Beck before losing to 11th seed Suárez Navarro in the third round. In doubles, Vesnina and Makarova were seeded fifth. They saved match points against Samantha Stosur/Zhang Shuai in the second round, and defeated 10th seed Vania King/Monica Niculescu and 13th seed Andreja Klepač/Katarina Srebotnik to reach the semifinals where they lost to 12th seeds Mattek-Sands/Šafářová. Vesnina and Makarova qualified for their third joint WTA Finals, defeating Hlaváčková/Hradecká, Hingis/Mirza and Mattek-Sands/Šafářová en route to win their first Championships title. 2017: Indian Wells singles and Wimbledon doubles titles, career-high singles ranking Vesnina began season at the Brisbane International. In singles, she was seeded seventh but lost her first match to Alizé Cornet. Alongside Makarova, seeded second, the pair reached the doubles final, but lost to top seeds Mattek-Sands and Mirza. Another opening match loss in singles came in Sydney, losing to CoCo Vandeweghe. Vesnina then headed to the Australian Open, where she was seeded 14th in singles and third in the doubles, again, alongside Makarova. Vesnina would reach the third round in the singles and the quarterfinals in the doubles. Her singles form began to pick up, with a quarterfinal run in St. Petersburg and last-16 appearances at the Qatar Open and the Dubai Championships. Vesnina and Makarova won their first title of the year in Dubai. The next appearance for Vesnina would be at Indian Wells. Seeded 14th, Vesnina defeated Shelby Rogers and Tímea Babos to set-up a fourth round meeting with Angelique Kerber. Vesnina beat the US Open champion, before defeating Australian Open runner-up Venus Williams and Kristina Mladenovic to reach her first Premier Mandatory final. In an all-Russian final against Svetlana Kuznetsova, Vesnina came from a set down to win her third WTA singles title. With this victory, Vesnina climbed to a career-high ranking of 13. She then traveled to Florida for the Miami Open and lost in the second round to Ajla Tomljanović. Vesnina started clay-court season with a stunning loss at the Charleston Open to the 282nd ranked player in the world, Fanny Stollár. She received a bye in the first round and lost in straight sets. She lost in the second round to Daria Kasatkina at the Grand Prix. Her clay-court season continued to spiral as she lost in the first round of the Madrid Open, Italian Open, and at Strasbourg. However, her and Makarova did make it to the finals in the doubles of