In autumn of 2009 she worked as a correspondent in the newspaper Sovetsky Sport, wrote articles on the topic of tennis.[4]
In 2011 she graduated from the Humanities Institute of Television and Radio Broadcasting. She was the commentator of tennis matches on channels Eurosport Russia[5] and NTV Plus Tennis, and the author and presenter of program Central Court on the radio station Sport FM.
For the first time as a TV presenter, Sofya Tartakova appeared in February 2014 in the program Olympic Channel from Sochi on the TV channel Sport Plus[6] as co-host with Georgy Cherdantsev.[7] She commented on the Wimbledon tennis tournament in 2014 on the Internet portal Sports.ru.[8]
She was formerly a press attache with the Russian Tennis Federation.[9][10]
In October 2015, she moved to the new sports TV channel Match TV.[11][12]
In May 2017, she starred for the men's Maxim Magazine along with colleagues from Match TV Maria Bass and Yulia Sharapova.[13][14] In June 2018 Tartakova graced the issue of the Russian edition of Playboy.[15][16][17]
She is married to Russian tennis player Stepan Khotulev.[18]