# Polina Kudermetova

Polina Eduardovna Kudermetova (Russian: Полина Эдуардовна Кудерметова, Polina Eduardovna Kudermetova, born 4 June 2003) is a Russian professional tennis player. She has been ranked by the WTA as high as world No. 57 in singles, achieved on 6 January 2025, and No. 283 in doubles on 10 April 2023.

## Career
### 2023: Grand Slam debut, first WTA Tour win

At the Australian Open, Kudermetova advanced to her first Grand Slam tournament main draw on her qualifying debut by defeating Anastasia Gasanova, Katie Boulter, and Asia Muhammad. She lost to wildcard Olivia Gadecki in the first round.
She recorded her first WTA main-draw win at the Libéma Open over Yuan Yue, but lost her next match to Liudmila Samsonova.
At the Korea Open, she reached the quarterfinals defeating sixth seed Alycia Parks and Kathinka von Deichmann, before losing to Yanina Wickmayer.

### 2024: First WTA semifinal

At the newly upgraded Korea Open, ranked No. 163, Kudermetova made her debut at the WTA 500-level as a lucky loser and defeated qualifier Priscilla Hon in the first round, and seventh seed Ekaterina Alexandrova to reach the quarterfinals where she lost to third seed Beatriz Haddad Maia. As a result she reached a new career-high ranking in the top 130 on 23 September 2024.
Partnering Alina Korneeva, she was runner-up in doubles at the WTA 125 Abierto Tampico, losing to Carmen Corley and Rebecca Marino in the final.
Kudermetova reached her first WTA Tour singles semifinal at the Mérida Open with wins over second seed Nadia Podoroska, Varvara Lepchenko and Nina Stojanović, before losing in the last four to Ann Li.
As top seed, Kudermetova was runner-up at the W100 Al Habtoor Tennis Challenge in Dubai, losing to wildcard entrant Jodie Burrage in the final. Despite the defeat, she reached a career-high WTA singles ranking of world No. 106 the day after the tournament finished on 9 December 2024.

### 2025: First WTA final, top 100 debut

Having made it through qualifying, Kudermetova reached her first WTA final at the Brisbane International, defeating Wang Xinyu, 13th seed Liudmila Samsonova, third seed Daria Kasatkina (her first win against a top-10 ranked player), Ashlyn Krueger and Anhelina Kalinina. She lost the championship match to World No.1 Aryna Sabalenka in three sets. She made her top 100 debut on 6 January 2025, climbing 50 positions up in the rankings to world No. 57.
Kudermetova defeated Elena Micic in the final qualifying round at the Australian Open to make it into her second Grand Slam tournament main-draw. She lost to 23rd seed Magdalena Fręch in the first round.

## Personal life

She is the younger sister of professional tennis and former top-ten player, Veronika Kudermetova, and daughter of Russian national ice hockey champion Eduard Kudermetov.

## Performance timeline

Key :
| W | F | SF | QF | #R | RR | Q# | DNQ | A | NH |
Only main-draw results in WTA Tour, Grand Slam tournaments, Billie Jean King Cup and Olympic Games are included in win–loss records.

### Singles

Current through the 2025 Brisbane.
| Tournament | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | SR | W–L |
| Grand Slam tournaments ||||||
| Australian Open | 1R | A | 1R | 0 / 2 | 0–2 |
| French Open | Q1 | Q1 | | 0 / 0 | 0–0 |
| Wimbledon | A | Q1 | | 0 / 0 | 0–0 |
| US Open | A | Q1 | | 0 / 0 | 0–0 |
| Win–loss | 0–1 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 0 / 2 | 0–2 |
| WTA 1000 ||||||
| Qatar Open | A | A | | 0 / 0 | 0–0 |
| Dubai | A | A | | 0 / 0 | 0–0 |
| Indian Wells Open | A | A | | 0 / 0 | 0–0 |
| Miami Open | A | A | | 0 / 0 | 0–0 |
| Madrid Open | A | A | | 0 / 0 | 0–0 |
| Italian Open | Q2 | A | | 0 / 0 | 0–0 |
| Canadian Open | A | A | | 0 / 0 | 0–0 |
| Cincinnati Open | A | A | | 0 / 0 | 0–0 |
| Wuhan Open | A | A | | 0 / 0 | 0–0 |
| China Open | A | A | | 0 / 0 | 0–0 |
| Guadalajara Open | Q1 | A | | 0 / 0 | 0–0 |
| Career statistics ||||||
| | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Totals | Totals |
| Tournaments | 6 | 3 | 1 | | 10 |
| Titles | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 / 10 | 0 |
| Finals | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 / 10 | 1 |
| Hard win–loss | 2–2 | 5–2 | 5–1 | 0 / 5 | 12–5 |
| Clay win–loss | 0–2 | 0–1 | | 0 / 3 | 0–3 |
| Grass win–loss | 1–2 | 0–0 | | 0 / 2 | 1–2 |
| Overall win–loss | 3–6 | 5–3 | 5–1 | 0 / 10 | 13–10 |
| Year-end ranking | 157 | 107 | | | |

## WTA Tour finals
### Singles: 1 (1 runner-up)

* Legend
* Grand Slam (0–0)
* WTA 1000 (0–0)
* WTA 500 (0–1)
* WTA 250 (0–0)
* Finals by surface
* Hard (0–1)
* Clay (0–0)
* Grass (0–0)
* Finals by setting
* Outdoor (0–1)
* Indoor (0–0)
| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Opponent | Score |
| Loss | 0–1 | Jan 2025 | Brisbane International, Australia | WTA 500 | Hard | Aryna Sabalenka | 6–4, 3–6, 2–6 |

## WTA Challenger finals
### Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up)

| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
| Loss | 0–1 | Oct 2024 | Abierto Tampico, Mexico | Hard | Alina Korneeva | Carmen Corley Rebecca Marino | 3–6, 3–6 |

## ITF Circuit finals
### Singles: 12 (9 titles, 3 runner-ups)

* Legend
* W100 tournaments (0–1)
* W60 tournaments (0–1)
* W40/50 tournaments (2–1)
* W25 tournaments (3–0)
* W15 tournaments (4–0)
* Finals by surface
* Hard (8–1)
* Clay (1–2)
| Result | W–L | Date | Location | Tier | Surface | Opponents | Score |
| Win | 1–0 | Dec 2019 | ITF Antalya, Turkey | W15 | Hard | Georgia Crăciun | 6–4, 3–6, 6–3 |
| Finalist | – | Dec 2020 | ITF Antalya, Turkey | W15 | Clay | Andreea Roșca | canc. |
| Win | 2–0 | Feb 2021 | ITF Antalya, Turkey | W15 | Clay | Marta Custic | 6–2, 1–6, 6–3 |
| Win | 3–0 | Nov 2021 | Kazan Open, Russia | W15 | Hard (i) | Nigina Abduraimova | 7–5, 3–6, 6–4 |
| Win | 4–0 | Jan 2022 | Tatarstan Winter Cup, Russia | W15 | Hard (i) | Anastasia Kovaleva | 6–0, 6–4 |
| Win | 5–0 | Jun 2022 | ITF Ra'anana, Israel | W25 | Hard | Maria Timofeeva | 4–6, 6–4, 7–5 |
| Loss | 5–1 | Aug 2022 | ITF San Bartolomé de Tirajana, Spain | W60 | Clay | Arantxa Rus | 3–6, 6–3, 1–6 |
| Win | 6–1 | Oct 2022 | ITF Istanbul, Turkey | W25 | Hard (i) | Tatiana Prozorova | 6–3, 6–1 |
| Win | 7–1 | Nov 2022 | ITF Jerusalem, Israel | W25 | Hard | Ekaterina Reyngold | 6–1, 6–1 |
| Win | 8–1 | Mar 2023 | ITF Astana, Kazakhstan | W40 | Hard (i) | Darya Astakhova | 6–2, 6–3 |
| Win | 9–1 | Feb 2024 | ITF Indore, India | W50 | Hard | Dalila Jakupović | 3–6, 6–2, 6–0 |
| Loss | 9–2 | Aug 2024 | ITF Oldenzaal, Netherlands | W50 | Clay | Hanne Vandewinkel | 6–4, 2–6, 6–7 |
| Loss | 9–3 | Dec 2024 | Al Habtoor Tennis Challenge, Dubai | W100 | Hard | Jodie Burrage | 3–6, 3–6 |

### Doubles: 5 (2 titles, 3 runner-ups)

* Legend
* W60 tournaments (1–0)
* W40/50 tournaments (1–0)
* W25 tournaments (0–3)
* Finals by surface
* Hard (1–3)
* Clay (1–0)
| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Partnering | Opponents | Score |
| Loss | 0–1 | Apr 2022 | ITF Monastir, Tunisia | W25 | Hard | Sofya Lansere | Estelle Cascino Jessika Ponchet | 0–6, 6–4, [7–10] |
| Loss | 0–2 | Jun 2022 | ITF Tbilisi, Georgia | W25 | Hard | Sofya Lansere | Angelina Gabueva Anastasia Zakharova | 4–6, 3–6 |
| Loss | 0–3 | Nov 2022 | ITF Jerusalem, Israel | W25 | Hard | Ekaterina Reyngold | Lee Pei-chi Sofia Shapatava | 2–6, 4–6 |
| Win | 1–3 | Mar 2023 | Nur-Sultan Challenger, Kazakhstan | W60 | Hard (i) | Anastasia Tikhonova | Jang Su-jeong Han Na-lae | 2–6, 6–3, [10–7] |
| Win | 2–3 | Aug 2024 | ITF Oldenzaal, Netherlands | W50 | Clay | Ekaterina Makarova | Freya Christie Yuliana Lizarazo | 6–4, 1–6, [10–7] |

## Wins over top-10 players

| # | Player | Rk | Event | Surface | Rd | Score | ASR |
| 2025 ||||||||
| 1. | Daria Kasatkina | 9 | Brisbane International, Australia | Hard | 3R | 1–6, 6–2, 7–5 | 107 |