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Deniz Khazaniuk

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#1 ·
Thought I would start a new thread for this player. She is in the semi-final of a $10,000 ITF in Bolivia. Her result in the quarter-final:


Deniz KHAZANIUK (ISR) defeated Guadalupe PEREZ ROJAS (ARG) 6-3 6-4
 
#40 ·
Nice title run after a slow first half of the year.
It's always good to see our players on the winning side of a very close important match :)

This will move her to a career high of about #415, but next month she'll have 30 points to defend from a W-SF-W sequence in Greek 10Ks from last September.
 
#41 ·
After writing an apology letter, Deniz was only reprimanded for the interview she gave in February,
and was not kicked out of the fedcup team as some expected.
But according to this report it's very likely she will not me summoned again for the February 2013 competition in part because the other players have made clear they are not interested she'd be part of the team. I imagine the fact that Patiuk is feeling better will also have en effect.

http://www.nrg.co.il/online/3/ART2/409/754.html?hp=3&cat=631&loc=29
 
#42 ·
Interesting confrontation between Peer and Khazaniuk at the Israeli Tennis Championship as reported in Haaretz today:

Shahar Peer refused to shake the hand of her opponent, Deniz Khazaniuk, after defeating her rival 6-0, 6-1 at the women's singles semifinals of the Israel Open in Ramat Hasharon.

"You're an embarrassment to the State of Israel," Peer told the 17-year-old. According to several reports, Peer also made a sign to Khazaniuk to be quiet.

The two have been at odds since Khazaniuk granted an interview to Maariv newspaper earlier this year, in which she levied harsh criticism against Peer and the rest of her teammates on the Fed Cup national squad.

"She's one big fake," Israel's fourth-highest rated women's tennis player said at the time about the country's biggest tennis star. Khazaniuk rated Peer low on a personal level and said she was just like fellow team member Julia Glushko.

"They only belittled me and criticized me all the time," she said. "They humiliated me. That is not the way a national team should be handled. It's the way you do things in the neighborhood," added Khazaniuk in the wake of Israel's Fed Cup loss to Portugal.

Peer had not responded publicly to Khazaniuk until yesterday. "I expected this, and I'm not angry," said Khazaniuk.
 
#50 ·
Khazaniuk has won no less the six 10K futures this year, probably a national record (I wonder what's the WR...), but has never made it past R2 of a 25K, and is unlikely to do so this week in Hertzliya - if she beat a qualifier in R1 then top seed Glushko will be waiting next.

According to Tapuz tennis forum, she is then heading for a weak 25K in Seoul in which she will be ranked and should crack that barrier, and then two Thai 15K tourneys, so should rack up some easy points and can break into the top 300.
 
#51 · (Edited)
Deniz will be playing her former Fed-Cup teammate Julia Glushko tomorrow.

Deniz Khazaniuk def. (Q)Alexandra Artamonova 4-6 6-4 6-4

Does anybody know if there is still bad blood relating to the Fed Cup allegations made by Deniz in late 2011-12? If so, this could be an emotional match with Julia. On the other hand, Deniz clearly deserves to be on next year's team based on her current rankings.
 
#52 ·
Glushko won easily 6-1 6-3.

Unlike Deniz vs Shahar, there haven't been much in the local press about Julia and her, even though Julia was also under fire in that infamous interview.

All I can say is that according to eyewitnesses, and unlike the Peer-Khazaniuk match in national champs SF, yesterday there was a handshake.

As for upcoming Fed Cup, Deniz is by far the 3rd best player in Israel, but it doesn't matter all that much which two girls will be cheering on Shahar and Julia from the sidelines ;)
 
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