# Varvara Flink

Varvara Alexandrovna Flink (Russian: Варвара Александровна Флинк; born 13 December 1996) is an inactive Russian tennis player.
Flink achieved a career-high WTA singles ranking of 122 on 15 July 2019, and a doubles ranking of 372 on 31 October 2022. She owns one doubles title on the WTA Challenger Tour. Flink won the first of her six ITF singles titles on 21 May 2017. In doubles, she won two ITF titles. The first was in Monastir, Tunisia in 2012. She reached two singles semifinals in 2013, one in Dubrovnik and the other in Seoul.

## Career highlights
### ITF Circuit

On the ITF Junior Circuit, Flink achieved a new career-high ranking of world No. 6, following her win at the Grade-A Copa Gerdau in Brazil in March 2013. Later that year, she achieved more success, reaching the final at the Osaka Mayor's Cup and winning the Dunlop Orange Bowl. She ended the year ranked world No. 3 junior, in January 2014, she became world No. 2.

### WTA Tour

Flink made her WTA Tour debut at the 2012 Baku Cup, where she lost in the first round of the singles tournament to Tamarine Tanasugarn from Thailand, in three sets. In doubles, she partnered up with Patricia Mayr-Achleitner to reach the quarterfinals, where they lost to Eva Birnerova and Alberta Brianti, in straight sets.

## Performance timelines

Key :
| W | F | SF | QF | #R | RR | Q# | P# | DNQ | A | Z# | PO | G | S | B | NMS | NTI | P | NH |
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

| Tournament | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | SR | W–L |
| Grand Slam tournaments ||||||||||||
| Australian Open | A | A | A | A | A | Q2 | Q2 | A | A | 0 / 0 | 0–0 |
| French Open | A | A | A | A | A | Q1 | A | Q1 | Q1 | 0 / 0 | 0–0 |
| Wimbledon | A | A | A | A | A | 2R | NH | Q2 | A | 0 / 1 | 1–1 |
| US Open | A | A | A | A | A | Q2 | A | A | Q2 | 0 / 0 | 0–0 |
| Win–loss | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0 / 1 | 1–1 |
| WTA 1000 ||||||||||||
| Miami Open | Q2 | A | A | A | A | A | NH | A | A | 0 / 0 | 0–0 |
| Madrid Open | A | A | A | Q1 | A | A | NH | A | A | 0 / 0 | 0–0 |
| Cincinnati Open | A | A | 1R | A | A | A | A | A | A | 0 / 1 | 0–1 |
| Guadalajara Open | NH | NH | NH | NH | NH | NH | NH | NH | Q1 | 0 / 0 | 0–0 |
| Career statistics ||||||||||||
| Year-end ranking | 355 | N/A | 222 | 623 | 189 | 128 | 173 | 472 | 684 | $420,840 | $420,840 |

## WTA Challenger finals
### Doubles: 1 (title)

| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
| Win | 1–0 | Aug 2022 | Concord Open, United States | Hard | CoCo Vandeweghe | Peangtarn Plipuech Moyuka Uchijima | 6–3, 7–6$^{(7–3)}$ |

## ITF Circuit finals
### Singles: 11 (6 titles, 5 runner–ups)

* Legend
* $50,000 tournaments
* $25,000 tournaments
* $10/15,000 tournaments
* Finals by surface
* Hard (1–4)
* Clay (5–1)
| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Opponent | Score |
| Loss | 0–1 | Feb 2016 | ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt | 10,000 | Hard | Julia Terziyska | 4–6, 3–6 |
| Loss | 0–2 | Feb 2016 | ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt | 10,000 | Hard | Tereza Mihalíková | 1–6, 4–6 |
| Loss | 0–3 | Mar 2016 | ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt | 10,000 | Hard | Viktória Kužmová | 6–4, 2–6, 1–6 |
| Loss | 0–4 | Oct 2016 | Abierto Tampico, Mexico | 50,000 | Hard | Sofya Zhuk | 4–6, 3–6 |
| Win | 1–4 | May 2017 | ITF Antalya, Turkey | 15,000 | Clay | María Carlé | 6–4, 7–6$^{(7–5)}$ |
| Loss | 1–5 | Apr 2018 | ITF Antalya, Turkey | 15,000 | Clay | Andreea Roșca | 3–6, 4–6 |
| Win | 2–5 | Apr 2018 | ITF Antalya, Turkey | 15,000 | Clay | Nina Potočnik | 6–4, 6–4 |
| Win | 3–5 | Apr 2018 | ITF Shymkent, Kazakhstan | 15,000 | Clay | Gozal Ainitdinova | 6–4, 6–4 |
| Win | 4–5 | Apr 2018 | ITF Shymkent, Kazakhstan | 15,000 | Clay | Polina Golubovskaya | 6–0, 6–3 |
| Win | 5–5 | Aug 2018 | ITF Leipzig, Germany | 25,000 | Clay | Julia Grabher | 6–3, 6–2 |
| Win | 6–5 | Jan 2019 | ITF Kazan, Russia | 25,000 | Hard | Anastasia Gasanova | 6–2, ret. |

### Doubles: 2 (2 titles)

* Legend
* $10,000 tournaments
* Finals by surface
* Hard (2–0)
| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
| Win | 1–0 | Nov 2012 | ITF Monastir, Tunisia | 10,000 | Hard | Jaimy-Gayle van de Wal | Valeria Podda Lisanne van Riet | 6–3, 6–2 |
| Win | 2–0 | Oct 2015 | ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt | 10,000 | Hard | Veronika Miroshnichenko | Jacqueline Cabaj Awad Martina Přádová | 6–3, 6–4 |