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Anastasiya Shoshyna – Overview
Anastasiya Mykolayivna Shoshyna (born 30 November 1997 in Kharkiv, Ukraine; Polish form: Anastazja/Anastasija Szoszyna) is a Ukrainian-born former professional tennis player who later represented Poland. A right-handed player with a two-handed backhand, she reached career-high WTA rankings of No. 381 in singles on 19 August 2019 and No. 279 in doubles on 2 March 2020. She won five ITF singles titles and ten ITF doubles titles and was highly successful in Polish national championships. Her international career was effectively ended by an anti-doping case stemming from a positive test in October 2020 and a four-year period of ineligibility. She has not returned to professional competition and is listed as inactive.
Background and Nationality
Shoshyna was born in Kharkiv and originally represented Ukraine. She moved to Poland at approximately age 14 and spent most of her subsequent tennis development there. She received Polish citizenship in spring 2020 and thereafter represented Poland in international tennis records.
Her Polish club affiliations included AT Angelique Kerber Puszczykowo, Grunwald Poznań and CKT Grodzisk Mazowiecki. Coaches associated with her development included Wojciech Gawlak, Olga Brózda and Radosław Nijaki.
Playing Profile
Shoshyna began playing tennis at age six. She is right-handed, uses a two-handed backhand and officially listed hard court as her preferred surface, although most of her singles titles came on clay.
Detailed contemporary descriptions of her technique are limited. Her results indicate a versatile baseline game that worked particularly effectively in long clay-court matches, while her strong doubles record suggests useful court awareness and adaptability in team play.
Early Career
Shoshyna began appearing in international tournaments as a teenager and became a regular ITF Circuit player from 2015 onward. Her early results included singles finals at Las Palmas and Stockholm in 2015 and Győr in 2016.
She rose from a year-high singles ranking of No. 745 in 2015 to No. 472 in 2016, while simultaneously becoming increasingly successful in doubles.
WTA Tour Debut – Katowice 2016
Shoshyna made her only regular WTA Tour singles main-draw appearance at the 2016 Katowice Open after receiving a wildcard.
She faced fellow Polish player Magda Linette in the first round and lost 6–1, 7–6(5). She never subsequently reached another WTA Tour singles main draw and did not appear in a Grand Slam main draw.
First ITF Singles Title – 2016
Shoshyna won her first ITF singles championship at the $10,000 tournament in Szczawno-Zdrój, Poland, in June 2016.
She defeated Belgium's Hélène Scholsen 6–3, 4–6, 6–4 in the final. The victory followed three previous runner-up finishes and marked her first international professional singles title.
Breakthrough Season – 2018
The strongest title-winning period of Shoshyna's singles career came during the second half of 2018. She won four ITF tournaments within approximately three months, transforming a career record of one title from four finals into five titles from eight finals.
She won consecutive clay-court tournaments at Chornomorsk in Ukraine, followed by a hard-court championship at Sharm El Sheikh and a clay title in Cairo.
ITF Singles Titles
Shoshyna reached eight ITF singles finals and won five:
Szczawno-Zdrój 2016 – $10,000 clay, defeated Hélène Scholsen 6–3, 4–6, 6–4
Chornomorsk 2018 – $15,000 clay, defeated Bojana Marinković 6–4, 6–1
Chornomorsk 2018 – $15,000 clay, defeated Liubov Kostenko 6–3, 6–3
Sharm El Sheikh 2018 – $15,000 hard, defeated Anna Morgina 7–5, 7–5
Cairo 2018 – $15,000 clay, defeated Sandra Samir 6–4, 1–6, 6–4
Her three runner-up finishes came at Las Palmas in 2015, Stockholm in 2015 and Győr in 2016.
Career-High Singles Ranking
Shoshyna reached her career-high WTA singles ranking of world No. 381 on 19 August 2019. She finished the 2019 season at No. 389, the best year-end ranking of her career.
Her progression was gradual rather than spectacular: after spending her early career outside the Top 500, her strong 2018 season and continued results in 2019 finally established her around the world's Top 400.
Doubles Career
Doubles was statistically the stronger part of Shoshyna's international career. She won ten ITF doubles titles from sixteen finals and reached a career-high ranking of world No. 279 on 2 March 2020.
Her doubles partners included Olga Brózda, Veronika Kapshay, Cornelia Lister, Ágnes Bukta, Weronika Falkowska, Anna Morgina and Anna Hertel. Her results covered clay, outdoor hard courts and indoor hard courts.
ITF Doubles Success
Shoshyna won her first two doubles titles in 2015, at Las Palmas with Olga Brózda and Stockholm with Brózda. Four more championships followed during 2016, making doubles an increasingly important part of her professional career.
She added titles at Chornomorsk and Sharm El Sheikh in 2018 and won her tenth and final ITF doubles championship at Grodzisk Mazowiecki in August 2019, partnering Anna Hertel and defeating Ulrikke Eikeri and Isabella Shinikova in the final.
Higher-Level Doubles Results
Shoshyna's final professional seasons showed signs that she was beginning to progress toward stronger ITF doubles competition. In 2019 she reached a final in Prague with established Polish doubles player Katarzyna Piter.
In February 2020 she partnered Paula Kania at the $60,000 Zed Tennis Open in Cairo and reached the final, losing to Marta Kostyuk and Kamilla Rakhimova in a match tiebreak. This contributed to her career-high doubles ranking of No. 279 shortly afterward.
Polish National Championships
Shoshyna was particularly successful in Polish domestic competition. Polish tennis records credit her with eleven national championship titles across indoor and outdoor singles, doubles and mixed doubles.
She was Polish indoor singles champion three times, in 2016, 2018 and 2020. She also won five indoor national doubles championships, partnering Olga Brózda in 2015, Weronika Domagała in 2016, Joanna Zawadzka in 2018, Anna Hertel in 2019 and Weronika Falkowska in 2020.
Outdoor Polish Championships
In the outdoor national championships Shoshyna finished runner-up in singles in 2019. She won the women's doubles title with Weronika Falkowska in 2018 and with Paula Kania-Choduń in 2020, while finishing runner-up with Daria Kuczer in 2019.
She also became Polish mixed-doubles champion in 2019 alongside Grzegorz Panfil. Her domestic record was therefore considerably stronger than her international ranking alone suggests.
Polish National Tour – 2020
After obtaining Polish citizenship, Shoshyna enjoyed an excellent domestic 2020 season. She won the women's singles competition at the LOTOS PZT Polish Tour National Cup event in Gdańsk and also won the doubles competition alongside Magdalena Fręch.
Her performances placed her among the stronger players competing in Poland during the period when the international tennis calendar was heavily disrupted.
Representing Poland
Having lived in Poland since adolescence, Shoshyna received Polish citizenship in spring 2020 and was subsequently considered for the Polish national team.
Her change of sporting nationality came shortly before her professional career was interrupted, and she never established a significant Billie Jean King Cup record for Poland.
Anti-Doping Case
Shoshyna provided an in-competition urine sample on 26 October 2020 while competing at an ITF W25 tournament in Istanbul. Analysis detected metabolites of stanozolol, an anabolic agent prohibited under the World Anti-Doping Code.
The ITF issued a formal charge on 30 November 2020 and she was provisionally suspended from 12 December 2020 while the case was considered.
Tribunal Decision and Suspension
An independent tribunal issued its decision on 17 June 2022. It found that an anti-doping rule violation had been committed and imposed four years of ineligibility, commencing retrospectively from 26 October 2020, the date on which the sample was collected.
The period of ineligibility therefore ran until October 2024. Shoshyna contested responsibility for the presence of the prohibited substance, but the tribunal concluded that the evidence presented did not establish her proposed explanation to the required standard.
Effect on Her Career
The suspension arrived at an especially significant point in Shoshyna's development. She was 22 when the sample was collected and had recently achieved her best doubles ranking, while her singles ranking had reached the Top 400 the previous year.
Because the four-year sanction covered most of what would ordinarily have been important development years for a professional player, she disappeared from international competition. Although she became eligible to compete again in October 2024, no subsequent professional comeback is recorded through September 2026.
Current Status
The WTA currently lists Shoshyna as inactive, with no singles or doubles ranking. The ITF profile continues to identify her with Poland, but there is no recorded 2025 or 2026 professional tournament activity.
She can therefore be regarded as a former professional player unless she elects to make a future return. She is 28 years old as of September 2026.
Grand Slam and WTA Record
Shoshyna never appeared in a Grand Slam singles main draw and did not reach Grand Slam qualifying level during her active career.
Her only regular WTA Tour singles main draw was Katowice in 2016, where she lost to Magda Linette in the first round. Her achievements were concentrated instead on the ITF Circuit and Polish national competition.
Career Rankings and Statistics
Career-high singles ranking: No. 381 (19 August 2019)
Career-high doubles ranking: No. 279 (2 March 2020)
Career singles record: 160–92
Career doubles record: 88–48
ITF singles titles: 5
ITF singles finals: 8 (5–3)
ITF doubles titles: 10
ITF doubles finals: 16 (10–6)
WTA singles titles: 0
WTA doubles titles: 0
Grand Slam main-draw appearances: 0
Career prize money: US$56,375
Current ranking: None
Current status: Inactive
Career Highlights
Full name: Anastasiya Mykolayivna Shoshyna
Ukrainian: Анастасія Миколаївна Шошина
Polish usage: Anastazja/Anastasija Szoszyna
Born: 30 November 1997, Kharkiv, Ukraine
Nationality represented: Ukraine until 2020; Poland from 2020
Polish citizenship: 2020
Plays: Right-handed, two-handed backhand
Started tennis: Age 6
Preferred surface: Hard court
Career-high singles ranking: No. 381
Career-high doubles ranking: No. 279
ITF singles titles: 5
ITF doubles titles: 10
Only WTA singles main draw: Katowice 2016
Polish indoor singles champion: 2016, 2018, 2020
Polish national titles across disciplines: 11
Professional prize money: US$56,375
Last international competitive period: 2020
Eligible to return after suspension: October 2024
Professional activity after eligibility restored: None recorded through September 2026
Career Assessment
Shoshyna's career is best understood as that of a successful ITF and Polish national-level player whose international development ended abruptly before its natural conclusion. Her five ITF singles titles, ten doubles titles and career records of 160–92 in singles and 88–48 in doubles demonstrate substantial success below WTA Tour level, particularly from 2018 through 2020.
Her doubles results were especially promising. Reaching No. 279 and contesting a $60,000 final in early 2020 suggested that she was moving toward stronger international events. Domestically, eleven Polish championship titles and three national indoor singles championships made her one of the more successful competitors in Polish national tennis during that period.
The anti-doping violation is inseparable from the final assessment of her career. The four-year sanction beginning in October 2020 removed her from professional tennis during her early twenties, shortly after her rankings had peaked. Although she became eligible to return in October 2024, she has not resumed professional competition. Consequently, the career that began with gradual ITF progress and increasingly strong doubles results effectively ended at age 22, leaving her peak potential unresolved.
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