Nadiia Kichenok

Nadiia Viktorivna Kichenok (Ukrainian: Надія Вікторівна Кіченок, born 20 July 1992) is a Ukrainian professional tennis player. On 31 January 2022, she reached a career-high of No. 29 in the WTA doubles rankings. Kichenok has won ten doubles titles on the WTA Tour, including four with her twin sister Lyudmyla. She has also won four singles titles and 24 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 6 January 2014, she also reached a career-high singles ranking of No. 100.

Nadiia Kichenok
Надія Кіченок

Kichenok at the 2019 Wimbledon Championships
Country (sports)	Ukraine
Residence	Dnipro, Ukraine
Born	(1992-07-20) 20 July 1992 (age 33) Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine
Height	1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)
Turned pro	2006
Plays	Right (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	US$ 1,862,797
Singles
Career record	227–175
Career titles	0 WTA, 4 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 100 (6 January 2014)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	1R (2014)
French Open	1R (2014)
Wimbledon	Q1 (2013, 2014)
US Open	Q1 (2013, 2014)
Doubles
Career record	430–335
Career titles	11
Highest ranking	No. 29 (31 January 2022)
Current ranking	No. 54 (30 June 2025)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open	3R (2018, 2025)
French Open	QF (2024)
Wimbledon	QF (2024)
US Open	3R (2021)
Other doubles tournaments
Olympic Games	QF (2021, 2024)
Grand Slam mixed doubles results
Australian Open	QF (2020)
French Open	SF (2019)
Wimbledon	3R (2019)
US Open	QF (2018)
Team competitions
Fed Cup	9–7
Last updated on: 9 July 2025.

Career

Playing for Ukraine Fed Cup team, Kichenok has a win–loss record of 9–7 as of July 2025.^[1]

In 2015, Nadiia and Lyudmyla came back from a 0–5 deficit in the second set tie-break of their 6–4, 7–6 defeat of Liang Chen and Wang Yafan in the Shenzhen Open final. That made the Kichenoks the second pair of twins, after Karolína and Kristýna Plíšková, to win a WTA Tour doubles title. They had previously been runners-up at Tashkent in 2011, and at Shenzhen in 2014.^[2]

Partnering with Raluca Olaru, she defeated Kaitlyn Christian and Sabrina Santamaria in the final to claim the doubles title at the 2021 St. Petersburg Ladies' Trophy.^[3] They also won the 2021 Chicago Women's Open, winning the final against her sister Lyudmyla and Makoto Ninomiya in a deciding champions tiebreak.^[4]

At the inaugural edition of the Tallinn Open in 2022, seeded third with her sister, she won her eighth title defeating top seeds Nicole Melichar and Laura Siegemund in the final.^[5]

At the 2023 Ladies Linz, she reached the final with Anna-Lena Friedsam, losing to Natela Dzalamidze and her partner Viktória Kužmová in a deciding champions tiebreak.^[6]

With her sister, she reached the quarterfinals at the 2024 Paris Olympics.^[7]

In Ukraine's 2024 Billie Jean King Cup play-offs tie against Austria, Kichenok partnered with Katarina Zavatska to defeat Sinja Kraus and Tamira Paszek in the deciding doubles match.^[8][9]

Partnering with her sister Lyudmyla, she was runner-up in the doubles at the 2025 Linz Open, losing to Tímea Babos and Luisa Stefani in the final which went to a deciding champions tiebreak.^[10][11]

Apparel and equipment

Nadiia Kichenok is sponsored by Mizuno and Wilson (racket).

Performance timelines

Key

W

F

SF

QF

#R

RR

Q#

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.

Doubles

Tournament	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	SR	W–L
Australian Open	A	A	2R	1R	3R	2R	1R	2R	1R	2R	1R	0 / 9	6–9
French Open	A	1R	2R	1R	2R	3R	1R	2R	1R	1R	QF	0 / 10	8–10
Wimbledon	2R	1R	1R	2R	2R	3R	NH	3R	3R	1R	QF	0 / 10	12–10
US Open	A	2R	2R	2R	1R	2R	1R	3R	1R	2R	1R	0 / 10	7–10
Win–loss	1–1	1–3	3–4	2–4	4–4	6–4	0–3	6–4	2–4	2–4	6–4	0 / 39	33–39

Significant finals

WTA Elite Trophy

Singles: 1 (title)

Result	Year	Location	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	2018	Zhuhai, China	Hard (i)	Lyudmyla Kichenok	Shuko Aoyama Lidziya Marozava	6–4, 3–6, [10–7]

WTA Tour finals

Doubles: 20 (10 titles, 11 runner-ups)

Legend WTA Elite Trophy (1–0) WTA 1000 (0–0) WTA 500 (1–4) WTA 250 (8–7)

Finals by surface Hard (8–7) Clay (2–3) Grass (0–1) Carpet (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	Sep 2011	Tashkent Open, Uzbekistan	International[a]	Hard	Lyudmyla Kichenok	Eleni Daniilidou Vitalia Diatchenko	4–6, 3–6
Loss	0–2	Jan 2014	Shenzhen Open, China	International	Hard	Lyudmyla Kichenok	Monica Niculescu Klára Zakopalová	3–6, 4–6
Win	1–2	Jan 2015	Shenzhen Open, China	International	Hard	Lyudmyla Kichenok	Liang Chen Wang Yafan	6–4, 7–6(8–6)
Loss	1–3	May 2015	Internationaux de Strasbourg, France	International	Clay	Zheng Saisai	Chuang Chia-jung Liang Chen	6–4, 4–6, [10–12]
Win	2–3	Aug 2016	Brasil Tennis Cup, Brazil	International	Hard	Lyudmyla Kichenok	Tímea Babos Réka Luca Jani	6–3, 6–1
Loss	2–4	Apr 2017	Monterrey Open, Mexico	International	Hard	Dalila Jakupovic	Nao Hibino Alicja Rosolska	2–6, 6–7 (4–7)
Win	3–4	Apr 2017	İstanbul Cup, Turkey	International	Clay	Dalila Jakupovic	Nicole Melichar Elise Mertens	7–6(8–6), 6–2
Loss	3–5	May 2018	Internationaux de Strasbourg, France	International	Clay	Anastasia Rodionova	Mihaela Buzărnescu Raluca Olaru	5–7, 5–7
Loss	3–6	Aug 2018	Silicon Valley Classic, US	Premier[b]	Hard	Lyudmyla Kichenok	Latisha Chan Květa Peschke	4–6, 1–6
Win	4–6	Nov 2018	WTA Elite Trophy, China	Elite Trophy	Hard	Lyudmyla Kichenok	Shuko Aoyama Lidziya Marozava	6–4, 3–6, [10–7]
Win	5–6	Jan 2020	Hobart International, Australia	International	Hard	Sania Mirza	Peng Shuai Zhang Shuai	6–4, 6–4
Win	6–6	Mar 2021	St. Petersburg Trophy, Russia	WTA 500	Hard (i)	Raluca Olaru	Kaitlyn Christian Sabrina Santamaria	2–6, 6–3, [10–8]
Loss	6–7	Jun 2021	Bad Homburg Open, Germany	WTA 250	Grass	Raluca Olaru	Darija Jurak Andreja Klepač	3–6, 1–6
Win	7–7	Aug 2021	Chicago Women's Open, US	WTA 250	Hard	Raluca Olaru	Lyudmyla Kichenok Makoto Ninomiya	7–6(8–6), 5–7, [10–8]
Loss	7–8	Oct 2021	Kremlin Cup, Russia	WTA 500	Hard (i)	Raluca Olaru	Jeļena Ostapenko Kateřina Siniaková	2–6, 6–4, [8–10]
Win	8–8	Oct 2022	Tallinn Open, Estonia	WTA 250	Hard (i)	Lyudmyla Kichenok	Nicole Melichar-Martinez Laura Siegemund	7–5, 4–6, [10–7]
Loss	8–9	Feb 2023	Linz Open, Austria	WTA 250	Hard (i)	Anna-Lena Friedsam	Natela Dzalamidze Viktória Kužmová	6–4, 5–7, [10–12]
Win	9–9	Sep 2023	Japan Women's Open	WTA 250	Hard	Anna-Lena Friedsam	Anna Kalinskaya Yulia Putintseva	7–6(7–3), 6–3
Loss	9–10	Apr 2024	Charleston Open, US	WTA 500	Clay	Lyudmyla Kichenok	Ashlyn Krueger Sloane Stephens	6–1, 3–6, [7–10]
Loss	9–11	Jan 2025	Linz Open, Austria	WTA 500	Hard	Lyudmyla Kichenok	Tímea Babos Luisa Stefani	6–3, 5–7, [4–10]
Win	10–11	Jul 2025	Hamburg Open, Germany	WTA 250	Clay	Makoto Ninomiya	Anna Bondár Arantxa Rus	6–4, 3–6, [11–9]

WTA Challenger finals

Doubles: 2 (2 runner-ups)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	Nov 2022	Midland Tennis Classic, US	Hard (i)	Anna-Lena Friedsam	Asia Muhammad Alycia Parks	2–6, 3–6
Loss	0–2	May 2023	Clarins Open Paris, France	Clay	Alycia Parks	Anna Danilina Vera Zvonareva	7–5, 6–7(2), [12–14]

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 11 (4 titles, 7 runner-ups)

Legend $100,000 tournaments (1–0) $50,000 tournaments (0–1) $25,000 tournaments (3–4) $10,000 tournaments (0–2)

Finals by surface Hard (4–6) Carpet (0–1)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0–1	Oct 2009	ITF Kharkiv, Ukraine	10,000	Carpet (i)	Lyudmyla Kichenok	7–6(2), 2–6, 3–6
Loss	0–2	Apr 2011	ITF Minsk, Belarus	25,000	Hard (i)	Olga Puchkova	2–6, 5–7
Loss	0–3	May 2012	Fergana Challenger, Uzbekistan	25,000	Hard	Donna Vekić	2–6, 2–6
Loss	0–4	Jun 2012	ITF Qarshi, Uzbekistan	10,000	Hard	Ksenia Milevskaya	4–6, 5–7
Win	1–4	Jun 2012	ITF Qarshi, Uzbekistan	25,000	Hard	Tadeja Majerič	6–3, 7–6(3)
Loss	1–5	Sep 2012	ITF Yoshkar-Ola, Russia	25,000	Hard (i)	Margarita Gasparyan	5–7, 6–7(3)
Loss	1–6	Jan 2013	Blossom Cup, China	50,000	Hard	Varatchaya Wongteanchai	2–6, 7–6(5), 6–7(5)
Loss	1–7	Mar 2013	ITF Tallinn, Estonia	25,000	Hard (i)	Aliaksandra Sasnovich	6–7(3), 2–6
Win	2–7	Apr 2013	ITF Namangan, Uzbekistan	25,000	Hard	Oksana Kalashnikova	6–2, 6–3
Win	3–7	Jul 2013	President's Cup, Kazakhstan	100,000	Hard	Maria João Koehler	6–4, 7–5
Win	4–7	Nov 2013	ITF Astana, Kazakhstan	25,000	Hard (i)	Ilona Kremen	6–3, 6–1

Doubles: 46 (24 titles, 22 runner-ups)

Legend $100,000 tournaments (1–1) $75/80,000 tournaments (0–2) $50/60,000 tournaments (9–4) $25,000 tournaments (12–12) $10,000 tournaments (2–3)

Finals by surface Hard (18–11) Clay (2–9) Carpet (4–2)

Result	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partnering	Opponents	Score
Loss	1.	1 October 2006	Royal Cup Podgorica, Montenegro	Clay	Lyudmyla Kichenok	Josipa Bek Karolina Jovanović	4–6, 7–5, 2–6
Loss	2.	25 May 2007	ITF Cherkassy, Ukraine	Clay	Lyudmyla Kichenok	Katerina Avdiyenko Anna Zaporozhanova	6–7(3), 2–6
Loss	3.	3 August 2008	ITF Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine	Clay	Lyudmyla Kichenok	Vasilisa Davydova Maria Kondratieva	3–6, 1–6
Loss	4.	29 August 2008	ITF Bucharest, Romania	Clay	Lyudmyla Kichenok	Laura Ioana Andrei Irina-Camelia Begu	2–6, 6–3, [6–10]
Loss	5.	23 March 2009	ITF Moscow, Russia	Hard (i)	Lyudmyla Kichenok	Vitalia Diatchenko Ekaterina Dzehalevich	1–6, 1–6
Loss	6.	22 May 2009	ITF Kharkiv, Ukraine	Clay	Lyudmyla Kichenok	Ksenia Milevskaya Lesia Tsurenko	4–6, 4–6
Win	1.	13 September 2009	ITF Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands	Clay	Lyudmyla Kichenok	Chayenne Ewijk Marlot Meddens	6–2, 4–6, [10–8]
Win	2.	16 October 2009	ITF Kharkiv, Ukraine	Carpet (i)	Lyudmyla Kichenok	Veronika Kapshay Irina Kuzmina	2–6, 6–2, [10–3]
Win	3.	1 November 2009	ITF Stockholm, Sweden	Hard (i)	Lyudmyla Kichenok	Alexandra Artamonova Lidziya Marozava	6–3, 6–1
Win	4.	14 November 2009	ITF Minsk, Belarus	Hard (i)	Lyudmyla Kichenok	Vesna Mansieva Evgeniya Rodina	6–3, 7–6(7)
Loss	7.	22 November 2009	ITF Opole, Poland	Carpet (i)	Lyudmyla Kichenok	Ana Jovanović Justine Ozga	4–6, 4–6
Loss	8.	7 February 2010	ITF Rancho Mirage, United States	Hard	Lyudmyla Kichenok	Monique Adamczak Abigail Spears	3–6, 4–6
Loss	9.	28 March 2010	ITF Moscow, Russia	Hard (i)	Lyudmyla Kichenok	Nina Bratchikova Irena Pavlovic	7–6(4), 2–6, [3–10]
Loss	10.	3 April 2010	Yugra Cup, Russia	Carpet (i)	Lyudmyla Kichenok	Alexandra Panova Ksenia Pervak	6–7(7), 6–2, [7–10]
Win	5.	8 May 2010	ITF Kharkiv, Ukraine	Hard	Lyudmyla Kichenok	Kateryna Kozlova Elina Svitolina	6–4, 6–2
Loss	11.	21 May 2010	ITF Kharkiv, Ukraine	Clay	Lyudmyla Kichenok	Katerina Avdiyenko Ksenia Milevskaya	4–6, 2–6
Loss	12.	27 June 2010	ITF Périgueux, France	Clay	Lyudmyla Kichenok	Elise Tamaëla Scarlett Werner	2–6, 1–6
Loss	13.	3 July 2010	ITF Mont-de-Marsan, France	Clay	Constance Sibille	Lara Arruabarrena Inès Ferrer Suarez	3–6, 1–6
Win	6.	10 October 2010	Open de Limoges, France	Hard (i)	Lyudmyla Kichenok	Claire Feuerstein Caroline Garcia	6–7(5), 6–4, [10–8]
Win	7.	26 March 2011	ITF Moscow, Russia	Hard (i)	Lyudmyla Kichenok	Alexandra Panova Olga Panova	6–3, 6–3
Win	8.	30 April 2011	ITF Minsk, Belarus	Hard (i)	Lyudmyla Kichenok	Teodora Mirčić Nicole Rottmann	6–1, 6–2
Loss	14.	5 June 2011	Přerov Cup, Czech Republic	Clay	Lyudmyla Kichenok	Kateřina Kramperová Karolína Plíšková	3–6, 4–6
Win	9.	16 October 2011	Open de Touraine, France	Hard (i)	Lyudmyla Kichenok	Eirini Gergatou Irena Pavlovic	6–2, 6–0
Win	10.	6 November 2011	ITF Istanbul, Turkey	Hard (i)	Lyudmyla Kichenok	Mervana Jugić-Salkić Ana Vrljić	4–6, 6–1, [10–7]
Loss	15.	22 January 2012	ITF Stuttgart, Germany	Hard (i)	Lyudmyla Kichenok	Paula Kania Ksenia Lykina	3–6, 4–6
Win	11.	20 May 2012	Fergana Challenger, Uzbekistan	Hard	Lyudmyla Kichenok	Albina Khabibulina Anastasiya Vasylyeva	6–4, 6–1
Win	12.	16 June 2012	ITF Bukhara, Uzbekistan	Hard	Lyudmyla Kichenok	Valentina Ivakhnenko Kateryna Kozlova	7–5, 7–5
Win	13.	21 July 2012	ITF Donetsk, Ukraine	Hard	Lyudmyla Kichenok	Valentyna Ivakhnenko Kateryna Kozlova	6–2, 7–5
Loss	16.	28 July 2012	President's Cup, Kazakhstan	Hard	Lyudmyla Kichenok	Oksana Kalashnikova Marta Sirotkina	6–3, 4–6, [2–10]
Loss	17.	18 August 2012	Tatarstan Open, Russia	Hard	Lyudmyla Kichenok	Valentyna Ivakhnenko Kateryna Kozlova	4–6, 7–6(6), [4–10]
Win	14.	3 November 2012	ITF Netanya, Israel	Hard	Lyudmyla Kichenok	Zuzana Luknarová Anna Karolína Schmiedlová	6–1, 6–4
Loss	18.	10 November 2012	ITF Minsk, Belarus	Hard (i)	Lyudmyla Kichenok	Ekaterina Dzehalevich Aliaksandra Sasnovich	6–1, 2–6, [3–10]
Win	15.	18 November 2012	ITF Helsinki, Finland	Carpet (i)	Lyudmyla Kichenok	Irina Buryachok Valeriya Solovyeva	6–3, 6–3
Win	16.	11 January 2013	Blossom Cup, China	Hard	Irina Buryachok	Liang Chen Sun Shengnan	3–6, 6–3, [12–10]
Loss	19.	30 March 2013	ITF Tallinn, Estonia	Hard (i)	Lyudmyla Kichenok	Anett Kontaveit Jeļena Ostapenko	6–2, 5–7, [0–10]
Win	17.	28 April 2013	ITF Istanbul, Turkey	Hard	Ekaterina Bychkova	Başak Eraydın Aleksandrina Naydenova	3–6, 6–2, [10–5]
Win	18.	27 July 2013	President's Cup, Kazakhstan	Hard	Lyudmyla Kichenok	Nina Bratchikova Valeriya Solovyeva	6–2, 6–2
Win	19.	9 November 2013	ITF Astana, Kazakhstan	Hard (i)	Lyudmyla Kichenok	Alexandra Artamonova Eugeniya Pashkova	6–1, 6–1
Loss	20.	15 November 2013	Dubai Tennis Challenge, UAE	Hard	Lyudmyla Kichenok	Olga Savchuk Vitalia Diatchenko	5–7, 1–6
Win	20.	1 November 2014	Open Nantes Atlantique, France	Hard (i)	Lyudmyla Kichenok	Stéphanie Foretz Amandine Hesse	6–2, 6–3
Win	21.	21 February 2015	ITF Kreuzlingen, Switzerland	Carpet (i)	Lyudmyla Kichenok	Stéphanie Foretz Irina Ramialison	6–3, 6–3
Win	22.	26 April 2015	ITF Istanbul, Turkey	Hard	Lyudmyla Kichenok	Valentyna Ivakhnenko Polina Monova	6–4, 6–3
Loss	21.	5 February 2016	Launceston International, Australia	Hard	Mandy Minella	You Xiaodi Zhu Lin	6–2, 5–7, [7–10]
Win	23.	20 March 2016	ITF Irapuato, Mexico	Hard	Lyudmyla Kichenok	Akiko Omae Prarthana Thombare	6–1, 6–4
Loss	22.	11 March 2017	Zhuhai Open, China	Hard	Lyudmyla Kichenok	Lesley Kerkhove Lidziya Marozava	4–6, 2–6
Win	24.	19 March 2017	Pingshan Open, China	Hard	Lyudmyla Kichenok	Eri Hozumi Valeria Savinykh	6–4, 6–4

Notes

1. The WTA International tournaments were reclassified as WTA 250 tournaments in 2021.
2. The WTA Premier tournaments were reclassified as WTA 500 tournaments in 2021.