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 | ||||||||||||
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Career record: | 205: 116 | ||||||||||||
Career title: | 5 WTA , 4 ITF | ||||||||||||
Highest ranking: | 4 (March 9, 2020) | ||||||||||||
Current placement: | 4th | ||||||||||||
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Career record: | 56:45 | ||||||||||||
Career title: | 2 WTA, 2 ITF | ||||||||||||
Highest ranking: | 32 (March 9, 2020) | ||||||||||||
Current placement: | 32 | ||||||||||||
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Last update of the infobox: March 9, 2020 |
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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
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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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
- 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
- ↑ Child prodigy Kenin gains experience from US Open debut. In: tennis.com. September 6, 2015, accessed January 12, 2019 .
- ↑ Kenin and Kozlov score Orange Bowl titles. In: itftennis.com. December 15, 2014, accessed January 12, 2019 .
- ↑ 2019 WTA Most Improved Player of the Year: Sofia Kenin. In: wtatennis.com. December 11, 2019, accessed December 11, 2019 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Kenin, Sofia |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kenin, Sonya; Кенин, София Александровна (maiden name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American tennis player |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 14, 1998 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Moscow |