Arantxa Rus

Arantxa Rus (Dutch pronunciation: [aːˈrɑɲtɕaː ˈrʏs]; born 13 December 1990) is a Dutch professional tennis player. She won one WTA Tour singles title at the 2023 Hamburg Open and four in doubles.

Her biggest singles successes to date include a second-round upset over world No. 2, Kim Clijsters, at the 2011 French Open, 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.

At age 14, Rus played her first ITF Women's Circuit tournament at Alkmaar where she lost in the second round to Julie Coin. 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 No. 465.^{[citation needed]}

In 2008, Rus won the girls' singles title at the Australian Open, defeating Jessica Moore in the final and reached the semifinals at Roland Garros and quarterfinals at Wimbledon. Later that year, she became the world No. 1 junior player.^{[citation needed]}

In April 2008, 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. ^{[citation needed]}

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 Opole, she won another ITF tournament, her second in 2008, and fourth overall.^{[citation needed]}

She ended the year ranked No. 188.

Rus failed in the qualifyings at Hobart, and the Australian Open. 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.^{[citation needed]}