Marta Sirotkina

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Marta Sirotkina
Марта Сироткина

At the 2014 Wimbledon qualifying
Country (sports)	Russia
Residence	Moscow
Born	(1991-03-22) 22 March 1991 (age 30) Moscow
Height	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Turned pro	2007
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	US$ 218,747
Singles
Career record	234–140 (62.6%)
Career titles	12 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 115 (25 February 2013)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	Q3 (2013, 2014)
French Open	Q1 (2014)
Wimbledon	Q3 (2012)
US Open	Q1 (2012, 2013)
Doubles
Career record	119–67 (64.0%)
Career titles	12 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 141 (18 February 2013)
show Medal record Universiade 2011 Shenzhen Doubles 2011 Shenzhen

Marta Aleksandrovna Sirotkina (Russian: Марта Александровна Сироткина, born 22 March 1991) is a former Russian tennis player. Her career-high singles ranking is world No. 115, which she reached on 25 February 2013.^[1] In doubles, she reached No. 141 on 18 February 2013.^[1]

Career highlights[]

Apart from professional success on the ITF Circuit (in her career she won 12 singles and 12 doubles titles), Sirotkina has won bronze medals in the Moscow Winter Championships (singles and doubles) in 2009, later winning a gold medal in the Russian Championships. Marta has won silver medals in the Moscow Championships and gold in the "Cup of Russia" doubles tournament.

2011[]

So far in 2011, Sirotkina has won three ITF titles in singles. She won two $10k tournaments in Bath, Somerset, and Antalya, Turkey, and a $25k tournament in Bangkok, Thailand.

Sirotkina began 2011 with a bang in Bath, beating the top seed on way to capturing the Aegon Pro Series $10k title, while in the $25k event the following week she beat two higher ranked players to make the main draw where she destroyed former world top-20 star Anna-Lena Grönefeld before falling in the quarterfinals to Claire Feuerstein.

Sirotkina competed in the $25k GB Pro-Series Foxhills on 11 July 2011, seeded fifth. Sirotkina defeated in the first round and Samantha Murray in the second round. In the quarterfinals, Sirotkina was defeated by the first seed, Vitalia Diatchenko.

Sirotkina participated in the Tatarstan Open in singles and in doubles. Ksenia Lykina was her doubles partner. In the first round of the singles, Sirotkina defeated Valeria Solovyeva. In the second round, she lost to the third seed, Anastasiya Yakimova. In the doubles, Sirotkina and Lykina lost to the second seeds, Ekaterina Ivanova and Andreja Klepač, in the semifinals, after defeating the fourth seeds, Tetyana Arefyeva and Eugeniya Pashkova in the first round and Natela Dzalamidze and Mandy Minella in the quarterfinals.

Sirotkina competed in the 2011 Summer Universiade in both singles and doubles. In the singles, Sirotkina lost in the third round to eventual bronze-medalist Yoo Mi. Sirotkina partnered with Ksenia Lykina in the doubles and they won a bronze medal.

Sirotkina competed in the singles qualifying of the Tashkent Open. She was seeded fourth. Sirotkina defeated , and in the second round Lyudmyla Kichenok. In the final round, she lost to Aleksandra Krunić.

Personal life[]

Marta is completing her studies at the Moscow Institute for Sports and Fitness Studies, she is funded by a sports-academic scholarship from the Yeltsin Fund. As well as her native Russian she speaks English and Spanish, having attended the Spanish Immersion High School in Moscow. She has one older brother. She likes playing on hardcourt surfaces but her favourite and most comfortable surface is grass.^[2]

In October 2010, Hiberno International and Marta signed a long term management agreement that will bring her to the heights she has the ability to reach. Marta has begun the upward curve needed by undergoing an intensive training camp in the Republic of Ireland at the Tennis Ireland BNP-Paribas National Academy in Dublin under the guidance of the Internationally respected Garry Cahill (former Ireland Fed Cup team captain and current Ireland Davis Cup team captain).^[3][4]

She lives in London with her partner, former Junior US Open champion Oliver Golding.^[5]

ITF finals[]

Singles: 20 (12–8)[]

Result	No.	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	1.	Nov 2009	ITF Stockholm, Sweden		Hard	Lyudmyla Kichenok	3–6, 3–6
Win	1.	Apr 2010	ITF Ain Sukhna, Egypt		Clay	Ekaterine Gorgodze	6–3, 6–1
Win	2.	Sep 2010	ITF Madrid, Spain		Hard	Naomi Broady	4–6, 6–4, 6–4
Win	3.	Nov 2010	ITF Antalya, Turkey		Hard		6–2, 6–0
Win	4.	Dec 2010	ITF Dubai, United Arab Emirates		Hard	Mihaela Buzărnescu	6–0, 6–0
Win	5.	Mar 2011	ITF Bath, United Kingdom		Hard	Giulia Gatto-Monticone	w/o
Win	6.	Apr 2011	ITF Antalya, Turkey		Hard	Yana Buchina	6–1, 6–0
Loss	2.	May 2011	ITF Bukhara, Uzbekistan		Hard	Nikola Hofmanova	4–6, 5–7
Win	7.	Jun 2011	ITF Bangkok, Thailand		Hard	Luksika Kumkhum	6–4, 6–3
Win	8.	Feb 2012	ITF Linköping, Sweden		Hard (i)		6–1, 6–3
Win	9.	Apr 2012	ITF Phuket, Thailand		Hard	Claire Feuerstein	7–5, 7–6(6)
Win	10.	May 2012	ITF Karuizawa, Japan		Grass	Junri Namigata	6–4, 2–6, 6–4
Loss	3.	Jul 2012	ITF Astana, Kazakhstan		Hard	Maria João Koehler	5–7, 2–6
Loss	4.	Feb 2013	ITF Eilat, Israel		Hard	Elina Svitolina	3–6, 6–3, 5–7
Loss	5.	Aug 2013	ITF Kazan, Russia		Hard	Anna-Lena Friedsam	2–6, 3–6
Loss	6.	Sep 2013	ITF Shrewsbury, United Kingdom		Hard	Alison Van Uytvanck	5–7, 1–6
Win	11.	Nov 2013	ITF Barnstaple, United Kingdom		Hard (i)	Kristýna Plíšková	6–7(5), 6–3, 7–6(6)
Loss	7.	Dec 2013	ITF Ankara, Turkey		Hard (i)	Vitalia Diatchenko	7–6, 4–6, 4–6
Win	12.	Aug 2014	ITF Woking, United Kingdom		Hard	Ana Bogdan	7–5, 6–3
Loss	8.	Feb 2015	ITF Sunderland, United Kingdom		Hard (i)	Amy Bowtell	4–6, 3–6

Doubles: 17 (12–5)[]

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Winner	1.	17 May 2009	ITF St. Petersburgh, Russia	Hard (i)	Yuliya Kalabina	Avgusta Tsybysheva Maria Zharkova	6–1, 6–2
Runner-up	1.	23 May 2009	ITF Moscow, Russia	Clay	Yuliya Kalabina	Maria Kondratieva Arina Rodionova	5–7, 1–6
Winner	2.	5 June 2009	ITF Bukhara, Uzbekistan	Hard	Anna Brazhnikova	Ksenia Palkina Arina Rodionova	3–6, 6–4, [11–9]
Winner	3.	11 April 2010	Ain Sukhna, Egypt	Clay	Anna Brazhnikova	Audrey Bergot Chanel Simmonds	6–3, 6–3
Runner-up	2.	29 May 2010	Grado, Italy	Clay		Han Xinyun Lu Jingjing	6–1, 4–6, [8–10]
Runner-up	3.	11 September 2010	Madrid, Spain	Hard		Naomi Broady Emily Webley-Smith	2–6, 3–6
Winner	4.	30 October 2010	Istanbul, Turkey	Hard	Oksana Kalashnikova	Ekaterina Bychkova Iryna Brémond	6–3, 6–1
Winner	5.	6 November 2010	Antalya, Turkey	Hard	Nigina Abduraimova		3–6, 6–1, [10–7]
Winner	6.	13 November 2010	Antalya, Turkey	Hard	Nikola Fraňková	Nicola Slater	3–6, 7–5, [10–5]
Runner-up	4.	24 April 2011	Antalya, Turkey	Hard	Maria Zharkova	Laura-Ioana Andrei Sylwia Zagórska	1–6, 6–7(0)
Runner-up	5.	18 February 2012	Linköping, Sweden	Hard (i)			6–1, 3–6, [8–10]
Winner	7.	25 February 2012	Moscow, Russia	Hard (i)	Oksana Kalashnikova	Lidziya Marozava	7–6, 4–6, [11–9]
Winner	8.	24 March 2012	Phuket, Thailand	Hard	Natela Dzalamidze	Chin-Wei Chan Zheng Saisai	6–4, 6–1
Winner	9.	21 April 2012	Namangan, Uzbekistan	Hard	Oksana Kalashnikova	Naomi Broady Paula Kania	6–2, 7–5
Winner	10.	28 July 2012	President's Cup, Kazakhstan	Hard	Oksana Kalashnikova	Lyudmyla Kichenok Nadiia Kichenok	3–6, 6–4, [10–2]
Winner	11.	15 July 2013	ITF Woking, United Kingdom	Hard	Tara Moore	Kanae Hisami Mari Tanaka	4–6, 6–1, [10–7]
Winner	12.	8 March 2014	ITF Preston, United Kingdom	Hard (i)	Tara Moore	Timea Bacsinszky Kristina Barrois	3–6, 6–1, [13–11]

References[]

External links[]

• Marta Sirotkina official website at the Wayback Machine (archived 2012-03-31)
• Marta Sirotkina at the Women's Tennis Association
• Marta Sirotkina at the International Tennis Federation