Yuliia Starodubtseva

Yuliia Volodymyrivna Starodubtseva (Ukrainian: Юлія Володимирівна Стародубцева; born 17 February 2000) is a Ukrainian professional tennis player. She has a career-high WTA singles ranking of world No. 53, achieved on 6 April 2026 and a doubles ranking of No. 144, reached on 6 May 2024.

Starodubtseva has won four singles titles and three doubles titles on the ITF Circuit.

She played college tennis at Old Dominion University.

Starodubtseva won her first $60k tournament in June 2023 in Sumter, South Carolina, defeating Indian player Karman Thandi.

Starodubtseva made her major debut at the Australian Open after qualifying, but lost in the first round to sixth seed Ons Jabeur. She also qualified for the French Open, but again lost in the first round, this time to Cristina Bucșa.

As a qualifier once more, Starodubtseva recorded her first main-draw major win at Wimbledon, defeating Alison Van Uytvanck. In the second round, she lost to fellow qualifier Lulu Sun.

Ranked No. 146, Starodubtseva made her debut at the US Open, after qualifying into the main-draw but lost in the first round to 20th seed Victoria Azarenka in three sets. Starodubtseva became the first woman in the Open Era to qualify for all four majors in a single season.

In September, Starodubtseva reached her first WTA Tour quarterfinal at the Jasmin Open by defeating Suzan Lamens and third seed Diane Parry, before losing to Sonay Kartal.

At the China Open, Starodubtseva recorded, after qualifying, her first main-draw WTA 1000-level wins over Laura Siegemund, 27th seed Kateřina Siniaková,Elina Avanesyan and 10th seed Anna Kalinskaya to reach the quarterfinals. Despite losing to sixth seed Coco Gauff in the last eight, Starodubtseva entered the top-100 in the singles rankings on 7 October 2024.

At the French Open Starodubtseva lost to Sára Bejlek in straight sets in the last round of qualifying, ending a 14-match winning streak in Grand Slam qualifying. However, she entered the main-draw as a lucky loser and defeated qualifier Tamara Korpatsch, and Anastasia Potapova to reach the third round of a major for the first time, at which point her run was ended by fourth seed Jasmine Paolini. As a result of her performance at Roland Garos, she reached a new career-high ranking of world No. 67 on 9 June 2025.

At the Ningbo Open where Starodubtseva qualified for the main-draw, she overcame Yulia Putintseva to make it into the second round, where she pushed sixth seed Belinda Bencic to three sets in what was the longest match of the 2025 season to that point, lasting three hours and 33 minutes. As a result, she moved 19 positions up to No. 112 on 20 October 2025.

In March, Starodubtseva qualified for the main draw at the Miami Open, defeated Eva Lys and 30th seed Cristina Bucșa, before losing to sixth seed Amanda Anisimova in the third round.

At the Charleston Open, she recorded wins over Zhang Shuai, lucky loser Ekaterine Gorgodze, Renata Zarazúa, McCartney Kessler and fifth seed Madison Keys to reach her first WTA Tour final. She lost the championship match to top seed and defending champion, Jessica Pegula, in straight sets. Despite the defeat, Starodubtseva moved up to a new career-high ranking of world No. 53 on 6 April 2026.

Current through the 2026 Charleston Open.

• Yuliia Starodubtseva at the Women's Tennis Association
• Yuliia Starodubtseva at the International Tennis Federation
• Yuliia Starodubtseva at the Billie Jean King Cup
• Yuliia Starodubtseva at Wimbledon