Daria Kasatkina

Playing career

Kasatkina was born in Tolyatti, Russia, on 7 May 1997 and was introduced to tennis at six by her brother, Aleksandr, who later became her fitness trainer. She won the junior French Open, and in 2017 won her first WTA title in Charleston. She entered the top 10 in October 2018, the year she reached the quarter-finals of both the French Open and Wimbledon, reached the French Open semi-finals in 2022 and a career-high No. 8 that year. She has won eight WTA singles titles, the last two in 2024 at Eastbourne and Ningbo.

From 2022 she played without a flag, after Russian and Belarusian players were barred from national representation following the invasion of Ukraine, and she missed Wimbledon that year when the All England Club excluded them. In July 2022 she spoke publicly about being gay and called the war "a complete nightmare". In March 2025 she was granted permanent residency in Australia and announced that she would represent it from then on. She ended her 2025 season early, won a WTA 125 title in Spain in 2026 and reached the third round at Wimbledon that year.

On grass

Every grass title: 1

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Eastbourne
2024	Women's singles

Leading grass titles only: the grass majors, tour-level grass events since 1968 and the leading grass championships before 1968. † single source; ‡ sources disagree. Roll of champions

"I just feel like I put down some very heavy backpack"