Country (sports) Russia Career titles 0 WTA, 11 ITF Weight 61 kg Career record 214–122 Height 1.70 m | Prize money USA$199,379 Role Tennis Player Residence Moscow, Russia Name Marta Sirotkina Turned pro 2007 | |
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Born 22 March 1991 (age 33)
Moscow, Russia ( 1991-03-22 ) Plays Right-handed (two-handed backhand) | ||
Marta sirotkina
Marta Aleksandrovna Sirotkina (Russian: Марта Александровна Сироткина, 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.
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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 Grönefeld 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 Klepač, 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 Krunić.
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).