The 21st century
France · born Saint-Pol-sur-Mer, 1993 · Wimbledon mixed champion 2013 and women's doubles champion 2026
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Wimbledon titles: mixed 2013 with Daniel Nestor, women's doubles 2026 with Guo Hanyu
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Major titles: seven in women's doubles, three in mixed
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Years between her two Wimbledon titles
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Wimbledon girls' finals in 2009, singles and doubles, both lost
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Best singles ranking, reached in October 2017
Kristina Mladenovic was born in Saint-Pol-sur-Mer, near Dunkirk, on 14 May 1993. Her father, Dragan, was a Yugoslav handball player who had moved to France in 1992 to play for Dunkerque, and her mother, Dženita Helić, played volleyball. She was world junior No. 1 in 2009, the year she won the girls' singles at Roland Garros and reached both girls' finals at Wimbledon.
In singles she reached No. 10 in 2017 and won the St. Petersburg title that year. Her strength was doubles: she won Roland Garros in 2016 and 2022 with Caroline Garcia, and the 2018 Australian Open, Roland Garros in 2019 and 2020 and the 2020 Australian Open with TÃmea Babos, and first became world No. 1 in June 2019. In mixed doubles she won Wimbledon in 2013 and the 2014 Australian Open with Daniel Nestor, and the 2022 Australian Open with Ivan Dodig. In November 2019 she won all three of her rubbers in the Fed Cup final in Perth to give France the trophy.
She missed much of 2025 with an injury and came back with no ranking. Teaming with Guo Hanyu in 2026, she won in Auckland and then, as tenth seeds, won Wimbledon, her first major since 2022 and her seventh in women's doubles.
| Wimbledon mixed 2013 | With Nestor, seeded eight, beat the top seeds Bruno Soares and Lisa Raymond 5-7, 6-2, 8-6 in a 124-minute final on Centre Court |
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| Wimbledon women's doubles | 2014 with Babos, seeded 14: lost the final to Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci 6-1, 6-3. 2026 with Guo, seeded ten: beat the top seeds Kateřina Siniaková and Taylor Townsend in the quarter-finals and the second seeds Gabriela Dabrowski and Luisa Stefani 6-3, 7-5 in the final, dropping one set in six matches |
| Wimbledon 2009 juniors | Top seed in the girls' singles, lost the final to Noppawan Lertcheewakarn 3-6, 6-3, 6-1; in the girls' doubles with Silvia Njirić lost the final to Lertcheewakarn and Sally Peers 6-1, 6-1 |
| Grass singles | Beat the world No. 3 Simona Halep 2-6, 6-0, 7-6 at Birmingham in 2015; runner-up to CoCo Vandeweghe at 's-Hertogenbosch in 2016 |
| Birmingham 2018 | Won the doubles with Babos, beating Elise Mertens and Demi Schuurs in the final |
| Wimbledon | ||
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| 2013 | Mixed doubles | with Daniel Nestor |
| 2026 | Women's doubles | with Guo Hanyu |
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| 2018 | Women's doubles | with TÃmea Babos |
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
"When you are so privileged to live this moment, you're always trying to chase history, right?"
The person behind the player.
Dunkirk, 1990s
Her parents were both athletes: her father played handball for Serbia and Yugoslavia and moved the family to France in 1992 when Dunkerque signed him; her mother played volleyball. All of them became French citizens.
Source: WikipediaWimbledon, 2009
As the 16-year-old top seed she reached the girls' singles and doubles finals at Wimbledon and lost both to the same player, Noppawan Lertcheewakarn of Thailand, who took the doubles with Sally Peers.
Source: Wimbledon Compendium 2025Perth, November 2019
In the 2019 Fed Cup final she beat Ashleigh Barty 2-6, 6-4, 7-6 (7-1) and then won the deciding doubles with Caroline Garcia against Barty and Samantha Stosur. "Three years ago we failed on the last step of the tie and we just wanted to take revenge for ourselves," she said, recalling the lost final of 2016.
Source: Tennis Majors, 2019Wimbledon, 2026
She had returned from injury without a ranking. "When I was coming back, I had no ranking," she said after the final. Of Guo, who agreed to play with her: "she didn't hesitate at all."
Source: WTA, 2026Centre Court, 2026
"It's really a dream," she said after the 2026 final. "I definitely cannot believe what just happened now." Her only previous Wimbledon women's doubles final, in 2014, had been lost.
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