKA BECK (GER #67) Bertens leads 6-0 (5-0 at tour-level) YAROSLAVA SHVEDOVA (KAZ #45) vs. [WC] NATALIA VIKHLYANTSEVA (RUS #115) First meeting PRIZE MONEY AND RANKING POINT BREAKDOWN SINGLES USD $ RANK RANK DOUBLES USD $ POINTS POINTS Winner 132, Winner 41, Runner-Up 70, Runner-Up 22, Semifinalist 37, Semifinalist 12, Quarterfinalist 20, Quarterfinalist 6, Round of 16 10, Round of 16 3,350 1 Round of 28 6,925 1 Follow WTA on Twitter: Facebook: YouTube: 1

91 MATCH NOTES ST. PETERSBURG - RUSSIA Jan 30 - Feb 05, 2017 $776,000 PREMIER [WC] ANNA KALINSKAYA (RUS #182) vs. DARIA GAVRILOVA (AUS #26) Head to Head: First meeting ANNA KALINSKAYA (18) $6,310 $54,512 0 / 0 0 / / / / / / / / 0-0 WTA RANKING ROAD TO SINGAPORE LEADERBOARD DATE OF BIRTH (AGE) YTD PRIZE MONEY CAREER PRIZE MONEY SINGLES TITLES (YTD / CAREER) DOUBLES TITLES (YTD / CAREER) ST. PETERSBURG W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER 3-SET W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER TIE-BREAK W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER HARD W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER TOP 10 W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER TOP 20 W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER Left Hander W-L (MD) * * Updated through entering 2017 St. Petersburg 1r DARIA GAVRILOVA (22) $182,691 $1,868,049 0 / 0 0 / / / / / / / / 6-8 ST. PETERSBURG Tournament Performance * Qualifying match Rnd Result Duration Rnd Result Duration ST. PETERSBURG Tournament History * Qualifying match ANNA KALINSKAYA 2016 R1* L - KATERINA SINIAKOVA (CZE #109) Follow WTA on Twitter: Facebook: YouTube: Insights from

92 Kalinskaya: Making main draw debut at St. Petersburg (as a wildcard), having fallen in qualifying in St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy marks second tour-level appearance. Received a wildcard into 2016 Moscow (l. Mladenovic in 1r) At 18-years-old, is the youngest player competing in the main draw here Enters St. Petersburg following a qualifying exit at Australian Open in her first attempt at a Grand Slam Plays No.26 Gavrilova today in their first meeting. A win today would mark best victory by ranking; has faced only two Top 100 players in her career, falling in both occasions: No.89 Dodin (2016 Linz qualifying) and No.42 Mladenovic (2016 Moscow) Currently sitting at a career-high ranking of No.182 (as of January 30, 2017) Ended 2016 inside the Top 200 (No.199) for the first time, improving 482 ranking spots from 2015 (No.681) Continues to play a mix of WTA qualifying and ITF events; has fallen in WTA qualifying on five occasions: 2014 Moscow, 2015 Moscow, 2016 St. Petersburg, 2016 Linz and 2017 Australian Open Started 2017 season with R16 showing at $60K ITF/Andrezieux-Boutheon-FRA (l. Smitkova) Owns four ITF singles titles, clinching all in 2016: $10K ITF/Shymkent 2-KAZ, $25K ITF/Minsk-BLR (as qualifier), $25K ITF/Aschaffenburg-GER and $25K ITF/Kharkiv 2-UKR; advanced to four additional finals in 2016 Holds six doubles titles on the ITF Circuit In Juniors, made a career-high ranking of No.3 on February 15, 2016 Was a finalist in juniors at 2015 Roland Garros. In doubles, won the 2016 Australian Open title w/mihalikova Gavrilova: Making debut appearance at the St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy Is coming off a R16 exit at the Australian Open, equaling her best result at Melbourne, having reached this stage in became first Australian to reach R16 at Australian Open since Dellacqua in 2014; was seeded at a Slam for the first time at Melbourne at No Australian Open marked 10th Grand Slam main draw appearance. Other best Grand Slam results include 2r showings at 2015 Roland Garros and 2016 Wimbledon. Has never progressed from 1r at US Open ( ) Faces No.182 Kalinskaya today; a loss today would mark worst defeat by ranking since l. No.238 Fangzhou at $50K ITF/Bendigo 2-AUS Defeat of No.15 Bacsinszky at Australian Open 3r improved record vs Top 20 ranked opponents to 15-26, which included eight wins in 2016: No.7 Kvitova (Australian Open), No.19 Svitolina and No.6 Kvitova (Madrid), No.5 Halep (Rome), No.19 Svitolina (Cincinnati), No.15 Bacsinszky (Beijing), No.1 Kerber (Hong Kong) and No.12 Suárez Navarro (Moscow) Made a 2r exit at Sydney (l. eventual champion Konta); now owns a 7-16 lifetime record vs. Top 10 opponents, with wins over No.1 Kerber (2016 Hong Kong), No.5 Halep (2016 Rome), No.6 Kvitova (2016 Madrid), No.7 Kvitova (2016 Australian Open), No.7 Safarova (2015 Toronto), No.7 Ivanovic (2015 Rome) and No.2 Sharapova (2015 Miami) Opened up 2017 season at Hopman Cup exhibition in Perth, partnering Nick Kyrgios

93 Enjoyed strong run of form to close 2016 season, reaching QF at Beijing (l. Svitolina), SF at Hong Kong (l. Mladenovic) and first WTA singles final at Moscow (l. Kuznetsova) In Hong Kong QF, scored first victory over reigning World No.1 with defeat of Kerber Other notable 2016 result include QF run at 2016 Madrid (l. qualifier Chirico) Represented Australia at the 2016 Rio Olympics. Fell in 1r of singles (l. S.Williams) and doubles (w/stosur, l. eventual silver medalists Bacsinszky/Hingis) In April 2016, represented Australia for first time in Fed Cup competition - USA d. AUS 4-0; Gavrilova went 0-1 in singles (l. Keys) and 0-1 in doubles (w/ar.rodionova l. Mattek-Sands/Vandeweghe) Currently ranked No.26. Earned a career-high ranking of No.24 on October 24, 2016 following run to Moscow final Catapulted from No.233 at end of 2014 season to No.36 at end of named WTA s Most Impressive Newcomer for 2015 (media vote) Season highlights in 2015 included reaching first WTA semifinal at Rome (l. eventual champion Sharapova) and quarterfinals at Eastbourne and Hong Kong Won first WTA doubles title at 2015 Istanbul w/svitolina, their debut tournament together (d. Büyükakçay/Jankovic in F) Made Top 100 debut in March 2015, and Top 50 debut in May 2015 Secured permanent residence in Australia in 2013 and has represented AUS in Grand Slam play since 2014 US Open. Australian passport came through in December 2015 and now represents Australia at WTA events as well Watched 2014 Australian Open on crutches; she tore ACL in right knee at WTA 125k Series event in Taipei in November 2013; following surgery, did not play a tournament until July 2014, at ITF level Made WTA main draw debut at 2012 s-hertogenbosch, scoring first career Top 40 win over No.35 Wickmayer in 1r before losing to Flipkens in 2r Played first WTA qualifying event at 2009 Moscow Played first professional events of career on ITF Circuit in Russia in 2008 On ITF Circuit, winner of four singles titles, including two 50k events in Tasmania after the 2015 Australian Open (Burnie and Launceston); also owns two ITF doubles titles 2010 US Open junior singles champion and Youth Olympics champion Coached by Nicole Pratt and Biljana Veselinovic

94 MATCH NOTES ST. PETERSBURG - RUSSIA Jan 30 - Feb 05, 2017 $776,000 PREMIER [7] KIKI BERTENS (NED #24) vs. ANNIKA BECK (GER #67) Head to Head: KIKI BERTENS leads HOBART HARD O R1 KIKI BERTENS mins 2016 LUXEMBOURG HARD I R1 KIKI BERTENS mins 2016 HOBART HARD O R16 KIKI BERTENS mins 2013 INDIAN WELLS HARD O R1 KIKI BERTENS mins 2012 ROLAND GARROS CLAY O R1 KIKI BERTENS mins 2012 BATH 2 HARD I F KIKI BERTENS mins KIKI BERTENS (25) $60,817 $2,362,044 0 / 2 1 / / / / / / / / 8-3 WTA RANKING ROAD TO SINGAPORE LEADERBOARD DATE OF BIRTH (AGE) YTD PRIZE MONEY CAREER PRIZE MONEY SINGLES TITLES (YTD / CAREER) DOUBLES TITLES (YTD / CAREER) ST. PETERSBURG W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER 3-SET W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER TIE-BREAK W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER HARD W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER TOP 10 W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER TOP 20 W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER Left Hander W-L (MD) * * Updated through entering 2017 St. Petersburg 1r ST. PETERSBURG Tournament Performance ANNIKA BECK (22) $50,212 $2,034,667 0 / 2 0 / / / / / / / / 1-6 * Qualifying match Rnd Result Duration Rnd Result Duration ST. PETERSBURG Tournament History * Qualifying match ANNIKA BECK 2016 R16 L - BELINDA BENCIC (SUI #11) 7-6(3) 6-3 R1 W - LUCIE HRADECKA (CZE #71) Follow WTA on Twitter: Facebook: YouTube: Insights from

95 Bertens: Making debut appearance at the St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy Coming off a 1r exit at the Australian Open (l. Lepchenko) Advanced to the QF at Hobart earlier this month (l. eventual champion Mertens) Fell in 1r of season opener at Auckland (l. eventual champion Davis) won the doubles title (w/larsson) Was seeded at this year s Australian Open for the third time in her career at a Grand Slam (also 2016 Wimbledon and 2016 US Open) Faces No.67 Beck today; owns an impressive 6-0 record vs. the German (5-0 at tour-level) In 2016, qualified for the WTA Elite Trophy and went 0-2 in singles falling to both Svitolina and Vesnina Advanced to the SFs at 2016 Luxembourg (l. Niculescu) to break a five match streak of 1r exits during the later part of the 2016 season Reached third WTA singles final at 2016 Gstaad (as qualifier, l. Golubic, d. No.17 Bacsinszky en route). Owns 2-1 record in WTA singles finals, winning 2012 Fes and 2016 Nürnberg. All three finals were on clay Played on Netherlands Olympic team at 2016 Rio Olympics fell in 1r (l. Errani) Scored best result at a major at 2016 Roland Garros, reaching the SF (l. eventual R-Up S.Williams). Ranking jumped from No.58 to a then-career high of No.27 Was the first Dutch woman to reach the SF at Roland Garros since Marijke Schaar in 1971 (l. SF), and at any Slam since Betty Stove at 1977 US Open (l. SF) Prior to 2016 Roland Garros, previous best Grand Slam result was also at Roland Garros, making the R16 in 2014 (as qualifier, l. Petkovic), which was the only time she had advanced past the 2r at a major in 15 previous appearances Owns a 1-6 lifetime record vs. Top 5 ranked opponents, sole win coming vs. No.3 Kerber in 1r at 2016 Roland Garros 1r. Owns a further two Top 10 wins: No.7 Vinci (2016 Nürnberg) and No.9 Bacsinszky (2016 Roland Garros) Arrived in Paris having made a clean sweep of titles at 2016 Nürnberg, claiming the singles (as qualifier, d. Duque-Mariño) and doubles (w/larsson, d. Aoyama/Voracova). The last qualifier to win a singles title was Vandeweghe at 2014 s-hertogenbosch Finished 2016 ranked No.22 big jump in the rankings from her season-ending ranking of No.101 in Career-high ranking is No.21 (July 18, 2016) Dutch No.1, and only player from the Netherlands ranked in the Top 100 (as of January 30, 2017) Won her maiden career singles title at 2012 Fès as a qualifier (d. Pous-Tio in F) in just her second main draw appearance Owns five doubles titles: 2015 Hobart, 2015 Bastad, 2016 Nürnberg Linz, 2016 Luxembourg, and 2017 Auckland (all w/larsson) On ITF Circuit, owns seven singles and 11 doubles titles Netherlands Fed Cup Team, , Played first event of career on ITF Circuit in the Netherlands in 2006 and made WTA main draw debut as a wildcard at 2011 s-hertogenbosch (l. 1r) Coached by Raemon Sluiter

96 Beck: Making second appearance at St. Petersburg. Fell in 2r last year (l. eventual runner-up Bencic) Is the only German in the main draw this week (excluding qualifiers) Coming off an early exit at the Australian Open, where she fell to wildcard Barty in 1r 2017 Australian Open marked her 18th Grand Slam main draw reached 3r at Roland Garros in 2015 and 2016, 3r at 2016 Wimbledon (l. eventual champion S.Williams) and 2r at 2016 US Open Plays No.24 Bertens today; a win today would mark best victory by ranking since 2016 Fed Cup Week 1 in February (d. No.15 Bacsinszky) Opened 2017 season with 1r exits at Auckland (l. Osaka) and Hobart (l. today s opponent Bertens) Ended 2016 at career-best No.53 for fifth consecutive Top 100 finish, also posting career-high ranking of No.37 (week of 18 July, 2016) 2016 season highlights were SF run at Nürnberg (l. Duque-Marino) and reaching back-to-back QF at Gstaad (l. Massarova) and Bastad (l. Larsson). Also reached doubles final at Gastaad (w/rodina, l. Arruabarrena/Knoll) Competed in 2016 Rio Olympics, falling in 1r to Konjuh Currently the third ranked German woman of eight inside the Top 100 after Kerber, Siegemund and Petkovic (as of January 30, 2017) Posted best win of career over No.3 Halep at 2014 s-hertogenbosch Season highlight in 2015 was capturing second singles title at Québec City (d. Ostapenko in F) in addition to quarterfinal runs at s-hertogenbosch (l. Jankovic), Bad Gastein (l. Wickmayer) and Tashkent (l. Jovanovski) Owns a 2-2 record in singles finals, having won 2014 Luxembourg (d. Strycova in F) and 2015 Québec City (d. Ostapenko in F) Is 1-2 in doubles finals, winning 2015 Florianopolis (w/siegemund) and finishing runner-up at 2014 Linz (w/garcia) and 2016 Gstaad (w/rodina) Surpassed the $2 million career prize money mark having contested 2017 Australian Open main draw Coached by Jacub Zahlava

97 MATCH NOTES ST. PETERSBURG - RUSSIA Jan 30 - Feb 05, 2017 $776,000 PREMIER YAROSLAVA SHVEDOVA (KAZ #45) vs. [WC] NATALIA VIKHLYANTSEVA (RUS #115) Head to Head: First meeting YAROSLAVA SHVEDOVA (29) $59,908 $6,195,170 0 / 1 0 / / / / / / / / 10-9 WTA RANKING ROAD TO SINGAPORE LEADERBOARD DATE OF BIRTH (AGE) YTD PRIZE MONEY CAREER PRIZE MONEY SINGLES TITLES (YTD / CAREER) DOUBLES TITLES (YTD / CAREER) ST. PETERSBURG W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER 3-SET W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER TIE-BREAK W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER HARD W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER TOP 10 W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER TOP 20 W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER Left Hander W-L (MD) * * Updated through entering 2017 St. Petersburg 1r NATALIA VIKHLYANTSEVA (19) $58,408 $155,421 0 / 0 0 / / / / / / / / 0-0 ST. PETERSBURG Tournament Performance * Qualifying match Rnd Result Duration Rnd Result Duration ST. PETERSBURG Tournament History * Qualifying match NATALIA VIKHLYANTSEVA 2016 R1 L - MONICA NICULESCU (ROU #37) Follow WTA on Twitter: Facebook: YouTube: Insights from

98 Shvedova: Making debut appearance at the St. Petersburg Ladies trophy Looking for first win of 2017 following a 1r exit at the Australian Open (l. Begu) and a qualifying loss at Sydney (l. Broady) Faces No.115 Vikhlyantseva today in their first meeting; a loss today would mark worst defeat by ranking since 2016 Eastbourne (l. No.132 Van Uytvanck in qualifying) Finished 2016 ranked No.33 up from No.82 at the end of Marks her fifth straight season finishing within the Top 100 (and ninth overall, including three Top 50 finishes) Qualified for 2016 WTA Finals w/partner Babos. Partnership began in earnest at 2016 Indian Wells In 2016, recorded a 5-6 record vs Top 20 opponents, with wins over No.13 Vinci (Dubai), No.13 Safarova (Indian Wells), No.20 Svitolina (Wimbledon), No.15 Vinci (Wuhan) and No.10 Suárez Navarro (Beijing) Owns a 8-21 lifetime record against Top 10 opponents, with wins over No.5 Jankovic (2009 US Open also first Top 5 win), No.8 A.Radwanska (2010 Roland Garros), No.7 Li (2012 Roland Garros), No.10 Errani (2012 Wimbledon), No.10 Wozniacki (2013 Madrid), No.10 Cibulkova (2014 s-hertogenbosch), No.8 Muguruza (2015 Cincinnati), and No.10 Suárez Navarro (2016 Beijing) Achieved career-best R16 showing at US Open (l. S.Williams) and became the first Kazakh to advance this far at Flushing Meadows. It was just second time winning three successive tour-level main draw matches in 2016 (after Wimbledon QF) Represented Kazakhstan at Rio Olympics, making 1r exit in singles (l. Doi), and 1r exit in doubles (w/voskoboeva via ret.) Enjoyed run to QF at 2016 Wimbledon (l. V.Williams). Win over Goerges in 1r was first main draw victory since 2016 Charleston had fallen in qualifying or 1r at seven successive tournaments Won 13th career doubles title at s-hertogenbosch (w/kalashnikova). Now owns a record in doubles finals During March US hardcourt swing, advanced to 3r at Indian Wells (l. Gibbs) before falling in qualifying at Miami (l. Kr.Pliskova). Reached doubles final at Miami (w/babos, l. Mattek-Sands/Safarova) Represented Kazakhstan in 2016 Fed Cup in Asia/Oceania Zone I round-robin competition Opened 2016 with 1r exit at Shenzhen (as qualifier, l. Kontaveit), failed to qualify at Sydney, but reached 2r at Australian Open (l. Keys) Advanced to second singles final at 2015 Bogota (l. Pereira in F); is now 1-1 in singles finals Team of Dellacqua/Shvedova finished runners-up at 2015 Roland Garros, Cincinnati and US Open. They qualified for WTA Finals in Singapore, but were forced to withdraw due to Dellacqua s concussion (sustained in Beijing). Contested doubles at WTA Finals twice, in 2010 and 2011 (w/king); l. in SF on both occasions Won sole WTA singles title at 2007 Bangalore in only fourth main draw appearance (d. Santangelo in F) 2017 Australian Open marked 35th main draw appearance at a Grand Slam. Is a three-time quarterfinalist, at Roland Garros in 2010 (l. Jankovic) and 2012 (as qualifier, l. Kvitova, having defeated defending champion Li Na en route), and 2016 Wimbledon (l. V.Williams). At Australian Open, best result is 3r in 2015 (l. Peng)

99 Holds the honor of being the first Kazakh to reach a Grand Slam QF, since joined by Putintseva at 2016 Roland Garros Famously completed a golden set against Errani in 3r at 2012 Wimbledon (did not lose a single point in winning set 6-0) Grand Slam doubles champion at 2010 Wimbledon and US Open (both w/king) Currently the No.2 ranked Kazakh woman (after Putintseva) of two in the Top 100 (as of January 30, 2017). Changed nationalities from Russia to Kazakhstan in 2008 Reached career-high singles ranking of No.25 (October 29, 2012) and doubles ranking of No.3 (February 22, 2016) Voted WTA Comeback Player of the Year in 2012 Kazakhstan Fed Cup Team, , and Kazakhstan Olympic Team, 2012, 2016 Junior highlights include doubles runner-up at 2004 Roland Garros (w/kotkina; l. Bohmova/Krajicek in final) Coached by Victor Ionita Vikhlyantseva: Making second appearance at St. Petersburg, as a wildcard. Fell in 1r in 2016 (l. Niculescu) Coming off her Grand Slam main draw debut at the Australian Open, advancing to 2r (as qualifier, l. Pavlyuchenkova); defeat of No.75 King in 1r in Melbourne marked fourth-career Top 100 win, with other wins over No.93 Friedsam (2015 Shenzhen), No.80 Allertova (2016 s-hertogenbosch) and No.69 Dodin (2016 Limoges) Contesting the seventh WTA main draw of her career this week at St. Petersburg Faces No.45 Shvedova today; a win today would mark career-best victory by ranking Enters St. Petersburg on a career-high singles ranking of No.115 after her 2r appearance at Melbourne (as of January 30, 2017) 2016 highlights include a SF run at WTA 125K Series event at Limoges (l. Garcia) and a R16 showing at s-hertogenbosch (as qualifier, l. Mladenovic in 3s) Clinched two ITF singles titles in 2016 at $25K ITF/Plzen-CZE and $100K ITF/Saint-Petersburg-RUS. Advanced to one additional final at $100K ITF/Dubai-UAE Made WTA main draw debut at 2015 Shenzhen, advancing to 2r (l. Halep); second main draw appearance came at 2015 Miami (l. Smitkova) Played first professional match at $10k ITF/St Petersburg 2-RUS in 2012 (l. in 1r) On ITF Circuit, owns two singles titles and one doubles title Began playing tennis aged seven; plays right handed with double-handed backhand Coached by Evgeniy Drozhin; currently trains at the Mouratoglou Tennis Academy

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