68 Facts About Anna Kalinskaya

Anna Kalinskaya reached career-high rankings of world No 11 in singles on 28 October 2024, and No 49 in doubles in February 2023.

Anna Kalinskaya has won one singles title on the WTA Challenger Tour, and seven singles and nine doubles titles on the ITF Circuit.

Anna Kalinskaya began her career at age 17 by winning the girls' doubles title at the 2016 Australian Open, alongside Tereza Mihalikova.

Anna Kalinskaya made the final of the 2015 US Open in the doubles event, with compatriot Anastasia Potapova.

Anna Kalinskaya was born in Moscow to father Nikolay and mother Elena, both former professional badminton players.

Anna Kalinskaya attended the Mouratoglou Tennis Academy in France before moving back to Moscow to be closer to family.

Anna Kalinskaya won a total of sixteen titles, eight in singles events and eight in doubles.

In 2013, Kalinskaya reached the quarterfinals of the Grade-2 tournament in Siauliai, Lithuania, and the semifinals of the Grade-2 tournament in Kazan, Russia.

Anna Kalinskaya won her second singles title at the Grade-3 tournament in Almaty, Kazakhstan, and her third singles title at the Grade-4 event in Riga, Latvia.

Anna Kalinskaya reached the semifinals of the Grade-2 Moscow tournament and the final of the Grade-1 Berlin tournament.

Anna Kalinskaya debuted at the Grade-A Trofeo Bonfiglio in Milan, Italy, but lost in the second round to Canadian Katherine Sebov.

Anna Kalinskaya hit her peak at her French Open debut as she advanced to the final.

Anna Kalinskaya's first was the Grade-1 Traralgon tournament in Australia, where she lost to Vera Lapko in the final.

Anna Kalinskaya finished her singles junior career with a quarterfinal at the 2016 Australian Open, losing again to Lapko.

Anna Kalinskaya won all three titles alongside fellow Russian Evgeniya Levashova.

Anna Kalinskaya's next stop was the US Open, where she reached her first Grand Slam doubles final.

Anna Kalinskaya finished her doubles junior career by taking the title at the 2016 Australian Open, winning with Slovak player Tereza Mihalikova.

Anna Kalinskaya attempted her WTA Tour debut at the Premier-level 2014 Kremlin Cup at age 15.

Anna Kalinskaya first played at the $10k Antalya tournament, where she recorded her first win as a senior, defeating Turkish player Cempre Anil.

Anna Kalinskaya continued in the same city the following week, reaching her first final, but losing to Chinese player Lu Jiajing.

Anna Kalinskaya lost in the final stage to eventual semifinalist Daria Kasatkina of Russia.

Anna Kalinskaya reached the semifinals in the first and made it to the finals of the second, where she was forced to give a walkover to Bosnian player Ema Burgic Bucko.

Anna Kalinskaya played four more ITF tournaments without much success.

In early February 2016, Anna Kalinskaya had another chance to debut at the WTA Tour.

Anna Kalinskaya followed that up with a final in the same city, but she was forced to retire during the second set.

Anna Kalinskaya lost in the first round to French player Kristina Mladenovic.

Anna Kalinskaya finished the year with the $25k Minsk final, but let her opponent win without playing.

Anna Kalinskaya started the year as a top 200 player, making her Grand Slam debut in qualifying at the Australian Open.

Anna Kalinskaya was handed a wildcard to the main draw of the St Petersburg Ladies' Trophy, and was beaten by Australian Daria Gavrilova in the first round.

Anna Kalinskaya played in China at two $60k tournaments: first destination was Zhuhai where she was eliminated in the first round by former top-10 Swiss player Patty Schnyder before she headed to Shenzhen where she reached semifinals, but lost to compatriot Ekaterina Alexandrova.

From April to September 2017, Anna Kalinskaya played in Europe at ITF tournaments in France and Germany.

Anna Kalinskaya began in Australia, where her first tournament was the $25k Playford International, but she lost in the first round to French player Jessika Ponchet.

Anna Kalinskaya reached the main draw for the first time in her career.

Anna Kalinskaya followed this with a final appearance at the $60k Shenzhen Open.

Anna Kalinskaya made the main draw of the US Open for the first time in her career.

Anna Kalinskaya continued to struggle with losses to Serbian Olga Danilovic in the first round of the Tashkent Open, and to Russian Natalia Vikhlyantseva at the Linz Open qualifying round.

Anna Kalinskaya switched between ITF Circuit and the WTA Tour in doubles.

Anna Kalinskaya finished the year by making the semifinals of the Kremlin Cup.

Anna Kalinskaya started the year with a triumph at the $25k Playford International, defeating Elena Rybakina in the final.

Anna Kalinskaya's victories continued with three more, first qualifying for the Australian Open.

Anna Kalinskaya struggled to reach the WTA Tour main draw at many tournaments, including the Premier-level St Petersburg Ladies' Trophy, Qatar Ladies Open and Stuttgart Open.

Anna Kalinskaya hired the Argentinian Patricia Tarabini to be her coach.

Anna Kalinskaya failed to achieve it after losing to Magda Linette in the first round.

Anna Kalinskaya survived the qualifying rounds, before making a huge comeback against reigning Puerto Rican Olympic champion Monica Puig, and stunning Mladenovic for her first win over the Frenchwoman in three attempts.

Anna Kalinskaya's run was stopped by eventual champion Jessica Pegula in the semifinals.

Anna Kalinskaya started off well in her doubles events from start.

Anna Kalinskaya's next stop was the US Open, where she reached the third round.

Anna Kalinskaya's season began with the Australian Open, where she qualified for the main draw after saving match points to beat China's Wang Xinyu in the final qualifying round.

At the US Open, Anna Kalinskaya beat Serbian Nina Stojanovic to reach the second round for the second consecutive year, but lost to Czech 20th seed Karolina Muchova.

Anna Kalinskaya tried to qualify for another Premier 5 tournament, the Italian Open, but lost in the final qualifying stage.

Anna Kalinskaya's season began with the Premier Gippsland Trophy as part of the Australian Open warm-up, but she was eliminated in the first round by Katie Boulter.

Anna Kalinskaya started well, winning her first match, but was unable to qualify for the main draw when she lost to French player Clara Burel in three sets.

Anna Kalinskaya's struggles continued with a first-round loss at the Copa Colsanitas, while failing to reach the main draw of the Madrid Open.

Anna Kalinskaya started her season by qualifying for the Melbourne Summer Set.

Anna Kalinskaya continued to struggle at the St Petersburg Ladies' Trophy where she lost in the final qualifying stage.

Anna Kalinskaya lost to Danilovic despite having a match point.

At the Australian Open, Anna Kalinskaya defeated Katie Volynets, Arantxa Rus and Sloane Stephens to reach the fourth round, having never previously been past the second round of a major.

Anna Kalinskaya lost to 12th seed and eventual runner-up, Zheng Qinwen, in three sets.

Anna Kalinskaya became only the second qualifier to reach a WTA 1000 final since Caroline Garcia at the 2022 Cincinnati Open.

Anna Kalinskaya lost to fellow first-time WTA 1000 finalist Jasmine Paolini in the final, in three sets.

At the Miami Open, Anna Kalinskaya reached the fourth round defeating Wang Xiyu and then world No 10, Jelena Ostapenko, her fifth win over a top 10 player in a span of only three months since the beginning of the season, becoming only the fourth player this century to achieve this feat while outside of the top 20.

Anna Kalinskaya withdrew from the tournament due to injury before her match with eighth seed Maria Sakkari.

At Wimbledon, Kalinskaya had her best ever run at the grass court major, recording wins over Panna Udvardy, Marie Bouzkova, and Liudmila Samsonova, before going out in the fourth round when an injury forced her to retire while trailing against fourth seed Elena Rybakina.

Anna Kalinskaya subsequently withdrew from the Australian Open just minutes before her first round match against Kimberly Birrell was due to start.

Anna Kalinskaya returned to action as top seed in the Singapore Open, where she recorded wins over Caroline Dolehide, Simona Waltert and Mananchaya Sawangkaew to reach the semifinals.

Anna Kalinskaya received her first Fed Cup nomination for the Russia Fed Cup team in the 2017 Fed Cup World Group II, but was only selected for the dead doubles rubber, which she won with Anna Blinkova.

Anna Kalinskaya made her Fed Cup live rubber debut at the 2018 Fed Cup World Group II, losing to Magdalena Rybarikova.

Anna Kalinskaya is currently dating fellow tennis player Jannik Sinner.