Zarina Diyas was born on 18 October 1993 and is a Kazakh professional tennis player.
75 Facts About Zarina Diyas
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Zarina Diyas has been ranked as high as No 31 in the world by the Women's Tennis Association.
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Zarina Diyas mostly played on the ITF Circuit until 2014, her breakthrough season.
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Zarina Diyas is one of the most successful female tennis players representing Kazakhstan, along with Elena Rybakina and Yulia Putintseva.
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Zarina Diyas became a member of the Kazakhstan Fed Cup team in 2011 and is tied for her country's most singles wins with Yaroslava Shvedova, but with a much better winning percentage.
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Zarina Diyas was born on 18 October 1993 in Almaty.
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Zarina Diyas's mother is Aida Aulbekova, and she has a sister named Alissa.
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Zarina Diyas moved there with her mother and sister when she was five years old.
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Zarina Diyas's mother introduced her to tennis at age six.
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Zarina Diyas had a chance to acquire Czech citizenship but decided against it to keep on playing for Kazakhstan.
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Zarina Diyas lived in the Czech Republic until she was 12 years old, before moving to Guangzhou, China for much of her tennis training.
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Zarina Diyas reached a career-high ranking of No 17 as a junior.
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Zarina Diyas began playing on the ITF Junior Circuit, in January 2007 at the age of 13.
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Zarina Diyas then continued to have good performances, reaching one semi-final and one final by the end of the year.
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Zarina Diyas made her doubles major debut there, losing in the first round.
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Zarina Diyas began playing on the ITF Women's Circuit in 2007 at the age of 14.
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Zarina Diyas then made her main-draw debut at the $25k event in Astana where she won her first title.
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Zarina Diyas then made her WTA singles debut at the Prague Open as a wildcard player, where she marked her first win and first quarterfinal.
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Zarina Diyas defeated qualifier Kristina Mladenovic and sixth seed Petra Kvitova but later was eliminated by third-seeded Iveta Benesova.
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Zarina Diyas's most significant finish was a final at the $25k Kunming event which she lost to Iryna Bremond.
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Zarina Diyas then reached semi-finals at the $50k event in Wenshan but was not advanced to the another quarterfinal for the rest of the year.
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In late 2011, Zarina Diyas underwent shoulder surgery and did not play tennis for the next seven months, which caused her to fall in the rankings, dropping her outside the top 300.
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Zarina Diyas then lost in the quarterfinals to Kurumi Nara, which would mark her last quarterfinal of the season.
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Zarina Diyas began the year ranked world No 264 and finished more than 100 spots higher.
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Zarina Diyas then returned to the ITF Circuit, mostly achieving modest results.
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Zarina Diyas then went down to world No 11, Simona Halep, in straight sets.
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Zarina Diyas bounced back quickly though, as she then easily won a $50k event in Quanzhou.
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Zarina Diyas then traveled to the United States to compete at the Miami Open, qualifying for the main draw and getting past Alexandra Cadantu before losing to Sloane Stephens in the second round.
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Zarina Diyas then went to Europe but lost early in the first two tournaments contested.
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Zarina Diyas followed it up by dispatching Ajla Tomljanovic before having to retire in her quarterfinal match against Christina McHale during the second set.
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Zarina Diyas played one more grass-court event before entering Wimbledon, at the Birmingham Classic, where she was eliminated by CoCo Vandeweghe in the first round.
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Zarina Diyas followed this up with three-set wins against 15th seed Carla Suarez Navarro and 2010 Wimbledon finalist Vera Zvonareva, before losing in straight sets to third seed Simona Halep in the fourth round.
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Zarina Diyas came to the Shenzhen Open as part of Australian Open warm-up, where she got to the quarterfinal, losing to Zheng Saisai.
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Zarina Diyas was seeded 31st in singles at the Australian Open.
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Zarina Diyas beat qualifier Urszula Radwanska of Poland in three sets in the first round and then unseeded Slovak Anna Karolina Schmiedlova in the second round in three sets, but she lost her third-round match against No 2 seed and finalist Maria Sharapova, in straight sets.
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Zarina Diyas played doubles with South African Chanelle Scheepers, and they advanced to the second round before losing to the 16th-seeded German team of Julia Gorges and Anna-Lena Gronefeld, in straight sets.
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Zarina Diyas followed up this performance by making double-bagel against Sabine Lisicki in the first round of the Premier-level Stuttgart Open but later did not make it to the quarterfinal, losing to Sara Errani.
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Zarina Diyas finished clay season with playing at the French Open as 32nd seed.
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Zarina Diyas reached the round of 16 at Birmingham by defeating Kateryna Bondarenko in straight sets and through the withdrawal of Victoria Azarenka.
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Zarina Diyas beat 24th seed Flavia Pennetta, qualifier Aliaksandra Sasnovich and 14th seed Andrea Petkovic.
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Zarina Diyas failed to win in all her pre-US Open tournaments.
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Zarina Diyas started the year playing at the Shenzhen Open, where she recorded her first win of the season against qualifier Zhang Kailin.
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Zarina Diyas beat Jamie Loeb in the first round, but could not beat Azarenka in the next round.
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Zarina Diyas suffered a wrist injury in round one of Wimbledon, where she lost to Anna-Lena Friedsam.
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Zarina Diyas did not play in any tournaments in 2016 after that.
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Zarina Diyas lost in the opening rounds of her first four tournaments of the season before scoring her first wins at the Blossom Cup in Quanzhou, reaching the quarterfinals and losing to Zheng.
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Zarina Diyas then came to Japan to play at the $80k Kangaroo Cup in Gifu but did not do well, losing to Luksika Kumkhum in the first round.
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Zarina Diyas then failed to qualify for the main draw of the French Open as she lost to Bethanie Mattek-Sands, after defeating Sachia Vickery and Polona Hercog in the first two qualifying rounds.
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Zarina Diyas started grass-court season with a first-round loss at the Surbiton Trophy but then following week won the $100k Manchester Trophy, scoring victories against Emily Webley-Smith, Arina Rodionova, Magdalena Frech, Naomi Broady and Aleksandra Krunic without dropping a set.
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At Wimbledon, Zarina Diyas was given a wildcard into the main draw.
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Zarina Diyas won her first two matches against Han Xinyun and Arina Rodionova but lost to another returning player, Petra Martic, in the third round.
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At the Japan Women's Open, Zarina Diyas won all her qualifying matches to reach the main draw.
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Zarina Diyas went on to score victories against several higher-ranked players, namely local favourite Misaki Doi, top 30 player Zhang Shuai, compatriot Yulia Putintseva and defending champion Christina McHale.
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Zarina Diyas chose Shenzhen Open as her Australian Open warm-up tournament.
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Zarina Diyas was ranked well inside the top 100 on New Year's Day of 2018 at No 66, and thus was directly accepted into the main draw of a Grand Slam tournament at the Australian Open for the first time since the 2016 Wimbledon Championships.
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Zarina Diyas returned for the US Open but lost in the first round to Karolina Pliskova.
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Zarina Diyas was unsuccessful in defending her title at the Japan Women's Open, losing in the quarterfinals to No 1 seed, Zhang Shuai.
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At the start of 2019, Zarina Diyas lost in the first round of the Australian Open to Aleksandra Krunic.
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Zarina Diyas began the new 2020 season at the Shenzhen Open, losing in the quarterfinals to Garbine Muguruza.
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Zarina Diyas played at the Australian Open, facing No 10, Kiki Bertens, in the third round but losing and missing a chance for her best finish at that tournament.
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Zarina Diyas recorded wins against Tamara Zidansek and Bernarda Pera to reach the third round of the 2021 Australian Open, where she lost to Garbine Muguruza.
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Zarina Diyas withdrew mid-match in the first round of the Women's singles at the 2020 Summer Olympics due to heat exhaustion.
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Zarina Diyas lost in the first round at both the 2022 Australian Open and 2022 French Open, then ended her 2022 season in June due to injury.
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Zarina Diyas made her senior Billie Jean King Cup debut for Kazakhstan in 2009, representing the team from 2009 to 2011,2015 through 2016, and 2018 through 2019.
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Zarina Diyas did not play any match for Kazakhstan from 2012 to 2014.
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On her return in 2015, Zarina Diyas won all of her three singles matches.
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The next year, Zarina Diyas only played singles matches and was victorious in both of them, but it was not enough for Kazakhstan to win their round-robin group.
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Kazakhstan was the winner of their round-robin group, where Zarina Diyas won all her five matches, three in singles and two in doubles.
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The 2019 Fed Cup was important for Zarina Diyas, being the first year when Kazakhstan advanced out of the Zone Group with Zarina Diyas as part of the team.
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Zarina Diyas lost both of her singles matches, against Johanna Konta and Katie Boulter, despite winning the first set of both matches.
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Zarina Diyas had two singles match losses against Kirsten Flipkens and Elise Mertens.
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Zarina Diyas is primarily an aggressive baseliner whose game is centered around powerful and accurate groundstrokes.
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Zarina Diyas's serve, while not necessarily a weapon in her arsenal, is quite effective when placed properly and she employs a tactic of a delayed service motion, which often prevents her opponents from appropriately timing a return.
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Zarina Diyas uses the Dunlop Srixon Revo CV 3.0 Tennis Racquet.
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Zarina Diyas has named Justine Henin, Martina Hingis, and Serena Williams as her tennis idols.