She continued to improve, reaching the semifinals of the Tokyo Olympics, and marked her career highlight by winning the 2022 Wimbledon Championships.

She started playing sports with her older sister, Anna, from a very young age, originally focusing on gymnastics and ice skating.

She began playing Grade-1 events from the start of 2015, but did not have any success until she reached the final at the Belgian International Junior Championships in May, losing to Katharina Hobgarski.

[11] Her best result of 2016 at the Grade A-events came in doubles when she finished runner-up to Olesya Pervushina and Anastasia Potapova at the Trofeo Bonfiglio, alongside Amina Anshba in an all-Russian final.

[14][15] She also made her WTA Tour debut in October 2017 at the Kremlin Cup, where she reached the main draw through qualifying but lost in the opening round to Irina-Camelia Begu.

[15] Her next significant rankings jump came in April when she finished runner-up to Sabina Sharipova at the $60k Lale Cup in Istanbul, bringing her to No.

[19] The following month, Rybakina acquired Kazakhstani citizenship and switched federations from Russia to Kazakhstan, having just turned nineteen years old at the time.

[22] Rybakina's breakthrough came in July when she won her maiden WTA Tour title at the Bucharest Open, a month after turning 20 years old.

After losing her first final of the year to Ekaterina Alexandrova at the Shenzhen Open,[31] she defeated Zhang Shuai to win her second WTA title at the Hobart International.

[38][39] Back in Europe, she finally defeated Alexandrova at the Italian Open in her third opportunity of the year before squandering a chance to serve out the match in a third-round loss to Yulia Putintseva.

Rybakina was the 15th seed of the Olympic Games tennis tournament, winning her first three matches without losing a set before a semifinals defeat to Belinda Bencic.

[45] Her success continued at the Sydney Tennis Classic with a lopsided defeat of reigning US Open champion Emma Raducanu, in the first round.

Following this, she represented Kazakhstan as the team's top seed and won both of her singles matches in a tie against Germany securing a berth in the finals later in the year.

At the Wimbledon Championships, she reached her second Grand Slam quarterfinal, defeating CoCo Vandeweghe, Bianca Andreescu, Zheng Qinwen and Petra Martić.

[48][49] Then she reached her first Major final, after defeating Simona Halep in straight sets, becoming the youngest Wimbledon finalist since Garbiñe Muguruza in 2015.

She was the fourth-youngest active Grand Slam champion, older only than Iga Świątek, Bianca Andreescu and Emma Raducanu.

[53][54] Russian state media celebrated Rybakina's win as a national victory despite her longstanding decision not to represent the country of her birth.

[57] Rybakina started the season at the Adelaide International 1, defeating Danielle Collins in three sets[58] before losing to Marta Kostyuk in the second round.

1 and two-time Australian Open champion, Victoria Azarenka, in straight sets, reaching the second Grand Slam final of her career.

[64] However, despite winning the first set, Rybakina ultimately lost the championship match to Aryna Sabalenka in a high quality encounter.

In the semifinals Rybakina lost to Liudmila Samsonova in three sets reporting that she felt 'destroyed' physically in the post-match press conference because of the scheduling issues she faced during the tournament.

[89] Rybakina started her 2024 season by winning the Brisbane International final against Aryna Sabalenka,[90] before going out in the second-round at the Australian Open to Anna Blinkova in a match that featured the longest tie-break in Grand Slam history.

[93] Rybakina secured her third title of the season in April at the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix in Stuttgart, beating two-time defending champion Iga Świątek in the semifinals,[94] and then Marta Kostyuk in straight sets in the final.

[96] Moving onto the grass-court swing of the year, Rybakina retired due to illness during her quarterfinal match against Victoria Azarenka at the Berlin Ladies Open[97] and then withdrew from the following week's Eastbourne International.

1, Caroline Wozniacki, in just 57 minutes and for the loss of only one game in the third round,[99] before winning her next match when opponent Anna Kalinskaya retired injured in the second set.

[107] On 23 September, Rybakina announced she would miss the entire Asian swing of the season due to a back injury.

[108] Rybakina played her first match since August at the WTA Finals in November, losing her opening group contest to Jasmine Paolini in straight sets.

[112] With a powerful serve, Rybakina is an aggressive baseliner who aims to finish points quickly, and whose high risk game style leads to an accumulation of both winners and unforced errors.

[4][6] In February 2019, Rybakina switched coaches to Stefano Vukov, a Croatian former tennis player who briefly competed mainly on the ITF Futures tour.

[123] In January 2025, Rybakina rehired Vukov as an additional coach; he was subsequently suspended by the WTA under a code of conduct investigation,[124] and later banned for 12 months.