# Yuliia Starodubtseva

Yuliia Volodymyrivna Starodubtseva (Ukrainian: Юлія Володимирівна Стародубцева; born 17 February 2000) is a Ukrainian tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking of 79 by the WTA, achieved on 7 October 2024, and peaked at No. 144 in the WTA doubles rankings on 9 May 2024.
Starodubtseva has won four singles titles and three doubles titles on the ITF Circuit.
She played college tennis at Old Dominion University.

## Career
### 2023: First ITF Circuit title

Starodubtseva won her first $60k tournament in June 2023 in Sumter, South Carolina, defeating Indian player Karman Thandi.

### 2024: Major, WTA 1000 debuts & quarterfinal, top 100

Starodubtseva reached the top 150 in the singles rankings on 15 January 2024. She made her major debut at the Australian Open after qualifying, but lost in the first round to sixth seed Ons Jabeur.
Starodubtseva made her French Open debut as a qualifier, but lost in straight sets to Cristina Bucșa.
She recorded her first main-draw major win at the Wimbledon, as a qualifier, over Alison Van Uytvanck, on her debut. In the second round, she lost to fellow qualifier Lulu Sun.
Ranked No. 146, she made her debut at the US Open, after qualifying into the main draw but lost to 20th seed Victoria Azarenka, in three sets. She became the first woman in the Open era to qualify for all four majors in a single season.
In September, Starodubtseva reached her first WTA Tour quarterfinal at the 2024 Jasmin Open by defeating Suzan Lamens and third seed Diane Parry, before losing to Sonay Kartal. At the China Open, she recorded, after qualifying, her first two main-draw WTA 1000-level wins over Laura Siegemund and 27th seed Kateřina Siniaková, her first top 50 win. Next, she defeated Elina Avanesyan and tenth seed Anna Kalinskaya to reach the quarterfinals of a WTA 1000 for the first time in her career. As a result, she entered the top 100 in the singles rankings.

## Grand Slam singles performance timeline

Key :
| W | F | SF | QF | #R | RR | Q# | P# | DNQ | A | Z# | PO | G | S | B | NMS | NTI | P | NH |
| Tournament | 2024 | 2025 | SR | W–L |
| Grand Slam tournaments |||||
| Australian Open | 1R | 1R | 0 / 2 | 0–2 |
| French Open | 1R | | 0 / 1 | 0–1 |
| Wimbledon | 2R | | 0 / 1 | 1–1 |
| US Open | 1R | | 0 / 1 | 0–1 |
| Win–loss | 1–4 | 0–1 | 0 / 5 | 1–5 |

## ITF Circuit finals
### Singles: 6 (4 titles, 2 runner-ups)

* Legend
* W60 tournaments (3–2)
* W25 tournaments (1–0)
* Finals by surface
* Hard (4–1)
* Clay (0–1)
| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Opponent | Score |
| Win | 1–0 | Mar 2023 | ITF Spring, United States | W25 | Hard | Maria Mateas | 6–3, 2–6, 6–2 |
| Loss | 1–1 | May 2023 | Naples Open, United States | W60 | Clay | Caroline Dolehide | 5–7, 5–7 |
| Win | 2–1 | Jun 2023 | Palmetto Pro Open, United States | W60 | Hard | Karman Thandi | 6–7$^{(5)}$, 7–5, 6–4 |
| Loss | 2–2 | Jul 2023 | Evansville Classic, United States | W60 | Hard | Karman Thandi | 5–7, 6–4, 1–6 |
| Win | 3–2 | Jul 2023 | Dallas Summer Series, United States | W60 | Hard (i) | Wang Yafan | 3–6, 6–2, 6–2 |
| Win | 4–2 | Oct 2023 | Rancho Santa Fe Open, United States | W60 | Hard | Lulu Sun | 7–5, 6–3 |

### Doubles: 8 (3 titles, 5 runner-ups)

* Legend
* W100 tournaments (1–0)
* W60 tournaments (1–2)
* W25 tournaments (1–2)
* W10 tournaments (0–1)
* Finals by surface
* Hard (2–2)
* Clay (1–3)
| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
| Loss | 0–1 | Dec 2016 | ITF Cairo, Egypt | W10 | Clay | Anastasiia Gevel | Lisa-Marie Brunnemann Diana Popescu | 6–3, 0–6, [7–10] |
| Loss | 0–2 | Mar 2023 | ITF Spring, United States | W25 | Hard | Sofia Johnson | Maria Mateas Clervie Ngounoue | 4–6, 6–2, [4–10] |
| Win | 1–2 | Apr 2023 | ITF Zephyrhills, United States | W25 | Clay | Maria Kononova | Jada Hart Rasheeda McAdoo | 7–5, 6–3 |
| Loss | 1–3 | Jun 2023 | Palmetto Pro Open, United States | W60 | Hard | McCartney Kessler | Maria Mateas Anna Rogers | 4–6, 7–6$^{(3)}$, [6–10] |
| Loss | 1–4 | Jun 2023 | ITF Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic | W25 | Clay | Ana Sofía Sánchez | María Herazo González Ksenia Laskutova | 6–2, 4–6, [9–11] |
| Loss | 1–5 | Jul 2023 | Evansville Classic, United States | W60 | Hard | McCartney Kessler | Maria Kononova Veronika Miroshnichenko | 3–6, 6–2, [8–10] |
| Win | 2–5 | Aug 2023 | Landisville Tennis Challenge, United States | W100 | Hard | Sophie Chang | Olivia Gadecki Mai Hontama | w/o |
| Win | 3–5 | Oct 2023 | Rancho Santa Fe Open, United States | W60 | Hard | Makenna Jones | Tatiana Prozorova Madison Sieg | 6–3, 4–6, [10–6] |

## Head-to-head records
### Record against top 10 players

* She has a 0–2 record against players who were, at the time the match was played, ranked in the top 10.
| Result | W–L | Opponent | Rank | Event | Surface | Round | Score | Rank | H2H |
| 2024 ||||||||||
| Loss | 0–1 | Ons Jabeur | No. 6 | Australian Open, Australia | Hard | 1R | 3–6, 1–6 | No. 150 | 0–1 |
| Loss | 0–2 | Coco Gauff | No. 6 | China Open, China | Hard | QF | 6–2, 2–6, 2–6 | No. 115 | 0–1 |