| Yuliia Starodubtseva | |
| Fullname: | Yuliia Volodymyrivna Starodubtseva |
| Native Name: | Юлія Володимирівна Стародубцева |
| Birth Date: | 2000 2, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Kakhovka, Ukraine |
| Plays: | Right (two-handed backhand) |
| College: | Old Dominion |
| Careerprizemoney: | $699,122 |
| Singlestitles: | 4 ITF |
| Highestsinglesranking: | No. 79 (7 October 2024) |
| Currentsinglesranking: | No. 92 (28 October 2024) |
| Australianopenresult: | 1R (2024) |
| Frenchopenresult: | 1R (2024) |
| Wimbledonresult: | 2R (2024) |
| Usopenresult: | 1R (2024) |
| Doublestitles: | 3 ITF |
| Highestdoublesranking: | No. 144 (6 May 2024) |
| Currentdoublesranking: | No. 250 (28 October 2024) |
| Updated: | 28 October 2024 |
Yuliia Volodymyrivna Starodubtseva (uk|Юлія Володимирівна Стародубцева; born 17 February 2000) is a Ukrainian tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking of 79 by the WTA, achieved on 7 October 2024, and peaked at No. 144 in the WTA doubles rankings on 9 May 2024.
Starodubtseva has won four singles titles and three doubles titles on the ITF Circuit.
She played college tennis at Old Dominion University.[1]
Starodubtseva won her first $60k tournament in June 2023 in Sumter, South Carolina, defeating Indian player Karman Thandi.[2]
She reached the top 150 in the singles rankings on 15 January 2024. She made her major debut at the 2024 Australian Open after qualifying,[3] [4] [5] but lost in the first round to sixth seed Ons Jabeur.[6]
Starodubtseva made her French Open debut as a qualifier, but lost in straight sets to Cristina Bucșa.[7]
She recorded her first main-draw major win at the Wimbledon Championships, as a qualifier, over Alison Van Uytvanck, on her debut.[8] In the second round, she lost to fellow qualifier Lulu Sun.[9]
Ranked No. 146, she made her debut at the US Open, after qualifying into the main draw but lost to 20th seed Victoria Azarenka, in three sets.[10] She became the first woman in the Open era to qualify for all four majors in a single season.
In September, Starodubtseva reached her first WTA Tour quarterfinal at the 2024 Jasmin Open by defeating Suzan Lamens[11] and third seed Diane Parry,[12] [13] before losing to Sonay Kartal.[14] At the China Open, she recorded, after qualifying, her first two main-draw WTA 1000-level wins over Laura Siegemund and 27th seed Kateřina Siniaková, her first top 50 win.[15] Next, she defeated Elina Avanesyan and tenth seed Anna Kalinskaya to reach the quarterfinals of a WTA 1000 for the first time in her career. As a result, she entered the top 100 in the singles rankings.[16] [17] [18]
| Tournament | 2024 | SR | W–L | ||
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| Grand Slam tournaments | |||||
| style=text-align:left | Australian Open | 1R | 0 / 1 | 0–1 | |
| style=text-align:left | French Open | 1R | 0 / 1 | 0–1 | |
| style=text-align:left | Wimbledon | 2R | 0 / 1 | 1–1 | |
| style=text-align:left | US Open | 1R | 0 / 1 | 0–1 | |
| style=text-align:left | Win–loss | 1–4 | 0 / 4 | 1–4 | |
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| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Opponent | Score | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Win | 1–0 | Mar 2023 | ITF Spring, United States | W25 | Hard |  Maria Mateas | 6–3, 2–6, 6–2 | |
| Loss | 1–1 | May 2023 | Naples Open, United States | W60 | Clay | Caroline Dolehide | 5–7, 5–7 | |
| Win | 2–1 | Jun 2023 | Palmetto Pro Open, United States | W60 | Hard |  Karman Thandi | 6–7(5), 7–5, 6–4 | |
| Loss | 2–2 | Jul 2023 | Evansville Classic, United States | W60 | Hard | Karman Thandi | 5–7, 6–4, 1–6 | |
| Win | 3–2 | Jul 2023 | Dallas Summer Series, United States | W60 | Hard (i) |  Wang Yafan | 3–6, 6–2, 6–2 | |
| Win | 4–2 | Rancho Santa Fe Open, United States | W60 | Hard | Lulu Sun | 7–5, 6–3 |
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| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Loss | 0–1 | Dec 2016 | ITF Cairo, Egypt | W10 | Clay |  Anastasiia Gevel | Lisa-Marie Brunnemann  Diana Popescu | 6–3, 0–6, [7–10] | |
| Loss | 0–2 | Mar 2023 | ITF Spring, United States | W25 | Hard |  Sofia Johnson | Maria Mateas Clervie Ngounoue | 4–6, 6–2, [4–10] | |
| Win | 1–2 | Apr 2023 | ITF Zephyrhills, United States | W25 | Clay |  Maria Kononova | Jada Hart Rasheeda McAdoo | 7–5, 6–3 | |
| Loss | 1–3 | Jun 2023 | Palmetto Pro Open, United States | W60 | Hard | McCartney Kessler | Maria Mateas Anna Rogers | 4–6, 7–6(3), [6–10] | |
| Loss | 1–4 | Jun 2023 | ITF Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic | W25 | Clay |  Ana Sofía Sánchez |  María Herazo González Ksenia Laskutova | 6–2, 4–6, [9–11] | |
| Loss | 1–5 | Jul 2023 | Evansville Classic, United States | W60 | Hard | McCartney Kessler | Maria Kononova Veronika Miroshnichenko | 3–6, 6–2, [8–10] | |
| Win | 2–5 | Aug 2023 | Landisville Tennis Challenge, United States | W100 | Hard | Sophie Chang |  Olivia Gadecki  Mai Hontama | w/o | |
| Win | 3–5 | Oct 2023 | Rancho Santa Fe Open, United States | W60 | Hard | Makenna Jones | Tatiana Prozorova Madison Sieg | 6–3, 4–6, [10–6] |
| Result | class=unsortable | W–L | Opponent | Rank | Event | Surface | Round | class=unsortable | Score | ||
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| 2024 | |||||||||||
| Loss | 0–1 |  Ons Jabeur | No. 6 | Australian Open, Australia | Hard | 1R | 3–6, 1–6 | No. 150 | 0–1 | ||
| Loss | 0–2 | Coco Gauff | No. 6 | China Open, China | Hard | QF | 6–2, 2–6, 2–6 | No. 115 | 0–1 | ||