Anna Vladimirovna Blinkova (born 10 September 1998) is a Russian-born French professional tennis player. She has a career-high WTA singles ranking of No. 34, achieved on 7 August 2023, and a best doubles ranking of world No. 45, achieved in September 2020. She has won two singles and three doubles titles on the WTA Tour.
Blinkova also has one singles and one doubles title each on WTA Challenger Tour, as well as four singles and eleven doubles titles on the ITF Circuit.
She was runner-up at the 2015 Wimbledon Championships in girls' singles and had a best ITF combined junior ranking of No. 3 in August 2015.
Personal life and background Blinkova was born on 10 September 1998 in Moscow to mother Elena and father Vladimir. During childhood, she played both tennis and chess at a high level. Her preferred surface is hardcourt. Her favourite shot is the forehand. She speaks Russian, Slovak, French, English and Chinese.
Career Juniors Blinkova is former junior world No. 3 player. She was runner-up at the 2015 Wimbledon Championships in girls' singles, where she lost to compatriot Sofya Zhuk.
2015–17: First steps Blinkova made her debut at the ITF Circuit at the 10k event in Kantaoui in February 2015. There, she won her first ITF doubles title. In January 2016, she won her first ITF singles title at a 10k event in Stuttgart. In April 2016, she turned pro and made her WTA Tour debut at the Morocco Open, where she was defeated in the first round. In October 2016, she won her first match on the WTA Tour, defeating Anastasija Sevastova in the first round of Kremlin Cup.
In January 2017, she made major debut at the Australian Open through qualifying, where she defeated Monica Niculescu in the first round, before losing to Karolína Plíšková in the second. At the 2017 Wimbledon and US Open, she also reached main draw, but then lost to Elena Vesnina in the first round of both competition. During the 2017 season, she won two 100k events on the ITF Circuit in doubles event, in Ilkley and St. Petersburg.
2018–19: Major third round, top 100 in singles and doubles In February 2018, she reached the third round of the Premier 5 Qatar Ladies Open, defeating Elena Vesnina and Kristina Mladenovic before she lost to world No. 7, Caroline Garcia. In May, she won her first WTA doubles title at the Morocco Open, partnering with Raluca Olaru. Blinkova entered top 100 for the first time in both singles and doubles in 2018.
On her debut at the 2019 French Open as a qualifier, she reached the third round with a win over compatriot Margarita Gasparyan and an upset over 24th seed Caroline Garcia, but then lost to 14th seed Madison Keys.
In August 2019, she reached her first WTA Tour quarterfinal in singles at the Bronx Open, where she lost to Wang Qiang. At the 2019 US Open, she took defending champion and top seed Naomi Osaka to three sets. She followed this with title in New Haven on the WTA Challenger Tour. Nearly after that, she reached the semifinal of the Guangzhou Open, but then lost to Sofia Kenin. In October, she reached another semifinal at the Luxembourg Open but lost to later champion Jeļena Ostapenko. During the year, she did even better in doubles. In February 2019, she lost alongside Wang Yafan in the doubles final at the Hua Hin Championships. After that, she reached semifinals of the Hungarian Open. In April, she enetered another semifinal at the Premier-level Stuttgart Open. She then won 60k, 80k and 100k events, respectively, on the ITF Circuit. In September, she won the WTA Challenger New Haven.
2020: Top 10 win, US Open doubles semifinals, top 75 Blinkova continued to made better results in doubles than singles. Despite not producing good results in singles during the season, Blinkova started year with her first Top 10 win, defeating Belinda Bencic in the first round of the Shenzhen Open. In singles, her best result of the year came at the Italian Open, where she reached the third round, but then lost to world No. 4, Karolína Plíšková. In doubles, her first significant result came in March at the Indian Wells Challenger, where she reached the semifinal.
When tennis came back (after six month absence of the WTA Tour due to COVID-19 pandemic outbreak) in August, she first played at the Lexington Challenger, where she reached the semifinals in doubles alongside Vera Zvonareva. She followed this up with quarterfinals at the Cincinnati Open alongside Veronika Kudermetova. Things even went even better at the US Open where Blinkova and Kudermetova reached the semifinals but lost to eventual champions, Laura Siegemund and Vera Zvonareva. In singles, she had lost to eventual semifinalist Jennifer Brady in the first round.
Blinkova qualified for the main draw at the Italian Open and defeated Aliona Bolsova in a final-set tiebreak to reach the third round.
2021: Out of top 100
Blinkova started her year with consecutive losses at the Grampians Trophy and the Australian Open, before clinching her first win of the year over former top-ten player Andrea Petkovic in the first round of the Phillip Island Trophy. However, she managed to reach the doubles semifinals of the Gippsland Trophy with Veronika Kudermetova, but lost to Chan Hao-ching/Latisha Chan 9–11 in the match tiebreak. With compatriot Anastasia Potapova she reached her third tour doubles final at the Phillip Island Trophy, losing to Ankita Raina and Kamilla Rakhimova.
She reached her first semifinal of the year at the Bol Ladies Open, a WTA 125 event, as the top seed. However, she lost to Jasmine Paolini winning just four games.
At the Wimbledon Championships, Blinkova beat Tímea Babos in the first round before falling to world No. 1, Ashleigh Barty, on centre court.
Blinkova reached the doubles semifinals of the Cincinnati Open with Aliaksandra Sasnovich, defeating top seeds Hsieh Su-wei/Elise Mertens in the second round. She lost in the opening round of the US Open to Valentini Grammatikopoulou.
2022: First WTA Tour title Blinkova reached her first singles final since 2019 at the 60k Open Andrézieux-Bouthéon, defeating Océane Dodin for her first top-100 win since August 2021, before losing to Ana Bogdan in the final.
She followed it up with another W60 final at the Open de l'Isère, where she beat the top seed Arantxa Rus before she lost to Katie Boulter in the final.
As a qualifier, Blinkova won her first WTA Tour singles title at the Transylvania Open, defeating Jasmine Paolini in the final.
2023: Top 5 win, French Open third round, top 35 Blinkova defeated Ysaline Bonaventure and fifth seed Caroline Garcia, her first Top 5 win, to reach the third round of the French Open for the second time but lost to Elina Svitolina in three sets.
2024: Longest tiebreak and third round at Australian Open, Top 3 win At the Australian Open, she defeated previous year runner-up Elena Rybakina in the longest tiebreak in a singles match at a major in the Open era, in the final set of their second-round match. Blinkova won the tiebreak 22–20 and saved six match points, before converting on her tenth match point to advance to the third round of this major for the first time. The 42-point match-tiebreak supplanted the 38-point tiebreaks played by Lesia Tsurenko and Ana Bogdan the previous summer at Wimbledon and by Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Andy Roddick 20-18 at the 2007 Australian Open. She lost in the third round to 26th seed Jasmine Paolini.
In September, partnering with Mayar Sherif, Blinkova won the doubles at the Jasmin Open, defeating Alina Korneeva and Anastasia Zakharova in the final. The following month, she was runner-up in the singles at the WTA 125 Abierto Tampico in Mexico, losing to Marina Stakusic in the final.
2025: Second WTA singles title At the Linz Open, Blinkova defeated qualifier Sinja Kraus and second seed Elina Svitolina to reach the quarterfinals, where she lost to eighth seed Clara Tauson.
Partnering Yuan Yue, she won the doubles title at the ATX Open, defeating McCartney Kessler and Zhang Shuai in the final.
At the WTA 1000 Miami Open, Blinkova overcame Kamilla Rakhimova and 13th seed Diana Shnaider to reach the third round, where she lost to 23rd seed Marta Kostyuk.
In June, at the Eastbourne International, she defeated Marie Bouzková and Lulu Sun to make it through to the quarterfinals, where she lost to Maya Joint.
Blinkova reached her third WTA Tour final at the Jiangxi Open thanks to straight sets wins over qualifier Chloé Paquet, sixth seed Anna Bondár third seed Alycia Parks and Dominika Šalková. In the championship match, she defeated wildcard entrant Lilli Tagger, also in straight sets, to claim her second career singles title.
2026: Nationality change, WTA semifinal She reached her first WTA semifinal of the season at the 2026 SP Open, and first since winning 2025 2025 Jiangxi, with wins over Vendula Valdmannova and eight seed Alina Charaeva.
Nationality representation change Blinkova began representing France in mid-September 2026, having resided in the country for many years, since the age of 16. Anna Blinkova became the second French player in the WTA top 100, behind Diane Parry on 14 September 2026.
Performance timelines
Only main-draw results in WTA Tour, Grand Slam tournaments, Billie Jean King Cup (Fed Cup), United Cup, Hopman Cup and Olympic Games are included in win–loss records.
Singles Current through the 2025 US Open. Tournament2016201720182019202020212022202320242025Win %Grand Slam tournaments Australian OpenA2R1R1R2R1RQ11R3R2R0 / 85–8 French OpenAQ3Q23R1R1RQ13R2R1R0 / 65–6 WimbledonA1R2RQ3NH2RA3R1R1R0 / 64–6 US OpenA1R1R1R1R1RQ21R1R2R0 / 81–8Win–loss0–01–31–32–31–31–40–04–43–42–40 / 2815–28National representationBillie Jean King CupAPOAAWDQ1 / 10–1WTA 1000Qatar OpenANMS3RNMSQ1NMSANMSAA0 / 12–1DubaiNMSANMSANMSANMSAAA0 / 00–0Indian Wells OpenAAAQ2NHAA2R3R1R0 / 33–3Miami OpenAAAQ1NH1RA2R1R3R0 / 43–4Madrid OpenAAAANHAA1R1R2R0 / 31–3Italian OpenAAAA3RAA2R2R1R0 / 44–4Canadian OpenAAAANHAA2R1R2R0 / 32–3Cincinnati OpenAAQ1AQ1Q2A1RQ11R0 / 20–2Guadalajara OpenNHAANMS0 / 00–0China OpenAAA1RNH2R1R1R0 / 41–4Wuhan OpenAAAANHAQ20 / 00–0Win–loss0–00–02–10–12–10–10–05–73–64–70 / 2416–24Career statistics2016201720182019202020212022202320242025Win %Tournaments 2713148177242511Career total: 127Titles0000001000Career total: 1Finals0000001100Career total: 2Hard win–loss1–02–54–1011–133–51–116–413–168–1410–81 / 8758–86Clay win–loss0–10–21–12–13–31–40–18–52–71–30 / 2818–28Grass win–loss0–00–11–20–00–02–21–15–32–40–00 / 1311–13Overall win–loss1–12–86–1313–146–84–177–626–2412–2511–111 / 10788–127Win (%)Career total: Year-end ranking20613698596015580547662$2,966,822
Doubles Current through the 2023 Internationaux de Strasbourg. Tournament2017201820192020202120222023Win %Grand Slam tournamentsAustralian OpenAAA1R1R1R1R0 / 40–4French OpenA1RA1R1R1R1R0 / 50–5WimbledonA1R3RNH2RA1R0 / 43–4US OpenAA1RSFAA1R0 / 33–3Win–loss0–00–22–23–31–30–20–40 / 166–16WTA 1000Dubai / Qatar OpenAAA2RAAA0 / 11–1Indian Wells OpenAAANHAAA0 / 00–0Miami OpenAAANH1RAA0 / 10–1Madrid OpenAAANHAAA0 / 00–0Italian OpenAAA1RAAA0 / 10–1Canadian OpenAAANHAAA0 / 00–0Cincinnati OpenAAAQFSFA1R0 / 35–3Wuhan OpenAA2RNH0 / 11–1China OpenAA1RNHA0 / 10–1Career statisticsTournaments5121271563Career total: 60Titles0100000Career total: 1Finals0110110Career total: 4Overall win–loss2–58–1112–129–716–146–60–31 / 6053–58Year-end ranking118100565166138572
WTA Tour finals
Singles: 3 (2 titles, 1 runner-up) LegendWTA 500WTA 250 (2–1)Finals by surfaceHard (2–0)Clay (0–1)Finals by settingOutdoor (1–1)Indoor (1–0)
ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScoreWin1–0Transylvania Open, RomaniaWTA 250Hard (i) Jasmine Paolini6–2, 3–6, 6–2Loss1–1Internationaux de Strasbourg, FranceWTA 250Clay Elina Svitolina2–6, 3–6Win2–1Jiangxi Open, ChinaWTA 250Hard Lilli Tagger6–3, 6–3
Doubles: 6 (3 titles, 3 runner-ups) LegendWTA 500WTA 250 (3–3)Finals by surfaceHard (2–3)Clay (1–0)Finals by settingOutdoor (3–3)