Victoria Jiménez Kasintseva

Victoria Jiménez Kasintseva (born 9 August 2005) is a junior tennis player from Andorra. She won the 2020 Australian Open girls' singles title, defeating Weronika Baszak in the final. This was her Grand Slam debut, and she was the youngest player in the draw.[2]

Victoria Jiménez Kasintseva
Country (sports) Andorra
Born (2005-08-09) 9 August 2005
Andorra
PlaysLeft-handed (two-handed backhand)[1]
CoachJoan Jimenez
Singles
Career record3–4
Highest rankingNo. 1 (9 March 2020)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian OpenQ1 (2021)
Australian Open JuniorW (2020)
French Open Junior2R (2020)
Doubles
Career record3–3
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open Junior1R (2020)
French Open Junior2R (2020)
Last updated on: 1 February 2020.

Jiménez Kasintseva has won seven singles titles on the ITF juniors circuit, as well as one doubles title. She achieved her highest ITF Junior ranking of No. 1 on 9 March 2020.

Jiménez Kasintseva began training with her father and coach, Joan Jimenez, who reached a career-high ATP Tour ranking of 505 in 1999. She admires fellow left-handers Rafael Nadal and Petra Kvitová.[3]

Junior Grand Slam finals

Singles: 1 (1 title)

Result Year Tournament Surface Opponent Score
Winner 2020 Australian Open Hard Weronika Baszak 5–7, 6–2, 6–2

ITF junior finals

Grand Slam
Category GA
Category G1
Category G2
Category G3
Category G4
Category G5

Singles (7–0)

Outcome W–L Date Tournament Grade Surface Opponent Score
Winner 1–0 April 2019 Tarragona, Spain G5 Clay Sebastianna Scilipoti 6–2, 6–7, 7–6
Winner 2–0 July 2019 Limelette, Belgium G4 Clay Amelia Waligora 6–4, 6–0
Winner 3–0 August 2019 Barcelona, Spain G3 Clay Anouck Vrancken Peeters 6–4, 3–6, 6–3
Winner 4–0 September 2019 El Prat de Llobregat, Spain G3 Clay Vanda Vargova 4–6, 6–2, 6–0
Winner 5–0 November 2019 Saint-Cyprien, France G3 Hard Amelia Bissett 6–7, 6–1, 7–6
Winner 6–0 December 2019 Mérida, Mexico GA Hard Mélodie Collard 7–6, 6–2
Winner 7–0 January 2020 Australian Open Grand Slam Hard Weronika Baszak 5–7, 6–2, 6–2

Doubles (1–2)

Outcome W–L Date Tournament Grade Surface Partner Opponents Score
Runner-up 0–1 September 2019 Palermo, Italy G3 Clay Tea Lukic Jennifer Ruggeri
Arianna Zucchini
6–3, 5–7, [2–10]
Winner 1–1 September 2019 El Prat de Llobregat, Spain G3 Clay Fiona Arrese Mata Eleonora Alvisi
Flavie Brugnone
6–3, 6–4
Runner-up 1–2 November 2019 Cancún, Mexico G1 Hard Amarissa Kiara Tóth Maria Bondarenko
Darja Semenistaja
6–3, 0–6, [8–10]

References

  1. "Victoria Jiménez KASINTSEVA". International Tennis Federation. Retrieved 1 February 2020.
  2. "Jimenez Kasintseva wins historic Australian Open girls crown". WTA Tennis. Retrieved 2 February 2020.
  3. "Juniors wrap: Jimenez Kasintseva, Mayot earn AO2020 glory". Aus Open. Retrieved 2 February 2020.
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