Three titles in four weeks on a 15-match winning streak
Right-handed, two-handed backhand, turned pro in 2021 — the medicine student from Belgian Limburg whose winter 2026 title run carried her from the ITF Circuit to the world's top 100.
Career-High Rank
No. 92
20 APR 2026
Current Rank
No. 104
2 MAR 2026
Age
22
B. 21 MAY 2004
Turned Pro
2021
BREE, BEL
Birthplace
Bree, Belgium
Residence
Zutendaal, Belgium
Height
178 cm (5'10")
Plays
Right-handed
Backhand
Two-handed
Best Slam
1R — Roland Garros & Wimbledon (2026)
Vandewinkel ended 2025 ranked outside the top 130, splitting her time between the ITF Circuit and a medicine degree she has scaled back to a single course per semester. Then came a winter surge with almost no precedent in her career: back-to-back hard-court titles at the W75 in Pune and the W100 in Bengaluru — where she dismantled home favourite Vaishnavi Adkar 6-0, 6-1 in the final — followed immediately by a third straight trophy at the W75 in Trnava. That run stretched to 15 consecutive match wins with only two sets dropped, and it hoisted her into the top 105 by early March.
"Can't believe this… 75k Trnava winner. Third title in a row" — Vandewinkel on Instagram, via itftennis.com, March 2026
The momentum carried into April: a WTA-main-draw win over Marie Bouzkova on her tour debut in Bogotá, a top-100 debut, and the signature result of her season — beating world No. 16 Iva Jovic in straight sets in front of a home crowd in Ostend to put Belgium ahead of the United States in Billie Jean King Cup qualifying. By 20 April she stood at a career-high No. 92, and by June she was making her Grand Slam main-draw debuts at Roland Garros and Wimbledon.
"We are a very young team… and I think we deserve it."
ON BELGIUM'S BJK CUP PLAYOFF WIN, NOV 2025 · LA LIBRE (TRANSLATED FROM FRENCH)"I am not always confident, but I try to appear so."
ON HER MENTAL APPROACH, NOV 2025 · LA LIBRE (TRANSLATED FROM FRENCH)"I feel the same as three weeks ago."
ON ENTERING THE TOP 100, 2026 · RTBF (TRANSLATED FROM FRENCH)