Arlinda Rushiti (born 27 March 1999) is a Kosovar tennis player.
She has a career-high singles ranking by the WTA of 352, achieved on 9 January 2023. Rushiti has won five titles on the ITF Circuit, four in doubles.
Playing for Kosovo Fed Cup team, she has a win/loss record of 21–22 (as of May 2024).
Career She made her debut for the Kosovo Fed Cup team in 2018, her results including a win in the singles and doubles in a 4–0 win against Mozambique that year, her nations first match win in the competition. She was named Female Player of the Year for 2018 by the Kosovo Tennis Federation.
In January 2022, she reached her first singles final at the W25 level of the 2022 ITF Women's World Tennis Tour, competing in Monastir, Tunisia, having come through qualifying. In the final, she was defeated by Irina Khromacheva, in three sets.
In 2023, she played as Kosovo competed for the first time in Group II of the Billie Jean King Cup, and alongside Adriana Lekaj, won a deciding doubles runner against the Republic of Ireland to secure a 2–1 victory to retain their status at that level. This marked her return to the competition for Kosovo, after a four-year absence.
She won her singles and doubles match, again with Lekaj, as they defeated both Georgia and Malta in the competition in April 2024. Those results helped them retain their place in Group II, but following defeats to Estonia, Egypt and Bosnia-Herzegovina they did not gain promotion, with Rushiti losing in singles and doubles to experienced players Kaia Kanepi of Estonia and Maiar Sherif of Egypt.
Personal life As of 2022, she is based in Switzerland.
ITF Circuit finals Singles: 5 (1 title, 4 runner-ups) LegendW25 tournaments (0–1)W15 tournaments (1–3)Finals by surfaceHard (1–4) ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScoreLoss 0–1 Oct 2017ITF Sharm El Sheikh, EgyptW15 Hard Lee Pei-chi 0–6, 3–6Loss 0–2 Jan 2022ITF Monastir, TunisiaW25 Hard Irina Khromacheva 6–1, 4–6, 5–7Win 1–2 Jul 2024ITF Monastir, TunisiaW15 Hard Lamis Alhussein Abdel Aziz 6–4, 2–6, 7–6(2)Loss 1–3 Oct 2024ITF Sharm El Sheikh, EgyptW15 Hard Anastasia Gasanova 4–6, 0–6Loss 1–4 Nov 2024ITF Sharm El Sheikh, EgyptW15 Hard Lee Eun-hye 1–6, 4–6
Doubles: 8 (4 titles, 4 runner-ups) LegendW25/35 tournaments (1–2)W15 tournaments (3–2)Finals by surfaceHard (4–4) ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreLoss 0–1 May 2022ITF Tbilisi, GeorgiaW25 Hard Tess Sugnaux Nefisa Berberović Lu Jiajing 2–6, 6–4, [7–10]Loss 0–2 Jan 2023ITF Monastir, TunisiaW25 Hard Kathleen Kanev Kristina Dmitruk Irina Shymanovich 1–6, 2–6Win 1–2 Oct 2023ITF Sharm El Sheikh, EgyptW15 Hard Elena-Teodora Cadar Aleksandra Pospelova Daria Zelinskaya 2–6, 6–3, [11–9]Loss 1–3 Jul 2024ITF Monastir, TunisiaW15 Hard Lamis Abdel Aziz Nanari Katsumi Haine Ogata 3–6, 6–1, [6–10]Win 2–3 Nov 2024ITF Sharm El Sheikh, EgyptW15 Hard Yasmine Ezzat Mirjana Jovanović Diana Yakovleva 7–6(6), 6–3Win 3–3 Apr 2025ITF Sharm El Sheikh, EgyptW15 Hard Marie Weckerle Amelia Rajecki Ranah Stoiber 6–2, 6–3Win 4–3 May 2025ITF Nottingham, UKW35 Hard Alice Robbe Naiktha Bains Holly Hutchinson 3–6, 6–4, [10–5]Loss 4–4 Feb 2026ITF Sharm El Sheikh, EgyptW15 Hard Anja Wildgruber Defne Çırpanlı Sandra Samir walkover
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