Marta Sirotkina


Marta Aleksandrovna Sirotkina is a former Russian tennis player. Her career-high singles ranking is world No. 115, which she reached on 25 February 2013. In doubles, she reached No. 141 on 18 February 2013.

Career highlights

Apart from ITF professional successes, Sirotkina has won Bronze medals in the Moscow Winter Championships in 2009, later winning a Gold medal in the Russian Championships. Marta has won Silver medals in the Moscow Championships and Gold in the "Cup of Russia" Doubles tournament.

2011

So far in 2011, Sirotkina has won three ITF titles in singles. She won two ITF $10,000 tournaments in Bath, Somerset, and Antalya, Turkey, and an $25,000 tournament in Bangkok, Thailand.
Sirotkina began 2011 with a bang in Bath, beating the top seed on way to capturing the Aegon Pro Series $10,000 title, while in the $25,000 event the following week she beat two higher ranked players to make the main draw where she destroyed former world top-20 star Anna-Lena Grönefeld before falling in the quarterfinals to Claire Feuerstein.
Sirotkina competed in the ITF $25,000 Aegon GB Pro-Series Foxhills on 11 July 2011, seeded 5th. Sirotkina defeated Daneika Borthwick in the first round and Samantha Murray in the second round. In the quarterfinals, Sirotkina was defeated by the first seed, Vitalia Diatchenko.
Sirotkina participated in the Tatarstan Open in singles and in doubles. Ksenia Lykina was her doubles partner. In the first round of the singles, Sirotkina defeated Valeria Solovyeva. In the second round, she lost to the 3rd seed, Anastasiya Yakimova. In the doubles, Sirotkina and Lykina lost to the second seeds, Ekaterina Ivanova and Andreja Klepač, in the semifinals, after defeating the 4th seeds, Tetyana Arefyeva and Eugeniya Pashkova in the first round and Natela Dzalamidze and Mandy Minella in the quarterfinals.
Sirotkina competed in the 2011 Summer Universiade in both singles and doubles. In the singles, Sirotkina lost in the third round to eventual bronze-medalist Yoo Mi. Sirotkina partnered with Ksenia Lykina in the doubles and they won a bronze medal.
Sirotkina competed in the Singles Qualifying of the Tashkent Open. She was seeded 4th. Sirotkina defeated Viktoriya Karmenova, and in the second round Lyudmyla Kichenok. In the final round, she lost to Aleksandra Krunić.

Personal life

Marta is completing her studies at the Moscow Institute for Sports and Fitness Studies, she is funded by a sports-academic scholarship from the Yeltsin Fund. As well as her native Russian she speaks English and Spanish, having attended the Spanish Immersion High School in Moscow. She has one older brother. She likes playing on hardcourt surfaces but her favourite and most comfortable surface is grass.
In October 2010, Hiberno International and Marta signed a long term management agreement that will bring her to the heights she has the ability to reach. Marta has begun the upward curve needed by undergoing an intensive training camp in the Republic of Ireland at the Tennis Ireland BNP-Paribas National Academy in Dublin under the guidance of the Internationally respected Garry Cahill.
She lives in London with her partner, former 2011 US Open – Boys' Singles champion Oliver Golding.

ITF finals statistics

Singles: 20 (12–8)

OutcomeNo.DateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScore
Runner-up1.1 November 2009Stockholm, SwedenHard Lyudmyla Kichenok3–6, 3–6
Winner1.11 April 2010Ain Sukhna, EgyptClay Ekaterine Gorgodze6–3, 6–1
Winner2.12 September 2010Madrid, SpainHard Naomi Broady4–6, 6–4, 6–4
Winner3.7 November 2010Antalya, TurkeyHard Martina Balogova6–2, 6–0
Winner4.11 December 2010Dubai, United Arab EmiratesHard Mihaela Buzărnescu6–0, 6–0
Winner5.19 March 2011Bath, United KingdomHard Giulia Gatto-Monticonew/o
Winner6.24 April 2011Antalya, TurkeyHard Yana Buchina6–1, 6–0
Runner-up2.7 May 2011Bukhara, UzbekistanHard Nikola Hofmanova4–6, 5–7
Winner7.4 June 2011Bangkok, ThailandHard Luksika Kumkhum6–4, 6–3
Winner8.18 February 2012Linköping, SwedenHard Milana Špremo6–1, 6–3
Winner9.1 April 2012Phuket, ThailandHard Claire Feuerstein7–5, 7–6
Winner10.27 May 2012Karuizawa, JapanGrass Junri Namigata6–4, 2–6, 6–4
Runner-up3.Jul 2012Astana, KazakhstanHard Maria João Koehler5–7, 2–6
Runner-up4.3 February 2013Eilat, IsraelHard Elina Svitolina3–6, 6–3, 5–7
Runner-up5.26 August 2013Kazan, RussiaHard Anna-Lena Friedsam2–6, 3–6
Runner-up6.21 September 2013Shrewsbury, United KingdomHard Alison Van Uytvanck5–7, 1–6
Winner11.3 November 2013Barnstaple, United KingdomHard Kristýna Plíšková6–7, 6–3, 7–6
Runner-up7.21 December 2013Ankara, TurkeyHard Vitalia Diatchenko7–6, 4–6, 4–6
Winner12.16 August 2014Woking, United KingdomHard Ana Bogdan7–5, 6–3
Runner-up8.1 February 2015Sunderland, United KingdomHard Amy Bowtell4–6, 3–6

Doubles: 17 (12–5)

OutcomeNo.DateTournamentSurfacePartnerOpponentsScore
Winner1.17 May 2009St. Petersburgh, RussiaHard Yuliya Kalabina Avgusta Tsybysheva
Maria Zharkova		6–1, 6–2
Runner-up1.23 May 2009Moscow, RussiaClay Yuliya Kalabina Maria Kondratieva
Arina Rodionova		5–7, 1–6
Winner2.5 June 2009Bukhara, UzbekistanHard Anna Brazhnikova Ksenia Palkina
Arina Rodionova		3–6, 6–4,
Winner3.11 April 2010Ain Sukhna, EgyptClay Anna Brazhnikova Audrey Bergot
Chanel Simmonds		6–3, 6–3
Runner-up2.29 May 2010Grado, ItalyClay Karina Pimkina Han Xinyun
Lu Jingjing		6–1, 4–6,
Runner-up3.11 September 2010Madrid, SpainHard Jennifer Ren Naomi Broady
Emily Webley-Smith		2–6, 3–6
Winner4.30 October 2010Istanbul, TurkeyHard Oksana Kalashnikova Ekaterina Bychkova
Iryna Brémond		6–3, 6–1
Winner5.6 November 2010Antalya, TurkeyHard Nigina Abduraimova Julia Samuseva
Ekaterina Yakovleva		3–6, 6–1,
Winner6.13 November 2010Antalya, TurkeyHard Nikola Fraňková Daria Salnikova
Nicola Slater		3–6, 7–5,
Runner-up4.24 April 2011Antalya, TurkeyHard Maria Zharkova Laura-Ioana Andrei
Sylwia Zagorska		1–6, 6–7
Runner-up5.18 February 2012Linköping, SwedenHard Margarita Lazareva Dejana Raickovic
Alina Wessel		6–1, 3–6,
Winner7.25 February 2012Moscow, RussiaHard Oksana Kalashnikova Tatiana Kotelnikova
Lidziya Marozava		7–6, 4–6,
Winner8.24 March 2012Phuket, ThailandHard Natela Dzalamidze Chin-Wei Chan
Zheng Saisai		6–4, 6–1
Winner9.21 April 2012Namangan, UzbekistanHard Oksana Kalashnikova Naomi Broady
Paula Kania		6–2, 7–5
Winner10.28 July 2012Astana, KazakhstanHard Oksana Kalashnikova Lyudmyla Kichenok
Nadiia Kichenok		3–6, 6–4,
Winner11.15 07 2013Woking, Great BritainHard Tara Moore Kanae Hisami
Mari Tanaka		4–6, 6–1,
Winner12.08 03 2014Preston, Great BritainHard Tara Moore Timea Bacsinszky
Kristina Barrois		3–6, 6–1,