Yuliia Volodymyrivna Starodubtseva (Ukrainian: Юлія Володимирівна Стародубцева; born 17 February 2000) is a Ukrainian tennis player. She has a career-high ranking of world No. 115 by the WTA achieved on 23 September 2024 and peaked at No. 144 in doubles on 9 May 2024.
Starodubtseva has won four singles titles and three doubles titles on the ITF Circuit.
Starodubtseva won her first $60k tournament in June 2023 in Sumter, South Carolina, defeating Indian player Karman Thandi.[2]
2024: Major, WTA 1000 debuts & fourth round, WTA quarterfinal, top 100
She reached the top 150 in the singles rankings on 15 January 2024. She made her Grand Slam debut at the 2024 Australian Open after qualifying,[3][4][5] but lost in the first round to sixth seed Ons Jabeur.[6]
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.[10]
In September, Starodubtseva reached her first WTA Tour quarterfinal at the 2024 Jasmin Open by defeating Suzan Lamens[11] and third seed Diane Parry[12][13] before losing to Sonay Kartal.[14] 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.[15] Next, she defeated Elina Avanesyan, for her first top 50 win, to reach the round of 16 of a WTA 1000 for the first time in her career. As a result she reached the top 100 in the singles rankings.[16]
Grand Slam singles performance timeline
Key
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F
SF
QF
#R
RR
Q#
P#
DNQ
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Z#
PO
G
S
B
NMS
NTI
P
NH
(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (P#) preliminary round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (Z#) Davis/Fed Cup Zonal Group (with number indication) or (PO) play-off; (G) gold, (S) silver or (B) bronze Olympic/Paralympic medal; (NMS) not a Masters tournament; (NTI) not a Tier I tournament; (P) postponed; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.
To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated at the conclusion of a tournament or when the player's participation has ended.