Danka Kovinić


Danka Kovinić is a professional tennis player and a member of the Montenegro Fed Cup team.
On 22 February 2016, she reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 46, and on 20 June 2016, she peaked at No. 67 in the doubles rankings.

Career

2010–2015

Kovinić started playing professionally in 2010. Her first WTA singles tournament was the 2013 Budapest Grand Prix, where Kovinić became the first Montenegrin to reach the quarterfinals of a WTA event. Her first singles Grand Slam match wins were at the 2015 French Open and the 2015 US Open, and she reached her first singles WTA final at the Tianjin Open in October 2015.
Her first doubles match on the WTA Tour was at Bogotá in April 2014, and she won her first WTA doubles tournament, with Stephanie Vogt, in July 2015 at Bad Gastein.

2016

In doubles, she advanced to two finals, with Barbora Strýcová at Auckland in January, and with Xenia Knoll at the İstanbul Cup in April. At the same time, she reached the singles final in İstanbul. The next month, playing No. 10 seed Petra Kvitová in the first round of the French Open, she came within two points of winning the match.

Performance timelines

Only main-draw results in WTA Tour, Grand Slam tournaments, Fed Cup and Olympic Games are included in Win–Loss records.

Singles

Current through the suspension of the 2020 WTA Tour.

Doubles

WTA career finals

Singles: 2 (2 runners-up)

ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScore
Loss0–12015 Tianjin Open – Singles|Tianjin Open, ChinaInternationalHard Agnieszka Radwańska1–6, 2–6
Loss0–22016 Istanbul Open – Singles|Istanbul Cup, TurkeyInternationalClay Çağla Büyükakçay6–3, 2–6, 3–6

Doubles: 5 (1 title, 4 runners-up)

ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScore
Win1–02015 Gastein Ladies – Doubles|Gastein Ladies, AustriaInternationalClay Stephanie Vogt Lara Arruabarrena
Lucie Hradecká
4–6, 6–4,
Loss1–12016 ASB Classic – Women's Doubles|Auckland Open, New ZealandInternationalHard Barbora Strýcová Elise Mertens
An-Sophie Mestach
6–2, 3–6,
Loss1–22016 İstanbul Cup – Doubles|İstanbul Cup, TurkeyInternationalClay Xenia Knoll Andreea Mitu
İpek Soylu
w/o
Loss1–32018 Bucharest Open – Doubles|Bucharest Open, RomaniaInternationalClay Maryna Zanevska Irina-Camelia Begu
Andreea Mitu
3–6, 4–6
Loss1–42018 Guangzhou International Women's Open – Doubles|Guangzhou Open, ChinaInternationalHard Vera Lapko Monique Adamczak
Jessica Moore
6–4, 5–7,

WTA 125K series finals

Singles: 1 (1 runner-up)

Doubles: 2 (2 runners-up)

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 20 (12 titles, 8 runner–ups)

ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScore
Win1–0Oct 2010ITF Dobrich, Bulgaria10,000Clay Isabella Shinikova6–4, 6–3
Loss1–1Jun 2011ITF Nyíregyháza, Hungary10,000Clay Simona Dobrá4–6, 2–6
Win2–1Jun 2011ITF Balş, Romania10,000Clay Alice-Andrada Radu6–0, 6–1
Loss2–2Sep 2011ITF Podgorica, Montenegro25,000Clay Paula Ormaechea1–6, 1–6
Win3–2Apr 2012ITF Tlemcen, Algeria10,000Clay Alexandra Romanova6–2, 6–2
Win4–2Jul 2012ITF Toruń, Poland25,000Clay Paula Kania6–3, 4–6, 6–3
Win5–2Jun 2013ITF Ystad, Sweden25,000Clay Melanie Klaffner6–3, 6–3
Win6–2Jun 2013ITF Kristinehamn, Sweden25,000Clay Jasmina Tinjić6–1, 7–5
Win7–2May 2014ITF Saint-Gaudens, France50,000Clay Pauline Parmentier6–1, 6–2
Loss7–3Mar 2015ITF Curitiba, Brazil25,000Clay Lourdes Domínguez Lino6–4, 2–6, 3–6
Win8–3May 2015ITF Trnava, Slovakia100,000Clay Margarita Gasparyan7–5, 6–3
Win9–3Jun 2016ITF Marseille, France100,000Clay Hsieh Su-wei6–2, 6–3
Loss9–4Jun 2017ITF Hódmezövásárhely, Hungary60,000Clay Mihaela Buzărnescu2–6, 1–6
Loss9–5Jul 2017ITF Budapest, Hungary100,000Clay Jana Čepelová4–6, 3–6
Loss9–6Aug 2017ITF Vancouver, Canada100,000Hard Maryna Zanevska7–5, 1–6, 3–6
Loss9–7Mar 2019ITF São Paulo, Brazil25,000Clay Louisa Chirico0–6, 2–6
Win10–7Mar 2019ITF Campinas, Brazil25,000Clay Julia Grabher6–2, 3–6, 6–3
Win11–7Jun 2019ITF Ystad, Sweden25,000Clay Richèl Hogenkamp2–6, 6–3, 6–3
Loss11–8Jul 2019ITF Biarritz, France80,000Clay Viktoriya Tomova2–6, 7–5, 5–7
Win12–8Oct 2019ITF Székesfehérvár, Hungary100,000Clay Irina-Camelia Begu6–4, 3–6, 6–3

Doubles: 11 (4 titles, 7 runner–ups)

Other finals

Singles

Wins over top-10 players