Julia Glushko

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Julia Glushko (or Yulia,[1] Template:Langx; born 4 January 1990) is an Israeli former tennis player.

She won 11 singles and 14 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit.[2] Her best results at a Grand Slam tournament were reaching the third round of the US Open in 2013, and the French Open in 2014 in singles.[2] In September 2015, she reached the final of the WTA Challenger event in Dalian, where she was defeated by Zheng Saisai.[3]

On 23 June 2014, Glushko reached her best singles ranking of world No. 79. On 4 November 2013, she peaked at No. 109 in the doubles rankings. She won the 2011 Israeli National Women's Singles Championship. Playing for Israel in the Fed Cup, she had a win–loss record of 29–29.[2]

Early and personal life

Glushko was born in Donetsk, Ukrainian SSR, USSR, and is fluent in Hebrew, Russian, and English.[4][1][5] She started playing tennis at the age of four. Her parents, Sergei and Olga, are tennis instructors.[6][7] Glushko and her family immigrated to Israel from Ukraine when she was nine years old, initially living in the Katamon neighborhood of the city of Jerusalem for three years, and then in the city of Ramat HaSharon.[7][1] She then trained at the Wingate Institute in Netanya.[8] She served in the Israel Defense Forces for over two years.[1] She lives in Modi'in, halfway between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, Israel.[9][10][1] Her younger sister Lina Glushko is also a tennis player with whom she has teamed as a doubles partner.[11]

Tennis career

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Junior years

Glushko won four junior titles. The first three were the 2006 Saadia Rees (Grade 4), the 2007 Argentina Cup (Grade 2), and the 2007 Uruguay Bowl (Grade 2).

In March 2007, she won the Grade-1 Asunción Bowl junior girls tournament in Paraguay. It was the first Grade-1 title of Glushko's career.[12] At 17 years of age she was ranked 10th in the world junior tennis rankings.[13]

At the US Open in September 2007, Glushko won her first two junior singles matches, and her first-round junior doubles match with Tyra Calderwood.

Professional career

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Glushko in 2011
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Glushko in 2012
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Glushko at the 2013 US Open

Glushko won 11 singles and 14 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit.[2] Her best results at a Grand Slam tournament was reaching the third round of the US Open in 2013, and the French Open in 2014 in singles.[2]

Glushko made her professional debut in March 2004 at an ITF event in Ramat HaSharon. She beat Diana Voskoboynik (Israel) in the first round of qualifying, before losing to Yakaterina Burduli.

Her best result on the professional level to that point was a semifinal appearance at an ITF event in Antalya in May 2006, where Glushko lost to Çağla Büyükakçay.

In November 2007, Glushko won her first ITF title an event in Mallorca, beating Diana Enache in the final.

In 2008, she won three ITF titles in doubles competitions with different partners. Glushko celebrated her maiden title at Albufeira, Portugal, alongside Marina Melnikova in February, beating Martina Babáková and Elena Chalova in the final, followed by the victory at Porto Rafti, Greece, with Dominice Ripoll in March, and a third tournament win in May at Ra'anana, where Glushko teamed up with Manana Shapakidze.

In November 2010, she defeated top-seeded world No. 42, Jarmila Wolfe, at the $25k event in Traralgon, Australia, which she won.[14]

In December 2010, Glushko lost the final of the Israeli championships to Shahar Pe'er, in three sets.[15]

In January 2011, she played her first Grand Slam qualifying match, for the Australian Open, reaching the second round after losing to Nuria Llagostera Vives.

Glushko beat Shahar Pe'er in the women's final of the 2011 Israel National Championships.

In 2012, Glushko made her Grand Slam main-draw debut at the US Open, after she defeated Zheng Saisai in the qualifying competition. She lost in the first round to Yanina Wickmayer in straight sets.

In May 2013, Glushko played her second Grand Slam event, the French Open, after she defeated Anastasia Rodionova from Australia in the qualifying competition. Again, she lost in the first round, this time to María Teresa Torró Flor.

In August 2013, Glushko played in Rogers Cup qualifying and defeated Christina McHale in the first round. In the second round of qualifying, she defeated Gabriela Dabrowski in straight sets and entered her first Premier tournament. She played at the 2013 US Open and, after qualifying to the main draw, beat 20th-seeded world No. 23, Nadia Petrova.[16][14] In the second round, she defeated Sachia Vickery, but lost to Daniela Hantuchová in a third-set tiebreaker in round three.[16]

In September 2013, Glushko won her first WTA Tour main-draw match defeating Tetyana Arefyeva. In the second round, she lost to Galina Voskoboeva.

In May 2014, she lost in the first round of Nürnberger Versicherungscup to Caroline Garcia, after qualifying to the main draw. Glushko played at the French Open and beat Donna Vekić in the first round. In the second round, she defeated world No. 22, Kirsten Flipkens, in three sets.[14] However, her run came to an end when she was beaten by Sara Errani, winning only one game.[14]

In June 2014, Glushko lost in the first round of Wimbledon to Sabine Lisicki, 2–6, 1–6 on the Centre Court. In September 2015, she reached the final of the WTA 125 event in Dalian, where she was defeated by Zheng Saisai.[3]

In August 2014, she defeated world No. 32, Bojana Jovanovski, at the Western & Southern Open in Cincinnati.[14]

In 2017, the Women’s Tennis Association deleted reference to Glushko's nationality and Israeli flag from her profile on their website ahead of her scheduled participation at the Malaysian Open in Kuala Lumpur, when event organizers requested all references to her being Israeli be removed from the WTA website in order for her to be allowed to take part in the event.[17] The WTA subsequently reinstated them.[17]

On 29 July 2018, she won the $60k singles title at Granby, Canada, defeating top-seeded Arina Rodionova of Australia in the final.[18]

At the 2018 US Open, Glushko hurt her left knee during play, but had it taped and won her match against Monica Niculescu.[19] She then lost to Naomi Osaka as she played taped calf to quad and hobbled, and learned, however, that she had a fracture in her left knee, and once it healed she had surgery to clean the meniscus.[19][20]

She played her final professional tournament in Israel in September 2019, when she lost in the first round singles, and quarterfinals with doubles partner, sister Lina Glushko. On 24 December 2019, she retired from competitive tennis at 29 years of age.[21][2]

Fed Cup

Playing for Israel in the Fed Cup, Glushko's record was 29-29.[2]

Glushko made her debut with the Israel Fed Cup team on 22 April 2007, in Kamloops, Canada. She lost in straight sets to Marie-Ève Pelletier, after Israel had already clinched the match 3–2. In July, she played Melanie Klaffner in another dead rubber, with Israel defeating Austria 4–1.

At the 2011 Fed Cup held in Eilat, Glushko won three out of her four singles rubbers – against Anne Kremer of Luxembourg, Magda Linette of Poland, and Elitsa Kostova of Bulgaria; she lost to Monica Niculescu of Romania. Glushko also won two out of three doubles matches together with Shahar Pe'er – against Luxembourg and Romania. Israel lost to Poland.

At the 2012 Fed Cup, she won one out of her three singles rubbers, and she won one out of her two doubles games with Shahar Pe'er. She defeated Maria João Koehler and lost to Bibiane Schoofs and Anne Keothavong. In doubles, she and Pe'er lost to Koehler and Michelle Larcher de Brito from Portugal, but defeated Schoofs and Michaëlla Krajicek from the Netherlands.

At the 2013 Fed Cup, Glushko won all four of her singles rubbers, but won neither of her two doubles games with Pe'er.

Maccabiah Games

Competing at the 2005 Maccabiah Games, Glushko lost to Sharon Fichman of Canada in the semifinals.[13]

WTA Challenger finals

Singles: 1 (runner–up)

Result W–L Date Tournament Surface Opponent Score
Loss 0–1 [[2015 Dalian Women's Tennis Open – Singles|Template:Dts]] Dalian Open, China Hard Template:Flagicon Zheng Saisai 6–2, 1–6, 5–7

Doubles: 2 (2 runner–ups)

Result W–L Date Tournament Surface Partner Opponents Score
Loss 0–1 [[2012 Royal Indian Open – Doubles|Template:Dts]] Royal Indian Open, India Hard Template:Flagicon Noppawan Lertcheewakarn Template:Flagicon Nina Bratchikova
Template:Flagicon Oksana Kalashnikova 		0–6, 6–4, [6–10]
Loss 0–2 [[2017 Zhengzhou Women's Tennis Open – Doubles|Template:Dts]] Zhengzhou Open, China Hard Template:Flagicon Jacqueline Cako Template:Flagicon Han Xinyun
Template:Flagicon Zhu Lin 		5–7, 1–6

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 15 (11 titles, 4 runner–ups)

Legend
$50/60,000 tournaments
$25,000 tournaments
$10,000 tournaments
Result W–L Template:NsDateTemplate:Ns Tournament Tier Surface Opponent Score
Win 1–0 Nov 2007 ITF Mallorca, Spain 10,000 Clay Template:Flagicon Diana Buzean 6–0, 6–0
Win 2–0 May 2010 ITF Ra'anana, Israel 10,000 Hard Template:Flagicon Keren Shlomo 6–1, 6–3
Win 3–0 Oct 2010 ITF Akko, Israel 10,000 Hard Template:Flagicon Julia Kimmelmann 6–2, 6–2
Win 4–0 Nov 2010 ITF Kalgoorlie, Australia 25,000 Hard Template:Flagicon Isabella Holland 6–1, 6–2
Win 5–0 Nov 2010 ITF Traralgon, Australia 25,000 Hard Template:Flagicon Sacha Jones 2–6, 7–5, 7–6(7–4)
Loss 5–1 Jul 2012 Waterloo Challenger, Canada 50,000 Clay Template:Flagicon Sharon Fichman 3–6, 2–6
Win 6–1 Jul 2012 Lexington Challenger, United States 50,000 Hard Template:Flagicon Johanna Konta 6–3, 6–0
Win 7–1 Mar 2013 Innisbrook Open, United States 25,000 Clay Template:Flagicon Patricia Mayr-Achleitner 2–6, 6–0, 6–4
Win 8–1 Jul 2013 ITF Waterloo, Canada 50,000 Clay Template:Flagicon Gabriela Dabrowski 6–1, 6–3
Win 9–1 Jun 2018 ITF Hua Hin, Thailand 25,000 Hard Template:Flagicon Alexandra Bozovic 6–2, 6–2
Loss 9–2 Jun 2018 ITF Hua Hin, Thailand 25,000 Hard Template:Flagicon Victoria Rodríguez 4–6, 1–6
Win 10–2 Jun 2018 ITF Singapore 25,000 Hard Template:Flagicon Risa Ozaki 1–6, 6–1, 6–4
Loss 10–3 Jul 2018 ITF Winnipeg, Canada 25,000 Hard Template:Flagicon Rebecca Marino 6–7(3–7), 6–7(4–7)
Win 11–3 Jul 2018 Challenger de Granby, Canada 60,000 Hard Template:Flagicon Arina Rodionova 6–4, 6–3
Loss 11–4 Jun 2019 ITF Akko, Israel 25,000 Hard Template:Flagicon Susan Bandecchi 4–6, 2–6

Doubles: 32 (14–18)

Legend
$100,000 tournaments
$75/80,000 tournaments
$50/60,000 tournaments
$25,000 tournaments
$10,000 tournaments
Outcome No. Date Tournament Surface Partner Opponents Score
Runner-up 1. 11 November 2007 ITF Mallorca, Spain Clay Template:Flagicon Charlene Vanneste Template:Flagicon Marina Melnikova
Template:Flagicon Sylwia Zagórska 		4–6, 4–6
Runner-up 2. 24 November 2007 ITF Ramat HaSharon, Israel Hard Template:Flagicon Keren Shlomo Template:Flagicon Iryna Kurianovic
Template:Flagicon Mika Urbančič 		4–6, 1–6
Winner 1. 17 February 2008 ITF Albufeira, Portugal Hard Template:Flagicon Marina Melnikova Template:Flagicon Martina Babáková
Template:Flagicon Elena Chalova 		6–3, 0–6, [11–9]
Winner 2. 23 March 2008 ITF Porto Rafti, Greece Hard Template:Flagicon Dominice Ripoll Template:Flagicon Nicole Clerico
Template:Flagicon Mika Urbančič 		1–6, 7–5, [10–7]
Winner 3. 24 May 2008 ITF Ra'anana, Israel Hard Template:Flagicon Manana Shapakidze Template:Flagicon Chen Astrogo
Template:Flagicon Marcella Koek 		7–5, 6–7(5–7), [10–6]
Runner-up 3. 14 September 2008 ITF Sarajevo,
Bosnia and Herzegovina 		Clay Template:Flagicon Çağla Büyükakçay Template:Flagicon Alberta Brianti
Template:Flagicon Polona Hercog 		4–6, 5–7
Winner 4. 29 May 2010 ITF Ra'anana, Israel Hard Template:Flagicon Keren Shlomo Template:Flagicon Efrat Mishor
Template:Flagicon Anna Rapoport 		3–6, 7–6(8–6), [10–3]
Runner-up 4. 26 June 2010 ITF Kristinehamn, Sweden Clay Template:Flagicon Pemra Özgen Template:Flagicon Mervana Jugić-Salkić
Template:Flagicon Emma Laine 		2–6, 3–6
Winner 5. 18 July 2010 ITF Atlanta, United States Hard Template:Flagicon Kristy Frilling Template:Flagicon Irina Falconi
Template:Flagicon Maria Sanchez 		6–2, 2–6, [10–7]
Winner 6. 23 October 2010 ITF Akko, Israel Hard Template:Flagicon Janina Toljan Template:Flagicon Gally De Wael
Template:Flagicon Zuzana Linhová 		6–2, 6–2
Runner-up 5. 29 October 2011 ITF Netanya, Israel Hard Template:Flagicon Nicole Clerico Template:Flagicon Çağla Büyükakçay
Template:Flagicon Pemra Özgen 		5–7, 3–6
Runner-up 6. 29 April 2012 Charlottesville Classic,
United States 		Clay Template:Flagicon Elena Bovina Template:Flagicon Maria Sanchez
Template:Flagicon Yasmin Schnack 		2–6, 2–6
Runner-up 7. 18 May 2012 Open Saint-Gaudens, France Clay Template:Flagicon Naomi Broady Template:Flagicon Vesna Dolonc
Template:Flagicon Irina Khromacheva 		2–6, 0–6
Runner-up 8. 29 July 2012 Lexington Challenger,
United States 		Hard Template:Flagicon Olivia Rogowska Template:Flagicon Shuko Aoyama
Template:Flagicon Xu Yifan 		5–7, 7–6(7–4), [4–10]
Winner 7. 5 August 2012 Vancouver Open, Canada Hard Template:Flagicon Olivia Rogowska Template:Flagicon Jacqueline Cako
Template:Flagicon Natalie Pluskota 		6–4, 5–7, [10–7]
Winner 8. 18 May 2013 Open Saint-Gaudens, France Clay Template:Flagicon Paula Ormaechea Template:Flagicon Stéphanie Dubois
Template:Flagicon Kurumi Nara 		7–5, 7–6(13–11)
Runner-up 9. 15 June 2013 Nottingham Open, UK Grass Template:Flagicon Erika Sema Template:Flagicon Julie Coin
Template:Flagicon Stéphanie Foretz Gacon 		2–6, 4–6
Runner-up 10. 27 July 2013 Lexington Challenger,
United States 		Hard Template:Flagicon Chanel Simmonds Template:Flagicon Nicha Lertpitaksinchai
Template:Flagicon Peangtarn Plipuech 		6–7(4–7), 3–6
Runner-up 11. 4 May 2014 ITF Wiesbaden, Germany Clay Template:Flagicon Mandy Minella Template:Flagicon Viktorija Golubic
Template:Flagicon Diāna Marcinkēviča 		4–6, 3–6
Runner-up 12. 12 April 2015 Open Medellín, Colombia Clay Template:Flagicon Mariana Duque Template:Flagicon Lourdes Domínguez Lino
Template:Flagicon Mandy Minella 		5–7, 6–4, [5–10]
Winner 9. 15 May 2015 Open Saint-Gaudens, France Clay Template:Flagicon Mariana Duque Template:Flagicon Beatriz Haddad Maia
Template:Flagicon Nicole Melichar 		1–6, 7–6(7–5), [10–4]
Runner-up 13. 7 November 2015 Waco Showdown,
United States 		Hard Template:Flagicon Rebecca Peterson Template:Flagicon Vania King
Template:Flagicon Nicole Gibbs 		4–6, 4–6
Winner 10. 15 November 2015 Scottsdale Challenge,
United States 		Hard Template:Flagicon Rebecca Peterson Template:Flagicon Viktorija Golubic
Template:Flagicon Stephanie Vogt 		4–6, 7–5, [10–6]
Winner 11. 8 May 2016 Indian Harbour Beach Classic,
United States 		Clay Template:Flagicon Alexandra Panova Template:Flagicon Jessica Pegula
Template:Flagicon Maria Sanchez 		7–5, 6–4
Runner-up 14. 6 August 2016 Challenger de Granby, Canada Hard Template:Flagicon Olga Govortsova Template:Flagicon Jamie Loeb
Template:Flagicon An-Sophie Mestach 		4–6, 4–6
Runner-up 15. 1 October 2016 ITF Brisbane International, Australia Hard Template:Flagicon Liu Fangzhou Template:Flagicon Naiktha Bains
Template:Flagicon Abigail Tere-Apisah 		7–6(7–4), 2–6, [3–10]
Winner 12. 1 April 2017 ITF Mornington, Australia Clay Template:Flagicon Barbora Krejčíková Template:Flagicon Jessica Moore
Template:Flagicon Varatchaya Wongteanchai 		6–4, 2–6, [11–9]
Runner-up 16. 6 May 2017 Kangaroo Cup Gifu, Japan Hard Template:Flagicon Katy Dunne Template:Flagicon Eri Hozumi
Template:Flagicon Miyu Kato 		4–6, 2–6
Winner 13. 3 June 2017 Grado Tennis Cup, Italy Clay Template:Flagicon Priscilla Hon Template:Flagicon Tereza Mrdeža
Template:Flagicon Conny Perrin 		7–5, 6–2
Winner 14. 10 June 2017 Internazionali di Brescia, Italy Clay Template:Flagicon Priscilla Hon Template:Flagicon Montserrat González
Template:Flagicon Ilona Kremen 		2–6, 7–6(7–4), [10–8]
Runner-up 17. 16 June 2017 Barcelona Women World Winner, Spain Clay Template:Flagicon Priscilla Hon Template:Flagicon Montserrat González
Template:Flagicon Sílvia Soler Espinosa 		4–6, 3–6
Runner-up 18. 14 July 2018 ITF Winnipeg, Canada Hard Template:Flagicon Sanaz Marand Template:Flagicon Akiko Omae
Template:Flagicon Victoria Rodríguez 		6–7(2–7), 3–6

Grand Slam singles performance timeline

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Australian Open Q2 Q2 Q2 1R Q2 Q3 Q2 A A 0–1
French Open Q1 A 1R 3R Q1 Q2 A A Q3 2–2
Wimbledon Q1 A Q3 1R Q1 Q1 A A Q1 0–1
US Open Q3 1R 3R 1R Q2 Q2 A 2R Q1 3–4

See also

References

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