Anastasia Potapova

Current through the suspension of the 2020 WTA Tour.

Potapova started 2018 with a final appearance at the Sharm El Sheikh 15k event, but was upset by world No.769 Yuliya Hatouka there. She then played in her second WTA main-draw match at the St. Petersburg Ladies' Trophy, where she finally earned her first main draw win against Tatjana Maria in straight sets. This set up a blockbuster second-round match between newly-crowned Australian Open champion and world number one Wozniacki and Potapova, a clash between experience and youth. However, Potapova was only able to claim one game against Wozniacki, falling 0–6, 1–6 to end her run.

Potapova debuted in a Grand Slam tournament as a wildcard entry in the qualifying draw of the 2017 Wimbledon Championships defeating Elizaveta Kulichkova to qualify for the main draw.

Starting her first full year on the tour, Potapova started 2017 unranked as she had only played two professional events entering the year. She defeated rival Amanda Anisimova in the final at an 25k event held in Curitiba. This triumph saw her defeat Teliana Pereira for her first top-200 win, and pushed her into the top-500 of the rankings for the first time in her career.

Potapova made her Fed Cup debut for Russia, but lost on her debut to the higher-ranked Viktória Kužmová, and was unable to lead her country to the victory on that weekend. Another ITF final awaited Potapova, this time coming at the O1 Properties Ladies Cup held in Russia. She ousted the 64th-ranked Monica Niculescu but was unable to close out her run as she was defeated by second seed Vera Lapko.

Potapova received entry to the main draw of the Australian Open and played her first match against Pauline Parmentier, defeating her in straight sets. This was Potapova's first match win in the main draw of a Grand Slam tournament. In the second round, she was defeated by 17th seed Madison Keys.

On the junior tour, Potapova has a career-high junior ranking of 1, achieved in July 2016. Potapova has had large success on the junior tour including a semifinal at the 2016 French Open, quarterfinals at the 2016 Australian Open and the 2015 Wimbledon Championships and doubles finals at the 2015 US Open and the 2016 French Open. Potapova won the 2016 Wimbledon Championships girls' title, defeating Dayana Yastremska in the final. Two of the seven match points in the final set were overturned by challenges. This title made her the No. 1 junior in the world.

She then made her debut at a WTA event, having received a wildcard to compete in the qualifying rounds of the Premier Mandatory event in Miami, defeating Maria Sakkari for her first top-100 win before falling to Jana Čepelová in straight sets. A series of good runs on clay saw her reaching two ITF semifinals in succession, most particularly at the Empire Slovak Open where she was just an inch away from reaching the final, losing 5–7 in the final set against Verónica Cepede Royg, who went on to reach the second week at the French Open.

Only main-draw results in WTA Tour, Grand Slam tournaments, Fed Cup and Olympic Games are included in Win–Loss records.

Anastasia Sergeyevna Potapova (Russian: Анастасия Сергеевна Потапова ; born 30 March 2001) is a Russian tennis player. Potapova is a former junior No. 1, as well as the 2016 Wimbledon Championships girls' singles champion, where she defeated Dayana Yastremska from Ukraine in the final.