[BlueTrees]

Birth Date: 20th February 1994
Birth Place: Nikolaev, Ukraine
Residence: Donetsk, Ukraine
Nationality: Ukraine
Height: 1.73m
Plays: Right Handed (Double Handed Backhand)
Favourite Surface: Clay, Hard
Coach: Volodymyr Bogdanov
Age Started Tennis: 5
Personal Interests: Shopping, books, playing football Represented Ukraine in 2008 World Junior Tennis finals

Current Singles: 354
Career High Singles: 309 (09 May 2011)

In 2011 she's reached the semifinals in four $25,000 events in Namangan, Karshi, Bukhara and Kharkiv. She doesn't play many junior events anymore but she's won two G3 events at the 2009 Budaörs Cup in Germany and 2010 Donetsk City Cup in Ukraine.

Seems to have a bright future ahead of her. Let's see how she progresses.

[BlueTrees]

Kateryna is playing at Junior Wimbledon at the moment. In the first round she beat 1st seed Daria Gavrilova 7-6(2) 6-3. In the second round she beat Ellen Allgurin 2-6 7-5 6-2. Plays 16th seed Victoria Duval next.

[BlueTrees]

Duval beat her 6-3 6-2.

[ralfreinecke]

Kateryna is in the doubles final in Contrexéville

Some photos:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ralfreinecke/

[BlueTrees]

Kateryna won her first pro title!

$25,000 Stuttgart-Vaihingen

Q1: (2)Kateryna Kozlova (UKR) df. Oceane Adam (FRA) 6-4 6-1
Q2: (2)Kateryna Kozlova (UKR) df. (13)Dejana Raickovic (GER) 1-6 6-0 6-4

1R: (Q)Kateryna Kozlova (UKR) df. Lesley Kerkhove (NED) 7-5 2-6 6-2
2R: (Q)Kateryna Kozlova (UKR) df. (2)Dia Evtimova (BUL) 6-3 2-6 6-2
QF: (Q)Kateryna Kozlova (UKR) df. (WC)Katharina Lenhert (GER) 6-0 6-3
SF: (Q)Kateryna Kozlova (UKR) df. (Q)Ons Jabeur (TUN) 2-6 6-0 6-2
F: (Q)Kateryna Kozlova (UKR) df. (4)Florencia Molinero (ARG) 3-6 7-5 6-4

[Andreas]

So many 3 set matches Finally cracks top 300 as well

[battista]

Photos from the win in Stuttgart
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ralfrei...7630301123594/

[Andreas]

Katya won a 50k tournament in Russia this week; both singles and doubles! She will be around 230 in the world when the new rankings come out Hopefully she can make the cut for AO Q!

[BlueTrees]

It was actually $50K+H so even better. Very big tournament for her to win.

[chingching]

Time to jump on the bandwagon
BTW she doesn't seem to have a suitable body for hard-hitting or puddling, so does anyone know what she does???

[BlueTrees]

Katya just won her third title of the year! She won $25K Shymkent in Kazakhstan. She's really in good form. Three titles in less than three months. She'll be Top 200 now

$25K Shymkent

1R: (1)Kateryna Kozlova (UKR) df. (WC)Yekaterina Sagitova (KAZ) 6-0 6-1
2R: (1)Kateryna Kozlova (UKR) df. (Q)Elena Maltseva (RUS) 6-1 6-1
QF: (1)Kateryna Kozlova (UKR) df. Vlada Ekshibarova (UZB) 6-2 6-3
SF: (1)Kateryna Kozlova (UKR) df. (7)Tetyana Arefyeva (UKR) 6-0 6-4
F: (1)Kateryna Kozlova (UKR) df. Anna Danilina (KAZ) 6-3 4-6 6-4

[xcrtbckhnd]

Are there any videos or can someone describe how she plays?

[Andreas]

Originally Posted by BlueTrees

Katya just won her third title of the year! She won $25K Shymkent in Kazakhstan. She's really in good form. Three titles in less than three months. She'll be Top 200 now

Hopefully this is enough for AO Q She won the doubles title in Shymkent as well; no. 6 for her this year!

Originally Posted by xcrtbckhnd

Are there any videos or can someone describe how she plays?

Not really any good videos anywhere, but from what I've seen she's an aggressive baseliner; good off both sides. Serve is decent, but needs some work. I guess that's the case with most of the young players, though

[Kutuzova]

Two videos just for a sense of her game:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfT3Ca_Hw8I

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFh1YqA018I

[Mary Chain]

She's playing 50K Nantes, and is into R2 after defeating (6)Kristyna Pliskova 2-6 7-6(4) 7-5

Some pics:



with Olga Savchuk