Kaia Kanepi (born June 10, 1985 in Tallinn) is an Estonian professional female tennis player. Her career-high was No. 34 on June 9, 2008. She is right-handed and play two-handed backhand. Her favourite surface is clay. In her career, she has beaten Patty Schnyder, Flavia Pennettaand Anna Chakvetadze. Career Her father, Jaak (a real estate broker) and mother Anne (a homemaker) played tennis. They introduced their daughters Kadri, who won a tennis scholarship to study in the U.S. and Karin, a dedicated horse rider. Kaia, who always watched her parents and sisters play, discovered her love for tennis at an early age. She started playing at the age of 8. Thanks to her family, who have always supported her desire to play pro tennis, she reached world No.1 on ITF Junior Rankings, before turning pro in 2000. Shes won six ITF singles titles on the way and is now top-ranked Estonian female tennis player followed by Maret Ani and Margit Rόόtel. Kaias dream is to be world No. 1 some day. Kaia Kanepi is a great admirer of Anna Kournikova, Martina Hingis, Marat Safin, Andy Roddick and Roger Federer. She currently lives in Haapsalu, Estonia. From the beginning of 2008 Kaia is coached by Pablo Giacopelli.
At 2007 Australian Open, Kaia struggled but defeated 28 seeded Flavia Pennetta of Italy in straight sets 75, 76, before losing to Alicia Molik 61, 36, 26 in the second round. At Indian Wells Kaia Kanepi had a tough 1st round against wildcard Kristina Brandi but prevailed and won 36, 75, 60. In the 2nd round she came up against the 14th seed and eventual champion, Daniela Hantuchova. Kanepi went down in 3 sets, losing 26, 62, 61. At Miami, she stunned Patty Schnyder in the 2nd round before losing to qualifier Vera Dushevina in round 3.
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In late July, Kanepi won though to the semi finals of the Bad Gastein tournament in Austria where she fell to Francesca Schiavone of Italy 64 62. This was her 3rd ever semi final and first of the year. Afterwards, she made her top 40 debut at #40. Kaia Kanepi got another major scalp at the 2008 French Open where she managed to take out sixth seed Anna Chakvetadze in straight sets, 6-4 7-6(2). She defeated 29th seed Anabel Medina Garrigues 6-1, 6-7, 7-5 for a place in the fourth round; outplaying unseeded Petra Kvitova 6-3, 3-6, 6-1 took her to the quarter finals, where she was finally defeated by 4th seed Svetlana Kuznetsova 7-5, 6-2. Kanepi was granted direct entry in the 2008 Wimbledon Championships where she lost in the first round to seed number 6 Serena Williams 5-7, 3-6.
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