Corina Morariu

Corina Morariu

Country	United States
Residence	Boca Raton, Florida, United States
Born	January 26, 1978 (1978-01-26) Detroit, Michigan, United States
Turned pro	1994
Retired	2007
Career prize money	$1,733,916
Singles
Career record	160–134
Career titles	1 WTA, 5 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 29 (24 August 1998)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	2R (1998)
French Open	2R (1998, 2000, 2003)
Wimbledon	3R (1998, 1999)
US Open	2R (1997)
Doubles
Career record	248–158
Career titles	13 WTA, 9 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 1 (3 April 2000)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	F (2001, 2005)
French Open	SF (2005)
Wimbledon	W (2005)
US Open	QF (1999, 2002, 2005, 2007)

Corina Marie Morariu (born January 26, 1978 in Detroit, Michigan) is a former American female professional tennis player of Romanian heritage.

Morariu (pronounced: mo-RA-RHEE-yoo) turned professional in 1994. Mainly known as a doubles specialist, she won the women's doubles title at Wimbledon in 1999 with Lindsay Davenport. She also won the mixed doubles title at the 2001 Australian Open with Ellis Ferreira. She reached the Australian Open women's doubles final with Davenport in 2005.

Morariu was formerly ranked the world's number one female doubles player.

In 2001, Morariu was diagnosed with leukemia and began a programme of chemotherapy, she had over 70 percent chance of survival due to her fit physique and young age, but the chemotherapy caused another serious side-effect, an accumulation of white cells resulting in the clogging of the lung—a condition that ended being life-threatening for Corina, she struggled between the life and the death for a month. While she was in this situation Jennifer Capriati dedicated her Roland Garros victory to her, she also received an inspirational letter from Lance Armstrong, a cancer survivor. She has since made a full recovery and returned to competition.

After a loss in the quarter-finals of the women's doubles at the US Open 2007 on September 19, Corina announced her retirement.

She is an International Sports Ambassador for The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.

She currently works as a commentator for Tennis Channel, having covered the 2009 French Open, US Open and the 2010 Australian Open.

Major finals

Grand Slam finals

Doubles: 3 (1–2)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponent in final	Score in final
Winner	1999	Wimbledon	Grass	Lindsay Davenport	Mariaan de Swardt Elena Tatarkova	6–4, 6–4
Runner-up	2001	Australian Open	Hard	Lindsay Davenport	Serena Williams Venus Williams	6–2, 2–6, 6–4
Runner-up	2005	Australian Open	Hard	Lindsay Davenport	Svetlana Kuznetsova Alicia Molik	6–3, 6–4

WTA Tour Finals

Singles 4 (1–3)

Legend: Before 2009	Legend: Starting in 2009
Grand Slam tournaments (0/0)
Olympic Gold (0/0)
WTA Championships (0/0)
Tier I (0/0)	Premier Mandatory (0/0)
Tier II (0/0)	Premier 5 (0/0)
Tier III (0/1)	Premier (0/0)
Tier IV & V (1/2)	International (0/0)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score in the final
Runner-up	1.	28 April 1997	Bol	Clay	Mirjana Lučić	7–5, 6–7(7), 7–6(5)
Runner-up	2.	19 April 1998	Tokyo (Japan Open)	Hard	Ai Sugiyama	6–3, 6–3
Runner-up	3.	27 April 1998	Bol	Clay	Mirjana Lučić	6–2, 6–4
Winner	1.	26 April 1999	Bol	Clay	Julie Halard-Decugis	6–2, 6–0

Doubles 20 (13–7)

Legend: Before 2009	Legend: Starting in 2009
Grand Slam tournaments (1/2)
Olympic Gold (0/0)
WTA Championships (0/0)
Tier I (1/2)	Premier Mandatory (0/0)
Tier II (3/2)	Premier 5 (0/0)
Tier III (7/1)	Premier (0/0)
Tier IV & V (1/0)	International (0/0)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score in the final
Runner-up	1.	20 April 1997	Tokyo (Japan Open)	Hard	Kerry-Anne Guse	Alexia Dechaume-Balleret Rika Hiraki	6–4, 6–2
Winner	1.	23 November 1997	Pattaya City	Hard	Kristine Kunce	Florencia Labat Dominique Monami	6–3, 6–4
Winner	2.	9 January 1999	Gold Coast	Hard	Larisa Neiland	Kristine Kunce Irina Spîrlea	6–3, 6–4
Winner	3.	18 April 1999	Tokyo (Japan Open)	Hard	Kimberly Po	Kerry-Anne Guse Catherine Barclay	6–3, 6–2
Winner	4.	14 June 1999	Birmingham	Grass	Larisa Neiland	Inés Gorrochategui Alexandra Fusai	6–4, 6–4
Winner	5.	4 July 1999	Wimbledon	Grass	Lindsay Davenport	Mariaan de Swardt Elena Tatarkova	6–4, 6–4
Winner	6.	1 August 1999	Stanford	Hard	Lindsay Davenport	Anna Kournikova Elena Likhovtseva	6–4, 6–4
Winner	7.	8 August 1999	San Diego	Hard	Lindsay Davenport	Venus Williams Serena Williams	6–4, 6–1
Winner	8.	27 February 2000	Oklahoma City	Hard (i)	Kimberly Po	Tamarine Tanasugarn Elena Tatarkova	6–4, 4–6, 6–2
Winner	9.	19 March 2000	Indian Wells	Hard	Lindsay Davenport	Anna Kournikova Natasha Zvereva	6–2, 6–3
Winner	10.	7 May 2000	Bol	Clay	Julie Halard-Decugis	Katarina Srebotnik Tina Križan	6–2, 6–2
Runner-up	2.	14 May 2000	Berlin	Clay	Amanda Coetzer	Aranxta Sanchez-Vicario Conchita Martinez	3–6, 6–2, 7–6(7)
Winner	11.	9 Ocotber 2000	Tokyo (Japan Open)	Hard	Julie Halard-Decugis	Tina Križan Katarina Srebotnik	6–1, 6–2
Runner-up	3.	15 January 2001	Australian Open	Hard	Lindsay Davenport	Serena Williams Venus Williams	6–2, 2–6, 6–4
Runner-up	4.	7 November 2004	Phildaelphia	Hard (i)	Liezel Huber	Lisa Raymond Alicia Molik	7–5, 6–4
Runner-up	5.	17 January 2005	Australian Open	Hard	Lindsay Davenport	Svetlana Kuznetsova Alicia Molik	6–3, 6–4
Runner-up	6.	1 February 2005	Tokyo (Pan Pacific)	Carpet (i)	Lindsay Davenport	Janette Husárová Elena Likhovtseva	6–4, 6–3
Winner	12.	17 January 2006	Sydney	Hard	Rennae Stubbs	Paola Suárez Virginia Ruano Pascual	6–3, 5–7, 6–2
Winner	13.	17 September 2006	Bali	Hard	Lindsay Davenport	Natalie Grandin Trudi Musgrave	6–3, 6–4
Runner-up	7.	29 Ocotber 2006	Linz	Hard (i)	Katarina Srebotnik	Lisa Raymond Samantha Stosur	6–3, 6–0

Awards

Corina Morariu hitting a forehand.

• The Corina Morariu Courage Award (established by the WTA, and named after her, she was the first recipient)
• The 2003 WTA Tour Comeback Player of the Year Award

External links

• Corina Morariu at the Women's Tennis Association
• Fed Cup profile