Timea Bacsinszky

Timea Bacsinszky
Country	Switzerland
Residence	Belmont-sur-Lausanne, Switzerland
Date of birth	June 8, 1989 (age 20)
Place of birth	Lausanne, Switzerland
Height	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight	62 kg (140 lb; 9.8 st)
Turned pro	October 2004
Plays	Right; Two-handed backhand
Career prize money	$654,980
Singles
Career record	155–90
Career titles	1 (6 ITF)
Highest ranking	No. 48 (October 13, 2008)
Current ranking	No. 53 (December 14, 2009)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	2nd (2008)
French Open	2nd (2007, 2008, 2009)
Wimbledon	2nd (2008, 2009)
US Open	3rd (2008)
Doubles
Career record	56–36
Career titles	0 (7 ITF)
Highest ranking	No. 105 (November 2, 2009)
	Last updated on: October 26, 2009.

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Timea Bacsinszky (born June 8, 1989 in Lausanne, Switzerland) is a professional female tennis player residing in Belmont-sur-Lausanne, Switzerland. She joined the WTA Tour and was ranked World No. 48 on October 13, 2008.

Her mother, Suzanne, is a dentist from Hungary; father, Igor, is a tennis coach from Romania. She has one brother, Daniel (music teacher) and two sisters, Sophie (musician and student) and Melinda (mother of two girls). Timea began playing tennis at age 3 when mother introduced her to the sport. She speaks French, Hungarian, English, German and Italian.^[1]

[edit] Career

Throughout Timea's junior career, she reached the semifinals of the 2004 Australian Open, losing to Shahar Pe'er, the 2004 French Open, losing to Mădălina Gojnea, and the 2005 Australian Open, losing to Hungarian Ágnes Szávay.

Her breakthrough professional tournament was the 2006 Zurich Open, qualifying and then defeating former Grand Slam champion Anastasia Myskina 6–3 6–3 and Italian Francesca Schiavone 6–1 ret. Her fairytale run in her native country was ended by former World Number One Maria Sharapova, but not without a fight, losing 4–6 3–6.

Timea, however, did not enjoy as much success after the quarterfinal appearance in Zürich, winning only two WTA Tour matches, against Olga Savchuk in Fes and Zheng Jie at the 2007 French Open.

Timea had an excellent start to 2008 by reaching the semifinals of the Tier II Proximus Diamond Games in Antwerp, Belgium, where she won three qualifying matches before beating several players in the main draw - including third seed Daniela Hantuchová in a retirement - and then won the first set against world no. 1 Justine Henin 6–2, before losing the next two 3–6, 3–6.

In 2009, she won her first WTA Tour singles title over German Sabine Lisicki 6-2, 7-5 in Luxembourg.

[edit] Grand Slam Singles performance

Tournament	2007	2008	2009
Australian Open	-	2R	-
French Open	2R	2R	2R
Wimbledon	1R	2R	2R
US Open	1R	3R	2R

[edit] Titles

[edit] Singles (1 WTA, 6 ITF)

Legend: Starting in 2009
Grand Slam tournaments
WTA Championships
Premier Mandatory
Premier 5
Premier
International (1)
ITF Circuit (6)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the Final	Score
1.	August 10, 2003	Wrexham	Hard	Karen Paterson	6–0 6–3
2.	April 11, 2004	Dinan	Clay (I)	Tzipora Obziler	6–2 6–1
3.	August 15, 2004	Martina Franca	Clay	Bahia Mouhtassine	6–4 6–4
4.	April 9, 2006	Dinan	Clay (I)	Yaroslava Shvedova	4–6 7–5 6–2
5.	May 21, 2006	Saint-Gaudens	Clay	Ivana Abramović	7–5 6–4
6.	April 29, 2007	Cagnes-sur-Mer	Clay	Tatjana Malek	6–4 6–1
7.	October 25, 2009	Luxembourg	Hard (I)	Sabine Lisicki	6–2 7–5