Marta Sirotkina Biography

Marta Aleksandrovna Sirotkina (, born 22 March 1991) is a professional Russian tennis player. Her highest WTA singles ranking is No. 115, which she reached on 25 February 2013. Her career high in doubles is No. 141, which she reached on 18 February 2013.

Career highlights

Apart from ITF professional successes, Marta has won Bronze medals in the Moscow Winter Championships (Singles and Doubles) in 2009, later winning a Gold medal in the Russian Championships. Marta has won Silver medals in the Moscow Championships and Gold in the "Cup of Russia" Doubles tournament.

2011

So far in 2011, Sirotkina has won three ITF titles in singles. She won two ITF $10,000 tournaments in Bath, Somerset, and Antalya, Turkey, and an ITF $25,000 tournament in Bangkok, Thailand.

Sirotkina began 2011 with a bang in Bath, beating the top seed on way to capturing the Aegon Pro Series $10,000 title, while in the $25,000 event the following week she beat two higher ranked players to make the main draw where she destroyed former world top-20 star Anna-Lena Grnefeld before falling in the quarterfinals to Claire Feuerstein.

Sirotkina competed in the ITF $25,000 Aegon GB Pro-Series Foxhills on 11 July 2011, seeded 5th. Sirotkina defeated Daneika Borthwick in the first round and Samantha Murray in the second round. In the quarterfinals, Sirotkina was defeated by the first seed, Vitalia Diatchenko.

Sirotkina participated in the 2011 Tatarstan Open in singles and in doubles. Ksenia Lykina was her doubles partner. In the first round of the singles, Sirotkina defeated Valeria Solovyeva. In the second round, she lost to the 3rd seed, Anastasiya Yakimova. In the doubles, Sirotkina and Lykina lost to the second seeds, Ekaterina Ivanova and Andreja Klepa?, in the semifinals, after defeating the 4th seeds, Tetyana Arefyeva and Eugeniya Pashkova in the first round and Natela Dzalamidze and Mandy Minella in the quarterfinals.

Sirotkina competed in the 2011 Summer Universiade in both singles and doubles. In the singles, Sirotkina lost in the third round to eventual bronze-medalist Yoo Mi. Sirotkina partnered with Ksenia Lykina in the doubles and they won a bronze medal.

Sirotkina competed in the Singles Qualifying of the 2011 Tashkent Open. She was seeded 4th. In the first round, Sirotkina defeated Viktoriya Karmenova. In the next round, Sirotkina defeated Lyudmyla Kichenok. In the final round, she lost to Aleksandra Kruni?.

Personal life

Marta is completing her studies at the Moscow Institute for Sports and Fitness Studies, she is funded by a sports-academic scholarship from the Yeltsin Fund. As well as her native Russian she speaks English and Spanish, having attended the Spanish Immersion High School in Moscow. She has one older brother. She likes playing on hardcourt surfaces but her favourite and most comfortable surface is grass.

In October 2010, Hiberno International and Marta signed a long term management agreement that will bring Marta to the heights she has the ability to reach. Marta has begun the upward curve needed by undergoing an intensive training camp in the Republic of Ireland at the Tennis Ireland BNP-Paribas National Academy in Dublin under the guidance of the Internationally respected Garry Cahill (former Ireland Fed Cup team captain and current Ireland Davis Cup team captain).

Career statistics

Singles Finals: 20 (12-8)

$100,000 tournaments

$75,000 tournaments

$50,000 tournaments

$25,000 tournaments

$10,000 tournaments

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
Runner-up	1.	1 November 2009	Stockholm, Sweden	Hard	Lyudmyla Kichenok	3-6, 3-6
Winner	1.	11 April 2010	Ain Sukhna, Egypt	Clay	Ekaterine Gorgodze	6-3, 6-1
Winner	2.	12 September 2010	Madrid, Spain	Hard	Naomi Broady	4-6, 6-4, 6-4
Winner	3.	7 November 2010	Antalya, Turkey	Hard	Martina Balogova	6-2, 6-0
Winner	4.	11 December 2010	Dubai, United Arab Emirates	Hard	Mihaela Buz?rnescu	6-0, 6-0
Winner	5.	19 March 2011	Bath, United Kingdom	Hard	Giulia Gatto-Monticone	W/O
Winner	6.	24 April 2011	Antalya, Turkey	Hard	Yana Buchina	6-1, 6-0
Runner-up	2.	7 May 2011	Bukhara, Uzbekistan	Hard	Nikola Hofmanova	4-6, 5-7
Winner	7.	4 June 2011	Bangkok, Thailand	Hard	Luksika Kumkhum	6-4, 6-3
Winner	8.	18 February 2012	Linkping, Sweden	Hard	Milana premo	6-1, 6-3
Winner	9.	1 April 2012	Phuket, Thailand	Hard	Claire Feuerstein	7-5, 7-6(8-6)
Winner	10.	27 May 2012	Karuizawa, Japan	Grass	Junri Namigata	6-4, 2-6, 6-4
Runner-up	3.	28 July 2012	Astana, Kazakhstan	Hard	Maria Joo Koehler	5-7, 2-6
Runner-up	4.	3 February 2013	Eilat, Israel	Hard	Elina Svitolina	3-6 6-3 5-7
Runner-up	5.	26 August 2013	Kazan, Russia	Hard	Anna-Lena Friedsam	2-6, 3-6
Runner-up	6.	21 September 2013	Shrewsbury, United Kingdom	Hard	Alison Van Uytvanck	5-7, 1-6
Winner	11.	3 November 2013	Barnstaple, United Kingdom	Hard	Kristna Plkov	6-7(5-7), 6-3, 7-6(8-6)
Runner-up	7.	21 December 2013	Ankara, Turkey	Hard (i)	Vitalia Diatchenko	7-6 4-6 4-6
Winner	12.	16 August 2014	Woking, United Kingdom	Hard	Ana Bogdan	7-5, 6-3
Runner-up	8.	1 February 2015	Sunderland, United Kingdom	Hard (i)	Amy Bowtell	4-6, 3-6

Doubles Finals: 17 (12-5)

$100,000 tournaments

$75,000 tournaments

$50,000 tournaments

$25,000 tournaments

$10,000 tournaments

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score
Winner	1.	17 May 2009	St. Petersburgh, Russia	Hard	Yuliya Kalabina	Avgusta Tsybysheva Maria Zharkova	6-1, 6-2
Runner-up	1.	23 May 2009	Moscow, Russia	Clay	Yuliya Kalabina	Maria Kondratieva Arina Rodionova	5-7, 1-6
Winner	2.	5 June 2009	Bukhara, Uzbekistan	Hard	Anna Brazhnikova	Ksenia Palkina Arina Rodionova	3-6, 6-4, [11-9]
Winner	3.	11 April 2010	Ain Sukhna, Egypt	Clay	Anna Brazhnikova	Audrey Bergot Chanel Simmonds	6-3, 6-3
Runner-up	2.	29 May 2010	Grado, Italy	Clay	Karina Pimkina	Han Xinyun Lu Jingjing	6-1, 4-6, [8-10]
Runner-up	3.	11 September 2010	Madrid, Spain	Hard	Jennifer Ren	Naomi Broady Emily Webley-Smith	2-6, 3-6
Winner	4.	30 October 2010	Istanbul, Turkey	Hard	Oksana Kalashnikova	Ekaterina Bychkova Iryna Brmond	6-3, 6-1
Winner	5.	6 November 2010	Antalya, Turkey	Hard	Nigina Abduraimova	Julia Samuseva Ekaterina Yakovleva	3-6, 6-1, [10-7]
Winner	6.	13 November 2010	Antalya, Turkey	Hard	Nikola Fra?kov	Daria Salnikova Nicola Slater	3-6, 7-5, [10-5]
Runner-up	4.	24 April 2011	Antalya, Turkey	Hard	Maria Zharkova	Laura-Ioana Andrei Sylwia Zagorska	1-6, 6-7(0)
Runner-up	5.	18 February 2012	Linkping, Sweden	Hard (i)	Margarita Lazareva	Dejana Raickovic Alina Wessel	6-1 3-6 [8-10]
Winner	7.	25 February 2012	Moscow, Russia	Hard	Oksana Kalashnikova	Tatiana Kotelnikova Lidziya Marozava	7-6, 4-6, [11-9]
Winner	8.	24 March 2012	Phuket, Thailand	Hard	Natela Dzalamidze	Chin-Wei Chan Zheng Saisai	6-4, 6-1
Winner	9.	21 April 2012	Namangan, Uzbekistan	Hard	Oksana Kalashnikova	Naomi Broady Paula Kania	6-2, 7-5
Winner	10.	28 July 2012	Astana, Kazakhstan	Hard	Oksana Kalashnikova	Lyudmyla Kichenok Nadiia Kichenok	3-6, 6-4, [10-2]
Winner	11.		Woking, Great Britain	Hard	Tara Moore	Kanae Hisami Mari Tanaka	4-6 6-1 [10-7]
Winner	12.		Preston, Great Britain	Hard	Tara Moore	Timea Bacsinszky Kristina Barrois	3-6 6-1 [13-11]