Elizaveta Kulichkova

Elizaveta Kulichkova
Елизавета Куличкова

Kulichkova at the 2015 Wimbledon qualifying tournament
Full name	Elizaveta Dmitrievna Kulichkova
Country (sports)	Russia
Born	(1996-04-12) 12 April 1996 Novosibirsk, Russia
Height	1.76 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in)
Prize money	$ 341,758
Singles
Career record	114–59
Career titles	0 WTA, 6 ITF
Highest ranking	88 (15 February 2016)
Current ranking	88 (15 February 2016)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	3R (2016)
French Open	Q2 (2015)
Wimbledon	2R (2015)
US Open	1R (2015)
Doubles
Career record	12–16
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	321 (19 October 2015)
Current ranking	351 (8 February 2016)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Wimbledon	1R (2015)
Last updated on: 8 February 2016.

Elizaveta Dmitrievna Kulichkova (Russian: Елизавета Дмитриевна Куличкова; born 12 April 1996^[1]) is a Russian tennis player.

Kulichkova has won six singles titles on the ITF tour in her career. On 28 September 2015, she reached her best singles ranking of world number 94. On 19 October 2015, she peaked at world number 321 in the doubles rankings.

Kulichkova was ranked the number three junior tennis player in the world in May 2012,^[2] and in January 2014, won the girls' singles and doubles events at the Australian Open.

Career

Kulichkova made her WTA tour main draw debut at the 2014 İstanbul Cup as a qualifier. Having defeated Nadiia Kichenok and Melinda Czink in the preliminary rounds, she lost to Shahar Pe'er in round one. Further first round exits followed in Hong Kong and Seoul before once again coming through qualifying in Tianjin, where she defeated Sílvia Soler Espinosa, before losing to Peng Shuai in the second round.

Kulichkova made her major debut at the 2015 Wimbledon Championships by defeating (3–6, 7–6^8–6, 10–8) Yanina Wickmayer before losing (4–6, 6–7^3–7) to further quarterfinalist Madison Keys in the second round. Then, she reached semifinals in Bursa, and in Baku she was close to defeat, in the first round, seed no.1 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, but she lost the final tie-breaker (6–3, 2–6, 6–7^4–7).

ITF finals (6–3)

Singles (6–2)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Winner	1.	23 April 2012	Antalya, Turkey	Hard	Dalila Jakupović	7–5, 6–2
Runner-up	1.	22 April 2013	Istanbul, Turkey	Hard	Donna Vekić	4–6, 6–7(4–7)
Winner	2.	8 July 2013	Istanbul, Turkey	Hard	Kateryna Kozlova	6–3, 4–6, 6–0
Winner	3.	30 December 2013	Hong Kong	Hard	Zarina Diyas	6–2, 6–2
Runner-up	2.	27 January 2014	Burnie, Australia	Hard	Misa Eguchi	6–4, 2–6, 3–6
Winner	4.	16 June 2014	Lenzerheide, Switzerland	Clay	Louisa Chirico	7–5, 6–2
Winner	5.	13 October 2014	Bangkok, Thailand	Hard	Lesley Kerkhove	6–1, 6–0
Winner	6.	23 March 2015	Quanzhou, China	Hard	Jeļena Ostapenko	6–1, 5–7, 7–5

Doubles (0–1)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	1.	18 November 2013	Bucha, Ukraine	Carpet (i)	Anhelina Kalinina	Sofia Shapatava Anastasiya Vasylyeva	6–7(4–7), 2–6

Junior Grand Slam finals

Girls' Singles

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Opponent	Score
Winner	2014	Australian Open	Hard	Jana Fett	6–2, 6–1

Girls' Doubles

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Winner	2014	Australian Open	Hard	Anhelina Kalinina	Katie Boulter Ivana Jorović	6–4, 6–2

References

External links

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• Elizaveta Kulichkova at the Women's Tennis Association
• Elizaveta Kulichkova at the International Tennis Federation

Women's Tennis Association: Top Russian female singles tennis players as of 15 February 2016 1. Maria Sharapova (6 ) 2. Svetlana Kuznetsova (18 1) 3. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (25 1) 4. Ekaterina Makarova (31 ) 5. Margarita Gasparyan (41 2) 6. Daria Kasatkina (45 18) 7. Elizaveta Kulichkova (88 7) 8. Evgeniya Rodina (101 3) 9. Elena Vesnina (115 7) 10. Alexandra Panova (158 8)