Victoria Jiménez Kasintseva (born 9 August 2005) is an Andorran professional tennis player. At the age of 14, she won the 2020 Australian Open girls' singles title. She has won eight singles titles on the ITF Junior Circuit as well as one doubles title, and achieved a career-high ITF Junior ranking of No. 1 on 9 March 2020.
Victoria Jiménez Kasintseva was born in Andorra to an Andorran father, Joan Jiménez Guerra, and a Russian mother, Yulia Kasintseva.[1] Her father is a former tennis professional who reached a career-high ATP Tour ranking of 505.[2] Her brother, Joan, also plays tennis. She spent three years of her childhood living in Kentucky in the United States, between the ages of four and eight.[3][4]
She began playing tennis at the age of three,[5] and currently trains in Barcelona with her father.[2][6] She speaks Spanish, English, French, and Russian fluently, in addition to her native Catalan.[7][8]
In 2020, Jiménez Kasintseva won the Australian Open girls' singles title as the youngest player in the draw, defeating Weronika Baszak in the final.[9][10] She was the first Andorran to win a junior major title, as well as the youngest player to win a major final since Coco Gauff at the 2018 French Open.[11]
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At the age of 15, Jiménez Kasintseva made her WTA Tour main-draw debut as a wildcard at the 2021 Madrid Open. She was the youngest player and the first from Andorra to compete in a WTA tournament main draw.[12] That year, she won her maiden ITF singles title in Aparecida de Goiânia.[13] She also reached the final in Maspalomas, where she was defeated by Arantxa Rus.[14][15]
In 2022, she recorded her first WTA Tour wins at the Korea Open as a lucky loser over Chloe Paquet and eighth seed Rebecca Marino to reach her first WTA quarterfinal, where she was defeated by top seed Jeļena Ostapenko.[16] That year, she won her second ITF singles title in Loulé as the top seed in the tournament,[17] and won her first ITF doubles title at the Solgironès Open, partnered with Renata Zarazúa.[18] She also reached the singles final in Bendigo, but lost to Ysaline Bonaventure.[19][20]
In 2023, she received wildcards into the main draw at the Miami and the Madrid Open.[21][22] That year, she won two W25 titles, at Boca Raton and Austin.[23][24] In 2024, she received a wildcard for the qualifying draw in Miami.[25] She also received a wildcard for the main draw in Madrid, where she defeated Zhu Lin in the first round for her first WTA 1000 win,[26][27] before falling to 12th seed Jasmine Paolini.[28]
Only main-draw results in WTA Tour, Grand Slam tournaments, Fed Cup/Billie Jean King Cup and Olympic Games are included in win–loss records.
Current through the 2023 French Open.
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