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Katarzyna Kawa

Katarzyna Kawa (Polish pronunciation: [kataˈʐɨna ˈkava]; born 17 November 1992) is a Polish professional tennis player. Her career-high WTA rankings are No. 64 in doubles, set on 10 October 2022, and No. 112 in singles, achieved on 9 November 2020. She has won two WTA 125 singles titles and five doubles titles, as well as seven singles and 21 doubles titles on tournaments of the ITF Women's Circuit.

Katarzyna Kawa was born in Krynica-Zdrój to parents Anna and Jacek, but moved in 2013 to Poznań, Poland, where she currently resides. She started playing tennis at age seven and is coached by Grzegorz Garczyński. She has two sisters, Monika and Weronika, and a brother called Radomir. Her hobbies include reading and traveling. She idolizes Justine Henin and Novak Djokovic. Her favourite shot is her backhand and her favourite surfaces to compete on are both clay and grass.

In July, Kawa made it through the qualifying rounds at the Baltic Open in Jūrmala, Latvia to book her spot in the final with a straight-sets victory over Bernarda Pera. Kawa reached the semifinals, after beating Anna Danilina, Naiktha Bains, Ysaline Bonaventure, Jana Fett, Chloe Paquet. In the final, she lost to the top seed Anastasija Sevastova, in three sets.

In 2020, she made her singles major debut at the US Open as a direct entry.

At the 2021 National Tennis Championships in Bytom, Kawa ended runner-up in singles and won the title in doubles alongside Weronika Falkowska. She continued at the Poland Open in Gdynia where she upset third seed Irina-Camelia Begu in the second round, but lost in the quarterfinal against Kateryna Kozlova.

She qualified for the first time for the Wimbledon Championships, and recorded her first main-draw match win at this major over Rebecca Marino. At the Poland Open held in Warsaw, Kawa reached her first WTA Tour doubles final partnering with Alicja Rosolska, finishing runners-up.

Alongside Weronika Falkowska, Kawa took the doubles title at the 2023 WTA 125 Copa Oster, overcoming Kyōka Okamura and You Xiaodi in the final which went to a deciding champions tiebreak.

Playing with Elixane Lechemia, she was doubles champion at the WTA 125 Polish Open, thanks to a win over Naiktha Bains and Maia Lumsden in the final.

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