Darja Semeņistaja
 Semeņistaja at the 2023 French Open | |
| Country (sports) |  Latvia |
|---|---|
| Born | 16 September 2002 |
| Plays | Left-handed |
| Prize money | US$521,359 |
| Singles | |
| Career record | 196–116 |
| Career titles | 2 WTA Challenger, 15 ITF |
| Highest ranking | No. 106 (1 April 2024) |
| Current ranking | No. 116 (18 August 2025) |
| Grand Slam singles results | |
| Australian Open | Q2 (2024) |
| French Open | Q2 (2024) |
| Wimbledon | Q3 (2023, 2025) |
| US Open | 1R (2025) |
| Doubles | |
| Career record | 109–76 |
| Career titles | 2 WTA Challenger, 10 ITF |
| Highest ranking | No. 121 (28 July 2025) |
| Current ranking | No. 128 (18 August 2025) |
| Last updated on: 25 August 2025. | |
Darja Semeņistaja[1] (born 16 September 2002) is a Latvian tennis player. She has career-high WTA rankings of world No. 106 in singles, achieved on 1 April 2024, and No. 121 in doubles, reached on 28 July 2025. She has won two singles and two doubles WTA Challenger titles. She has also won 15 singles and 9 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. [1]
Playing for Latvia Billie Jean King Cup team, she has a win-loss record of 4–6.
Career
[edit]2021
[edit]In 2021, Semeņistaja won the most singles trophies on the ITF Women's World Tour, a total of seven titles. She won the first two in Serbia, winning Prokuplje's $15k events for two weeks in a row, then the third in Bratislava in mid-July,[2] the fourth in Chornomorsk, Ukraine, at the end of August,[3] and finally three in Cancún, Mexico in October.[citation needed]
2024
[edit]Alongside Veronika Erjavec, Semeņistaja won the doubles title at the Canberra Tennis International, overcoming Kaylah McPhee and Astra Sharma in the final.[4]
She won her first WTA 125 singles title at the Mumbai Open in February, defeating Storm Hunter in the final.[5][6] Partnering Carole Monnet, Semeņistaja won the doubles title at the Țiriac Foundation Trophy, defeating Aliona Bolsova and Katarzyna Kawa in the final.[7]
2025: Grand Slam debut
[edit]Partnering Nina Stojanović, Semeņistaja reached the doubles final at the Canberra Tennis International for the second successive year, losing to Jaimee Fourlis and Petra Hule in a deciding champions tiebreak.[8]
Performance timeline
[edit]| 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.
Singles
[edit]| Tournament | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | W–L |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Australian Open | A | Q2 | Q1 | 0–0 |
| French Open | Q1 | Q2 | Q1 | 0–0 |
| Wimbledon | Q3 | Q1 | Q3 | 0–0 |
| US Open | Q2 | Q1 | 1R | 0–0 |
| Win–loss | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 |
WTA Challenger finals
[edit]Singles: 2 (2 titles)
[edit]| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Surface | Opponent | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Win | 1–0 | Feb 2024 | Mumbai Open, India |
Hard |  Storm Hunter
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5–7, 7–6(8–6), 6–2 |
| Win | 2–0 | Apr 2025 | Torneig Internacional de Tennis Femení Solgironès, Spain |
Clay |  Dalma Galfi
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5–7, 6–0, 6–4 |
Doubles: 4 (2 titles, 2 runner-ups)
[edit]| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Win | 1–0 | Jan 2024 | Canberra International, Australia | Hard |  Veronika Erjavec
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Kaylah McPhee Astra Sharma
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6–2, 6–4 |
| Win | 2–0 | Sep 2024 | Țiriac Foundation Trophy, Romania | Clay |  Carole Monnet
|
 Aliona Bolsova  Katarzyna Kawa
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1–6, 6–2, [10–7] |
| Loss | 2–1 | Jan 2025 | Canberra Tennis International, Australia | Hard |  Nina Stojanović
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Jaimee Fourlis Petra Hule
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5–7, 4–6), [5–10] |
| Loss | 2–2 | Apr 2025 | Torneig Internacional de Tennis Femení Solgironès, Spain |
Clay | Nina Stojanović
|
 Magali Kempen  Anna Sisková
|
6–7(1–7), 1–6 |
ITF Circuit finals
[edit]Singles: 17 (15 titles, 2 runner-ups)
[edit]
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| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Opponent | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Win | 1–0 | Jul 2021 | ITF Prokuplje, Serbia | W15 | Clay | Alice Robbe
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6–2, 2–6, 6–3 |
| Win | 2–0 | Jul 2021 | ITF Prokuplje, Serbia | W15 | Clay | Natalija Senić
|
6–0, 6–2 |
| Win | 3–0 | Aug 2021 | ITF Bratislava, Slovakia | W15 | Clay | Pia Lovrič
|
6–4, 6–3 |
| Win | 4–0 | Aug 2021 | ITF Chornomorsk, Ukraine | W15 | Clay |  Nicole Fossa Huergo
|
6–3, 6–2 |
| Win | 5–0 | Oct 2021 | ITF Cancún, Mexico | W15 | Hard |  María Portillo Ramírez
|
6–3, 7–5 |
| Win | 6–0 | Oct 2021 | ITF Cancún, Mexico | W15 | Hard | María Portillo Ramírez
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5–7, 7–6(5), 6–0 |
| Win | 7–0 | Oct 2021 | ITF Cancún, Mexico | W15 | Hard |  Rachel Gailis
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7–5, 7–5 |
| Win | 8–0 | Feb 2022 | ITF Cancún, Mexico | W25 | Hard |  Lina Glushko
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4–6, 7–6(5), 6–2 |
| Win | 9–0 | May 2022 | ITF Santa Margherita di Pula, Italy | W25 | Clay |  Irina Khromacheva
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6–4, 4–6, 6–1 |
| Win | 10–0 | Jun 2022 | ITF Ystad, Sweden | W25 | Clay |  Sofia Samavati
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3–6, 6–3, 6–1 |
| Win | 11–0 | Feb 2023 | ITF Mexico City, Mexico | W40 | Hard |  Jana Kolodynska
|
7–5, 4–0 ret. |
| Loss | 11–1 | Feb 2023 | ITF Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic | W25 | Hard | Carole Monnet
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5–7, 6–3, 1–6 |
| Win | 12–1 | May 2023 | Prague Open, Czech Republic | W60 | Clay | Jéssica Bouzas Maneiro
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2–6, 6–3, 6–4 |
| Win | 13–1 | Jul 2023 | Liepāja Open, Latvia | W60 | Clay | Jessie Aney
|
6–4, 6–4 |
| Win | 14–1 | Jul 2023 | ITS Cup Olomouc, Czech Republic | W60 | Clay |  Lea Bošković
|
6–7(6), 6–3, 6–1 |
| Win | 15–1 | Jan 2024 | ITF Bangalore, India | W50 | Hard | Carole Monnet
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6–1, 3–0 ret. |
| Loss | 15–2 | Sep 2024 | Šibenik Open, Croatia | W75 | Clay | Sára Bejlek
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2–6, 0–6 |
Doubles: 17 (10 titles, 7 runner–ups)
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| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Loss | 0–1 | Sep 2020 | ITF Monastir, Tunisia | W15 | Hard | Olivia Gram
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Yuliya Hatouka Anna Kubareva
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6–2, 5–7, [6–10] |
| Win | 1–1 | Sep 2020 | ITF Monastir, Tunisia | W15 | Hard | Laetitia Pulchartová
|
 Darya Astakhova Anastasia Sukhotina
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6–2, 6–7(8), [10–5] |
| Win | 2–1 | Oct 2020 | ITF Monastir, Tunisia | W15 | Hard | Darya Astakhova
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 María Lourdes Carlé Olivia Gram
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6–4, 6–3 |
| Win | 3–1 | Oct 2021 | ITF Cancún, Mexico | W15 | Hard | Anna Ulyashchenko
|
 Nadia Echeverría Alam Rushri Wijesundera
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6–4, 6–4 |
| Loss | 3–2 | Feb 2022 | ITF Cancún, Mexico | W25 | Hard | Maria Bondarenko
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Anna Rogers Christina Rosca
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1–6, 4–6 |
| Loss | 3–3 | Mar 2022 | ITF Santo Domingo, Dominican Rep. | W25 | Hard | Anastasia Tikhonova
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Irina Khromacheva Natalija Stevanović
|
1–6, 6–7(5) |
| Win | 4–3 | Sep 2022 | ITF Pula, Italy | W25 | Clay |  Zhibek Kulambayeva
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 Lu Jiajing  Anita Wagner
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6–2, 6–2 |
| Win | 5–3 | Dec 2022 | ITF Valencia, Spain | W15 | Clay | Marine Szostak
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Lucía Cortez Llorca Claudia Hoste Ferrer
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w/o |
| Loss | 5–4 | Feb 2023 | ITF Mexico City, Mexico | W40 | Hard |  Suzan Lamens
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Sofia Sewing  Berfu Cengiz
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1–6, 6–1, [10–12] |
| Win | 6–4 | Feb 2023 | ITF Santo Domingo, Dominican Rep. | W25 | Hard | Sofia Sewing
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 Eudice Chong Nefisa Berberović
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6–3, 6–2 |
| Win | 7–4 | Jul 2023 | Liepāja Open, Latvia | W60 | Clay | Daniela Vismane
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Çağla Büyükakçay  Lina Gjorcheska
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6–4, 2–6, [10–3] |
| Loss | 7–5 | Jul 2023 | ITS Cup Olomouc, Czech Republic | W60 | Clay | Zhibek Kulambayeva
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Magdaléna Smékalová Tereza Valentová
|
2–6, 2–6 |
| Loss | 7–6 | Oct 2023 | ITF Les Franqueses del Vallès, Spain | W100 | Hard | Gao Xinyu
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Camilla Rosatello Angelica Moratelli
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6–4, 5–7, [6–10] |
| Win | 8–6 | Jan 2024 | Bangalore Open, India | W50 | Hard | Camilla Rosatello
|
 Li Yu-yun  Eri Shimizu
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3–6, 6–2, [10–8] |
| Win | 9–6 | Jan 2024 | Pune Open, India | W50 | Hard |  Alex Eala
|
 Naiktha Bains Fanny Stollár
|
7–6(8), 6–3 |
| Win | 10–6 | Apr 2025 | Wiesbaden Tennis Open, Germany | W100 | Clay | Zhibek Kulambayeva
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Jesika Malečková Miriam Škoch
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4–6, 6–3, [11–9] |
| Loss | 10–7 | May 2025 | Internazionali Femminili di Brescia, Italy | W75 | Clay | Gabriela Knutson
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Maja Chwalińska  Sinja Kraus
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0–6, 3–6 |
References
[edit]- ^ a b Federation, International Tennis. "Darja Semenistaja Overview". Itftennis.
- ^ "Semeņistaja Bratislavā izcīna sezonas trešo ITF titulu". skaties.lv.
- ^ "Semeņistaja iekļūst Kankunas ITF turnīra finālā". skaties.lv.
- ^ "Champions crowned at Workday Canberra International 2024". Tennis Australia. Retrieved 28 October 2024.
- ^ "Semenistaja saves championship point en route to Mumbai WTA 125 title". Women's Tennis Association. Retrieved 2024-08-29.
- ^ "Darja Semenistaja Wins Singles Title At Mumbai Open Tennis Championships". NDTV Sports. Retrieved 29 August 2024.
- ^ "Bulgaru wins WTA 125 Bucharest with Halep on site; Teichmann wins Ljubljana". Women's Tennis Association. Retrieved 28 October 2024.
- ^ "Ito defeats Wei in Canberra to capture first career WTA 125 title". Women's Tennis Association. Retrieved 6 January 2025.
External links
[edit]- Darja Semeņistaja at the Women's Tennis Association
- Darja Semeņistaja at the International Tennis Federation
- Darja Semeņistaja at the Billie Jean King Cup (archived former page)
Women's Tennis Association: Top ten female singles tennis players from the Baltic states | |
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