Anastasia Potapova

Anastasia Sergeyevna Potapova (Russian: Анастасия Сергеевна Потапова; born 30 March 2001) is a Russian tennis player. Potapova is a former junior No. 1, as well as the 2016 Wimbledon Championships girls' singles champion, where she defeated Dayana Yastremska from Ukraine in the final.

Anastasia Potapova
Анастасия Потапова
Full nameAnastasia Sergeyevna Potapova
Country (sports) Russia
ResidenceKhimki, Russia
Born (2001-03-30) 30 March 2001
Saratov, Russia
Height1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
PlaysRight handed (two-handed backhand)
CoachIan Hughes
Prize moneyUS$ 842,870
Singles
Career record103–65 (61.3%)
Career titles0
Highest rankingNo. 64 (22 July 2019)
Current rankingNo. 84 (16 March 2020)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open2R (2019)
French Open2R (2019)
Wimbledon2R (2019)
US Open1R (2019)
Doubles
Career record40–28 (58.8%)
Career titles2
Highest rankingNo. 77 (22 July 2019)
Current rankingNo. 118 (16 March 2020)
Grand Slam Doubles results
US Open1R (2019)
Team competitions
Fed Cup3–1 (75.0%)
Last updated on: 6 April 2020.

Potapova debuted in a Grand Slam tournament as a wildcard entry in the qualifying draw of the 2017 Wimbledon Championships defeating Elizaveta Kulichkova to qualify for the main draw.

Career

Juniors

On the junior tour, Potapova has a career-high junior ranking of 1, achieved in July 2016. Potapova has had large success on the junior tour including a semifinal at the 2016 French Open, quarterfinals at the 2016 Australian Open and the 2015 Wimbledon Championships and doubles finals at the 2015 US Open and the 2016 French Open. Potapova won the 2016 Wimbledon Championships girls' title, defeating Dayana Yastremska in the final. Two of the seven match points in the final set were overturned by challenges.[1][2] This title made her the No. 1 junior in the world.

Potapova's other junior highlights include semifinal appearances at the Trofeo Bonfiglio and the Orange Bowl Championships, both Grade A events. Her biggest junior title, excluding Wimbledon, is the Nike Junior International in Roehampton, a Grade 1 event, where she defeated other highly rated junior players such as Claire Liu, Jaimee Fourlis, Sofia Kenin, Olga Danilović and Olesya Pervushina en route to winning the title.

2017: Early rise

Starting her first full year on the tour, Potapova started 2017 unranked as she had only played two professional events entering the year. She defeated rival Amanda Anisimova in the final at an 25k event held in Curitiba.[3] This triumph saw her defeat Teliana Pereira for her first top-200 win, and pushed her into the top-500 of the rankings for the first time in her career.

She then made her debut at a WTA event, having received a wildcard to compete in the qualifying rounds of the Premier Mandatory event in Miami, defeating Maria Sakkari for her first top-100 win before falling to Jana Čepelová in straight sets. A series of good runs on clay saw her reaching two ITF semifinals in succession, most particularly at the Empire Slovak Open where she was just an inch away from reaching the final, losing 5–7 in the final set against Verónica Cepede Royg, who went on to reach the second week at the French Open.

Potapova was handed another wildcard, this time into the qualifying draw of Wimbledon. She pounced on her chances, steering through all her matches in straight sets to make her Grand Slam main draw debut. However, an untimely fall during her first-round match saw her being forced to retire against Tatjana Maria, ending her impressive run.[4]

It was a bleak stretch of results which followed for Potapova, who reached just one ITF quarterfinal through the remainder of the year. She ended the year ranked 242, with a 20-14 win-loss record and eight top-200 wins.

2018: Breakthrough onto the main tour

Potapova started 2018 with a final appearance at the Sharm El Sheikh 15k event, but was upset by world No.769 Yuliya Hatouka there. She then played in her second WTA main-draw match at the St. Petersburg Ladies' Trophy, where she finally earned her first main draw win against Tatjana Maria in straight sets.[5] This set up a blockbuster second-round match between newly-crowned Australian Open champion and world number one Wozniacki and Potapova, a clash between experience and youth. However, Potapova was only able to claim one game against Wozniacki, falling 0–6, 1–6 to end her run.[6]

Potapova made her Fed Cup debut for Russia, but lost on her debut to the higher-ranked Viktória Kužmová, and was unable to lead her country to the victory on that weekend. Another ITF final awaited Potapova, this time coming at the O1 Properties Ladies Cup held in Russia. She ousted the 64th-ranked Monica Niculescu but was unable to close out her run as she was defeated by second seed Vera Lapko.

Reaching her first professional clay final in Rome, she lost to Dayana Yastremska there having just won one game in the process.[7] Potapova was given the chance to participate in yet another WTA event, and entered the Moscow River Cup with the help of a wildcard. She defeated two top-100 players and came out of nowhere to make her maiden WTA final,[8] but faltered at the last hurdle as she fell to fellow 17-year-old Olga Danilović in a historic clash between the new generation.[9] She led by a break in the deciding set, but failed to close out the win but still managed to make her top-150 debut with this amazing run.

Potapova lost in the final round of qualifying at the US Open to Julia Glushko but rebounded to qualify for her third WTA main-draw appearance at the Tashkent Open. She defeated Stefanie Vögele and exacted revenge for her Moscow loss against Olga Danilović in the second round.[10] She then trounced Kateryna Kozlova in the semifinals [11] to set up an all-Russian final with Margarita Gasparyan, where she was defeated with a one-sided scoreline.[12]

Her season ended with a tough, but encouraging loss to eventual semifinalist and eighth seed Anett Kontaveit in the opening round of the Kremlin Cup despite leading by a break in the final set.[13] Nonetheless, she ended the year inside the top 100 for the first time in her career with a dominating 6-2 win-loss record against top-100 players.[14]

2019: First Grand Slam match win

Potapova received entry to the main draw of the Australian Open and played her first match against Pauline Parmentier, defeating her in straight sets. This was Potapova's first match win in the main draw of a Grand Slam tournament. In the second round, she was defeated by 17th seed Madison Keys.

Performance timelines
Key
W  F  SF QF #R RR Q# A P Z# PO G F-S SF-B NMS NH
(W) Won; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (A) absent; (P) postponed; (Z#) Davis/Fed Cup Zonal Group (with number indication) or (PO) play-off; (G) gold, (F-S) silver or (SF-B) bronze Olympic medal; a (NMS) downgraded Masters Series/1000 tournament; (NH) not held. SR=strike rate (events won/competed)
To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated at the conclusion of a tournament or when the player's participation has ended.

Only main-draw results in WTA Tour, Grand Slam tournaments, Fed Cup and Olympic Games are included in Win–Loss records.

Singles

Current through the suspension of the 2020 WTA Tour.

Tournament 2017 2018 2019 2020 SR W–L Win %
Grand Slam tournaments[15]
Australian Open A A 2R 1R 0 / 2 1–2 50%
French Open A A 2R 0 / 1 1–1 50%
Wimbledon 1R A 2R NH 0 / 2 1–2 33%
US Open A Q3 1R A 0 / 1 0–1 0%
Win–Loss 0–1 0–0 3–4 0–1 0 / 6 3–6 33%
Premier Mandatory tournaments
Indian Wells Open A A Q1 NH 0 / 0 0–0  – 
Miami Open Q2 A Q1 NH 0 / 0 0–0  – 
Madrid Open A A Q2 NH 0 / 0 0–0  – 
China Open A A Q2 NH 0 / 0 0–0  – 
Premier 5 tournaments
Italian Open A A Q1 0 / 0 0–0  – 
Canadian Open A A 1R NH 0 / 1 0–1 0%
Cincinnati Open A A Q1 0 / 0 0–0  – 
Career statistics[16]
Tournaments 1 4 16 4 Career total: 25
Titles 0 0 0 0 Career total: 0
Finals 0 2 0 0 Career total: 2
Overall Win–Loss 0–1 9–5 13–16 6–4 0 / 25 28–26 52%
Year-end ranking[17] 237 94 93 $842,869

WTA career finals

Singles: 2 (2 runner-ups)
Winner – Legend
Grand Slam tournaments (0–0)
WTA Tour Championships (0–0)
Premier Mandatory & Premier 5 (0–0)
Premier (0–0)
International (0–2)
Finals by surface
Hard (0–1)
Grass (0–0)
Clay (0–1)
Carpet (0–0)
Result W–L    Date    Tournament Tier Surface Opponent Score
Loss 0–1 Jul 2018 Moscow River Cup, Russia International Clay Olga Danilović 5–7, 7–6(7–1), 4–6
Loss 0–2 Sep 2018 Tashkent Open, Uzbekistan International Hard Margarita Gasparyan 2–6, 1–6

Doubles: 2 (2 titles)
Winner – Legend
Grand Slam tournaments (0–0)
WTA Tour Championships (0–0)
Premier Mandatory & Premier 5 (0–0)
Premier (0–0)
International (2–0)
Finals by surface
Hard (0–0)
Grass (0–0)
Clay (2–0)
Carpet (0–0)
Result W–L    Date    Tournament Tier Surface Partner Opponents Score
Win 1–0 Jul 2018 Moscow River Cup, Russia International Clay Vera Zvonareva Alexandra Panova
Galina Voskoboeva		 6–0, 6–3
Win 2–0 Jul 2019 Ladies Open Lausanne, Switzerland International Clay Yana Sizikova Monique Adamczak
Han Xinyun		 6–2, 6–4

ITF finals

Singles: 4 (1 title, 3 runner–ups)
Legend
$100,000 tournaments
$80,000 tournaments
$60,000 tournaments
$25,000 tournaments
$15,000 tournaments
Finals by surface
Hard (1–2)
Clay (0–1)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)
Result W–L Date Tournament Tier Surface Opponent Score
Win 1–0 Mar 2017 ITF Curitiba, Brazil 25,000 Hard Amanda Anisimova 6–7(7–9), 7–5, 6–2
Loss 1–1 Jan 2018 ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt 15,000 Hard Yuliya Hatouka 4–6, 6–4, 5–7
Loss 1–2 May 2018 ITF Khimki, Russia 100,000 Hard (i) Vera Lapko 1–6, 3–6
Loss 1–3 Jul 2018 ITF Rome, Italy 60,000+H Clay Dayana Yastremska 1–6, 0–6

Doubles: 4 (2 titles, 2 runner–ups)
Legend
$100,000 tournaments
$80,000 tournaments
$60,000 tournaments
$25,000 tournaments
$15,000 tournaments
Finals by surface
Hard (1–2)
Clay (1–0)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)
Result W–L Date Tournament Tier Surface Partner Opponents Score
Win 1–0 May 2017 ITF Khimki, Russia 25,000 Hard (i) Olesya Pervushina Ekaterina Kazionova
Daria Kruzhkova		 6–0, 6–1
Win 2–0 Jul 2017 ITF Prague, Czech Republic 80,000 Clay Dayana Yastremska Mihaela Buzărnescu
Alona Fomina		 6–2, 6–2
Loss 2–1 Jan 2018 ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt 15,000 Hard Ekaterina Yashina Jade Lewis
Erin Routliffe		 6–0, 5–7, [6–10]
Loss 2–2 Apr 2018 ITF Istanbul, Turkey 60,000 Hard Olga Doroshina Ayla Aksu
Harriet Dart		 4–6, 6–7(3–7)

Junior Grand Slam finals

Girls' Singles: 1 (1 title)
Result Year Tournament Surface Opponent Score
Win 2016 Wimbledon Grass Dayana Yastremska 6–4, 6–3

Girls' Doubles: 3 (3 runner–ups)
Result Year Tournament Surface Partner Opponents Score
Loss 2015 US Open Hard Anna Kalinskaya Viktória Kužmová
Aleksandra Pospelova		 5–7, 2–6
Loss 2016 French Open Clay Olesya Pervushina Paula Arias Manjón
Olga Danilović		 6–3, 3–6, [8–10]
Loss 2017 French Open Clay Olesya Pervushina Bianca Andreescu
Carson Branstine		 1–6, 3–6

Fed Cup participation
Legend
World Group
World Group Play-off
World Group II
World Group II Play-off
Europe/Africa Group

Singles (1–1)
Edition Round Date Against Surface Opponent W/L Result Team Result
2018 Fed Cup WG II 11 February 2018
Bratislava, Slovakia		 Slovakia Hard (i) Viktória Kužmová Loss 6–3, 3–6, 4–6 Loss 1–3
2019 Fed Cup WG II PO 20 April 2019
Moscow, Russia		 Italy Clay (i) Martina Trevisan Win 2–6, 6–3, 6–1 Win 4–0

Doubles (2–0)
Edition Round Date Against Surface Partner Opponents W/L Result Team Result
2019 Fed Cup E/A I 7 February 2019
Zielona Góra, Poland		 Denmark Hard (i) Margarita Gasparyan Karen Barritza / Maria Jespersen Win 6–2, 6–2 Win 3–0
WG II PO 21 April 2019
Moscow, Russia		 Italy Clay (i) Vlada Koval Sara Errani / Jasmine Paolini Win 4–6, 6–3, [10–7] Win 4–0

Top 10 wins
Season2019Total
Wins11
# Player Rank Event Surface Rd Score APR
2019
1. Angelique Kerber No. 5 French Open, France Clay 1R 6–4, 6–2 No. 81

Awards
2016
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References
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  2. "Anastasia Potapova wins dream Wimbledon title". 9 July 2016. Retrieved 8 August 2019.
  3. "Potapova contro Anisimova, a Curitiba la finale del futuro • Ok Tennis". Ok Tennis (in Italian). 4 March 2017. Retrieved 22 September 2018.
  4. Han, Don (4 July 2017). "Wimbledon: Anastasia Potapova ends her first Grand Slam main draw match in heartbreaking fashion". VAVEL.com. Retrieved 22 September 2018.
  5. Han, Don (30 January 2018). "WTA St. Petersburg: Anastasia Potapova claims first WTA win of her career, ousts Tatjana Maria in straight sets". VAVEL.com. Retrieved 22 September 2018.
  6. "Caroline Wozniacki: Australian Open champion wins St Petersburg opener". BBC Sport. 1 February 2018. Retrieved 22 September 2018.
  7. "Dayana Yastremska thumps Anastasia Potapova in Rome for the third pro title". Tennis World USA. Retrieved 22 September 2018.
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  9. "Olga Danilovic and Anastasia Potapova excel the 2001 generation in Moscow". Tennis World USA. Retrieved 22 September 2018.
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  15. "Grand Slam performances - Singles & Doubles".
  16. "Player & Career overview".
  17. "Ranking History".
  18. (with Olesya Pervushina, Taisia Pachkaleva and Varvara Gracheva)
Awards
Preceded by
Dalma Gálfi		 ITF Junior World Champion
2016		 Succeeded by
Whitney Osuigwe
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