Left hand forward: Highest-ranked lefties on Tour
There are 20 left-handed players currently ranked inside the WTA Top 200. Find out more about them here.
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World No.12 Petra Kvitova is a two-time major champion, having won Wimbledon in 2011 and 2014; the Czech owns a career-high ranking of World No.2 and has won 27 titles in total since 2009.
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The top two left-handers in the world are both Czech: World No.18 Marketa Vondrousova reached her maiden Grand Slam final at Roland Garros last year at the age of 19, becoming the first teenage finalist in Paris since Ana Ivanovic in 2007.
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Germany's World No.21 Angelique Kerber is a three-time Grand Slam champion and former World No.1, having won the Australian and US Opens in 2016 and Wimbledon 2018.
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World No.60 Bernarda Pera broke through by reaching the third round of the 2018 Australian Open as a lucky loser, and the American has since reached four WTA semifinals and is one place off her career high of World No.59.
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World No.63 Jil Teichmann was the joint lowest-ranked WTA titlist last year, lifting her maiden trophy in Prague as a World No.146-ranked qualifier - and three months later the Swiss backed it up with a second title in Palermo.
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World No.69 Kristyna Pliskova, the twin sister of World No.3 Karolina, was the 2016 Tashkent champion and 2017 Prague runner-up; the Czech hit her career high of World No.35 in July 2017 and started 2020 with a semifinal run in Shenzhen.
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World No.70 Arantxa Rus, who reached the fourth round of Roland Garros 2012, set a record of 10 titles on the ITF World Tour last year, and the 29-year-old Dutchwoman reached her maiden WTA semifinal in Monterrey in March.
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World No.73 Taylor Townsend stunned Simona Halep en route to reaching the fourth round of the US Open last year - the American's best major showing since making the third round of Roland Garros 2014 on her debut.
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Japan's World No.76 Misaki Doi was the 2015 Luxembourg champion as well as runner-up at Kaohsiung 2016 and Hiroshima 2019, and reached the fourth round of Wimbledon 2016 - the same year she hit her career high of World No.30.
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World No.107 Wang Xiyu was the 2018 US Open girls' champion and a former junior World No.1; this year, the Chinese 19-year-old had reached her first WTA quarterfinal in Hua Hin and first semifinal in Acapulco.
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Canada's 17-year-old World No.118 Leylah Fernandez has made an eye-catching breakthrough in 2020 - the Roland Garros girls' champion stunned Belinda Bencic in Fed Cup play before reaching her maiden final as a qualifier in Acapulco.
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World No.120 and PhD holder Mihaela Buzarnescu's soaring 2018 breakthrough culminated in a maiden title in San Jose and a career high of World No.20, but injuries have since beset the Romanian and she has not played since September.
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World No.122 Ysaline Bonaventure has reached two WTA quarterfinals, Budapest 2018 and Rabat 2019, and the Belgian qualified for her first two Grand Slams at the Australian Open and Wimbledon last year.
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World No.128 and Ohio State University alumna Francesca Di Lorenzo has reached the second round of the US Open for the past two years in a row, and scored a maiden Top 30 win over Petra Martic in Toronto last year.
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Italy's World No.151 Martina Trevisan won her first WTA main draw match in Charleston last year, and qualified to make her Grand Slam main draw debut at this year's Australian Open.
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World No.168 Olga Danilovic captured her maiden title at the 2018 Moscow River Cup as a 17-year-old lucky loser competing in her first WTA main draw, hitting her career high of World No.96 later that year.
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World No.178 Varvara Lepchenko has reached the fourth round of a major twice, at Roland Garros 2012 and the US Open 2015; the American hit a career high of World No.19 in October 2012 and was also the 2014 Seoul runner-up.
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World No.181 and Georgian No.1 Mariam Bolkvadze scored a breakthrough at last year's US Open, qualifying for her maiden Grand Slam and reaching the second round.
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World No.187 and South Korean No.1 Han Na-Lae, an 11-time ITF titlist, won December's Asia-Pacific Wildcard Play-Off to make her Grand Slam debut at this year's Australian Open.
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China's World No.193 Han Xinyun made her Grand Slam debut at the 2010 Australian Open, hit a career high of World No.105 in October 2016 and has reached two WTA semifinals, at Kuala Lumpur and Nanchang 2017.
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