Timea Bacsinszky

Timea Bacsinszky

Bacsinszky in 2008
Full name	Timea Bacsinszky
Country (sports)	Switzerland
Residence	Belmont-sur-Lausanne, Switzerland
Born	(1989-06-08) 8 June 1989 Lausanne, Switzerland
Height	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Turned pro	October 2004
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	$2,585,987
Singles
Career record	333–173
Career titles	3 WTA, 12 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 15 (8 June 2015)
Current ranking	No. 15 (8 June 2015)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	3R (2015)
French Open	SF (2015)
Wimbledon	2R (2008, 2009, 2014)
US Open	3R (2008)
Other tournaments
Olympic Games	1R (2008)
Doubles
Career record	136–77
Career titles	4 WTA, 14 ITF
Highest ranking	36 (31 January 2011)
Current ranking	147 (23 March 2015)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open	2R (2010, 2011)
French Open	2R (2008)
Wimbledon	2R (2010)
US Open	3R (2010)
Mixed doubles
Grand Slam mixed doubles results
Wimbledon	1R (2010)
US Open	1R (2010)
Team competitions
Fed Cup	23–16
Last updated on: 23 March 2015.

Timea Bacsinszky (born 8 June 1989 in Lausanne) is a Swiss professional tennis player who has won three singles and four doubles titles on the WTA Tour. This year has been a breakthrough for her in singles, winning a career-best 15 consecutive matches spanning two titles then reaching the semifinals of the French Open, the first time she advanced past the third round of a major.

Playing for Switzerland in the Fed Cup, Bacsinszky has a career match record of 23–16. She also has won 12 singles and 14 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit.

Personal life

Bacsinszky, who first picked up a racket at age 3, was pushed hard to succeed in youth tennis by her father Igor, a tennis coach from Romania. She has stated that she resented him for this and remains estranged from him after her parents divorced, though she still developed a passion for competitive tennis. Her mother, Suzanne, is a dentist from Hungary. She has one brother, Daniel (music teacher), and two sisters, Sophie (musician and student) and Melinda.

Career

2004–10

Bacsinszky's early tennis highlights included reaching the semifinals of three junior Grand Slam tournaments in 2004–05. Her breakthrough professional tournament was the 2006 Zurich Open, where she qualified then defeated Anastasia Myskina and Francesca Schiavone before losing to former No. 1 Maria Sharapova. Her early years on tour were a learning experience, and she finished both 2006 and 2007 ranked in the 120s.

Her singles ranking climbed in 2008, and she finished in the top 54 three straight years. The breakthrough was reaching the semifinals of the Diamond Games in February, winning three qualifying and several main draw matches before losing to world No. 1 Justine Henin in three sets. She won her first WTA singles title at the 2009 Luxembourg Open then won her first three doubles titles the following year.

2011–14

Bacsinszky suffered a serious foot injury in the spring of 2011, requiring surgery and a long recovery. She returned at the Fed Cup the following February then used her protected ranking to play several WTA tournaments. She also played a number of ITF Women's Circuit events. However, she decided to skip the Olympics for personal reasons and soon took a hiatus from tennis altogether. She ended up working in restaurants and bars while preparing to attend hotel management school.

In May 2013 Bacsinszky received an email stating she was eligible to compete in that month's French Open qualifier. With no practice and having to take time off work, she drove from Lausanne to Paris; she lost her first match but felt her passion for the game reignited. Thus she hired Dimitri Zavialoff, former coach of compatriot Stan Wawrinka, and committed herself to reviving her tennis career. Her gradual return to the WTA Tour reached a big milestone at the 2014 Wuhan Open when she upset No. 4 Maria Sharapova in the third round. A few weeks later she won her fourth career doubles title in Luxembourg.

2015: best season

Bacsinszky began the year in Shenzhen, upsetting No. 4 Petra Kvitová in the semifinal before losing to No. 3 Simona Halep in her first WTA final in five years. She then reached the third round of the Australian Open followed by back-to-back titles in Mexico at Acapulco and Monterrey, beating Caroline Garcia in both finals. As a result, her ranking rose into the top 30 for the first time. She continued this good form at the Indian Wells Premier Mandatory, defeating No. 8 Ekaterina Makarova en route to the quarterfinals where she lost to No. 1 Serena Williams, thereby ending her win streak at a career-best 15 matches.

At the French Open she advanced past the third round of a Grand Slam for the first time, once again upsetting Kvitová. She made it all the way to the semifinals and a rematch with No. 1 Williams; Bacsinszky led by a set and a break but lost the last 10 games. She was now ranked 15.

WTA finals

Singles: 5 (3 titles, 2 runners-up)

Legend Grand Slam tournaments (0–0) WTA Tour Championships (0–0) Premier Mandatory & Premier 5 (0–0) Premier (0–0) International (3–2)

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

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Winner	1.	25 October 2009	Luxembourg Open, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg	Hard (i)	Sabine Lisicki	6–2, 7–5
Runner-up	1.	25 July 2010	Gastein Ladies, Bad Gastein, Austria	Clay	Julia Görges	1–6, 4–6
Runner-up	2.	10 January 2015	Shenzhen Open, Shenzhen, China	Hard	Simona Halep	2–6, 2–6
Winner	2.	28 February 2015	Abierto Mexicano Telcel, Acapulco, Mexico	Hard	Caroline Garcia	6–3, 6–0
Winner	3.	9 March 2015	Monterrey Open, Monterrey, Mexico	Hard	Caroline Garcia	4–6, 6–2, 6–4

Doubles: 6 (4 titles, 2 runners-up)

Legend Grand Slam tournaments (0–0) WTA Tour Championships (0–0) Premier Mandatory & Premier 5 (0–0) Premier (0–0) International (4–2)

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

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	1.	17 April 2010	Barcelona Ladies Open, Barcelona, Spain	Clay	Tathiana Garbin	Sara Errani Roberta Vinci	1–6, 6–3, [2–10]
Winner	1.	11 July 2010	Budapest Grand Prix, Budapest, Hungary	Clay	Tathiana Garbin	Sorana Cîrstea Anabel Medina Garrigues	6–3, 6–3
Winner	2.	18 July 2010	Prague Open, Prague, Czech Republic	Clay	Tathiana Garbin	Monica Niculescu Ágnes Szávay	7–5, 7–6(7–4)
Runner-up	2.	25 July 2010	Gastein Ladies, Bad Gastein, Austria	Clay	Tathiana Garbin	Lucie Hradecká Anabel Medina Garrigues	7–6(7–2), 1–6, [5–10]
Winner	3.	24 October 2010	Luxembourg Open, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg	Hard (i)	Tathiana Garbin	Iveta Benešová Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová	6–4, 6–4
Winner	4.	19 October 2014	Luxembourg Open, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg	Hard (i)	Kristina Barrois	Lucie Hradecká Barbora Krejčíková	3–6, 6–4, [10–4]

Performance timelines

Bacsinszky at the 2014 Wimbledon qualifying tournament

Singles

Tournament	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	W–L
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open	Q1	A	Q3	2R	A	1R	1R	A	A	A	3R	3–4
French Open	A	A	2R	2R	2R	2R	A	A	Q1	2R	SF	10–6
Wimbledon	A	A	1R	2R	2R	1R	A	A	Q2	2R		3–5
US Open	A	A	1R	3R	2R	1R	A	1R	A	2R		4–6
Win–Loss	0–0	0–0	1–3	5–4	3–3	1–4	0–1	0–1	0–0	3–3	7–2	20–21
Year-end ranking	392	121	123	53	54	51	242	185	285	48

Doubles

Tournament	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	W–L
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open	A	A	2R	2R	A	A	A	1R	2–3
French Open	2R	A	1R	A	A	A	A	2R	2–3
Wimbledon	1R	A	2R	A	A	A	Q2		1–2
US Open	1R	1R	3R	A	A	A	1R		2–4
Win–Loss	1–3	0–1	4–4	1–1	0–0	0–0	0–1	1–2	7–12
Year-end ranking	180	107	37	347	125	531	138

Top 10 wins

#	Player	Rank	Event	Surface	Round	Score
2008
1.	Daniela Hantuchová	No. 8	Antwerp, Belgium	Hard (i)	Quarterfinals	6–2, 4–6, 4–1, retired
2010
2.	Victoria Azarenka	No. 10	Beijing, China	Hard	2nd Round	4–6, 3–2, retired
2014
3.	Maria Sharapova	No. 4	Wuhan, China	Hard	3rd Round	7–6(7–3), 7–5
2015
4.	Petra Kvitová	No. 4	Shenzhen, China	Hard	Semifinals	6–4, 6–4
5.	Ekaterina Makarova	No. 8	Indian Wells, United States	Hard	3rd Round	3–6, 7–5, 6–4
6.	Agnieszka Radwańska	No. 9	Fed Cup, Zielona Góra, Poland	Hard (i)	RR (WG PO)	6–1, 6–1
7.	Petra Kvitová	No. 4	French Open, Paris, France	Clay	4th Round	2–6, 6–0, 6–3

External links

• Timea Bacsinszky at the Women's Tennis Association
• Timea Bacsinszky at the Billie Jean King Cup
• Official website