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Victoria Jiménez Kasintseva

Andorran tennis player (born 2005)

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Victoria Jiménez Kasintseva (born 9 August 2005) is an Andorran professional tennis player. On 16 March 2026, she reached a career-high singles ranking by the WTA of 89, the first Andorran player, female or male, to break into the top 100 in the tennis rankings in the Open Era.

Victoria Jiménez Kasintseva was born in Andorra la Vella, Andorra to Andorran father Joan Jiménez Guerra and Russian mother Yulia Kasintseva. Her father is a former tennis professional who reached a career-high ATP Tour ranking of 505. Her brother, Joan, also plays tennis. She spent three years of her childhood living in Kentucky in the United States from age 4 to age 8.

She began playing tennis at the age of three in 2008, and currently trains in Barcelona with her father. She speaks Spanish, English, French, and Russian fluently, in addition to her native Catalan.

In 2020, Jiménez Kasintseva won the Australian Open girls' singles title as the youngest player in the draw, defeating Weronika Baszak in the final. She was the first Andorran to win a junior major title, as well as the youngest player to win a major final since Coco Gauff at the 2018 French Open. She has won eight singles titles on the ITF Junior Circuit and one doubles title, and she achieved a career-high junior ranking of No. 1 on 9 March 2020.

At the age of 15, Jiménez Kasintseva made her WTA Tour main-draw debut as a wildcard at the 2021 Madrid Open. She was the youngest player and the first from Andorra to compete in a WTA tournament main draw. Jiménez Kasintseva lost to Kiki Bertens in the first round. She won her first ITF singles title in Aparecida de Goiânia and she reached the final in Maspalomas, where she was defeated by Arantxa Rus.

2022–2024: First WTA Tour quarterfinal and WTA 1000 win

Having gained entry as a lucky loser, Jiménez Kasintseva recorded her first WTA Tour wins at the 2022 Korea Open, defeating Chloé Paquet and Rebecca Marino to become the first Andorran to reach a first Tour quarterfinal She lost to Jeļena Ostapenko in the quarterfinals.

She won her second ITF singles title in Loulé as the top seed in the tournament, and won her first ITF Circuit doubles title at the Solgironès Open, partnered with Renata Zarazúa. Jiménez Kasintseva also reached the singles final in Bendigo, losing to Ysaline Bonaventure.

In 2023, she received wildcards into the main draw at the WTA 1000 tournaments in Miami and Madrid, losing in the first round at both. That year, she won two W25 titles, at Boca Raton and Austin.

She also received a wildcard into the main draw at the 2024 Madrid Open, where she defeated Zhu Lin in the first round for her first WTA 1000 win, then lost to Jasmine Paolini.

2025–2026: Historic major, top 100, WTA 1000 debuts

In March 2025, Jiménez Kasintseva finished runner-up at the Antalya Challenger, losing to Olga Danilović. She also reached the final at the WTA 125 Makarska Open in Croatia, losing to Sára Bejlek.

In August 2025, Jiménez Kasintseva qualified for the main draw of the US Open, making her debut appearance in the main draw of a Grand Slam tournament. With her qualification, she became the first Andorran player, male or female, to compete in the main draw of a major. She lost to Maya Joint in the first round.

At the 2026 Mérida Open, she qualified for the main-draw and defeated Yulia Putintseva and eighth seed Magda Linette to make it through to the quarterfinals, at which point her run was ended by fellow qualifier Zhang Shuai. Despite the loss, Jiménez Kasintseva moved up 25 places in the WTA rankings to No. 97 on 2 March 2026, becoming the first player from Andorra – female or male – to break into the world's top 100. Later that week at the WTA 1000 tournament in Indian Wells, she again progressed through the qualifying rounds to earn a spot in the main draw and then overcame Caty McNally, before losing to 16th seed Naomi Osaka in the second round.

Only main-draw results in WTA Tour, Grand Slam tournaments, Fed Cup/Billie Jean King Cup and Olympic Games are included in win–loss records.

Current through the 2026 US Open.

Singles: 10 (5 titles, 5 runner-ups)

Doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)

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