Ysaline Bonaventure (born 29 August 1994) is a Belgian professional

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player. Bonaventure has won two doubles titles on the

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, as well as 12 singles and 14 doubles titles on the

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. On 6 March 2023, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 84. On 1 February 2016, she peaked at No. 57 in the doubles rankings. Playing for

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, Bonaventure has a win–loss record of 9–8 (as of March 2023). She was selected for the Fed Cup team for the first time in

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when she played a doubles match alongside

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in the World Group Play-offs.

Career

2015-16: Two WTA titles and top 60 in doubles

Bonaventure lost in the first round of qualifying at the

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and

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. At the

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, she also lost in the first round of qualifying, beaten in three sets by

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. She reached the third round of qualifying at the US Open of that year. She won two WTA Tour doubles titles that year, showing her ability in doubles, her focus slowly shifting towards singles after 2015. She subsequently reached a career-high ranking in doubles of No. 57 in February 2016.

2018-20: Top 150, Grand Slam debut

She lost again in the third and final round of qualifying at Roland Garros in 2018, before making her Grand Slam main-draw debut in 2019, at the

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and then at

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. She also reached as a qualifier the quarterfinals in

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where she lost to compatriot

, and the third round in Indian Wells where she defeated wildcard

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and 28th seed

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before losing to

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In 2020, she finally won a match in the main draw of a Grand Slam tournament at the US Open in New York.

2022: Top 100

At the

, she qualified to make her debut at this major thus finally completing the set of main-draw appearances at all four major tournaments. She reached the top 100 on 31 October 2022, at world No. 94.

2023: First WTA Tour semifinal

At the Auckland Open she reached as a qualifier her first WTA career semifinal defeating eight seed

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and third seed

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. She reached her second quarterfinal of the season at the

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with a win over qualifiers

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and

Kamilla Rakhimova Kamilla Stanislavovna Rakhimova ( rus, Камилла Станиславовна Рахимова, , kɐˈmʲiɫə rɐˈxʲiməvə; born 28 August 2001) is a Russian professional tennis player of Tatar descent. She has career-high WTA rankings ...

. She lost to eventual champion

in three sets. She reached a new career high of world No. 84 on 6 March 2023.

Performance timelines

''Only main-draw results in WTA Tour, Grand Slam tournaments, Fed Cup/Billie Jean King Cup and Olympic Games are included in win–loss records.''

Singles

''Current after the 2023 Indian Wells Open.''

Doubles

WTA career finals

Doubles: 2 (2 titles)

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 25 (12 titles, 13 runner–ups)

Doubles: 20 (14 titles, 6 runner–ups)

Notes

References

External links

* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Bonaventure, Ysaline 1994 births Living people Belgian female tennis players Sportspeople from Liège Walloon sportspeople 21st-century Belgian women