Lina Glushko
Lina Glushko is an Israeli tennis player. She has career-high WTA rankings of world No. 201 in singles and No. 296 in doubles.
She also represents Israel in the Billie Jean King Cup, where she has a win–loss record of 17–15.
Biography
Glushko's USSR-born parents Sergio and Olga, sister Julia, and brother Alex immigrated to Israel from Ukraine in 1999, one year before she was born in Israel. She graduated from Ironi Gimel High School in Modiin, Israel.She served in the Israel Defense Forces.
She is the younger sister of Julia Glushko, who was also a professional tennis player, and with whom she has teamed as a doubles partner. She was coached first by her father, and then by her brother.
Career
In September 2017, Glushko won the inaugural Anna and Michael Kahan Family Prize in Ramat Hasharon, claiming NIS 100,000 in support; Glushko was able to use the money to purchase equipment and to travel abroad for tournaments and training camps. In 2018, she won the $15k Akko hardcourt tournament.In 2021, she won the $25k Kiryat Motzkin hardcourt event. In doubles, Glushko and Alicia Barnett won the $15k Sharm El Sheikh hardcourt tournament, and she and Shavit Kimchi won the $25k Netanya hardcourt event.
In July 2022, at the $25k Corroios-Seixal hardcourt tournament, while ranked 268, Glushko upset No. 116 Vitalia Diatchenko.
Glushko made her WTA Tour debut at the 2022 Internationaux de Strasbourg, losing to Kaja Juvan in the first round.
In 2023, she and Emina Bektas won both the $25k Pretoria hardcourt tournament and the $60k Fukuoka carpet tournament.
In February 2024, she won the W50 Pretoria hardcourt, winning all five of her matches in straight sets, and also won the doubles title, with Gabriela Knutson, without dropping a set.
Having made it through qualifying at the WTA 125 2024 Polish Open, Glushko defeated sixth seed Kateryna Baindl and Carole Monnet to reach the quarterfinals, where her run was ended by Leonie Küng.
She entered the main draw of the WTA 500, the 2024 Monterrey Open as a lucky loser making her debut at this level and defeated qualifier Kateryna Volodko, before losing in the second round to ninth seed Magdalena Fręch in three sets.
Performance timelines
''Only main-draw results in WTA Tour, Grand Slam tournaments, Billie Jean King Cup, Hopman Cup, United Cup and Olympic Games are included in win–loss records.''Singles
''Current through the 2022 Internationaux de Strasbourg.''ITF Circuit finals
Singles: 10 (3 titles, 7 runner-ups)
| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Opponent | Score | |||||||||||||||
| Win | 1–0 | May 2018 | ITF Akko, Israel | W15 | Hard |  Doubles: 11 (6 titles, 5 runner-ups)
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