Alina Charaeva

Alina Alekseevna Charaeva (; ; born 27 May 2002) is a Russian-born Armenian tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 108, achieved on 24 August 2026, and a best doubles ranking by the WTA of No. 203, reached on 28 July 2025.

Charaeva has won one WTA 125 singles title. She has also won eight singles and six doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit.

Career Charaeva made her WTA Tour debut at the 2019 Kremlin Cup, having received a wildcard into the doubles main-draw, partnering with Sofya Lansere.

At the 2023 WTA Andorrà Open, Charaeva entered as a wildcard and defeated third seed Océane Dodin in three sets to reach the second round, where she lost to Heather Watson.

She reached her first WTA 125 final at the 2025 Huzhou Open, losing to Veronika Erjavec.

Charaeva qualified to make her WTA Tour singles main-draw debut at the 2025 Pan Pacific Open, but lost to Jaqueline Cristian in the first round.

She won her maiden WTA 125 title at the 2026 Midland Tennis Classic, defeating Guo Hanyu in the final.

At the 2026 Hamburg Open, Charaeva recorded three-set wins over Sara Sorribes Tormo and eighth seed Sinja Kraus to make it through to her first WTA Tour quarterfinal, at which point her run was ended by fourth seed Anna Bondár.

Nationality change On 3 July 2026, it was announced that Charaeva had obtained Armenian citizenship and would begin representing Armenia in competition.

WTA Tour finals Doubles: 1 (runner-up) LegendWTA 500WTA 250 (0–1)Finals by surfaceHard (0–0)Clay (0–1) ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreLoss 0–1 Jul 2026 Iași Open, Romania WTA 250 Clay Zhibek Kulambayeva Anastasia Dețiuc Irina Khromacheva 6–4, 2–6, [5–10]

WTA 125 finals Singles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)

ITF Circuit finals Singles: 11 (8 titles, 3 runner-ups) LegendW100 tournamentsW75 tournaments W50 tournamentsW25 tournamentsW15 tournaments

Doubles: 9 (6 titles, 3 runner-ups) LegendW100 tournamentsW60 tournamentsW50 tournamentsW25/35 tournamentsW15 tournaments

Junior Grand Slam finals Singles: 1 (runner-up)

Doubles: 1 (runner-up) ResultYearTournamentSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreLoss 2019 French Open Clay Anastasia Tikhonova Chloe Beck Emma Navarro 1–6, 2–6