Elizaveta Dmitrievna Kulichkova (; born 12 April 1996) is a Russian former tennis player. She competed for her last pro match at the 2017 US Open.
In her career, she won seven singles titles on the ITF Circuit. On 22 February 2016, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 87.
Kulichkova was ranked the No. 3 junior tennis player in the world in May 2012, and in January 2014, won the girls' singles and doubles events at the Australian Open.
Career Kulichkova made her WTA Tour main-draw debut at the 2014 İstanbul Cup as a qualifier. Having defeated Nadiia Kichenok and Melinda Czink in the preliminary rounds, she lost to Shahar Pe'er in round one. Further first-round exits followed in Hong Kong and Seoul before once again coming through qualifying in Tianjin where she defeated Sílvia Soler Espinosa, before losing to Peng Shuai in the second round.
Kulichkova made her major debut at the 2015 Wimbledon Championships by defeating Yanina Wickmayer (3–6, 7–6, 10–8), before losing to eventual quarterfinalist Madison Keys in the second round (4–6, 6–7). Then, she reached semifinals in Bursa. In the first round at Baku, she was close to defeat top-seeded Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova but she lost the final tie-breaker.
For the first time Kulichkova was nominated for the Russia Fed Cup team in 2016 in the World Group play-offs against Belarus. She should have played the last dead rubber with Elena Vesnina, but she was replaced by Daria Kasatkina.
Grand Slam performance timelines Singles Australian OpenRoland GarrosWimbledonUS Open2017R128---2016R32---2015--R64R128
ITF Circuit finals Singles: 9 (7 titles, 2 runner–ups) Legend $50,000 tournaments $25,000 tournaments $10,000 tournamentsFinals by surfaceHard (5–2)Clay (2–0) ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScoreWin 1–0 Apr 2012ITF Antalya, Turkey10,000 Hard Dalila Jakupović 7–5, 6–2Loss 1–1 Apr 2013Lale Cup Istanbul, Turkey50,000 Hard Donna Vekić 4–6, 6–7(4)Win 2–1 Jul 2013ITF Istanbul, Turkey25,000 Hard Kateryna Kozlova 6–3, 4–6, 6–0Win 3–1 Dec 2013ITF Hong Kong25,000 Hard Zarina Diyas 6–2, 6–2Loss 3–2 Jan 2014Burnie International, Australia50,000 Hard Misa Eguchi 6–4, 2–6, 3–6Win 4–2 Jun 2014ITF Lenzerheide, Switzerland25,000 Clay Louisa Chirico 7–5, 6–2Win 5–2 Oct 2014ITF Bangkok, Thailand25,000 Hard Lesley Kerkhove 6–1, 6–0Win 6–2 Mar 2015Blossom Cup, China50,000 Hard Jeļena Ostapenko 6–1, 5–7, 7–5Win 7–2 Jul 2016ITS Cup, Czech Republic50,000 Clay Ekaterina Alexandrova 4–6, 6–2, 6–1
Doubles: 1 (runner–up) ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreLoss 0–1 Nov 2013ITF Bucha, Ukraine25,000 Carpet (i) Anhelina Kalinina Sofia Shapatava Anastasiya Vasylyeva 6–7(4), 2–6
Junior Grand Slam tournament finals Girls' singles: 1 (title) ResultYearTournamentSurfaceOpponentScoreWin 2014 Australian Open Hard Jana Fett 6–2, 6–1
Girls' doubles: 1 (title) ResultYearTournamentSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreWin 2014 Australian Open Hard Anhelina Kalinina Katie Boulter Ivana Jorović 6–4, 6–2
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