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Urszula Radwanska (born 7 December 1990 in Ahaus
Ahaus

Ahaus is a municipality in the Borken in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located near the border with the Netherlands, lying some 20 km south-east of Enschede....
, Germany) is a Polish tennis player and a younger sister of Agnieszka Radwanska
Agnieszka Radwanska

Agnieszka Radwanska is a WTA Tour top 10 Polish tennis player.She defeated Tamira Paszek of Austria to win the 2005 Wimbledon Championships at The Championships, Wimbledon....
. Urszula's ranking as of 02 March 2009, is World No. 107.

junior player, Radwanska won Grand Slam
Grand Slam (tennis)

The four Grand Slam tournaments are the most important tennis events of the year in terms of world ranking points, tradition, prize-money awarded, and public attention....
 titles, including the 2007 Wimbledon girls' singles
2007 Wimbledon Championships - Girls' Singles

Seeds...
, culminating in the junior year-ending World No. 1 ranking. This was the leaping pad into her professional career, where she has been getting into WTA main draws via qualifying and wildcards.

In 2007, Radwanska played in the main draw of three WTA
Women's Tennis Association

The Women's Tennis Association, formed in 1973, is the principal organizing body of women's professional tennis. It organizes the WTA Tour, the worldwide professional tennis tour for women, which has for sponsorship reasons been known since 2005 as The Sony Ericsson WTA Tour....
 tour tournaments.






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Urszula Radwanska (born 7 December 1990 in Ahaus
Ahaus

Ahaus is a municipality in the Borken in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located near the border with the Netherlands, lying some 20 km south-east of Enschede....
, Germany) is a Polish tennis player and a younger sister of Agnieszka Radwanska
Agnieszka Radwanska

Agnieszka Radwanska is a WTA Tour top 10 Polish tennis player.She defeated Tamira Paszek of Austria to win the 2005 Wimbledon Championships at The Championships, Wimbledon....
. Urszula's ranking as of 02 March 2009, is World No. 107.

Tennis career

As a junior player, Radwanska won Grand Slam
Grand Slam (tennis)

The four Grand Slam tournaments are the most important tennis events of the year in terms of world ranking points, tradition, prize-money awarded, and public attention....
 titles, including the 2007 Wimbledon girls' singles
2007 Wimbledon Championships - Girls' Singles

Seeds...
, culminating in the junior year-ending World No. 1 ranking. This was the leaping pad into her professional career, where she has been getting into WTA main draws via qualifying and wildcards.

In 2007, Radwanska played in the main draw of three WTA
Women's Tennis Association

The Women's Tennis Association, formed in 1973, is the principal organizing body of women's professional tennis. It organizes the WTA Tour, the worldwide professional tennis tour for women, which has for sponsorship reasons been known since 2005 as The Sony Ericsson WTA Tour....
 tour tournaments. She lost in the first round of the Tier II J&S Cup in Warsaw
Warsaw

Warsaw is the Capital and World's largest cities of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River roughly from both the Baltic Sea coast and the Carpathian Mountains....
, the second round of the Tier III Japan Open Tennis Championships
Japan Open Tennis Championships

The Japan Open Tennis Championships is a tennis tournament held in Ariake Tennis Forest Park with its center court Ariake Coliseum, located in Koto, Tokyo, Japan....
 in Tokyo
Tokyo

, officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan of Japan and located on the eastern side of the main island Honshu. The twenty-three special wards of Tokyo, each governed as a city, cover the area that was once the Tokyo City in the eastern part of the prefecture, and total over 8 million people....
, and the quarterfinals of the Tier III PTT Bangkok Open
PTT Bangkok Open

The PTT Bangkok Open is a tennis tournament held in Bangkok, Thailand. Held since 2005, this Women's Tennis Association event is a Tier III-tournament and is played on outdoor hardcourts....
 after defeating fourth-seeded Virginie Razzano
Virginie Razzano

Virginie Razzano is a French people tennis player. On February 11, 2008 she reached her career-high singles ranking of World No. 24. She has won one doubles title, and two singles title....
 in the third round. Urszula and Agnieszka
Agnieszka Radwanska

Agnieszka Radwanska is a WTA Tour top 10 Polish tennis player.She defeated Tamira Paszek of Austria to win the 2005 Wimbledon Championships at The Championships, Wimbledon....
 won a doubles title together at the 2007 Istanbul Cup
Istanbul Cup

The Istanbul Cup is a tennis tournament held in Istanbul, Turkey. Held since 2005, this Women's Tennis Association event is a Tier III-tournament and is played on outdoor clay courts....
.

At the 2008 Wimbledon Championships
The Championships, Wimbledon

The Championships, Wimbledon, or simply Wimbledon, is the oldest tennis tournament in the world and is widely considered the most prestigious....
, Radwanska made her Grand Slam singles debut, losing in the second round to two-time champion Serena Williams
Serena Williams

Serena Jameka Williams is an American professional tennis player who, as of February 2, 2009, is ranked World No. 1 by the Women's Tennis Association, having now held that ranking on four different occasions....
 6–4, 6–4. Having seen the fight she put up in this match, the commentator Andrew Castle
Andrew Castle

Andrew Nicholas Castle is an English retired tennis professional, and now television presenter....
 observed, "She is sound in just about all areas, and she knows what to do with the ball, she seems to have an understanding, a little like Martina Hingis
Martina Hingis

Martina Hingis is a retired professional tennis player who spent a total of 209 weeks as World No. 1. She won five Grand Slam singles titles ....
."

On 16 February 2009, the Radwanska sisters played their first official tour match against each other in the first round of the Barclays Dubai Tennis Championships. Urszula won the match in straight sets 6–4, 6–3 hitting 6 aces and 25 winners.

WTA Tour titles


Doubles (1)
#DateTournamentSurfacePartnerOpponents in FinalScore in Final
1. 21 May 2007 Istanbul Cup
Istanbul Cup

The Istanbul Cup is a tennis tournament held in Istanbul, Turkey. Held since 2005, this Women's Tennis Association event is a Tier III-tournament and is played on outdoor clay courts....
, Istanbul, Turkey		 ClayAgnieszka Radwanska
Agnieszka Radwanska

Agnieszka Radwanska is a WTA Tour top 10 Polish tennis player.She defeated Tamira Paszek of Austria to win the 2005 Wimbledon Championships at The Championships, Wimbledon....
Yung-Jan Chan
Chan Yung-jan

Chan Yung-jan is a professional female tennis player from Taiwan. Chan was born on August 17, 1989 in Dongshih, Taichung, Taichung County, Taiwan, and currently lives in Taipei....

Sania Mirza
Sania Mirza

Sania Mirza , , is an Indian tennis player....
 6–1, 6–3


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