Bolkvadze was born inBatumi and at the age of 13 moved to theUnited Kingdom to further her tennis development.[2] She stayed initially with her godmother before finding ahost family two years later.[2]Maria Sharapova was her favourite player growing up. She is fluent in Georgian, Russian, and English.[3][4]
Bolkvadze began playing tennis at the age of nine and spent much of her teenage years training inLondon, where she was coached by Otto Buchholdt.[3] As a junior she played in very few ITF events, instead concentrating on domestic competitions organised by theLTA and continental tournaments run byTennis Europe. She won the 2013 Aegon Junior International in London, defeatingJodie Burrage in the final. At the European Junior Championships held inMoscow later that year she lost toFanny Stollar in the round of 64.[5]
She reached her only final on theITF Junior World Tour as a qualifier at the G4 Nottingham event in April 2013, where she was runner-up toFreya Christie.[6]
Ranked 202 in the world, Bolkvadze entered US Open qualifying and was drawn against eighth seedHeather Watson. After beating her in straight sets, she defeated in the second roundHan Na-lae in three tight sets to set up a match againstXu Shilin. By another win she qualified for her first major main draw, and became the fourth Georgian to qualify for a Grand Slam tournament.[8] In the first round, she defeatedBernarda Pera in three sets,[9] before losing to third seedKarolína Plíšková.[10] With her wins, she reached a new career-high of 152 in the world.[citation needed]
The following month Bolkvadze repeated her performance by making it through to another WTA 125 quarterfinal, this time at theBarranquilla Open in Columbia, where she defeatedMaria Timofeeva[14] and eighth seedElsa Jacquemot,[15] before losing to fourth seed and eventual championNadia Podoroska.[16]
(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (P#) preliminary round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (Z#) Davis/Fed Cup Zonal Group (with number indication) or (PO) play-off; (G) gold, (S) silver or (B) bronze Olympic/Paralympic medal; (NMS) not a Masters tournament; (NTI) not a Tier I tournament; (P) postponed; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.
To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated at the conclusion of a tournament or when the player's participation has ended.
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Georgia
Vlada Ekshibarova
Yuliya Kalabina
Lina Gjorcheska
Camila Giangreco Campiz
Elizabeth Halbauer
Magdalena Pantucková
Jessika Ponchet
Maryna Zanevska
Nuria Párrizas Díaz
Beatriz Haddad Maia
Sofia Samavati
Elena Pridankina
Simona Waltert
Pia König
Naomi Totka
Laura Deigman
Marianna Natali
Seira Shimizu
Nastja Kolar
Oleksandra Korashvili
Ana Bianca Mihaila
Sharmada Balu
Ana Veselinović
Guadalupe Pérez Rojas
Tereza Mihalíková
Bojana Marinković
Despina Papamichail
Petia Arshinkova
İpek Öz
Polina Pekhova
María Paulina Pérez
Inês Murta
Katarzyna Piter
Diāna Marcinkēviča
Talia Gibson
Elena Malõgina
Isabelle Haverlag
Croatia
Israel
Moldova
Tunisia
Finland