Mariam Bolkvadze (Georgian: მარიამ ბოლქვაძე, romanized: mariam bolkvadze, pronounced [mɑɾiɑm bɔlkʰvɑdzɛ]; born 1 January 1998) is a tennis player from Georgia.

Mariam Bolkvadze
მარიამ ბოლქვაძე

Bolkvadze at the 2022 French Open
Country (sports)	Georgia
Residence	London, England[1]
Born	(1998-01-01) 1 January 1998 (age 24) Batumi, Georgia
Plays	Left-handed (two-handed backhand)
Coach	Simon Ainley[1]
Prize money	US$ 447,517
Singles
Career record	262–185 (58.6%)
Career titles	6 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 151 (7 March 2022)
Current ranking	No. 308 (10 October 2022)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	Q2 (2021)
French Open	Q2 (2021)
Wimbledon	Q2 (2022)
US Open	2R (2019)
Doubles
Career record	117–81 (59.1%)
Career titles	11 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 204 (21 March 2022)
Current ranking	No. 235 (10 October 2022)
Team competitions
Fed Cup	7–11 (38.9%)
Last updated on: 10 October 2022.

On 7 March 2022, she achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 151, and on the same date she peaked at No. 207 in the WTA doubles rankings.

Playing for Georgia Fed Cup team, Bolkvadze has a win–loss record of 7–11 in Fed Cup competitions.

Personal life

Bolkvadze was born in Batumi and at the age of 13 moved to the United Kingdom to further her tennis development.[2] She stayed initially with her godmother before finding a host family two years later.[2] Maria Sharapova was her favourite player growing up. She is fluent in Georgian, Russian, and English.[3][4]

Junior career

Bolkvadze began playing tennis at the age of 9 and spent much of her teenage years training in London, where she was coached by Otto Buchholdt.[3] As a junior she played in very few ITF events, instead concentrating on domestic competitions organised by the LTA and continental tournaments run by Tennis Europe. She won the 2013 Aegon Junior International in London, defeating Jodie Burrage in the final. At the European Junior Championships held in Moscow later that year she lost to Fanny Stollar in the round of 64.[5]

She reached her only final on the ITF Junior World Tour as a qualifier at the J4 Nottingham event in April 2013, where she was runner-up to Freya Christie.[6]

She was a finalist with American partner Caty McNally in the girls' doubles at the 2016 Wimbledon Championships, losing to Usue Maitane Arconada and Claire Liu in straight sets. She played her only junior grand slam draw in singles at the same tournament, coming through qualifying before being defeated by Sofia Kenin in the third round.[7]

Senior career

2019: Breakthrough at the US Open

Ranked 202 in the world, Bolkvadze entered US Open qualifying and was drawn against eighth seed Heather Watson. After beating her in straight sets, she defeated in the second round Han Na-lae in three tight sets to set up a match against Xu Shilin. By another win she qualified for her first major main draw, and became the fourth Georgian to qualify for a Grand Slam tournament. In the first round, she defeated Bernarda Pera in three sets, before losing to third seed Karolína Plíšková, 1–6, 4–6. With her wins, she reached a new career-high of 152 in the world.

Grand Slam performance timelines

Singles

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 14 (6 titles, 8 runner–ups)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0–1	Jul 2014	ITF Astana, Kazakhstan	10,000	Hard	Vlada Ekshibarova	7–5, 6–3
Loss	0–2	Aug 2014	Telavi Open, Georgia	10,000	Hard	Yuliya Kalabina	4–6, 4–6
Win	1–2	Apr 2015	ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt	10,000	Hard	Lina Gjorcheska	6–1, 6–4
Win	2–2	Apr 2016	ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt	10,000	Hard	Sofya Zhuk	6–3, 7–5
Win	3–2	Sep 2016	Batumi Ladies Open, Georgia	10,000	Clay	Aleksandra Pospelova	6–4, 7–6(18)
Win	4–2	May 2017	ITF Cairo, Egypt	15,000	Clay	Camila Giangreco Campiz	6–3, 3–6, 7–6(4)
Loss	4–3	May 2018	ITF Antalya, Turkey	15,000	Clay	Elizabeth Halbauer	3–6, 1–6
Loss	4–4	May 2018	ITF Antalya, Turkey	15,000	Clay	Magdalena Pantucková	4–6, 1–6
Loss	4–5	Feb 2019	GB Pro-Series Glasgow, UK	25,000	Hard (i)	Jessika Ponchet	3–6, 1–6
Loss	4–6	Apr 2019	ITF Óbidos, Portugal	25,000	Carpet	Maryna Zanevska	5–7, 2–6
Win	5–6	Apr 2019	ITF Óbidos, Portugal	25,000	Carpet	Nuria Párrizas Díaz	6–2, 7–6(5)
Loss	5–7	Jun 2021	ITF Montemor-o-Novo, Portugal	25,000	Hard	Beatriz Haddad Maia	4–6, 4–6
Win	6–7	Jul 2021	President's Cup, Kazakhstan	60,000	Hard	Valeria Savinykh	4–6, 6–3, 6–2
Loss	6–8	Jan 2022	GB Pro-Series Loughborough, UK	25,000	Hard (i)	Sofia Samavati	2–6, 5–5 ret.

Doubles: 19 (11 titles, 8 runner–ups)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	May 2014	ITF Netanya, Israel	10,000	Hard	Anastasia Pribylova	Pia König Barbora Štefková	3–6, 2–6
Win	1–1	May 2015	ITF Ashkelon, Israel	10,000	Hard	Naomi Totka	Laura Deigman Hélène Scholsen	6–0, 6–2
Win	2–1	Jun 2015	Telavi Open, Georgia	10,000	Hard	Tinatin Kavlashvili	Marianna Natali Seira Shimizu	6–4, 7–5
Win	3–1	Apr 2016	ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt	10,000	Hard	Nastja Kolar	Oleksandra Korashvili Margarita Lazareva	7–6(0), 7–5
Loss	3–2	Apr 2016	ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt	10,000	Hard	Victoria Muntean	Oleksandra Korashvili Margarita Lazareva	5–7, 3–6
Loss	3–3	Aug 2016	ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt	10,000	Hard	Ana Bianca Mihaila	Sharmada Balu Ana Veselinović	6–4, 6–7(2), [8–10]
Loss	3–4	Sep 2016	Batumi Ladies Open, Georgia	10,000	Clay	Tatia Mikadze	Alona Fomina Margarita Lazareva	4–6, 2–6
Win	4–4	Oct 2016	ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt	10,000	Hard	Alona Fomina	Guadalupe Pérez Rojas Jil Teichmann	6–2, 6–3
Win	5–4	Apr 2017	ITF Cairo, Egypt	15,000	Clay	Tereza Mihalíková	Bojana Marinković Despina Papamichail	7–6(7), 6–3
Loss	5–5	Apr 2017	ITF Cairo, Egypt	15,000	Clay	Margaux Bovy	Irina Fetecău Anna Slováková	6–7(2), 6–2, [5–10]
Win	6–5	Jul 2017	ITF Istanbul, Turkey	15,000	Clay	Ekaterine Gorgodze	Petia Arshinkova İpek Öz	6–1, 6–3
Loss	6–6	Jul 2017	Telavi Open, Georgia	15,000	Clay	Ekaterine Gorgodze	Polina Pekhova Maria Solnyshkina	2–6, 6–1, [7–10]
Win	7–6	Mar 2018	ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt	15,000	Hard	Barbora Štefková	María Paulina Pérez Paula Andrea Pérez	6–2, 7–6(6)
Loss	7–7	Sep 2018	ITF Óbidos, Portugal	25,000	Carpet	Inês Murta	Katarzyna Piter Valeria Savinykh	3–6, 2–6
Loss	7–8	Apr 2019	ITF Óbidos, Portugal	25,000	Carpet	Nastja Kolar	Sofia Shapatava Emily Webley-Smith	1–6, 6–2, [9–11]
Win	8–8	Jul 2021	President's Cup, Kazakhstan	25,000	Hard	Ekaterina Yashina	Vlada Koval Anastasia Tikhonova	7–6(7), 6–1
Win	9–8	Oct 2021	ITF Poitiers, France	80,000	Hard (i)	Samantha Murray	Audrey Albié Léolia Jeanjean	7–6(5), 6–0
Win	10–8	Feb 2022	ITF Altenkirchen, Germany	60,000	Carpet (i)	Samantha Murray	Susan Bandecchi Simona Waltert	6–3, 7–5
Win	11–8	Oct 2022	ITF Trnava, Slovakia	60,000	Hard (i)	Maia Lumsden	Conny Perrin Diāna Marcinkēviča	6–2, 6–3

Junior Grand Slam finals

Girls' doubles: 1 (title)

Result	Year	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	2016	Wimbledon	Grass	Caty McNally	Usue Maitane Arconada Claire Liu	2–6, 3–6

National representation

Fed Cup/Billie Jean King Cup

Bolkvadze made her Fed Cup debut for Georgia in 2015, while the team was competing in the Europe/Africa Zone Group I, when she was 17 years and 37 days old.

Singles (4–5)

Edition	Stage	Date	Location	Against	Surface	Opponent	W/L	Score
2015	Z1 PO	Feb 2015	Budapest (HUN)	Turkey	Hard (i)	Başak Eraydın	W	6–3, 6–3
2019	Z1 RR	Feb 2019	Bath (GBR)	Serbia	Hard (i)	Ivana Jorović	L	3–6, 1–6
				Croatia		Ana Konjuh	L	4–6, 3–6
				Turkey		Çağla Büyükakçay	L	4–6, 1–6
	Z1 PO			Slovenia		Kaja Juvan	L	1–6, 0–3 ret.
2020	Z2 RR	Feb 2020	Helsinki (FIN)	Israel	Hard (i)	Vlada Katic	W	7–6(5), 6–1
				Moldova		Anastasia Vdovenco	W	7–5, 6–3
				Tunisia		Ons Jabeur	L	2–6, 2–6
	Z2 PO			Finland		Oona Orpana	W	7–5, 6–4

Doubles (2–0)

Edition	Stage	Date	Location	Against	Surface	Partner	Opponents	W/L	Score
2018	Z1 RR	Feb 2018	Tallinn (EST)	Serbia	Hard (i)	Sofia Shapatava	Olga Danilović Bojana Marinković	W	6–7(7), 7–6(7), 6–3
2019	Z1 RR	Feb 2019	Bath (GBR)	Serbia	Hard (i)	Oksana Kalashnikova	Olga Danilović Ivana Jorović	W	6–3, 7–5

Notes

References

External links

• Mariam Bolkvadze at the Women's Tennis Association
• Mariam Bolkvadze at the International Tennis Federation
• Mariam Bolkvadze at the Billie Jean King Cup

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