Michaëlla Krajicek

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**Michaëlla Krajicek**

Country	Netherlands
Residence	Almere, The Netherlands
Date of birth	January 9, 1989
Place of birth	Delft, The Netherlands
Height	1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight	68 kg (150 lb)
Turned Pro	2003
Plays	Right (two-handed backhand)
Career Prize Money	$365,110
Singles
Career record:	78-30
Career titles:	3 WTA, 5 ITF
Highest ranking:	No. 34 (September 11, 2006)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	3r (2006)
French Open	1r (2005, 2006)
Wimbledon	1r (2006)
U.S. Open	1r (2006)
Doubles
Career record:	45-24
Career titles:	2
Highest ranking:	No. 35 (September 11, 2006)
Infobox last updated on: September 16, 2006.

Michaella Krajicek (born on January 9, 1989 in Delft) is a Dutch tennis player. She is the younger half-sister of the former Wimbledon men's singles champion Richard Krajicek, and is therefore nicknamed Kleine Kraai (Little Kraai). She currently resides in Almere.

Michaella was ranked the World No. 1 junior tennis player in 2004.

At the age of 16, she has reached the doubles final of the Estoril Open (Portugal, clay) on the professional tour, partnering Nagyová.

In June 2005 she received three wild cards into Wimbledon. She intended to play in both the women's singles and mixed doubles and together with her brother Richard. However she was injured during the tour event in Rosmalen just a week before the start of Wimbledon, and had to withdraw.

She started 2006 by qualifying to the Hopman Cup tournament in Perth with Peter Wessels where the duo went all the way to the final to be beaten in a very close mixed doubles by the American team of Taylor Dent and Lisa Raymond. At the Hopman Cup, she won 3 out of her 5 singles matches (def. Lisa Raymond, Gisela Dulko and Anna-Lena Groenefeld; lost to Samantha Stosur and Shuai Peng). In Mixed Doubles, they had a 3-2 record (def. Reid/Stosur, Peng/Sun, Groenefeld/Kiefer; lost to Raymond/Dent, Dulko/Gaudio).

At the 2006 Australian Open Krajicek reached the third round for the first time ever in a Grand Slam tournament. In the first round she beat Kristina Brandi and in the second she defeated 32nd seed Sania Mirza of India. However, she retired from her third round match with Amélie Mauresmo, after suffering from heat exhaustion.

Her 2007 season did not start as strongly as her 2006 one did, as she lost 3-6, 6-1, 6-0 to Severine Bremond in the 1st round of the Moorilla Hobart International, where she was the defending champion. She was then defeated in straight sets by Luxembourg's Anne Kremer in the first round at the Australian Open 2007.

[edit] Singles titles (8)

Legend (Singles)

Tier I (0)

Tier II (0)

Tier III (1)

Tier IV (2)

Grand Slam Title (0)

WTA Tour Championship (0)

ITF Circuit (5)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	Jul. 18, 2004	Brussels, Belgium	Clay	Elisa Villa	6-3 6-0
2.	Aug. 15, 2004	Koksijde, Belgium	Clay	Gaelle Widmer	6-4 6-2
3.	Nov. 7, 2004	Stockholm, Sweden	Hard Indoors	Anastasia Revzina	6-1 6-2
4.	Dec. 19, 2004	Bergamo, Italy	Hard Indoors	Ekaterina Bychkova	6-4 6-3
5.	Feb. 6, 2005	Ortisei, Italy	Carpet	Sandra Kloesel	6-3 6-3
6.	October 9, 2005	Tashkent, Uzbekistan	Hard	Akgul Amanmuradova	6-0 4-6 6-3
7.	January 13, 2006	Hobart, Australia	Hard	Iveta Benesova	6-2 6-1
8.	June 24, 2006	's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands	Grass	Dinara Safina	6-3 6-4

[edit] Performance timeline

Tournament	Career	2004	2005	2006	2007
Australian Open	3-3	-	2R	3R	1R
French Open	0-2	-	1R	1R
Wimbledon	0-1	-	-	1R
US Open	0-1	-	-	1R
Grand Slam Strike Rate	0 / 6	0 / 0	0 / 2	0 / 4
Grand Slam Win-Loss	3-6	0-0	1-2	2-4
WTA Tour Championships	0-0	-	-
Overall Win-Loss	48-25	3-2	23-9	22-14
Hard Win-Loss	29-12	3-1	17-5	9-6
Year End Ranking [Best]	[35]	429	63