Veronika Kudermetova
 

iPatty and I decided to start this thread. :p Veronika is yet another Russian superstar in the making! She was born on 24th April 1997 so she's 15 years old.

Veronika's currently unranked on the WTA tour. She made her professional debut at the end of last year and lost in qualifying of $50,000+H Kazan and $75,000 Dubai. In March this year she qualified for $25,000 Moscow and lost in the first round.

On the ITF Junior circuit Veronika's currently ranked #86 with a career high of #75 just a couple of weeks ago. She's the 4th highest ranked 1997 girl after Abanda, Bencic and Kasatkina. She's ranked #32 on the Tennis Europe U16 rankings (her career high is #19). In 2011 Veronika won four G4 events, at the Alex Podolsky ITF Junior Tournament, Governor Cup, Fergana Cup and TaTS Open. In 2012 she reached the final of G1 Czech International Junior Championships in Prerov, Czech Republic, where she lost to Bencic. Last month she reached the quarterfinals of two G2 events in Spain.

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Veronika is currently playing another $25,000 Moscow event and as a qualifier is into the semifinals! Such an impressive result!

$25,000 Moscow

Q1: Veronika Kudermetova (RUS) df. (4)Margarita Lazareva (RUS) 6-1 2-6 6-1
Q2: Veronika Kudermetova (RUS) df. Polina Leykina (RUS) 7-5 6-7(4) 6-2

1R: (Q)Veronika Kudermetova (RUS) df. (1)Ekaterina Bychkova (RUS) 4-1 ret.
2R: (Q)Veronika Kudermetova (RUS) df. (Q)Julia Valetova (RUS) 6-2 6-3
QF: (Q)Veronika Kudermetova (RUS) df. Polina Pekhova (BLR) 4-6 6-4 6-4
SF: (Q)Veronika Kudermetova (RUS) vs. (4)Cagla Buyukakcay (TUR)

Hopefully this week in Moscow is the beginning of a successful career for Veronika. :)

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Here's a video of Veronika playing against Alina Silich in the final of U16 CSKA Open Championships in Moscow last year. Veronika is the one with the ponytail who serves at the beginning. Silich won it 6-3 6-4.



Here are some photos of Veronika at U14 Les Petits As in Tarbes last year. She reached the semifinals before losing to Komardina.



In February during Fed Cup weekend in Moscow, Veronika had the opportunity to meet Maria Sharapova. Veronika has been wearing the Maria Sharapova "Nike Collection" since last year. As you can see she's very tall!

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Will be ranked inside top 750 WTA after Moscow sf points will be added. Second youngest girl with a WTA ranking and 5th girl born in 1997.

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Thanks for starting this. :yeah:

I was impressed with Veronika since I saw a short clip of her playing at Les Petits As so I'm not surprised she's finding success so early in her career. I think it's interesting that she hasn't even played a 10K yet and if she keeps this up she might not ever have to...

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:cheer: saw a bit of her playing. I've been looking for a prodigy and it looks like she has game, and she seems to be a Masha fan too :hearts: quite a few photos with her. keen to follow her progress.

finally :)

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Model beautiful, too.

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SF: (4)Cagla Buyukakcay (TUR) df. (Q)Veronika Kudermetova 6-3 6-4

Still a great week. :yeah:

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Today on the match Veronica Kudermetova was very pleased to see her father - a famous hockey player in the past, Eduard Kudermetov.

It was a little strange. It's one thing to see on TV as he is attacking hockey rivalry gates, and more - watch the match his ​​daughter :)

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:eek: Subscribing! Looks like it's been an amazing week for her :worship:

And I like her name! :hearts: :p

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A few other pics :)











with hockey daddy :D

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The one with the USA flag.

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good week. I hope she continues this form into future ITF event she enters. and she's really pretty too btw :eek:

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Veronika debuts on the WTA rankings at #734 this week! :)

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Internationale Spring Bowl, G2, Amstetten, Austria

1R: (5)Veronika Kudermetova (RUS) df. Elba Kasum (AUT) 6-3 6-3
2R: (5)Veronika Kudermetova (RUS) df. Valentini Grammatikopoulou (GRE) 6-3 6-2
QF: (5)Veronika Kudermetova (RUS) df. Katrine Steffensen (USA) 6-0 6-1
SF: (2)Oleksandra Korashvili (UKR) df. (5)Veronika Kudermetova (RUS) 6-1 6-1