Jarmila Gajdošová
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Jarmila Gajdošová known as Jarmila Groth from 2009 to 2011, is an Australian tennis player. She turned professional in 2005.
tournaments. In the 2003 Wimbledon
junior competition she lost in semifinal to the later winner Kirsten Flipkens
. In the Australian Open
junior competition, 2004, she reached semifinal in both singles and doubles (with Shahar Pe'er
). Both times she lost to Nicole Vaidišová
. Another success came in winning doubles at the Italian Open junior tournament in 2003 with Andrea Hlaváčková
.
Early in 2003, still aged fifteen, she stepped up her schedule, and that February she reached the semi-final of a $25,000 tournament at Redbridge, defeating Séverine Beltrame, Sandra Kloesel, and Roberta Vinci
before losing to Olga Barabanschikova
. She won the next tournament she entered, her third of the year and only the ninth of her career. It was the $10,000 event at Rabat in March; and in the semi-final she defeated Ekaterina Bychkova
. On the strength of this result, she found herself wild-carded into qualifying for her first WTA Tour event, a clay-court tournament at Budapest in April, and justified the wild-card by defeating all three of her opponents in the qualifying draw, including Melinda Czink
, in straight sets, then Virginie Razzano
of France in the second round of the main draw, before losing 6–4, 6–3 to Alicia Molik
of Australia.
On her sixteenth birthday she entered qualifying for a $50,000 ITF event on grass at Gifu, Japan. Again, she qualified, defeating Aiko Nakamura
of Japan in the qualifying round; and she reached the second round of the main draw before losing to another top Japanese player, Akiko Morigami
. The next week, she came through three straight matches in qualifying at her third successive event, another Japanese $50,000 grass-court tournament, at Fukuoka, defeating Sanda Mamić
of Croatia in the qualifying round, before advancing to the quarter-final of the main draw after a second-round victory over Zheng Jie
of China, only to lose to Saori Obata
.
At the US Open in August, and reached the final round of qualifying with upset of Anabel Medina Garrigues
of Spain, but ultimately lost to Anikó Kapros
of Hungary. Her season ended with two more losses in the later stages of qualifying draws at WTA events to higher ranked players. The sixteen-year-old Slovak ended the year ranked World No. 197.
and Tzipora Obziler
in qualifying for Memphis, Akiko Morigami
and Tiffany Dabek at Fukuoka, Zuzana Ondrášková
in Wimbledon qualifying, and Elena Baltacha
in a $50,000 ITF event at Lexington, while her performance in reaching the final of the $50,000 event at Fukuoka was her career-best in a tournament of its class. Her year-end ranking was World No. 217.
of Germany. She did not play in March or April, but returned in May to win her first $25,000 ITF event and her second career tournament on the clay of Catania, Italy, beating Ivana Abramović
of Croatia in the final. The following week, she reached the quarter-final of another $50,000 event at Saint-Gaudens, France, beating Argentine María Emilia Salerni
and French player Pauline Parmentier
to this end. She entered qualifying at the French Open, and defeated Shikha Uberoi
but lost to Swede Sofia Arvidsson
in the second leg.
Over May and June, the eighteen-year-old suffered two consecutive losses in $25,000 tournaments to Chinese player Yuan Meng
. She was able to win her second $25,000 tournament of the year and third career title on the grass courts of Felixstowe in July, beating Katie O'Brien
of Great Britain in the semi-final and Alla Kudryavtseva
of Russia in the final. The following week, she reached the semi-final of the $50,000 event at Vittel, France, with wins over German Jana Kandarr
and her countrywoman Sandra Kloesel.
For the second successive summer, she experienced several consecutive early defeats. But in late September she defeated Alona Bondarenko, Kateryna Bondarenko
, and María Emilia Salerni
of Argentina to qualify for the WTA event at Luxembourg, in the first round of which she defeated Slovenian Katarina Srebotnik
in two close sets before losing to Russian Dinara Safina
. She had improved her year-end ranking to World No. 147.
. She then lost a close three set first-round match to Martina Müller of Germany. But the ranking points accrued were sufficient to lift her to World No. 117 on 6 February 2006.
Staying in Australia for the rest of the month, she retreated temporarily to the ITF circuit, winning two $25,000 tournaments in consecutive weeks, at Gosford and Sydney
, the fourth and fifth ITF singles titles of her career. These two minor tournament victories resulted in her ranking rising to World No. 106.
In mid-March, she followed up these two tournament victories by entering another $25,000 event at Canberra
, and again came through as the victor, defeating World No. 178 Hanna Nooni
of Sweden in the semifinals and Australian Monique Adamczak
in the final.
The next week, she extended her winning streak to seventeen matches in reaching the quarter-finals of a $25,000 event in Melbourne
, but then lost to Australian World No. 260 Sophie Ferguson
, 6–1, 6–4. She had succeeded in breaking through into the WTA Top 100 for the first time in her career.
In April, staying at the $25,000 tournament level that had recently brought her so much success, she reached another semi-final at Patras
, Greece (losing in three sets to Estonian World No. 240 Margit Rüütel
), but only reached the second-round at Bari
, Italy, before retiring when trailing upcoming French player Alizé Cornet
6–0, 4–1.
In early May she decided to return to the WTA Tour, entering qualifying for the Tier I Qatar Telecom German Open
in Berlin while ranked World No. 94. However, she lost in three sets in the second-round of the qualifying draw to Ukrainian World No. 147 Julia Vakulenko
, 3–6, 7–6(5), 6–3. The next week, she lost in the first round of qualifying for the Tier I Internazionali BNL d'Italia in Rome to World No. 115 Victoria Azarenka
of Belarus
6–3, 6–3.
At the end of the month, entering a Grand Slam as a direct entrant for the first time at the French Open, as World No. 100, she defeated lower-ranked wildcard Stéphanie Cohen-Aloro
in Round One before losing in straight sets to World No. 9 Patty Schnyder
in Round Two.
The following week, in early June, she entered a $75,000 ITF event at Prostějov
in the Czech Republic and defeated two Czech players in succession, World No. 31 Lucie Šafářová
and World No. 239 Renata Voráčová
(3–6 6–2 7–6), before losing in the quarter-finals to in-form Italian Romina Oprandi
in straight sets, 3–6 4–6.
Buoyed by her career-best ranking of World No. 86, she reached the second round of the Tier III tournament at Birmingham
with a 6–3 6–4 win over Yuan Meng
of China before losing to Japanese veteran Ai Sugiyama
. She then came through three rounds of qualifying in straight sets at Eastbourne
, a Tier II tournament, with wins over Stéphanie Foretz
of France, Galina Voskoboeva
of Russia and Samantha Stosur
of Australia, but lost in the first round of the main draw to Russian former World No. 2 Anastasia Myskina
. A week later, as a direct entrant at The Championships, Wimbledon
, she lost to Australian Nicole Pratt
in the first round.
At the $50,000 event in Vittel
, France, she won the event, beating Frenchwoman Olivia Sanchez
. Her ranking rose ten places to No. 86. However, in the Tier IV WTA tournament in Budapest
the following week, she lost 6–7 2–6 in the first round to fellow Slovakian Martina Suchá
.
As a direct entrant to the main draw of the US Open, she reached the third round with straight-sets victories over American hopeful Alexa Glatch
and the Ukraine's Viktoriya Kutuzova
before succumbing to Russian Dinara Safina
3–6 0–6. As a result, her ranking leapt to World No. 65.
Despite an uninspired finish to 2006, she finished the year ranked World No. 71.
. Then in qualifying for Hobart
in January, she fell at the first hurdle to Czech Klára Zakopalová in straight sets. And as a direct entrant to the Australian Open
, she lost in Round One to Venezuelan Milagros Sequera
, also in straight sets.
In February, she managed to pull together a string of back-to-back victories in an ITF $75,000 tournament at Las Vegas
, with wins over Kristina Barrois
of Germany (in three sets), Ahsha Rolle
of the United States (6–0 6–2) and Tatiana Poutchek
of Belarus
(6–4 6–3), before bowing out to Japan's Akiko Morigami
in the semifinals.
In March, as a direct entrant to the Tier I event at Indian Wells
, ranked World No. 90, she lost in the first round to Dane Caroline Wozniacki
, 3–6 1–6. Then she came through qualifying for Miami with a straight-sets wins over Kristina Barrois
and Luxembourg
's Anne Kremer
before losing a close two-set match in the first round of the main draw to Catalina Castaño
of Colombia, 3–6 5–7. And in the first round of the main draw of the Tier II fixture at Amelia Island
, her ranking having slipped back to World No. 99, she was defeated by American Alexa Glatch
, 4–6 3–6.
In May, ranked World No. 95, she reached the quarter-finals of the Tier IV fixture at Prague
with straight-sets victories over Anastasia Rodionova of Russia and Sandra Kloesel of Germany before losing to French player Marion Bartoli
. At the end of the month, in the first round, she lost to Andrea Petkovic
of Germany at the French Open.
In June, at The Championships, Wimbledon
, she defeated American Meghann Shaughnessy
6–2 7–4 before losing to Jelena Janković
of Serbia in Round Two, 1–6 1–6. She returned to action in mid-August in Canada, again ranked World No. 105, and attempted to qualify for the Tier I Canadian Open, but lost to Italian Flavia Pennetta
. Her only other tournament that month was the US Open, where she again faced Jelena Janković
, this time losing 2–6 6–7.
The Slovak would play only four more tournaments that season, recording her sole victory in the first round of the Tier III event at Kolkata
, India against Youlia Fedossova
of France in mid-September. Her ranking was World No. 142 by the end of the year.
4–6, 6–1, 6–2. She then lost in the second round of the qualifying competition for the Medibank International in Sydney
to World No. 100 Jill Craybas
7–5, 6–2. Gajdošová then received a wild card into the main draw of the Australian Open
where she lost in the first round to World No. 7 Serena Williams
6–3, 6–3.
She then played two tournaments in the United States. She lost in the first round of the qualifying competition for the Tier I Pacific Life Open in Indian Wells, California
to World No. 101 Alla Kudryavtseva
6–2, 6–0. She then lost in the first round of the ITF Circuit event in Redding, California
to World No. 199 Margalita Chakhnashvili
4–0 retired.
She then played three ITF Circuit tournaments in South Korea
. In Incheon
, she lost in the first round to World No. 374 Jin-A Lee 6–4, 5–7, 6–2. The following week, Gajdošová won the tournament in Gimcheon
, defeating World No. 295 Lu Jingjing
in the final. She then lost in the second round of the tournament in Changwon
to World No. 432 Zhang Ling
6–1, 6–4. As of 26 May 2008, her ranking had dropped to World No. 195.
. In the Sydney International Gajdošová again lost in the second round to eventual champion Elena Dementieva
. At the Australian Open Gajdošová lost a tight three-setter to Virginie Razzano
. She then married Sam Groth taking his name from Feb onwards. At the 2009 Indian Wells tournament Groth played in the qualifying winning her first match and losing her final qualifying match, resulting in a slight rise in the rankings.
At Roland Garros, Groth defeated French wildcard Kinnie Laisné
6–4 6–3 and Mariana Duque Marino
6–2 7–6. She then lost to fifth seed Jelena Janković
in the third round 1–6 1–6. At Wimbledon
, in the first round, Gajdošová defeated Lucie Šafářová
6–3 3–6 6–3, and lost to second seed Serena Williams
2–6 1–6 in the second round. After solid performances at both Roland Garros and Wimbledon Groth received a career high singles ranking of #57.
She was then out of action with an ankle injury until returning to the tour in 2010 as a fully fledged Australian player available for Fed Cup Team selection after being granted Australian citizenship on 23 November 2009
.
6–2 4–6 6–4. Groth remained in Australia to gain ranking points and was very successful winning the $25 000 Sydney ITF, Finalist at the $25 000 Burnie ITF and a Quarterfinalist at the Midura ITF. She also had success in doubles with a Semifinal and Final showings at the Burnie and Mildura ITF's. She received a wild card entry into the 2010 French Open
and played Chan Yung-jan
in the first round. Groth moved into the 2nd round winning 6–2 6–3. She then played Kimiko Date Krumm from Japan. Krumm had knocked out Dinara Safina
the round before. She beat Krumm 6–0 6–3. Groth then faced fellow Australian player Anastasia Rodionova. They played a long 3 setter but Groth prevailed 6–3 5–7 6–2. In the fourth round Groth lost to Kazakh Yaroslava Shvedova
6–4, 6–3. Her French Open rund was her best in Grand Slam tournaments. After the French Open, she was ranked No. 88.
At the 2010 Wimbledon Championships
, she progressed to the fourth round where she was beaten by Venus Williams
6–4 7–6.
On 23 August, she reached a new career high ranking of 56 and became the second highest ranked Australian behind No. 6 Samantha Stosur
.
At the 2010 U.S. Open, she lost to Maria Sharapova
6–4, 3–6, 1–6 in the first round. In doubles partnering Klára Zakopalová she defeated Angelique Kerber
and Līga Dekmeijere
6–1 4–6 6–2.
After the US Open, Groth participated in the 2010 Guangzhou International Women's Open
as top seed. She made it to her first WTA tour final after defeating Edina Gallovits
in the semifinals 6–0, 6–1 in 38 minutes. In the final Groth defeated Alla Kudryavtseva
6–1, 6–4 to win her maiden title. Groth's ranking rose to a career high of 41 as a result of her performance.
Her next tournament was the 2010 Hansol Korea Open
where she faced top seed Nadia Petrova
in the first round. She was defeated, 3–6, 2–6.
where she made it to the quarterfinals after beating her countrywoman and 1st seed Samantha Stosur
in the previous round but lost 3–6, 4–6 to German Andrea Petkovic
. It was Jarmila's first win against a top 10 player. She then competed at the 2011 Moorilla Hobart International
where she defeated Sweden's Johanna Larsson in the first round 6–1, 6–3. In the second round, Groth faced qualifier Tamira Paszek
and won 6–4, 7–6(5). She then defeated fourth seed Roberta Vinci
in the quarter finals 6–1, 6–2. In the semi finals, Groth defeated fifth seed and her current doubles partner Klára Zakopalová 6–3, 6–2. Groth defeated American Bethanie Mattek-Sands in the final to gain her second WTA title. In doubles, Gajdošová and her partner Zakopalová won their first round match 6–3, 6–1. They defeated fourth seeds Natalie Grandin
and Vladimíra Uhlířová
in the quarter finals 6–4, 7–5. They lost to Kateryna Bondarenko
and Līga Dekmeijere
in the semifinals, 2–6, 4–6. In the 2011 Australian Open
she faced 2009 US Open semi-finalist Yanina Wickmayer
in the first round. Wickmayer eventually triumphed in a close 3 set match, with the score 6–3, 2–6, 6–4.
After the Australian Open, she was part of the Australian Fed Cup team for the first time. Despite Australia losing 1–3, she managed to grab a win against World No. 4 Francesca Schiavone 6–7(4), 6–3, 6–3. Groth then played at the Dubai Tennis Championships where she defeated Slovakian Dominika Cibulková
in the first round 7–6(5), 6–2. However, she lost to 15th seed Alisa Kleybanova 4–6, 3–6. After Dubai, she took part in the Qatar Ladies Open where she had to qualify for the main draw. As top seed in qualifying, she defeated Wild Card Selima Sfar
in the first round, fellow Australian Jelena Dokić
in the second round and sixth seed Timea Bacsinszky
to qualify in the main draw. There, she faced Dominika Cibulková
in the first round, where she lost in three sets, 4–6, 6–4, 6–7(8).
Groth's next tournament was the 2011 BMW Malaysian Open where she received a wild card into the main draw and was seeded fourth coming into this tournament. She won her first match against qualifier Sun Shengnan
, 7–6(2), 6–3, and followed that up with a win against Misaki Doi
, 7–6(6), 6–3. She then defeated the sixth seed Ayumi Morita
, 7–5, 3–6, 7–5, to advance to the semi-finals where she met her doubles partner and fifth seed Lucie Šafářová
. She ended up losing to Šafářová, 2–6, 6–3, 3–6.
In Miami, Groth was seeded 28 heading into the tournament and had a first round bye. In round 2, she got her revenge against Yaroslava Shvedova
in last year's French Open to win, 6–4, 3–1 r. Her next opponent was World No. 3 Vera Zvonareva
in their first ever encounter, and who she lost to 6(4)-7, 2–6.
Groth next travelled to Melbourne
to partake with Anastasia Rodionova in the 2011 Fed Cup World Group Play-offs
. Although she won both of her singles matches against Olga Savchuk
(6–1, 6–1) and Lesia Tsurenko (6–1, 6–3), Rodionova lost both of hers (1–6, 4–6 against Tsurenko and 6(3)-7, 6(12)-7 against Savchuk). As such, it came down to the doubles, where despite easily taking the first set 6–0, Groth and Rodionova ended up losing to Savchuk and Tsurenko, 6–0, 6(3)-7, 3–6. Australia, as a result, was relegated to the 2012 Fed Cup World Group II.
At the 2011 Estoril Open
, Groth, who from that point changed her name to Jarmila Gajdošová, was seeded 2nd. She defeated Renata Voráčová
, 6–4, 6–0, and compatriot Casey Dellacqua
, 6–2, 6–4, to successfully defend her quarterfinal appearance. However, she advanced no further as she lost to Romanian Monica Niculescu
, 7–5, 4–6, 2–6.
Gajdošová then travelled to Madrid
where she defeated Maria Kirilenko
in the first round, 7–5, 3–6, 7–6(4). She then upset tenth seed Agnieszka Radwańska
, 3–6, 6–3, 6–3, before losing to Lucie Šafářová
, 3–6, 3–6.
Gajdošová's next tournament was Rome
, where she opened up by defeating wildcard Corinna Dentoni
, 6–1, 6–2, and followed that up with a win against Bethanie Mattek-Sands, 6–2, 6–4. Her next opponent was World No. 6 and 4th seed Li Na
, and she lost, 2–6, 1–6. In doubles, Groth partnered with Romanian Alexandra Dulgheru
as an alternative. Their run ended in the semifinals against Chinese pair Peng Shuai
and Zheng Jie
where they led in the first set 6–3, but lost the second 4–6 and the match tie-break 5–10. However, their best victory was in the quarterfinals where they upset top seed and world no. 1 doubles players Gisela Dulko
and Flavia Pennetta
7–6(6), 6–4.
Gajdošová beat Virginie Razzano
and Spain's Anabel Medina Garrigues
in the 2011 French Open
, where she was seeded 24th, but lost 6–2 4–6 6–3 in the third round to Germany's Andrea Petkovic
, the 15th seed.
At the 2011 Wimbledon Championships
she defeated former top 20 player Alona Bondarenko 7–5, 6–3. As the last Australian standing in the women's singles draw, she then beat Andrea Hlaváčková
to reach the third round, but lost against World No. 1 Caroline Wozniacki
, 3–6, 2–6.
in February 2009.
As of April 2011, Jarmila and Samuel Groth have separated. Jarmila has gone back to using her maiden name and is now listed as Jarmila Gajdošová on official WTA rankings.
Junior career
Although she had already been playing in senior events for some years by the time, the highlights of her junior career came as she reached the semifinals at two junior Grand SlamGrand Slam (tennis)
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tournaments. In the 2003 Wimbledon
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junior competition she lost in semifinal to the later winner Kirsten Flipkens
Kirsten Flipkens
Kirsten Flipkens is a professional female Belgian tennis player since 2003. Her career high rank for singles is No. 59 . She won 10 ITF Singles titles, and 1 ITF Doubles title....
. In the Australian Open
Australian Open
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junior competition, 2004, she reached semifinal in both singles and doubles (with Shahar Pe'er
Shahar Pe'er
Shahar Pe'er is an Israeli professional tennis player. Her career-high singles ranking is World No. 11, which she achieved on January 31, 2011 ....
). Both times she lost to Nicole Vaidišová
Nicole Vaidišová
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. Another success came in winning doubles at the Italian Open junior tournament in 2003 with Andrea Hlaváčková
Andrea Hlavácková
Andrea Hlaváčková is a professional tennis player from the Czech Republic. Her highest singles ranking is World No.87, which she reached on 31 January 2011, and her highest doubles ranking is World No.17, reached on 15 August 2011...
.
2001-3
Gajdošová began competing on the ITF circuit just days after her fourteenth birthday in late April 2001, and that year entered three ITF tournaments, winning two matches and losing three. In 2002, she again entered only three tournaments, but this time won four matches and lost three.Early in 2003, still aged fifteen, she stepped up her schedule, and that February she reached the semi-final of a $25,000 tournament at Redbridge, defeating Séverine Beltrame, Sandra Kloesel, and Roberta Vinci
Roberta Vinci
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before losing to Olga Barabanschikova
Olga Barabanschikova
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. She won the next tournament she entered, her third of the year and only the ninth of her career. It was the $10,000 event at Rabat in March; and in the semi-final she defeated Ekaterina Bychkova
Ekaterina Bychkova
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. On the strength of this result, she found herself wild-carded into qualifying for her first WTA Tour event, a clay-court tournament at Budapest in April, and justified the wild-card by defeating all three of her opponents in the qualifying draw, including Melinda Czink
Melinda Czink
Melinda Czink is a Hungarian professional female tennis player. On September 21, 2009 Czink reached her career-high singles ranking of World No. 37....
, in straight sets, then Virginie Razzano
Virginie Razzano
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of France in the second round of the main draw, before losing 6–4, 6–3 to Alicia Molik
Alicia Molik
Alicia Molik is a Australian professional female tennis player. She reached a career high singles rank of number 8 and also won a bronze medal for Australia at the 2004 Athens Olympics. Molik also reached a career high doubles ranking of number 6, and won two grand slam doubles titles, at the...
of Australia.
On her sixteenth birthday she entered qualifying for a $50,000 ITF event on grass at Gifu, Japan. Again, she qualified, defeating Aiko Nakamura
Aiko Nakamura
, is a female Japanese tennis player. She was once the second highest WTA-ranked Japanese singles tennis player, at 107 , after Ai Sugiyama....
of Japan in the qualifying round; and she reached the second round of the main draw before losing to another top Japanese player, Akiko Morigami
Akiko Morigami
Akiko Morigami is a Japanese female tennis player. She turned professional in 1998. On August 15, 2005, Morigami reached her career-high singles ranking: World No. 41....
. The next week, she came through three straight matches in qualifying at her third successive event, another Japanese $50,000 grass-court tournament, at Fukuoka, defeating Sanda Mamić
Sanda Mamic
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of Croatia in the qualifying round, before advancing to the quarter-final of the main draw after a second-round victory over Zheng Jie
Zheng Jie
Zheng Jie is a Chinese professional tennis player. Her career high ranking is World No. 15 which she achieved on May 18, 2009. As of August 15, 2011, Zheng is ranked World No. 65 in singles and World No. 20 in doubles....
of China, only to lose to Saori Obata
Saori Obata
Saori Obata is a female former Japanese tennis player. She turned professional in April 1996, and on February 9, 2004, she achieved her career-high singles ranking of 39, and on the same day she reached her career-high doubles ranking of 98....
.
At the US Open in August, and reached the final round of qualifying with upset of Anabel Medina Garrigues
Anabel Medina Garrigues
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of Spain, but ultimately lost to Anikó Kapros
Aniko Kapros
Anikó Kapros is a former professional tennis player from Hungary. Kapros won the Junior's singles title at the Australian Open in 2000...
of Hungary. Her season ended with two more losses in the later stages of qualifying draws at WTA events to higher ranked players. The sixteen-year-old Slovak ended the year ranked World No. 197.
2004
In 2004, Gajdošová suffered six successive losses between August and October. Earlier in the season she scored wins over Lilia OsterlohLilia Osterloh
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and Tzipora Obziler
Tzipora Obziler
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in qualifying for Memphis, Akiko Morigami
Akiko Morigami
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and Tiffany Dabek at Fukuoka, Zuzana Ondrášková
Zuzana Ondrášková
Zuzana Ondrášková is a professional female tennis player from the Czech Republic. On 9 February 2004 she reached her career-high singles ranking of World No...
in Wimbledon qualifying, and Elena Baltacha
Elena Baltacha
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in a $50,000 ITF event at Lexington, while her performance in reaching the final of the $50,000 event at Fukuoka was her career-best in a tournament of its class. Her year-end ranking was World No. 217.
2005
In February 2005, she qualified for the annual WTA Tour event at Hyderabad, and beat Li Ting of China in the first round of the main draw before losing to Anna-Lena GrönefeldAnna-Lena Grönefeld
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of Germany. She did not play in March or April, but returned in May to win her first $25,000 ITF event and her second career tournament on the clay of Catania, Italy, beating Ivana Abramović
Ivana Abramovic
Ivana Abramović is a Croatian professional tennis player. Her career high on the WTA singles rankings was number 143 on January 3, 2004. She reached her career high doubles ranking of No...
of Croatia in the final. The following week, she reached the quarter-final of another $50,000 event at Saint-Gaudens, France, beating Argentine María Emilia Salerni
María Emilia Salerni
María Emilia Salerni , known as Pitu Salerni, was an Argentine professional tennis player from the city of Rafaela, province of Santa Fe....
and French player Pauline Parmentier
Pauline Parmentier
Pauline Parmentier is a professional tennis player from France. Her career high was #40, achieved on 21 July 2008 and her highest ranking in doubles was World Number 146 on 15 June 2009.-Background:...
to this end. She entered qualifying at the French Open, and defeated Shikha Uberoi
Shikha Uberoi
Shikha Uberoi is a professional tennis player from India, though an American citizen . She has been ranked as high as 122nd in the world in singles ....
but lost to Swede Sofia Arvidsson
Sofia Arvidsson
Lena Sofia Alexandra Arvidsson is a Swedish tennis player. As of May 9, 2011, she is ranked World No. 77. Her highest career ranking is World No. 29.-Biography:...
in the second leg.
Over May and June, the eighteen-year-old suffered two consecutive losses in $25,000 tournaments to Chinese player Yuan Meng
Yuan Meng
Yuan Meng is a Chinese female professional tennis player. She is China's fifth-highest ranked women's singles player after Zheng Jie, Li Na, Peng Shuai, and Yan Zi. Yuan has won four ITF singles titles and one ITF doubles title....
. She was able to win her second $25,000 tournament of the year and third career title on the grass courts of Felixstowe in July, beating Katie O'Brien
Katie O'Brien
Katie Jill O'Brien is an English former professional tennis player from Beverley, Yorkshire. She was briefly the British No. 1 tennis player...
of Great Britain in the semi-final and Alla Kudryavtseva
Alla Kudryavtseva
Alla Alexandrovna Kudryavtseva is a professional tennis player from Russia. She currently lives in Moscow, where she is coached by Nick Rybakov...
of Russia in the final. The following week, she reached the semi-final of the $50,000 event at Vittel, France, with wins over German Jana Kandarr
Jana Kandarr
Jana Kandarr is a former German professional tennis player. Kandarr is notable for playing with her right hand, even though she is left-handed....
and her countrywoman Sandra Kloesel.
For the second successive summer, she experienced several consecutive early defeats. But in late September she defeated Alona Bondarenko, Kateryna Bondarenko
Kateryna Bondarenko
Kateryna Volodymyrivna Bondarenko is a professional female tennis player from Ukraine and a doubles champion at Australian Open 2008.The younger sister of professional tennis players Valeria and Alona Bondarenko, she was born in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union. She was...
, and María Emilia Salerni
María Emilia Salerni
María Emilia Salerni , known as Pitu Salerni, was an Argentine professional tennis player from the city of Rafaela, province of Santa Fe....
of Argentina to qualify for the WTA event at Luxembourg, in the first round of which she defeated Slovenian Katarina Srebotnik
Katarina Srebotnik
Katarina Srebotnik is a Slovenian professional tennis player. Srebotnik is right-handed, 1.80 m, weighs 65 kg and lives in Dubai. She reached a career-high ranking of No. 20 on the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour on August 7, 2006.Srebotnik won 4 singles titles on the WTA-tour and was a steady top 30...
in two close sets before losing to Russian Dinara Safina
Dinara Safina
Dinara Mikhailovna Safina , born April 27, 1986 in Moscow, is a Russian professional tennis player of Tatar background. Safina's career high ranking is World No. 1....
. She had improved her year-end ranking to World No. 147.
2006
The 18-year-old Gajdošová came through the qualifying draw to gain entry to her first Grand Slam main draw at the Australian OpenAustralian Open
The Australian Open is the only Grand Slam tennis tournament held in the southern hemisphere. The tournament was held for the first time in 1905 and was last contested on grass in 1987. Since 1972 the Australian Open has been held in Melbourne, Victoria. In 1988, the tournament became a hard court...
. She then lost a close three set first-round match to Martina Müller of Germany. But the ranking points accrued were sufficient to lift her to World No. 117 on 6 February 2006.
Staying in Australia for the rest of the month, she retreated temporarily to the ITF circuit, winning two $25,000 tournaments in consecutive weeks, at Gosford and Sydney
Sydney
Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...
, the fourth and fifth ITF singles titles of her career. These two minor tournament victories resulted in her ranking rising to World No. 106.
In mid-March, she followed up these two tournament victories by entering another $25,000 event at Canberra
Canberra
Canberra is the capital city of Australia. With a population of over 345,000, it is Australia's largest inland city and the eighth-largest city overall. The city is located at the northern end of the Australian Capital Territory , south-west of Sydney, and north-east of Melbourne...
, and again came through as the victor, defeating World No. 178 Hanna Nooni
Hanna Nooni
Hanna Nooni is a Swedish tennis player who has won 5 ITF Singles titles . In 2006, Nooni had wrist surgery and returned to action in St Paul . Hanna's best surface is clay, Hanna plays Doubles with Erica Krauth of Argentina the pair have won 1 ITF Doubles Title . Hanna's career singles high...
of Sweden in the semifinals and Australian Monique Adamczak
Monique Adamczak
Monique Adamczak is an Australian professional tennis player. She is coached by Roger Federer's former coach, Tony Roche. Adamczak's favourite surface is grass....
in the final.
The next week, she extended her winning streak to seventeen matches in reaching the quarter-finals of a $25,000 event in Melbourne
Melbourne
Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...
, but then lost to Australian World No. 260 Sophie Ferguson
Sophie Ferguson
Sophie Ferguson is an Australian professional tennis player.Ferguson's best performance at a Grand Slam tournament was at the 2005 Australian Open, where she lost in the second round to Nadia Petrova, 4–6, 6–0, 6–1...
, 6–1, 6–4. She had succeeded in breaking through into the WTA Top 100 for the first time in her career.
In April, staying at the $25,000 tournament level that had recently brought her so much success, she reached another semi-final at Patras
Patras
Patras , ) is Greece's third largest urban area and the regional capital of West Greece, located in northern Peloponnese, 215 kilometers west of Athens...
, Greece (losing in three sets to Estonian World No. 240 Margit Rüütel
Margit Rüütel
Margit Rüütel is an Estonian tennis player. On 21 April 2008, she achieved her career-high WTA singles ranking of World No. 162. She has ranked as high as 192 in doubles as well, achieving the rank on 9 April 2007.- External links :...
), but only reached the second-round at Bari
Bari
Bari is the capital city of the province of Bari and of the Apulia region, on the Adriatic Sea, in Italy. It is the second most important economic centre of mainland Southern Italy after Naples, and is well known as a port and university city, as well as the city of Saint Nicholas...
, Italy, before retiring when trailing upcoming French player Alizé Cornet
Alizé Cornet
Alizé Cornet is a French professional tennis player and the current French number three . She was born in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, and has a career-high ranking of No. 11, achieved on 16 February 2009; as of 4 July 2011 she is ranked World No. 69...
6–0, 4–1.
In early May she decided to return to the WTA Tour, entering qualifying for the Tier I Qatar Telecom German Open
Qatar Telecom German Open
The German Open, sponsored from 2006 through 2008 as the Qatar Telecom German Open, was a WTA Tour affiliated professional tennis tournament for women played in Berlin, Germany. Held since 1896, it was one of the oldest tournaments for women...
in Berlin while ranked World No. 94. However, she lost in three sets in the second-round of the qualifying draw to Ukrainian World No. 147 Julia Vakulenko
Julia Vakulenko
Julia Olegovna Vakulenko is a professional Ukraine-born female tennis player. She achieved her career high ranking of No...
, 3–6, 7–6(5), 6–3. The next week, she lost in the first round of qualifying for the Tier I Internazionali BNL d'Italia in Rome to World No. 115 Victoria Azarenka
Victoria Azarenka
Victoria Azarenka is a Belarusian professional tennis player. Her career high and current ranking is world no. 3, which she first achieved on 12 September 2011. She became the highest-ranked Belarusian player ever, surpassing Natasha Zvereva by two spots....
of Belarus
Belarus
Belarus , officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered clockwise by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital is Minsk; other major cities include Brest, Grodno , Gomel ,...
6–3, 6–3.
At the end of the month, entering a Grand Slam as a direct entrant for the first time at the French Open, as World No. 100, she defeated lower-ranked wildcard Stéphanie Cohen-Aloro
Stéphanie Cohen-Aloro
Stéphanie Cohen-Aloro is a former French female professional tennis player.Her highest singles ranking was #61, achieved on October 5, 2003...
in Round One before losing in straight sets to World No. 9 Patty Schnyder
Patty Schnyder
Patty Schnyder is a retired Swiss professional tennis player. She played on the WTA tour from 1993 to 2011 and is a former World No. 7. She defeated several World No...
in Round Two.
The following week, in early June, she entered a $75,000 ITF event at Prostějov
Prostejov
Prostějov is a city in the Olomouc Region of the Czech Republic. Today the city is known for its fashion industry and special military forces based there....
in the Czech Republic and defeated two Czech players in succession, World No. 31 Lucie Šafářová
Lucie Šafárová
Lucie Šafářová is a professional Czech tennis player. She was born in Brno.Šafářová has won four WTA tour singles titles and reached the quarterfinals of the 2007 Australian Open, upsetting defending champion Amélie Mauresmo en-route...
and World No. 239 Renata Voráčová
Renata Vorácová
Renata Voráčová is a professional female tennis player from the Czech Republic. Her career high singles ranking is No...
(3–6 6–2 7–6), before losing in the quarter-finals to in-form Italian Romina Oprandi
Romina Oprandi
Romina Sarina Oprandi is an Italian female professional tennis player. She turned professional in 2005 and has been ranked as high as 46 in the world .-Tennis career:...
in straight sets, 3–6 4–6.
Buoyed by her career-best ranking of World No. 86, she reached the second round of the Tier III tournament at Birmingham
Birmingham
Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside the capital London, with a population of 1,036,900 , and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom with a...
with a 6–3 6–4 win over Yuan Meng
Yuan Meng
Yuan Meng is a Chinese female professional tennis player. She is China's fifth-highest ranked women's singles player after Zheng Jie, Li Na, Peng Shuai, and Yan Zi. Yuan has won four ITF singles titles and one ITF doubles title....
of China before losing to Japanese veteran Ai Sugiyama
Ai Sugiyama
is a retired Japanese professional tennis player. She reached No. 1 in women's doubles on the WTA Tour. Her career-high singles ranking was No. 8, achieved on February 9, 2004. She turned professional in 1992...
. She then came through three rounds of qualifying in straight sets at Eastbourne
Eastbourne
Eastbourne is a large town and borough in East Sussex, on the south coast of England between Brighton and Hastings. The town is situated at the eastern end of the chalk South Downs alongside the high cliff at Beachy Head...
, a Tier II tournament, with wins over Stéphanie Foretz
Stéphanie Foretz
Stéphanie Foretz Gacon is a professional female tennis player from France...
of France, Galina Voskoboeva
Galina Voskoboeva
Galina Olegovna Voskoboeva is a professional Russian-born Kazakhstani tennis player. She reached her career-high singles rank of World No. 56 on October 10, 2011. Her career high in doubles is 31st, set at January 29, 2007.-Early life:...
of Russia and Samantha Stosur
Samantha Stosur
Samantha "Sam" Jane Stosur is an Australian professional tennis player. She won the 2011 US Open singles title and was a finalist at the 2010 French Open. Stosur is ranked World No. 6 and her career high in singles is World No. 4, achieved on 21 February 2011. She is a former world No...
of Australia, but lost in the first round of the main draw to Russian former World No. 2 Anastasia Myskina
Anastasia Myskina
Anastasiya Andreyevna Myskina is a professional tennis player from Russia. She won the 2004 French Open singles title, becoming the first Russian female tennis player to win a Grand Slam main draw singles title. Subsequent to this victory she rose to number 3 on the WTA ranking, becoming the first...
. A week later, as a direct entrant at The Championships, Wimbledon
The Championships, Wimbledon
The Championships, Wimbledon, or simply Wimbledon , is the oldest tennis tournament in the world, considered by many to be the most prestigious. It has been held at the All England Club in Wimbledon, London since 1877. It is one of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments, the other three Majors...
, she lost to Australian Nicole Pratt
Nicole Pratt
Nicole Pratt is a retired professional female tennis player from Australia.She is the middle sibling of five children of cane farmers and was taught to play by her father, George, who was a top junior player. She attended school in Calen and received a tennis scholarship to the Australian...
in the first round.
At the $50,000 event in Vittel
Vittel
Vittel is a commune in the Vosges department in Lorraine in northeastern France.Mineral water is bottled and sold here by Nestlé Waters France, under the Vittel brand.-History:...
, France, she won the event, beating Frenchwoman Olivia Sanchez
Olivia Sanchez
Olivia Sanchez is a professional tennis player from France. She received a wildcard into the main draw of the 2007 French Open, but lost in 6–3, 4–6, 3–6, to Shenay Perry in the first round. As of June 9, 2008, Sanchez reached her highest singles ranking of World Number 90 on June 9, 2008, and is...
. Her ranking rose ten places to No. 86. However, in the Tier IV WTA tournament in Budapest
Budapest
Budapest is the capital of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary, it is the country's principal political, cultural, commercial, industrial, and transportation centre. In 2011, Budapest had 1,733,685 inhabitants, down from its 1989 peak of 2,113,645 due to suburbanization. The Budapest Commuter...
the following week, she lost 6–7 2–6 in the first round to fellow Slovakian Martina Suchá
Martina Suchá
Martina Suchá is a retired female tennis player from Slovakia.With a height of 1.70 m and a weight of 57 kg , she is right-handed, and plays with a two-handed backhand....
.
As a direct entrant to the main draw of the US Open, she reached the third round with straight-sets victories over American hopeful Alexa Glatch
Alexa Glatch
-Junior career:She started playing tennis at the age of five. As a junior player, she won the prestigious Easter Bowl title in the Girls 14s and Girls 18s divisions and the Orange Bowl in the Girls 16s division in 2004. She achieved a World Junior Ranking of #5 in 2005, advancing to the 2005 US...
and the Ukraine's Viktoriya Kutuzova
Viktoriya Kutuzova
Viktoriya Kutuzova is a female tennis player from Ukraine.On November 28, 2005, Kutuzova reached her highest singles ranking, World No. 76.Kutuzova remains most notable for her results as a 14 year old...
before succumbing to Russian Dinara Safina
Dinara Safina
Dinara Mikhailovna Safina , born April 27, 1986 in Moscow, is a Russian professional tennis player of Tatar background. Safina's career high ranking is World No. 1....
3–6 0–6. As a result, her ranking leapt to World No. 65.
Despite an uninspired finish to 2006, she finished the year ranked World No. 71.
2007
She began the new season, still in Australia, at the end of December 2006, by narrowly failing to qualify for Gold CoastGold Coast, Queensland
Gold Coast is a coastal city of Australia located in South East Queensland, 94km south of the state capital Brisbane. With a population approximately 540,000 in 2010, it is the second most populous city in the state, the sixth most populous city in the country, and also the most populous...
. Then in qualifying for Hobart
Hobart
Hobart is the state capital and most populous city of the Australian island state of Tasmania. Founded in 1804 as a penal colony,Hobart is Australia's second oldest capital city after Sydney. In 2009, the city had a greater area population of approximately 212,019. A resident of Hobart is known as...
in January, she fell at the first hurdle to Czech Klára Zakopalová in straight sets. And as a direct entrant to the Australian Open
Australian Open
The Australian Open is the only Grand Slam tennis tournament held in the southern hemisphere. The tournament was held for the first time in 1905 and was last contested on grass in 1987. Since 1972 the Australian Open has been held in Melbourne, Victoria. In 1988, the tournament became a hard court...
, she lost in Round One to Venezuelan Milagros Sequera
Milagros Sequera
Milagros Sequera is a professional female tennis player from San Felipe, Yaracuy, Venezuela. She joined the WTA Tour in 1999 and was ranked World No...
, also in straight sets.
In February, she managed to pull together a string of back-to-back victories in an ITF $75,000 tournament at Las Vegas
Las Vegas, Nevada
Las Vegas is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nevada and is also the county seat of Clark County, Nevada. Las Vegas is an internationally renowned major resort city for gambling, shopping, and fine dining. The city bills itself as The Entertainment Capital of the World, and is famous...
, with wins over Kristina Barrois
Kristina Barrois
Kristina Barrois is a professional German tennis player who has won two German Tennis Championships and reached the second round of all four Grand Slam events, as well as the final of two WTA tournaments. She lives in Urexweiler, Marpingen. Her career high rank is World No...
of Germany (in three sets), Ahsha Rolle
Ahsha Rolle
Ahsha Rolle is a professional American tennis player. She was born on March 21, 1985 in Miami Shores, Florida. She began playing tennis when she was nine years old.-2007:...
of the United States (6–0 6–2) and Tatiana Poutchek
Tatiana Poutchek
Tatiana Poutchek is a tennis player from Belarus. Her career high ranking is No. 55 in the world, achieved on July 22, 2002.Many of Poutchek's greatest career results have come in Tashkent reaching 1 singles final and 7 doubles finals winning 5. ....
of Belarus
Belarus
Belarus , officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered clockwise by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital is Minsk; other major cities include Brest, Grodno , Gomel ,...
(6–4 6–3), before bowing out to Japan's Akiko Morigami
Akiko Morigami
Akiko Morigami is a Japanese female tennis player. She turned professional in 1998. On August 15, 2005, Morigami reached her career-high singles ranking: World No. 41....
in the semifinals.
In March, as a direct entrant to the Tier I event at Indian Wells
Indian Wells Masters
The Indian Wells Masters is an annual tennis tournament held in Indian Wells, California....
, ranked World No. 90, she lost in the first round to Dane Caroline Wozniacki
Caroline Wozniacki
Caroline Wozniacki is a Danish professional tennis player. She is the current world no. 1 on the WTA Tour. As of 7 November 2011, she has held this position for 56 weeks...
, 3–6 1–6. Then she came through qualifying for Miami with a straight-sets wins over Kristina Barrois
Kristina Barrois
Kristina Barrois is a professional German tennis player who has won two German Tennis Championships and reached the second round of all four Grand Slam events, as well as the final of two WTA tournaments. She lives in Urexweiler, Marpingen. Her career high rank is World No...
and Luxembourg
Luxembourg
Luxembourg , officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg , is a landlocked country in western Europe, bordered by Belgium, France, and Germany. It has two principal regions: the Oesling in the North as part of the Ardennes massif, and the Gutland in the south...
's Anne Kremer
Anne Kremer
Anne Kremer is a professional female tennis player from Luxembourg. Her highest WTA Ranking has been World No...
before losing a close two-set match in the first round of the main draw to Catalina Castaño
Catalina Castaño
Catalina Castaño Alvarez is a professional female Colombian tennis player. On July 10, 2006, Catalina reached her career-high singles ranking: World No. 35. Since November 2006, she is the highest ranked South American female tennis player...
of Colombia, 3–6 5–7. And in the first round of the main draw of the Tier II fixture at Amelia Island
Amelia Island
Amelia Island is one of the southernmost of the Sea Islands, a chain of barrier islands that stretches along the east coast of the United States from South Carolina to Florida. It is long and approximately 4 miles wide at its widest point. Amelia Island is situated off the coast in Nassau County,...
, her ranking having slipped back to World No. 99, she was defeated by American Alexa Glatch
Alexa Glatch
-Junior career:She started playing tennis at the age of five. As a junior player, she won the prestigious Easter Bowl title in the Girls 14s and Girls 18s divisions and the Orange Bowl in the Girls 16s division in 2004. She achieved a World Junior Ranking of #5 in 2005, advancing to the 2005 US...
, 4–6 3–6.
In May, ranked World No. 95, she reached the quarter-finals of the Tier IV fixture at Prague
Prague
Prague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Situated in the north-west of the country on the Vltava river, the city is home to about 1.3 million people, while its metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of over 2.3 million...
with straight-sets victories over Anastasia Rodionova of Russia and Sandra Kloesel of Germany before losing to French player Marion Bartoli
Marion Bartoli
Marion Bartoli is a French professional tennis player and the current French no. 1. She has won seven Women's Tennis Association singles titles and three doubles titles. She was also a runner-up at the 2007 Wimbledon Championships....
. At the end of the month, in the first round, she lost to Andrea Petkovic
Andrea Petkovic
Andrea Petkovic is a professional German tennis player of Serbian origin. She is the highest ranked German tennis player. She lives in Griesheim near Darmstadt, Germany....
of Germany at the French Open.
In June, at The Championships, Wimbledon
The Championships, Wimbledon
The Championships, Wimbledon, or simply Wimbledon , is the oldest tennis tournament in the world, considered by many to be the most prestigious. It has been held at the All England Club in Wimbledon, London since 1877. It is one of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments, the other three Majors...
, she defeated American Meghann Shaughnessy
Meghann Shaughnessy
Meghann Shaughnessy is an American professional tennis player. She achieved a career-high singles ranking of #11 in 2001, and has won six WTA Tour singles titles...
6–2 7–4 before losing to Jelena Janković
Jelena Janković
Jelena Janković is a former world no. 1 professional tennis player from Serbia. She reached the final of the 2008 US Open and won the 2007 Wimbledon Mixed Doubles title. Janković is ranked world no...
of Serbia in Round Two, 1–6 1–6. She returned to action in mid-August in Canada, again ranked World No. 105, and attempted to qualify for the Tier I Canadian Open, but lost to Italian Flavia Pennetta
Flavia Pennetta
Flavia Pennetta is an Italian professional tennis player. She became Italy's first top 10 female singles player on 17 August 2009 and also the first ever Italian Tennis player to be ranked No.1 in Doubles on 28 February 2011. As of 10 October 2011, Pennetta is ranked World No. 18 in singles and...
. Her only other tournament that month was the US Open, where she again faced Jelena Janković
Jelena Janković
Jelena Janković is a former world no. 1 professional tennis player from Serbia. She reached the final of the 2008 US Open and won the 2007 Wimbledon Mixed Doubles title. Janković is ranked world no...
, this time losing 2–6 6–7.
The Slovak would play only four more tournaments that season, recording her sole victory in the first round of the Tier III event at Kolkata
Kolkata
Kolkata , formerly known as Calcutta, is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. Located on the east bank of the Hooghly River, it was the commercial capital of East India...
, India against Youlia Fedossova
Youlia Fedossova
Youlia Fedossova is a French female tennis player.Fedossova moved to France when she was three years old....
of France in mid-September. Her ranking was World No. 142 by the end of the year.
2008
Gajdošová received a wild card into the main draw of the Mondial Australian Women's Hardcourts in Gold Coast, Australia where she lost in the first round to World No. 15 Dinara SafinaDinara Safina
Dinara Mikhailovna Safina , born April 27, 1986 in Moscow, is a Russian professional tennis player of Tatar background. Safina's career high ranking is World No. 1....
4–6, 6–1, 6–2. She then lost in the second round of the qualifying competition for the Medibank International in Sydney
Sydney
Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...
to World No. 100 Jill Craybas
Jill Craybas
- Early years :Craybas was born in Providence, Rhode Island. She received an athletic scholarship to attend the University of Florida in Gainesville, where she played for coach Andy Brandi's Florida Gators women's tennis team in National Collegiate Athletics Association competition from 1993 to...
7–5, 6–2. Gajdošová then received a wild card into the main draw of the Australian Open
Australian Open
The Australian Open is the only Grand Slam tennis tournament held in the southern hemisphere. The tournament was held for the first time in 1905 and was last contested on grass in 1987. Since 1972 the Australian Open has been held in Melbourne, Victoria. In 1988, the tournament became a hard court...
where she lost in the first round to World No. 7 Serena Williams
Serena Williams
Serena Jameka Williams is an American professional tennis player and a former world no. 1. The Women's Tennis Association has ranked her world no. 1 in singles on five separate occasions. She became the world no. 1 for the first time on July 8, 2002 and regained this ranking for the fifth time on...
6–3, 6–3.
She then played two tournaments in the United States. She lost in the first round of the qualifying competition for the Tier I Pacific Life Open in Indian Wells, California
Indian Wells, California
Indian Wells is a city in Riverside County, California, in the Coachella Valley , in between Palm Desert and La Quinta. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 4,958....
to World No. 101 Alla Kudryavtseva
Alla Kudryavtseva
Alla Alexandrovna Kudryavtseva is a professional tennis player from Russia. She currently lives in Moscow, where she is coached by Nick Rybakov...
6–2, 6–0. She then lost in the first round of the ITF Circuit event in Redding, California
Redding, California
Redding is a city in far-Northern California. It is the county seat of Shasta County, California, USA. With a population of 89,861, according to the 2010 Census...
to World No. 199 Margalita Chakhnashvili
Margalita Chakhnashvili
Margalita Chakhnashvili is a professional Georgian tennis player, who is, as of July 24, 2007, the top-ranked female Georgian tennis player. In her career, she has never won a singles nor doubles title on the WTA Tour, but has won 8 singles titles and 3 doubles titles on the ITF circuit...
4–0 retired.
She then played three ITF Circuit tournaments in South Korea
South Korea
The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...
. In Incheon
Incheon
The Incheon Metropolitan City is located in northwestern South Korea. The city was home to just 4,700 people when Jemulpo port was built in 1883. Today 2.76 million people live in the city, making it Korea’s third most populous city after Seoul and Busan Metropolitan City...
, she lost in the first round to World No. 374 Jin-A Lee 6–4, 5–7, 6–2. The following week, Gajdošová won the tournament in Gimcheon
Gimcheon
Gimcheon is a city in North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea. It is situated on the major land transportation routes between Seoul and Busan, namely the Gyeongbu Expressway and Gyeongbu Line railway.-Administrative divisions:...
, defeating World No. 295 Lu Jingjing
Lu Jingjing
Lu Jingjing is a Chinese professional tennis player.- Singles: 7 :-Doubles: 18 :-References:...
in the final. She then lost in the second round of the tournament in Changwon
Changwon
Changwon is a city in and the capital of Gyeongsangnam-do in South Korea. Changwon city is 8th most populous city in South Korea, with a 2010 established population of 1,089,039. It encompasses a land area of on southeastern of South Korea. The population of Southeastern part of Korea, that...
to World No. 432 Zhang Ling
Zhang Ling (tennis)
Zhang Ling is a professional Hong Kong tennis player playing in the ITF Women's Circuit. On July 25, 2011, she reached her highest WTA singles ranking of 186. On June 22, 2009, she also reached her highest WTA doubles ranking of 219.-External links:...
6–1, 6–4. As of 26 May 2008, her ranking had dropped to World No. 195.
2009
Gajdošová started the year at the Brisbane International losing in a tight second round to eventual champion Victoria AzarenkaVictoria Azarenka
Victoria Azarenka is a Belarusian professional tennis player. Her career high and current ranking is world no. 3, which she first achieved on 12 September 2011. She became the highest-ranked Belarusian player ever, surpassing Natasha Zvereva by two spots....
. In the Sydney International Gajdošová again lost in the second round to eventual champion Elena Dementieva
Elena Dementieva
Elena Viatcheslavovna Dementieva is a retired Russian professional tennis player. Dementieva is most notable for winning the singles gold medal at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. She won 16 WTA singles titles and reached the finals of the 2004 French Open and 2004 US Open. Dementieva achieved a...
. At the Australian Open Gajdošová lost a tight three-setter to Virginie Razzano
Virginie Razzano
Virginie Razzano , is a French professional tennis player and the current French No. 4. Razzano, who was born in Dijon, has won two WTA singles titles, both in 2007 in Guangzhou and Tokyo. Razzano reached her career high ranking of World No. 16 on September 14, 2009. As of May 2011, she is ranked...
. She then married Sam Groth taking his name from Feb onwards. At the 2009 Indian Wells tournament Groth played in the qualifying winning her first match and losing her final qualifying match, resulting in a slight rise in the rankings.
At Roland Garros, Groth defeated French wildcard Kinnie Laisné
Kinnie Laisne
Kinnie Laisné is a professional French tennis player. Her highest WTA singles ranking is 295th, which she reached on August 17, 2009. Her career high in doubles is 383st, which she reached on December 7, 2009....
6–4 6–3 and Mariana Duque Marino
Mariana Duque Marino
Mariana Duque Mariño is a Colombian tennis player, born in Bogotá. Her career high rank is #94, achieved on February 22, 2010....
6–2 7–6. She then lost to fifth seed Jelena Janković
Jelena Janković
Jelena Janković is a former world no. 1 professional tennis player from Serbia. She reached the final of the 2008 US Open and won the 2007 Wimbledon Mixed Doubles title. Janković is ranked world no...
in the third round 1–6 1–6. At Wimbledon
The Championships, Wimbledon
The Championships, Wimbledon, or simply Wimbledon , is the oldest tennis tournament in the world, considered by many to be the most prestigious. It has been held at the All England Club in Wimbledon, London since 1877. It is one of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments, the other three Majors...
, in the first round, Gajdošová defeated Lucie Šafářová
Lucie Šafárová
Lucie Šafářová is a professional Czech tennis player. She was born in Brno.Šafářová has won four WTA tour singles titles and reached the quarterfinals of the 2007 Australian Open, upsetting defending champion Amélie Mauresmo en-route...
6–3 3–6 6–3, and lost to second seed Serena Williams
Serena Williams
Serena Jameka Williams is an American professional tennis player and a former world no. 1. The Women's Tennis Association has ranked her world no. 1 in singles on five separate occasions. She became the world no. 1 for the first time on July 8, 2002 and regained this ranking for the fifth time on...
2–6 1–6 in the second round. After solid performances at both Roland Garros and Wimbledon Groth received a career high singles ranking of #57.
She was then out of action with an ankle injury until returning to the tour in 2010 as a fully fledged Australian player available for Fed Cup Team selection after being granted Australian citizenship on 23 November 2009
.
2010
Starting 2010 with the task to re-enter the top 100 she started the year at Brisbane and Sydney falling in 2nd round of Qualifying. Then lost another tough three set 1st round at Australia Open to Sofia ArvidssonSofia Arvidsson
Lena Sofia Alexandra Arvidsson is a Swedish tennis player. As of May 9, 2011, she is ranked World No. 77. Her highest career ranking is World No. 29.-Biography:...
6–2 4–6 6–4. Groth remained in Australia to gain ranking points and was very successful winning the $25 000 Sydney ITF, Finalist at the $25 000 Burnie ITF and a Quarterfinalist at the Midura ITF. She also had success in doubles with a Semifinal and Final showings at the Burnie and Mildura ITF's. She received a wild card entry into the 2010 French Open
2010 French Open
The 2010 French Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 109th edition of the French Open, and the second Grand Slam event of the year...
and played Chan Yung-jan
Chan Yung-jan
Chan Yung-jan , Taiwan) is a professional female tennis player from Republic of China . She has won 13 ITF singles titles; and 7 WTA and 11 ITF doubles titles. Her career highlights include semifinals in the Japan Open in 2006 and finals in the PTT Bangkok Open in 2007 Chan Yung-jan , Taiwan) is a...
in the first round. Groth moved into the 2nd round winning 6–2 6–3. She then played Kimiko Date Krumm from Japan. Krumm had knocked out Dinara Safina
Dinara Safina
Dinara Mikhailovna Safina , born April 27, 1986 in Moscow, is a Russian professional tennis player of Tatar background. Safina's career high ranking is World No. 1....
the round before. She beat Krumm 6–0 6–3. Groth then faced fellow Australian player Anastasia Rodionova. They played a long 3 setter but Groth prevailed 6–3 5–7 6–2. In the fourth round Groth lost to Kazakh Yaroslava Shvedova
Yaroslava Shvedova
Yaroslava Vyacheslavovna Shvedova is a Kazakhstani professional tennis player of Russian descent. She has achieved a career high ranking of No. 29 as of 21 June 2010. She has won 1 WTA singles title, 3 ITF Women's Circuit singles titles and 3 doubles titles, including the 2010 Wimbledon and US...
6–4, 6–3. Her French Open rund was her best in Grand Slam tournaments. After the French Open, she was ranked No. 88.
At the 2010 Wimbledon Championships
2010 Wimbledon Championships
The 2010 Wimbledon Championships took place on the outdoor grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom. The tournament ran from Monday 21 June until Sunday 4 July 2010. It was the 124th staging of the Wimbledon Championships, and the third Grand...
, she progressed to the fourth round where she was beaten by Venus Williams
Venus Williams
Venus Ebony Starr Williams is an American professional tennis player who is a former World No. 1 and is ranked World No. 101 as of 10 October 2011 in singles and World No. 20 in doubles as of 2011. She has been ranked World No. 1 in singles by the Women's Tennis Association on three separate...
6–4 7–6.
On 23 August, she reached a new career high ranking of 56 and became the second highest ranked Australian behind No. 6 Samantha Stosur
Samantha Stosur
Samantha "Sam" Jane Stosur is an Australian professional tennis player. She won the 2011 US Open singles title and was a finalist at the 2010 French Open. Stosur is ranked World No. 6 and her career high in singles is World No. 4, achieved on 21 February 2011. She is a former world No...
.
At the 2010 U.S. Open, she lost to Maria Sharapova
Maria Sharapova
Maria Yuryevna Sharapova ,. is a Russian professional tennis player and a former world no. 1. A US resident since 1994, Sharapova has won 24 WTA singles titles, including three Grand Slam singles titles at the 2004 Wimbledon, 2006 US Open and 2008 Australian Open...
6–4, 3–6, 1–6 in the first round. In doubles partnering Klára Zakopalová she defeated Angelique Kerber
Angelique Kerber
Angelique Kerber is a professional German tennis player of Polish descent, who has considered representing Poland. She began playing tennis aged five. Kerber has a career high ranking of World No. 30 achieved on 3 October 2011...
and Līga Dekmeijere
Liga Dekmeijere
Līga Dekmeijere is a professional tennis player from Latvia who has won nineteen International Tennis Federation doubles titles and one Women's Tennis Association doubles title. Dekmeijere has been as high as World Number 54 in the overall women's doubles rankings, a ranking that she achieved on...
6–1 4–6 6–2.
After the US Open, Groth participated in the 2010 Guangzhou International Women's Open
2010 Guangzhou International Women's Open
The 2010 Guangzhou International Women's Open was a tennis tournament on outdoor hard courts. It was the 7th edition of the Guangzhou International Women's Open, and part of the WTA International tournaments of the 2010 WTA Tour...
as top seed. She made it to her first WTA tour final after defeating Edina Gallovits
Edina Gallovits
Klaudia Edina Gallovits-Hall is a Romanian female tennis player of Hungarian descent on her father's side. She is currently ranked 75th in the world and her career highest ranking of No. 54 was achieved on April 28, 2008...
in the semifinals 6–0, 6–1 in 38 minutes. In the final Groth defeated Alla Kudryavtseva
Alla Kudryavtseva
Alla Alexandrovna Kudryavtseva is a professional tennis player from Russia. She currently lives in Moscow, where she is coached by Nick Rybakov...
6–1, 6–4 to win her maiden title. Groth's ranking rose to a career high of 41 as a result of her performance.
Her next tournament was the 2010 Hansol Korea Open
2010 Hansol Korea Open
The 2010 Hansol Korea Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 7th edition of the Hansol Korea Open, and was part of the WTA International tournaments of the 2010 WTA Tour...
where she faced top seed Nadia Petrova
Nadia Petrova
Nadezhda Viktorovna Petrova is a Russian professional tennis player.Overall, she has won 28 WTA Titles, ten in singles and eighteen in doubles. In singles, Petrova has reached a career high ranking of World No. 3 in May 2006 and has reached the semi-finals of the French Open in 2003 and 2005...
in the first round. She was defeated, 3–6, 2–6.
2011
Groth started off the year in the 2011 Brisbane International2011 Brisbane International
The 2011 Brisbane International was a joint ATP and WTA tennis tournament, played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 3rd edition of the tournament and took place at the Queensland Tennis Centre in Tennyson, Brisbane. It was held from 2 to 9 January...
where she made it to the quarterfinals after beating her countrywoman and 1st seed Samantha Stosur
Samantha Stosur
Samantha "Sam" Jane Stosur is an Australian professional tennis player. She won the 2011 US Open singles title and was a finalist at the 2010 French Open. Stosur is ranked World No. 6 and her career high in singles is World No. 4, achieved on 21 February 2011. She is a former world No...
in the previous round but lost 3–6, 4–6 to German Andrea Petkovic
Andrea Petkovic
Andrea Petkovic is a professional German tennis player of Serbian origin. She is the highest ranked German tennis player. She lives in Griesheim near Darmstadt, Germany....
. It was Jarmila's first win against a top 10 player. She then competed at the 2011 Moorilla Hobart International
2011 Moorilla Hobart International
The 2011 Moorilla Hobart International was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 18th edition of the event and was part of the WTA International tournaments of the 2011 WTA Tour...
where she defeated Sweden's Johanna Larsson in the first round 6–1, 6–3. In the second round, Groth faced qualifier Tamira Paszek
Tamira Paszek
Tamira Shelah Paszek is a professional tennis player from Austria. As of July 4, 2011, she is the no.1 ranked tennis player from Austria in the WTA ranking, at No. 41....
and won 6–4, 7–6(5). She then defeated fourth seed Roberta Vinci
Roberta Vinci
Roberta Vinci is an Italian tennis player. As of 29 August 2011, Vinci is ranked World No. 20, on the WTA Tour Rankings. Vinci has won thirteen WTA Tour titles, six in singles and seven in doubles....
in the quarter finals 6–1, 6–2. In the semi finals, Groth defeated fifth seed and her current doubles partner Klára Zakopalová 6–3, 6–2. Groth defeated American Bethanie Mattek-Sands in the final to gain her second WTA title. In doubles, Gajdošová and her partner Zakopalová won their first round match 6–3, 6–1. They defeated fourth seeds Natalie Grandin
Natalie Grandin
Natalie Grandin is a professional tennis player from South Africa. Grandin has yet to compete outside of the qualifying rounds of a Grand Slam singles event. She is known for her variety of play, and volleying ability....
and Vladimíra Uhlířová
Vladimíra Uhlírová
Vladimíra Uhlířová is a professional tennis player from the Czech Republic. Uhlířová reached her highest doubles ranking of World number 18 on October 1, 2007. Uhlířová has won 17 ITF doubles titles and 5 WTA doubles titles, but no singles titles of either type.-Doubles: 17 :-External links:...
in the quarter finals 6–4, 7–5. They lost to Kateryna Bondarenko
Kateryna Bondarenko
Kateryna Volodymyrivna Bondarenko is a professional female tennis player from Ukraine and a doubles champion at Australian Open 2008.The younger sister of professional tennis players Valeria and Alona Bondarenko, she was born in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union. She was...
and Līga Dekmeijere
Liga Dekmeijere
Līga Dekmeijere is a professional tennis player from Latvia who has won nineteen International Tennis Federation doubles titles and one Women's Tennis Association doubles title. Dekmeijere has been as high as World Number 54 in the overall women's doubles rankings, a ranking that she achieved on...
in the semifinals, 2–6, 4–6. In the 2011 Australian Open
2011 Australian Open
The 2011 Australian Open was a tennis tournament featuring six different competitions, and part of the 2011 ATP World Tour, the 2011 WTA Tour, ITF Junior Tour and the NEC Tour, as tournaments for professional, junior and wheelchair players were held...
she faced 2009 US Open semi-finalist Yanina Wickmayer
Yanina Wickmayer
Yanina Wickmayer is a Belgian professional tennis player who is currently ranked world no. 22 and is the second-highest ranked female Belgian tennis player. She reached her career-high ranking of world no. 12 on 19 April 2010...
in the first round. Wickmayer eventually triumphed in a close 3 set match, with the score 6–3, 2–6, 6–4.
After the Australian Open, she was part of the Australian Fed Cup team for the first time. Despite Australia losing 1–3, she managed to grab a win against World No. 4 Francesca Schiavone 6–7(4), 6–3, 6–3. Groth then played at the Dubai Tennis Championships where she defeated Slovakian Dominika Cibulková
Dominika Cibulková
Dominika Cibulková is a Slovak professional tennis player. She is also a former World Junior No. 3, achieving that ranking in May 2005. Her career-high ranking of World No. 12 was achieved on 6 July 2009...
in the first round 7–6(5), 6–2. However, she lost to 15th seed Alisa Kleybanova 4–6, 3–6. After Dubai, she took part in the Qatar Ladies Open where she had to qualify for the main draw. As top seed in qualifying, she defeated Wild Card Selima Sfar
Selima Sfar
Selima Sfar is a Tunisian female professional tennis player. She turned professional in 1999 and has been ranked as high as 75th in the world . She has experienced most of her success in ITF tournaments, winning eleven singles tournaments and twenty doubles tournaments...
in the first round, fellow Australian Jelena Dokić
Jelena Dokic
Jelena Dokić is an Australian female professional tennis player.During the height of her career, she played for Serbia and Montenegro and reached a career-high ranking of World No. 4 on 19 August 2002. After several family-related difficulties , she slowly slipped down the rankings in 2006...
in the second round and sixth seed Timea Bacsinszky
Timea Bacsinszky
Timea Bacsinszky is a professional female tennis player residing in Belmont-sur-Lausanne, Switzerland. She joined the WTA Tour in 2004 and was ranked World No. 37 on 7 June 2010....
to qualify in the main draw. There, she faced Dominika Cibulková
Dominika Cibulková
Dominika Cibulková is a Slovak professional tennis player. She is also a former World Junior No. 3, achieving that ranking in May 2005. Her career-high ranking of World No. 12 was achieved on 6 July 2009...
in the first round, where she lost in three sets, 4–6, 6–4, 6–7(8).
Groth's next tournament was the 2011 BMW Malaysian Open where she received a wild card into the main draw and was seeded fourth coming into this tournament. She won her first match against qualifier Sun Shengnan
Sun Shengnan
Sun Shengnan is a Chinese female tennis player. Her highest WTA singles ranking is 233rd, which she reached on May 28, 2007. Her career high in doubles is 50th, which she reached on September 17, 2007....
, 7–6(2), 6–3, and followed that up with a win against Misaki Doi
Misaki Doi
is a professional Japanese tennis player. Her highest WTA singles ranking is 116, which she reached on March 21, 2011 Her career high in doubles is 222, which she reached...
, 7–6(6), 6–3. She then defeated the sixth seed Ayumi Morita
Ayumi Morita
is a Japanese female tennis player. She reached her career-high ranking of 42nd in the world on June 6, 2011 and is currently the highest ranked Japanese player in the world at World No. 46, the seventh overall in Asia. At Junior level, she reached a career high ranking of No. 3.Morita is known for...
, 7–5, 3–6, 7–5, to advance to the semi-finals where she met her doubles partner and fifth seed Lucie Šafářová
Lucie Šafárová
Lucie Šafářová is a professional Czech tennis player. She was born in Brno.Šafářová has won four WTA tour singles titles and reached the quarterfinals of the 2007 Australian Open, upsetting defending champion Amélie Mauresmo en-route...
. She ended up losing to Šafářová, 2–6, 6–3, 3–6.
In Miami, Groth was seeded 28 heading into the tournament and had a first round bye. In round 2, she got her revenge against Yaroslava Shvedova
Yaroslava Shvedova
Yaroslava Vyacheslavovna Shvedova is a Kazakhstani professional tennis player of Russian descent. She has achieved a career high ranking of No. 29 as of 21 June 2010. She has won 1 WTA singles title, 3 ITF Women's Circuit singles titles and 3 doubles titles, including the 2010 Wimbledon and US...
in last year's French Open to win, 6–4, 3–1 r. Her next opponent was World No. 3 Vera Zvonareva
Vera Zvonareva
Vera Zvonareva is a professional tennis player from Russia. She was introduced to tennis at the age of six and turned professional in 2000. Her career high is World No. 2 by the WTA, and she is currently ranked as the World No. 7. Zvonarёva has won twelve WTA Tour singles titles and reached the...
in their first ever encounter, and who she lost to 6(4)-7, 2–6.
Groth next travelled to Melbourne
Melbourne
Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...
to partake with Anastasia Rodionova in the 2011 Fed Cup World Group Play-offs
2011 Fed Cup World Group Play-offs
-Germany vs. United States:-Spain vs. France:-Slovakia vs. Serbia:-Australia vs. Ukraine:...
. Although she won both of her singles matches against Olga Savchuk
Olga Savchuk
Olga Savchuk is a female tennis player. Her best accomplishment to date was reaching the third round of the 2006 Australian Open. Her career high ranking was #79, achieved on May 19, 2008....
(6–1, 6–1) and Lesia Tsurenko (6–1, 6–3), Rodionova lost both of hers (1–6, 4–6 against Tsurenko and 6(3)-7, 6(12)-7 against Savchuk). As such, it came down to the doubles, where despite easily taking the first set 6–0, Groth and Rodionova ended up losing to Savchuk and Tsurenko, 6–0, 6(3)-7, 3–6. Australia, as a result, was relegated to the 2012 Fed Cup World Group II.
At the 2011 Estoril Open
2011 Estoril Open – Women's Singles
Anastasija Sevastova was the defending champion, but lost in the first round to Urszula Radwańska.Anabel Medina Garrigues won in the final against Kristina Barrois, 6–1, 6–2.-Seeds:# Alisa Kleybanova ...
, Groth, who from that point changed her name to Jarmila Gajdošová, was seeded 2nd. She defeated Renata Voráčová
Renata Vorácová
Renata Voráčová is a professional female tennis player from the Czech Republic. Her career high singles ranking is No...
, 6–4, 6–0, and compatriot Casey Dellacqua
Casey Dellacqua
Casey Dellacqua is an Australian professional tennis player who currently resides in Perth, Western Australia. She was previously coached by former Australian player Nicole Pratt, before the two decided to part ways prior to the 2009 Australian Open...
, 6–2, 6–4, to successfully defend her quarterfinal appearance. However, she advanced no further as she lost to Romanian Monica Niculescu
Monica Niculescu
Monica Niculescu is a Romanian tennis player. As of October 24, 2011 she is ranked No. 29 at the WTA Tour Singles Ranking. Her highest WTA ranking is currently her present ranking in singles, reached on 24 Oct 2011, and No. 24 in doubles, reached on June 7, 2010.Niculescu was born in Slatina,...
, 7–5, 4–6, 2–6.
Gajdošová then travelled to Madrid
2011 Mutua Madrid Open – Women's Singles
Aravane Rezaï was the defending champion, however she was eliminated by Sofia Arvidsson in the first round.No. 16 seed Petra Kvitová won the title beating No. 4 seed Victoria Azarenka 7–6, 6–4 in the final...
where she defeated Maria Kirilenko
Maria Kirilenko
Maria Yuryevna Kirilenko is a Russian professional tennis player. Kirilenko won her first WTA Tour title in 2005, defeating Anna-Lena Grönefeld in the China Open. Kirilenko reached no. 18, her career-high singles ranking, on the WTA tour in July 2008. She won the junior event at the 2002 Canadian...
in the first round, 7–5, 3–6, 7–6(4). She then upset tenth seed Agnieszka Radwańska
Agnieszka Radwanska
Agnieszka Radwańska is a WTA Tour Polish tennis player.Her career high singles ranking is World No. 8, which she achieved on 22 February 2010. As of 24 October 2011, she is ranked World No. 8. In 2007, Radwańska became the first Polish player in history to claim a WTA Tour singles title when she...
, 3–6, 6–3, 6–3, before losing to Lucie Šafářová
Lucie Šafárová
Lucie Šafářová is a professional Czech tennis player. She was born in Brno.Šafářová has won four WTA tour singles titles and reached the quarterfinals of the 2007 Australian Open, upsetting defending champion Amélie Mauresmo en-route...
, 3–6, 3–6.
Gajdošová's next tournament was Rome
2011 Internazionali BNL d'Italia – Women's Singles
María José Martínez Sánchez was the defending champion, but lost in the first round to Ekaterina Makarova.Maria Sharapova defeated No. 6 seed Samantha Stosur in the final 6–2, 6–4...
, where she opened up by defeating wildcard Corinna Dentoni
Corinna Dentoni
Corinna Dentoni is a professional Italian tennis player. Her highest WTA singles ranking is 132, which she reached on June 22, 2009. Her career-high in doubles is 151, which she reached on May 25, 2009....
, 6–1, 6–2, and followed that up with a win against Bethanie Mattek-Sands, 6–2, 6–4. Her next opponent was World No. 6 and 4th seed Li Na
Li Na (tennis)
Li Na , goes first before the equivalent of a first name in some other nations. Her name off court in China is Li Na. When listed on the , she is known as Na Li. However, in the match, the commentators call her Li Na, and when her full name is listed in text on court, it is also written as Li Na.;...
, and she lost, 2–6, 1–6. In doubles, Groth partnered with Romanian Alexandra Dulgheru
Alexandra Dulgheru
Alexandra Dulgheru is a Romanian professional tennis player. She achieved a singles career high of World No. 26 on April 11, 2011. Her career high in doubles was World No. 47 on March 21, 2011.She is coached by Gabriel Urpi.-Biography:...
as an alternative. Their run ended in the semifinals against Chinese pair Peng Shuai
Peng Shuai
Peng Shuai is a Chinese professional female tennis player. She won a gold medal at the 2010 Asian Games, defeating Akgul Amanmuradova in the final...
and Zheng Jie
Zheng Jie
Zheng Jie is a Chinese professional tennis player. Her career high ranking is World No. 15 which she achieved on May 18, 2009. As of August 15, 2011, Zheng is ranked World No. 65 in singles and World No. 20 in doubles....
where they led in the first set 6–3, but lost the second 4–6 and the match tie-break 5–10. However, their best victory was in the quarterfinals where they upset top seed and world no. 1 doubles players Gisela Dulko
Gisela Dulko
Gisela Dulko is an Argentine female tennis player, who will, as of 4 July 2011, be ranked World No. 51 in singles and No. 4 in doubles. Although she enjoyed a modest success in singles, reaching No. 26 on November 21, 2005, and winning four WTA Tour titles, her speciality has been doubles, where...
and Flavia Pennetta
Flavia Pennetta
Flavia Pennetta is an Italian professional tennis player. She became Italy's first top 10 female singles player on 17 August 2009 and also the first ever Italian Tennis player to be ranked No.1 in Doubles on 28 February 2011. As of 10 October 2011, Pennetta is ranked World No. 18 in singles and...
7–6(6), 6–4.
Gajdošová beat Virginie Razzano
Virginie Razzano
Virginie Razzano , is a French professional tennis player and the current French No. 4. Razzano, who was born in Dijon, has won two WTA singles titles, both in 2007 in Guangzhou and Tokyo. Razzano reached her career high ranking of World No. 16 on September 14, 2009. As of May 2011, she is ranked...
and Spain's Anabel Medina Garrigues
Anabel Medina Garrigues
Ana Isabel Medina Garrigues , better known as Anabel Medina, is a Spanish female tennis player. She reached a career high WTA Tour ranking of No. 16 on 4 May 2009, and has won 11 singles titles and 14 doubles titles, including the 2008 French Open and 2009 French Open with Virginia Ruano Pascual...
in the 2011 French Open
2011 French Open
The 2011 French Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 110th edition of the French Open, and the second Grand Slam event of the year...
, where she was seeded 24th, but lost 6–2 4–6 6–3 in the third round to Germany's Andrea Petkovic
Andrea Petkovic
Andrea Petkovic is a professional German tennis player of Serbian origin. She is the highest ranked German tennis player. She lives in Griesheim near Darmstadt, Germany....
, the 15th seed.
At the 2011 Wimbledon Championships
2011 Wimbledon Championships
The 2011 Wimbledon Championships took place at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, England, from 20 June to 3 July 2011. It was the 125th edition of the championships, and the third Grand Slam tournament of the year. It was played on grass courts and was part of the...
she defeated former top 20 player Alona Bondarenko 7–5, 6–3. As the last Australian standing in the women's singles draw, she then beat Andrea Hlaváčková
Andrea Hlavácková
Andrea Hlaváčková is a professional tennis player from the Czech Republic. Her highest singles ranking is World No.87, which she reached on 31 January 2011, and her highest doubles ranking is World No.17, reached on 15 August 2011...
to reach the third round, but lost against World No. 1 Caroline Wozniacki
Caroline Wozniacki
Caroline Wozniacki is a Danish professional tennis player. She is the current world no. 1 on the WTA Tour. As of 7 November 2011, she has held this position for 56 weeks...
, 3–6, 2–6.
Personal life
Her parents are both engineers; her older brother Jan was a professional skiier. She enjoys biking. She married fellow Australian tennis player Samuel GrothSamuel Groth
Samuel Groth is a professional Australian tennis player. His highest ATP singles ranking is 220, which he reached on 16 November 2009...
in February 2009.
As of April 2011, Jarmila and Samuel Groth have separated. Jarmila has gone back to using her maiden name and is now listed as Jarmila Gajdošová on official WTA rankings.
Singles: 2 (2–0)
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| Outcome | No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Opponent in Final | Score in Final |
| Winner | 1. | 19 September 2010 |  GuangzhouGuangzhou International Women's Open The Guangzhou International Women's Open is a tennis tournament held in Guangzhou, People's Republic of China. Held since 2004, the inaugural tournament had Li Na as the first ever Chinese singles title winner. -Singles:-Doubles:-External links:* *... , China |
Hard |  Alla KudryavtsevaAlla Kudryavtseva Alla Alexandrovna Kudryavtseva is a professional tennis player from Russia. She currently lives in Moscow, where she is coached by Nick Rybakov... |
6–1, 6–4 |
| Winner | 2. | 15 January 2011 |  HobartMoorilla Hobart International The Hobart International is a women's professional tennis tournament held at the Hobart International Tennis Centre in Hobart, Australia. Held since 1994, it forms a part of the Women's Tennis Association Tour and is classed as an International tournament... , Australia |
Hard |  Bethanie Mattek-Sands |
6–4, 6–3 |
Doubles: 2 (1–1)
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| Outcome | No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Partner | Opponent in Final | Score in Final |
| Winner | 1. | 26 April 2006 |  StockholmNordea Nordic Light Open The Nordea Nordic Light Open was a tennis tournament held in Stockholm, Sweden . Held from 2002 to 2008, this WTA Tour event was a Tier IV-tournament and was played on outdoor hardcourts.-Singles:-Doubles:... , Sweden |
Hard |  Eva BirnerováEva Birnerová Eva Birnerová is a professional female tennis player from the Czech Republic.-Career:Coached by Tim Sommer since October 2005, an all-court player who prefers playing on grass... |
Yan Zi Yan Zi Yan Zi is a Chinese women's tennis player.Yan Zi may also refer to:* Stefanie Sun , also known as Sun Yan Zi, Singaporean singer** Yan Zi , Sun's self-titled album... Zheng JieZheng Jie Zheng Jie is a Chinese professional tennis player. Her career high ranking is World No. 15 which she achieved on May 18, 2009. As of August 15, 2011, Zheng is ranked World No. 65 in singles and World No. 20 in doubles.... |
0–6, 6–4, 6–2 |
| Runner-up | 1. | 17 July 2011 |  Bad GasteinGastein Ladies Nürnberger Gastein Ladies is a tennis tournament held in Bad Gastein, Austria since 2007. It is an International event on the WTA Tour with total prize money of $220,000 and is played on red clay.-Singles:-Doubles:- External links :* *... , Austria |
Clay |  Julia GörgesJulia Görges Julia Görges is a professional tennis player from Germany. Görges reached career-high WTA singles ranking of No. 16 on 6 June 2011 and a doubles ranking of 31 on 6 June 2011... |
Eva Birnerová Eva Birnerová Eva Birnerová is a professional female tennis player from the Czech Republic.-Career:Coached by Tim Sommer since October 2005, an all-court player who prefers playing on grass... Lucie HradeckáLucie Hradecká Lucie Hradecká is a professional tennis player from the Czech Republic. In her career, Hradecká has won ten WTA doubles titles. This total includes the 2011 French Open, in which she won her first Grand Slam title.-Career:... |
6–4, 2–6, [10–12] |
Singles 15 (11–4)
| $100,000 tournaments |
| $75,000 tournaments |
| $50,000 tournaments |
| $25,000 tournaments |
| $10,000 tournaments |
| Outcome | No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Opponent in the final | Score |
| Winner | 1. | 30 February 2003 |  RabatRabat Rabat , is the capital and third largest city of the Kingdom of Morocco with a population of approximately 650,000... , Morocco |
Clay |  Astrid Waernes-Garcia |
6–3 6–0 |
| Runner-up | 2. | 9 May 2004 |  FukuokaFukuoka Fukuoka most often refers to the capital city of Fukuoka Prefecture.It can also refer to:-Locations:* Fukuoka, Gifu, a town in Gifu Prefecture, Japan* Fukuoka, Toyama, a town in Toyama Prefecture, Japan... , Japan |
Carpet |  Ana IvanovićAna Ivanovic Ana Ivanović is a former world no. 1 Serbian tennis player. As of November 7, 2011, she is ranked 22th on the WTA rankings. She beat Dinara Safina to win the 2008 French Open and was the runner-up in singles at the 2007 French Open and the 2008 Australian Open... |
2–6 7–6(4) 6–7(4) |
| Winner | 3. | 7 May 2005 |  CataniaCatania Catania is an Italian city on the east coast of Sicily facing the Ionian Sea, between Messina and Syracuse. It is the capital of the homonymous province, and with 298,957 inhabitants it is the second-largest city in Sicily and the tenth in Italy.Catania is known to have a seismic history and... , Italy |
Clay |  Ivana AbramovićIvana Abramovic Ivana Abramović is a Croatian professional tennis player. Her career high on the WTA singles rankings was number 143 on January 3, 2004. She reached her career high doubles ranking of No... |
6–3 7–5 |
| Winner | 3. | 10 July 2005 |  FelixstoweFelixstowe Felixstowe is a seaside town on the North Sea coast of Suffolk, England. The town gives its name to the nearby Port of Felixstowe, which is the largest container port in the United Kingdom and is owned by Hutchinson Ports UK... , England |
Grass | Alla Kudryavtseva Alla Kudryavtseva Alla Alexandrovna Kudryavtseva is a professional tennis player from Russia. She currently lives in Moscow, where she is coached by Nick Rybakov... |
7–5 6–1 |
| Winner | 4. | 19 February 2006 | Sydney Sydney Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people... , Australia |
Hard | Sophie Ferguson Sophie Ferguson Sophie Ferguson is an Australian professional tennis player.Ferguson's best performance at a Grand Slam tournament was at the 2005 Australian Open, where she lost in the second round to Nadia Petrova, 4–6, 6–0, 6–1... |
6–4 3–6 7–6(3) |
| Winner | 5. | 26 February 2006 | Gosford, Australia |
Hard |  Chan Yung-janChan Yung-jan Chan Yung-jan , Taiwan) is a professional female tennis player from Republic of China . She has won 13 ITF singles titles; and 7 WTA and 11 ITF doubles titles. Her career highlights include semifinals in the Japan Open in 2006 and finals in the PTT Bangkok Open in 2007 Chan Yung-jan , Taiwan) is a... |
6–3 3–0 RET |
| Winner | 6. | 19 March 2006 | Canberra Canberra Canberra is the capital city of Australia. With a population of over 345,000, it is Australia's largest inland city and the eighth-largest city overall. The city is located at the northern end of the Australian Capital Territory , south-west of Sydney, and north-east of Melbourne... , Australia |
Clay | Monique Adamczak Monique Adamczak Monique Adamczak is an Australian professional tennis player. She is coached by Roger Federer's former coach, Tony Roche. Adamczak's favourite surface is grass.... |
7–6(5) 6–2 |
| Winner | 7. | 23 July 2006 |  VittelVittel Vittel is a commune in the Vosges department in Lorraine in northeastern France.Mineral water is bottled and sold here by Nestlé Waters France, under the Vittel brand.-History:... , France |
Clay | Olivia Sanchez Olivia Sanchez Olivia Sanchez is a professional tennis player from France. She received a wildcard into the main draw of the 2007 French Open, but lost in 6–3, 4–6, 3–6, to Shenay Perry in the first round. As of June 9, 2008, Sanchez reached her highest singles ranking of World Number 90 on June 9, 2008, and is... |
6–4 6–0 |
| Winner | 8. | 4 May 2008 |  GimcheonGimcheon Gimcheon is a city in North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea. It is situated on the major land transportation routes between Seoul and Busan, namely the Gyeongbu Expressway and Gyeongbu Line railway.-Administrative divisions:... , South Korea |
Hard | Lu Jing-jing |
6–3 6–2 |
| Runner-up | 9. | 14 September 2008 | Rockhampton Rockhampton, Queensland Rockhampton is a city and local government area in Queensland, Australia. The city lies on the Fitzroy River, approximately from the river mouth, and some north of the state capital, Brisbane.... , Australia |
Hard | Monique Adamczak Monique Adamczak Monique Adamczak is an Australian professional tennis player. She is coached by Roger Federer's former coach, Tony Roche. Adamczak's favourite surface is grass.... |
6–4 2–6 6–7(4) |
| Winner | 10. | 21 September 2008 | Kawana, Australia |
Hard | Isabella Holland Isabella Holland Isabella Holland is an Australian professional tennis player. Her preferred surfaces are clay and hardcourt.... |
7–5 6–4 |
| Winner | 11. | 12 October 2008 | Traralgon, Australia |
Hard | Melanie South Melanie South Melanie Jayne South is an English tennis player. She is currently the British number 7 and ranked 310 in the world... |
6–3 3–6 6–1 |
| Winner | 12. | 26 October 2008 | Taipei Taipei Taipei City is the capital of the Republic of China and the central city of the largest metropolitan area of Taiwan. Situated at the northern tip of the island, Taipei is located on the Tamsui River, and is about 25 km southwest of Keelung, its port on the Pacific Ocean... |
Carpet | Corinna Dentoni Corinna Dentoni Corinna Dentoni is a professional Italian tennis player. Her highest WTA singles ranking is 132, which she reached on June 22, 2009. Her career-high in doubles is 151, which she reached on May 25, 2009.... |
4–6 6–4 6–1 |
| Runner-up | 13. | 2 November 2008 | Tokyo, Japan |
Hard | Ayumi Morita Ayumi Morita is a Japanese female tennis player. She reached her career-high ranking of 42nd in the world on June 6, 2011 and is currently the highest ranked Japanese player in the world at World No. 46, the seventh overall in Asia. At Junior level, she reached a career high ranking of No. 3.Morita is known for... |
2–6 6–2 3–6 |
| Runner-up | 14. | 7 February 2010 | Burnie, Australia |
Hard | Arina Rodionova Arina Rodionova Arina Rodionova is a Russian tennis player. The sister of Russian-born Australian tennis player Anastasia Rodionova, she won 2007 Australian Open in girls' doubles, partnering with Evgeniya Rodina. In 2010, Rodionova reached her first WTA Tour doubles final partnering with her sister, at 2010... |
1–6 0–6 |
| Winner | 15. | 7 March 2010 | Sydney Sydney Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people... , Australia |
Hard | Yurika Sema Yurika Sema is a Japanese female tennis player. Her father is French, and mother is Japanese. She is the older sister of Erika Sema.Sema's highest Women's Tennis Association ranking was 142 on November 30, 2009.- Singles 13 :- Doubles 13 :... |
6–3 6–3 |
Doubles 11 (5–6)
| $100,000 tournaments |
| $75,000 tournaments |
| $50,000 tournaments |
| $25,000 tournaments |
| $10,000 tournaments |
| Outcome | No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Partner | Opponents in the final | Score |
| Runner-up | 1. | 9 July 2005 | Felixstowe Felixstowe Felixstowe is a seaside town on the North Sea coast of Suffolk, England. The town gives its name to the nearby Port of Felixstowe, which is the largest container port in the United Kingdom and is owned by Hutchinson Ports UK... , England |
Grass | Alla Kudryavtseva Alla Kudryavtseva Alla Alexandrovna Kudryavtseva is a professional tennis player from Russia. She currently lives in Moscow, where she is coached by Nick Rybakov... |
 Leanne BakerLeanne Baker Leanne Baker is a New Zealand professional tennis player. Her career high WTA singles ranking is 260, which she reached on 26 February 2007. Her career high doubles ranking is 108, set at 17 January 2005... Francesca LubianiFrancesca Lubiani Francesca Lubiani is a professional tennis player from Italy. Her best score is three times quarter final of single at Cardiff , Oklahoma City and Istanbul .-Doubles 1 :-External links:... |
1–6 6–4 2–3 RET |
| Runner-up | 2. | 23 July 2005 | Galatina Galatina Galatina , known before the unification of Italy as San Pietro in Galatina, is a town and comune in the Italian province of Lecce in Apulia.Among the most important cities in Salento, it is situated some 21 km south of the city of Lecce.... , Italy |
Clay |  Tatiana PoutchekTatiana Poutchek Tatiana Poutchek is a tennis player from Belarus. Her career high ranking is No. 55 in the world, achieved on July 22, 2002.Many of Poutchek's greatest career results have come in Tashkent reaching 1 singles final and 7 doubles finals winning 5. .... |
Casey Dellacqua Casey Dellacqua Casey Dellacqua is an Australian professional tennis player who currently resides in Perth, Western Australia. She was previously coached by former Australian player Nicole Pratt, before the two decided to part ways prior to the 2009 Australian Open... Lucia Gonzalez |
4–6 3–6 |
| Winner | 3. | 16 April 2006 |  PatrasPatras Patras , ) is Greece's third largest urban area and the regional capital of West Greece, located in northern Peloponnese, 215 kilometers west of Athens... , Greece |
Hard | Christina Horiatopoulos Christina Horiatopoulos Christina Horiatopoulos is an Australian Professional Tennis Player.Horiatopoulos is 1.72m and plays right-handed. Her favorite surface is grass. She started played tennis at the age of 5.... |
 Mervana Jugić-SalkićMervana Jugic-Salkic Mervana Jugić-Salkić is a Bosnian tennis player. She turned professional in 1999, and reached her highest singles ranking on 21 June 2004, when she was ranked Word No. 99. On 10 July 2006, Jugić-Salkić reached No. 59 in doubles, after winning ASB Classic in 2004 with Jelena Kostanić and...  Yana Levchenko |
6–1 6–4 |
| Winner | 4. | 9 June 2006 | Prostějov Prostejov Prostějov is a city in the Olomouc Region of the Czech Republic. Today the city is known for its fashion industry and special military forces based there.... , Czech Republic |
Clay | Akiko Morigami Akiko Morigami Akiko Morigami is a Japanese female tennis player. She turned professional in 1998. On August 15, 2005, Morigami reached her career-high singles ranking: World No. 41.... |
 Līga DekmeijereLiga Dekmeijere Līga Dekmeijere is a professional tennis player from Latvia who has won nineteen International Tennis Federation doubles titles and one Women's Tennis Association doubles title. Dekmeijere has been as high as World Number 54 in the overall women's doubles rankings, a ranking that she achieved on...  Alicja RosolskaAlicja Rosolska Alicja Rosolska is a Polish professional tennis player. Rosolska made her bow as a professional at the 2002 J&S Cup.She is primarily a doubles player, partnering countrywoman Klaudia Jans. She and Jans have reached five finals on the WTA... |
6–3 7–6(3) |
| Winner | 5. | 6 August 2006 | Baden-Baden Baden-Baden Baden-Baden is a spa town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is located on the western foothills of the Black Forest, on the banks of the Oos River, in the region of Karlsruhe... , Germany |
Clay |  Frederica PiedadeFrederica Piedade Frederica Piedade is a Portuguese female tennis player. Her career high WTA singles ranking is 142, which she reached on May 15, 2006; her career high doubles ranking is 158, achieved on February 16, 2009. Piedade has competed for he Portugal Fed Cup team, having a total win–loss record of 12–4... |
Libuše Průšová Libuše Průšová Libuše Průšová is a former professional Czech tennis player.Průšová reached a record singles high of World No. 103 and even ranked World No. 46 in doubles during her playing career. She won 17 different ITF titles.... Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová |
7–5 4–6 7–6(6) |
| Winner | 6. | 27 April 2008 | Incheon Incheon The Incheon Metropolitan City is located in northwestern South Korea. The city was home to just 4,700 people when Jemulpo port was built in 1883. Today 2.76 million people live in the city, making it Korea’s third most populous city after Seoul and Busan Metropolitan City... , South Korea |
Hard | Chan Chin-wei Chan Chin-wei Chan Chin-wei is a professional Taiwanese tennis player playing in the ITF Women's Circuit. On October 2, 2006 she reached her highest WTA singles ranking of 152. On January 15, 2007 she reached her highest WTA doubles ranking of 88. Her coach is Chan Fu Chen.-Doubles: 1 :-External links:... |
Chang Kyung-mi Lee Jin-a Lee Jin-a Lee Jin-a is a professional Korean tennis player playing in the ITF Women's Circuit. On June 21, 2010 she reached her highest WTA singles ranking of 178. She is coached by Ryo Young-Sil. She started playing tennis at the age of 11... |
6–2 6–0 |
| Winner | 7. | 4 May 2008 | Gimcheon Gimcheon Gimcheon is a city in North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea. It is situated on the major land transportation routes between Seoul and Busan, namely the Gyeongbu Expressway and Gyeongbu Line railway.-Administrative divisions:... , South Korea |
Hard | Chan Chin-wei Chan Chin-wei Chan Chin-wei is a professional Taiwanese tennis player playing in the ITF Women's Circuit. On October 2, 2006 she reached her highest WTA singles ranking of 152. On January 15, 2007 she reached her highest WTA doubles ranking of 88. Her coach is Chan Fu Chen.-Doubles: 1 :-External links:... |
Cho Yoon-jeong Cho Yoon-jeong Cho Yoon-jeong is a South Korean tennis player. Cho won one doubles title during her career on the WTA Tour, at Seoul in 2004. Her best Grand Slam performance was when she made the third round of the 2005 U.S... Lee Jin-aLee Jin-a Lee Jin-a is a professional Korean tennis player playing in the ITF Women's Circuit. On June 21, 2010 she reached her highest WTA singles ranking of 178. She is coached by Ryo Young-Sil. She started playing tennis at the age of 11... |
6–2 6–0 |
| Runner-up | 8. | 12 September 2008 | Rockhampton Rockhampton, Queensland Rockhampton is a city and local government area in Queensland, Australia. The city lies on the Fitzroy River, approximately from the river mouth, and some north of the state capital, Brisbane.... , Australia |
Hard | Michaela Johansson |
Remi Tezuka Zhou Yi-Miao Zhou Yi-Miao Zhou Yimiao is a professional Chinese tennis player. Her highest WTA singles ranking is 200, which she reached on February 15, 2010. Her career high in doubles is 248, which she reached on February 15, 2010.-External links:... |
6–7(2) 4–6 |
| Runner-up | 9. | 10 October 2008 | Traralgon, Australia |
Hard | Jessica Moore Jessica Moore (tennis) Jessica Moore is an Australian professional tennis player. Formerly coached by Milo Bradley, Moore works with the Australian Institute of Sport. Her preferred surface is grass.-Career:... |
 Natalie GrandinNatalie Grandin Natalie Grandin is a professional tennis player from South Africa. Grandin has yet to compete outside of the qualifying rounds of a Grand Slam singles event. She is known for her variety of play, and volleying ability.... Robin StephensonRobin Stephenson Robin Stephenson is an American professional tennis player. Her career high WTA singles ranking is 435, which she reached on February 11, 2008. Her career high doubles ranking is 157, set on December 8, 2008.... |
4–6 2–6 |
| Runner-up | 10. | 10 October 2008 | Mildura, Australia |
Grass | Jade Hopper Jade Hopper Jade Hopper is a professional Australian tennis player playing in the ITF Women's Circuit. On 21 June 2010 she reached her highest WTA singles ranking of 622. On 2 August 2010 she reached her highest WTA doubles ranking of 252.... |
Casey Dellacqua Casey Dellacqua Casey Dellacqua is an Australian professional tennis player who currently resides in Perth, Western Australia. She was previously coached by former Australian player Nicole Pratt, before the two decided to part ways prior to the 2009 Australian Open... Jessica MooreJessica Moore (tennis) Jessica Moore is an Australian professional tennis player. Formerly coached by Milo Bradley, Moore works with the Australian Institute of Sport. Her preferred surface is grass.-Career:... |
2–6 6–7(3) |
| Runner-up | 11. | 27 March 2010 | Jersey Jersey Jersey, officially the Bailiwick of Jersey is a British Crown Dependency off the coast of Normandy, France. As well as the island of Jersey itself, the bailiwick includes two groups of small islands that are no longer permanently inhabited, the Minquiers and Écréhous, and the Pierres de Lecq and... |
Hard | Melanie South Melanie South Melanie Jayne South is an English tennis player. She is currently the British number 7 and ranked 310 in the world... |
 Maret AniMaret Ani Maret Ani is an Estonian tennis player. At the start of 2006, she was the top-ranked player in Estonia, before losing that spot to Kaia Kanepi.... Anna SmithAnna Smith (tennis) Anna Smith is a professional tennis player who represents the United Kingdom. She has won three International Tennis Federation singles titles, 12 ITF doubles titles and reached a career high singles ranking of world no. 262 on 9 August 2010. Smith is currently the British number 9 with a ranking... |
5–7 4–6 |
Singles performance timeline
| Tournament | 2006 | 2007 2007 WTA Tour The 2007 Sony Ericsson WTA Tour was the 35th season since the founding of the Women's Tennis Association. It commenced on January 1, 2007, and concluded on November 11, 2007 after 61 events. Two new events were added to the schedule for the 2007 season: the Barcelona KIA and Gastein Ladies. It also... | 2008 2008 WTA Tour The 2008 Sony Ericsson WTA Tour was the 36th season since the founding of the Women's Tennis Association. It commenced on December 31, 2007, and concluded on November 9, 2008 after 59 events.The season was characterised by its frequent changes in the No... | 2009 2009 WTA Tour The 2009 Sony Ericsson WTA Tour was the 37th season since the founding of the Women's Tennis Association. It commenced on January 5, 2009, and concluded on November 8, 2009 after 56 events.... | 2010 2010 WTA Tour The Women's Tennis Association Tour is the elite professional tennis circuit organized by the WTA. The 2010 WTA Tour calendar comprises the Grand Slam tournaments , the WTA Premier tournaments , the WTA International tournaments, the Fed Cup , and the year-end... | 2011 2011 WTA Tour The WTA Tour is the elite tour for women's professional tennis organized by the Women's Tennis Association . The 2011 WTA Tour includes the Grand Slam tournaments , the WTA Premier tournaments, the WTA International tournaments, the Fed Cup , the Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions, and the WTA... | Career Win-Loss |
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| Australian Open Australian Open The Australian Open is the only Grand Slam tennis tournament held in the southern hemisphere. The tournament was held for the first time in 1905 and was last contested on grass in 1987. Since 1972 the Australian Open has been held in Melbourne, Victoria. In 1988, the tournament became a hard court... |
1R 2006 Australian Open - Women's Singles Serena Williams was the defending champion, but lost in the third round to Daniela Hantuchová.Amélie Mauresmo, the third seed, ultimately won the tournament, her first major championship. Her finals opponent, eighth-seeded Justine Henin-Hardenne, retired down 2–0 in the second set, already down a... |
1R 2007 Australian Open - Women's Singles -Seeds:# Maria Sharapova # Amélie Mauresmo # Svetlana Kuznetsova # Kim Clijsters # Nadia Petrova # Martina Hingis # Elena Dementieva ... |
1R 2008 Australian Open - Women's Singles Serena Williams was the defending champion, but lost in the quarterfinals to Jelena Janković.Maria Sharapova won in the final 7–5, 6–3, against Ana Ivanović to win her third Grand Slam title and her first at the Australian Open. She was also the first Russian woman to win this tournament... |
1R 2009 Australian Open - Women's Singles Maria Sharapova was the defending champion, but chose not to participate this year, due to a shoulder injury.Serena Williams won in the final 6–0, 6–3, against Dinara Safina.-Seeds:# Jelena Janković ... |
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| French Open | 2R 2006 French Open - Women's Singles Justine Henin-Hardenne was the defending champion, and she defended her title by beating Svetlana Kuznetsova in the final, 6–4, 6–4.-Schedule:-Seeds:# Amélie Mauresmo # Kim Clijsters # Nadia Petrova ... |
1R 2007 French Open - Women's Singles The two-time defending champion was Justine Henin. She captured her 4th and 3rd consecutive French Open title after defeating Ana Ivanović of Serbia 6-1, 6-2 in the championship match... |
1R 2008 French Open - Women's Singles Justine Henin was the defending champion, but retired from the sport on May 14, 2008.Ana Ivanović won in the final 6–4, 6–3, against Dinara Safina. This is Ivanovic's Third Grand Slam Final, Second French Open Final, and her First Grand Slam Singles Title... |
3R | 4R | 3R | 8–6 | |||||||||||
| Wimbledon | 1R 2006 Wimbledon Championships - Women's Singles Results of the Ladies' Singles at the 2006 Wimbledon Championships.-Schedule:-Seeds:# Amélie Mauresmo # Kim Clijsters # Justine Henin-Hardenne # Maria Sharapova ... |
2R 2007 Wimbledon Championships - Women's Singles Amélie Mauresmo was the defending champion but was knocked out in the fourth round by Nicole Vaidišová.23rd seed Venus Williams defeated Marion Bartoli in the final, 6–4, 6–1... |
LQ 2008 Wimbledon Championships - Women's Singles Venus Williams was the defending champion, and won in the final 7–5, 6–4, against her sister Serena Williams.-Seeds:# Ana Ivanović # Jelena Janković # Maria Sharapova ... |
2R 2009 Wimbledon Championships - Ladies' Singles Venus Williams was the defending champion but lost to her sister Serena in the final 7–6, 6–2.-Seeds:# Dinara Safina # Serena Williams # Venus Williams # Elena Dementieva ... |
4R | 3R | 7–6 | |||||||||||
| US Open | 3R | 1R | A | 1R 2009 US Open - Women's Singles Serena Williams was the defending champion, but lost in the semifinals to Kim Clijsters.Clijsters won in the final, defeating Caroline Wozniacki to win her 2nd US Open title... |
1R | 2R | 3–5 | |||||||||||
| Win-Loss | 3–5 | 1–4 | 0–2 | 3–4 | 6–4 | 6–4 | 18–23 | |||||||||||
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| WTA Tour Championships WTA Tour Championships The WTA Tour Championships is a tennis tournament played annually at the end of the season for the top-ranked players on the Women's Tennis Association tour. The month, city and number of players has changed since the first edition in 1972... |
A | A | A | A | A | A | 0–0 | |||||||||||
| Tournament of Champions Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions The Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions is a tennis tournament and it debuted at the Bali International Convention Centre on November 4–8 and was a part of the 2009 WTA Tour... |
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| Summer Olympics Tennis at the Summer Olympics Tennis was part of the Summer Olympic Games program from the inaugural 1896 Summer Olympics, but was dropped after the 1924 Summer Olympics... |
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| Indian Wells | A | 1R | LQ | LQ | A | 2R | 0–2 | |||||||||||
| Key Biscayne Miami Masters The Miami Masters is an annual tennis tournament for men and women held in Key Biscayne, Miami, Florida. It is an ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event on the men's tour and a Premier Mandatory event on the women's tour and is played on hard courts at the Tennis Center at Crandon Park... |
A | 1R | A | LQ | A | 3R | 1–2 | |||||||||||
| Madrid Madrid Masters There are two sporting events named the Madrid Masters:*Mutua Madrileña Madrid Open — a men's and women's tennis tournament*Madrid Masters... |
Not Held | A | A | 3R | 3–1 | |||||||||||||
| Beijing China Open (tennis) The China Open is an annual professional tennis tournament held in Beijing, China. The men's singles and doubles events were first held in 1993, the year in which the Qatar Open and Dubai Tennis Championships were also introduced to the men's tour, as the ATP opened a series of new tournaments in... |
Not Tier I | A | A | 2R | 2–3 | |||||||||||||
| WTA Premier 5 Tournaments | ||||||||||||||||||
| Dubai Dubai Tennis Championships The Dubai Tennis Championships is a professional tennis tournament owned and organized by Dubai Duty Free and held annually in Dubai, United Arab... |
Not Tier I | A | A | 2R | 1–1 | |||||||||||||
| Rome | LQ | A | A | A | A | 3R | 2–1 | |||||||||||
| Cincinnati | Not Tier I | LQ | A | 1R | 0–1 | |||||||||||||
| Toronto / Montreal | A | LQ | A | A | 2R | 1R | 1–2 | |||||||||||
| Tokyo Toray Pan Pacific Open The is a WTA Tour affiliated professional tennis tournament for women, held every year since 1984 on in Tokyo, Japan. It is classified on the WTA Tour as a Tier I tournament since 1993. The event has traditionally been played on indoor carpet at the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium, but the 2008 event... |
A | A | A | A | LQ | 2R | 1–1 | |||||||||||
| Former WTA Tier I Tournaments | ||||||||||||||||||
| Charleston Family Circle Cup The Family Circle Cup is a WTA Tour affiliated professional tennis tournament for women, held every year since 1973. The tournament is currently played on the green clay courts at the Daniel Island Tennis Center in Charleston, South Carolina, USA... |
A | LQ | A | NM5 | 0–0 | |||||||||||||
| Moscow Kremlin Cup The Kremlin Cup is a professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It is currently part of the ATP World Tour 250 series of the ATP Tour and is a Premier Tournament on the WTA Tour... |
A | A | A | 0–0 | ||||||||||||||
| San Diego | A | A | Not Held | NM5 | 0–0 | |||||||||||||
| Doha Qatar Total Open The Qatar Ladies Open , known as the Qatar Total Open for sponsorship reasons, is tennis tournament held in Doha, Qatar. Held since 2001, this WTA Tour event was a Tier I-tournament in 2008, and was played on outdoor hardcourts. Total S.A. was the main tournament sponsor... |
Not Tier I | A | Not Held | NM5 | 0–1 | |||||||||||||
| Berlin Qatar Telecom German Open The German Open, sponsored from 2006 through 2008 as the Qatar Telecom German Open, was a WTA Tour affiliated professional tennis tournament for women played in Berlin, Germany. Held since 1896, it was one of the oldest tournaments for women... |
LQ | A | A | Not Held | 0–0 | |||||||||||||
| Zürich Zurich Open The Zurich Open was a WTA Tour affiliated professional tennis tournament for women, formerly held every winter in Zurich, Switzerland. It was classified on the WTA Tour as a Tier I tournament from 1993 until 2007. In its final year, 2008, it was downgraded to a Tier II event.The Open was held at... |
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| Tier I/ Premier W-L | 0–1 | 0–2 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 7–4 | 9–10 | |||||||||||
| Overall Win-Loss | 8–12 | 7–14 | 3–6 | 9–14 | 19–12 | 33–23 | 311–187 | |||||||||||
| Win % | 40% | 33% | 33% | 39% | 61% | 59% | 45% | |||||||||||
| Year End Ranking | 71 | 145 | 98 | 112 | 42 | 33 | ||||||||||||
Head-to-head record against other players
| Player | Ranking | Record | W% | Hardcourt | Clay | Grass | Carpet |
| Venus Williams Venus Williams Venus Ebony Starr Williams is an American professional tennis player who is a former World No. 1 and is ranked World No. 101 as of 10 October 2011 in singles and World No. 20 in doubles as of 2011. She has been ranked World No. 1 in singles by the Women's Tennis Association on three separate... |
1 | 0–1 | 0% | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 0–0 |
/ Ana IvanovićAna Ivanovic Ana Ivanović is a former world no. 1 Serbian tennis player. As of November 7, 2011, she is ranked 22th on the WTA rankings. She beat Dinara Safina to win the 2008 French Open and was the runner-up in singles at the 2007 French Open and the 2008 Australian Open... |
1 | 0–2 | 0% | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–2 |
| Maria Sharapova Maria Sharapova Maria Yuryevna Sharapova ,. is a Russian professional tennis player and a former world no. 1. A US resident since 1994, Sharapova has won 24 WTA singles titles, including three Grand Slam singles titles at the 2004 Wimbledon, 2006 US Open and 2008 Australian Open... |
1 | 0–2 | 0% | 0–2 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 |
| Serena Williams Serena Williams Serena Jameka Williams is an American professional tennis player and a former world no. 1. The Women's Tennis Association has ranked her world no. 1 in singles on five separate occasions. She became the world no. 1 for the first time on July 8, 2002 and regained this ranking for the fifth time on... |
1 | 0–2 | 0% | 0–1 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 0–0 |
| Dinara Safina Dinara Safina Dinara Mikhailovna Safina , born April 27, 1986 in Moscow, is a Russian professional tennis player of Tatar background. Safina's career high ranking is World No. 1.... |
1 | 0–3 | 0% | 0–3 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 |
 Caroline WozniackiCaroline Wozniacki Caroline Wozniacki is a Danish professional tennis player. She is the current world no. 1 on the WTA Tour. As of 7 November 2011, she has held this position for 56 weeks... |
1 | 0–5 | 0% | 0–4 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 0–0 |
| / Jelena Janković Jelena Janković Jelena Janković is a former world no. 1 professional tennis player from Serbia. She reached the final of the 2008 US Open and won the 2007 Wimbledon Mixed Doubles title. Janković is ranked world no... |
1 | 0–4 | 0% | 0–2 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0–0 |
| Anastasia Myskina Anastasia Myskina Anastasiya Andreyevna Myskina is a professional tennis player from Russia. She won the 2004 French Open singles title, becoming the first Russian female tennis player to win a Grand Slam main draw singles title. Subsequent to this victory she rose to number 3 on the WTA ranking, becoming the first... |
2 | 0–1 | 0% | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 0–0 |
| Vera Zvonareva Vera Zvonareva Vera Zvonareva is a professional tennis player from Russia. She was introduced to tennis at the age of six and turned professional in 2000. Her career high is World No. 2 by the WTA, and she is currently ranked as the World No. 7. Zvonarёva has won twelve WTA Tour singles titles and reached the... |
2 | 0–1 | 0% | 0–1 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 |
| Elena Dementieva Elena Dementieva Elena Viatcheslavovna Dementieva is a retired Russian professional tennis player. Dementieva is most notable for winning the singles gold medal at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. She won 16 WTA singles titles and reached the finals of the 2004 French Open and 2004 US Open. Dementieva achieved a... |
3 | 0–1 | 0% | 0–1 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 |
| Nadia Petrova Nadia Petrova Nadezhda Viktorovna Petrova is a Russian professional tennis player.Overall, she has won 28 WTA Titles, ten in singles and eighteen in doubles. In singles, Petrova has reached a career high ranking of World No. 3 in May 2006 and has reached the semi-finals of the French Open in 2003 and 2005... |
3 | 0–2 | 0% | 0–2 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 |
| Samantha Stosur Samantha Stosur Samantha "Sam" Jane Stosur is an Australian professional tennis player. She won the 2011 US Open singles title and was a finalist at the 2010 French Open. Stosur is ranked World No. 6 and her career high in singles is World No. 4, achieved on 21 February 2011. She is a former world No... |
4 | 2–0 | 100% | 1–0 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 0–0 |
| / Jelena Dokić Jelena Dokic Jelena Dokić is an Australian female professional tennis player.During the height of her career, she played for Serbia and Montenegro and reached a career-high ranking of World No. 4 on 19 August 2002. After several family-related difficulties , she slowly slipped down the rankings in 2006... |
4 | 1–0 | 100% | 1–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 |
| Kimiko Date Krumm |
4 | 3–0 | 100% | 2–0 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 |
| Francesca Schiavone Francesca Schiavone Francesca Schiavone is an Italian tennis player who turned professional in 1998. She won the 2010 French Open singles title, becoming the first Italian woman to win a Grand Slam event in singles. She was also runner-up at the 2011 French Open. As of 24 October 2011, Schiavone's ranking is World... |
4 | 1–0 | 100% | 1–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 |
| Victoria Azarenka Victoria Azarenka Victoria Azarenka is a Belarusian professional tennis player. Her career high and current ranking is world no. 3, which she first achieved on 12 September 2011. She became the highest-ranked Belarusian player ever, surpassing Natasha Zvereva by two spots.... |
4 | 0–2 | 0% | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 0–0 |
| Li Na Li Na (tennis) Li Na , goes first before the equivalent of a first name in some other nations. Her name off court in China is Li Na. When listed on the , she is known as Na Li. However, in the match, the commentators call her Li Na, and when her full name is listed in text on court, it is also written as Li Na.;... |
4 | 0–3 | 0% | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0–0 |
| Anna Chakvetadze Anna Chakvetadze Anna Djambulilovna Chakvetadze is a Russian professional tennis player . On September 10, 2007, she reached her career-high professional singles ranking of World No. 5. She has won eight WTA Singles Titles and appeared in the 2007 US Open semifinals. As of July 4, 2011, Chakvetadze is ranked World... |
5 | 1–0 | 0% | 0–0 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 0–0 |
 Patty SchnyderPatty Schnyder Patty Schnyder is a retired Swiss professional tennis player. She played on the WTA tour from 1993 to 2011 and is a former World No. 7. She defeated several World No... |
7 | 0–1 | 0% | 0–0 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 0–0 |
| Agnieszka Radwańska Agnieszka Radwanska Agnieszka Radwańska is a WTA Tour Polish tennis player.Her career high singles ranking is World No. 8, which she achieved on 22 February 2010. As of 24 October 2011, she is ranked World No. 8. In 2007, Radwańska became the first Polish player in history to claim a WTA Tour singles title when she... |
8 | 1–1 | 50% | 0–0 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 0–0 |
| Ai Sugiyama Ai Sugiyama is a retired Japanese professional tennis player. She reached No. 1 in women's doubles on the WTA Tour. Her career-high singles ranking was No. 8, achieved on February 9, 2004. She turned professional in 1992... |
8 | 1–1 | 50% | 1–0 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 0–0 |
| Alicia Molik Alicia Molik Alicia Molik is a Australian professional female tennis player. She reached a career high singles rank of number 8 and also won a bronze medal for Australia at the 2004 Athens Olympics. Molik also reached a career high doubles ranking of number 6, and won two grand slam doubles titles, at the... |
8 | 0–1 | 0% | 0–0 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 0–0 |
| Marion Bartoli Marion Bartoli Marion Bartoli is a French professional tennis player and the current French no. 1. She has won seven Women's Tennis Association singles titles and three doubles titles. She was also a runner-up at the 2007 Wimbledon Championships.... |
9 | 0–2 | 0% | 0–0 | 0–2 | 0–0 | 0–0 |
| Flavia Pennetta Flavia Pennetta Flavia Pennetta is an Italian professional tennis player. She became Italy's first top 10 female singles player on 17 August 2009 and also the first ever Italian Tennis player to be ranked No.1 in Doubles on 28 February 2011. As of 10 October 2011, Pennetta is ranked World No. 18 in singles and... |
10 | 0–2 | 0% | 0–2 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 |
| Andrea Petkovic Andrea Petkovic Andrea Petkovic is a professional German tennis player of Serbian origin. She is the highest ranked German tennis player. She lives in Griesheim near Darmstadt, Germany.... |
10 | 1–4 | 20% | 1–2 | 0–2 | 0–0 | 0–0 |