Julia Glushko
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| Bio | She is an Israeli professional tennis player. She has won 11 singles and 14 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On June 23, 2014, she reached her best singles ranking of world number 79. On November 4, 2013, she peaked at world 109 in the doubles rankings. She started playing tennis at the age of 4. Her parents are tennis instructors. Glushko won four junior titles. The first three were the 2006 Saadia Rees (Grade 4), the 2007 Argentina Cup (Grade 2), and the 2007 Uruguay Bowl (Grade 2). In March 2007 she won the Grade-1 Asunción Bowl junior girls tournament in Paraguay. It was the first Grade-1 title of her career. At the US Open in September 2007, she won her first two junior singles matches. and her first round junior doubles match with Tyra Calderwood. Glushko made her professional debut in March 2004 at the ITF challenger event in Ramat HaSharon. She beat Diana Voskoboynik (Israel) in the first round of qualifying before losing to Yakaterina Burduli. Her best result on the professional level has been a semifinal appearance at the ITF event in Antalya in May 2006, where she lost to Çağla Büyükakçay. In November 2007, she won her first ITF title an event in Mallorca, beating Diana Enache in the final. In 2008, she won three ITF titles in doubles competitions with different partners. She celebrated her maiden title at Albufeira, Portugal alongside Marina Melnikova in February, beating Martina Babáková and Elena Chalova in the final; followed by the victory at Porto Rafti, Greece, with Dominice Ripoll in March, and a third tournament win in May at Ra'anana, where Glushko teamed up with Manana Shapakidze. In December 2010, she lost in the finals of the Israeli championships to Shahar Pe'er in three sets. In January 2011, she played her first Grand Slam qualifying, reaching the second round after losing to Nuria Llagostera Vives. Glushko beat Shahar Pe'er in the women's final of the 2011 Israel National Championships. In 2012, Glushko made her Grand Slam main-draw debut at the US Open, after she defeated Zheng Saisai in the qualifying competition. She lost in the first round to Yanina Wickmayer in straight sets. In May 2013, Glushko played her second Grand Slam, the French Open, after she defeated Anastasia Rodionova from Australia in the qualifying competition. Again, she lost in the first round, this time to María Teresa Torró Flor. In August 2013, Glushko played in Rogers Cup qualifying and defeated Christina McHale in the first round. In the second round of qualifying she defeated Gabriela Dabrowski in straight sets and entered her first Premier tournament. She played at the US Open and after qualifying to the main draw, beat Nadia Petrova. In the second round she defeated Sachia Vickery, but lost to Daniela Hantuchová in round three. In September 2013 Glushko won her first WTA main draw match defeating Tetyana Arefyeva. In the second round she lost to Galina Voskoboeva. In May 2014, she lost in the first round of Nürnberger Versicherungscup to Caroline Garcia 4–6, 7–5, 5–7 after qualifying to the main draw. She played at the French Open and beat Donna Vekić in the first tound 7–5, 2–6, 6–4. In the second round she defeated Kirsten Flipkens 6–4, 3–6, 6–4. However, her run came to an end when she was heavily beaten by Sara Errani, winning only 1 game. In June 2014, she lost in the first round of Wimbledon to Sabine Lisicki 2–6, 1–6 on the Centre Court. She played her final professional tournament in Israel on September 2019 where she lost in the first round singles and quarterfinals partner with sister Lina Glushko. On December 24, 2019, she called retirement from competitive tennis. Glushko made her debut with the Israel Fed Cup team on April 22, 2007, in Kamloops, Canada. She lost in straight sets to Marie-Ève Pelletier after Israel had already clinched the match 3–2. In July she played Melanie Klaffner in another dead rubber, with Israel defeating Austria 4–1. At the 2011 Fed Cup held in Eilat, Glushko won three out of her four singles rubbers – against Anne Kremer of Luxembourg, Magda Linette of Poland and Elitsa Kostova of Bulgaria. She lost to Monica Niculescu of Romania. Glushko also won two out of three doubles matches together with Shahar Pe'er – against Luxembourg and Romania. They lost to Poland. At the 2012 Fed Cup, she won one out of her three singles rubbers and she won one out of her two doubles games with Shahar Pe'er. She defeated Maria João Koehler and lost to Bibiane Schoofs and Anne Keothavong. In doubles they lost to Maria João Koehler and Michelle Larcher de Brito from Portugal, but defeated Bibiane Schoofs and Michaëlla Krajicek from the Netherlands. At the 2013 Fed Cup, Glushko won all four of her singles rubbers but won neither of her two doubles games with Pe'er. Competing at the 2005 Maccabiah Games, Glushko lost to Sharon Fichman of Canada in the semifinals. |
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