Anna Blinkova

Anna Vladimirovna Blinkova (Анна Владимировна Блинкова; born 10 September 1998) is a Russian professional tennis player.

On 7 August 2023, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 34.

Anna Vladimirovna Blinkova was born on 10 September 1998 in Moscow to mother Elena and father Vladimir.

During childhood, she played both tennis and chess at a high level.

Her preferred surface is hardcourt.

Her favourite shot is a forehand.

She speaks Russian, Slovak, French and English.

Blinkova is former junior world No. 3 player.

Blinkova was runner-up at the 2015 Wimbledon Championships in girls' singles and was ranked the No. 3 junior tennis player in the world in August 2015.

She was runner-up at the 2015 Wimbledon in girls' singles, where she lost to compatriot Sofya Zhuk.

Blinkova made her debut at the ITF Circuit at the $10k event in Kantaoui in February 2015.

There she won her first ITF doubles title.

In January 2016, she won her first ITF singles title at the $10K Stuttgart.

In April 2016, she turned pro and made her WTA Tour debut at the Morocco Open, where she was defeated in the first round.

In October 2016, she won her first match on the WTA Tour, defeating Anastasija Sevastova in the first round of Kremlin Cup.

In January 2017, she made Grand Slam debut at the Australian Open through qualifying, where she defeated Monica Niculescu in the first round before losing to Karolína Plíšková in the second.

At the 2017 Wimbledon and US Open, she also reached main draw, but then lost to Elena Vesnina in the first round of both competition.

During the 2017 season, she won two $100k events on the ITF Circuit in doubles event, in Ilkley and St. Petersburg.

In February 2018, she reached the third round of the Premier 5 Qatar Open, defeating Elena Vesnina and Kristina Mladenovic, before she lost to world No. 7, Caroline Garcia.

In May, she won her first WTA doubles title at the Morocco Open, partnering with Raluca Olaru.

Blinkova entered top 100 for the first time in both singles and doubles in 2018.

On her debut at the 2019 French Open as a qualifier, she reached the third round with a win over compatriot Margarita Gasparyan and an upset over 24th seed Caroline Garcia, but then lost to 14th seed Madison Keys.

In August 2019, she reached her first WTA Tour quarterfinal in singles at the Bronx Open, where she lost to Wang Qiang.

At the 2019 US Open, she took defending champion and top seed Naomi Osaka to three sets.

She followed this with title in New Haven on the WTA Challenger Tour.

Nearly after that, she reached the semifinal of the Guangzhou Open, but then lost to Sofia Kenin.

In October, she reached another semifinal at the Luxembourg Open, but lost to later champion Jeļena Ostapenko.

During the year, she did even better in doubles.

In February 2019, she lost alongside Wang Yafan in the doubles final at the Hua Hin Championships.

After that, she reached semifinals of the Hungarian Open.

In April, she reached another semifinal at the Premier-level Stuttgart Open.

She then won $60k, $80k and $100k events, respectively, on the ITF Circuit.

In September, she won the WTA Challenger New Haven.

Blinkova continued to made better results in doubles than singles.

Despite not producing good results in singles during the season, Blinkova started year with her first career top 10 win, defeating Belinda Bencic in the first round of the Shenzhen Open.

In singles, her best result of the year came at the Italian Open, where she reached the third round, but then lost to world No. 4, Karolína Plíšková.

In doubles, her first significant result came in March at the Indian Wells Challenger, where she reached the semifinal.

Then, six month absence of the WTA Tour happened due to COVID-19 pandemic outbreak.

On 14 September 2020, she peaked at No. 45 in the WTA doubles rankings.

She has won one singles and one doubles title on the WTA Tour, one singles and one doubles title each on WTA Challenger Tour, as well as three singles and eleven doubles titles on the ITF Circuit.