Valentina Ivanov

Valentina Sergeyevna Ivanov (born 27 March 2001) is a New Zealand tennis player, although she has lived in Sydney since she was two years old.[2] Ivanov's mother Oksana (née Yarikova) was a member of the Uzbekistan Fed Cup team in 1995 and 1997, being joined in the latter by her younger sister Irina. The Uzbekistan team captain that year was Oksana's future husband (and Valentina's father), Sergey Ivanov. Valentina was coached by both parents until she was 12.

Valentina Ivanov
Country (sports) New Zealand
ResidenceSydney, Australia
Born (2001-03-27) 27 March 2001
Christchurch, New Zealand[1]
Height1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)
PlaysRight-handed (double-handed backhand)
Prize money$7,714
Singles
Career record19–19
Career titles0
Highest rankingNo. 738 (28 January 2019)
Current rankingNo. 1014 (16 March 2020)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open Junior1R (2019)
Doubles
Career record10–8
Career titles1 ITF
Highest rankingNo. 733 (5 August 2019)
Current rankingNo. 896 (16 March 2020)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open Junior1R (2019)
Team competitions
Fed Cup8–1 (Singles 4–1, Doubles 4–0)
Last updated on: 28 April 2020.

Ivanov has a career high ITF junior combined ranking of 85, achieved on 2 April 2018.

Tennis career

Junior highlights

Ivanov won two Grade 4 singles titles in 2017, and five junior doubles titles in 2017 and 2018, four with Australian Amber Marshall and one, the Grade 2 2017 Lee Duk Hee Cup Chuncheon International Junior Tennis Championships, with Supapitch Kuearum.

2019

Ivanov made her WTA main draw debut as a wild card, with fellow New Zealand junior Elys Ventura, in the ASB Classic in Auckland. They lost in the first round of doubles to the eventual runners-up, Paige Hourigan and Taylor Townsend, after Ivanov had defeated Hourigan in the first round of singles qualifying, repeating the result of the New Zealand Championships final.[3] She lost in the second qualifying round to Bibiane Schoofs. She then came through qualifying to reach the first round of the Girls' Singles at the Australian Open, where she lost to the fifth seed, Mananchaya Sawangkaew. She also lost in the first round of doubles.

Ivanov's first senior title came in Port Pirie, South Australia, in February, when she and Marshall defeated the top seeds Jennifer Elie and Alicia Smith in the semi-finals before beating Patricia Böntgen and Lisa Mays in the doubles final.[4] A poor run of form in qualifying for singles main draws was only slightly alleviated by reaching the doubles semi-final at a tournament in Heraklion. However, she made her Fed Cup debut for New Zealand in June in the best possible manner, defeating Meheq Khokhar of Pakistan, 6–0, 6–0. She won two singles and three doubles matches as New Zealand finished a disappointing fourth in the tournament.

Although she and Mylène Halemai reached the doubles semi-final of her first tournament when back in Europe, at Alkmaar, she got past the first round of doubles only once more in the season, whilst also getting to the singles main draw only once more in Europe. It took until her last event for the year, in Tucson, Arizona, before she got any further, making it to the quarter-finals but having to default through injury.

2020

Ivanov began the year at the ASB Classic in Auckland, where her original wild card into qualifying was upgraded to one in the main draw. Ranked 1014 at the time of entry, she was not disgraced when going down in straight sets to 63rd ranked Jil Teichmann, 4–6, 3–6, having broken the Swiss player's serve in the second set.

She was unbeaten in three singles matches when New Zealand hosted one pool in the 2020 Fed Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group II in Wellington, before heading back to UC Berkeley to continue her studies. She didn't play again before international play was suspended in early March because of the Covid-19 coronavirus.

ITF finals

Doubles: 1 (1 title)
Legend
$100,000 tournaments
$80,000 tournaments
$60,000 tournaments
$25,000 tournaments
$15,000 tournaments (1–0)
Finals by surface
Hard (1–0)
Clay
Grass
Carpet
Result No. Date Category Tournament Surface Partner Opponents Score
Winner 1. 16 February 2019 $15,000 Port Pirie, Australia Hard Amber Marshall Patricia Böntgen
Lisa Mays		 7–5, 6–2

Fed Cup participation

Singles
Edition Stage Date Location Against Surface Opponent W/L Score
2019 Fed Cup
Asia/Oceania Zone Group II		 R/R 20 June 2019 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Pakistan Hard Meheq Khokhar W 6–0, 6–0
P/O 22 June 2019 Malaysia Sara Nayar L 5–7, 5–7
2020 Fed Cup
Asia/Oceania Zone Group II		 R/R 5 February 2020 Wellington, New Zealand Mongolia Bolor Enkhbayar W 6–0, 6–0
7 February 2020 Singapore Sarah Pang W 6–1, 6–1
P/O 8 February 2020 Philippines Shaira Hope Rivera W 7–5, 6–1

Doubles
Edition Stage Date Location Against Surface Partner Opponents W/L Score
2019 Fed Cup
Asia/Oceania Zone Group II		 R/R 20 June 2019 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Pakistan Hard Erin Routliffe Meheq Khokhar
Noor Malik		 W 6–0, 6–1
21 June 2019 Hong Kong Ng Kwan-yau
Wu Ho-ching		 W 6–2, 6–2
P/O 22 June 2019 Malaysia Sara Nayar
Jawairiah Noordin		 W 6–3, 4–6, 6–3
2020 Fed Cup
Asia/Oceania Zone Group II		 R/R 5 February 2020 Wellington, New Zealand Pakistan Mahin Qureshi
Ushna Suhail		 W 6–1, 6–0

References
  1. "About Me - Valentina Ivanov".
  2. "Kiwi Valentina Ivanov brings eastern European flavour". New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 28 April 2020.
  3. "2018 NZ Tennis Championships - Women's Singles". Tennis New Zealand. Retrieved 25 December 2018.
  4. "ITF W15 2019 Port Pirie International drawsheet". International Tennis Federation. Retrieved 28 April 2020.
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