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Eva Lys
Lys at the 2024 Wimbledon qualifying
Country (sports) Germany
Born (2002-01-12) 12 January 2002 (age 22)[1]
Kyiv, Ukraine
Height1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
PlaysRight-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money$663,817
Singles
Career record132–86
Career titles3 ITF
Highest rankingNo. 108 (22 July 2024)
Current rankingNo. 108 (22 July 2024)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open1R (2023)
French Open1R (2024)
Wimbledon1R (2024)
US Open2R (2023)
Doubles
Career record4–8
Career titles0
Highest rankingNo. 768 (28 November 2022)
Team competitions
BJK CupRR (2023)
Last updated on: 22 July 2024.

Eva Lys (born 12 January 2002) is a German professional tennis player. Lys reached a career-high WTA ranking of world No. 108 in singles on 22 July 2024. She has won three singles titles at tournaments of the ITF Women's Circuit.

Personal life

She was born in Kyiv, Ukraine, and moved to Germany at the age of 2.[2] Her father Vladimir is a former tennis player who was a member of the Ukraine Davis Cup team,[3] and currently is a coach in Hamburg.[4] Lys' older sister Lisa Matviyenko is also a tennis player.[5] She went to school at the Sportgymnasium Alter Teichweg in Hamburg, from where Marvin Möller and Carina Witthöft also graduated.[5] She still has family in Ukraine, and after the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine she complained of some Russian players' "disrespectful" behaviour.[6]

Career

2020

As a junior she participated in the Australian Open, winning in the qualifiers but losing in the first round.

2021: WTA doubles debut

Lys made her WTA Tour main-draw debut at the Hamburg European Open when she received a wild card into the doubles draw, partnering Noma Noha Akugue. They lost to Mona Barthel and Mandy Minella in the first round.[7]

2022: WTA singles debut

Lys made her WTA singles debut at the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix in Stuttgart, coming through the qualifying.[8] She beat Viktorija Golubic in the first round,[9] before losing to world No. 1, Iga Świątek, in the second.[10]

2023-2024: Major debut and first win, WTA semifinal and 1000 debut and top 115

Lys made her Grand Slam debut at the 2023 Australian Open.[11] She reached her best career ranking of world No. 112 on 17 April 2023.

She made her main-draw debut at a WTA 1000 level at the 2023 China Open after entering the qualifying competition as an alternate. She reached the semifinals of the 2023 Transylvania Open but lost to eventual champion, compatriot Tamara Korpatsch.

She qualified for the 2024 Wimbledon Championships making her debut at this major.

Singles performance timeline

Key
W  F  SF QF #R RR Q# DNQ A NH
(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.
To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated at the conclusion of a tournament or when the player's participation has ended.

Only WTA Tour (incl. Grand Slams) main-draw and Billie Jean King Cup results are considered in the career statistics.

Current through the 2024 Prague Open.

Tournament 2022 2023 2024 SR W–L
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open A 1R Q3 0 / 1 0–1
French Open A Q1 1R 0 / 1 0–1
Wimbledon Q1 Q2 1R 0 / 1 0–1
US Open Q3 2R 0 / 1 1–1
Win–loss 0–0 1–2 0–2 0 / 4 1–4
National representation
Billie Jean King Cup PO RR 0 / 1 1–1
WTA 1000 tournaments
Dubai Open NTI A Q2 0 / 0 0–0
Indian Wells Open A Q2 A 0 / 0 0–0
Miami Open A Q2 A 0 / 0 0–0
Madrid Open A Q1 A 0 / 0 0–0
China Open NH 1R 0 / 1 0–1
Win–loss 0–0 0–1 0–0 0 / 1 0–1
Career statistics
Tournaments 3 7 4 14
Overall win–loss 3–3 8–8 4–4 15–15
Year-end ranking 123 130 50%

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 4 (3 titles, 1 runner-up)

Legend
W100 tournaments (0–1)
W60 tournaments (1–0)
W25 tournaments (2–0)
Finals by surface
Hard (2–1)
Clay (0–0)
Carpet (1–0)
Result W–L    Date    Tournament Tier Surface Opponent Score
Win 1–0 Mar 2020 AK Ladies Open, Germany W25 Carpet (i) Netherlands Bibiane Schoofs 6–2, 6–4
Win 2–0 Oct 2021 ITF Istanbul, Turkey W25 Hard (i) Netherlands Indy de Vroome 6–3, 7–6(7–4)
Win 3–0 Oct 2022 Trnava Indoor, Slovakia W60 Hard (i) Slovakia Anna Karolína Schmiedlová 6–2, 4–6, 6–2
Loss 3–1 Nov 2022 GB Pro-Series Shrewsbury, United Kingdom W100 Hard (i) Czech Republic Markéta Vondroušová 5–7, 2–6

References

  1. ^ "Eva Lys". www.tennisexplorer.com.
  2. ^ "Tennis - Eva Lys: Zwischen Spitzentennis und der Sorge um die Ukraine". sportschau.de (in German).
  3. ^ "Vladimir Lys kommt für Herwig Maurach". abendblatt.de (in German). 2 April 2007. Retrieved 23 October 2023.
  4. ^ "Eva Lys at the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix: 'It's a dream come true'". Tennisnet. 15 April 2022.
  5. ^ a b "Eva Lys vom Club an der Alster". themenwelten.abendblatt.de (in German).
  6. ^ Mesic, Dzevad (5 March 2022). "Eva Lys: Many Russian players laugh and make fun of the Ukraine war". Tennis World.
  7. ^ "Lys/Noha Akugue vs. Barthel/Minella". WTA Tennis. 8 July 2021.
  8. ^ "Welcome to the tour: All of 2022's WTA debutantes". WTA Tennis. 6 October 2022.
  9. ^ "Jabeur overcomes Vondrousova in Stuttgart; Lys wins memorable debut". WTA Tennis. 19 April 2022.
  10. ^ "Swiatek bests Lys in Stuttgart to notch 20th straight victory". WTA Tennis. 20 April 2022.
  11. ^ "Brenda Fruhvirtova, Shnaider, Bejlek qualify for Australian Open". WTA Tennis. 12 January 2023.
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