Nadiia Viktorivna Kichenok ( uk, Надія Вікторівна Кіченок, born 20 July 1992) is a Ukrainian professional
tennis
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player. On 6 January 2014, she reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 100. On 31 January 2022, she peaked at No. 29 in the
WTA doubles rankings. Kichenok has won eight
WTA Tour
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doubles titles, including four with her twin sister
Lyudmyla. She has also won four singles and 24 doubles titles on the
ITF Circuit.
Career
Playing for
Ukraine Fed Cup team, Nadiia Kichenok has a win–loss record of 6–6.
In 2015, Nadiia and Lyudmyla came back from a 0–5 deficit in the second set tie-break of their 6–4, 7–6 defeat of
Liang Chen
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Liang has a singles career-high ranking of No. 342, achieved on 21 September 2009. Her WTA doubles career-high ranking of No. 35, she reached on 26 October 2015.
Liang ...
and
Wang Yafan
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In her career, she has won one singles title and three doubles titles on the WTA Tour, as well as four doubles titles on WTA 125 tournaments, plus eleven singles and six doubles ...
in the
Shenzhen Open final. That made the Kichenoks the second pair of twins, after
Karolína and
Kristýna Plíšková
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, to win a WTA Tour doubles title. They had previously been runners-up at
Tashkent
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in 2011, and at Shenzhen in 2014.
At the inaugural edition of the
2022 Tallinn Open seeded third with her sister, she won her eighth title defeating top seeds
Nicole Melichar
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Laura Siegemund
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She is a two-time Grand Slam champion, having won the 2020 US Open in women's doubles with Vera Zvonareva, as well as the 2016 US Open in mi ...
in the final.
[ https://www.wtatennis.com/news/2835763/krejcikova-sweeps-past-kontaveit-in-tallinn-to-win-first-title-of-year ]
Apparel and equipment
Nadiia Kichenok is sponsored by Mizuno and Wilson (racket).
Performance timelines
Singles
Doubles
Significant finals
WTA Elite Trophy
Singles: 1 (title)
WTA career finals
Doubles: 16 (8 titles, 8 runner-ups)
WTA Challenger finals
Doubles: 1 (runner-up)
ITF Circuit finals
Singles: 11 (4 titles, 7 runner–ups)
Doubles: 46 (24 titles, 22 runner–ups)
Notes
References
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1992 births
Living people
Ukrainian female tennis players
Sportspeople from Dnipro
Ukrainian twins
Twin sportspeople
Tennis players at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Olympic tennis players of Ukraine
Tennis players at the 2020 Summer Olympics
21st-century Ukrainian women