Overview
- Kudermetova’s sporting nationality is listed as Uzbekistan on WTA and ITF sites, and she has not issued a public statement on the change.
- Her move caps a late‑2025 cluster that includes Kamilla Rakhimova joining Uzbekistan and Anastasia Potapova switching to Austria, following earlier changes by Maria Timofeeva to Uzbekistan and Daria Kasatkina to Australia.
- Uzbekistan’s tennis leadership has publicly welcomed recent additions, portraying them as strengthening the women’s national team.
- Russian Tennis Federation president Shamil Tarpischev has described such switches as pragmatic steps to boost Olympic and team-event opportunities.
- Kudermetova, born in Moscow, owns nine ITF titles, reached the 2025 Brisbane final as a qualifier, hit a career-high No. 54, and earned her first Grand Slam main-draw win at the 2025 US Open.