3, Garbiñe Muguruza, as well as Australian Open semifinalist Johanna Konta, en route to her first Grand Slam quarterfinal.

There were no indoor tennis-dedicated facilities in Liepāja — only school gymnasiums with varnished wooden floors, where the multicolored lines used for various sports intersect like a Mondrian painting.

Due to that, Sevastova played most of her winter tennis in the gymnasium in a secondary school where her mother taught.

Ernests Gulbis, who was from an affluent family in Riga, was boarding at Niki Pilić's tennis academy in Munich, where a teenage Novak Djokovic was also training.

In July of the same year, she reached her first ITF final at the $10k event in Garching and then nearly after that won her first title in Bad Saulgau.

[4] By then end of the year, she first entered top 100 in July, and she then reached her first WTA singles quarterfinal at the Guangzhou Open.

9, Jelena Janković in the first round of the 2010 Monterrey Open and then reached the semifinals, losing there to Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova.

[4] In May, she reached her first WTA singles final at the Estoril Open, where she got the title, beating Arantxa Parra Santonja in straight sets.

[8] By the end of the year, she reached four quarterfinals on the WTA Tour, including the one at the Premier Mandatory China Open.

[6] She then started to struggle with form, which caused dropping in rankings and also returning to play mostly on the ITF Circuit in 2012.

[4] Due to illness and injuries that she faced in the past couple of years, Sevastova announced her retirement from the tour in May 2013.

[11] In January 2015, Sevastova returned to professional tennis,[12] receiving a wildcard into the $10k event in Sharm El Sheikh, where she also won the title.

Later in October, she reached the quarterfinals of the Kremlin Cup in Moscow; she upset Karolína Plíšková in the second round and then lost to eventual champion, Svetlana Kuznetsova, in three sets.

[4] Sevastova made her return to a Grand Slam tournament in the main draw at the 2016 Australian Open, losing to Ana Ivanovic in the second round.

[15] Her most recognisable performance came at the US Open, where she stunned Garbiñe Muguruza in the second round in straight sets,[16] followed with wins over Kateryna Bondarenko and Johanna Konta, reaching her first Grand Slam quarterfinal.

She reached the third round of the Australian Open, beating Nao Hibino and Kristína Kučová, before losing to Garbiñe Muguruza.

[25] Sevastova claimed her first WTA title since 2010, winning Mallorca Open, where she also had reached final the previous year.

[31] As the winner of her round-robin group, defeating Sloane Stephens and Barbora Strýcová,[32] she lost to Julia Görges in the semifinals.

[42] After the first-round loss at the Wimbledon,[4] she returned to clay courts in July, and made it into the final of the Bucharest Open, defeating Petra Martić in straight sets to win her third career title.

[45] At the US Open, Sevastova defeated Donna Vekić, Claire Liu, Ekaterina Makarova and seventh seed Elina Svitolina to reach her third consecutive quarterfinal at the tournament.

[47] In October, Sevastova reached the final of the Premier Mandatory China Open, defeating Donna Vekić, Dominika Cibulková and Naomi Osaka.

[50] At the WTA Elite Trophy, she stayed in round-robin group, defeating Zhang Shuai and losing to Garbiñe Muguruza.

She beat Mona Barthel, Bianca Andreescu and Wang Qiang in first three rounds and then lost to the eventual champion, Naomi Osaka.

[62] Sevastova began her grass-court season with semifinal at the Mallorca Open, failing to reached her fourth consecutive final in a row.

[64] After her third-round loss at the US Open,[4] Sevastova dropped out the top 20 and did not make any significant results by the end of the year.

[6] Despite the fact season of 2020 was specific due to six months absence of the WTA Tour caused by COVID-19 pandemic, Sevastova only passed first round at the US Open, defeating Coco Gauff in three sets.

In February 2024, she returned from maternity leave to the tour level at the Transylvania Open, where she recorded her first win since January 2022, over wildcard Andreea Mitu.