Russian Women Tennis Players

Russian tennis star Svetlana Kuznetsova is known for her two Grand Slam wins in both the singles and the doubles categories. She created history by becoming the first Russian to earn a US Open title. She has a star cyclist mother, Galina Tsareva, and an Olympic medalist brother, Nikolay Kuznetsov.

Daria Kasatkina is a Russian professional tennis player who has won four WTA Tour titles in singles and one title in doubles. The daughter of athletes, she started playing tennis when she was six. She pursued the sport professionally and excelled, making her top-ten debut in the WTA rankings in the 2018 season. She is openly bisexual. 

Introduced to tennis at the tender age of 6, Ekaterina Makarova later became world no. 1 in doubles and no. 8 in singles. The four-time Grand Slam winner has also earned a gold at the 2016 Rio Olympics with Elena Vesnina. She is known for her signature left-handed slice serve.

Four-time Grand Slam champion Elena Vesnina has also earned two Olympic medals, which were, unfortunately lost in a theft in 2021. She has consistently been one of the top-ranked doubles players and went back to the tennis court at age 34 after a hiatus following her pregnancy.

Born into a well-known Russian tennis family, with a coach mother and a tennis-club director father, Dinara Safina was destined to take up the sport as a career option. She and her brother, former world no. 1 Marat Safin, made history by becoming the first brother-sister duo to top world tennis rankings.

Maria Kirilenko is a Russian former professional tennis player who won six WTA singles titles and 12 doubles titles. She was a semifinalist at the 2012 London Olympics, where she lost to Belarusian player Victoria Azarenka. She reached her career-high ranking of world No. 10 in June 2013. She is married to Alexei Stepanov and has two children. 

Anastasia Potapova is a Russian tennis player. She started playing as a child and is a former junior No. 1. She emerged as the 2016 Wimbledon Championships girls' singles champion after defeating Dayana Yastremska from Ukraine in the final. She made her debut in a Grand Slam tournament in 2017. She played in the 2021 Abu Dhabi Women's Tennis Open. 

Vera Zvonareva is a Russian tennis player with 12 WTA Tour singles titles, including the 2009 Indian Wells Masters, to her name. She has also won five Grand Slam titles in doubles. She started playing tennis as a child and turned professional in 2000. She has degrees in physical education and international economic relations. She is married to Alexander Kucher. 

Anna Kalinskaya is a Russian professional tennis player who won the girls' doubles event at the 2016 Australian Open, partnering with Slovak tennis player Tereza Mihalíková. She has won seven singles and nine doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. She played her first Grand Slam event as a professional player at the Australian Open in 2017. 

Elena Dementieva is a Russian former tennis player who won the singles gold medal at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. She has 16 WTA singles titles to her name and was also part of the Russian team that won the 2005 Fed Cup. She reached a career-high ranking of world No. 3 in April 2009. 

Veronika Kudermetova is a Russian professional tennis player who won her first WTA Tour singles title at the 2021 Charleston Open and reached a Grand Slam final at the 2021 Wimbledon Championships in women's doubles with Elena Vesnina. She is known for her powerful serve and highly aggressive playing style with an all-court game. She is married to Sergei Demekhine. 

Winner of one WTA singles title, three WTA 125K series titles and seven singles titles on the ITF Circuit, Ekaterina Alexandrova is a Russian tennis player, currently living in Prague.  Coached by her father, she first came to limelight in 2016 when she clinched her fifth ITF title and made her WTA Tour singles debut. She achieved her best singles ranking of No. 25 on 17 February 2020.  

The current no. 1 in Russia, tennis player Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova soared to fame with her mixed doubles gold medal win at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics. She also earned her first Grand Slam singles final spot at Roland-Garros the same year. A prodigy, she made her Grand Slam debut with Wimbledon at 15.

The daughter of a table tennis player father, Liudmila Samsonova began playing tennis at age 6 and grew up to represent not just her country, Russia, but also Italy, in professional tennis. A lifelong fan of Maria Sharapova, she specializes in the forehand shot and enjoys playing on hard court.

Yaroslava Shvedova is a Kazakhstani former professional tennis player who has won one singles title and 13 doubles titles on the WTA Tour. She has also won four singles and three doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. She achieved a golden set at Wimbledon in her match against Sara Errani in 2012. She is the mother of twins. 

Irina Zvereva is a former professional tennis player who competed in the doubles event at the 1990 Moscow Ladies Open. At one point in her career, she was ranked as high as No. 4 in her country. She participated in many events on the ITF Women's Circuit, reaching five singles finals. She is married to Alexander Mikhailovich Zverev. 

Former world no. 3, Nadia Petrova had first decided to play professionally at 14. A hip injury that she sustained in 2006 eventually slowed her career down. She has also spoken of how important her mother had been for her career and how her death caused her to quit her career.

Winner of two singles and four doubles titles on the WTA Tour, Russian tennis player Margarita Gasparyan began her professional career in 2010, quickly winning nine singles and eight doubles titles on ITF Circuit before shifting to WTA Tours. A regular on Grand Slam tournaments and Fed Cup, she reached her career-high rankings, both in doubles and singles, in 2016.

Retired tennis player Anna Chakvetadze, who was once world no. 5, has 8 WTA Tour singles titles in her kitty, including a Kremlin Cup. Now a Eurosport commentator, she quit her tennis career after being robbed and attacked by six invaders, an incident from which she never recovered.

Anastasia Gasanova is a Russian tennis player who made her WTA Tour main-draw debut at the 2021 Abu Dhabi Open. She defeated former world No. 1, Karolína Plíšková in the second round of that tournament. She reached her first quarterfinal of a WTA Tour event at the St.Petersburg Trophy the same year. She has been coached by Elena Bryukhovets. 

The winner of the 2015 Wimbledon girls’ singles title, Sofya Zhuk went on a temporary but indefinite break from tennis at the tender age of 20 after sustaining a severe back injury. The Russian tennis prodigy now lives in Miami and is also gearing up for a modeling career.

Russian-born Australian tennis player Arina Rodionova learned to play tennis at the age of three under her father's guidance, eventually debuting as a professional in 2004 at an ITF event,. Partnering with her sister Anastasia Rodionova, she has often contested in double tournaments and reached the final at the Malaysian Open in 2010.

Soviet and Russian tennis player Natalia Bykova, better known by her married name, Natalia Egorova, is known for her two doubles WTA titles. Before retiring from tennis in 2003, she had earned a ranking of 26 in the doubles category, whereas in singles, she managed a ranking of 76.

Olga Puchkova is a Russian tennis player who represented Belarus as a junior player. After turning professional, Puchkova started competing in the ITF Circuit, winning a couple of titles in 2003 and 2004. She has also participated in Grand Slam Singles and Doubles events, reaching the third round of the 2012 US Open in the former.

Ksenia Pervak is a Russian former professional tennis player who won a WTA Tour singles title and three ITF Circuit doubles titles during her playing career. Ksenia Pervak's career came to a halt in 2015 when she retired. But she came out of retirement in 2016 and ended her career after a first-round loss at the 2017 Australian Open.

Galina Voskoboeva is a Russian-born Kazakhstani professional tennis player who became the first female player to win a main-draw singles match at the Baku Cup, which was played on hard courts. Galina Voskoboeva has also competed at Grand Slam Singles and Doubles events, reaching the quarter-finals of the French and Australian Open on a couple of occasions.