On court

• Began playing tennis shortly before turning three years of age
• Favourite surface is hard court, while her forehand is her favourite shot
• Tennis idols include Martina Hingis, Justine Henin and the Bryan brothers
• Cracked the top 150 in singles 2017 and top 50 in doubles in 2015
• Has contested the main draw in doubles at all four Grand Slam events; best result was reaching the quarterfinals at Australian Open 2016 with sister Anastasia
• Made Fed Cup debut in 2016 against Slovakia
• Saved seven match points to defeat No.16 seed Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in the first round of Wimbledon 2017
• Reached ITF 100K finals on grass in Nottingham (2021) and Surbiton (2022), the biggest singles finals of her career
• Underwent wrist surgery in 2022 and was sidelined for six months
• In 2023, won 10th professional singles title at the Australian Pro Tour event in Swan Hill, her first singles title in four years
• Claimed a career-high seven ITF singles titles during a resurgent 2023 season
• Became Australia’s top-ranked woman in singles during December 2023
• Broke into the world’s top 100 in singles in February 2024. At age 34, Rodionova became the oldest woman to achieve this feat in WTA Tour history
• Was among a record five Australian women to qualify at US Open 2024

Off court

• Sister Anastasia also played professional tennis; their father Ivan is a tennis coach while mother Natalia is a homemaker
• Granted Australian citizenship in January 2014
• Married AFL footballer Ty Vickery in Melbourne in December 2015
• Her favourite cities are Melbourne, Moscow and Lisbon
• When not playing tennis, enjoys horse riding, swimming, listening to music and reading; favourite book is “12 Chairs”, a novel in Russian by Ilya Ilf
• Believes a sense of humour “is the most important thing above all”

Year-end singles ranking history