Magda Linette

Magda Linette

Magda Linette at the tournament 2015.
Country (sports)	Poland
Residence	Poznań, Poland
Born	(1992-02-12) 12 February 1992 Poznań, Poland
Height	1.71 m (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in)
Turned pro	2009
Retired	Active
Plays	Right-handed, two-handed backhand
Prize money	$ 524,314
Official website	magdalinette.com
Singles
Career record	232–151
Career titles	0 WTA, 10 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 64 (21 September 2015)
Current ranking	No. 97 (8 February 2016)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	1R (2016)
French Open	1R (2015)
Wimbledon	1R (2015)
US Open	2R (2015)
Doubles
Career record	114–91
Career titles	0 WTA, 8 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 95 (27 July 2015)
Current ranking	No. 135 (8 February 2016)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	1R (2016)
French Open	2R (2015)
Wimbledon	1R (2015)
US Open	1R (2015)
Last updated on: 8 February 2016.

Magda Linette (born 12 February 1992) is a professional Polish tennis player. Her highest WTA singles ranking is 64, which she reached on September 21, 2015.^[1] Her career high in doubles is 95, achieved on July 27, 2015.

She made her first appearance in a WTA main draw at the Internationaux de Strasbourg in May 2013, where she also scored her first win at this level. The same year, she reached her first WTA semifinal in Baku, coming from qualifying.

Magda Linette won her first WTA 125 title in November 2014 by defeating China's Wang Qiang in the final of the Ningbo International Women's Tennis Open.

Personal life

Magda Linette was born to Tomasz and Beata and currently resides in Poznań, Poland.^[2] She is a right-handed player and is currently coached by Izudin Zunić.^[2] Her favourite tennis surfaces are hard and clay.^[2]

Tennis career

2010

In May, Magda Linette received a wild card to the qualifying draw of Polsat Warsaw Open – part of WTA Premier series. She beat her doubles partner Paula Kania in straight sets but lost to Anna Chakvetadze (4–6 6–4 1–6). In June, she won her first professional tournament in Szczecin as a wild card entrant.^[3] In July, she made it to the final of the ITF Toruń tournament but lost to top seed Ksenia Pervak from Russia in straight sets.^[4]

Magda Linette won another two ITF titles in August, in Hechingen and Versmold, both in Germany. In Hechingen, as a qualifier, she defeated Sílvia Soler Espinosa of Spain, while in Versmold she beats Romanian Irina-Camelia Begu in straight sets, 6–2, 7–5.^[5]

She continued to play $25,000 ITF tournaments and won her fourth title of the season in Katowice, where she defeated former top 100 player Eva Birnerová (3–6 6–2 6–2). The week after, she reached another final in Zagreb but eventually lost to Renata Voráčová in three sets, after 21 consecutive wins on the ITF circuit. After some weeks of rest, she wasn't able to win her first matches in $50,000 ITF tournaments, in Athens and Ismaning; nevertheless she succeeded in reaching the final in Opole, but lost to Sandra Záhlavová (7–5 6–7 4–6).

2011

Magda Linette 2011 US Open 01

Magda Linette at the 2011 French Open

In early February, Magda Linette played for the first time as a member of Polish team in Fed Cup. She defeated Anne Kremer easily (6–1 6–1), but lost her three other matches, including one against Belarusian and top 100 player Olga Govortsova on an honorable score (6–7 6–7).

In May, for her first appearance in a Grand Slam tournament, she played the qualifying of the French Open and defeated Claire de Gubernatis (6–4 6–3) to reach the second round, where she lost to Mandy Minella.

In September, Linette played in the qualifying tournament of the U.S. Open, losing a three-set match to Russian Valeria Savinykh, 6–7(2), 6–4, 6–2.

After some difficult months despite encouraging debuts on $50,000 and $100,000 ITF tournaments during the summer, Magda Linette surprisingly defeated Sorana Cîrstea in the first round of the tournament of Poitiers in October, 3–6 6–4 6–2. The month after, she reached the semifinals of the ITF tournament of Opole in her home country, beating en route top seed Lesia Tsurenko.

2012

Starting the season with several early exits after a notable straight sets win over Mónica Puig in Andrézieux-Bouthéon, Magda Linette reached her first singles final in over 18 months at the $10,000 event of Florence in May but lost to Anaïs Laurendon (4–6 4–6). After four first round losses, she finally competed again in a $25,000 final in Kristinehamn a month later after beating Elena Bovina by coming from a set down, but was defeated by Australia's Sacha Jones. In Ystad, she won her very first doubles title pairing up with her friend Katarzyna Piter.

Linette's performances during the summer were quite disappointing, exceeding the first round only once. Her next good run occurred in Dobrich where she finally qualified for the semifinals with victories over Irina Khromacheva and Jasmina Tinjić, losing to Anne Schäfer after a final set tie-break. The week after, she entered and won the $10,000 of Prague after beating Kateřina Siniaková and Zuzana Luknárová without dropping a set, lifting her fifth singles trophy in career and the first since September 2010.

In October and November, Linette got some of her best wins of the season by beating Eleni Daniilidou in Limoges, Mónica Puig again in Nantes and Karolína Plíšková in Equeurdreville, but reached at best the quarterfinals in these tournaments. Nevertheless, she added two more doubles titles to her prize list, including her first $50,000 level trophy in Limoges with compatriot Sandra Zaniewska. In December, she ended her season by winning another tournament in doubles with Katarzyna Piter in Ankara.

2013

In early 2013, Magda Linette hired Izo Zunić as her new coach and started to train in Split.

After a brief warm-up tournament in France in January where she won three matches, Linette spent some weeks in South America to play two WTA tournaments but suffered early losses in both Cali and Acapulco.

Back in Europe in late March, Linette reached the semifinals at the indoor hard tournament of Tallinn, falling to Aliaksandra Sasnovich. Some days later, she beat Valeria Savinykh in the first qualifying round of the BNP Paribas Katowice Open but didn't manage to qualify for the main draw. At the end of the month, Linette entered the $25,000 event of Civitavecchia and reached the singles final by defeating successively Anne Schäfer, Arantxa Parra Santonja, Alizé Lim and Corinna Dentoni before losing to Anna Karolína Schmiedlová. The week after, she won at $50,000+H Johannesburg her biggest doubles title to date along with Chanel Simmonds.

At mid-May, Magda Linette qualified for the first time for a WTA main draw in Strasbourg, not losing a set in qualifying. She scored her first win at this level against Olga Puchkova and, doing so, her second victory over a top 100 player, advanced to the second round and falling to eventual champion Alizé Cornet. Then she had some tougher weeks until mid-July as she reached the quarterfinals only once, in Toruń.

Getting through another WTA qualifying draw on the occasion of the Baku Cup, Linette made her second appearance in a main draw at this level. She defeated Julia Cohen, runner-up of the previous edition, then Kristýna Plíšková to reach the quarterfinals where she benefited from a controversial retirement of Ons Jabeur.^[6] She lost in her first WTA semifinals to Shahar Pe'er. Thanks to her deep run in Baku, she returned to the top 200 for the first time since August 2011 and got a new career-high in rankings of No.159.

Trying to enter the US Open main draw, she fell in the first qualifying round to Turkey's Çağla Büyükakçay.

After fruitless tournaments in September, Linette started to compete in successive indoor hard events in France and got more success. She reached the semifinals at $50,000 Joué-lès-Tours with victories over Valeria Savinykh, Ana Vrljić and Marta Domachowska, only losing to Mirjana Lučić-Baroni. The week after, she won her eighth doubles title, pairing up with Viktorija Golubic. Finally, she competed in her very first $50,000+H singles final in Nantes beating en route Sofia Arvidsson and Claire Feuerstein but falling to in-form player Aliaksandra Sasnovich (6–4 4–6 2–6). This performance made her advance to No.148 in singles.

In November, Magda Linette played the French Team Championships as part of the Stade Clermontois team. She won all of her six matches before returning on the ITF circuit in December to play a $25,000 tournament in Pune, which she won as the top seed.

2014

Linette started the season slowly with a few wins in Australia before falling into a seven match losing streak from January to April, combining WTA and ITF events. She finally reached the quarterfinals at the Malaysian Open in Kuala Lumpur.

Preparing for the French Open, she had mixed results at two European $100,000 tournaments and failed to pass the first qualifying round in Paris where she lost to Ksenia Pervak. She launched her grass season with two ITF tournaments in Great Britain but lost twice to Estonia's Anett Kontaveit in straight sets. She sustained an ankle injury from her first qualifying match at Wimbledon and had to stop playing for a month.

Magda Linette during the 2014 China Open (Beijing)

Linette returned to the competition in August but failed again to get through the first qualifying round at the US Open. In September, she flew to Asia to play a serie of WTA events. Winning one match each time in Suzhou, Hong Kong and Guangzhou (losing to Timea Bacsinszky in three sets), she reached in the latter her very first WTA doubles final, partnering Alizé Cornet. After two losses in Beijing and Tianjin, she was top seed in a $25,000 event in Goyang and won it.

In late October two weeks later, she entered another WTA 125 tournament in Ningbo, China. Defeating seventh seed Shahar Pe'er and Xu Yifan in the first two rounds, she came back from a 1–6 0–4 deficit to beat second seed Zheng Saisai in the quarterfinals^[7] before taking out fellow Pole and friend Paula Kania to qualify for the final. She defeated sixth seed Wang Qiang in the final (3–6, 7–5, 6–1) to win the tournament, the biggest title of her career and her first WTA trophy of any kind until then.^[8]

She ended her season with a quarterfinal appearance in the WTA 125 event of Taipei the week after, beating again Wang Qiang but losing to top seed Anna-Lena Friedsam. She reached the 109th position in the WTA singles rankings at the end of November 2014.

WTA career finals

Singles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)

Outcome	No.	Date	Championship	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score in the final
Winner	1.	27 October 2014	Ningbo International Women's Tennis Open, Ningbo, China	Hard	Wang Qiang	3–6, 7–5, 6–1
Runner-up	1.	19 September 2015	Japan Women's Open, Tokyo, Japan	Hard	Yanina Wickmayer	6–4, 3–6, 3–6

Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up)

Outcome	No.	Date	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponent	Score
Runner–up	1.	20 September 2014	Guangzhou International Women's Open, Guangzhou, China	Hard	Alizé Cornet	Chuang Chia-jung Liang Chen	6–2, 6–7(3), [7–10]

ITF Career statistics

ITF Circuit singles: 17 (9 titles, 9 runners-up)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Winner	1.	June 7, 2010	Szczecin, Poland	Clay	Margit Rüütel	6–2, 6–0
Runner–up	1.	June 28, 2010	Toruń, Poland	Clay	Ksenia Pervak	4–6, 1–6
Winner	2.	August 2, 2010	Hechingen, Germany	Clay	Sílvia Soler-Espinosa	7–5, 3–6, 6–2
Winner	3.	August 9, 2010	Versmold, Germany	Clay	Irina-Camelia Begu	6–2, 7–5
Winner	4.	September 6, 2010	Katowice, Poland	Clay	Eva Birnerová	3–6, 6–2, 6–2
Runner–up	2.	September 13, 2010	Zagreb, Croatia	Clay	Renata Voráčová	1–6, 6–4, 4–6
Runner–up	3.	November 15, 2010	Opole, Poland	Carpet	Sandra Záhlavová	7–5, 6–7(4–7), 4–6
Runner–up	4.	May 7, 2012	Florence, Italy	Clay	Anaïs Laurendon	4–6, 4–6
Runner–up	5.	June 18, 2012	Kristinehamn, Sweden	Clay	Sacha Jones	4–6, 4–6
Winner	5.	September 24, 2012	Prague, Czech Republic	Clay	Zuzana Luknárová	6–2, 7–6(9–7)
Runner–up	6.	April 29, 2013	Civitavecchia, Italy	Clay	Anna Karolína Schmiedlová	0–6, 1–6
Runner–up	7.	October 28, 2013	Nantes, France	Hard	Aliaksandra Sasnovich	6–4, 4–6, 2–6
Winner	6.	December 2, 2013	Pune, India	Hard	Kamila Kerimbayeva	7–5, 7–6(7–5)
Runner–up	8.	December 9, 2013	Navi Mumbai, India	Hard	Rika Fujiwara	6–2, 6–7(5–7), 6–7(4–7)
Winner	7.	October 13, 2014	Goyang, South Korea	Hard	Renata Voráčová	6–3, 3–6, 6–3
Winner	8.	February 2, 2015	Grenoble, France	Hard	Tereza Martincová	7–6(7–2), 4–6, 6–1
Winner	9.	February 16, 2015	New Delhi, India	Hard	Tadeja Majerič	6–1, 6–1
Runner–up	9.	June 15, 2015	Ilkley, Great Britain	Grass	Anna-Lena Friedsam	7–5, 3–6, 1–6

ITF Circuit doubles: 17 (8 titles, 9 runners-up)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponent	Score
Runner-up	1.	November 15, 2010	Opole, Poland	Carpet	Paula Kania	Oksana Kalashnikova Polina Pekhova	3–6, 4–6
Runner-up	2.	April 11, 2011	Casablanca, Morocco	Clay	Katarzyna Piter	Sandra Klemenschits Kristina Mladenovic	3–6, 6–3, [8–10]
Runner-up	3.	May 30, 2011	Rome-Tiro a Volo, Italy	Clay	Liana Ungur	Sophie Ferguson Sally Peers	Walkover
Runner-up	4.	September 12, 2011	Mestre, Italy	Clay	Tímea Babos	Valentyna Ivakhnenko Marina Melnikova	4–6, 5–7
Runner-up	5.	November 7, 2011	Opole, Poland	Carpet	Paula Kania	Naomi Broady Kristina Mladenovic	6–7(5), 4–6
Winner	1.	June 25, 2012	Ystad, Sweden	Clay	Katarzyna Piter	Oksana Kalashnikova Lenka Wienerová	6–3, 6–3
Runner–up	6.	September 24, 2012	Prague, Czech Republic	Clay	Kateřina Kramperová	Lucy Brown Angelica Moratelli	3–6, 7–5, [6–10]
Winner	2.	October 15, 2012	Limoges, France	Hard	Sandra Zaniewska	Irena Pavlovic Stefanie Vögele	6–1, 5–7, [10–5]
Winner	3.	November 5, 2012	Equeurdreville, France	Hard	Katarzyna Piter	Amra Sadiković Ana Vrljić	6–4, 7–6(7–4)
Winner	4.	December 17, 2012	Ankara, Turkey	Hard	Katarzyna Piter	Irina Buryachok Valeria Solovyeva	6–2, 6–2
Runner-up	7.	April 29, 2013	Civitavecchia, Italy	Clay	Paula Kania	Stephanie Vogt Renata Voráčová	3–6, 4–6
Winner	5.	May 6, 2013	Johannesburg, South Africa	Hard	Chanel Simmonds	Samantha Murray Jade Windley	6–1, 6–3
Winner	6.	May 27, 2013	Maribor, Slovenia	Clay	Paula Kania	Mailen Auroux Maria Irigoyen	6–3, 6–0
Winner	7.	July 1, 2013	Toruń, Poland	Clay	Paula Kania	Yuliya Beygelzimer Elena Bogdan	6–2, 4–6, [10–5]
Runner-up	8.	September 23, 2013	Loughborough, Great Britain	Hard	Tereza Smitková	Çağla Büyükakçay Pemra Özgen	2–6, 7–5, [6–10]
Winner	8.	October 14, 2013	Limoges, France	Hard	Viktorija Golubic	Nicole Clerico Nikola Fraňková	6–4, 6–4
Runner-up	9.	March 31, 2014	Edgbaston, Great Britain	Hard	Amra Sadiković	Jocelyn Rae Anna Smith	6–3, 5–7, [4–10]

Grand Slam Performance Timeline

Singles

References

External links

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Women's Tennis Association: Top Polish female singles tennis players as of 8 February 2016 1. Agnieszka Radwańska (4 ) 2. Magda Linette (97 ) 3. Urszula Radwańska (113 ) 4. Paula Kania (152 ) 5. Katarzyna Piter (249 ) 6. Katarzyna Kawa (263 ) 7. Justyna Jegiołka (481 ) 8. Magdalena Fręch (514 ) 9. Sandra Zaniewska (516 ) 10. Oliwia Szymczuch (878 )