Yulia Putintseva

Yulia Putintseva is a professional tennis player representing Kazakhstan. She reached a career-high singles ranking of World No. 20 in January 2025 and has won three WTA singles titles, including the 2024 Birmingham Classic. Putintseva is a three-time Grand Slam quarterfinalist and known for her tenacity and competitive spirit on court.

Player Profile and Personal Life

Yulia Antonovna Putintseva was born on January 7, 1995 in Moscow, Russia, to Anton and Anna Putintsev. She stands 163 cm tall and is right-handed with a two-handed backhand. She is coached by Matteo Donati. Since turning pro, she has earned around US$8.8 million in prize money.

Putintseva was introduced to tennis by her father and trained at Spartak Tennis Club in Moscow before moving to Paris to attend the Mouratoglou Tennis Academy. She resides in Boca Raton, Florida, and Moscow. Her favorite surface is clay and her favorite tournaments are the Australian Open and US Open.

Her tennis idols were Martina Hingis and Justine Henin. She enjoys dancing, music, Sudoku, and chess. Since June 2012, she has represented Kazakhstan.

Juniors

Putintseva achieved a career-high ITF junior ranking of No. 3 in May 2012. She won five singles titles on the ITF Junior Circuit and reached the finals at the 2012 Australian Open and 2010 US Open girls’ singles. She reached the semifinals at Wimbledon and the quarterfinals at the French Open as a junior.

Career

Putintseva turned professional in 2009 and made her WTA main-draw debut at the 2012 Copenhagen Open. She reached her first Grand Slam main draw at the 2013 Australian Open, winning her debut match. Her breakthrough came in 2016, when she reached her first Grand Slam quarterfinal at the French Open, becoming the first Kazakh woman to do so since 2012.

She repeated this feat at Roland-Garros in 2018 and reached the quarterfinals at the US Open in 2020.

Putintseva won her first WTA singles title at the 2019 Nuremberg Cup, followed by titles at the 2021 Budapest Grand Prix and the 2024 Birmingham Classic. She has reached additional finals at the St. Petersburg Trophy, Guangzhou Open, and Nur-Sultan.

She has been a regular in the latter stages of WTA events, with quarterfinal runs at the Italian Open, Madrid Open, and Canadian Open.

In 2024, Putintseva won her first grass court title at the Birmingham Classic and reached the fourth round at Wimbledon, defeating World No. 1 Iga Świątek.

She reached the semifinals at the Adelaide International and quarterfinals at the Madrid Open, Indian Wells, and Miami Open, returning to the top 20 in the rankings in early 2025.

Career Record

Singles

• Career record: 436–333
• Career titles: 3
• Highest ranking: No. 20 (January 27, 2025)
• Current ranking: No. 24 (March 17, 2025)

Best Grand Slam Singles Performances

• Australian Open – 3R (2016, 2020, 2021, 2025)
• French Open – QF (2016, 2018)
• Wimbledon – 4R (2024)
• US Open – QF (2020)

Doubles

• Career record: 21–65
• Career titles: 0
• Highest ranking: No. 76 (March 17, 2025)
• Current ranking: No. 76 (March 17, 2025)

Best Grand Slam Doubles Performances

• Australian Open – 1R (multiple years)
• French Open – 2R (2021)
• Wimbledon – 2R (2016, 2021)
• US Open – 3R (2019)

Team competitions

• Fed Cup/Billie Jean King Cup – Regular team member for Kazakhstan