Bethanie Mattek

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**Bethanie Mattek**

Country	United States
Residence	Miami, Florida, USA
Date of birth	March 23, 1985 (age 23)
Place of birth	Rochester, Minnesota, USA
Height	5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)
Weight	145 lb (66 kg)
Turned Pro	1999
Plays	Right
Career Prize Money	US$ 643,154
Singles
Career record:	148-128
Career titles:	0 WTA (4 ITF)
Highest ranking:	81 (June 9, 2008)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	-
French Open	2nd (2008)
Wimbledon	2nd (2007)
US Open	2nd (2007)
Doubles
Career record:	108-78
Career titles:	4 WTA (3 ITF)
Highest ranking:	27 (April 14, 2008)
Infobox last updated on: April 14, 2008.

Bethanie Mattek (born 23 March 1985, in Rochester, Minnesota) is an American professional tennis player who competes on the WTA Tour. She lives in Miami, Florida. She reached the second round at the 2007 Wimbledon Championships before falling 7–6, 6–4 to Svetlana Kuznetsova ^[1]^[2].

She earned her best victory in the Memphis tournament in 2008, where she managed to take out second seed Tatiana Golovin in straight sets, 6–4, 6–4. She then lost to Julia Goerges in the second round.

1 Notable results
2 Dress sense
3 WTA Tour doubles titles
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Notable results

2004 ITF/Schenectady, New York - Won singles.^[3]
2004 Vancouver Women's Open - Won doubles with Abigail Spears.^[4]
2005 ITF/Palm Beach Gardens, Florida - Won singles.^[5]
2007 Western & Southern Financial Group Women's Open - Won doubles with Sania Mirza.^[6]

[edit] Dress sense

Mattek has achieved extensive publicity as a result of her eccentric dress sense.

2004 US Open - wore a leopard print outfit.
2005 US Open - fined for wearing a striped cowboy hat.
2006 Wimbledon - appeared in a 'soccer theme' complete with £10 football socks, chandelier earrings, a boob-tube worn over a strappy vest top, tiny running shorts and a headband.^[7]
2006 JPMorgan Chase Open - sported pink knee-high socks.^[8]
2006 US Open - she showed up this time in beige; a loosely draped top, with a crocheted waist and split sleeves that resembled a toga, teamed up with beige knee-high socks. ^[9]^[10]
2007 US Open - wore another leopard print outfit.^[11]

[edit] WTA Tour doubles titles

Summary

Grand Slam Title (0)

WTA Tour Championship (0)

Tier I (0)

Tier II (1)

Tier III (2)

Tier IV-V (1)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partnering	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	15 August 2004	Vancouver, Canada	Clay	Abigail Spears	Els Callens Anna-Lena Gronefeld	6–3, 6–3
2.	22 July 2007	Cincinnati, USA	Hard	Sania Mirza	Alina Jidkova Tatiana Poutchek	7–6(4), 7–5
3.	23 February 2008	Bogotá, Colombia	Clay	Iveta Benesova	Jelena Kostanic Tosic Martina Muller	6–3, 6–3
4.	13 April 2008	Amelia Island, U.S.	Green Clay	Vladimira Uhlirova	Victoria Azarenka Elena Vesnina	6–3, 6–1