Valeria Bhunu (born 3 April 1995) is a Zimbabwean former tennis player.
Bhunu won three singles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 14 November 2016, she reached her world's best singles ranking, No. 497. On 21 November 2016, she peaked at No. 534 in the doubles rankings.
In 2015, she played for Zimbabwe in the 2015 African Games in Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo where she won the bronze medal in women's singles and doubles.
In 2022, Bhunu was given three years and three months suspension for an anti-doping rule violation after testing positive for mesterolone. Her sentence ended in 2025 and she started playing tennis again in February of that year.
Bhunu announced her retirement from professional tennis in February 2026.
ITF Circuit finals Singles: 8 (3 titles, 5 runner-ups) Legend W25 tournaments W10/15 tournamentsFinals by surfaceHard (3–5) ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScoreWin 1–0 Nov 2015ITF Stellenbosch, South AfricaW10 Hard Katharina Hering 6–4, 6–0Loss 1–1 Jun 2016ITF Grand-Baie, MauritiusW10 Hard Snehadevi Reddy 4–6, 6–4, 3–6Loss 1–2 Sep 2016ITF Sharm El Sheikh, EgyptW10 Hard Tereza Mihalíková 3–6, 6–7(3)Loss 1–3 Jul 2018ITF Corroios, PortugalW15 Hard Paige Hourigan 4–6, 3–6Win 2–3 Jun 2021ITF Monastir, TunisiaW15 Hard Saki Imamura 6–2, 6–2Loss 2–4 Sep 2021ITF Johannesburg, South AfricaW25 Hard Richèl Hogenkamp 3–6, 6–4, 3–6Win 3–4 Jun 2025ITF Hillcrest, South AfricaW15 Hard Astrid Cirotte 7–6(3), 6–3Loss 3–5 Jul 2025ITF Monastir, TunisiaW15 Hard Beatrise Zeltiņa 3–6, 2–6
Doubles: 6 (6 runner-ups) Legend W25 tournaments W10/15 tournaments Finals by surface Hard (0–6) ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScore Loss 0–1 Nov 2015ITF Stellenbosch, South AfricaW10 Hard Lesedi Sheya Jacobs Madrie Le Roux Erika Vogelsang 6–7(6), 2–6 Loss 0–2 Dec 2015Lagos Open, NigeriaW25 Hard Ester Masuri Margarita Lazareva Valeriya Strakhova 1–6, 2–6 Loss 0–3 Nov 2016ITF Stellenbosch, South AfricaW10 Hard Linnea Malmqvist Kaitlyn Christian Chanel Simmonds 0–6, 6–7(3) Loss 0–4 Nov 2016ITF Stellenbosch, South AfricaW10 Hard Linnea Malmqvist Ilze Hattingh Madrie Le Roux 1–6, 2–6 Loss 0–5 Mar 2018ITF Manama, BahrainW15 Hard Emily Webley-Smith Fatma Al-Nabhani Marian Capadocia 5–7, 2–6 Loss 0–6 May 2025ITF Monastir, TunisiaW15 Hard Lina Soussi Anastasiia Gureva Ekaterina Khayrutdinova 1–6, 1–6
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