Mariya Serhiyivna Koryttseva ( uk, Марія Сергіївна Коритцева; born 25 May 1985) is a Ukrainian former tennis player. On 18 August 2008, she achieved her career-high singles ranking of world No. 50. On 23 June 2008, she peaked at No. 39 in the doubles rankings.

Career

Koryttseva made a surprising run to the final of the Sunfeast Open, held in Kolkata, in September 2007. En route to her appearance in the final, she beat

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, who had defeated the No. 1 seed

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in the previous round,

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and

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. Her run came to an end at the hands of

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, who beat her in the final. She lost the doubles final as well. She has won six doubles titles on the

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, two coming at

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, where she won with Giulia Casoni in 2005, and again with

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in 2007. She won the

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with

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. She was also the runner-up in doubles at Kolkata in 2007, where she lost the singles final, and lost the doubles final with

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and

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. On the ITF Circuit, where she has played the majority of her career, she won 7 singles and 20 doubles titles. One of these came at the $100k event in Kharkiv. In the second round of qualifying for the

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, Koryttseva beat

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6–3, 6–7, 7–5 in 3 hours and 55 minutes, making it the third longest match in the

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. Between March 2012 and September 2015, Koryttseva didn't play any WTA or ITF tournament. She has not been on the pro circuit since May 2017.

WTA career finals

Singles: 2 runner-ups

Doubles: 10 (6 titles, 4 runner-ups)

ITF finals

Singles: 14 (7–7)

Doubles: 30 (20–10)

Grand Slam singles performance timeline

Top 10 wins

External links

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Ukrainian FedCup team Official site
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Koryttseva, Mariya 1985 births Living people Sportspeople from Kyiv Ukrainian female tennis players Tennis players at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic tennis players of Ukraine