Polina Kudermetova’s Racquet – Player Profile

Written by: Simon Zeitler | January 27, 2025
Polina Kudermetova

If you have seen this name more on tour recently, it is because there are now two Kudermetova sisters playing. The younger one is Polina, who recently had a very good showing with a final appearance against Aryna Sabalenka in Brisbane.

Polina Kudermetovaโ€™s tennis racquet

Like many other professionals, Kudermetova is endorsing the Wilson Blade v9 but seems to be using a pro stock frame underneath the paint. Her string pattern is 16×18 and based on the looks, she could very well be using the Steam 100, which is very popular on the WTA tour in general.

It is tough to guess her strings from the distance, as there seems to be no proven information on her setup yet, but it looks like a possible hybrid setup.

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Biography and career

Polina Kudermetova was born in Moscow on 4th of June 2003 and is six years younger than her sister Veronika, a former top 10 player. Her dad is a former professional ice hockey player, Eduard Kudermetov and a two-time Russian champion in his sport. She started playing tennis at the age of 7 and played a lot of juniors until 2020, where she reached the French Open Juniors semifinal.

Until 2023, she mainly played on the ITF circuit with multiple titles to her name on this level, before qualifying for her first Grand Slam main draw in Australia 2023. She went on to record her first WTA match win at the Libรฉma Open and after further progress ended the 2024 season close to the worldโ€™s top 100.

She qualified for the Brisbane Open 2025 and had a fairytale run there, defeating her first top 10 opponent in Kasatkina along the way. This brought her to her current career high ranking of 57 in the world, which will gelp her gain access to bigger tournaments going forward.

She has quite a resumรฉe of titles on the ITF tour already:

YearTournament
2019Antalya Hard W15
2021Antalya Clay W15
2021Kazan Hard W15
2022Tatarstan Hard W15
2022Raโ€™anana Hard W25
2022Istanbul Hard W25
2022Jerusalem Hard W25
2023Astana Hard W40
2024Indore Hard W50

Info and stats

  • She plays right-handed and a two-handed backhand
  • Total prize money: 522.484 USD
  • Height: 5ft8in (1.72m)
  • Favorite surface: hard
  • Coached by Ravshan Sultanov

Her records as after the Australian Open so far are:

Overall record187 โ€“ 102
WTA tour record13 โ€“ 10
2025 record5 โ€“ 2
Grand slam record0 โ€“ 2
Record in career finals (incl. ITF)9 โ€“ 4
Record against top 101 – 1

Follow Polina Kudermetova

As most players, Kudermetova is active on Instagram with her handle @p.kudermetova and posts frequently about her matches, life on tour etc.ย 

Outlook for Polina Kudermetova

It seems that the young career of Polina is up to a very good start and her new ranking of No. 57 will give her a lot of chances to play WTA 250 and 500 events going forward. As we have witnessed, the WTA tour is very volatile in the top 100 and if you are able to string together results, there is the chance you can rise very quickly. For Kudermetova to have the kind of success that her older sister had before, she will have to work hard nevertheless, to improve and hopefully entertain us on tour more going forward.

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Simon Zeitler

Simon is a true tennis fan that writes about the ATP and WTA tour as well as interesting tennis gear.