Sofya Zhuk

Sofya Zhuk
Софья Жук
Full name Sofya Andreyevna Zhuk
Country (sports)  Russia
Residence Bradenton, Florida, USA
Born (1999-12-01) 1 December 1999
Moscow, Russia
Prize money $290,218
Singles
Career record 104–47
Career titles 0 WTA, 6 ITF
Highest ranking No. 123 (19 March 2018)
Current ranking No. 148 (17 September 2018)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open Q2 (2018)
French Open Q1 (2018)
Wimbledon Q3 (2018)
US Open 1R (2017)
Doubles
Career record 3–3
Highest ranking —
Current ranking —
Last updated on: 20 September 2018.

Sofya Andreyevna Zhuk (Russian: Софья Андреевна Жук, IPA: [ˈsofʲjə ɐnˈdrʲejɪvnə ˈʐuk]; born 1 December 1999) is a Russian tennis player, who won the 2015 Wimbledon Junior Girls' title.

Career

Zhuk trains at the Justine Henin Academy in Belgium and her coach is Olivier Jeunehomme.[1] Her best win to date has been an ITF $60,000 tournament in Turkey, where she beat the home favourite Ipek Soylu in the final.

When she won her first tournament at Shymkent, she became only the 17th 14 year old in ITF history to win an open tournament at that age, joining a group which includes former World No. 1s Justine Henin and Dinara Safina.

In 2015, Zhuk competed as an unseeded 15-year-old at Wimbledon, where she won the Junior Girls' title against fellow Russian and No.12 ranked junior Anna Blinkova in straight sets, 7–5, 6–4. Zhuk did not drop a set in the whole Wimbledon tournament.[2] Zhuk became only the second Russian to win the Junior Wimbledon Girl's title, following the 2002 final when Vera Dushevina defeated compatriot Maria Sharapova.

She made her WTA singles main draw debut at the 2016 Miami Open, where she received a wildcard into the main draw. She lost in straight sets to Zhang Shuai in the first round.

2018

Zhuk reached the second round of qualifying at the Australian Open, losing to Magdalena Frech of Poland, before heading to Newport Beach in California for their inaugural WTA 125K tournament. She reached her first WTA final in this event where, after taking the first set, she eventually fell to American Danielle Collins, six years her senior, in three sets, 2-6, 6-4, 6-3.

Collins was her nemesis again when they played at Indian Wells, after both had defeated seeded players. Zhuk recorded her very first WTA tour win when she defeated Alizé Cornet in the first round, and followed that by beating 18th seed Magdalena Rybarikova in the second round. Zhuk's second to last service game in that match took well over 20 minutes, with 12 deuces and 30 points. Rybarikova saved 11 match points during the game, before finally winning on only her second break point. Zhuk promptly broke back, and then served out to win 6-3, 2-6, 7-5. Collins, though, having beaten 15th seed Madison Keys in the second round, always had the advantage in their third round clash, winning 6-4, 6-4. Zhuk nevertheless reached her career-high ranking of 123 after this defeat. She then went to the Premier Mandatory tournament in Miami, where she lost in the first round of qualifying.

In the European Grand Slam tournaments, she lost in the first qualifying round of the French Open to Valentini Grammatikopoulou, and in the final qualifying round for Wimbledon to Vitalia Diatchenko, having had her revenge on Grammatikopoulou in the first round.

WTA 125 Series Finals

Singles: 1 (1 runner-up)

Result W–L Date Tournament Tier Surface Opponent Score
Loss 0–1 Jan 2018 Oracle Challenger Series – Newport Beach, United States 125K Hard United States Danielle Collins 6–2, 4–6, 3–6

ITF finals (6–3)

Singles: 9 (6 titles, 3 runners-up)

Legend
$100,000 tournaments
$80,000 tournaments
$60,000 tournaments (2–0)
$25,000 tournaments (1–1)
$10,000 tournaments (3–2)
Finals by surface
Hard (2–3)
Clay (4–0)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)
Outcome No. Date Tournament Surface Opponent Score
Winner 1. 11 October 2014 Shymkent, Kazakhstan Clay Russia Margarita Lazareva 6–2, 6–4
Runner-up 1. 7 February 2016 Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt Hard Germany Julia Wachaczyk 6–4, 4–6, 3–6
Winner 2. 14 February 2016 Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt Hard Bulgaria Julia Terziyska 6–2, 6–1
Runner-up 2. 3 April 2016 Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt Hard Georgia (country) Mariam Bolkvadze 3–6, 5–7
Winner 3. 27 August 2016 Cali, Colombia Clay France Harmony Tan 6–2, 6–4
Winner 4. 30 October 2016 Tampico, Mexico Hard Russia Varvara Flink 6–4, 6–3
Runner-up 3. 16 April 2017 Irapuato, Mexico Hard Israel Deniz Khazaniuk w/o
Winner 5. 21 May 2017 Naples, USA Clay United States Taylor Townsend 6–4, 7–6 (7–3)
Winner 6. 17 July 2017 Bursa, Turkey Clay Turkey İpek Soylu 4–6, 6–3, 7–6 (7–5)

Junior Grand Slam finals

Girls' Singles

Outcome Year Championship Surface Opponent Score
Winner 2015 Wimbledon Grass Russia Anna Blinkova 7–5, 6–4

Grand Slam tournament performance timeline

Tournament20172018SRW–L
Australian Open A Q2 0 / 1 0–0
French Open A Q1 0 / 1 0–0
Wimbledon A Q3 0 / 1 0–0
US Open 1R Q3 0 / 2 0–1
Win–Loss 0–1 0–0 0 / 5 0–1

Awards

2015

References

  1. ↑ "Justine Henin tennis academy graduate Sofya Zhuk comes of age to clinch Wimbledon girls' singles title". Dailymail.
  2. ↑ "Unseeded Zhuk claims girls' singles title". Wimbledon.
  3. ↑ «Русский Кубок». Триумф командного тенниса [The "Russian Cup". Triumph in Team Tennis] (in Russian). Championat.com. 28 November 2015. Retrieved 30 November 2015.
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