Sinja Kraus (born 29 April 2002) is an Austrian

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player. She has career-high WTA rankings of world No. 151 in singles, achieved in May 2023, and No. 303 in doubles, attained in December 2023.

Juniors

She reached a career-high ITF juniors ranking of world No. 87, on 21 January 2019. Kraus also won a bronze medal at the

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National representation

She represents

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in the

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and made her debut in

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, when she partnered

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in the (then

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) tie against

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, losing to

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and

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Career

Kraus made her

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main-draw debut as a wildcard entrant at the 2021 Linz Open, losing to

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in the first round. As a qualifier, she defeated eighth seed

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to reach the second round at the WTA 125 2023 Bogota Open, where she lost to

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Grand Slam performance timeline

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 18 (11 titles, 7 runner–ups)

Doubles: 5 (2 titles, 3 runner–ups)

Junior career

ITF Circuit finals

Singles (4–1)

Doubles (3–2)

National representation

Kraus was nominated to make her

debut for

in 2019, while the team was competing in the Europe/Africa Zone Group II, the opponent forfeited the match.

Fed Cup

Singles (5–6)

Doubles (5–5)

walkover John Baxter Taylor and William Robbins (athlete)">William Robbins to refuse to race in protest. A walkover, also W.O. or w/o (originally two words: "walk over"), is awarded to the opposing team/player, etc., if there are no other players avail ...

doesn't count in her overall record.

References

External links

* * * Living people 2002 births Austrian female tennis players 21st-century Austrian sportswomen Place of birth missing (living people) Long stubs with short prose {{Austria-tennis-bio-stub