Tennis player Alisa Kleybanova: winner of the impossible

Alisa Kleybanova - tennis, in which the two thousandth's considered one of the most promising young athletes. However, she had to endure a serious bout with a terrible disease, then the mere return to the court was a great feat for Alice.

Start

Alisa Kleybanova was born in Moscow in 1989. Her mother worked as a biologist, and his father worked in the MISA, then decided to do their own thing and soon headed his own chemical company. Parents sought to take his daughter to the case and recorded it immediately into several sections, which included gymnastics, swimming, dancing.

About tennis Alisa Kleybanova learned at the age of four years, it all began with the usual games with his mom. However, Natalia Levin, mum of the girl turned out to be very focused and assertive woman. She taught herself many leadership training tennis coach and started their own Alice.

Things went smoothly, and after nine years of practicing at home with his mother Kleybanova was an excellent young athlete, able to defeat their more advanced peers.

Start career

At the age of fourteen, she said goodbye to childhood and early career as a professional tennis player. Junior period was quite well for Alice, she was the third player in the world among women, successfully played in the doubles at the Youth Grand Slam tournaments. His first tournament Alisa Kleybanova won in 2003, coming to the final ITF competition in China with a prize fund of 15 thousand dollars. Every year she is gaining momentum and successfully tries his hand at a major tournament series ITF regularly collecting victories in Twenty-Five-Thousander. For several years she has won almost ten titles and won a sufficient rating to participate in the major WTA tournaments.

By this time quite taken shape and style of play a promising tennis player from Moscow. She has a powerful serve, seriously complicates the reception of the ball for the opponents. In addition, she had a great backhand, backhand, which helped her during prolonged tactical sweepstakes.

At the height of the form

By 2008, Alisa Kleybanova breaks into hundreds of the strongest tennis players and consistently involved in the WTA tournaments. It alternates with successful performances in singles and doubles, and co-worker Alice was the famous Jelena Jankovic, is considered one of the strongest athletes of the two thousandth.

In 2008, the Muscovite begins to appear on the Grand Slam tournaments. The greatest success she has achieved on his favorite turf. At the tournament in Wimbledon debutant nineteen he broke through a sieve of qualification and managed to reach the fourth round of the competition.

were able to enter into the main stage of the competition, Alice and the US Open in the same year, where, however, flew on the stage of the second round. The most successful in terms of sports for Kleybanova began in 2010. It takes two titles WTA, as well as playing in the finals of the prestigious tournament champions. Moreover, all the deeds were committed on hard, which was not considered a favorite Alice coating. Earlier this year, she won the tournament in Quale Lumpur, beating the legendary Elena Dementieva, and in September to celebrate victories over Klara Zakopalova in Seoul.

Between the two victories from Moscow lost in the finals of the tournament WTA Anna Ivanovich, who at that time was considered one of the strongest tennis players of the planet.

Alisa Kleybanova: illness

The main challenge in Alice's life was not another sporting event, a terrible disease. For several years she suffered from constant ailments, but a great form of concealed faults in health. Only after prolonged ill health she has come full diagnostics course, after which she endured the terrible diagnosis - Hodgkin's lymphoma, a form of cancer afflicting the lymph nodes athletes.

In July 2011, Alisa Kleybanova announced to the world that is seriously ill and is forced to interrupt their career in order to save his life.

Illness threatens not only health, but also the lives of talented athletes and sunny girl. Alice took a course of treatment in Italy. Gloomy, rainy weather of the autumn in Moscow is not the best way to affect the state of tennis. As a result of the courageous athlete won a landslide victory over the disease and started training immediately after the treatment.

Return

In 2012, Alisa Kleybanova returned to the court after a course of treatment for this dreadful disease. According to her, the most important of her achievement was the fact that she was able to return to an active career. She began with a small tournaments ITF, which was able to take another title.

Later, she continued her movement on the larger competitions. Alice has made a second round exit at the US Open, made it to the quarterfinals of the Kremlin Cup, and then participated in the final match of the Confederations Cup.

For some time, brave girl interrupted his career due to accumulated injuries, but continues to compete today, having won several ITF tournaments series.