Elizaveta Kulichkova


Elizaveta Dmitrievna Kulichkova is a Russian former tennis player.
She won seven singles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 22 February 2016, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 87. On 18 April 2016, she peaked at No. 312 in the doubles rankings.
Kulichkova was ranked the No. 3 junior tennis player in the world in May 2012, and in January 2014, won the girls' singles and doubles events at the Australian Open.

Career

Kulichkova made her main-draw debut on the WTA Tour at the 2014 İstanbul Cup as a qualifier. Having defeated Nadiia Kichenok and Melinda Czink in the preliminary rounds, she lost to Shahar Pe'er in round one. Further first-round exits followed in Hong Kong and Seoul before once again coming through qualifying in Tianjin, where she defeated Sílvia Soler Espinosa, before losing to Peng Shuai in the second round.
Kulichkova made her major debut at the 2015 Wimbledon Championships by defeating Yanina Wickmayer before losing to further quarterfinalist Madison Keys in the second round. Then she reached semifinals in Bursa, and in Baku she was close to defeat, in the first round, seed No. 1 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, but she lost the final tie-breaker.
For the first time Kulichkova was nominated for the Russia Fed Cup team in 2016 in the World Group play-offs against Belarus, where she should have played the last dead rubber with Elena Vesnina, but she was replaced by Daria Kasatkina.

ITF finals

Singles: 9 (7 titles, 2 runner–ups)

ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScore
Win1–0Apr 2012ITF Antalya, Turkey10,000Hard Dalila Jakupović7–5, 6–2
Loss1–1Apr 2013ITF Istanbul, Turkey50,000Hard Donna Vekić4–6, 6–7
Win2–1Jul 2013ITF Istanbul, Turkey25,000Hard Kateryna Kozlova6–3, 4–6, 6–0
Win3–1Dec 2013ITF Hong Kong25,000Hard Zarina Diyas6–2, 6–2
Loss3–2Jan 2014ITF Burnie, Australia50,000Hard Misa Eguchi6–4, 2–6, 3–6
Win4–2Jun 2014ITF Lenzerheide, Switzerland25,000Clay Louisa Chirico7–5, 6–2
Win5–2Oct 2014ITF Bangkok, Thailand25,000Hard Lesley Kerkhove6–1, 6–0
Win6–2Mar 2015ITF Quanzhou, China50,000Hard Jeļena Ostapenko6–1, 5–7, 7–5
Win7–2Jul 2016ITF Olomouc, Czech Republic50,000Clay Ekaterina Alexandrova4–6, 6–2, 6–1

Doubles: 1 (1 runner–up)

ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScore
Loss0–1Nov 2013ITF Bucha, Ukraine25,000Carpet Anhelina Kalinina Sofia Shapatava
Anastasiya Vasylyeva
6–7, 2–6

Junior Grand Slam finals

Girls' Singles: 1 (1 title)

Girls' Doubles: 1 (1 title)