Katarzyna Kawa

Katarzyna Kawa (; born 17 November 1992) is a Polish professional tennis player. Her career-high WTA rankings are No. 64 in doubles, set on 10 October 2022, and No. 112 in singles, achieved on 9 November 2020. She has won two WTA 125 singles titles and five doubles titles, as well as seven singles and 21 doubles titles on tournaments of the ITF Women's Circuit.

Personal Katarzyna Kawa was born in Krynica-Zdrój to parents Anna and Jacek, but moved in 2013 to Poznań, Poland, where she currently resides. She started playing tennis at age seven and is coached by Grzegorz Garczyński. She has two sisters, Monika and Weronika, and a brother called Radomir. Her hobbies include reading and traveling. She idolizes Justine Henin and Novak Djokovic. Her favourite shot is her backhand and her favourite surfaces to compete on are both clay and grass.

Career 2019: Baltic Open singles final In July, Kawa made it through the qualifying rounds at the Baltic Open in Jūrmala, Latvia to book her spot in the final with a straight-sets victory over Bernarda Pera. Kawa reached the semifinals, after beating Anna Danilina, Naiktha Bains, Ysaline Bonaventure, Jana Fett, Chloe Paquet. In the final, she lost to the top seed Anastasija Sevastova, in three sets.

2020–21: Poland Open singles quarterfinal In 2020, she made her singles major debut at the US Open as a direct entry.

At the 2021 National Tennis Championships in Bytom, Kawa ended runner-up in singles and won the title in doubles alongside Weronika Falkowska. She continued at the Poland Open in Gdynia where she upset third seed Irina-Camelia Begu in the second round, but lost in the quarterfinal against Kateryna Kozlova.

2022: Wimbledon singles debut, Warsaw doubles final She qualified for the first time for the Wimbledon Championships, and recorded her first main-draw match win at this major over Rebecca Marino. At the Poland Open held in Warsaw, Kawa reached her first WTA Tour doubles final partnering with Alicja Rosolska, finishing runners-up.

2023: Three WTA 125 doubles titles Alongside Weronika Falkowska, Kawa took the doubles title at the 2023 WTA 125 Copa Oster, overcoming Kyōka Okamura and You Xiaodi in the final which went to a deciding champions tiebreak.

Playing with Elixane Lechemia, she was doubles champion at the WTA 125 Polish Open, thanks to a win over Naiktha Bains and Maia Lumsden in the final.

Partnering with Anna Sisková, Kawa won the doubles title at the WTA 125 Open delle Puglie in Bari, defeating Valentini Grammatikopoulou and Elixane Lechemia in the final.

2024: ATX Open doubles final, BJK Cup semifinal Partnering Aliona Bolsova, Kawa was again runner-up in the doubles at the Țiriac Foundation Trophy, losing to Carole Monnet and Darja Semeņistaja in the final.

She reached the semifinals of the BJK Cup partnering compatriot and world No. 2, Iga Świątek.

At the WTA 125 Argentina Open in November, Kawa was the runner-up in the singles, losing to fourth seed Mayar Sherif in the final, and won the doubles title alongside Maja Chwalińska with a win over Sherif and Laura Pigossi in the championship match.

2025: Bogota final At the 2025 Copa Colsanitas, Kawa qualified for the main draw and reached her third WTA Tour quarterfinal and first since 2021 with a win over Laura Pigossi, after saving a match point. Next, she upset top seed Marie Bouzková to reach her second semifinal and first since 2019 Jūrmala. Kawa reached the final defeating fellow qualifier Julieta Pareja but lost to top seed and defending champion, Camila Osorio. As a result, she returned close to the top 150 in the rankings, at world No. 156 on 7 April 2025.

2026: United Cup champion, two WTA 125 titles In January, Kawa was part of the Polish team that defeated Switzerland in the final of the United Cup. She won her first WTA 125 singles title at the Huzhou Open in May, defeating defending champion Veronika Erjavec in the final. The following month, at the Memorial Eugenio Fontana, Kawa won her second WTA 125 singles title, defeating Lucia Bronzetti in the final.

Grand Slam performance timelines

Singles

Doubles

WTA Tour finals Singles: 2 (2 runner-ups) LegendWTA 250 (0–2)Finals by surfaceClay (0–2)

ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScoreLoss 0–1 Baltic Open, Latvia International Clay Anastasija Sevastova 6–3, 5–7, 4–6Loss 0–2 Copa Colsanitas, Colombia WTA 250 Clay Camila Osorio 3–6, 3–6

Doubles: 2 (2 runner-ups) LegendWTA 500 WTA 250 (0–2)Finals by surfaceHard (0–1)Clay (0–1)

WTA 125 finals Singles: 4 (2 titles, 2 runner-ups)

Doubles: 8 (5 titles, 3 runner-ups)

ITF Circuit finals Singles: 16 (7 titles, 9 runner-ups) Legend$100,000 tournaments (0–2)$60,000 tournaments $25,000 tournaments (4–3)$10/15,000 tournaments (3–4)Finals by surfaceHard (1–0)Clay (5–8)Grass (1–0)Carpet (0–1)

Doubles: 35 (21 titles, 14 runner-ups) Legend$100,000 tournaments (3–2)$80,000 tournaments (2–2)$50/60,000 tournaments (4–1)$25,000 tournaments (5–4)$10/15,000 tournaments (7–5)Finals by surfaceHard (7–6)Clay (13–8)Carpet (1–0)