Oksana Kalashnikova

Oksana Kalashnikova (born 5 September 1990) is a Georgian professional tennis player.
Kalashnikova has won six WTA Tour doubles titles with three doubles titles on the WTA Challenger Tour, as well as five singles and 25 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. On 5 July 2010, she reached a career-high singles ranking of No. 156. On 11 September 2023, she peaked at No. 42 in the WTA doubles rankings.
Playing for Georgia Fed Cup team since 2007, Kalashnikova has a win–loss record of 23–16 (as of June 2023).
Tennis career
2012
Kalashnikova entered the ITF tournament in Astana, where she won the doubles event with Marta Sirotkina against twin sisters Lyudmyla and Nadiia Kichenok.
In November, she and Nina Bratchikova won the doubles title at the Royal Indian Open.
2013
She reached the third round of the French Open on her debut at this major, partnering Alicja Rosolska.
Kalashnikova won her first WTA doubles title at the 2013 Baku Cup, partnering Irina Buryachok against Eleni Daniilidou and Aleksandra Krunić.
After that, she and Alicja Rosolska reached the quarterfinals of the Canadian Open, a prestigious tournament serving as a warm-up for the US Open.
In September, she reached the final of the Ningbo International Tennis Open, a WTA 125 tournament, again partnering Buryachok.
2014
In July, at İstanbul Cup partnering Paula Kania, they reached the final and lost to Misaki Doi and Elina Svitolina.
2015
In July, Kalashnikova entered the Contrexéville Open and won the doubles competition against Constance Sibille & Irina Ramialison, partnering Danka Kovinić.
She then won her second title on WTA Tour at the Bucharest Open, partnering Demi Schuurs. They beat Andreea Mitu & Patricia Maria Țig in the final.
In November, she lost two WTA 125 doubles finals, the Open de Limoges, partnering Margarita Gasparyan, and the Southern California Open, partnering with Tatjana Maria.
2016: Indian Wells semifinalist, top 50
She made the third round at the Australian Open for the first time at this Major.
She reached her first semifinal at a WTA Premier tournaments level in Indian Wells partnering Sara Errani.
On 13 June 2016, she reached a career-high doubles ranking of No. 43.
2023: Wimbledon quarterfinalist
At the Australian Open, she reached the third round for the second time at this major, partnering Alycia Parks but lost in straight sets to top seeds and eventual champions Czech duo Kateřina Siniaková and Barbora Krejčíková.
She reached her first Grand Slam quarterfinal at Wimbledon, partnering Belarusian Iryna Shymanovich, where they lost to 16th seeds Zhang Shuai and Caroline Dolehide in straight sets, in one hour.
She also partnered with Shymanovich at the US Open and with Miriam Kolodziejová at a WTA 1000 level in Guadalajara and the 2023 China Open (tennis).
She was selected to play in the 2023 WTA Elite Trophy with Yana Sizikova with whom she had also partnered earlier for the WTA 1000 tournaments during the clay court season.
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.
Singles
Current after the season of 2022.
Doubles
Current through the 2023 Australian Open.
WTA Tour career finals
Doubles: 12 (6 titles, 6 runner-ups)
WTA 125 finals
Doubles: 11 (3 titles, 8 runner–ups)
ITF Circuit finals
Singles: 10 (5 titles, 5 runner–ups)
Doubles: 34 (25 titles, 9 runner–ups)
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References
External links
1990 births
Georgian people of Russian descent
Living people
Sportspeople from Tbilisi
Female tennis players from Georgia (country)