Lyudmyla Kichenok

Lyudmyla Kichenok
Lyudmyla Viktorivna Kichenok (born 20 July 1992) is a Ukrainian professional tennis player. With Mate Pavić, she won the 2023 Wimbledon Championships in mixed doubles. On 27 February 2023, she peaked at No. 8 in the doubles rankings. Kichenok has won eight doubles titles on the WTA Tour, including four with her twin sister Nadiia. On 21 July 2014, she reached her career-high singles rankings of world No. 156.
Career
2015: First WTA Tour 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. This win made the Kichenoks the second pair of twins, after Karolína Plíšková 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 Tour doubles title at the Brasil Tennis Cup.
During the Tianjin Open, Lyudmyla caused the biggest upset of the tournament with a top-10 win over Flavia Pennetta, world No. 8 and reigning US Open champion, in the first round; it has been the biggest win of her singles career so far.
2022: Two major semifinals, WTA 1000 title, world No. 9 & WTA Finals debut
At the Dubai Tennis Championships, she made the final in doubles, partnering Jeļena Ostapenko but they were defeated by second seeds Veronika Kudermetova and Elise Mertens.
At the French Open, she reached the semifinals of a major for the first time in her career partnering again with Ostapenko, falling to the eventual champions, Caroline Garcia and Kristina Mladenovic. She reached the top 20 in doubles on 6 June 2022.
The following week, she won her sixth title at Birmingham with Ostapenko. At the Wimbledon Championships, they again reached the semifinals, again falling to the eventual champions, this time Barbora Krejčíková and Kateřina Siniaková.
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 new career-highs in doubles of world No. 10 on, 22 August 2022, and No. 9, on 12 September 2022.
At the inaugural edition of the Tallinn Open, seeded third with her sister Nadia, she won her eighth title defeating top-seeded pair Nicole Melichar and Laura Siegemund in the final.
She and Ostapenko qualified for the 2022 WTA Finals where they reached the semifinals.
2023: Wimbledon mixed doubles champion
With Mate Pavić, she won the title at Wimbledon in mixed doubles.
She was selected to play in the 2023 WTA Elite Trophy with Ulrikke Eikeri.
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
Grand Slam tournaments
Mixed doubles: 1 (title)
WTA 1000
Doubles: 1 (title)
WTA Elite Trophy
Doubles: 2 (2 titles)
WTA career finals
Doubles: 17 (8 titles, 9 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
1992 births
Living people
Ukrainian female tennis players
Sportspeople from Dnipro
Ukrainian twins
Olympic tennis players for Ukraine
Tennis players at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Tennis players at the 2020 Summer Olympics