Serbian tennis player

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming conventions, the patronymic is Ratkovna and the family name is Manasieva.

Vesna Ratkovna Dolonc (Serbian Cyrillic and Russian: Весна Ратковна Долонц; née Manasieva, Манасиева; born 21 July 1989) is a retired Serbian tennis player. She earned career-highs of 84 in singles and 93 in doubles.

Contents

• 1 Career
  • 1.1 2013
  • 1.2 2014
• 2 WTA career finals
  • 2.1 Doubles: 1 (runner–up)
• 3 ITF Circuit finals
  • 3.1 Singles: 11 (3–8)
  • 3.2 Doubles: 14 (5–9)
• 4 Performance timelines
  • 4.1 Singles
  • 4.2 Doubles
• 5 Personal life
• 6 References
• 7 External links

Career

Dolonc began competing on the ITF Circuit in September 2005, soon after her 16th birthday, and had risen to world No. 152 by 28 January 2008.

In February 2006, she won seven successive matches to come through qualifying and reached the semifinals of the $10k event at Portimão, Portugal, and in May 2006, she reached her first $10k final at Kiev, Ukraine. In 2007, she reached the semifinals at Stockholm-Salk ($25k level); Monzón, Spain ($75k level); Moscow ($25k level); and Podolsk, Russia ($25k level). In September 2007, she made it to the finals at the $100k tournament inn Kharkiv, Ukraine.

In 2008, she qualified for her third career WTA Tour main draw at Pattaya, defeated fifth-seeded Angelique Kerber of Germany with the loss of only three games, and reached her first WTA Tour quarterfinals.

Dolonc qualified for the 2011 Australian Open, and in the second round, defeated No. 17 Marion Bartoli in three sets.

In July 2012, she won her second career *le in Donetsk.

2013

Dolonc began her season at the Brisbane International. She lost in the first round of qualifying to María José Martínez Sánchez. Despite qualifying for the Australian Open, Dolonc was defeated in the second round by eleventh seed Marion Bartoli.

In Paris at the Open GdF Suez, Dolonc lost in the final round of qualifying to Monica Niculescu. During the Fed Cup tie versus Slovakia, Dolonc won her first rubber when Dominika Cibulková retired due to a leg muscle strain. In her second rubber, she was defeated by Daniela Hantuchová. Serbia ended up losing the tie 2-3.

2014

Dolonc announced her retirement from pro circuit on 14 February 2017 (her last match she played in November 2016).

WTA career finals

Doubles: 1 (runner–up)

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 11 (3–8)

Doubles: 14 (5–9)

Performance timelines

(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.

Singles

Only main-draw results in WTA Tour, Grand Slam tournaments and Fed Cup are included in win–loss records.

Notes

• 1 The first Premier 5 event of the year has switched back and forth between the Dubai Tennis Championships and the Qatar Open since 2009. The Dubai Championships were cl*ified as a Premier 5 event from 2009–2011 before being succeeded by the Qatar Open for the 2012–2014 period. In 2015, the Dubai Championships regained its Premier 5 status while the Qatar Open was demoted to Premier status. The two tournaments have since alternated status every year.
• 2 WTA Tier I held until 2008 (8, 9 or 10 tournaments per year), after this split up between Premier Mandatory (4 per year) and Premier 5 tournaments (5 per year)

Doubles

Personal life

She was born to a Serbian father Ratko Manasiev and a Russian mother. She changed her surname from "Manasieva" to "Dolonc" (Dolonts) when she was married to Arsen Dolonts on 1 October 2010.

References

External links

• Vesna Dolonc at the Women's Tennis *ociation
• Vesna Dolonc at the International Tennis Federation
• Vesna Dolonc at the Billie Jean King Cup