Darja Semeņistaja (born 16 September 2002) is a Latvian

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player. Semeņistaja has career-high WTA rankings of No. 106 in singles, achieved on 1 April 2024, and No. 127 in doubles, reached on 21 October 2024. In her career, she has won two WTA Challenger titles, one title in singles and one in doubles. She also has won 15 singles and nine doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. Playing for Latvia Billie Jean King Cup team, she has a win-loss record of 4–6.

Career

2021

In 2021, Semeņistaja won the most singles trophies on the ITF Women's World Tour, a total of seven titles. She won the first two in Serbia, winning

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's $15k events for two weeks in a row, then the third in

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in mid-July, the fourth in

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, Ukraine, at the end of August, and finally three in Cancún, Mexico in October.

2024

Alongside

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, Semeņistaja won the doubles title at the

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, overcoming Kaylah McPhee and

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in the final. She won her first WTA 125 singles title at the

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in February, defeating

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in the final. Partnering

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, Semeņistaja won the doubles title at the Țiriac Foundation Trophy, defeating

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and

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in the final.

2025

Partnering

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, Semeņistaja reached the doubles final at the

for the second successive year, losing to

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and Petra Hule in a deciding champions tiebreak.

WTA Challenger finals

Singles: 2 (2 titles)

Doubles: 4 (2 titles, 2 runner-ups)

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 17 (15 titles, 2 runner-ups)

Doubles: 17 (10 titles, 7 runner–ups)

References

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