Dayana Oleksandrivna Yastremska is a Ukrainian professional tennis player.
78 Facts About Dayana Yastremska
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Dayana Yastremska has a career-high ranking of world No 21 by the Women's Tennis Association.
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Dayana Yastremska made her debut in the top 100 and won two titles when she was 18 years old, including her first at the Hong Kong Open in 2018.
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Dayana Yastremska had a successful 2019 that helped her rise from No 58 at the start of the year up to No 22 by the end of the season.
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Dayana Yastremska was suspended provisionally from competition at the start of 2021 after testing positive for mesterolone.
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On 22 June 2021, the International Tennis Federation ruled that Dayana Yastremska was not responsible for the positive result, and that she is eligible to return to competition immediately.
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Dayana Yastremska made her return to the tour at the Hamburg Open.
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Dayana Yastremska is one of the most aggressive players on the WTA Tour and has led the tour in highest percentage of shots that end in a winner, an unforced error, or an opponent's forced error.
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Dayana Yastremska was born on 15 May 2000 to Marina and Alexander Yastremsky in Odesa, the third-largest city in Ukraine.
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Dayana Yastremska has a sister Ivanna who is six years younger.
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Dayana Yastremska's father had been a volleyball player and has served on the Odesa City Council.
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When Dayana Yastremska was five years old, her grandfather Ivan introduced her to tennis.
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Dayana Yastremska had early success as a junior, finishing runner-up at the 12-and-under Junior Orange Bowl in 2012.
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Dayana Yastremska made her debut on the ITF Junior Circuit in March 2014 at the age of 13.
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Dayana Yastremska fared better in doubles, finishing runner-up to two Japanese players.
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Dayana Yastremska made her junior Grand Slam debut at the 2016 Australian Open, where she made the singles quarterfinals.
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Dayana Yastremska only played Grade A tournaments the rest of the year.
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Dayana Yastremska began playing low-level events on the ITF Women's Circuit in 2015.
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Dayana Yastremska's best result of the year was a semifinal loss to Marketa Vondrousova at a $10k event in Sharm El Sheikh.
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Dayana Yastremska won her first ITF title in March 2016 at the $25k event in Campinas, Brazil, where she came through qualifying and defeated No 157 Alize Lim in the final.
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Dayana Yastremska made it to the quarterfinals, where she lost to Jana Cepelova despite having two chances to serve for the match.
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Dayana Yastremska had a strong season in doubles, winning three ITF titles, including the $80K Prague Open with Anastasia Potapova.
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Dayana Yastremska lost in the second round of qualifying at the Australian Open.
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At the last of these events, Dayana Yastremska produced her best result, finishing runner-up to Rebecca Peterson at the $100k Open de Cagnes-sur-Mer.
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Dayana Yastremska reached the final at the $100K Ilkley Trophy, losing to Tereza Smitkova in a third-set tiebreak.
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Dayana Yastremska did not enter the French Open and lost in the qualifying competition at Wimbledon.
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Dayana Yastremska defeated Potapova in the final in 45 minutes, only losing one game.
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Dayana Yastremska made her breakthrough on the WTA Tour in her last two tournaments of the year.
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Dayana Yastremska defeated three top 100 Chinese players in the event, including No 40 Zhang Shuai and No 24 Wang Qiang in the semifinals and final, respectively.
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Dayana Yastremska recorded her first career top-20 victory against No 13, Garbine Muguruza, before losing to Belinda Bencic in a third-set tiebreak.
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Dayana Yastremska continued to rise in the WTA rankings throughout the season, her first full year on the WTA Tour.
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Dayana Yastremska then achieved her best Premier 5 result of the year, a quarterfinal at the Wuhan Open.
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Dayana Yastremska followed up this performance with her best doubles result of the year.
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Dayana Yastremska partnered with Jelena Ostapenko at the Premier Mandatory China Open and won four matches to reach the final.
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Dayana Yastremska was placed in a group with No 20, Donna Vekic, and No 10, Kiki Bertens.
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Dayana Yastremska finished the season at a career-high of No 22 in the world.
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Dayana Yastremska reached the final at the Premier-level Adelaide International.
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Ukraine played their Fed Cup Group I tournament in Estonia, where Dayana Yastremska was victorious in all three of her singles matches.
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Dayana Yastremska then lost in the first round in Dubai to Veronika Kudermetova, before falling to Garbine Muguruza in the third round in Doha.
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Dayana Yastremska lost in the first round of all six tournaments she played.
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On 7 January 2021, the ITF announced that, in November 2020, Dayana Yastremska had tested positive for a metabolite of mesterolone, an anabolic steroid medication which is prohibited by WADA.
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The ITF announced that, as a result of testing positive for this banned substance, Dayana Yastremska shall be provisionally suspended, "pending determination of the charge against her at a full hearing".
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That same day, Dayana Yastremska released a statement on Twitter, in which she denied the charges against her, asserting that she "[has] never used any performance-enhancing drugs or any prohibited substances", and that she believes the positive result to be as a result of scientific contamination.
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Dayana Yastremska further stated that she and her team are "resolutely determined to do everything to clear [her] name".
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Dayana Yastremska stated that she is "confident" that she and her team will "prove [her] innocence".
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On 22 June 2021, the ITF ruled that Dayana Yastremska "bore no fault or negligence" for the positive test result, and announced that her provisional suspension would be lifted with immediate effect.
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Dayana Yastremska would serve no period of ineligibility, and would be able to resume competition immediately.
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Dayana Yastremska retired in the first round at Portoroz against eventual champion Jasmine Paolini.
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Dayana Yastremska concluded her season with another rematch and loss against Paolini at the Upper Austria Ladies Linz.
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Dayana Yastremska finished year ranked inside the top 100 at 97.
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Dayana Yastremska was eliminated in the first round of qualifying at the Melbourne Summer Set 1 and in the first round of the main draw at the Adelaide International 2.
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Dayana Yastremska's WTA ranking dropped to 150 at the conclusion of the Australian Open.
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Dayana Yastremska entered the main draw of the Dubai Championships as a qualifier, after winning three qualifying matches with the last a rematch against her Australian Open opponent Madison Brengle.
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Dayana Yastremska was living with her family in Odesa, Ukraine at the time of the invasion and was able to seek refuge in France along with her 15 year old sister Ivanna Dayana Yastremska.
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Dayana Yastremska accepted a wildcard entry into the Indian Wells Open and was defeated by former world No 4, Caroline Garcia, in the first round.
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Dayana Yastremska played as Ukraine's top seed in the Billie Jean King Cup qualifiers, in a tie against the United States.
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Dayana Yastremska defeated Jessica Pegula after having lost to Alison Riske in her first match of the qualifying tournament.
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Dayana Yastremska was defeated in the second round by Marie Bouzkova.
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Dayana Yastremska made her debut for Ukraine Fed Cup team at the 2019 Fed Cup.
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Dayana Yastremska's groundstrokes are hit with relentless power, depth, and speed, with her forehand being her best shot, due to the extreme amount of racquet head speed she creates.
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Dayana Yastremska is capable of winning a high percentage of points when she hits an inside-in forehand in particular, and she can hit winners from any position of the court with her forehand.
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Dayana Yastremska's parents have both been a part of her coaching team, with her mother continuing to serve as her mental coach.
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When Dayana Yastremska was a junior, she had a variety of different coaches.
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Dayana Yastremska worked with former top 100 player Viktoriya Kutuzova and Kutuzova's father Valery.
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Dayana Yastremska later worked with another former top 100 player in Jean-Rene Lisnard and then former world No 2 Magnus Norman.
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Dayana Yastremska later began training at the Justine Henin Academy, with Henin becoming her consultant in 2018.
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Dayana Yastremska worked with one of the academy's coaches, Oliver Jeunehomme, until September 2019.
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In September 2020 they split after Dayana Yastremska had a disappointing performance in the 2020 US Open.
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Dayana Yastremska has endorsed Yonex for clothing, apparel, and rackets since 2019.
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At the 2019 Australian Open, Dayana Yastremska's mother suffered an eye injury after a champagne bottle that she was holding exploded unexpectedly.
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Dayana Yastremska had immediate surgery to save her eye, which was coordinated in part by Elina Svitolina's agent Stefan Gurov and financially covered by tournament director Craig Tiley.
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Dayana Yastremska dedicated her title at the Hua Hin Championships the following month to her mother as a result of this incident.
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On 9 July 2020, in the wake of the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota, world-wide protests, and increased visibility of the Black Lives Matter movement, Dayana Yastremska posted four images of herself to her Twitter and Instagram accounts of her sporting half-white, half-black makeup, with the caption "Equality".
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Dayana Yastremska was widely criticised on social media, with many pointing out that her sporting blackface was antithetical to the message she was attempting to convey.
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Dayana Yastremska deleted the posts, and apologised "to those that [she had] offended", claiming that she had been "misunderstood", and denied that she was wearing blackface.
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Dayana Yastremska has been accused of gamesmanship by commentators and fellow players, and for allegedly exaggerating and faking injuries to exploit the medical time-out system.
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One such player was former world No 1, Caroline Wozniacki, following their second-round match at the 2020 Australian Open, where Dayana Yastremska took multiple medical time-outs throughout the match.
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Dayana Yastremska has denied the allegations that she fakes injuries to exploit the medical time-out system, claiming that she only takes medical time-outs when she feels she needs them.