Timea Bacsinszky

Infobox Tennis player
playername = Timea Bacsinszky


country = SUI
residence = Belmont, Switzerland
datebirth = birth date and age|1989|06|08
placebirth = Lausanne, Switzerland
height = 1.70 m
weight = 62 kg
turnedpro = 2004
plays = Right; Two-handed backhand
careerprizemoney = $304,611
singlesrecord = 119–63
singlestitles = 0 (6 ITF)
highestsinglesranking = No. 49 (October 6, 2008)
AustralianOpenresult = 2nd (2008)
FrenchOpenresult = 2nd (2007, 2008)
Wimbledonresult = 2nd (2008)
USOpenresult = 3rd (2008)
doublesrecord = 41–28
doublestitles = 0 (4 ITF)
highestdoublesranking = No. 132 (June 9, 2008)
updated = September 8, 2008

Timea Bacsinszky (born June 8, 1989 in Lausanne, Switzerland) is a professional female tennis player residing in Belmont, Switzerland. She joined the WTA Tour and was ranked World No. 49 on October 6, 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. [http://www.sonyericssonwtatour.com/2/players/playerprofiles/PlayerBio2.asp?PlayerID=311579 WTAtour.com Profile. Personal]

Career

Throughout Timea’s junior career, she reached the semifinals of the 2004 Australian Open, losing to Shahar Peer, the 2004 French Open, losing to Madalina 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 Zurich, 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 Hantuchova 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. However Bacsinszky is set to rise up the rankings due to this.

Grand Slam Singles performance

References

External links

* [http://www.timea.ch/ Official website] fr
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