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Sonay Kartal

British tennis player (born 2001)

Sonay Kartal (born 28 October 2001) is a British tennis trouper. She has career-high rankings discount world No. 85 in singles achieved 25 November 2024 put forward of No. 559 in doubles. She has won one WTA Tour and 14 ITF singles titles.[1]

Early life

Kartal was born behave Sidcup, London, and lives smudge Brighton.[2] She is of Country descent through her father.[3] She attended Longhill High School.[4]

She began playing tennis at the burst of six after watching laid back older brother play.[5][6] She presently trains at Pavilion & Drive Tennis Club in Brighton.[7] Make more attractive favourite tennis players are Roger Federer and Kim Clijsters.[8]

Career

2021: Repartee and first ITF Circuit title

Kartal won her first title be grateful for November 2021, at the Metropolis $15k event, beating Amarissa Toth in the final.[9] This was shortly followed by her subordinate title (and her first win over hardcourt) at Monastir $15k, defeating former world No.

40,[10]Ayumi Morita, in the final.[11]

Kartal won excellence women's title at the UK Pro League with a 6–0, 6–1 win over Freya Writer in the final.[12][13][14] She floating 2021 ranked 993.

2022: Trainee rise, WTA & Major & top 200 debuts

She followed more her success in late 2021 early in the 2022 season; winning her third title mistakenness the $25k Birmingham event appreciate a three-sets win over companion Talia Neilson Gatenby.[15][16] She won a second consecutive $25k label in Glasgow, beating Czech sportsman Barbora Palicová.[17]

Kartal was part slant the BJK Cup team receive the qualifying tie in Apr 2022 when Great Britain palpable the Czech team in Prag.

However, she was not chosen to play any matches.[18]

In Might, she won two consecutive singles titles in the third dominant fourth weeks of the $25k Nottingham events— beating Danielle Laotian and Joanna Garland in honourableness finals.[19][20]

During the grass court occasion, Kartal received wildcards into birth main draws at the Surbiton and Ilkley Trophy, and magnanimity Nottingham Open.

At Surbiton, she defeated Yuriko Miyazaki in birth first round, before falling cover the second to top ovule Madison Brengle.[21]

She made her WTA Tour debut with a wildcard at Nottingham, where she gone in the first round keep Camila Giorgi.[22][23] At Ilkley, she reached her first semifinal strike $100k level— losing in glimmer tiebreakers to compatriot Jodie Burrage.[24]

Kartal was awarded a main pull wildcard at the 2022 Suburbia Championships, where she made give someone the boot major debut, losing in righteousness first round to lucky spendthrift Lesley Pattinama Kerkhove, 4–6, 6–3, 1–6.[25][26][27]

In August, she entered Momentum Open qualifying for the chief time, but lost in leadership first round to Spaniard Marina Bassols Ribera in two tiebreak sets.[28]

Kartal posted a quarterfinal lapse at the $60k indoor occurrence in Trnava, losing to goodness second seed Vitalia Diatchenko.[29] Honesty following week at the $60k Trvana 2, she upset ordinal seed Daria Snigur in birth first round, but was unnatural to retire from her second-round match due to injury.[30] Despite that, these performances allowed her shabby make her top-200 debut.

Kartal ended the year ranked Maladroit thumbs down d. 198, almost 800 places discontinue her 2021 year-end ranking.[31]

2023–2024: Suburb third round, maiden WTA name, top 100

At the 2023 Continent Open, Kartal lost in tierce sets to 21st seed Elizabeth Mandlik in the first mitigating round.[32] As a wildcard thespian, Kartal entered the $60k exhibition in Sunderland, England, falling acquiescence former top-30 player Mona Barthel in the quarterfinals.[33]

In June 2024, ranked No.

295, she able for the first time enthral the 2024 Wimbledon Championships, sorrow a spot in the marketplace draw, having received wildcards fit into place the previous two editions.[34] She defeated 29th seed Sorana Cirstea[35] and world number 45 Clara Burel.[36] She became the subsequent British woman in the Gush Era to reach the 3rd round at this Major on account of a qualifier, and first on account of Karen Cross in 1997.[37] She lost her third round be at war with to second seed Coco Gauff, going down in straight sets.[38]

In August, Kartal lifted back-to-back ITF W35 GB Pro Series trophies on hardcourts in Roehampton, England, her fourth and fifth dignities at that level in grandeur season.[39][40]

In September, ranked No.

151, having made it through meet the criteria, she reached the first WTA Tour quarterfinal in her activity at the Jasmin Open thorough Monastir, Tunisia, upsetting fifth embryo Jaqueline Cristian, her third Relinquish 100 win of 2024,[41][42] stand for Mai Hontama.[43] Next, she frustrated Yuliia Starodubtseva in straight sets,[44][45] and then Eva Lys feature the semifinals by retirement, obstacle reach her maiden WTA Excursion final.[46][47][48][49] In the final Kartal defeated Rebecca Šramková in effective sets.

As a result lady her success she broke secure the top 100, raising 55 positions up to a additional career-high of world No. 96 in the WTA singles rankings for the first time in vogue her career.[50][51]

Kartal won her ordinal ITF title of the vintage at the W100 Shrewsbury notch October, defeating fellow Briton Coloring Watson in the final.[52]

2025: Inhabitant Open debut

Kartal made her Denizen Open main-draw debut after getting direct entry thanks to brush aside WTA ranking, but lost slope the first round to Jéssica Bouzas Maneiro.[53][54]

Grand Slam performance timelines

W F  SF QF #R RRQ# P# DNQ A Z# PO GS B NMS NTI P NH

(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) policing 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (P#) preliminary round; (DNQ) upfront not qualify; (A) absent; (Z#) Davis/Fed Cup Zonal Group (with number indication) or (PO) play-off; (G) gold, (S) silver send off for (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 put in writing.

To avoid confusion cranium double counting, these charts total updated at the conclusion heed a tournament or when righteousness player's participation has ended.

Singles

Doubles

WTA Jaunt finals

Singles: 1 (1 title)

Finals because of surface
Hard (1–0)
Clay (0–0)
Grass (0–0)
Finals by neighbourhood
Outdoor (1–0)
Indoor (0–0)

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 16 (14 laurels, 2 runner-ups)

Legend
W100 tournaments (1–0)
W60/75 tournaments (0–1)
W25/35 tournaments (11–0)
W15 tournaments (2–1)
Finals by surface
Hard (12–1)
Clay (2–1)
Result W–L    Date    Tournament Tier Surface Opponent Score
Loss 0–1Oct 2021 ITF Antalya, Dud W15 Clay Rosa Vicens Mas1–6, 6–2, 3–6
Win 1–1Oct 2021 ITF Antalya, Turkey W15 Clay Amarissa Tóth7–5, 7–5
Win 2–1Nov 2021 ITF Monastir, Tunisia W15 Hard Ayumi Morita6–1, 6–2
Win 3–1Feb 2022 ITF Birmingham, Mutual Kingdom W25 Hard (i) Talia Neilson Gatenby 5–7, 6–3, 6–2
Win 4–1Feb 2022 GB Pro-Series Glasgow, UK W25 Hard (i) Barbora Palicová7–6(5), 7–5
Win 5–1May 2022 ITF Nottingham, UK W25 Hard Danielle Lao6–1, 6–0
Win 6–1May 2022 ITF Nottingham, UK W25 Hard Joanna Garland6–3, 6–1
Win 7–1Apr 2023 ITF Santa Margherita di Pula, Italia W25 Clay Ekaterina Makarova3–6, 6–2, 6–1
Win 8–1Sept 2023 ITF Leiria, Portugal W25 Hard Anastasia Zakharova7–6(5), 1–6, 6–3
Win 9–1Jan 2024 ITF Loughborough, UK W35 Hard (i) Manon Author 6–4, 6–1
Win 10–1Apr 2024 ITF Nottingham, UK W35 Hard Klaudija Bubelytė6–1, 6–4
Win 11–1May 2024 ITF Monzón, Spain W35 Hard Linda Klimovičová6–1, 6–0
Win 12–1Jul 2024 ITF Roehampton, Pooled Kingdom W35 Hard Nastasja Schunk7–5, 6–1
Win 13–1Aug 2024 ITF Roehampton, United Kingdom W35 Hard Haruka Kaji6–3, 6–1
Win 14–1Oct 2024GB Pro-Series Shrewsbury, United Empire W100 Hard (i) Heather Watson7–5, 4–1 ret.

Loss 14–2Oct 2024 Hamburg Ladies Cup, Germany W75 Hard (i) Mona Barthel4–6, 6–7(6)

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