Arantxa Rus

With this win she went from 35th to second place on the junior rankings, ultimately becoming the world No. 1 junior player.

At age 14, Arantxa played her first ITF Women's Circuit tournament at Alkmaar where she lost in the second round to Julie Coin.

Arantxa Rus (born 13 December 1990) is a Dutch professional tennis player.

In 2006, she played two more ITF events at Heerhugowaard and Vlaardingen, reaching the semifinals at the latter.

In 2007, Rus continued playing on the ITF Circuit winning her first title at Vlaardingen and second at Alphen aan de Rijn.

In San Luis Potosí, she reached the final but lost in three sets.

In 's-Hertogenbosch, she was granted a wildcard to play her first WTA Tour main draw.

She lost to Alona Bondarenko, in the first round.

Her end-of-season 2007 ranking was 465.

At the junior level, she won the Australian Open and reached the semifinals at Roland Garros and quarterfinals at Wimbledon.

In April, she won an ITF title in Bari beating four seeded players en-route, including Lucie Hradecká and Alberta Brianti.

Rus was given another wildcard to play at 's-Hertogenbosch, where she was defeated in the first round by Mariya Koryttseva.

In September, she played qualifying in Guangzhou winning both matches.

In the first round of the main draw, she beat Yanina Wickmayer, in three sets.

This was her first main-draw win on the WTA Tour.

Rus reached the quarterfinals by beating Gisela Dulko, before losing to Camille Pin, in straight sets.

She made it through the qualifying and reached the second round in Tashkent losing to top seed Peng Shuai, in two sets.

In 2008, Rus won the girls' singles title at the Australian Open, defeating Jessica Moore in the final.

In Opole, she won another ITF tournament, her second in 2008, and fourth overall.

She ended the year ranked 188.

Rus failed in the qualifyings at Hobart, the Australian Open, and rested without success in other tournaments.

In the clay-court season, she passed through the qualifying rounds, won in the first round of the main draw, but lost to third seed Kaia Kanepi.

A bigger result came at Roland Garros, where she started as world No. 142.

She passed through the qualifying rounds, won her first-round match against Olivia Sanchez 6–1, 6–1 but then lost to Yaroslava Shvedova 0–6, 2–6.

She played a few more tournaments without much success.

Then, in the end of the season, she won ten of eleven matches.

First, at the ITF Poitiers, she passed through the qualifying rounds, won matches against third seed Alexandra Dulgheru and Séverine Beltrame before losing in the quarterfinals to Pauline Parmentier.

Then, she played at an ITF event in Nantes where she won the title without dropping a set through the tournament, with a two-set victory against Renata Voráčová in the final.

She ended the year with a win–loss record of 37–24.

Rus failed at the qualifying rounds of the Hobart International and the Australian Open.

She played few tournaments but her biggest result was in Marbella when she qualified to the first round.

Then in Estoril she passed three qualifying round, won two matches in main draw but lost to Sorana Cîrstea.

She lost at the US Open in the second qualifying round to Wimbledon junior champion Kristýna Plíšková, in three sets.

At the Koddaert Ladies Open, she overcame eighth seed Tathiana Garbin in the first round, and in the second was better than Michaëlla Krajicek, before losing in the quarterfinals to second seed Timea Bacsinszky, in straight sets.

In the qualifying for the Luxembourg Open, she lost in the first round to No. 5 seed Sorana Cîrstea, in three sets.

Later, she competed in the Tennis Masters Rotterdam final against Michaëlla Krajicek, but lost in straight sets.

She ended the year with a win–loss record of 33–26.

Her biggest singles successes to date are a second-round upset over world No. 2, Kim Clijsters, at the 2011 French Open, saving two match points in the second set, reaching the fourth round at the 2012 French Open, and defeating world No. 5, Samantha Stosur, in the 2012 Wimbledon Championships to reach the third round.

Her maiden WTA Tour title was the 2017 Swedish Open doubles event, partnering Quirine Lemoine.

She would later win her maiden WTA Tour singles title at the 2023 Hamburg Open.