Lyudmyla Viktorivna Kichenok ( uk, Людмила Вікторівна Кіченок; born 20 July 1992) is a Ukrainian professional

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player. On 21 July 2014, Lyudmyla reached her career-high singles

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of world No. 156. On 12 September 2022, she peaked at No. 9 in the doubles rankings. Kichenok has won eight doubles titles on the

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, including four with her twin sister

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Career

2015: First WTA doubles title and singles top-10 win

In 2015, she won her first WTA doubles title together with her sister. They escaped a 5–0 deficit in the second set tie-break of their 6–4, 7–6 defeat of Liang Chen and Wang Yafan in the Shenzhen Open final. That made the Kichenoks the second pair of twins, after

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and Kristýna Plíšková, to win a WTA doubles title. They previously had been runners-up at Tashkent in 2011 and Shenzhen in 2014. She won the second WTA doubles title at Brasil Tennis Cup. During the Tianjin Open, Lyudmyla caused the biggest upset of the tournament with a top-10 win, over world No. 8 and reigning US Open champion,

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, in the first round for the biggest win of her career so far.

2022: Two major semifinals, WTA 1000 title, top 10 & WTA Finals debut

At the

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, she made the final in doubles, partnering

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but they were defeated by second seeds

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and Elise Mertens. At the

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, she reached the semifinals of a major for the first time in her career partnering again with Ostapenko, falling to the eventual champions

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and

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. She reached the top 20 in doubles on 6 June 2022. The following week, she won her sixth title at

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with Ostapenko. At the

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, she again reached the semifinals with Ostapenko, again falling to the eventual champions

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and

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. At the Cincinnati Open, she reached the final with Ostapenko defeating Australian Open finalists Haddad Maia and Anna Danilina and top seeds Kudermetova and Mertens. The pair won their biggest title defeating Nicole Melichar and Ellen Perez. Kichenok reached a new career-high in doubles of No. 10 on 22 August 2022. At the inaugural edition of the

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seeded third with her sister Nadia, she won her eight title defeating top seeds Nicole Melichar/

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in the final. She qualified for the 2022 WTA Finals with Jelena Ostapenko where they reached the semifinals.

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.''

Doubles

Significant finals

WTA 1000

Doubles: 1 (title)

WTA Elite Trophy

Doubles: 2 (2 titles)

WTA career finals

Doubles: 16 (8 titles, 8 runner-ups)

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 12 (6 titles, 6 runner–ups)

Doubles: 51 (28 titles, 23 runner–ups)

Top 10 wins

Notes

References

External links

* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Kichenok, Lyudmyla 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