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WTABest WTA ranking No. 11

Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova

RUS35 yrs5' 10" (1.77 m)

Best WTA ranking No. 11

World junior champion at 15, Roland-Garros finalist in 2021.

Plays: Right-handed, two-handed backhand
Nickname: Nastia, “The Thunder”

Figures as of 30 September 2026.

Profile & career

A career built on precocity and longevity.

Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova's career is a model of consistency and versatility. At 15 she was one of the youngest world junior champions in history, in 2006, and in 2023 she became the first player to reach 100 main-draw appearances at WTA 1000 tournaments.

She has won 12 WTA titles, the first women's UTS event in 2020 and the Billie Jean King Cup in 2021. She has reached the quarter-finals of every Grand Slam tournament, in singles and in doubles, and played the final of Roland-Garros in 2021, the greatest achievement of her career.

A member of the Mouratoglou Academy since 2006, she was coached personally by Patrick Mouratoglou from 2007 to 2009.

Did you know?She was crowned world junior champion at the age of 15, one of the youngest in history.

GRAND SLAMS

Anastasia & the Grand Slams.

Quarter-finals or better at all four Grand Slam tournaments.

Australian OpenHard courtBest resultQuarter-final2017, 2019, 2020

Roland-GarrosClay courtBest resultFinal2021

WimbledonGrass courtBest resultQuarter-final2016

US OpenHard courtBest resultQuarter-final2011

CAREER

Titles, year by year.

Pavlyuchenkova turned professional at the end of 2005 but really made her mark on the WTA Tour from 2008, once her junior career was over. She reached the top 50 within a few months and the top 20 in 2010, the year of her first title in Monterrey, a tournament she went on to win four times. Although she has never been in the top 10 herself (11th at best, in 2021), she has beaten 38 players from that elite group, starting with world No. 3 Jelena Janković at Indian Wells in 2009, and she beat world No. 1 Angelique Kerber in the 2017 Monterrey final. In August 2020, on the courts of the Mouratoglou Academy, she became the only woman to date to win a UTS event, beating Ons Jabeur and then Alizé Cornet under the nickname “The Thunder”.

Junior career

2006
The year she joined the Mouratoglou Academy: Australian Open junior champion against Caroline Wozniacki, US Open junior champion against Tamira Paszek and Roland-Garros junior finalist against Agnieszka Radwańska. World junior champion at the end of the season, one of the youngest in history after Gabriela Sabatini and Martina Hingis.
2007
Retained her Australian Open junior title against Madison Brengle. She won 13 ITF junior titles in all, including three majors.

WTA titles

2010
Monterrey · Istanbul
2011
Monterrey
2013
Monterrey · Oeiras
2014
Paris · Moscow
2015
Linz
2017
Monterrey · Rabat · Hong Kong
2018
Strasbourg

STATISTICS & RECORDS

Records of a remarkable career.

Top-10 wins

Wins against players ranked in the world's top 10.

Seasons in the top 50

Consecutive seasons spent in the WTA top 50.

1st

100 WTA 1000 appearances

The first player to reach 100 main-draw appearances at WTA 1000 tournaments, in 2023.

MOURATOGLOU ACADEMY

Almost 20 years of loyalty.

Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova is one of the longest-standing and most loyal members of the Mouratoglou Academy, which she joined in 2006 at the age of 15. Patrick Mouratoglou coached her personally between 2007 and 2009 and guided the rapid rise of her professional career. She describes him as “an incredible motivator, who always knows how to put a player at ease and create a good atmosphere”.

At the academy she has more recently worked with Nicolas Beuque and Pierre Debrosse.

DISCOVER THE ACADEMY

GALLERY

Anastasia at the Academy.

GAME & EQUIPMENT

How Anastasia plays.

Her equipment

A Wilson player since 2013, she uses a Wilson Blade 98 with a 16×19 string pattern, strung with Luxilon 4G Rough monofilament (1.25 mm gauge).

Train in the gear of the Academy: rackets, apparel and accessories.

SHOP MOURATOGLOU

OFF THE COURT

Personal life & interests.

Widely praised for her cheerful, outgoing personality, “Nastia”, who now speaks fluent French, loves fashion, music, dance and film. She has several tattoos, including a lightning bolt behind her left ear that helped earn her the nickname “The Thunder” when she won UTS in 2020. Sport has been part of her life for as long as she can remember: her grandparents were international basketball players and her mother a swimmer.