Ekaterina Alexandrova - People also ask

She is based in Prague, Czech Republic, and has trained there for years, which is also why part of her team is Czech. She was born in Chelyabinsk, an industrial city in the Urals, and grew up in Russia before moving her base to central Europe for easier travel and year-round training. Sources: WTA, Wikipedia.

She is Russian. She has represented Russia in team competition, including the Billie Jean King Cup. Since 2022, Russian and Belarusian players have competed on the WTA Tour and at the Grand Slams without a national flag or country designation next to their names, a rule that applies to her as it does to Aryna Sabalenka and Daniil Medvedev. Sources: WTA, Wikipedia.

She is 31 years old, born on November 15, 1994. She turns 32 in November 2026. Her career peak has come late by tour standards: she broke into the world top 10 for the first time at 30, in October 2025. Sources: WTA, Wikipedia.

She is 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in). She is right-handed with a two-handed backhand, and the height translates into a flat, low-margin game built on taking the ball early and hitting through the court rather than grinding from behind the baseline. Sources: WTA, ITF.

She reached a career-high world No. 10 on October 13, 2025 and has spent 2026 in the high teens. She is seeded 18th at the 2026 US Open, based on the WTA rankings of August 24, 2026. She has been a fixture inside the top 30 for most of the last six seasons. Sources: WTA, LTA.

Yes, and more than once. On August 8, 2026 she beat the world No. 1 7-6(3), 4-6, 6-4 in the fourth round of the Canadian Open in Toronto, a match that lasted two hours and 29 minutes and took her to the quarter-finals. It was her third career win over a reigning world No. 1. Sabalenka is one of the few top players whose game she has consistently solved. Sources: Al Jazeera, WTA.

Five WTA Tour singles titles: Linz in 2018, Shenzhen in 2020, Rosmalen and Seoul in 2022, and Linz again in 2025. She has also won three WTA doubles titles, the most recent being the 2026 Abu Dhabi Open alongside Maya Joint, a first WTA 500 doubles trophy for both of them. Sources: WTA, Wikipedia.

The fourth round, which she has reached four times: the French Open in 2025, Wimbledon in 2023 and 2025, and the US Open in 2025. She has never made a Grand Slam quarter-final, which is the single line missing from an otherwise solid top-20 résumé and the obvious target in New York. Sources: WTA, ESPN.

Igor Andreev, the former ATP top-20 player, who joined her team in December 2024. She also works with Evgeny Alexandrov and Czech coach Vojta Flegl. The Andreev partnership lines up with the best stretch of her career: the Linz title in 2025 and her first appearance inside the world top 10. Source: Wikipedia.

More than 10.4 million US dollars in career prize money, roughly 10,450,000 dollars as of 2026. That total reflects longevity as much as peaks: she has played main-draw Grand Slam tennis almost without interruption since 2019, and Slam prize pools have grown sharply over that period. Source: WTA.

Flat, fast and early. She is right-handed with a two-handed backhand, takes the ball on the rise, and hits with very little net clearance, which makes her lethal on quick hard courts and vulnerable when the timing slips. It is a low-variance, high-ceiling game: on a good day she can strike a world No. 1 off the court, on a bad one she can lose to anyone. Sources: WTA, Wikipedia.

Solid rather than spectacular until the North American swing. She reached the Abu Dhabi Open final in February, losing in straight sets to qualifier Sára Bejlek, then won the doubles title in the same city on the same day with Maya Joint. The season's headline came in August in Toronto, where she beat world No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka to reach the quarter-finals. Sources: Wikipedia, WTA, Al Jazeera.