{"id":426891,"date":"2025-12-05T16:59:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T16:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/426891\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T16:59:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T16:59:20","slug":"russian-born-anastasia-potapova-switches-nationality-to-austrian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/426891\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian-born Anastasia Potapova switches nationality to Austrian"},"content":{"rendered":"

VIENNA — Russian-born Anastasia Potapova<\/a> has switched allegiance to Austria, clearing a path for the 51st-ranked player to compete in the Billie Jean King Cup.<\/p>\n

Potapova will become Austria’s highest-ranked women’s player, ahead of No. 94 Julia Grabher<\/a>, with the nationality switch, which she announced on social media.<\/p>\n

“Welcome to the team,” the Austrian tennis federation said in a statement that also confirmed her move.<\/p>\n

The 24-year-old Potapova played at the Billie Jean King Cup in 2018 and 2019, but Russia has been banned from team competitions since the invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n

“Austria is a place I love, is incredibly welcoming and a place where I feel totally at home,” Potapova wrote on Instagram on Thursday. “I love being in Wien and look forward to making my second home there. As part of this, I am proud to announce that starting from 2026 I will be representing my new homeland Austria in my professional tennis career from this point onwards.”<\/p>\n

Potapova’s highest ranking was No. 21 in June 2023. Her best Grand Slam result is reaching the fourth round at the 2024 French Open. She has won three singles titles.<\/p>\n

As a youth player, she was the 2016 girls champion at Wimbledon.<\/p>\n

Potapova was criticized in 2023 for wearing a Spartak Moscow soccer club T-shirt during a warmup at Indian Wells.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VIENNA — Russian-born Anastasia Potapova has switched allegiance to Austria, clearing a path for the 51st-ranked player to…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":426892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[62,1464,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-426891","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115668029562674415","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}