Anna Vladimirovna Blinkova

Anna Blinkowa
Anna Blinkowa (2019)
Nation:	Russia
Birthday:	September 10, 1998
Size:	177 cm
1st professional season:	2015
Playing hand:	Right, two-handed backhand
Trainer:	Vladimír Pláteník
Prize money:	$ 1,243,772
singles
Career record:	172: 105
Career title:	0 WTA , 1 WTA Challenger, 3 ITF
Highest ranking:	54 (February 3, 2020)
Current placement:	61
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	82:52
Career title:	1 WTA, 1 WTA Challenger, 10 ITF
Highest ranking:	51 (October 21, 2019)
Current placement:	63
Grand Slam record
Last update of the infobox: March 16, 2020
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Anna Wladimirowna Blinkowa ( Russian Анна Владимировна Блинкова , English spelling Anna Blinkova ; born September 10, 1998 in Moscow ) is a Russian tennis player .

Career

Blinkowa already attracted attention as a junior when she reached the final of the Wimbledon junior competition in 2015 , which she lost to Sofja Schuk 5-7 and 4-6. Nevertheless, she moved up to third place in the junior women's tennis world rankings. In addition, she won the double competition of the renowned junior tournament Abierto Juvenil Mexicano in 2014 together with Fanni Stollar and in 2015 alongside Yevgenia Levaschowa . Her greatest success, however, was winning the 2016 ITF Junior Masters in Chengdu , where she prevailed in three close sets in the final against Katie Swan .

In 2015 Blinkowa began playing her first tournaments on the ITF Women's World Tennis Tour , and in 2016 she won her first professional title in Stammheim after qualifying. She made her debut on the WTA tour in the same year in Rabat , where she was allowed to start with a wildcard , but was eliminated in the first round by Timea Bacsinszky . After she won her first title at an ITF tournament in the $ 25,000 category in Westende in August , she received another wildcard for the 2016 Kremlin Cup in Moscow , this time for the qualification, and came in straight away after an opening win against Anastasija Sevastova the second round, in which she could no longer compete due to injury.

The following year, she first appeared in a women's Grand Slam tournament at the Australian Open . After three successes in qualifying, she won her first victory in a main draw in the first round against Monica Niculescu , before she failed to Karolína Plíšková in the second round without a chance. She was also able to qualify for the main draw in London and New York , but lost there in the first round. In 2018, Blinkowa surprised by moving into the third round of Doha , in which she could only be stopped by Caroline Garcia . She then won an ITF tournament in the $ 50,000 category in Croissy-Beaubourg and won her first WTA double title in Rabat on the side of Raluca Olaru . In the same year she survived the second round for the first time at Wimbledon and was included in the top 100 of the world rankings for the first time at the end of 2018.

After a mixed start into 2019, she reached the final in a tournament in the $ 100,000 category in Trnava and then qualified for the third round at the French Open , where she had to admit defeat to Madison Keys . In September she was able to celebrate her biggest title win to date at a tournament of the WTA Challenger Series in New Haven after a final success over Usue Maitane Arconada . Towards the end of the season she reached her first WTA semifinals in Guangzhou , in which she was defeated by the eventual winner Sofia Kenin ; a month later she was again in a semi-finals in Luxembourg , where she was beaten by Jeļena Ostapenko . At the beginning of the 2020 season, she celebrated her first win against a top 10 player against Belinda Bencic and achieved her best world ranking so far with rank 54.

In 2017, Blinkova made her debut for the Russian Fed Cup team in the quarter-finals against Taiwan . Since then, she has played three games in singles and doubles for her country, of which she was able to win (individual balance 0: 1).

Tournament victories

singles

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	17th January 2016	Stuttgart-Stammheim	ITF $ 10,000	Hard court (hall)	Valentini Grammatikopoulou	7: 6 4 , 2: 6, 6: 2
2.	August 21, 2016	West end	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Valentini Grammatikopoulou	7: 5, 6: 2
3.	March 31, 2018	Croissy-Beaubourg	ITF $ 10,000	Hard court (hall)	Karolína Muchová	no game
4th	September 8, 2019	New Haven	WTA Challenger	Hard court	Usue Maitane Arconada	6: 4, 6: 2

Double

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Partner	Final opponents	Result
1.	February 22, 2015	Port El Kantaoui	ITF $ 10,000	Hard court	Tessah Andrianjafitrimo	Arabela Fernandez Rabener Eva Wacanno	6: 4, 6: 0
2.	17th January 2016	Stuttgart-Stammheim	ITF $ 10,000	Hard court (hall)	Marija Marfutina	Laura Schaeder Anna Zaja	0: 6, 6: 4, [10: 8]
3.	December 23, 2016	Ankara	ITF $ 50,000	Hard court (hall)	Lidia Marosawa	Sabina Sharipova Yekaterina Yaschina	4: 6, 6: 3, [11: 9]
4th	June 24, 2017	Ilkley	ITF $ 100,000	race	Alla Kudryavtseva	Paula Kania Maryna Sanewska	6: 1, 6: 4
5.	22nd September 2017	St. Petersburg	ITF $ 100,000	Hard court (hall)	Veronika Kudermetova	Belinda Bencic Michaela Hončová	6: 3, 6: 1
6th	March 10, 2018	Zhuhai	ITF $ 60,000	Hard court	Lesley Kerkhove	Nao Hibino Danka Kovinić	7: 5, 6: 4
7th	4th May 2018	Rabat	WTA International	sand	Raluca Olaru	Georgina García Pérez Fanny Stollár	6: 4, 6: 4
8th.	October 28, 2018	Poitiers	ITF $ 80,000	Hard court (hall)	Alexandra Panova	Viktorija Golubic Arantxa Rus	6: 1, 6: 1
9.	4th May 2019	Wiesbaden	ITF $ 60,000	sand	Yanina Wickmayer	Jaimee Fourlis Kathinka from Deichmann	6: 3, 4: 6, [10: 3]
10.	May 11, 2019	Cagnes-sur-Mer	ITF $ 80,000	sand	Xenia Knoll	Beatriz Haddad Maia Luisa Stefani	4: 6, 6: 2, [14:12]
11.	May 18, 2019	Trnava	ITF $ 100,000	sand	Xenia Knoll	Cornelia Lister Renata Voráčová	7: 5, 7: 5
12.	7th September 2019	New Haven	WTA Challenger	Hard court	Oksana Kalashnikova	Usue Maitane Arconada Jamie Loeb	6: 2, 4: 6, [10: 4]

Performing in Grand Slam tournaments

singles

competition	2017	2018	2019	2020	Career
Australian Open	2	1	1	2	2
French Open	-	-	3		3
Wimbledon	1	2	-		2
US Open	1	1	1		1

Double

competition	2018	2019	2020	Career
Australian Open	-	-	1	1
French Open	1	-		1
Wimbledon	1	AF		AF
US Open	-	1		1

Web links

• WTA profile of Anna Wladimirowna Blinkowa (English)
• ITF profile Anna Blinkowa (English)
• Fed Cup stats by Anna Blinkowa (English)