Eva Lys (born 12 January 2002) is a German professional

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player. Lys reached a career-high

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of world No. 112 in singles on 17 April 2023. She has won three singles titles at tournaments of the

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Personal Life

She was born in

Kyiv Kyiv, also spelled Kiev, is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It is in north-central Ukraine along the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2021, its population was 2,962,180, making Kyiv the List of European cities by populat ...

, Ukraine. Her father Volodymyr is a former tennis player who represented Ukraine in the

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, and currently is a coach in

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. Lys' older sister Lisa Matviyenko is also a tennis player. She went to school at the Sportgymnasium Alter Teichweg in Hamburg, from where Marvin Möller and

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also graduated. She still has family in Ukraine, and after the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine she complained of some Russian players' "disrespectful" behaviour.

Career

As a junior she participated in the

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, winning in the qualifiers but losing in the first round. Lys made her

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main-draw debut at the 2021 Hamburg European Open when she received a wildcard into the doubles draw, partnering Noma Noha Akugue. They lost to

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and

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in the first round. Lys then made her singles debut at the

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in Stuttgart, coming through the qualifying. She beat

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in the first round, before losing to world No. 1,

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, in the second. She made her Grand Slam main-draw debut at the

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Singles performance timeline

Only WTA Tour and Grand Slam tournament main-draw results are considered in the career statistics. ''Current through the 2023 Madrid Open qualifying.''

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 4 (3 titles, 1 runner-up)

Record against top 10 players

Lys' head-to-head records against players who have been ranked in the top 10, with those who are active in boldface.''

References

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Lys, Eva 2002 births Living people Sportspeople from Kyiv German female tennis players German people of Ukrainian descent 21st-century German women