Alexandra Vozniak ( born Aleksandra Wozniak ; born September 7, 1987 , Montreal ) is a Canadian tennis player of Polish origin. The winner of a single WTA tournament in singles; semifinalist of one junior grand slam singles tournament ( Australian Open 2005 ); semi-finalist of two junior Grand Slam tournaments in doubles ( Australian Open-2003 , Roland Garros-2005 ); former third place in the world junior ranking.
| Alexandra Wozniak | |
|---|---|
| Player gender | |
| Date of Birth | |
| Place of Birth | |
| Citizenship | |
| Place of residence | Blenville , Canada |
| Growth | 175 cm |
| Weight | 63 kg |
| Carier start | November 2005 |
| Career end | 2018 |
| Working hand | right |
| Backhand | two handed |
| Prize money | 2,028,797 |
| Singles | |
| Matches | |
| Titles | 1 WTA , 11 ITF |
| Highest position | 21 ( June 22, 2009 ) |
| Grand Slam Tournaments | |
| Australia | 2nd round (2012) |
| France | 4th round (2009) |
| Wimbledon | Round 2 (2008, 2010, 2012) |
| USA | 3rd round (2009) |
| Double discharge | |
| Matches | |
| Highest position | 136 ( June 7, 2010 ) |
| Grand Slam Tournaments | |
| Australia | Round 1 (2009, 2010) |
| France | 2nd round (2010, 2012) |
| Wimbledon | Round 2 (2009, 2010) |
| USA | Round 1 (2008, 2009) |
Content
General Information
Alexandra is one of the two daughters of Martin and Hodwigi Wozniak. Her sister's name is Dorota. Wozniak speaks six languages [2] .
The father of the Canadian - in the past professional Polish footballer, who later worked in Montreal as a mechanical engineer and at the same time engaged with his daughter in the local tennis section. For the first time, Alexander became involved in this sport at the age of three.
Favorite coating - primer.
Sports career
During her professional career, Wozniak won one WTA tournament and played twice in the final. In addition, since 2002, she won 11 tournaments of the International Tennis Federation (ITF) . After winning Wozniak at the 2008 tournament in Stanford, the city of Blenville , where she lives, was renamed “Wozniakville” for 24 hours to mark the first victory of Quebec tennis player in the Women's Tennis Association tournaments [3] .
Wozniak has won a number of victories over tennis players from the top ten world rankings, including Serena Williams ( Bank of the West Classic , Stanford , 2008), Nadezhda Petrova ( MPS Group Championships , Ponte Vedra Beach , 2009 ) and Svetlana Kuznetsova ( AEGON International , Eastbourne , 2009).
Since 2004, Wozniak has represented the Canadian national team in the Federation Cup , playing for the team a record number of matches and winning a record number of wins in total and singles (32 wins and 11 losses in singles, 8 wins and 1 loss in pairs for 36 matches ). She also represented Canada at the 2005 Maccabian Games. [4]
From the middle of 2010, Wozniak almost did not act because of tendinitis [5] and by 2011 dropped out of the ranking far beyond the first hundred, and by the summer of the same year dropped to the 200th position. The ITF tournament winnings in Vancouver and the first round victory of the highest category tournament in Toronto over the 23rd racket of the world Shahar Peer allowed her to improve her position, and she finished the next season in the nearest approaches to the first hundred.
In 2012, Wozniak strengthened its position in the rankings, winning one ITF tournament and visiting the quarterfinals of several WTA tournaments, becoming the first Canadian tennis player in 20 years to reach the quarterfinals of the Canadian Open [6] . As a result, she finished third in her career season among the top 50 tennis players in the world. From September of this year and until the middle of the next, however, she almost did not act because of problems with her right shoulder (sprained clavicular-acromion joint) [7] , and returning to the court, she was unable to get in shape, winning the rest of 2013 only two match singles.
At the end of the year, Wozniak invited the well-known French tennis player Natalie Tozia as a coach [8] . In March 2014, she successfully performed at the Indian Wells premiere , where she defeated two seeded opponents - Sabine Lisitski and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova - before losing to the second racket of the world (and the first in the tournament) Li Na . Other tournaments were not so successful for her (the best result was the third round in Birmingham), and after the US Open she again underwent a shoulder surgery [9] . The recovery process took almost a year, and Wozniak returned to the court only at the end of August 2015, receiving a Wilde Card to participate in the ITF tournament in Winnipeg [10] . Until the end of the season she spent just five tournaments.
The following year was spent in the ITF tournaments (the best results were the semi-finals in Granby and Albuquerque), several wild cards in WTA tournaments did not bring any success to Wozniak, and she finished the season in 300th place in the rankings. In the first half of 2017, even the ITF tournaments Wozniak had to start with qualification, but then she managed to win two titles in tournaments with a prize fund of 25 thousand dollars - in July in Gatineau (Quebec) and in September in Stillwater (Oklahoma). This, however, only allowed her to stay in the third hundred rankings for another year. At the end of 2018, Wozniak, who took part in three tournaments for the season and failed to raise funds to finance her future career, announced the end of her speeches at the age of 31 [11] .
Year-end rating
| Year | Single rating | Doubles rating |
| 2017 | 298 | 669 |
| 2016 | 300 | 1278 |
| 2015 | 844 | 925 |
| 2014 | 132 | |
| 2013 | 280 | 344 |
| 2012 | 43 | 354 |
| 2011 | 105 | |
| 2010 | 126 | 207 |
| 2009 | 34 | 218 |
| 2008 | 34 | 961 |
| 2007 | 130 | 419 |
| 2006 | 91 | 300 |
| 2005 | 190 | 465 |
| 2004 | 491 | |
| 2003 | 878 | |
| 2002 | 569 | 843 |
Tournament appearances
WTA Finals Singles Tournaments (3)
Victory (1)
| Legend: Until 2009 | Legend: Since 2009 |
|---|---|
| Grand Slam Tournaments (0) | |
| Olympiad (0) | |
| Final Championship of the Year (0) | |
| 1st category (0) | Premier Mandatory (0) |
| 2nd category (1) | Premier 5 (0) |
| 3rd category (0) | Premier (0) |
| 4th category (0) | International (0) |
| 5th category (0) | |
| Titles by coatings | Titles by location holding tournament matches |
|---|---|
| Hard (1) | Hall (0) |
| Ground (0) | |
| Grass (0) | Outdoor Air (1) |
| Carpet (0) |
| No | date | Tournament | Coating | Rival in the final | Score |
| one. | July 20, 2008 | Stanford, USA | Hard | Marion Bartoli | 7-5 6-3 [12] |
Defeats (2)
| No | date | Tournament | Coating | Rival in the final | Score |
| one. | May 21, 2007 | Fez, Morocco | Priming | Milagros Seker | 1-6 3-6 |
| 2 | April 12, 2009 | Ponte Vedra Beach, United States | Priming | Caroline Wozniacki | 1-6 2-6 |
ITF Singles Tournament Finals (14)
Victory (11)
| Legend: |
|---|
| 100,000 USD (2) |
| 75.000 USD (1) |
| 50.000 USD (1) |
| 25.000 USD (4) |
| 10.000 USD (1) |
| Titles by coatings | Titles by location holding tournament matches |
|---|---|
| Hard (9) | Hall (2) |
| Soil (2) | |
| Grass (0) | Outdoor Air (9) |
| Carpet (0) |
| No | date | Tournament | Coating | Rival in the final | Score |
| one. | June 24, 2002 | Lashin , Canada | Hard | Beyer Co. | 6-0 6-3 |
| 2 | July 12, 2005 | Hamilton , Canada | Priming | Maria José Argeri | 6-1 6-2 |
| 3 | October 11, 2005 | Ciudad Victoria , Mexico | Hard | Olga Blagotova | 2-6 6-0 6-4 |
| four. | November 8, 2005 | Toronto , Canada | Hard (i) | Elena Antipina | 6-4 6-3 |
| five. | July 17, 2006 | Hamilton , Canada (2) | Priming | Valerie Tetro | 6-1 6-7 (5) 6-2 |
| 6 | September 26, 2006 | Ashland , United States | Hard | Agnes Sawai | 6-1 7-6 (2) |
| 7 | November 7, 2006 | Pittsburgh , United States | Hard (i) | Victoria Azarenko | 6-2 - failure |
| eight. | August 1, 2011 | Vancouver, Canada | Hard | Jamie Hampton | 6-3 6-1 |
| 9. | March 12, 2012 | Nassau, Bahamas | Hard | Alize Cornet | 6-4 7-5 |
| ten. | July 17, 2017 | Gatineau , Canada | Hard | Ellen Perez | 7-6 (4) 6-4 |
| eleven. | September 26, 2017 | Stillwater , Oklahoma , United States | Hard | Marie Bouzkova | 7-5 6-4 |
Defeats (3)
| No | date | Tournament | Coating | Rival in the final | Score |
| one. | September 27, 2005 | Pelham , United States | Priming | Soledad Esperon | 5-7 2-6 |
| 2 | October 18, 2005 | Mexico City , Mexico | Hard | Maria José Argeri | 4-6 0-4 - failure |
| 3 | March 23, 2008 | Redding , United States | Hard | Barbora Zaglavova-Strytsova | 6-7 (4) 3-6 |
ITF Tournament Finals in Doubles (2)
Defeats (2)
| No | date | Tournament | Coating | Partner | Rivals in the final | Score |
| one. | June 9, 2002 | Burlington , Canada | Hard | Diana Srebrovich | Lauren choing Christina Goriatopoulos | 3-6 1-6 |
| 2 | July 17, 2006 | Hamilton , Canada | Priming | Soledad Esperon | Storey Tweedy-Yates Nicole Crease | 4-6 1-6 |
Tournament Performance History
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 WTA website
- ↑ Tennis Spy: Aleksandra Wozniak (Eng.)
- ↑ Profile on the WTA website (English)
- ↑ Ontario Tennis Association - Get ready for 2005 major events (eng.)
- ↑ Weber, Marc . Wozniak hoping Van Open earns her Olympic berth , The Province (August 2, 2011). Archived August 20, 2011. The appeal date is August 8, 2011.
- ↑ Aleksandra Wozniak falls to Wozniacki in Rogers Cup quarter-finals . CBC . The appeal date is December 26, 2012. Archived December 27, 2012.
- ↑ Canadian tennis player Aleksandra Wozniak sidelined for 3 months . CBC (March 27, 2013). The appeal date is December 20, 2013.
- ↑ Frenchwoman Tozia has become a new Canadian coach Wozniak . Championship.com (December 19, 2013). The appeal date is December 20, 2013.
- ↑ Stephanie Myles. [Shoulder surgery ends Aleksandra Wozniak's 2014 season Shoulder surgery ends Aleksandra Wozniak's 2014 season] . Yahoo Canada Sports (August 31, 2014). The appeal date is November 20, 2014.
- ↑ Wozniak wins opener at Winnipeg Challenger . Tennis Canada (August 25, 2015). The appeal date is November 26, 2015.
- ↑ Julian McKenzie. Canadian Aleksandra Wozniak retires from tennis . The Globe and Mail (December 19, 2018). The appeal date is January 7, 2019.
- Start the tournament with qualification.