Yulia Starodubtseva

Yuliia Volodymyrivna Starodubtseva (; born 17 February 2000) is a Ukrainian professional tennis player. She has a career-high WTA singles ranking of world No. 53, achieved on 6 April 2026 and a doubles ranking of No. 144, reached on 6 May 2024.

Starodubtseva has won four singles titles and three doubles titles on the ITF Circuit.

She played college tennis at Old Dominion University.

2024: Major debut, WTA 1000 quarterfinal Starodubtseva made her major debut at the Australian Open after qualifying, but lost in the first round to sixth seed Ons Jabeur. She also qualified for the French Open, but again lost in the first round, this time to Cristina Bucșa.

As a qualifier once more, Starodubtseva recorded her first main-draw major win at Wimbledon, defeating Alison Van Uytvanck. In the second round, she lost to fellow qualifier Lulu Sun.

Ranked No. 146, Starodubtseva made her debut at the US Open, after qualifying into the main-draw but lost in the first round to 20th seed Victoria Azarenka in three sets. Starodubtseva became the first woman in the Open Era to qualify for all four majors in a single season. and third seed Diane Parry, before losing to Sonay Kartal.

At the China Open, Starodubtseva recorded, after qualifying, her first main-draw WTA 1000-level wins over Laura Siegemund, 27th seed Kateřina Siniaková, Elina Avanesyan and 10th seed Anna Kalinskaya to reach the quarterfinals. Despite losing to sixth seed Coco Gauff in the last eight, Starodubtseva entered the top-100 in the singles rankings on 7 October 2024.

2025: French Open third round, top 70 At the French Open Starodubtseva lost to Sára Bejlek in straight sets in the last round of qualifying, ending a 14-match winning streak in Grand Slam qualifying. However, she entered the main-draw as a lucky loser and defeated qualifier Tamara Korpatsch, and Anastasia Potapova to reach the third round of a major for the first time, at which point her run was ended by fourth seed Jasmine Paolini. As a result of her performance at Roland Garos, she reached a new career-high ranking of world No. 67 on 9 June 2025.

At the Ningbo Open where Starodubtseva qualified for the main-draw, she overcame Yulia Putintseva to make it into the second round, where she pushed sixth seed Belinda Bencic to three sets in what was the longest match of the 2025 season to that point, lasting three hours and 33 minutes. As a result, she moved 19 positions up to No. 112 on 20 October 2025.

2026: First WTA final In March, Starodubtseva qualified for the main draw at the Miami Open, defeated Eva Lys and 30th seed Cristina Bucșa, before losing to sixth seed Amanda Anisimova in the third round.

At the Charleston Open, she recorded wins over Zhang Shuai, lucky loser Ekaterine Gorgodze, Renata Zarazúa, McCartney Kessler and fifth seed Madison Keys to reach her first WTA Tour final. She lost the championship match to top seed and defending champion, Jessica Pegula, in straight sets. Despite the defeat, Starodubtseva moved up to a new career-high ranking of world No. 53 on 6 April 2026.

At the French Open, Starodubtseva defeated Anna Blinkova and second seed Elena Rybakina to reach the third round for the second consecutive year, at which point she lost to qualifier Wang Xiyu.

In August at the Monterrey Open, she recorded wins over Lilli Tagger and seventh seed Janice Tjen to make it into the quarterfinals, where she lost to second seed Elise Mertens.

Performance timeline

Singles Current through the 2026 Charleston Open.

WTA Tour finals

Singles: 1 (runner-up) LegendWTA 1000WTA 500 (0–1)WTA 250 (0–0)Finals by surfaceHard (0–0)Clay (0–1)

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 6 (4 titles, 2 runner-ups) LegendW60 tournaments (3–2)W25 tournaments (1–0)Finals by surfaceHard (4–1)Clay (0–1)

Doubles: 8 (3 titles, 5 runner-ups) LegendW100 tournaments (1–0)W60 tournaments (1–2)W25 tournaments (1–2)10K tournaments (0–1)Finals by surfaceHard (2–2)Clay (1–3)

Wins over top-10 players