Kateryna Baindl

Kateryna Baindl (, née Kozlova ; born 20 February 1994) is a Ukrainian inactive tennis player. On 19 February 2018, she achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 62. On 22 October 2012, she peaked at No. 139 in the doubles rankings. She has won one singles title on the WTA Challenger Tour as well as five singles and 13 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit.

In 2021, she married Michael Baindl and changed from Kozlova to Kateryna Baindl as her competing name.

Career 2015: Suspension due to doping On 27 May 2015, the International Tennis Federation announced that Kozlova has been found to have committed an anti-doping rule violation. She was found positive to a doping substance after taking a stimulant, dimethylbutylamine. Kozlova's suspension was reduced to six months starting from 15 February to 15 August 2015.

2018: Top 5 win, maiden WTA Tour final In February, Kozlova reached her first WTA Tour final at the 2018 Taiwan Open, defeating Sabine Lisicki in the semifinals, before losing the championship match to Timea Babos.

In May at the French Open, she became the second player to defeat a defending champion in the first round of the French Open, after a straight sets victory over 2017 champion Jeļena Ostapenko.

At the 2018 Tashkent Open Kozlova reached the semifinals but lost to Anastasia Potapova.

2022: Poland Open semifinal Having lost in qualifying, Baindl gained entry to the Poland Open as a lucky loser where wins over 11th seed Maryna Zanevska, qualifier Sara Errani and eighth seed Petra Martić, saw her reach the semifinals. She lost to Ana Bogdan in the last four.

At the Emilia-Romagna Open in Parma, she qualified into the main draw where she was defeated by world No. 7 and top seed, Maria Sakkari.

2023-2024: Australian Open third round At the 2023 Australian Open, Baindl defeated Kamilla Rakhimova and Caty McNally to reach the third round of a Grand Slam tournament for the first time in her career. She lost to 17th seed Jeļena Ostapenko.

Baindl reached her second career singles final at the 2023 Budapest Grand Prix, defeating Claire Liu in the semifinals. She lost to lucky loser Maria Timofeeva in the final.

She used a protected ranking to get into the 2024 Wimbledon Championships and at the 2024 US Open, but lost in the first round at both events, in straight sets to Laura Siegemund, and to Elisabetta Cocciaretto, respectively.

Performance timeline

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

Singles Current through the 2024 Wuhan Open.

Doubles Current through the 2023 US Open.

WTA Tour finals Singles: 2 (2 runner-ups) LegendWTA 500WTA 250 (0–2)Finals by surfaceHard (0–1)Clay (0–1) ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScoreLoss 0–1 Taipei Open, Taiwan International Hard (i) Tímea Babos 5–7, 1–6Loss 0–2 Budapest Grand Prix, Hungary WTA 250 Clay Maria Timofeeva 3–6, 6–3, 0–6

WTA 125 finals

Singles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up) ResultW–LDateTournamentSurfaceOpponentScoreWin 1–0 Dalian Open, China Hard Vera Zvonareva 6–4, 6–2Loss 1–1 Copa Colina, Chile Clay Mayar Sherif 6–3, 6–7(3–7), 5–7

ITF Circuit finals Singles: 11 (5 titles, 6 runner-ups) Legend$100,000 tournaments$50/60,000 tournaments$25,000 tournaments

Doubles: 22 (13 titles, 9 runner-ups) Legend$100,000 tournaments$50,000 tournaments$25,000 tournaments$10,000 tournaments

Wins over top 10 players Season 2018 2019 Total Wins 1 1 2