Darja Semeņistaja

Latvian tennis player (born 2002) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Darja Semeņistaja (born 16 September 2002) is a Latvian tennis player. She has career-high WTA rankings of world No. 87 in singles, achieved on 27 October 2025, and No. 119 in doubles, reached on 8 September 2025. She has won two singles and two doubles titles on the WTA Challenger Tour.[1]

Country(sports) Latvia
Born (2002-09-16) 16 September 2002 (age 23)
PlaysLeft-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize moneyUS$ 789,889
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Darja Semeņistaja
Semeņistaja at the 2023 French Open
Country (sports) Latvia
Born (2002-09-16) 16 September 2002 (age 23)
PlaysLeft-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize moneyUS$ 789,889
Singles
Career record232–132
Career titles2 WTA Challenger, 16 ITF
Highest rankingNo. 87 (27 October 2025)
Current rankingNo. 87 (27 October 2025)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open1R (2026)
French OpenQ2 (2024)
WimbledonQ3 (2023, 2025)
US Open1R (2025)
Doubles
Career record117–84
Career titles2 WTA Challenger, 10 ITF
Highest rankingNo. 119 (8 September 2025)
Current rankingNo. 157 (27 October 2025)
Last updated on: 31 October 2025.
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Playing for Latvia Billie Jean King Cup team, she has a win-loss record of 4–6.

She has also won 16 singles and ten doubles titles on the ITF Circuit.[1]

Semenistaja on serve during her semifinal at the 2024 Montreux Ladies Open.

Career

2021: Seven ITF titles

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: WTA 125 success

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] Later that month at the ATX Open, Semeņistaja recorded her maiden WTA Tour main-draw match win, against wildcard entrant Victoria Jiménez Kasintseva,[7] before losing to sixth seed Wang Xiyu in the second round.[8]

Partnering Carole Monnet, Semeņistaja won the doubles title at the Țiriac Foundation Trophy, defeating Aliona Bolsova and Katarzyna Kawa in the final.[9]

2025: Major and top 100 debuts

Partnering Nina Stojanović, Semeņistaja reached the doubles final at the Canberra International for the second successive year, losing to Jaimee Fourlis and Petra Hule in a deciding champions tiebreak.[10]

In April she won her second WTA 125 singles title at the Open Internacional Femení Solgironès, defeating Dalma Gálfi in the final.[11]

Semeņistaja qualified to make her major debut at the US Open,[12] losing to Peyton Stearns in the first round.[13]

She reached the top 100 at world No. 90 in the rankings on 20 October 2025, following her title run at the Les Franqueses del Vallès W100 event. She became the 26th player to reach the milestone in the 2025 season.[14]

2026: First WTA Tour quarterfinal

At the Copa Colsanitas, Semeņistaja defeated fifth seed Ella Seidel[15] and Despina Papamichail to reach her first WTA Tour quarterfinal,[16] at which point her run was ended by top seed and eventual champion Marie Bouzková.[17]

Performance timeline

Key
W  F  SF QF #R RRQ# 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

More information Tournament, W–L ...
Tournament 20232024 2025 2026 W–L
Australian Open A Q2 Q1 1R 0–1
French Open Q1 Q2 Q1 0–0
Wimbledon Q3 Q1 Q3 0–0
US Open Q2 Q1 1R 0–1
Win–loss 0–0 0–0 0–1 0–1 0–2
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WTA Challenger finals

Singles: 3 (2 titles, 1 runner-up)

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Result W–L    Date    Tournament Surface Opponent Score
Win 1–0 Feb 2024 Mumbai Open, India Hard Australia Storm Hunter 5–7, 7–6(8–6), 6–2
Win 2–0 Apr 2025 Open Internacional Solgironès, Spain Clay Hungary Dalma Galfi 5–7, 6–0, 6–4
Loss 2–1 Sep 2025 Montreux Ladies Open, Switzerland Clay Poland Maja Chwalińska 1–6, 2–6
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Doubles: 7 (2 titles, 5 runner-ups)

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Result W–L Date Tournament Surface Partner Opponents Score
Win 1–0 Jan 2024 Canberra International, Australia Hard Slovenia Veronika Erjavec Australia Kaylah McPhee
Australia Astra Sharma
6–2, 6–4
Win 2–0 Sep 2024 Țiriac Foundation Trophy, Romania Clay France Carole Monnet Spain Aliona Bolsova
Poland Katarzyna Kawa
1–6, 6–2, [10–7]
Loss 2–1 Jan 2025 Canberra International, Australia Hard Serbia Nina Stojanović Australia Jaimee Fourlis
Australia Petra Hule
5–7, 4–6), [5–10]
Loss 2–2 Apr 2025 Open Internacional Solgironès,
Spain
Clay Serbia Nina Stojanović Belgium Magali Kempen
Czech Republic Anna Sisková
6–7(1–7), 1–6
Loss 2–3 Jul 2025 Internazionale di Roma, Italy Clay Georgia (country) Ekaterine Gorgodze Chinese Taipei Cho I-hsuan
Chinese Taipei Cho Yi-tsen
6–4, 4–6, [6–10]
Loss 2–4 Apr 2026 WTA 125 Madrid, Spain Clay Romania Irina Bara Spain Irene Burillo
Elena Pridankina
6–4, 3–6, [3–10]
Loss 2–5 Apr 2026 Oeiras Ladies Open, Portugal Clay Switzerland Naïma Karamoko Slovenia Veronika Erjavec
France Kristina Mladenovic
2–6, 5–7
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ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 19 (16 titles, 3 runner-ups)

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Legend
W100 tournaments (1–1)
W60/75 tournaments (3–1)
W40/50 tournaments (2–0)
W25 tournaments (3–1)
W15 tournaments (7–0)
Finals by surface
Hard (7–1)
Clay (9–2)
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More information Result, W–L ...
Result W–L Date Tournament Tier Surface Opponent Score
Win 1–0 Jul 2021 ITF Prokuplje, Serbia W15 Clay France Alice Robbe 6–2, 2–6, 6–3
Win 2–0 Jul 2021 ITF Prokuplje, Serbia W15 Clay Serbia Natalija Senić 6–0, 6–2
Win 3–0 Aug 2021 ITF Bratislava, Slovakia W15 Clay Slovenia Pia Lovrič 6–4, 6–3
Win 4–0 Aug 2021 ITF Chornomorsk, Ukraine W15 Clay Italy Nicole Fossa Huergo 6–3, 6–2
Win 5–0 Oct 2021 ITF Cancún, Mexico W15 Hard Mexico María Portillo Ramírez 6–3, 7–5
Win 6–0 Oct 2021 ITF Cancún, Mexico W15 Hard Mexico María Portillo Ramírez 5–7, 7–6(5), 6–0
Win 7–0 Oct 2021 ITF Cancún, Mexico W15 Hard United States Rachel Gailis 7–5, 7–5
Win 8–0 Feb 2022 ITF Cancún, Mexico W25 Hard Israel Lina Glushko 4–6, 7–6(5), 6–2
Win 9–0 May 2022 ITF Santa Margherita di Pula, Italy W25 Clay Russia Irina Khromacheva 6–4, 4–6, 6–1
Win 10–0 Jun 2022 ITF Ystad, Sweden W25 Clay Denmark Sofia Samavati 3–6, 6–3, 6–1
Win 11–0 Feb 2023 ITF Mexico City, Mexico W40 Hard Belarus Jana Kolodynska 7–5, 4–0 ret.
Loss 11–1 Feb 2023 ITF Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic W25 Hard France Carole Monnet 5–7, 6–3, 1–6
Win 12–1 May 2023 Prague Open, Czech Republic W60 Clay Spain Jéssica Bouzas Maneiro 2–6, 6–3, 6–4
Win 13–1 Jul 2023 Liepāja Open, Latvia W60 Clay United States Jessie Aney 6–4, 6–4
Win 14–1 Jul 2023 ITS Cup Olomouc, Czech Republic W60 Clay Croatia Lea Bošković 6–7(6), 6–3, 6–1
Win 15–1 Jan 2024 ITF Bangalore, India W50 Hard France Carole Monnet 6–1, 3–0 ret.
Loss 15–2 Sep 2024 Šibenik Open, Croatia W75 Clay Czech Republic Sára Bejlek 2–6, 0–6
Loss 15–3 Sep 2025 Lisboa Belém Open, Portugal W100 Clay Switzerland Simona Waltert 2–6, 1–6
Win 16–3 Oct 2025 ITF Les Franqueses del Vallès, Spain W100 Hard Poland Linda Klimovičová 7–5, 7–6(4)
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Doubles: 17 (10 titles, 7 runner–ups)

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Legend
W100 tournaments (1–1)
W60/75 tournaments (1–2)
W40/50 tournaments (2–1)
W25 tournaments (2–2)
W15 tournaments (4–1)
Finals by surface
Hard (6–5)
Clay (4–2)
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More information Result, W–L ...
Result W–L Date Tournament Tier Surface Partner Opponents Score
Loss 0–1 Sep 2020 ITF Monastir, Tunisia W15 Hard Denmark Olivia Gram Belarus Yuliya Hatouka
Belarus Anna Kubareva
6–2, 5–7, [6–10]
Win 1–1 Sep 2020 ITF Monastir, Tunisia W15 Hard Czech Republic Laetitia Pulchartová Russia Darya Astakhova
Russia Anastasia Sukhotina
6–2, 6–7(8), [10–5]
Win 2–1 Oct 2020 ITF Monastir, Tunisia W15 Hard Russia Darya Astakhova Argentina María Lourdes Carlé
Denmark Olivia Gram
6–4, 6–3
Win 3–1 Oct 2021 ITF Cancún, Mexico W15 Hard United States Anna Ulyashchenko Venezuela Nadia Echeverría Alam
United States Rushri Wijesundera
6–4, 6–4
Loss 3–2 Feb 2022 ITF Cancún, Mexico W25 Hard Russia Maria Bondarenko United States Anna Rogers
United States Christina Rosca
1–6, 4–6
Loss 3–3 Mar 2022 ITF Santo Domingo, Dominican Rep. W25 Hard Russia Anastasia Tikhonova Russia Irina Khromacheva
Serbia Natalija Stevanović
1–6, 6–7(5)
Win 4–3 Sep 2022 ITF Pula, Italy W25 Clay Kazakhstan Zhibek Kulambayeva China Lu Jiajing
Bosnia and Herzegovina Anita Wagner
6–2, 6–2
Win 5–3 Dec 2022 ITF Valencia, Spain W15 Clay France Marine Szostak Spain Lucía Cortez Llorca
Spain Claudia Hoste Ferrer
w/o
Loss 5–4 Feb 2023 ITF Mexico City, Mexico W40 Hard Netherlands Suzan Lamens United States Sofia Sewing
Turkey Berfu Cengiz
1–6, 6–1, [10–12]
Win 6–4 Feb 2023 ITF Santo Domingo, Dominican Rep. W25 Hard United States Sofia Sewing Hong Kong Eudice Chong
Bosnia and Herzegovina Nefisa Berberović
6–3, 6–2
Win 7–4 Jul 2023 Liepāja Open, Latvia W60 Clay Latvia Daniela Vismane Turkey Çağla Büyükakçay
North Macedonia Lina Gjorcheska
6–4, 2–6, [10–3]
Loss 7–5 Jul 2023 ITS Cup Olomouc, Czech Republic W60 Clay Kazakhstan Zhibek Kulambayeva Czech Republic Magdaléna Smékalová
Czech Republic Tereza Valentová
2–6, 2–6
Loss 7–6 Oct 2023 ITF Les Franqueses del Vallès, Spain W100 Hard China Gao Xinyu Italy Camilla Rosatello
Italy Angelica Moratelli
6–4, 5–7, [6–10]
Win 8–6 Jan 2024 Bangalore Open, India W50 Hard Italy Camilla Rosatello Chinese Taipei Li Yu-yun
Japan Eri Shimizu
3–6, 6–2, [10–8]
Win 9–6 Jan 2024 Pune Open, India W50 Hard Philippines Alex Eala United Kingdom Naiktha Bains
Hungary Fanny Stollár
7–6(8), 6–3
Win 10–6 Apr 2025 Wiesbaden Open, Germany W100 Clay Kazakhstan Zhibek Kulambayeva Czech Republic Jesika Malečková
Czech Republic Miriam Škoch
4–6, 6–3, [11–9]
Loss 10–7 May 2025 Internazionali di Brescia, Italy W75 Clay Czech Republic Gabriela Knutson Poland Maja Chwalińska
Austria Sinja Kraus
0–6, 3–6
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