Polina Kudermetova

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In this name that follows East Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Eduardovna and the family name is Kudermetova.

Polina Kudermetova
Native nameПолина Кудерметова
Country (sports) Russia
ResidenceMoscow, Russia
Born (2003-06-04) 4 June 2003 (age 21)
PlaysRight-handed
CoachRavshan Sultanov[1]
Prize moneyUS $746,262
Singles
Career record193–109
Career titles0
Highest rankingNo. 56 (17 March 2025)
Current rankingNo. 59 (31 March 2025)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open1R (2023, 2025)
French OpenQ1 (2023, 2024)
WimbledonQ1 (2024)
US OpenQ1 (2024)
Doubles
Career record43–34
Career titles0
Highest rankingNo. 283 (10 April 2023)
Current rankingNo. 382 (31 March 2025)
Last updated on: 31 March 2025.

Polina Eduardovna Kudermetova (Russian: Полина Эдуардовна Кудерметова, Polina Eduardovna Kudermetova, born 4 June 2003) is a Russian professional tennis player. She has been ranked by the WTA as high as world No. 56 in singles, achieved on 31 March 2025, and No. 283 in doubles on 10 April 2023.

Career

2023: Major debut, first WTA Tour win

At the Australian Open, Kudermetova advanced to her first Grand Slam tournament main draw on her qualifying debut by defeating Anastasia Gasanova,[2] Katie Boulter,[3] and Asia Muhammad.[4] She lost to wildcard player Olivia Gadecki in the first round.[5]

She recorded her first main-draw win at the Libéma Open over Yuan Yue,[6] but lost her next match to Liudmila Samsonova.[7]

At the Korea Open, she reached the quarterfinals defeating sixth seed Alycia Parks[8] and Kathinka von Deichmann,[9] before losing to Yanina Wickmayer.[10]

2024: First tour semifinal

At the newly upgraded Korea Open, ranked No. 163, Kudermetova made her debut at the WTA 500-level as a lucky loser and defeated qualifier Priscilla Hon in the first round,[11][12] and seventh seed Ekaterina Alexandrova[13][14] to reach the quarterfinals where she lost to third seed Beatriz Haddad Maia.[15] As a result she reached a new career-high ranking in the top 130 on 23 September 2024.[16]

Partnering Alina Korneeva, she was runner-up in doubles at the WTA 125 Abierto Tampico, losing to Carmen Corley and Rebecca Marino in the final.[17]

Kudermetova reached her first WTA Tour singles semifinal at the Mérida Open with wins over second seed Nadia Podoroska,[18] Varvara Lepchenko[19] and Nina Stojanović,[20] before losing in the last four to Ann Li.[21]

As top seed, Kudermetova was runner-up at the W100 Al Habtoor Tennis Challenge in Dubai, losing to wildcard entrant Jodie Burrage in the final.[22] Despite the defeat, she reached a career-high WTA singles ranking of No. 106 the day after the tournament finished on 9 December 2024.[23]

2025: First career final, top 100 debut

Having made it through qualifying, Kudermetova reached her first WTA final at the Brisbane International, defeating Wang Xinyu,[24] 13th seed Liudmila Samsonova,[25] third seed Daria Kasatkina (her first win against a top-10 ranked player),[26][27] Ashlyn Krueger[28][29] and Anhelina Kalinina.[30][31] She lost the championship match to world No. 1, Aryna Sabalenka, in three sets.[32] She made her top 100 debut on 6 January 2025, climbing 50 positions up in the rankings to world No. 57.[33][34]

Kudermetova defeated Elena Micic in the final qualifying round at the Australian Open to make it into her second Grand Slam tournament main draw.[35] She lost to 23rd seed Magdalena Fręch in the first round.[36]

Personal life

She is the younger sister of professional tennis and former top-ten player, Veronika Kudermetova, and daughter of Russian national ice hockey champion Eduard Kudermetov.[37][38][39]

Performance timeline

Key
W  F  SF QF #R RR Q# DNQ A NH
(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.
To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated at the conclusion of a tournament or when the player's participation has ended.

Only main-draw results in WTA Tour, Grand Slam tournaments, Billie Jean King Cup and Olympic Games are included in win–loss records.[40]

Singles

Current through the 2025 Brisbane International.

Tournament 2023 2024 2025 SR W–L
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open 1R A 1R 0 / 2 0–2
French Open Q1 Q1 0 / 0 0–0
Wimbledon A Q1 0 / 0 0–0
US Open A Q1 0 / 0 0–0
Win–loss 0–1 0–0 0–1 0 / 2 0–2
WTA 1000
Qatar Open[a] A A 0 / 0 0–0
Dubai[a] A A 0 / 0 0–0
Indian Wells Open A A 0 / 0 0–0
Miami Open A A 0 / 0 0–0
Madrid Open A A 0 / 0 0–0
Italian Open Q2 A 0 / 0 0–0
Canadian Open A A 0 / 0 0–0
Cincinnati Open A A 0 / 0 0–0
Wuhan Open A A 0 / 0 0–0
China Open A A 0 / 0 0–0
Guadalajara Open Q1 A 0 / 0 0–0
Career statistics
2023 2024 2025 Totals
Tournaments 6 3 1 10
Titles 0 0 0 0 / 10 0
Finals 0 0 1 1 / 10 1
Hard win–loss 2–2 5–2 5–1 0 / 5 12–5
Clay win–loss 0–2 0–1 0 / 3 0–3
Grass win–loss 1–2 0–0 0 / 2 1–2
Overall win–loss 3–6 5–3 5–1 0 / 10 13–10
Year-end ranking 157 107

WTA Tour finals

Singles: 1 (runner-up)

Legend
Grand Slam (0–0)
WTA 1000 (0–0)
WTA 500 (0–1)
WTA 250 (0–0)
Finals by surface
Hard (0–1)
Clay (0–0)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)
Result W–L    Date    Tournament Tier Surface Opponent Score
Loss 0–1 Jan 2025 Brisbane International, Australia WTA 500 Hard Aryna Sabalenka 6–4, 3–6, 2–6

WTA Challenger finals

Doubles: 1 (runner-up)

Result W–L    Date    Tournament Surface Partner Opponents Score
Loss 0–1 Oct 2024 Abierto Tampico, Mexico Hard Alina Korneeva United States Carmen Corley
Canada Rebecca Marino 		3–6, 3–6

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 12 (9 titles, 3 runner-ups)

Legend
W100 tournaments (0–1)
W60 tournaments (0–1)
W40/50 tournaments (2–1)
W25 tournaments (3–0)
W15 tournaments (4–0)[b]
Finals by surface
Hard (8–1)
Clay (1–2)[b]
Result W–L    Date    Location Tier Surface Opponents Score
Win 1–0 Dec 2019 ITF Antalya, Turkey W15 Hard Romania Georgia Crăciun 6–4, 3–6, 6–3
Finalist[b] – Dec 2020 ITF Antalya, Turkey W15 Clay Romania Andreea Roșca canc.
Win 2–0 Feb 2021 ITF Antalya, Turkey W15 Clay Spain Marta Custic 6–2, 1–6, 6–3
Win 3–0 Nov 2021 Kazan Open, Russia W15 Hard (i) Uzbekistan Nigina Abduraimova 7–5, 3–6, 6–4
Win 4–0 Jan 2022 Tatarstan Winter Cup, Russia W15 Hard (i) Russia Anastasia Kovaleva 6–0, 6–4
Win 5–0 Jun 2022 ITF Ra'anana, Israel W25 Hard Maria Timofeeva 4–6, 6–4, 7–5
Loss 5–1 Aug 2022 ITF San Bartolomé de Tirajana, Spain W60 Clay Netherlands Arantxa Rus 3–6, 6–3, 1–6
Win 6–1 Oct 2022 ITF Istanbul, Turkey W25 Hard (i) Tatiana Prozorova 6–3, 6–1
Win 7–1 Nov 2022 ITF Jerusalem, Israel W25 Hard Ekaterina Reyngold 6–1, 6–1
Win 8–1 Mar 2023 ITF Astana, Kazakhstan W40 Hard (i) Darya Astakhova 6–2, 6–3
Win 9–1 Feb 2024 ITF Indore, India W50 Hard Slovenia Dalila Jakupović 3–6, 6–2, 6–0
Loss 9–2 Aug 2024 ITF Oldenzaal, Netherlands W50 Clay Belgium Hanne Vandewinkel 6–4, 2–6, 6–7
Loss 9–3 Dec 2024 Al Habtoor Tennis Challenge, Dubai W100 Hard United Kingdom Jodie Burrage 3–6, 3–6

Doubles: 5 (2 titles, 3 runner-ups)

Legend
W60 tournaments (1–0)
W40/50 tournaments (1–0)
W25 tournaments (0–3)
Finals by surface
Hard (1–3)
Clay (1–0)
Result W–L    Date    Tournament Tier Surface Partnering Opponents Score
Loss 0–1 Apr 2022 ITF Monastir, Tunisia W25 Hard Sofya Lansere France Estelle Cascino
France Jessika Ponchet 		0–6, 6–4,
Loss 0–2 Jun 2022 ITF Tbilisi, Georgia W25 Hard Sofya Lansere Angelina Gabueva
Anastasia Zakharova 		4–6, 3–6
Loss 0–3 Nov 2022 ITF Jerusalem, Israel W25 Hard Ekaterina Reyngold Chinese Taipei Lee Pei-chi
Georgia (country) Sofia Shapatava 		2–6, 4–6
Win 1–3 Mar 2023 Nur-Sultan Challenger, Kazakhstan W60 Hard (i) Anastasia Tikhonova South Korea Jang Su-jeong
South Korea Han Na-lae 		2–6, 6–3,
Win 2–3 Aug 2024 ITF Oldenzaal, Netherlands W50 Clay Ekaterina Makarova United Kingdom Freya Christie
Colombia Yuliana Lizarazo 		6–4, 1–6,

Wins over top-10 players

# Player Rk Event Surface Rd Score ASR
2025
1. Daria Kasatkina 9 Brisbane International, Australia Hard 3R 1–6, 6–2, 7–5 107

Notes

  1. ^ a b The first Premier 5 event of the year has switched back and forth between the Dubai Tennis Championships and the Qatar Ladies Open since 2009 until 2024. Dubai was classified as a Premier 5 event from 2009 to 2011 before being succeeded by Doha for the 2012–2014 period. In 2015, Dubai regained its Premier 5 status while Doha was demoted to Premier status. The Premier 5 tournaments were reclassified as WTA 1000 tournaments in 2021.
  2. ^ a b c The final was abandoned due to poor weather. Both players split ranking points and prize money.[41]

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