Natalia Vikhlyantseva


Natalia Konstantinovna Vikhlyantseva is a Russian tennis player. Her favourite court surface is grass.
Vikhlyantseva has career-high rankings of 54 in singles, achieved on 23 October 2017, and 279 in doubles, set on 1 August 2016.

Tennis career

2015–16

Vikhlyantseva made her WTA main-draw debut at the 2015 Shenzhen Open where she received a wild card. In her first match on WTA Tour, she defeated Anna-Lena Friedsam in three sets. She played in second round against Simona Halep and lost in straight sets.
After winning two titles in 2016 on the ITF circuit, she reached the semifinals of the Open de Limoges where she took top-seed and top-30 player Caroline Garcia to three sets.

2017: Top 100 debut and first WTA final

Vikhlyantseva debuted at a Grand Slam tournament at the 2017 Australian Open where she reached the second round of the main draw, losing to Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova. Her next tournament was the St. Petersburg Ladies' Trophy for which she received a wild card and beat Yaroslava Shvedova before upsetting No. 8 seed Daria Kasatkina in straight sets and receiving a walkover from top seed Simona Halep in the quarterfinals. She lost in the semifinals to eventual champion Kristina Mladenovic. Despite her defeat, Vikhlyantseva ensured a top-100 debut with her campaign.
She reached her first WTA-level final at the Ricoh Open, beating Cornelia Lister, former world No. 9 Andrea Petkovic, Arantxa Rus and fifth seed Ana Konjuh en route. She then lost to Anett Kontaveit, who won her first title.
After some poor results which followed, Vikhlyantseva reached the second round at the Bank of the West Classic and Upper Austria Ladies Linz before coming up with a surprise run to the semifinals of the Kremlin Cup, where she had her first ever top-20 win over compatriot Elena Vesnina in straight sets. It was Vikhlyantseva's second Premier semifinal of the year, and both of them came in Russia, her home country. However, her run was halted by Julia Görges in the semifinals, with a wrist injury hindering her from further success.

Performance timelines

Only main-draw results in WTA Tour, Grand Slam tournaments and Olympic Games are included in win–loss records.

Singles

This table is current through the 2019 China Open.

Singles: 1 (1 runner-up)

ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScore
Loss0–12017 Ricoh Open – Women's Singles|Rosmalen Championships, NetherlandsInternationalGrass Anett Kontaveit2–6, 3–6

WTA 125K series finals

Doubles: 1 (1 title)

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 6 (2 titles, 4 runner–ups)

ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScore
Loss0–1Oct 2014ITF Hilton Head Island, United States10,000Clay Marie Bouzková5–7, 1–6
Loss0–2Aug 2015ITF Saint Petersburg, Russia25,000Clay Polina Leykina4–6, 3–6
Win1–2Aug 2016ITF Plzeň, Czech Republic25,000Clay Anna Kalinskaya6–1, 6–3
Win2–2Sep 2016ITF Saint Petersburg, Russia100,000Hard Donna Vekić6–1, 6–2
Loss2–3Dec 2016ITF Dubai, United Arab Emirates100,000Hard Hsieh Su-wei2–6, 2–6
Loss2–4Oct 2018ITF Poitiers, France80,000Hard Viktorija Golubic6–3, 1–6, 5–7

Doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner–up)

ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScore
Loss0–1Sep 2015ITF Saint-Malo, France50,000Clay Maria Marfutina Kristína Kučová
Anastasija Sevastova		7–6, 3–6,
Win1–1Jan 2016ITF Wesley Chapel, United States25,000Clay Ingrid Neel Natela Dzalamidze
Veronika Kudermetova		4–6, 7–6,

Fed Cup participation

This table is current through the 2019 Fed Cup
Legend
World Group
World Group Play-off
World Group II
World Group II Play-off
Europe/Africa Group

Singles (5–1)