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Daria Kasatkina

Daria Kasatkina
Дарья Касаткина
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Full name Daria Sergeyevna Kasatkina
Country (sports)  Russia
Born (1997-05-07) 7 May 1997 (age 19)
Tolyatti, Russia
Height 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Plays Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Coach(es) Maxim Prasolov (2008–2011)
Damir Nurgaliev (2011–2014)
Vladimir Platenik (2014–present)
Prize money $ 1,068,752
Singles
Career record 119–45
Career titles 0 WTA, 7 ITF
Highest ranking No. 24 (15 August 2016)
Current ranking No. 24 (3 October 2016)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open 3R (2016)
French Open 3R (2016)
Wimbledon 3R (2016)
US Open 3R (2015)
Other tournaments
Olympic Games QF (2016)
Doubles
Career record 27–21
Career titles 1 WTA, 0 ITF
Highest ranking No. 43 (15 August 2016)
Current ranking No. 43 (3 October 2016)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open 2R (2016)
French Open 1R (2016)
Wimbledon 3R (2016)
US Open 2R (2016)
Other doubles tournaments
Olympic Games QF (2016)
Last updated on: 3 October 2016.

Daria Sergeyevna Kasatkina (Russian: Дарья Сергеевна Касаткина; born 7 May 1997) is a Russian tennis player. On August 15 2016, she reached her best singles ranking of world number 24 and her best doubles ranking of world number 43.

Kasatkina, coached by Vladimir Platenik from Slovakia, has won seven singles titles on the ITF tour and one WTA doubles title on in her career. She also won the girls' singles tournament at the French Open in June 2014, defeating Ivana Jorović in three sets in the final. Kasatkina was part of the Russia team that won the Junior Fed Cup in 2013.

Daria was born 7 May 1997 in Tolyatti, Samara Oblast. Her father Sergey works at the Volga Automobile Plant, and her mother Tatyana is a house wife. Tatyana and Sergey are both Candidates for Master of Sports—Tatyana in athletics and Sergey in ice hockey. Her brother Aleksandr brought her to tennis.

Kasatkina took the racket at age six, she was 11 when she was coached by Maxim Prasolov. Three years later her new coach became Damir Rishatovich Nurgaliev, a well-known tennis coach in the Samara Oblast. The fourteen year old won her first tournament at the fourth-graded Samara Cup. A year later she debuted at Grand Slam junior tournaments. The Russian team of Kasatkina, Veronika Kudermetova and Aleksandra Pospelova won the Junior Fed Cup in 2013 defeating Australia in final in San Luis Potosí, Mexico.


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