Anna Kalinskaya awaits her opponent

Anna Kalinskaya sees herself again in Beijing

There will also be Anna Kalinskaya, after a three-week absence from the WTA circuit following her participation in the U.S. Open, among the top seeds for the China Open in Beijing, which kicks off Wednesday, Sept. 25. Jannik Sinner’s partner will enjoy the number 10 seed, which allows her to advance directly to the second round.

Number 14 in the WTA rankings è waiting, therefore, to know her opponent, whose name will come out of the first-round match between Russian naturalized French tennis player Varvara Gracheva and an athlete from the qualifiers. Potentially there could also be a lucky loser to face the world number 62.

For Jannik Sinner's partner (also, by the way, present in Beijing for the men&#39s tournament), the last official match played è that of last September 1° in Flushing Meadows against Beatriz Haddad Maia: a match that ended with the success of the Brazilian, current WTA number 12, 6-3, 6-1.

Born in 1998, Anna Kalinskaya has three WTA circuit successes to her credit, all in doubles (Prague 2019 with Viktoria Kuzmova, Portorož 2021 with Tereza Mihailova, St. Petersburg 2022 with Caty McNally) while in singles (where she has won 7 ITF titles) she won the WTA 125 in Midland in 2023 and lost two finals this year, in the WTA 1000 in Dubai against Jasmine Paolini and in the WTA 500 in Berlin against Jessica Pegula.