Sofia Kenin, known as Sonya, is an American professional tennis player, born in Moscow on 14 November 1998 to a Jewish family that moved to the United States a few months after her birth. She was coached mainly by her father and trained from the age of five with Rick Macci in Florida. She has been ranked as high as world number four in singles and number 21 in doubles by the WTA, and in 2020 she won the Australian Open and was runner-up at the French Open, which made her the 2020 WTA Player of the Year and the youngest American to win a Grand Slam women's singles title since Serena Williams in 1999. She has won five singles and four doubles titles on the WTA Tour, the doubles including the 2019 China Open and the 2024 Miami Open with Bethanie Mattek-Sands.
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Born 14 November 1998 in Moskva (Moscow), Moskva RUS
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