The 21st century
Russia · born 1994 · right-handed · twice 's-Hertogenbosch champion
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Grass titles, 's-Hertogenbosch 2022 and 2023
7-5, 6-0
Final win over Aryna Sabalenka, 2022
108
Games in three qualifying matches, Wimbledon 2016
4R
Best Wimbledon result, 2023 and 2025
10
Career-high WTA ranking, October 2025
Born on 15 November 1994, Alexandrova moved with her family to Prague in 2006 after playing a youth tournament there, and has lived and trained in the city since, coached by her father, Evgeny. She broke through in 2016 by qualifying for Wimbledon on her first grass event, won her first WTA title in Shenzhen in 2020 and was part of the Russian team that won the Billie Jean King Cup Finals in 2021. She has five WTA singles titles, including Linz in 2025, the season she reached three major fourth rounds and entered the top 10 at 30. In 2026 she beat the French Open champion Mirra Andreeva in Bad Homburg and reached the Wimbledon third round, where Iva Jovic beat her.
| Wimbledon singles | Fourth round 2023 and 2025, when Belinda Bencic beat her; third round 2026 as 18th seed, lost to Iva Jovic 3-6, 6-3, 4-6 |
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| Grass titles | 's-Hertogenbosch 2022, beating Aryna Sabalenka 7-5, 6-0 in the final; 's-Hertogenbosch 2023, beating Veronika Kudermetova 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 (3) |
| Wimbledon debut | 2016: came through qualifying on her first grass event and beat the 23rd seed Ana Ivanović in straight sets; lost to Anna-Lena Friedsam in the second round |
| Other grass events | 's-Hertogenbosch semi-final 2025; Bad Homburg quarter-finals 2025 and 2026; Berlin quarter-final 2021, beating the second seed Elina Svitolina; Eastbourne and 's-Hertogenbosch quarter-finals 2019 |
| 's-Hertogenbosch (Rosmalen) | ||
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| 2022 | Women's singles Rosmalen Grass Court Championships | |
| 2023 | Women's singles Rosmalen Grass Court Championships | |
| Berlin | ||
| 2026 | Women's doubles | with Linda Nosková |
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
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Wimbledon 2016 · Qualifying
At the entry deadline she was ten places short of the qualifying cut and got in only after a late withdrawal. It was her first grass tournament. She won final sets 14-12 and 13-11, saving a match point against Stephanie Vogt, and played 108 games in three matches. In her first main-draw match she beat the 23rd seed and former No. 1 Ana Ivanović in straight sets.
Source: Wikipedia's-Hertogenbosch 2022
She said her first match of the week was so bad that she could not hit anything inside the court, and that the rhythm came back match by match. Ranked 30th, she dropped one set on the way to the final, then recovered from a break down against the top seed Aryna Sabalenka to win 7-5, 6-0 for her first grass title.
Source: WTA's-Hertogenbosch 2023
A year later she returned as champion and met the top seed Veronika Kudermetova in an all-Russian final. She lost the first set, then won 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 (3) to become only the second woman to defend the title there, after Tamarine Tanasugarn. The win was her fifth in a row that week.
Source: Tennis Majors's-Hertogenbosch 2025
In the semi-final she led Elise Mertens 6-2, 5-3 and held 11 match points, the most saved by any winner of a WTA main-draw match this decade. Mertens won 2-6, 7-6 (7), 6-4. "I didn't even know it was 11, after one or two I lost count," Mertens said afterwards.
Source: WTABad Homburg 2026
Mirra Andreeva, 19 and the new French Open champion, chose Bad Homburg as her only grass event before Wimbledon. Alexandrova beat her 6-3, 6-4 in the heat to reach the quarter-finals, and the two Russians hugged at the net. Naomi Osaka ended her week in the next round.
Source: ABC NewsOff court
Before the 2024 grass season, back as twice champion at the Libéma Open, she called it her favourite tournament. Asked about life away from tennis, she said she would have liked to live in the 19th or early 20th century, enjoys period dramas such as Downton Abbey, and plans to open a café specialising in desserts when she stops playing.
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