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Sonay Kartal
Kartal at the 2023 French Open
Country (sports) United Kingdom
ResidenceBrighton, England
Born (2001-10-28) 28 October 2001 (age 23)
London, England
Turned pro2019
PlaysRight (two-handed backhand)
CoachJulie Hobbs, Ben & Martin Reeves
Prize money$543,547
Singles
Career record141–44
Career titles1
Highest rankingNo. 88 (4 November 2024)
Current rankingNo. 89 (11 November 2024)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian OpenQ1 (2023)
French OpenQ1 (2023)
Wimbledon3R (2024)
US OpenQ3 (2024)
Doubles
Career record8–8
Career titles0
Highest rankingNo. 559 (30 January 2023)
Grand Slam doubles results
Wimbledon1R (2022)
Last updated on: 11 November 2024.

Sonay Kartal (born 28 October 2001) is a British tennis player. She has career-high rankings of world No. 88 in singles achieved 4 November 2024 and of No. 559 in doubles. She has won one WTA Tour and 14 ITF singles titles.[1]

Early life

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Kartal was born in Sidcup, London, and lives in Brighton.[2] She is of Turkish descent through her father.[3] She attended Longhill High School.[4]

She began playing tennis at the age of six after watching her older brother play.[5][6] She currently trains at Pavilion & Avenue Tennis Club in Brighton.[7] Her favourite tennis players are Roger Federer and Kim Clijsters.[8]

Career

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2021: Comeback and first ITF Circuit title

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Kartal won her first title in November 2021, at the Antalya $15k event, beating Amarissa Toth in the final.[9] This was shortly followed by her second title (and her first on hardcourt) at Monastir $15k, defeating former world No. 40,[10] Ayumi Morita, in the final.[11]

Kartal won the women's title at the UK Pro League with a 6–0, 6–1 win over Freya Christie in the final.[12][13][14] She ended 2021 ranked 993.

2022: Ranking rise, WTA & Major & top 200 debuts

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She followed up her success in late 2021 early in the 2022 season; winning her third title at the $25k Birmingham event with a three-sets win over compatriot Talia Neilson Gatenby.[15][16] She won a second consecutive $25k title in Glasgow, beating Czech player Barbora Palicová.[17]

Kartal was part of the BJK Cup team for the qualifying tie in April 2022 when Great Britain faced the Czech team in Prague. However, she was not selected to play any matches.[18]

In May, she won two consecutive singles titles in the third and fourth weeks of the $25k Nottingham events— beating Danielle Lao and Joanna Garland in the finals.[19][20]

During the grass court season, Kartal received wildcards into the main draws at the Surbiton and Ilkley Trophy, and the Nottingham Open. At Surbiton, she defeated Yuriko Miyazaki in the first round, before falling in the second to top seed Madison Brengle.[21]

She made her WTA Tour debut with a wildcard at Nottingham, where she lost in the first round to Camila Giorgi.[22][23] At Ilkley, she reached her first semifinal at $100k level— losing in two tiebreakers to compatriot Jodie Burrage.[24]

Kartal was awarded a main draw wildcard at the 2022 Wimbledon Championships, where she made her major debut, losing in the first round to lucky loser Lesley Pattinama Kerkhove, 4–6, 6–3, 1–6.[25][26][27]

In August, she entered US Open qualifying for the first time, but lost in the first round to Spaniard Marina Bassols Ribera in two tiebreak sets.[28]

Kartal posted a quarterfinal result at the $60k indoor event in Trnava, losing to the second seed Vitalia Diatchenko.[29] The following week at the $60k Trvana 2, she upset third seed Daria Snigur in the first round, but was forced to retire from her second-round match due to injury.[30] However, these performances allowed her to make her top-200 debut. Kartal ended the year ranked No. 198, almost 800 places above her 2021 year-end ranking.[31]

2023–2024: Wimbledon third round, maiden WTA title, top 100

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At the 2023 Australian Open, Kartal lost in three sets to 21st seed Elizabeth Mandlik in the first qualifying round.[32] As a wildcard player, Kartal entered the $60k event in Sunderland, England, falling to former top-30 player Mona Barthel in the quarterfinals.[33]

In June 2024, ranked No. 295, she qualified for the first time at the 2024 Wimbledon Championships, earning a spot in the main draw, having received wildcards in the previous two editions.[34] She defeated 29th seed Sorana Cirstea[35] and world number 45 Clara Burel.[36] She became the second British woman in the Open Era to reach the third round at this Major as a qualifier, and first since Karen Cross in 1997.[37] She lost her third round match to second seed Coco Gauff, going down in straight sets.[38]

In August, Kartal lifted back-to-back ITF W35 GB Pro Series trophies on hardcourts in Roehampton, England, her fourth and fifth titles at that level in the season.[39][40]

In September, ranked No. 151, having made it through qualifying, she reached the first WTA Tour quarterfinal in her career at the Jasmin Open in Monastir, Tunisia, upsetting fifth seed Jaqueline Cristian, her third Top 100 win of 2024,[41][42] and Mai Hontama.[43] Next, she defeated Yuliia Starodubtseva in straight sets,[44][45] and then Eva Lys in the semifinals by retirement, to reach her maiden WTA Tour final.[46][47][48][49] In the final Kartal defeated Rebecca Šramková in straight sets. As a result of her success she broke into the top 100, raising 55 positions up to a new career-high of world No. 96 in the WTA singles rankings for the first time in her career.[50][51]

Kartal won her sixth ITF title of the year at the W100 Shrewsbury in October, defeating fellow Briton Heather Watson in the final.[52]

Grand Slam performance timelines

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Key
W  F  SF QF #R RR Q# P# DNQ A Z# PO G S B NMS NTI P NH
(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (P#) preliminary round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (Z#) Davis/Fed Cup Zonal Group (with number indication) or (PO) play-off; (G) gold, (S) silver or (B) bronze Olympic/Paralympic medal; (NMS) not a Masters tournament; (NTI) not a Tier I tournament; (P) postponed; (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.

Singles

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Tournament 2022 2023 2024 W–L
Australian Open A Q1 A 0–0
French Open A Q1 A 0–0
Wimbledon 1R 1R 3R 2–3
US Open Q1 A Q3 0–0
Win–loss 0–1 0–1 2–1 2–3

Doubles

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Tournament 2022 W–L
Australian Open A 0–0
French Open A 0–0
Wimbledon 1R 0–1
US Open A 0–0
Win–loss 0–1 0–1

WTA Tour finals

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Singles: 1 (1 title)

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Legend
Grand Slam (0–0)
WTA 1000 (0–0)
WTA 500 (0–0)
WTA 250 (1–0)
Finals by surface
Hard (1–0)
Clay (0–0)
Grass (0–0)
Finals by setting
Outdoor (1–0)
Indoor (0–0)
Result W–L    Date    Tournament Tier Surface Opponent Score
Win 1–0 Sep 2024 Jasmin Open, Tunisia WTA 250 Hard Slovakia Rebecca Šramková 6–3, 7–5

ITF Circuit finals

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Singles: 16 (14 titles, 2 runner-ups)

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Legend
W100 tournaments (1–0)
W60/75 tournaments (0–1)
W25/35 tournaments (11–0)
W15 tournaments (2–1)
Finals by surface
Hard (12–1)
Clay (2–1)
Result W–L    Date    Tournament Tier Surface Opponent Score
Loss 0–1 Oct 2021 ITF Antalya, Turkey W15 Clay Spain Rosa Vicens Mas 1–6, 6–2, 3–6
Win 1–1 Oct 2021 ITF Antalya, Turkey W15 Clay Hungary Amarissa Tóth 7–5, 7–5
Win 2–1 Nov 2021 ITF Monastir, Tunisia W15 Hard Japan Ayumi Morita 6–1, 6–2
Win 3–1 Feb 2022 ITF Birmingham, United Kingdom W25 Hard (i) United Kingdom Talia Neilson Gatenby 5–7, 6–3, 6–2
Win 4–1 Feb 2022 GB Pro-Series Glasgow, UK W25 Hard (i) Czech Republic Barbora Palicová 7–6(5), 7–5
Win 5–1 May 2022 ITF Nottingham, UK W25 Hard United States Danielle Lao 6–1, 6–0
Win 6–1 May 2022 ITF Nottingham, UK W25 Hard Chinese Taipei Joanna Garland 6–3, 6–1
Win 7–1 Apr 2023 ITF Santa Margherita di Pula, Italy W25 Clay Ekaterina Makarova 3–6, 6–2, 6–1
Win 8–1 Sept 2023 ITF Leiria, Portugal W25 Hard Anastasia Zakharova 7–6(5), 1–6, 6–3
Win 9–1 Jan 2024 ITF Loughborough, UK W35 Hard (i) France Manon Leonard 6–4, 6–1
Win 10–1 Apr 2024 ITF Nottingham, UK W35 Hard Lithuania Klaudija Bubelytė 6–1, 6–4
Win 11–1 May 2024 ITF Monzón, Spain W35 Hard Czech Republic Linda Klimovičová 6–1, 6–0
Win 12–1 Jul 2024 ITF Roehampton, United Kingdom W35 Hard Germany Nastasja Schunk 7–5, 6–1
Win 13–1 Aug 2024 ITF Roehampton, United Kingdom W35 Hard Japan Haruka Kaji 6–3, 6–1
Win 14–1 Oct 2024 GB Pro-Series Shrewsbury, United Kingdom W100 Hard (i) United Kingdom Heather Watson 7–5, 4–1 ret.
Loss 14–2 Oct 2024 Hamburg Ladies Cup, Germany W75 Hard (i) Germany Mona Barthel 4–6, 6–7(6)

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