Julia Glushko
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Julia Glushko (born April 1, 1990, in Ukraine) is a right-handed Israeli tennis player who resides in Tel Aviv.
Her junior ranking as of June 2007 was # 10 in the world.
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[edit] Tennis career
She started playing tennis at the age of 3.
Shahar Pe'er beat her in the women's final of the 2006 Israel National Championships.
[edit] Junior career
She has won 4 junior titles. The first three were the 2006 Saadia Rees (Grade 4), the 2007 Argentina Cup (Grade 2), and the 2007 Uruguay Bowl (Grade 2).
In March 2007 she won the Grade 1 Asuncion Bowl junior girls tournament in Paraguay. It was the first Grade 1 title of her career.[1]
At the US Open in September 2007, she has won her first two junior singles matches and her first round junior doubles match with Tyra Calderwood.
[edit] Professional career
Glushko made her professional debut in March 2004 at the ITF challenger event in Ramat Hasharon. She beat Diana Voskoboynik (Israel) in the first round of qualifying before losing to Yakaterina Burduli (Israel).
Her best result on the professional level has been a semifinal appearance at the ITF event in Antalya-Serik (Turkey) in May 2006, where she lost to Cagla Buyukakcay (Turkey).
In November 2007, she won her first ITF title an event in Mallorca, Spain, beating Diana Enache (Romania) 6-0; 6–0 in the final.
Glushko was ranked # 735 in the WTA world rankings as of December 24, 2007.
[edit] Federation Cup
Glushko made her Fed Cup debut with the Israeli team on April 22, 2007, in Kamloops, Canada. She lost 1–6, 1–6, to # 195-ranked Marie-Eve Pelletier (Canada), after Israel had already clinched the match, which it won 3–2. In July she played # 580-ranked Melanie Klaffner (Austria) after Israel had already clinched the match, which it won 4–1, and lost 4–6, 3–6.
[edit] Maccabiah Games
Competing in the 17th Maccabiah Games in 2005, in the semifinals she lost to Sharon Fichman of the USA, the eventual gold medal winner, 6–4, 6–0.
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