Coach(es) Irina Doronina Height 1.73 m | Career record 8–4 (66.67%) Prize money 417 USD | |
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Full name Anastasia Sergeyevna Potapova Plays Right handed (two-handed backhand) Similar Profiles | ||
Anastasia Sergeyevna Potapova (Russian: Анастасия Сергеевна Потапова; born 30 March 2001) is a Russian junior tennis player. Potapova is a former junior No. 1, as well as the 2016 Wimbledon Championships girls' singles champion, where she defeated Dayana Yastremska (Ukraine) in the final.
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Juniors
On the junior tour, Potapova has a career high junior ranking of 1, achieved in July 2016. Potapova has had large success on the junior tour including a semifinal at the 2016 French Open, quarterfinals at the 2016 Australian Open and the 2015 Wimbledon Championships and doubles finals at the 2015 US Open and the 2016 French Open. Potapova won the 2016 Wimbledon Championships girls' title, defeating Dayana Yastremska in the final. This title made her the number 1 junior in the world.
Potapova's other junior highlights include semifinal appearances at the Trofeo Bonfiglio and the Orange Bowl Championships, both Grade A events. Her biggest junior title, excluding Wimbledon, is the Nike Junior International in Roehampton, a Grade 1 event, where she defeated other highly rated junior players such as Claire Liu, Jaimee Fourlis, Sofia Kenin, Olga Danilović and Olesya Pervushina en route to winning the title.
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