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Lina Glushko

Lina Glushko is an Israeli tennis player who reached a career-high WTA singles ranking of No. 201 and won the Israeli national singles title in 2020.

born 2000Israeli women's tennis2020 Israeli singles championshipPlaying for Israel's Billie Jean King Cup team

Born
12 January 2000, Israel
Occupation
tennis player

Lina Glushko was born in 2000 in Israel

Lina Glushko was born in Israel on 12 January 2000. Her parents, her sister Julia and her brother Alex moved to Israel from Ukraine in 1999. She finished high school at Ironi Gimel in Modiin.

Her older sister Julia Glushko was also a professional tennis player, and the two have played doubles together. Her father coached her first, and later her brother took over. She served in the IDF.

In 2017 she won the Anna and Michael Kahan Family Prize, which helped pay for equipment and travel to tournaments. She won ITF titles in Akko in 2018 and Kiryat Motzkin in 2021, and in December 2020 she won the Israeli singles championship. She also plays for Israel in the Billie Jean King Cup.

She made her WTA Tour debut in Strasbourg in 2022. In 2024 she won singles and doubles titles in Pretoria, reached the quarterfinals of the Polish Open and won a match at the WTA 500 event in Monterrey.

Milestones in Lina Glushko's life

  1. 2000

    Born in Israel.

  2. 2017

    Won the Anna and Michael Kahan Family Prize in Ramat Hasharon.

  3. 2018

    Won the ITF tournament in Akko.

  4. 2020

    Won the Israeli national singles championship.

  5. 2021

    Won the ITF tournament in Kiryat Motzkin.

  6. 2022

    Made her WTA Tour debut in Strasbourg.

  7. 2024

    Won singles and doubles titles in Pretoria.

Lina Glushko served in the military

She served in the Israel Defense Forces.

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Based on English Wikipedia, Lina Glushko and Hebrew Wikipedia, לינה גלושקו, under CC BY-SA 4.0. The facts are Wikidata's.

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