Marta Aleksandrovna Sirotkina (Russian: Марта Александровна Сироткина, born 22 March 1991) is a former Russian tennis player. Her career-high singles ranking is world No. 115, which she reached on 25 February 2013.[1] In doubles, she reached No. 141 on 18 February 2013.[1]
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Apart from professional success on the ITF Circuit (in her career she won 12 singles and 12 doubles titles), Sirotkina has won bronze medals in the Moscow Winter Championships (singles and doubles) 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.
So far in 2011, Sirotkina has won three ITF titles in singles. She won two $10k tournaments in Bath, Somerset, and Antalya, Turkey, and a $25k tournament in Bangkok, Thailand.
Sirotkina began 2011 with a bang in Bath, beating the top seed on way to capturing the Aegon Pro Series $10k title, while in the $25k 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 $25k GB Pro-Series Foxhills on 11 July 2011, seeded fifth. 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 third 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 fourth 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 fourth. Sirotkina defeated Viktoriya Karmenova, and in the second round Lyudmyla Kichenok. In the final round, she lost to Aleksandra Krunić.
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.[2]
In October 2010, Hiberno International and Marta signed a long term management agreement which saw Marta undergo an intensive training camp in the Republic of Ireland at the Tennis Ireland BNP-Paribas National Academy in Dublin under the guidance of her manager Alan Moore and the Internationally respected Garry Cahill (former Ireland Fed Cup team captain and former Ireland Davis Cup team captain).[3][4]
She lives in London with her partner, former Junior US Open champion Oliver Golding.[5]
Legend |
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$100,000 tournaments |
$75,000 tournaments |
$50,000 tournaments |
$25,000 tournaments |
$10,000 tournaments |
Result | No. | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Opponent | Score |
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Loss | 1. | Nov 2009 | ITF Stockholm, Sweden | Hard | ![]() |
3–6, 3–6 | |
Win | 1. | Apr 2010 | ITF Ain Sukhna, Egypt | Clay | ![]() |
6–3, 6–1 | |
Win | 2. | Sep 2010 | ITF Madrid, Spain | Hard | ![]() |
4–6, 6–4, 6–4 | |
Win | 3. | Nov 2010 | ITF Antalya, Turkey | Hard | ![]() |
6–2, 6–0 | |
Win | 4. | Dec 2010 | ITF Dubai, United Arab Emirates | Hard | ![]() |
6–0, 6–0 | |
Win | 5. | Mar 2011 | ITF Bath, United Kingdom | Hard | ![]() |
w/o | |
Win | 6. | Apr 2011 | ITF Antalya, Turkey | Hard | ![]() |
6–1, 6–0 | |
Loss | 2. | May 2011 | ITF Bukhara, Uzbekistan | Hard | ![]() |
4–6, 5–7 | |
Win | 7. | Jun 2011 | ITF Bangkok, Thailand | Hard | ![]() |
6–4, 6–3 | |
Win | 8. | Feb 2012 | ITF Linköping, Sweden | Hard (i) | ![]() |
6–1, 6–3 | |
Win | 9. | Apr 2012 | ITF Phuket, Thailand | Hard | ![]() |
7–5, 7–6(6) | |
Win | 10. | May 2012 | ITF Karuizawa, Japan | Grass | ![]() |
6–4, 2–6, 6–4 | |
Loss | 3. | Jul 2012 | ITF Astana, Kazakhstan | Hard | ![]() |
5–7, 2–6 | |
Loss | 4. | Feb 2013 | ITF Eilat, Israel | Hard | ![]() |
3–6, 6–3, 5–7 | |
Loss | 5. | Aug 2013 | ITF Kazan, Russia | Hard | ![]() |
2–6, 3–6 | |
Loss | 6. | Sep 2013 | ITF Shrewsbury, United Kingdom | Hard | ![]() |
5–7, 1–6 | |
Win | 11. | Nov 2013 | ITF Barnstaple, United Kingdom | Hard (i) | ![]() |
6–7(5), 6–3, 7–6(6) | |
Loss | 7. | Dec 2013 | ITF Ankara, Turkey | Hard (i) | ![]() |
7–6, 4–6, 4–6 | |
Win | 12. | Aug 2014 | ITF Woking, United Kingdom | Hard | ![]() |
7–5, 6–3 | |
Loss | 8. | Feb 2015 | ITF Sunderland, United Kingdom | Hard (i) | ![]() |
4–6, 3–6 |
Outcome | No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
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Winner | 1. | 17 May 2009 | ITF St. Petersburgh, Russia | Hard (i) | ![]() |
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6–1, 6–2 |
Runner-up | 1. | 23 May 2009 | ITF Moscow, Russia | Clay | ![]() |
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5–7, 1–6 |
Winner | 2. | 5 June 2009 | ITF Bukhara, Uzbekistan | Hard | ![]() |
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3–6, 6–4, [11–9] |
Winner | 3. | 11 April 2010 | Ain Sukhna, Egypt | Clay | ![]() |
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6–3, 6–3 |
Runner-up | 2. | 29 May 2010 | Grado, Italy | Clay | ![]() |
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6–1, 4–6, [8–10] |
Runner-up | 3. | 11 September 2010 | Madrid, Spain | Hard | ![]() |
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2–6, 3–6 |
Winner | 4. | 30 October 2010 | Istanbul, Turkey | Hard | ![]() |
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6–3, 6–1 |
Winner | 5. | 6 November 2010 | Antalya, Turkey | Hard | ![]() |
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3–6, 6–1, [10–7] |
Winner | 6. | 13 November 2010 | Antalya, Turkey | Hard | ![]() |
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3–6, 7–5, [10–5] |
Runner-up | 4. | 24 April 2011 | Antalya, Turkey | Hard | ![]() |
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1–6, 6–7(0) |
Runner-up | 5. | 18 February 2012 | Linköping, Sweden | Hard (i) | ![]() |
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6–1, 3–6, [8–10] |
Winner | 7. | 25 February 2012 | Moscow, Russia | Hard (i) | ![]() |
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7–6, 4–6, [11–9] |
Winner | 8. | 24 March 2012 | Phuket, Thailand | Hard | ![]() |
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6–4, 6–1 |
Winner | 9. | 21 April 2012 | Namangan, Uzbekistan | Hard | ![]() |
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6–2, 7–5 |
Winner | 10. | 28 July 2012 | President's Cup, Kazakhstan | Hard | ![]() |
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3–6, 6–4, [10–2] |
Winner | 11. | 15 July 2013 | ITF Woking, United Kingdom | Hard | ![]() |
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4–6, 6–1, [10–7] |
Winner | 12. | 8 March 2014 | ITF Preston, United Kingdom | Hard (i) | ![]() |
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3–6, 6–1, [13–11] |