Marta Sirotkina
# Marta Sirotkina

Marta Aleksandrovna Sirotkina (Russian: Марта Александровна Сироткина, born 22 March 1991) is a former Russian tennis player. Her career-high singles ranking is world No. 115, which she reached on 25 February 2013. In doubles, she reached No. 141 in February 2013.

## Career highlights

Apart from professional success on the ITF Circuit (in her career she won 12 singles and 12 doubles titles), Sirotkina won bronze medals in the Moscow Winter Championships (singles and doubles) in 2009, later winning a gold medal in the Russian Championships. She also won silver medals in the Moscow Championships and gold in the "Cup of Russia" doubles tournament.

### 2011

Sirotkina won three ITF titles in singles in 2011, two $10k tournaments in Bath, Somerset, and Antalya, Turkey, and a $25k tournament in Bangkok, Thailand.

She began 2011 with a bang in Bath, beating the top seed on way to capturing the Aegon Pro Series $10k title, while in the $25k event the following week she beat two higher ranked players to make the main draw where she destroyed former world top-20 star Anna-Lena Grönefeld before falling in the quarterfinals to Claire Feuerstein.

Sirotkina competed in the $25k Foxhills event on 11 July 2011, seeded fifth. Sirotkina defeated Daneika Borthwick in the first round and Samantha Murray in the second round. In the quarterfinals, she was defeated by the first seed, Vitalia Diatchenko.

She participated in the Tatarstan Open in singles and in doubles. Ksenia Lykina was her doubles partner. In the first round of the singles, Sirotkina defeated Valeria Solovyeva. In the second round, she lost to the third seed, Anastasiya Yakimova. In the doubles, she and Lykina lost to the second seeds, Ekaterina Ivanova and Andreja Klepač, in the semifinals, after defeating the fourth seeds, Tetyana Arefyeva and Eugeniya Pashkova in the first round and Natela Dzalamidze and Mandy Minella in the quarterfinals.

Sirotkina competed in the 2011 Summer Universiade in both singles and doubles. In singles, she lost in the third round to eventual bronze-medalist Yoo Mi. Sirotkina partnered with Ksenia Lykina in the doubles and they won a bronze medal.

She competed in the singles qualifying of the Tashkent Open, seeded No. 4, and defeated Viktoriya Karmenova, and in the second round Lyudmyla Kichenok. In the final round, she lost to Aleksandra Krunić.

## Personal life

Marta completed her studies at the Moscow Institute for Sports and Fitness Studies. She was funded by a sports-academic scholarship from the Yeltsin Fund. As well as her native Russian she speaks English and Spanish, having attended the Spanish Immersion High School in Moscow. She has one older brother, and she likes playing on hardcourt surfaces but her favourite surface is grass.

In October 2010, Hiberno International and Marta signed a long term management agreement which saw Marta undergo an intensive training camp in the Republic of Ireland at the Tennis Ireland BNP-Paribas National Academy in Dublin under the guidance of her manager Alan Moore and the Internationally respected Garry Cahill (former Ireland Fed Cup team captain and former Ireland Davis Cup team captain).

She lives in London with her partner, former Junior US Open champion Oliver Golding.

## ITF finals

* Legend
* $100,000 tournaments
* $75,000 tournaments
* $50,000 tournaments
* $25,000 tournaments
* $10,000 tournaments

### Singles: 20 (12 titles, 8 runner-ups)

| Result | No. | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Opponent | Score |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Loss | 1. | Nov 2009 | ITF Stockholm, Sweden | 10,000 | Hard | Lyudmyla Kichenok | 3–6, 3–6 |
| Win | 1. | Apr 2010 | ITF Ain Sukhna, Egypt | 10,000 | Clay | Ekaterine Gorgodze | 6–3, 6–1 |
| Win | 2. | Sep 2010 | ITF Madrid, Spain | 10,000 | Hard | Naomi Broady | 4–6, 6–4, 6–4 |
| Win | 3. | Nov 2010 | ITF Antalya, Turkey | 10,000 | Hard | Martina Balogova | 6–2, 6–0 |
| Win | 4. | Dec 2010 | ITF Dubai, United Arab Emirates | 10,000 | Hard | Mihaela Buzărnescu | 6–0, 6–0 |
| Win | 5. | Mar 2011 | GB Pro-Series Bath, UK | 10,000 | Hard | Giulia Gatto-Monticone | w/o |
| Win | 6. | Apr 2011 | ITF Antalya, Turkey | 10,000 | Hard | Yana Buchina | 6–1, 6–0 |
| Loss | 2. | May 2011 | ITF Bukhara, Uzbekistan | 25,000 | Hard | Nikola Hofmanova | 4–6, 5–7 |
| Win | 7. | Jun 2011 | ITF Bangkok, Thailand | 25,000 | Hard | Luksika Kumkhum | 6–4, 6–3 |
| Win | 8. | Feb 2012 | ITF Linköping, Sweden | 10,000 | Hard (i) | Milana Špremo | 6–1, 6–3 |
| Win | 9. | Apr 2012 | ITF Phuket, Thailand | 25,000 | Hard | Claire Feuerstein | 7–5, $7–6^{(6)}$ |
| Win | 10. | May 2012 | ITF Karuizawa, Japan | 25,000 | Grass | Junri Namigata | 6–4, 2–6, 6–4 |
| Loss | 3. | Jul 2012 | President's Cup, Kazakhstan | 100,000 | Hard | Maria João Koehler | 5–7, 2–6 |
| Loss | 4. | Feb 2013 | ITF Eilat, Israel | 75,000 | Hard | Elina Svitolina | 3–6, 6–3, 5–7 |
| Loss | 5. | Aug 2013 | Tatarstan Open, Russia | 50,000 | Hard | Anna-Lena Friedsam | 2–6, 3–6 |
| Loss | 6. | Sep 2013 | GB Pro-Series Shrewsbury, UK | 25,000 | Hard | Alison Van Uytvanck | 5–7, 1–6 |
| Win | 11. | Nov 2013 | GB Pro-Series Barnstaple, UK | 75,000 | Hard (i) | Kristýna Plíšková | $6–7^{(5)},$ 6–3, $7–6^{(6)}$ |
| Loss | 7. | Dec 2013 | Ankara Cup, Turkey | 50,000 | Hard (i) | Vitalia Diatchenko | 7–6, 4–6, 4–6 |
| Win | 12. | Aug 2014 | ITF Woking, United Kingdom | 25,000 | Hard | Ana Bogdan | 7–5, 6–3 |
| Loss | 8. | Feb 2015 | ITF Sunderland, United Kingdom | 10,000 | Hard (i) | Amy Bowtell | 4–6, 3–6 |

### Doubles: 17 (12 titles, 5 runner-ups)

| Outcome | No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Winner | 1. | 17 May 2009 | ITF St. Petersburg, Russia | Hard (i) | Yuliya Kalabina | Avgusta Tsybysheva Maria Zharkova | 6–1, 6–2 |
| Runner-up | 1. | 23 May 2009 | ITF Moscow, Russia | Clay | Yuliya Kalabina | Maria Kondratieva Arina Rodionova | 5–7, 1–6 |
| Winner | 2. | 5 June 2009 | ITF Bukhara, Uzbekistan | Hard | Anna Brazhnikova | Ksenia Palkina Arina Rodionova | 3–6, 6–4, [11–9] |
| Winner | 3. | 11 April 2010 | ITF Ain Sukhna, Egypt | Clay | Anna Brazhnikova | Audrey Bergot Chanel Simmonds | 6–3, 6–3 |
| Runner-up | 2. | 29 May 2010 | ITF Grado, Italy | Clay | Karina Pimkina | Han Xinyun Lu Jingjing | 6–1, 4–6, [8–10] |
| Runner-up | 3. | 11 September 2010 | ITF Madrid, Spain | Hard | Jennifer Ren | Naomi Broady Emily Webley-Smith | 2–6, 3–6 |
| Winner | 4. | 30 October 2010 | ITF Istanbul, Turkey | Hard | Oksana Kalashnikova | Ekaterina Bychkova Iryna Brémond | 6–3, 6–1 |
| Winner | 5. | 6 November 2010 | ITF Antalya, Turkey | Hard | Nigina Abduraimova | Julia Samuseva Ekaterina Yakovleva | 3–6, 6–1, [10–7] |
| Winner | 6. | 13 November 2010 | ITF Antalya, Turkey | Hard | Nikola Fraňková | Daria Salnikova Nicola Slater | 3–6, 7–5, [10–5] |
| Runner-up | 4. | 24 April 2011 | ITF Antalya, Turkey | Hard | Maria Zharkova | Laura-Ioana Andrei Sylwia Zagórska | 1–6, $6–7^{(0)}$ |
| Runner-up | 5. | 18 February 2012 | ITF Linköping, Sweden | Hard (i) | Margarita Lazareva | Dejana Raickovic Alina Wessel | 6–1, 3–6, [8–10] |
| Winner | 7. | 25 February 2012 | ITF Moscow, Russia | Hard (i) | Oksana Kalashnikova | Tatiana Kotelnikova Lidziya Marozava | 7–6, 4–6, [11–9] |
| Winner | 8. | 24 March 2012 | ITF Phuket, Thailand | Hard | Natela Dzalamidze | Chan Chin-wei Zheng Saisai | 6–4, 6–1 |
| Winner | 9. | 21 April 2012 | ITF Namangan, Uzbekistan | Hard | Oksana Kalashnikova | Naomi Broady Paula Kania | 6–2, 7–5 |
| Winner | 10. | 28 July 2012 | President's Cup, Kazakhstan | Hard | Oksana Kalashnikova | Lyudmyla Kichenok Nadiia Kichenok | 3–6, 6–4, [10–2] |
| Winner | 11. | 15 July 2013 | ITF Woking, United Kingdom | Hard | Tara Moore | Kanae Hisami Mari Tanaka | 4–6, 6–1, [10–7] |
| Winner | 12. | 8 March 2014 | ITF Preston, United Kingdom | Hard (i) | Tara Moore | Timea Bacsinszky Kristina Barrois | 3–6, 6–1, [13–11] |
