Viktoriya Kutuzova ( uk, Вікторія Кутузова, born 19 August 1988) is a former
tennis
Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball cov ...
player from Ukraine.
On 28 November 2005, she reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 76.
Career
Even though considered a potential superstar on tour, Kutuzova remained most notable for her results as a 14-year-old. In her debut
WTA Tour
The WTA Tour is a worldwide top-tier tennis tour for women organized by the Women's Tennis Association. The second-tier tour is the WTA 125K series, and third-tier is the ITF Women's Circuit. The men's equivalent is the ATP Tour.
WTA Tour tou ...
main-draw event, the Tier-II tournament in Los Angeles 2003, Kutuzova beat top-50 player
Lina Krasnoroutskaya in the first round, and top-30 player
Alexandra Stevenson
Alexandra Winfield Stevenson (born December 15, 1980) is an American former professional tennis player.
Early life and education
Stevenson's mother is Samantha Stevenson, a sports journalist. Her father is former National Basketball Associati ...
in her next match, before losing in the third round to the then-world No. 12,
Ai Sugiyama
is a Japanese former tennis player. She reached the world No. 1 ranking in women's doubles on the WTA Tour and had a career-high singles ranking of world No. 8, achieved on February 9, 2004. In her career, she won six singles and 38 doubles t ...
.
Other career highlights in WTA Tour events included a fourth-round appearance at the Tier-I event at Indian Wells 2005, eventually losing to then-No. 1
Lindsay Davenport
Lindsay Ann Davenport Leach (born June 8, 1976) is an American former professional tennis player. Davenport was ranked singles world No. 1 for a total of 98 weeks, and was the year-end singles world No. 1 four times (1998, 2001, 2004, and 2005) ...
. Kutuzova also made the second round at three of the four
Grand Slam events on the tour.
As a junior, she reached the final of the Australian Open in 2003 losing to
Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová Barbora (; ) is a Czech and Slovak female given name. It was derived from the Greek word ''barbaros'' ( el, βαρβαρος) meaning "foreign", a variant of " Barbara". It is the 36th most popular given name in the Czech Republic (as of 2007). ...
.
Kutuzova experienced considerable success on the ITF Circuit. She won four French ITF events. In 2008, Kutuzova won her biggest ITF title in Cagnes-sur-Mer. Her other titles came in Poitiers (2005) and Deauville (2005 and 2006). In 2009, she reached the final of the $100k event in Torhout, losing to
Karolina Šprem, in straight sets.
Kutuzova suffered shoulder problems throughout her young career which stalled her progression on the main tour.
After having over a year off-tour, Kutuzova used her protected ranking to enter her first big event, the
2011 Sparta Prague Open, where she lost to
Katarzyna Piter
Katarzyna Piter (; born 16 February 1991) is a Polish professional tennis player.
In the spring of 2014, she reached her career-high rankings, No. 95 in singles and 67 (new high in July 2022: No. 66) in doubles. She has won eight singles and 25 ...
in round one. She also entered Roland Garros using her protected ranking, but was beaten by
Chanelle Scheepers
Chanelle Scheepers ( ; born 13 March 1984) is a retired South African tennis player.
She won one singles and one doubles title on the WTA Tour, as well as 12 singles and 20 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit in her career. On 10 Octobe ...
in the first round.
ITF Circuit finals
Singles (6–2)
Doubles (0–1)
Performance timeline
Singles
External links
*
*
*
Official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kutuzova, Viktoriya
1988 births
Ukrainian female tennis players
Living people
Sportspeople from Odesa
21st-century Ukrainian women