Varvara Flink

Varvara Flink
	Flink at the 2019 Wimbledon
Full name	Varvara Alexandrovna Flink
Native name	Варвара Александровна Флинк
Country (sports)	Russia
Born	13 December 1996 (age 25); Moscow, Russia
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Plays	Right-handed ; (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	US$ 314,746
Singles
Career record	188–87 (68.4%)
Career titles	6 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 122 (15 July 2019)
Current ranking	No. 257 (5 September 2021)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	Q2 (2019, 2020)
French Open	Q1 (2019, 2021)
Wimbledon	2R (2019)
US Open	Q2 (2019)
Doubles
Career record	24–27 (47.1%)
Career titles	2 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 471 (1 April 2013)
	Last updated on: 18 March 2019.

Varvara Alexandrovna Flink (Russian: Варвара Александровна Флинк; born 13 December 1996) is a Russian tennis player.^[1] She achieved her career high WTA singles ranking of 147 on 18 March 2019. Flink won her first ITF singles title on 21 May 2017. In doubles, Flink has two ITF titles. The first was in Monastir, Tunisia, in 2012. By winning the doubles title, Flink reached her highest doubles ranking of 471 on 1 April 2013. Flink reached two singles semifinals in 2013, one in Dubrovnik and the other in Seoul.^[2]

Career review[]

ITF Tour[]

On the ITF junior circuit, Flink achieved a new career high ranking of World Number 6 following her win at the Grade A Copa Gerdau in Brazil in March 2013. Later that year, she achieved more success, reaching the final at the Osaka Mayor's Cup and winning the Dunlop Orange Bowl. She ended the year ranked world number 3 junior. In January 2014 she became world number 2 junior.^[3]

WTA Tour[]

Flink made her WTA debut at the 2012 Baku Cup, where she lost in the first round of the singles tournament to Thai Tamarine Tanasugarn 6–3, 3–6, 2–6. In doubles, she partnered up with Patricia Mayr-Achleitner to reach the quarterfinals, where they lost to Eva Birnerova and Alberta Brianti 4–6, 2–6.

Performance timelines[]

**Key**
W	F	SF	QF	#R	RR	Q#	P#	DNQ	A	Z#	PO	G	F-S	SF-B	NMS	P	NH

(W) Won; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (P#) preliminary round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (Z#) Davis/Fed Cup Zonal Group (with number indication) or (PO) play-off; (G) gold, (F-S) silver or (SF-B) bronze Olympic/Paralympic medal; a (NMS) downgraded Masters Series/1000 tournament; (P) postponed; (NH) not held. SR=strike rate (events won/competed)

To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated at the conclusion of a tournament or when the player's participation has ended.

Only main-draw results in WTA Tour, Grand Slam tournaments and Olympic Games are included in Win–Loss records.

Singles[]

Tournament	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	SR	W–L
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open	A	A	A	A	A	Q2	Q2	A	0 / 0	0–0
French Open	A	A	A	A	A	Q1	A	Q1	0 / 0	0–0
Wimbledon	A	A	A	A	A	2R	NH	Q2	0 / 1	1–1
US Open	A	A	A	A	A	Q2	A		0 / 0	0–0
Win–Loss	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	1–1	0–0	0–0	0 / 1	1–1
Premier Mandatory tournaments
Miami Open	Q2	A	A	A	A	A	NH	A	0 / 0	0–0
Madrid Open	A	A	A	Q1	A	A	NH	A	0 / 0	0–0
Premier 5 tournaments
Cincinnati Open	A	A	1R	A	A	A	A	A	0 / 1	0–1
Career statistics
Year-end ranking	355	N/A	222	623	189	128			$314,746

ITF Circuit finals[]

Singles: 11 (6 titles, 5 runner–ups)[]

Legend
$100,000 tournaments
$75,000/$80,000 tournaments
$50,000/$60,000 tournaments
$25,000 tournaments
$10,000/$15,000 tournaments

Finals by surface
Hard (1–4)
Clay (3–1)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0–1	Feb 2016	ITF Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt	10,000	Hard	Julia Terziyska	4–6, 3–6
Loss	0–2	Feb 2016	ITF Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt	10,000	Hard	Tereza Mihalíková	1–6, 4–6
Loss	0–3	Mar 2016	ITF Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt	10,000	Hard	Viktória Kužmová	6–4, 2–6, 1–6
Loss	0–4	Oct 2016	Abierto Tampico, Mexico	50,000	Hard	Sofya Zhuk	4–6, 3–6
Win	1–4	May 2017	ITF Antalya, Turkey	15,000	Clay	María Lourdes Carlé	6–4, 7–6^(7–5)
Loss	1–5	Apr 2018	ITF Antalya, Turkey	15,000	Clay	Andreea Amalia Roșca	3–6, 4–6
Win	2–5	Apr 2018	ITF Antalya, Turkey	15,000	Clay	Nina Potočnik	6–4, 6–4
Win	3–5	Apr 2018	ITF Shymkent, Kazakhstan	15,000	Clay	Gozal Ainitdinova	6–4, 6–4
Win	4–5	Apr 2018	ITF Shymkent, Kazakhstan	15,000	Clay	Polina Golubovskaya	6–0, 6–3
Win	5–5	Aug 2018	ITF Leipzig, Germany	25,000	Clay	Julia Grabher	6–3, 6–2
Win	6–5	Jan 2019	ITF Kazan, Russia	25,000	Hard	Anastasia Gasanova	6–2, ret.