Lyudmyla Viktorivna Kichenok (Ukrainian: Людмила Вікторівна Кіченок; born 20 July 1992) is a Ukrainian professional tennis player. With Mate Pavić, she won the 2023 Wimbledon Championships in mixed doubles.[1] On 20 March 2023, she peaked at No. 7 in the doubles rankings. Kichenok has won nine doubles titles on the WTA Tour, including four with her twin sister Nadiia. On 21 July 2014, she reached her career-high singles rankings of world No. 156.
2015: First WTA Tour doubles title and singles top-10 win[edit]
In 2015, she won her first WTA doubles title together with her sister. They escaped a 5–0 deficit in the second set tie-break of their 6–4, 7–6 defeat of Liang Chen and Wang Yafan in the Shenzhen Open final. This win made the Kichenoks the second pair of twins, after Karolína Plíšková and Kristýna Plíšková, to win a WTA doubles title. They previously had been runners-up at Tashkent in 2011 and Shenzhen in 2014.[2] She won the second WTA Tour doubles title at the Brasil Tennis Cup.
During the Tianjin Open, Lyudmyla caused the biggest upset of the tournament with a top-10 win over Flavia Pennetta, world No. 8 and reigning US Open champion, in the first round; it has been the biggest win of her singles career so far.[3]
2022: Two major semifinals, WTA 1000 title, world No. 9 & WTA Finals debut[edit]
At the French Open, she reached the semifinals of a major for the first time in her career, partnering again with Ostapenko, falling to the eventual champions, Caroline Garcia and Kristina Mladenovic.[5] She reached the top 20 in doubles on 6 June 2022.
The following week, she won her sixth title at Birmingham with Ostapenko. At the Wimbledon Championships, they again reached the semifinals, again falling to the eventual champions, this time Barbora Krejčíková and Kateřina Siniaková.
At the Cincinnati Open, she reached the final with Ostapenko defeating Australian Open finalists Haddad Maia and Anna Danilina and top seeds Kudermetova and Mertens. The pair won their biggest title defeating Nicole Melichar and Ellen Perez.[6] Kichenok reached new career-highs in doubles of world No. 10 on, 22 August 2022, and No. 9, on 12 September 2022.
At the inaugural edition of the Tallinn Open, seeded third with her sister Nadia, she won her eighth title defeating top-seeded pair Nicole Melichar and Laura Siegemund in the final.[7]
She and Ostapenko qualified for the 2022 WTA Finals where they reached the semifinals.[8]
She was selected to play in the 2023 WTA Elite Trophy with Ulrikke Eikeri as the defending champion, having won the trophy twice, the last time it was held in 2019, and also in 2018.
At the 2024 Australian Open, she reached her first doubles final with Jeļena Ostapenko, defeating reigning US Open champions and fourth seeds, Gabriela Dabrowski and Erin Routliffe, in straight sets.[10] Kichenok became the third Ukrainian female tennis player to reach a Grand Slam doubles final, following sisters Kateryna Bondarenko and Alona Bondarenko who won the title at the 2008 Australian Open, and Elena Tatarkova who reached the final with Mariaan de Swardt of South Africa in the 1999 Wimbledon Championships.[11]
(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.
Only main-draw results in WTA Tour, Grand Slam tournaments, Fed Cup/Billie Jean King Cup and Olympic Games are included in win–loss records.
^The first Premier 5 event of the year has switched back and forth between the Dubai Tennis Championships and the Qatar Ladies Open since 2009. Dubai was classified as a Premier 5 event from 2009 to 2011 before being succeeded by Doha for the 2012–2014 period. In 2015, Dubai regained its Premier 5 status while Doha was demoted to Premier status. The Premier 5 tournaments were reclassified as WTA 1000 tournaments in 2021.
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Ukraine
Jeļena Ostapenko
Hsieh Su-wei 
Elise Mertens
Mate Pavić
Xu Yifan 
Nicole Melichar-Martinez 
Ellen Perez
Shuko Aoyama 
Lidziya Marozava
Andreja Klepač
Eleni Daniilidou 
Vitalia Diatchenko
Monica Niculescu 
Klára Zakopalová
Tímea Babos 
Demi Schuurs
Ulrikke Eikeri 
Aleksandra Krunić 
Magda Linette
Laura Siegemund
Heather Watson
Zarina Diyas
Irena Pavlovic
Nicole Rottmann
Mervana Jugić-Salkić 
Albina Khabibulina 
Oksana Kalashnikova 
Zuzana Luknárová 
Anett Kontaveit 
Katharina Lehnert 
Alice Matteucci
Stephanie Vogt
Xenia Knoll
Prarthana Thombare
