Marta Sirotkina

Marta Sirotkina
Марта Сироткина

Country	Russia
Residence	Moscow, Russia
Born	March 22, 1991 (1991-03-22) (age 20) Moscow, Russia
Height	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Turned pro	2007
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Career prize money	USA$54,123
Singles
Career record	127 - 70
Career titles	0 WTA, 7 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 218 (November 14, 2011)
Current ranking	No. 218 (November 14, 2011)
Doubles
Career record	79 - 48
Career titles	0 WTA, 6 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 223 (May 17, 2010)
Medal record Universiade Bronze 2011 Shenzhen Doubles
Last updated on: November 19, 2011.

Marta Sirotkina (Russian: Марта Сироткина, born March 22, 1991) is a professional Russian tennis player. Her highest WTA singles ranking is No. 218, which she reached on November 14, 2011.^[1] Her career high in doubles is No.223, which she reached on May 17, 2010.^[1]

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, Marta has won 3 ITF titles in singles. She won two ITF $10,000 tournaments in Bath, Great Britain and Antalya, Turkey and a ITF $25,000 tournament in Bangkok, Thailand.

Marta began 2011 with a bang in Bath, beating the top seed on way to capturing the AEGON Pro Series $10k title, while in the $25k event the following week she beat 2 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.

Marta competed in the ITF $25K AEGON GB Pro-Series Foxhills on the 11th July 2011. Marta was seeded 5th. Marta defeated Daneika Borthwick in the first round and Samantha Murray in the second round. In the quarterfinals, Marta was defeated by the 1st seed, Vitalia Diatchenko 6–2, 6–2.

Marta participated in the 2011 Tatarstan Open in singles and in doubles. Ksenia Lykina is her doubles partner. In the first round of the singles, Marta defeated Valeria Solovieva, 6–2, 6–2. In the second round, she lost to the 3rd seed, Anastasiya Yakimova, 6–4 5–7 6–7(3). In the doubles, Sirotkina and Lykina lost to the second seeds, Ekaterina Ivanova and Andreja Klepač, 3–6, 1–6 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.

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

Marta cometed in the Singles Qualifying of the 2011 Tashkent Open. She was seeded 4th. In the first round, Marta defeated Viktoriya Karmenova 6–2, 6–0. In the next round, Marta defeated Lyudmyla Kichenok 7–5, 7–5. 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.^[2]

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).^[3]

Career statistics

ITF Circuit singles finals(7–2)

$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	2.	11 April 2010	Ain Elsokhna-Suiz, Egypt	Clay	Ekaterine Gorgodze	6–3 6–1
Winner	3.	12 September 2010	Madrid, Spain	Hard	Naomi Broady	4–6 6–4 6–4
Winner	4.	7 November 2010	Antalya, Turkey	Hard	Martina Balogova	6–2 6–0
Winner	5.	11 December 2010	Dubai, United Arab Emirates	Hard	Mihaela Buzarnescu	6–0 6–0
Winner	6.	19 March 2011	Bath, Great Britain	Hard	Giulia Gatto-Monticone	W/O
Winner	7.	24 April 2011	Antalya, Turkey	Hard	Yana Buchina	6–1 6–0
Runner-up	8.	7 May 2011	Bukhara, Uzbekistan	Hard	Nikola Hofmanova	4–6 5–7
Winner	9.	4 June 2011	Bangkok, Thailand	Hard	Luksika Kumkhum	6–4 6–3

ITF Circuit doubles finals (6–4)

$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	2.	23 May 2009	Moscow, Russia	Clay	Yuliya Kalabina	Maria Kondratieva Arina Rodionova	5–7 1–6
Winner	3.	5 June 2009	Bukhara, Uzbekistan	Hard	Anna Brazhnikova	Ksenia Palkina Arina Rodionova	3–6 6–4 [11–9]
Winner	4.	11 April 2010	Ain Elsokhna-Suiz, Egypt	Clay	Anna Brazhnikova	Audrey Bergot Chanel Simmonds	6–3 6–3
Runner-up	5.	29 May 2010	Grado, Italy	Clay	Karina Pimkina	Xinyun Han Jing-Jing Lu	6–1 4–6 [8–10]
Runner-up	6.	11 September 2010	Madrid, Spain	Hard	Jennifer Ren	Naomi Broady Emily Webley-Smith	2–6 3–6
Winner	7.	30 October 2010	Istanbul, Turkey	Hard	Oksana Kalashnikova	Ekaterina Bychkova Iryna Bremond	6–3 6–1
Winner	8.	6 November 2010	Antalya, Turkey	Hard	Nigina Abduraimova	Julia Samuseva Ekaterina Yakovleva	3–6 6–1 [10–7]
Winner	8.	13 November 2010	Antalya, Turkey	Hard	Nikola Frankova	Daria Salnikova Nicola Slater	3–6 7–5 [10–5]
Runner-up	9.	24 April 2011	Antalya, Turkey	Hard	Maria Zharkova	Laura-Ioana Andrei Sylwia Zagorska	1–6 6–7(0)

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "Marta Sirotkina stats on WTA official site". WTA. http://www.wtatennis.com/page/Player/Stats/0,,12781~13955,00.html. Retrieved 4 July 2011. 
2. ^ "Marta Sirotkina full profile". Hiberno International. http://www.hiberno-knin.com/yahoo_site_admin/assets/docs/Marta_Sirotkina_Profile.17035714.pdf. Retrieved 4 July 2011. 
3. ^ "Marta Sirotkina signs with Hiberno International". Hiberno International. http://www.hiberno-knin.com/clients/martasirotkina. Retrieved 4 July 2011. 

External links

• Marta Sirotkina Official Website
• Marta Sirotkina at the Women's Tennis Association
• Marta Sirotkina at the International Tennis Federation

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Name	Sirotkina, Marta
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Date of birth	March 22, 1991
Place of birth	Moscow, Russian
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