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Anna Danilina

Kazakhstani tennis player (born 1995) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Anna Danilina
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Anna Sergeyevna Danilina (Russian: Анна Сергеевна Данилина;[1] born 20 August 1995) is a Russian-born Kazakhstani tennis player. She has been ranked as high as No. 8 in doubles by the WTA. She is a Grand Slam mixed-doubles champion, having won the 2023 US Open with Harri Heliövaara. She is also a finalist at the 2022 Australian Open, with Beatriz Haddad Maia, the first Kazakhstani woman to reach the final of the tournament,[2] and at the 2025 French Open with Aleksandra Krunić.[3] Danilina has won ten WTA Tour and three WTA Challenger doubles titles. She has also won one singles title and 27 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. In singles, she reached a career-high ranking of No. 269.

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Danilina represented Russia, her nation of birth, until March 2011 when at the age of 15 she switched allegiance to represent Kazakhstan. As a junior, she reached a combined world ranking of No. 3 in February 2013.[4] Along with Haddad Maia, Danilina attained her women's doubles breakthrough, reaching the final of the 2022 Australian Open, before falling to Barbora Krejčíková and Kateřina Siniaková, in three sets.[5]

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Juniors

Grand Slam tournament performance

Singles:
  • Australian Open: 3R (2013)
  • French Open: 2R (2012, 2013)
  • Wimbledon: 2R (2012)
  • US Open: QF (2012)
Doubles:
  • Australian Open: SF (2013)
  • French Open: QF (2012)
  • Wimbledon: QF (2012)
  • US Open: SF (2012)

College tennis

With the beginning of her professional career hampered by injuries, Danilina decided in 2015 to attend an American university so she could study and play college tennis.[6] Danilina went to University of Florida, graduating in 2018 with a degree in Economics. As part of the Florida Gators women's tennis team, she won the 2017 NCAA Division I Tennis Championships.[7]

Professional

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2018: ITF Circuit success

Partnering Berfu Cengiz, she won her first $80k tournament in July 2018 at the President's Cup, defeating Akgul Amanmuradova and Ekaterine Gorgodze in the final.

2021: First WTA title, Major & WTA 1000 debuts, top 100

At the Poland Open held in Gdynia, Danilina reached the final and won her first WTA Tour doubles title, partnering with Lidziya Marozava.[8] As a result, she made her top 100 debut in doubles at world No. 96 on 26 July 2021. Afterwards, she made her Major debut at the US Open, partnering with Yaroslava Shvedova.

2022: Historic Australian Open final, top 15 and WTA Finals

Danilina was playing an ITF tournament in Monastir, Tunisia, when Beatriz Haddad Maia invited her to serve as her partner during the Australian Open, following an injury to Nadia Podoroska. The team proved to work as they won the warm-up event Sydney International.[9][10] At the 2022 Australian Open, Danilina became the first Kazakhstani woman to reach the final, upsetting second seeds Shuko Aoyama and Ena Shibahara in the semifinals.[11] Danilina and Haddad Maia won the first set against Barbora Krejčíková and Kateřina Siniaková, but following a comeback from the Czech duo lost the final.[12] However, with this performance, Danilina made her top-25 debut in the doubles rankings, and on 28 February 2022, she reached the top 20. Danilina and Haddad appeared in most major tournaments afterwards, but did not go further than the second round, including at the French Open.

She won two ITF titles in-between, Biarritz, partnering Valeriya Strakhova, and Madrid, with Anastasia Tikhonova.[13] She declined to appear at Wimbledon once the tournament was stripped of its ranking points for banning Russians and Belarusians.[14] Afterwards, she won the Poland Open for the second time, partnering Anna-Lena Friedsam.[15]

She also reached the final of the Cleveland Open with Aleksandra Krunić,[16] while also reaching the quarterfinals of Cincinnati and the US Open alongside Haddad.[17][18]

At the WTA 1000 in Guadalajara, Danilina and Haddad Maia reached the final in a rematch with Krejčíková and Siniaková. Thanks to this result, She became the first Kazakhstani woman since Yaroslava Shvedova in 2016 to qualify for the WTA Finals.[19][20] Thanks to this result, she also entered the world's top 15 in doubles for the first time.[21][22]

2023-2024: Top 10, Wimbledon debut & mixed champion, WTA 500 singles debut

She reached the top 10 in doubles on 9 January 2023 before the Australian Open.

She made her debut at Wimbledon with Xu Yifan and in mixed doubles with Nicolas Mahut as an alternate pair.

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Danilina at the 2023 Washington Open

At the 2023 US Open, she won the mixed doubles with Finn Harri Heliövaara, who she met at the sign-in line and decided to make a pair that wound up winning the entire event at Flushing Meadows.[23][24]

She qualified into the main draw of the newly upgraded WTA 500 2024 Monterrey Open making her singles debut at this level, losing in the first round to sixth seed and eventual champion Linda Nosková[25] At the same 500-level at the 2024 Guadalajara Open, she won the doubles title with Irina Khromacheva, defeating Oksana Kalashnikova and Kamilla Rakhimova in the final in a champions tie-break.[26][27] The pair also won the title at the WTA 250 2024 Thailand Open 2, defeating Eudice Chong and Moyuka Uchijima in the final.[28] Their good form continued as they won their first WTA 1000 title at the Wuhan Open, defeating Asia Muhammad and Jessica Pegula in the final.[29]

2025: Second major final at Roland Garros, World No. 8

At the 2025 French Open, she reached the doubles final with Aleksandra Krunić. They lost in three sets to No. 2 seeds Sara Errani and Jasmine Paolini.[30]

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Performance timelines

Key
W  F  SF QF #R RRQ# P# DNQ A Z# PO G S B NMS NTI P NH
(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (P#) preliminary round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (Z#) Davis/Fed Cup Zonal Group (with number indication) or (PO) play-off; (G) gold, (S) silver or (B) bronze Olympic/Paralympic medal; (NMS) not a Masters tournament; (NTI) not a Tier I tournament; (P) postponed; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.
To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated at the conclusion of a tournament or when the player's participation has ended.
Only main-draw results in WTA Tour, Grand Slam tournaments, Fed Cup/Billie Jean King Cup and Olympic Games are included in win–loss records.

Singles

Current through the 2023 French Open.
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Doubles

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Grand Slam tournament finals

Women's doubles: 2 (runner-ups)

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Mixed doubles: 1 (title)

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Significant finals

WTA 1000 tournaments

Doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)

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WTA Tour finals

Doubles: 19 (10 titles, 9 runner-ups )

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WTA Challenger finals

Doubles: 4 (3 titles, 1 runner-up)

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ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 6 (1 title, 5 runner–ups)

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Doubles: 38 (27 titles, 11 runner–ups)

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Notes

  1. The first Premier 5 event of the year has switched back and forth between the Dubai Tennis Championships and the Qatar Ladies Open since 2009. Dubai was classified as a Premier 5 event from 2009 to 2011 before being succeeded by Doha for the 2012–2014 period. In 2015, Dubai regained its Premier 5 status while Doha was demoted to Premier status. The Premier 5 tournaments were reclassified as WTA 1000 tournaments in 2021.
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