Arantxa Rus

Arantxa Rus
Arantxa Rus 2019 at Wimbledon
Nation:	Netherlands
Birthday:	December 13, 1990
Size:	180 cm
Weight:	65 kg
1st professional season:	2007
Playing hand:	Left, two-handed backhand
Trainer:	Julian Alonso
Prize money:	$ 1,558,077
singles
Career record:	511: 311
Career title:	0 WTA , 24 ITF
Highest ranking:	61 (August 13, 2012)
Current placement:	70
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	162: 138
Career title:	1 WTA, 9 ITF
Highest ranking:	114 (July 23, 2018)
Current placement:	134
Grand Slam record
Last update of the infobox: March 16, 2020
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Arantxa Rus (born December 13, 1990 in Delft ) is a Dutch tennis player .

Career

Rus, who started playing tennis at the age of five, was an outstanding junior. In 2008 she won the junior competition at the Australian Open and, alongside her compatriot Lesley Pattinama Kerkhove, she won the doubles competition at the renowned Trofeo Bonfiglio and thus reached number one in the junior world rankings .

In 2007 she made her debut with a wildcard in the main draw of the WTA tournament in 's-Hertogenbosch and won her first two professional titles on the ITF Women's World Tennis Tour . In 2008 she won her first two wins at tournaments in the $ 25,000 category in Bari and Opole and reached her first quarter-finals on the WTA Tour as a qualifier after victories over Yanina Wickmayer and Gisela Dulko in Guangzhou . In 2009 she went to the Australian Open for the first time in the qualification of a Grand Slam tournament and lost in the second round. In Paris she made the jump into the main field, where she went straight to the second round after an opening win against Olivia Sanchez , in which she had to admit defeat to Jaroslawa Schwedowa . At the end of the season she won her biggest title to date in a tournament in the $ 50,000 category in Nantes and ended the year just outside the top 100 in the world.

After a weaker season in 2010, in which Russia initially fell back, she started the new season in 2011 with her first main field success in Melbourne over Bethanie Mattek-Sands . At the French Open she was in the third round for the first time after a surprising three-set win against Kim Clijsters , her first success against a top 10 player, but had no chance against Marija Kirilenko . After her final participation in the highly endowed ITF tournament in Cuneo and her first entry into the second round of the US Open , Rus was listed among the top 100 in the world for the first time. In the following year, she even improved her Grand Slam results and, after defeating Julia Görges at the French Open 2012, advanced to the first and so far only time in the round of 16 of a Grand Slam tournament, in which she failed against Kaia Kanepi . In Wimbledon , she celebrated her second win against a top 10 player against Samantha Stosur and moved into the third round for the first time before she was stopped by Peng Shuai . She then achieved her best position so far in the world rankings with position 61.

Subsequently, Rus suffered a form low and, based on their defeat in the second round of the WTA tournament in Dallas, they lost 15 games in a row across seasons before they survived the opening round at the ITF tournament in Cagnes-sur-Mer . She spent the second half of the season on the ITF tour, where she won five tournaments in the $ 25,000 category and finished the year in the top 200 in the world. At the beginning of the 2014 season, Rus again lost eight matches in a row and slipped further in the ranking. In 2015 she could only reach an ITF final in a tournament of the lowest category.

In the following year, Rus's performance stabilized again, but at no point was she able to meet the high expectations placed on her after her successful junior career. She won two tournaments in the $ 25,000 category on the ITF tour and qualified in Seoul after a three-year break in the main draw of a WTA tournament, where she lost to eventual winner Lara Arruabarrena at the start . In 2017 she won in Båstad , where she celebrated her first WTA tournament victory in doubles alongside her compatriot Quirine Lemoine , against Patricia Maria Țig again after five years in a single match in the main draw. At the end of the season she reached the final at a tournament of the WTA Challenger Series in Taipei , in which she had to admit defeat to Belinda Bencic . After Rus reached the quarter-finals after qualifying in Istanbul in 2018 , she was in the main draw of a Grand Slam tournament at the French Open for the first time since Wimbledon in 2013 , after having moved up as a lucky loser; in the first round Sloane Stephens gave her no chance.

In 2019, Rus managed to return to the top 100 of the world rankings with ten ITF titles in the $ 25,000 category and a WTA quarter-finals in Palermo , thus qualifying for the main draw of the Australian Open 2020 . There she moved into the second round after an opening win against Magda Linette ; it was her first success in the main draw of a Grand Slam tournament since Wimbledon 2012. Before the corona-related end of the season, she achieved her first semi-final on the WTA Tour in Monterrey , in which she was defeated by the eventual winner Elina Switolina .

In 2008 Rus was nominated for the first time for the Dutch Fed Cup team . Since then she has contested 32 singles and doubles for her country with interruptions, of which she was able to win 15 (individual balance 15:12).

In the German Bundesliga she played from 2006 to 2011 for the TC Blau-Weiss Bocholt and since 2015 for the TC Rot-Blau Regensburg , with which she became German champion in 2016.

Tournament victories

singles

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	August 26, 2007	Vlaardingen	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Anne Schäfer	6: 7 5 , 6: 2, 6: 2
2.	September 10, 2007	Alphen aan den Rijn	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Renée Reinhard	4: 6, 7: 5, 7: 6 2
3.	April 19, 2008	Bari	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Alberta Brianti	2: 6, 7: 5, 6: 3
4th	November 23, 2008	Opole	ITF $ 25,000	Carpet (hall)	Ana Vrljic	4: 6, 7: 5, 6: 3
5.	November 8, 2009	Nantes	ITF $ 50,000	Hard court (hall)	Renata Voráčová	6: 3, 6: 2
6th	April 1, 2012	Osprey	ITF $ 50,000	sand	Sesil Karatancheva	6: 4, 6: 1
7th	September 1st 2013	Fleurus	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Diāna Marcinkēviča	6: 3, 6: 2
8th.	September 8, 2013	Alphen aan den Rijn	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Carina Witthöft	4: 6, 6: 2, 6: 2
9.	October 6, 2013	Vall de Uxó	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Alizé Lim	6: 1, 6: 1
10.	October 12, 2013	Sant Cugat	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Alberta Brianti	6: 4, 2: 6, 6: 2
11.	October 1, 2016	Hua Hin	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Nicha Lertpitaksinchai	3: 6, 7: 6 4 , 7: 6 3
12.	October 16, 2016	Équeurdreville	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court (hall)	Maryna Sanewska	6: 2, 6: 1
13.	July 9, 2017	Middelburg	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Valentini Grammatikopoulou	3: 6, 6: 2, 6: 3
14th	September 30, 2017	Hua Hin	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Jacqueline Cako	6: 1, 6: 3
15th	April 21, 2019	Pula	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Daria Lopatetska	6: 7 2 , 6: 3, 6: 1
16.	April 28, 2019	Pula	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Elizabeth Halbauer	6: 2, 6: 7 6 , 6: 1
17th	7th July 2019	The hague	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Valentina Iwachnenko	6: 2, 6: 2
18th	4th August 2019	El Espinar	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Julia Terziyska	6: 4, 6: 1
19th	11th August 2019	Cordenons	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Nika Radišić	4: 6, 6: 4, 6: 1
20th	September 8, 2019	Marbella	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Marina Bassols Ribera	6: 2, 6: 2
21st	15th September 2019	Santa Margherita di Pula	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Elisabetta Cocciaretto	6: 3, 6: 7 5 , 6: 4
22nd	20th October 2019	Seville	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Patricia Maria Țig	6: 4, 6: 4
23.	3rd November 2019	Pétange	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court (hall)	Laura-Ioana couple	6: 3, 3: 6, 6: 3
24.	17th November 2019	Orlando	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Irina Fetecau	6: 3, 6: 2

Double

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Partner	Final opponents	Result
1.	October 27, 2007	Mexico city	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Nicole Thijssen	Ivana Abramović Maria Abramović	6-0, 6-1
2.	February 12, 2011	Stockholm	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court (hall)	Nastassja Jakimawa	Claire Feuerstein Ksenia Lykina	6: 3, 2: 6, [10: 8]
3.	May 12, 2013	Cagnes-sur-Mer	ITF $ 100,000	sand	Vania King	Catalina Castaño Teliana Pereira	4: 6, 7: 5, [10: 8]
4th	November 2, 2013	Taipei	ITF $ 50,000	Hard court	Lesley Kerkhove	Chen Yi Luksika Kumkhum	6: 4, 2: 6, [14:12]
5.	August 30, 2014	Fleurus	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Demi Schuurs	Hilda Melander Marina Melnikova	6: 4, 6: 1
6th	February 26, 2016	Beinasco	ITF $ 25,000	Sand (hall)	İpek Soylu	Lina Gjorcheska Dea Herdželaš	6: 4, 6: 2
7th	April 30, 2016	Wiesbaden	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Marie Benoît	Steffi Distelmans Demi Schuurs	6: 2, 6: 2
8th.	September 10, 2016	Budapest	ITF $ 50,000	sand	Cindy Burger	Ágnes Bukta Jesika Malečková	6: 1, 6: 4
9.	July 30, 2017	Båstad	WTA International	sand	Quirine Lemoine	María Irigoyen Barbora Krejčíková	3: 6, 6: 3, [10: 8]
10.	20th January 2019	Singapore	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Quirine Lemoine	Chen Pei-hsuan Wu Fang-hsien	6: 2, 6: 4
11.	August 9, 2020	Palermo	WTA International	sand	Tamara Zidanšek	Elisabetta Cocciaretto Martina Trevisan	7: 5, 7: 5

Web links

Commons : Arantxa Rus  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• WTA profile of Arantxa Rus (English)
• ITF profile of Arantxa Rus (English)
• Fed Cup statistics Arantxa Rus (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Claus-Dieter Wotruba: The Eckert tennis ladies get the title. In: Mittelbayerische Zeitung. July 10, 2016, accessed January 17, 2017 .