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Tatiana Golovin
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Tatiana Golovin, born on January 25, 1988, is a French professional tennis player.

Her nickname on tour is Tati. Golovin is best known for winning the 2004 Roland Garros mixed doubles event with countryman Richard Gasquet and reaching the singles quarterfinal at the 2006 US Open, losing to eventual champion Maria Sharapova.

Golovin was born in Moscow, but moved to Paris with her parents and obtained French citizenship. She has two sisters, Olga and Oxana. She also spent six years at Nick Bollettieri's tennis camp in Bradenton, Florida and speaks fluent English as a result.

Golovin made her ITF Circuit debut at Cagnes-Sur-Mer (France) in 2002. She played in three more ITF events (including one semifinal) later that year, but she failed to qualify for Roland Garros.

In 2003, Golovin won her first WTA Tour main draw match at Indian Wells against No.146 Gisela Dulko (losing in the second round to Italian Francesca Schiavone). Golovin lost in the first round at Miami, Strasbourg and Roland Garros. She also played in four ITF Circuit events.

In 2004 was considered as Golovin's breakthrough season, highlighted by finishing runner-up at Birmingham and reaching the fourth round at the Australian Open and Wimbledon. At the Australian Open, Golovin (as No.354, with wild card) upset No.14 seed Anna Smashnova in the second round and No.23 seed Lina Krasnoroutskaya in the third round (on her 16th birthday), before falling to No.25 seed Lisa Raymond in the fourth round. It was just her second Grand Slam tournament and fifth Tour event she entered, and afterwards, on February 2, she rose to No.136 in the WTA ranking.

Golovin started off 2007 at the Hopman Cup in Perth, Australia. She won her first singles match, defeating American Ashley Harkleroad 6-3 4-6 6-2. She pulled out of the mixed doubles match with partner Jerome Haehnel, citing an ankle injury. She then defeated Australian Alicia Molik, but then lost to Russian Nadia Petrova 7-6 6-0.

Her first event of the WTA season was the Medibank International held in Sydney. In the first round, Golovin beat Peng Shuai 6-4 7-5 before falling to the top seed Amelie Mauresmo in the second round 6-7(4) 7-5 6-1.

At the Australian Open, the first Grand Slam of the year, Golovin came in as a big favourite to cause some upsets. In the first and second rounds she beat Anna Smashnova and Zuzana Ondraskova. However, she fell in the third round to 16th seed Shahar Peer in a three-hour marathon 3-6 7-5 7-5, who eventually made the quarterfinals.