Personal

Coached by husband Sergey Demekhine
Born in Kazan, Russia, now based in Moscow and trains at CSKA club
Father, Eduard, was a Russian national ice hockey champion; teenage sister, Polina, is on the junior circuit
She started playing tennis at the age of eight
Off the court, has a passion for cooking and her specialty is roasted chicken with potatoes and garlic

Career Highlights

SINGLES
Winner (2): 2023 - Tokyo; 2021 - Charleston.
Finalist (5): 2023 - 's-Hertogenbosch; 2022 - Melbourne 250, Dubai, Istanbul; 2021 - Abu Dhabi.

DOUBLES
Winner (7): 2023 - Dubai (w/Samsonova), WTA Elite Trophy Zhuhai (w/Haddad Maia); 2022 - Dubai, WTA Finals Fort Worth (both w/Mertens), Rome (w/Pavlyuchenkova); 2021 - Istanbul (w/Mertens); 2019 - Wuhan (w/Duan).
Finalist (7): 2022 - Doha, Miami, 's-Hertogenbosch (all w/Mertens); 2021 - Wimbledon (w/Vesnina), Indian Wells (w/Rybakina); 2019 - Charleston (w/Khromacheva), Lugano (w/Voskoboeva).

ADDITIONAL
WTA 125K Series Titles - Singles (1): 2019 - Guadalajara. Doubles (4): 2018 - Limoges (w/Voskoboeva), Mumbai (w/Dzalamidze); 2017 - Taipei (w/Sabalenka); 2016 - Taipei (w/Dzalamidze).
Russian Fed Cup Team, 2014, 2018, 2020.

Career in Review

2021 - Enjoyed standout year in both singles and doubles in 2021, finishing ranked No.31 in singles and recording first Top 20 year-end ranking in doubles (at No.14); in singles reached debut final at Abu Dhabi at beginning of season (l. Sabalenka) before securing first title at Charleston (d. Kovinic); won a career-high 33 matches in 2021; in doubles made two biggest finals of career, at Wimbledon (w/Vesnina, l. Hsieh/Mertens) and Indian Wells (w/Rybakina, l. Hsieh/Mertens); contested Olympics for first time at Tokyo 2020 - in singles fell 1r to Muguruza, in doubles lost Bronze medal match to Pigossi/Stefani; reached a career-high in singles climbing to No.28 on April 26, 2021; finished season ranked 5th on aces leaderboard hitting 298 aces in 56 matches.

2020 - Second Top 50 season (finishing No.46); SF at Hobart (l. to Zhang); QF at Ostrava (l. to Brady) and Linz (l. to Mertens); reached 3r once and 2r five times (incl. Roland Garros); fell 1r on four ocasions (incl. Australian Open and US Open) and in qualifying once.

2019 - First Top 100 season (finishing No.41); SF at 's-Hertogenbosch (l. to Riske), Hiroshima (l. to Doi) and Tianjin (l. to Watson); QF at Shenzhen (l. to Zvonareva), Lugano (l. to Hercog), Istanbul (l. to Gasparyan), Nürnberg (l. to Zidansek) and Moscow (l. to Pavlyuchenkova); reached 3r twice (incl. Roland Garros) and 2r four times (incl. Wimbledon); fell 1r six times (incl. other two majors) and in qualifying on five occasions; won one WTA doubles title; won one WTA 125K Series singles title.

2018 - QF at 's-Hertogenbosch (l. to Krunic) and Gstaad (l. to Bouchard); reached 2r twice (incl. as qualifier on WTA main draw debut at Stuttgart); fell 1r once and in qualifying nine times (incl. all four majors); won two WTA 125K Series doubles titles; won one singles title on ITF CIrcuit.

2017 - Fell in qualifying nine times (incl. all four majors); won one WTA 125K Series doubles title; won four doubles titles on ITF Circuit.

2016 - Fell in qualifying once; won one WTA 125K Series doubles title; won two singles and six doubles titles on ITF Circuit

2015 - Won two doubles titles on ITF Circuit

2014 - Played first WTA qualifying at Moscow; won one singles and two doubles titles on ITF Circuit.

2013 - Won two doubles titles on ITF Circuit.

2012 - Continued to play on ITF Circuit.

2011 - Won first events of her career on ITF Circuit.