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Leonie Küng
Küng (l.) and Iga Świątek in Wimbledon, 2018
Country (sports) Switzerland
ResidenceBeringen, Switzerland
Born (2000-10-21) 21 October 2000 (age 24)
Beringen
Height1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
PlaysRight (two-handed backhand)
Prize money$323,523
Singles
Career record226–183
Career titles7 ITF
Highest rankingNo. 144 (14 September 2020)
Current rankingNo. 447 (4 December 2023)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian OpenQ1 (2021, 2022)
French OpenQ2 (2020)
WimbledonQ1 (2021)
US OpenQ1 (2021)
Doubles
Career record120–116
Career titles1 WTA Challenger, 8 ITF
Highest rankingNo. 220 (26 July 2021)
Current rankingNo. 495 (4 December 2023)
Last updated on: 4 December 2023.

Leonie Küng (born 21 October 2000) is a Swiss tennis player. As a qualifier, she reached the singles final at the Junior Wimbledon Championships in 2018.[1]

Küng has career-high WTA rankings of 144 in singles, achieved on 14 September 2020, and 220 in doubles, reached on 26 July 2021. To date, she has won one doubles WTA Challenger title with seven singles titles and eight doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit.

Küng played first ITF events in Greece in 2014, and won her first $15k events in singles and doubles at the age of 17, in November 2017 in Oslo. She was the 2021 Swiss national singles champion, and she also won the national doubles title, partnering Ylena In-Albon.[2]

Küng made her WTA Tour main-draw debut at the 2017 Ladies Open Biel Bienne, in the doubles draw, partnering Ylena In-Albon.[3] Küng reached her maiden WTA Tour singles final at the 2020 Thailand Open by defeating three top-100 players en-route to the final.[4]

Performance timelines

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 main-draw results in WTA Tour, Grand Slam tournaments, Billie Jean King Cup and Olympic Games are included in win–loss records.[5]

Singles

Tournament 2020 2021 2022 SR W–L Win%
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open A Q1 Q1 0 / 0 0–0  – 
French Open Q2 Q1 0 / 0 0–0  – 
Wimbledon NH Q1 0 / 0 0–0  – 
US Open A Q1 0 / 0 0–0  – 
Win–loss 0–0 0–0 0–0 0 / 0 0–0  – 
WTA 1000
Indian Wells Open NH Q1 0 / 0 0–0  – 
Miami Open NH Q1 0 / 0 0–0  – 
Win–loss 0–0 0–0 0–0 0 / 0 0–0  – 

WTA Tour finals

Singles: 1 (runner-up)

Legend
Grand Slam
WTA 1000
WTA 500
WTA 250[a] (0–1)
Finals by surface
Hard (0–1)
Clay (0–0)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)
Result    Date    Tournament Tier Surface Opponent Score
Loss Feb 2020 Thailand Open, Thailand International Hard Poland Magda Linette 3–6, 2–6

WTA Challenger finals

Doubles: 1 (title)

Result W–L    Date    Tournament Surface Partner Opponents Score
Win 1–0 Jul 2021 WTA 125 Bastad, Sweden Clay Sweden Mirjam Björklund Slovakia Tereza Mihalíková
Russia Kamilla Rakhimova 		5–7, 6–3, [10–5]

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 11 (7 titles, 4 runner-ups)

Legend
$25,000 tournaments (0–2)
$10/15,000 tournaments (7–2)
Result W–L    Date    Tournament Tier Surface Opponent Score
Loss 0–1 Oct 2016 ITF Telde, Spain 10,000 Clay Italy Giulia Gatto-Monticone 6–2, 1–6, 3–6
Win 1–1 Nov 2017 ITF Oslo, Norway 15,000 Hard (i) Switzerland Simona Waltert 6–4, 6–4
Win 2–1 Jan 2018 ITF Fort-de-France, Martinique 15,000 Hard United Kingdom Emily Appleton 6–4, 2–6, 6–4
Loss 2–2 Jan 2018 ITF Petit-Bourg, Guadeloupe 15,000 Hard France Irina Ramialison 3–6, 5–7
Win 3–2 Dec 2018 ITF Monastir, Tunisia 15,000 Hard United States Chiara Scholl 6–2, 6–1
Win 4–2 Dec 2018 ITF Monastir, Tunisia 15,000 Hard Serbia Bojana Marinković 6–2, 6–4
Loss 4–3 Aug 2019 ITF Las Palmas, Spain 25,000+H Clay Egypt Mayar Sherif 1–6, 0–6
Win 5–3 Dec 2019 ITF Antalya, Turkey 15,000 Hard Romania Georgia Crăciun 6–2, 6–4
Win 6–3 Apr 2023 ITF Kursumlijska Banja, Serbia 15,000 Clay Romania Lavinia Tanasie 7–6(7), 6–1
Win 7–3 Apr 2023 ITF Kursumlijska Banja 2, Serbia 15,000 Clay Romania Lavinia Tanasie 6–3, 6–2
Loss 7–4 Jun 2023 ITF Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic 25,000 Clay Argentina Martina Capurro Taborda 2–6, 4–6

Doubles: 15 (8 titles, 7 runner-ups)

Legend
$25,000 tournaments (2–2)
$10/15,000 tournaments (6–5)
Result W–L    Date    Tournament Tier Surface Partner Opponents Score
Loss 0–1 Sep 2016 ITF Sion, Switzerland 10,000 Clay Switzerland Simona Waltert United Kingdom Emily Arbuthnott
Switzerland Karin Kennel 		2–6, 1–6
Loss 0–2 Oct 2016 ITF Telde, Spain 10,000 Clay Germany Vivian Wolff Spain Lucía de la Puerta Uribe
Spain Guiomar Maristany 		5–7, 4–6
Loss 0–3 Jul 2017 ITF Knokke, Belgium 15,000 Clay Belgium Axana Mareen United States Quinn Gleason
Brazil Luisa Stefani 		4–6, 5–7
Win 1–3 Nov 2017 ITF Oslo, Norway 15,000 Hard (i) Germany Shaline-Doreen Pipa Germany Ina Kaufinger
Sweden Anette Munozova 		6–4, 5–7, [10–3]
Win 2–3 Sep 2018 ITF Clermont-Ferrand, France 25,000 Hard (i) Bulgaria Isabella Shinikova France Manon Arcangioli
France Shérazad Reix 		6–2, 7–5
Loss 2–4 Jun 2019 ITF Klosters, Switzerland 25,000 Clay Bulgaria Isabella Shinikova Switzerland Lisa Sabino
Italy Gaia Sanesi 		6–3, 1–6, [6–10]
Loss 2–5 Dec 2019 ITF Antalya, Turkey 15,000 Hard Turkey Melis Sezer Romania Georgia Crăciun
Romania Ioana Gaspar 		4–6, 6–1, [12–14]
Win 3–5 Nov 2022 ITF Solarino, Italy 15,000 Carpet Netherlands Lian Tran Italy Giulia Crescenzi
Italy Miriana Tona 		6–2, 6–2
Win 4–5 Nov 2022 ITF Lousada, Portugal 15,000 Hard (i) France Océane Babel Spain Celia Cerviño Ruiz
Switzerland Tess Sugnaux 		7–6(7–3), 5–7, [10–2]
Win 5–5 Feb 2023 ITF Monastir, Tunisia 15,000 Hard Germany Chantal Sauvant Belgium Tilwith Di Girolami
Lithuania Patricija Paukštytė 		7–5, 6–2
Win 6–5 Feb 2023 ITF Monastir, Tunisia 15,000 Hard Japan Naho Sato Greece Eleni Christofi
United States Paris Corley 		6–2, 6–1
Loss 6–6 Apr 2023 ITF Kursumlijska Banja, Serbia 15,000 Clay Serbia Bojana Marinković Slovakia Katarína Kužmová
Ksenia Laskutova 		5–7, 3–6
Win 7–6 May 2023 ITF Pörtschach, Austria 15,000 Clay Germany Chantal Sauvant Valeriia Olianovskaia
Czech Republic Linda Sevciková 		w/o
Win 8–6 Jul 2023 ITF Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic 25,000 Clay Ksenia Laskutova Spain Noelia Bouzo Zanotti
Argentina Martina Capurro Taborda 		6–4, 3–6, [10–3]
Loss 8–7 Nov 2023 ITF Limassol, Cyprus 25,000 Hard United Kingdom Katy Dunne Anastasiia Gureva
Polina Iatcenko 		Walkover

Junior Grand Slam finals

Girls' singles: 1 (runner–up)

Result Year Tournament Surface Opponent Score
Loss 2018 Wimbledon Grass Poland Iga Świątek 4–6, 2–6

Notes

  1. ^ The WTA International tournaments were reclassified as WTA 250 tournaments in 2021.

References

  1. ^ "ITF".
  2. ^ "SwissTennis".
  3. ^ "DigiSport".
  4. ^ "WTA".
  5. ^ "Leylah Fernandez". Australian Open. Retrieved 9 December 2020.


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