Sofia Kenin

Sofia Kenin
Sofia Kenin 2015 at the US Open Junior Women's Tournament
Nickname:	Sonya
Nation:	United States
Birthday:	November 14, 1998
Size:	170 cm
Playing hand:	Right, two-handed backhand
Trainer:	Alexander Kenin (father)
Prize money:	$ 5,930,775
singles
Career record:	205: 116
Career title:	5 WTA , 4 ITF
Highest ranking:	4 (March 9, 2020)
Current placement:	4th
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	56:45
Career title:	2 WTA, 2 ITF
Highest ranking:	32 (March 9, 2020)
Current placement:	32
Grand Slam record
Mixed
Grand Slam record
Last update of the infobox: March 9, 2020
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Sofia Anna "Sonya" Kenin ( Russian София Анна Александровна Кенин ; born November 14, 1998 in Moscow , Russia ) is an American tennis player . Her greatest success so far is winning the Australian Open 2020 .

Career

Victory in the National Hard Courts

When Sofia Kenin was a baby, the family moved to the United States. She started playing tennis at the age of five and prefers the hard court for her game. Until 2017 she played mainly on the ITF Women's Circuit , where she has won four tournaments in singles and two in doubles so far.

In 2014 she took fourth place at the Summer Youth Olympic Games with her partner Renata Zarazúa . Then she reached the main field as a qualifier at the Coleman Vision Tennis Championships 2014 , where she lost in the first round to Petra Rampre with 3-6 and 3-6 . At the end of September, she won the Junior Fed Cup with the US team. In December she won the Orange Bowl , the most important junior tournament after the four Grand Slams. In the final she beat Ingrid Neel 6: 3 and 6: 3.

At the beginning of 2015 she was in the final of the $ 10,000 tournament in Gainesville , but lost to Katerina Stewart in three sets 4-6, 6-4, 4-6 and just missed her first tournament win. In early August she received a wildcard for the main draw of the US Open for her victory at the National Hardcourts Championships in San Diego , where she lost to Mariana Duque Mariño in the first round. In the juniors she reached the individual finals , which she lost to Dalma Gálfi 5: 7 and 4: 6.

In 2016, Kenin won her first ITF tournament as a qualifier at the American Wesley Chapel at the end of January , beating Czech Jesika Malečková 6-2 and 6-2 in the final of the $ 25,000 tournament . After winning the FSP Gold River Women's Challenger 2016 in Sacramento at the end of July and advancing into the top 250 of the world rankings in singles, she received a wildcard for the main draw in the women’s singles of the US Open 2016 , where she beat Karolína in the first round Plíšková left.

She played for the United States Fed Cup team for the first time in the 2018 final . She lost both singles.

In early 2019, she won her first two WTA titles. The first in doubles in Auckland at the side of Eugenie Bouchard , after they defeated the pairing Paige Mary Hourigan / Taylor Townsend with 1: 6, 6: 1 and [10: 7] in the final. The individual title in Hobart followed only a week later , after beating Anna Karolína Schmiedlová 6: 3 and 6: 0.

On February 1, 2020, she won her first Grand Slam tournament at the Australian Open. On the way to the title she defeated u. a. the world number one Ashleigh Barty and in the final the two-time Grand Slam winner Garbiñe Muguruza .

Tournament victories

singles

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	January 24, 2016	Wesley Chapel	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Jesika Malečková	6: 2, 6: 2
2.	July 24, 2016	Sacramento	ITF $ 50,000	Hard court	Grace Min	4: 6, 6: 1, 6: 4
3.	23rd July 2017	Stockton	ITF $ 60,000	Hard court	Ashley scratches	6-0, 6-1
4th	July 22, 2018	Berkeley	ITF $ 60,000	Hard court	Nicole Gibbs	6-0, 6-4
5.	January 12, 2019	Hobart	WTA International	Hard court	Anna Karolína Schmiedlová	6: 3, 6: 0
6th	June 23, 2019	Mallorca	WTA International	race	Belinda Bencic	6: 7 2 , 7: 6 5 , 6: 4
7th	September 21, 2019	Guangzhou	WTA International	Hard court	Samantha Stosur	6: 7 4 , 6: 4, 6: 2
8th.	February 1, 2020	Australian Open	Grand Slam	Hard court	Garbiñe Muguruza	4: 6, 6: 2, 6: 2
9.	March 8, 2020	Lyon	WTA International	Hard court (hall)	Anna-Lena Friedsam	6: 2, 4: 6, 6: 4

Double

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Partner	Final opponents	Result
1.	July 22, 2017	Stockton	ITF $ 60,000	Hard court	Usue Maitane Arconada	Tammi Patterson Chanel Simmonds	4: 6, 6: 1, [10: 5]
2.	November 11, 2017	Waco	ITF $ 80,000	Hard court	Anastassija Komardina	Jessica Pegula Taylor Townsend	7: 5, 5: 7, [11: 9]
3.	January 6, 2019	Auckland	WTA International	Hard court	Eugenie Bouchard	Paige Mary Hourigan Taylor Townsend	1: 6, 6: 1, [10: 7]
4th	October 6, 2019	Beijing	WTA Premier Mandatory	Hard court	Bethanie Mattek-Sands	Jeļena Ostapenko Dajana Jastremska	6: 3, 6: 7 3 , [10: 7]

Performing in Grand Slam tournaments

singles

competition	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	Balance sheet	Career
Australian Open	-	-	-	1	2	S.	8: 2	S.
French Open	-	-	-	1	AF		3: 2	AF
Wimbledon	-	-	-	2	2		2: 2	2
US Open	1	1	3	3	3		6: 5	3

Double

competition	2018	2019	Balance sheet	Career
Australian Open	-	1	0: 1	1
French Open	-	2	1: 1	2
Wimbledon	2	1	1: 2	2
US Open	1	1	0: 2	1

Awards

• WTA climber of the year - 2019

Web links

Commons : Sofia Kenin  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• WTA profile Sofia Kenin (English)
• ITF profile Sofia Kenin (English)
• ITF junior profile Sofia Kenin (English)
• Fed Cup Statistics for Sofia Kenin (English)
• Sofia Kenin Official Website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Child prodigy Kenin gains experience from US Open debut. In: tennis.com. September 6, 2015, accessed January 12, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Kenin and Kozlov score Orange Bowl titles. In: itftennis.com. December 15, 2014, accessed January 12, 2019 . 
3. ↑ 2019 WTA Most Improved Player of the Year: Sofia Kenin. In: wtatennis.com. December 11, 2019, accessed December 11, 2019 .