Timea Bacsinszky

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**Timea Bacsinszky**

Country	Switzerland
Residence	Belmont, Switzerland
Date of birth	June 8, 1989 (1989-06-08) (age 19)
Place of birth	Lausanne, Switzerland
Height	1.70 m
Weight	62 kg
Turned pro	2004
Plays	Right; Two-handed backhand
Career prize money	$304,611
Singles
Career record:	119-63
Career titles:	0 (6 ITF)
Highest ranking:	No. 59 (March 3, 2008)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	2nd (2008)
French Open	2nd (2007, 2008)
Wimbledon	1st (2007)
US Open
Doubles
Career record:	41-28
Career titles:	0 (4 ITF)
Highest ranking:	No. 132 (June 9, 2008)
Infobox last updated on: May 26, 2008.

Timea Bacsinszky (born June 8, 1989 in Lausanne, Switzerland) is a professional female tennis player residing in Belmont, Switzerland. She joined the WTA Tour and was ranked World No. 59 on March 3, 2008.

1 Career
- 1.1 Grand Slam Singles performance
2 Titles
- 2.1 Singles (6 ITF)
3 Facts
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Career

Throughout Timea’s junior career, she reached the semifinals of the 2004 Australian Open, losing to Shahar Peer, the 2004 French Open, losing to Madalina Gojnea, and the 2005 Australian Open, losing to Hungarian Agnes Szavay.

Her breakthrough professional tournament was the 2006 Zurich Open, qualifying and then defeating former Grand Slam champion Anastasia Myskina 6–3 6–3 and Italian Francesca Schiavone 6–1 ret. Her fairytale run in her native country was ended by former World Number One Maria Sharapova, but not without a fight, losing 4–6 3–6.

Timea, however, did not enjoy as much success after the quarterfinal appearance in Zurich, winning only two WTA Tour matches, against Olga Savchuk in Fes and Zheng Jie at the 2007 French Open.

Timea had an excellent start to 2008 by reaching the semifinals of the Tier II Proximus Diamond Games in Antwerp, Belgium, where she won three qualifying matches before beating several players in the main draw - including third seed Daniela Hantuchova in a retirement - and then won the first set against world no. 1 Justine Henin 6–2, before losing the next two 3–6, 3–6. However Bacsinszky is set to rise up the rankings due to this.

[edit] Grand Slam Singles performance

Tournament	2007	2008
Australian Open	-	2R
French Open	2R	2R
Wimbledon	1R
US Open	1R

[edit] Titles

[edit] Singles (6 ITF)

Legend
Grand Slam (0)
Tour Championships (0)
Tier I Event (0)
Tier II (0)
Tier III (0)
Tier IV & V ()
ITF Titles (6)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the Final	Score
1.	August 10, 2003	Wrexham	Hard	Karen Paterson	6–0 6–3
2.	April 11, 2004	Dinan	Clay (I)	Tzipora Obziler	6–2 6–1
3.	August 15, 2004	Martina Franca	Clay	Bahia Mouhtassine	6–4 6–4
4.	April 9, 2006	Dinan	Clay (I)	Yaroslava Shvedova	4–6 7–5 6–2
5.	May 21, 2006	Saint Gaudens	Clay	Ivana Abramovic	7–5 6–4
6.	April 29, 2007	Cagnes-sur-Mer	Clay	Tatjana Malek	6–4 6–1

[edit] Facts

Bacsinszky is of Hungarian ancestry. She speaks German, Hungarian, French, English and Italian.^[1]
She started playing tennis at the age of three.
Idolized Monica Seles.
Her favorite surface is hard court.