Weronika Eduardowna Kudermetowa
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Weronika Kudermetowa 2018 at the French Open | |||||||||||||
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Birthday: | April 24, 1997 | ||||||||||||
Size: | 175 cm | ||||||||||||
Playing hand: | Right, two-handed backhand | ||||||||||||
Trainer: | Sergei Demekhin | ||||||||||||
Prize money: | $ 1,366,291 | ||||||||||||
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Career record: | 229: 153 | ||||||||||||
Career title: | 0 WTA , 1 WTA Challenger, 4 ITF | ||||||||||||
Highest ranking: | 38 (February 3, 2020) | ||||||||||||
Current placement: | 40 | ||||||||||||
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Career record: | 204: 104 | ||||||||||||
Career title: | 1 WTA, 4 WTA Challenger, 16 ITF | ||||||||||||
Highest ranking: | 23 (October 14, 2019) | ||||||||||||
Current placement: | 28 | ||||||||||||
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Last update of the infobox: March 16, 2020 |
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Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links ) |
Weronika Eduardowna Kudermetowa ( Russian Вероника Эдуардовна Кудерметова ; born April 24, 1997 in Kazan ) is a Russian tennis player .
Career
Kudermetova, who started playing tennis at the age of eight, competed in 2011 in her native Kazan for the first time in the qualification of a tournament on the ITF Women's World Tennis Tour . In 2014 she won her first professional title and in the same year made her debut on the WTA tour at the Kremlin Cup in Moscow after receiving a wildcard for the qualification in which she was eliminated in the second round .
In 2016, Kudermetowa won her first two tournaments in the $ 25,000 category and reached two more finals and was able to triumph in a tournament of the WTA Challenger Series in Taipei alongside Natela Dsalamidse in the doubles competition. The following year, she competed for the first time in the qualification of a Grand Slam tournament at the Australian Open 2017 and lost her opening game. Kudermetowa also failed to qualify for the other three Grand Slam tournaments. At the end of the season, she again achieved her best result of the season in the singles in Taipei , reaching the quarter-finals. She also defended her doubles title there with Aryna Sabalenka .
In 2018, Kudermetowa was able to successfully qualify for the main round of a WTA tournament in Stuttgart for the first time and, after an opening win against Carla Suárez Navarro , immediately reached the second round, in which she was defeated by the eventual tournament winner Karolína Plíšková . She then advanced to the quarter-finals in 's-Hertogenbosch and Gstaad and won two more double titles in a row at the end of the season at the WTA Challengers in Mumbai , again together with Natela Dsalamidse, and Limoges , together with Galina Voskobojewa .
The following year, after another quarter-finals at the beginning of the season in Shenzhen, she made it into the top 100 of the tennis world rankings and subsequently qualified for the main draw of a Grand Slam tournament at the Australian Open 2019 , but was defeated by Sofia in the first round Kenin . She then won her biggest title to date at the WTA Challenger in Guadalajara after winning the final over Marie Bouzková . At the French Open , she beat Caroline Wozniacki at the start and reached the third round for the first time, in which she was eliminated by Kaia Kanepi . After she came in 's-Hertogenbosch, Hiroshima and Tianjin each semi-finals, defeating in Wuhan with Belinda Bencic the first time a top 10 player. There she won her biggest doubles title to date alongside Duan Yingying ; in the final the two defeated Aryna Sabalenka and Elise Mertens . By moving into the quarter-finals in Moscow , where she beat another player from the top 10 against Elina Switolina , she moved into the world's top 50 for the first time at the end of the season.
At the beginning of 2020, Kudermetowa was in her fourth WTA semi-final in Hobart and achieved her highest world ranking position to date with 38th place. In February, after three successful matches in qualifying at the WTA tournament in Dubai, she defeated the better placed Dayana Yastremska and only just lost in three sets against Gabrine Muguruza. A week later, she lost in three sets against top ten player Belinda Bencic in Doha . After the long Corona break, she had a great success at the Western & Southern Open when she defeated the top seed Karolina Pliskova .
Kudermetova made his debut in 2014 in the 4-0 quarter-final defeat against Australia for the Russian Fed Cup team . Since then she has played four singles and doubles for her country, but has not yet won a match. In 2013 she won the Junior Fed Cup together with Darja Kassatkina and Alexandra Pospelowa . In the final, they beat the team from Australia 2-0.
Private
Kudermetowa is married to her trainer Sergej Demekhin, who has made a name for himself as the former successful coach of Wera Swonarjewa .
Tournament victories
singles
No. | date | competition | category | Topping | Final opponent | Result |
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1. | March 9, 2014 |
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ITF $ 10,000 | Hard court (hall) |
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7: 6 2 , 7: 6 3 |
2. | 17th July 2016 |
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ITF $ 25,000 | carpet |
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6: 4, 6: 2 |
3. | 11th September 2016 |
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ITF $ 25,000 | sand |
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7: 5, 6: 4 |
4th | March 11, 2018 |
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ITF $ 25,000 | Hard court |
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6: 2, 6: 4 |
5. | 16th March 2019 |
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WTA Challenger | Hard court |
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6: 2, 6: 0 |
Double
No. | date | competition | category | Topping | Partner | Final opponents | Result |
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1. | June 29, 2013 |
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ITF $ 10,000 | sand |
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6: 4, 6: 2 |
2. | 17th August 2013 |
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ITF $ 50,000 | Hard court |
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5: 7, 6: 0, [10: 8] |
3. | May 3, 2014 |
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ITF $ 10,000 | sand |
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6: 4, 7: 6 5 |
4th | September 12, 2014 |
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ITF $ 25,000 | sand |
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7: 6 10 , 7: 5 |
5. | August 9, 2015 |
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ITF $ 25,000 | sand |
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6: 1, 6: 3 |
6th | November 13, 2015 |
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ITF $ 25,000 | Hard court (hall) |
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6: 3, 6: 1 |
7th | 17th January 2016 |
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ITF $ 25,000 | sand |
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6: 4, 6: 3 |
8th. | April 10, 2016 |
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ITF $ 25,000 | Hard court |
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4: 6, 6: 4, [10: 7] |
9. | June 26, 2016 |
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ITF $ 25,000 | sand |
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6: 1, 6: 2 |
10. | July 31, 2016 |
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ITF $ 25,000 | Hard court |
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6: 2, 6: 3 |
11. | 11th September 2016 |
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ITF $ 25,000 | sand |
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6: 4, 6: 2 |
12. | October 29, 2016 |
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ITF $ 50,000 | Hard court |
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6: 2, 6: 4 |
13. | 20th November 2016 |
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WTA Challenger | Carpet (hall) |
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4: 6, 6: 3, [10: 5] |
14th | April 15, 2017 |
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ITF $ 60,000 | Hard court |
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4: 6, 7: 5, [11: 9] |
15th | June 10, 2017 |
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ITF $ 100,000 | sand |
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7: 6 5 , 6: 4 |
16. | July 22, 2017 |
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ITF $ 100,000 + H | Hard court |
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6: 2, 6: 0 |
17th | 22nd September 2017 |
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ITF $ 100,000 | Hard court (hall) |
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6: 3, 6: 1 |
18th | 19th November 2017 |
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WTA Challenger | Carpet (hall) |
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2: 6, 7: 6 5 , [10: 6] |
19th | 4th November 2018 |
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WTA Challenger | Hard court |
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6: 4, 7: 6 4 |
20th | November 11, 2018 |
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WTA Challenger | Hard court (hall) |
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7: 5, 6: 4 |
21st | September 27, 2019 |
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WTA Premier | Hard court |
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7: 6 3 , 6: 2 |
Performing in Grand Slam tournaments
singles
competition | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | Career |
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Australian Open | Q1 | - | 1 | 1 | 1 |
French Open | Q2 | Q3 | 3 | 3 | |
Wimbledon | Q1 | Q2 | 2 | 2 | |
US Open | Q1 | Q2 | 1 | 1 |
Web links
- WTA profile of Weronika Eduardowna Kudermetowa (English)
- ITF profile Weronika Eduardovna Kudermetowa (English)
- Fed Cup stats by Weronika Eduardovna Kudermetowa (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ «Муж бьет по слабым местам». Интервью с российской победительницей Возняцки. In: sovsport.ru. May 27, 2019, accessed July 26, 2020 (Russian).
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SURNAME | Kudermetowa, Weronika Eduardovna |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Кудерметова, Вероника Эдуардовна (Cyrillic); Kudermetova, Veronika (English transcription) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian tennis player |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 24, 1997 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Kazan , Russia |