Anna Fitzpatrick

Anna Fitzpatrick

Country	United Kingdom England
Residence	Sheffield, South Yorkshire
Born	6 April 1989 (1989-04-06) Sheffield, South Yorkshire
Height	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Weight	58 kg (130 lb)
Turned pro	2005
Retired	Active
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Career prize money	US$72,516
Singles
Career record	119–104
Career titles	0 WTA (3 ITF)
Highest ranking	No. 318 (16 June 2008)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	-
French Open	-
Wimbledon	Q2 (2007)
US Open	-
Doubles
Career record	95–85
Career titles	0 WTA (13 ITF)
Highest ranking	No. 215 (12 May 2008)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	-
French Open	-
Wimbledon	1R (2007 - 2008)
US Open	-
Last updated on: 25 July 2011.

Anna Fitzpatrick (born 6 April 1989 in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England) is a professional tennis player from the United Kingdom. She is the British number 12 with a world ranking of No.384 (as of 4 July 2011). She trains at Hallamshire Tennis and Squash Club and plays right-handed. Her career-high ranking is world no. 318 (achieved 16 June 2008). So far in her career she has won 3 ITF singles titles and thirteen ITF doubles titles. She was the British national under-15 champion in 2004, and British under-18 runner-up in 2007, aged 17.

Personal life

Fitzpatrick attended St Thomas of Canterbury, Sheffield St Mary's Roman Catholic High School, Chesterfield and Woodhouse Grove School, near Leeds. She has 3 older brothers named Chris, Peter and Michael, who are all keen tennis players themselves and who are very supportive of their sister. Growing up, she played her tennis at Beauchief Tennis Club and at Graves Tennis Centre. She enjoys learning languages, scuba-diving, reading and music, especially Rihanna and Beyoncé. She also enjoys reading and watching Harry Potter. Within the tennis world, she admires Roger Federer, Pat Rafter and Mansour Bahrami.

Playing style

Anna likes to play aggressively, coming to the net as often as possible. When at the back of the court she is always looking for opportunities to attack and often tries to serve and volley in order to change the pace of the match. According to Anna, her volley is "what [her] whole game is built on" and her least favourite surface is clay.

Career

Junior (2003–2007)

Anna's first match on the junior ITF circuit came in July 2003 and her last in June 2007. During her four year junior tennis career, she did not reach any tournament finals but reached the semifinals of three tournaments, one of which was the 2007 Wimbledon girls' tournament where she lost to eventual champion, Urszula Radwańska, 6–7⁽³⁾ 3–6. She also lost in the quarterfinals of a total of five tournaments. Her win-loss record for singles competition was 25–26.

As a junior doubles competitor, Fitzpatrick won one tournament (partnering Jade Curtis) and was a runner-up in another. She was also a semifinalist four times and lost in the quarterfinals in nine tournaments. One of the tournaments in which Anna became a quarterfinalist was in the 2007 Wimbledon girls' doubles tournament with Jade Curtis. She ended her junior career with a doubles win-loss record of 27–28. Her career-high combined singles and doubles ranking was world No.180 (achieved 9 July 2007).

2004–2006

Anna Fitzpatrick played her first professional match on the adult ITF circuit in September 2004 when she attempted to qualify for the $10,000 event in Manchester. She lost in the second round of qualifying. Her only other tournament during 2004 was the $10,000 ITF in Bolton where she also lost in round two of qualifying. She finished 2004 without a world ranking.

2005 saw Anna play in a total of eleven ITF tournaments. She lost in round two in two tournaments, the first round in three and the qualifying stages a total of six times. Her very first year-end ranking was world No.1102.

In 2006, Fitzpatrick made very little progress on the ITF circuit until August when she won her first ever ITF title in the $10,000 event in Ilkley without losing a set in the entire tournament. She beat fellow British teen, Anna Smith, in the final, 6-4 6-3. She carried this momentum over into her next tournament (Wrexham $10,000) where she reached the semifinals and she also made a run into the final of her next tournament, the $10,000 ITF in London. She was beaten by Nadja Roma, 3-6 3-6, in the final. She finished the season with her ranking at world No.676.

2007

In March 2007, Anna reached the third ITF singles final of her career in Sunderland $10,000 where she lost to Gaelle Widmer in straight sets, 4-6 1-6. In April she became a quarterfinalist in the $10,000 event in Bath and one month later she lost in the quarterfinals of a $25,000 event in Antalya as a qualifier. June saw Fitzpatrick make her debut on the WTA tour when she was given a wild card into the qualifying draw of the DFS Classic. She faced American, Lilia Osterloh, in the first round and was unable to capitalise on her one set lead, eventually losing, 7-5 3-6 1-6.

Nevertheless she earned a wild card into the qualifying event for Wimbledon one week later by winning two matches in the LTA wild card play-offs. She managed to beat Junri Namigata, a player ranked 278 places above her, in the first round of the qualifying tournament with a score of 7-5 6-0. The No.8 seed in the qualifying tournament, Mathilde Johansson, proved too much for Fitzpatrick in round two and Anna lost, 1-6 2-6. In July, Anna reached the semifinals of a $10,000 event in Calgary (where she won the doubles tournament to give her the first doubles title of her career) and in September she reached the semifinals of another $10,000 ITF, this one in Nottingham. She did not pass the second round in any other ITF tournaments that season and finished the year with a ranking of world No.383.

2008

In April 2008, Fitzpatrick reached her first ITF quarterfinal of the year in Toluca, a $10,000 tournament. Just two weeks later she reached her second of the year, this one in Irapuato $25,000. In June, the first of four consecutive wild cards allowed her direct entry into the main draw of the $50,000 ITF event in Surbiton where she lost to Georgie Stoop in round one. Her second wild card of June entered her into the main draw of the DFS Classic, a tier III tournament. She was beaten by Melanie South, 4-6 4-6, in round one. Wild card number three allowed her access into the qualifying draw of the International Women's Open where world No.62, Ekaterina Makarova, beat her in straight sets, 6-7⁽⁴⁾ 3-6. Her fourth of four consecutive wild cards gave her entry into the qualifying draw of Wimbledon where she was beaten by Yuliana Fedak from Ukraine. In early August, Anna injured her foot while playing in an ITF in Portugal. The injury turned out to be a stress fracture in her left foot and it put her out of action for the rest of the season and as a result, she ended the season ranked world No.424.

2009

Fitzpatrick returned to the ITF circuit in March 2009. In her very first tournament since injuring her foot, Anna partnered Stefania Boffa to win the title at the $10,000 ITF in Bath. She and Boffa again joined forced in Anna's next tournament, the $25,000 ITF in Jersey, where they reached the semifinals. She made her first real impact in singles in July when she reached a $10,000 ITF quarterfinal before immediately going on to reach the final of another $10,000 ITF. She beat the fourth, fifth and sixth seeds before losing to Heather Watson, 6-4 4-6 2-6, in the final. In August, Anna played her final tournament of 2009 (a $10,000 ITF in London) where she was beaten by compatriot, Jocelyn Rae, in the semifinals. During this tournament, her foot injury worsened once again and forced her out until March/April 2010. As a result of this, Anna's year-end singles ranking for 2009 was world No.761.

WTA tour and ITF circuit finals

Singles: 7 (3–4)

Legend (pre/post 2009) Grand Slam tournaments (0–0) WTA Tour Championships (0–0) WTA Tier I / WTA Premier (0–0) WTA Tier II – IV / WTA International (0–0) ITF Circuit / ITF Circuit (3–4)

Finals by surface Hard (2–3) Clay (0–0) Grass (1–1) Carpet (0–0)

Outcome	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score in the final
Winner	02006-08-01 1 August 2006	$10,000 Ilkley, Great Britain	Grass	Anna Smith	6–4, 6–3
Runner-up	02006-08-22 22 August 2006	$10,000 Cumberland, London, Great Britain	Hard	Nadja Roma	3–6, 3–6
Runner-up	02007-03-14 14 March 2007	$10,000 Sunderland, Great Britain	Hard (i)	Gaelle Widmer	4–6, 1–6
Runner-up	02009-07-14 14 July 2009	$10,000 Frinton, Great Britain	Grass	Watson, HeatherHeather Watson	6–4, 4–6, 2–6
Winner	02010-11-03 3 November 2010	$10,000 Sunderland, Great Britain	Hard (i)	Samantha Murray	6–2, 3–6, 7–5
Runner-up	02010-11-10 10 November 2010	$10,000 Loughborough, Great Britain	Hard (i)	Lara Michel	2–6, 2–6
Winner	02011-01-19 19 January 2011	$10,000 Wrexham, Great Britain	Hard (i)	Jade Windley	6–7(3–7), 6–3, 7–5

Doubles: 22 (13–9)

Legend (pre/post 2009) Grand Slam tournaments (0–0) WTA Tour Championships (0–0) WTA Tier I / WTA Premier (0–0) WTA Tier II – IV / WTA International (0–0) ITF Circuit / ITF Circuit (13–9)

Finals by surface Hard (13–6) Clay (0–1) Grass (0–2) Carpet (0–0)

Outcome	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partnering	Opponents in the final	Score in the final
Runner-up	02006-08-02 2 August 2006	$10,000 Ilkley, Great Britain	Grass	Joanna Craven	Danielle Brown Elizabeth Thomas	2–6, 1–6
Runner-up	02007-05-14 14 May 2007	$25,000 Antalya, Turkey	Clay	Ana Veselinović	Korina Perkovic Şenoğlu, İpekİpek Şenoğlu	6–1, 1–6, 4–6
Winner	02007-07-23 23 July 2007	$10,000 Calgary, Canada	Hard	Ana Veselinović	Soledad Esperon Agustina Lepore	6–4, 6–3
Runner-up	02007-09-26 26 September 2007	$25,000 Nottingham, Great Britain	Hard	Ana Veselinović	Laine, EmmaEmma Laine Maes, CarolineCaroline Maes	6–3, 7–6(7–4), [6–10]
Winner	02008-02-19 19 February 2008	$25,000 Clearwater, Florida, USA	Hard	Ana Veselinović	Chin-wei, ChanChan Chin-wei Okamoto, SeikoSeiko Okamoto	6–2, 3–6, [10–6]
Winner	02008-02-26 26 February 2008	$25,000 Fort Walton Beach, Florida, USA	Hard	Ana Veselinović	Nicole Thyssen Pauline Wong	6–3, 7–6(7–4)
Winner	02008-04-29 29 April 2008	$25,000 Coatzacoalcos, Mexico	Hard	Anna Hawkins	Irigoyen, MaríaMaría Irigoyen Agustina Lepore	6–2, 6–2
Winner	02008-05-20 20 May 2008	$10,000 Landisville, Pennsylvania, USA	Hard	Boffa, StefaniaStefania Boffa	Cohen, AudraAudra Cohen El Tabakh, HeidiHeidi El Tabakh	6–2, 6–2
Runner-up	02008-07-08 8 July 2008	$25,000 Valladolid, Spain	Hard	Boffa, StefaniaStefania Boffa	El Tabakh, HeidiHeidi El Tabakh Tweedie-Yates, StoryStory Tweedie-Yates	2–6, 4–6
Winner	02009-03-19 19 March 2009	$10,000 Bath, Great Britain	Hard (i)	Boffa, StefaniaStefania Boffa	Veronika Chvojkova Katerina Vankova	6–1, 6–1
Winner	02009-04-07 7 April 2009	$10,000 Antalya, Turkey	Hard	Skak Jensen, HanneHanne Skak Jensen	Sofia Kvatsabaia Avgusta Tsybysheva	7–6(7–3), 2–6, [10–7]
Runner-up	02009-07-14 14 July 2009	$10,000 Frinton, Great Britain	Grass	Starr, EmelynEmelyn Starr	Rae, JocelynJocelyn Rae Jade Windley	3–6, 5–7
Runner-up	02010-03-17 17 March 2010	$10,000 Bath, Great Britain	Hard (i)	Jade Curtis	Ejdesgaard, MalouMalou Ejdesgaard Piter, KatarzynaKatarzyna Piter	3–6, 2–6
Winner	02010-06-21 21 June 2010	$10,000 Alcobaca, Portugal	Hard	Jade Windley	Gloria, MelanieMelanie Gloria Daniela Munoz Gallegos	6–2, 6–1
Runner-up	02010-07-28 28 July 2010	$10,000 Chiswick, Great Britain	Hard	Jade Windley	Rae, JocelynJocelyn Rae Starr, EmelynEmelyn Starr	1–6, 4–6
Winner	02010-11-03 3 November 2010	$10,000 Sunderland, Great Britain	Hard (i)	Amanda Elliott	Moore, TaraTara Moore Francesca Stephenson	6–2, 6–3
Winner	02011-01-19 19 January 2011	$10,000 Wrexham, Great Britain	Hard (i)	Jade Windley	Eikeri, UlrikkeUlrikke Eikeri Nicola George	6–1, 6–0
Runner-up	02011-02-08 8 February 2011	$10,000 Vale do Lobo, Portugal	Hard	Eikeri, UlrikkeUlrikke Eikeri	Rocio de la Torre Sánchez Olga Saez Larra	W/O
Winner	02011-05-10 10 May 2011	$10,000 Heraklion, Greece	Hard	Samantha Murray	Amanda Elliott Nicole Rottmann	6–3, 6–2
Runner-up	02011-05-17 17 May 2011	$10,000 Rethymno, Greece	Hard	Jade Windley	Alexandra Artamonova Diana Marcinkevica	2–6, 3–6
Winner	02011-07-24 24 July 2011	$25,000 Wrexham, Great Britain	Hard	Jade Windley	South, MelanieMelanie South Wienerová, LenkaLenka Wienerová	6–2, 4–6, [10–3]
Winner	02011-09-10 10 September 2011	$10,000 Madrid, Spain	Hard	Jade Windley	Rocio de la Torre Sánchez Georgina Garcia Perez	1–6, 6–0, [10–8]

External links

• Anna Fitzpatrick at the Women's Tennis Association
• Anna Fitzpatrick at the International Tennis Federation
• Anna Fitzpatrick at the International Tennis Federation Junior Profile
• Anna Fitzpatrick on the MCTA website