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In mid-November she was forced to fight through qualifying to enter the popular $25k event at Pruhonice in the Czech Republic, and succeeded in defeating future top-50 star Dominika Cibulková and Maša Zec Peškirič to achieve this end. But in the first round of the main draw she lost in two close sets, 4–6, 4–6, to Czech player Michaela Paštiková.

Returning to competition towards the end of February, she gained direct entry into a $50 tournament at St. Paul, Minnesota, and won her first-round tie before losing a close three-setter to American Ahsha Rolle, 6–2, 4–6, 3–6.

In her next two $25k tournaments, she endured early losses, but on returning from a month's break early in May to compete in a $25k event at Antalya-Manavgat, Turkey, she reached the quarter-finals after beating Aurélie Védy of France in a close three-set second-round clash, but then was demolished 1–6, 1–6 by on-form Italian star Romina Oprandi.

The following week, she gained entry into the qualifying draw of her first $75k tournament at Jounieh, Indonesia, and won through all three qualifying rounds in close three-set matches against little-known opponents to score her career-best qualifying achievement yet, but finally succumbed to compatriot Alla Kudryavtseva in the first round of the main draw in an even closer contest, 6–7, 6–4, 4–6.

In July, she suffered another relatively early loss in the main draw of a $25k tournament at Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, as she was trounced by unheralded Ukrainian Galyna Kosyk in the second round 0–6, 2–6.

But in August she returned to form by breezing through into the finals of a $25k tournament at Moscow and then vanquishing up-and-coming compatriot Ekaterina Makarova in a closely fought final, 7–6, 6–3, to win the first ITF title of her career at any level.

The following month, she qualified for her second $75k draw, and this time came away with two main-draw victories also to extend her winning streak to ten, at the expense of Jorgelina Cravero of Argentina and Aleksandra Wozniak of Canada. In the quarterfinals, she faced experienced Peruvian veteran Kristina Brandi; and the match went down to the wire with a third-set tiebreak, but it was Brandi who emerged victorious, 6–2, 1–6, 7–6.

After returning to Russia, she reached another $25k quarterfinal at Podolsk at the end of that month before losing to compatriot Eugenia Grebenyuk, 2–6, 5–7.

But the very next week, at the start of November, she turned the tables on Grebenyuk in the quarterfinals of a $25k tournament at Minsk, dismissing her 6–2, 6–2, and then narrowly defeated compatriot Anna Lapushchenkova 7–6, 7–5 at the semifinal stage, before sealing a comprehensive straight-sets tournament victory with a 6–4, 6–3 win over Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in the final, to take her career ITF singles title tally to two.

Later that month at Přerov in the Czech Republic, she cruised to the semi-finals of another $25k event before losing to prominent British player Anne Keothavong 6–7, 2–6 in what would be the Russian's last match of the year.

Despite a few hiccups along the route, Rodina had ended the year ranked 90 places higher than she began, at world No. 233, and had compiled an outstanding win-loss record for the year of 34–12.

In January she entered qualifying for a WTA Tour event for the first time in her career, her only previous WTA appearance having been thanks to a main draw wildcard. But far from being a minor-level WTA event, it was a Grand Slam that she chose to tackle first at WTA qualifying level, and more specifically the Australian Open. In the first round of the qualifying draw she comfortably defeated American star Angela Haynes 6–3, 6–0. But then she lost in the second to another American, Bethanie Mattek, 4–6, 1–6.

A week later, she entered qualifying for another Tier-III event in the Americas, this time at Acapulco, Mexico. But she was drawn against strong German player Gréta Arn in the first round of qualifying, and ceded to her a close three-setter, 5–7, 6–4, 2–6.

Staying with $25k events in April, she lost a very close first round match to Australian Casey Dellacqua 7–6, 6–7, 3–6 at Biarritz, France, but the following week won through to the semi-finals at Calvià, Spain, with a three-set quarterfinal victory against Czech star Petra Cetkovská, 6–4, 3–6, 6–4, only to lose her semifinal tie to Spanish player María José Martínez Sánchez in straight sets.

Travelling to the Lebanon in May for the $75k tournament at Jounieh, she was upended in the first round by a little-known player from Slovakia, Zuzana Kučová, 1–6, 4–6.

Towards the end of the month, she entered qualifying for a Grand Slam championships for the second time in her career, this time at the French Open, and defeated Hana Šromová of the Czech Republic in the first round, but then lost a very tight three set match to emerging Uzbek star Akgul Amanmuradova, 6–4, 6–7, 4–6.

In June, Rodina tried again at Wimbledon, but despite defeating her experienced compatriot Galina Voskoboeva in the first round of qualifying, she then lost rather easily to an up-and-coming Belarussian success story in the form of Olga Govortsova, 1–6, 2–6.

After another month's break, she returned to action in late July at the $75k tournament at Pétange, Luxembourg, and made it through to the quarterfinal stage before losing to Carla Suárez Navarro of Spain 6–7, 1–6.

In mid-August, she reached the quarterfinals of another $50k event at the Bronx, New York with wins over Swedish star Sofia Arvidsson and Dutch campaigner Elise Tamaëla, but then lost a very close quarter-final to Austrian Yvonne Meusburger, 6–2, 3–6, 6–7.

The very next week, she entered qualifying for her fourth straight Grand Slam of the year, and this time won two rounds at the expense of Elena Baltacha and Hana Šromová, but was defeated in three sets in the qualifying round by Olivia Sanchez, 6–4, 1–6, 4–6.

In September, as a direct entrant to the $100k tournament at Kharkov, Ukraine, she reached the quarterfinal after notching up a straight-sets victory over another top British player, Katie O'Brien, in the first round, but then lost to veteran Anne Kremer from Luxembourg in the quarterfinals, 4–6, 1–6.

At the end of the month, she achieved a career-first at Tashkent, Uzbekistan in qualifying for a WTA main draw, by successively defeating both Marta Domachowska of Poland and her compatriot Anna Lapushchenkova in straight sets. Although it was only a Tier-IV event, these were both strong opponents to encounter in a qualifying draw; and she capitalised on her achievement by Zhang Shuai in the first round of the main draw, 6–3, 7–6. But then she faced emerging top-flight player Victoria Azarenka in round two, and ceded the match to her in two close sets, 4–6, 3–6, so failing to equal her career best result set at the same event two years previously, although on that past occasion she had entered the tournament thanks to the award of a wildcard and did not encounter such tough second-round opposition.

Later the same week, she entered qualifying for the Tier I event at Moscow, and toughed out three-set victories against compatriots Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and Anastasia Pivovarova before ultimately losing a similarly close three-setter to Australian former top-ten star Alicia Molik, 7–5, 3–6, 4–6, in the qualifying round.

In early November, she entered a $50k tournament at Minsk, and after edging past a little-known fellow Russian in round one she successively defeated Viktoriya Kutuzova of Ukraine 7–6, 6–3, Aravane Rezaï of France 6–4, 6–3, and Ekaterina Dzehalevich of Belarus 6–2, 4–6, 6–4, to reach her career-first $50k final, having never previously made it past the quarterfinals at or above this level of event. Ironically, the final proved to be her easiest match of the tournament, as she virtually bulldozed Romanian Sorana Cîrstea for the loss of just one game each set, to take home her career-first $50k title. ´ The next two weeks were to prove less successful for Rodina. She first encountered Ekaterina Bychkova in the first round of the $50k event at Deauville, France, and was edged out by her 6–4, 2–6, 5–7. Next, after gaining direct entry into the main draw of the $100k event at Poitiers, France, she ran into Stéphanie Foretz and was defeated by her 3–6, 2–6.

In December, however, she entered the $75k tournament at Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and enjoyed further success, with another victory over Anna Lapushchenkova in the second round, followed by the avenging of her previous defeat by Alla Kudryavtseva in the quarterfinals, though it was to be another close three-set match between them, 7–5, 5–7, 6–3. These victories took her to her career-first $75k semifinal, where she met Yuliana Fedak of Ukraine, and vanquished her in two close sets, 6–4, 6–4. But in the first $75k final, she was faced with the challenge of playing erstwhile top-25 star Maria Kirilenko; and though the first set was close, it was to be Kirilenko who eventually ran away with the match, 7–5, 6–2.

In late February, she reached the second round of the Tier-III tournament at Memphis, Tennessee by defeating former top-100 player (but then world No. 158) Anastasiya Yakimova of Belarus in round one, before losing heavily to Lindsay Davenport, 1–6, 1–6. The following week, early in March, she reached the second round of a $50k event at Las Vegas with a 6–1, 6–4 win over Varvara Lepchenko before losing to world No. 87 Yuan Meng 2–6, 2–6 in the second round.

A reprieve from this disappointing run of finishes was just around the corner, however, as at the annual Tier-I event at Indian Wells held over two weeks in the middle of March she came through two tough rounds of qualifying by defeating resurgent former top-50 star Sesil Karatantcheva of Bulgaria (7–5, 6–2) and world No. 117 Rossana de los Ríos of Paraguay (6–3, 6–2), and then went on to defeat wildcarded fellow Russian Anastasia Pivovarova (6–4, 6–3) and French world No. 26 Virginie Razzano (6–0, 6–7, 6–2) to reach the third round of the main draw, before losing to world No. 31 Anabel Medina Garrigues (3–6, 5–7). Her string of four victories at this tournament, albeit two in qualifying, was sufficient to lift her to a new career-high ranking of world No. 102 in the week beginning 24 March. In the French Open, her first direct entry into a Grand Slam main draw, she took on the top seed and her compatriot, Maria Sharapova on the Philippe Chatrier Court, the largest court at Roland Garros. Rodina fought gamely and made a good account of herself, before Sharapova won 6–1, 3–6, 8–6.

Only main-draw results in WTA Tour, Grand Slam tournaments and Olympic Games are included in Win–Loss records.

Rodina is married to her coach Denis Shteyngart. They have a daughter, born in November 2012.

Rodina qualified for Wimbledon and then made it to the third round where she defeated No. 10 seed Madison Keys. In the fourth round, she lost to Serena Williams 2–6, 2–6. She got her best new ranking of No. 71, eclipsing her previous career-high ranking of No. 74 last held on 28 February 2011.

Back in Australia a couple of days before the start of January 2008, she again tried her luck at qualifying for events on the WTA Tour, but suffered a rare bleak run of results as she lost in the first rounds of qualifying in all three tournaments she entered, falling to Julia Schruff of Germany at Gold Coast (1–6, 5–7), to Yaroslava Shvedova at Hobart (5–7, 6–2, 1–6), and to Junri Namigata of Japan at the Australian Open (1–6, 3–6).

But with few ranking points to defend from that time of year in 2007, she had slipped only three places on the WTA rankings list to world No. 123 by the start of February; and even a further first-round loss to Kaia Kanepi (3–6, 4–6) at the first tournament she played that month, the Tier-III event at Viña del Mar, Chile, was enough to drop her ranking only to 127th by the last week of February.

Towards the end of the month, Rodina returned to the ITF circuit once more at Podolsk, Russia, and this time fought past Galyna Kosyk in a three-set quarter-final to avenge her crushing defeat at her hands back in July 2006. At the semifinal stage, she ousted Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in another three-set tussle, but in the final she comfortably defeated Anna Lapushchenkova, against whom she has never yet lost, to earn her third career ITF singles title, and third at $25k level.

After taking a six-month break from competition, she was granted a further wildcard directly into the main draw of a $10k event at Cavtat, Croatia in late April, 2005, a couple of months after her sixteenth birthday, and this time won two rounds before losing in the quarterfinals.

Rodina began her career on the ITF Circuit with the assistance of a wildcard into the first round of the main draw of a $25k tournament at Moscow in late August 2004, when she was just fifteen and a half years old, and justified the award by taking a set from up-and-coming fellow Russian star Elena Vesnina, though she lost the match in three.

Evgeniya Sergeyevna Rodina (Russian: Евгения Сергеевна Родина , born 4 February 1989) is a Russian professional tennis player. She achieved her career-high ranking of No. 67 on 6 May 2019.