Daniela Hantuchová
Daniela Hantuchová ( born April 23, 1983 in Poprad, Czechoslovakia) is a Slovak tennis player.
The right-handed underwent training at the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy in Bradenton, Florida ( USA), and has resided in Monte Carlo. Your Career highlights in individual are the two tournament wins in Indian Wells (2002, 2007). With her double partner Ai Sugiyama reached the final of the Australian Open (2002, 2009) and the French Open (2006). In mixed they won with four different partners all four Grand Slam tournaments: At Wimbledon she won in 2001 with Leos Friedl, in Melbourne in 2002 with Kevin Ullyett, in Paris in 2005 with Fabrice Santoro and in New York in 2005 with Mahesh Bhupathi. In 2002 she won with the team the Slovak Fed Cup, in the final against Spain, she secured both points in single ( against Magüi Serna and Conchita Martínez ), thereby making a decisive contribution to the 3-1 win. In 2005 she won along with Dominik Hrbatý also the Hopman Cup.
- 2.1 Single
- 2.2 double
- 2.3 Mixed
- 2.4 Team
- 3.1 Individual
- 3.2 double
- 3.3 Mixed
Tennis career
The first years
Hantuchová began her professional career in May 1999. Their first tournament victory on the WTA Tour in 2002 she was able to celebrate in Indian Wells. In 2002, Hantuchová was honored as the "Most Improved Player of the Year" of the tour. She was also nominated for the Laureus World Sports Award for " World Newcomer of the Year." In 2004 she separated from her coach Nigel Sears, however, took the cooperation later on. From mid-2005 their shape curve showed back up, but that nevertheless they could achieve their good finishes from 2003/2004 again.
2006
Hantuchová followed up on their previous year's results and ended the year with the 18th ranked. The most outstanding achievements came with the finals in Zurich ( losing to Maria Sharapova ), the quarterfinals in Stuttgart ( against Nadia Petrova ) and each of the second round in Melbourne ( against Maria Sharapova ), Paris ( against Kim Clijsters ) and Wimbledon ( against the later finalist Justine Henin ). In Doha and Rome Hantuchová won with her partner Ai Sugiyama in each case the double tournament. At the French Open, the two lost in the final against the top-seeded team Samantha Stosur / Lisa Raymond.
2007
Hantuchová finished her after 2002 the most successful year in each individual with the 9th World Ranking. She won the tournaments of Indian Wells ( in the final against Svetlana Kuznetsova ) and Linz ( against Patty Schnyder ). She lost the second round in Melbourne against Kim Clijsters and Wimbledon against Serena Williams. It failed in the semifinals of Rome and Doha respectively to Svetlana Kuznetsova and Anna Chakvetadze at Stanford. In the final of Luxembourg defeated Ana Ivanović it in the Bali Lindsay Davenport. In doubles, she left on the side of Ai Sugiyama in the quarterfinals of Melbourne against the eventual champions Cara Black and Liezel Huber interior. This duo also kept in the semifinals of Miami, where Hantuchova took up with Martina Hingis, the upper hand.
2008
Your biggest success at a Grand Slam singles tournament Hantuchová celebrated at the Australian Open: You came to the semifinals, but lost there to a 6-0 lead against the Serb Ana Ivanović in three sets but still. In the quarter-finals of Indian Wells, she moved against Sharapova also lose out. The best result of their injury-related break (stress fracture in his right foot ) from mid- April to the end of June was the entry into the semifinals of Bali, where she defeated Tamira Paszek. She finished the year as 21 of the world rankings. Double your best result they achieved in Indian Wells, where she was defeated in the semifinals with partner Ai Sugiyama mating Dinara Safina / Jelena Wesnina.
2009
Your balance in the individual looked like streaky from: She lost the second round of Wimbledon and the U.S. Open against Serena Williams, respectively, in the quarterfinals of Cincinnati Flavia Pennetta and she succumbed in the semifinals of Warsaw against Alexandra Dulgheru they had left behind. She ended the year ranked 24 in the world rankings. In doubles she lost at the side of Ai Sugiyama the playoffs from Melbourne ( against Serena and Venus Williams), Rome ( against Hsieh Su -wei and Shuai Peng ) and from Tokyo ( against Alissa Kleibanowa and Francesca Schiavone ).
2010
In 2010, she retired in the second round against Jelena Jankovic of Paris, in the semifinals of Charleston and San Diego against the later tournament champion Samantha Stosur and Agnieszka Radwańska and in the final against Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of Monterrey.
2011
In February, Hantuchová won her fourth WTA title at the PTT Pattaya Open. At the French Open, she collided with a victory over the top-seeded Caroline Wozniacki ( 6-1, 6-3 ) last sixteen before, in which she defeated Svetlana Kuznetsova in three sets. Having had her doubles partner Ai Sugiyama in 2009 her career ended, Hantuchová had with changing partners a long dry spell in double endure before she could build on past successes again. With her new partner, Agnieszka Radwańska she was in Miami - the two played together for only the fourth time - in the final of the Sony Ericsson Open against the seeded pair Liezel Huber 3 / Nadia Petrova successfully. In Birmingham they reached the final with a single three-set victory over the seeded Serb Ana Ivanović 2, however, it lost to smooth the German Sabine Lisicki. When grass tournament in Eastbourne, she moved with victories over Li Na and Venus Williams semi-finals, there had to give up due to an injury in the second set but against Czech Petra Kvitová. Nevertheless, they could go to Wimbledon at the start, where she was eliminated in round three against her doubles partner and later a finalist Wiktoryja Azarenka. In preparation for the U.S. Open, she defeated Sharapova in the second round by Stanford and - despite a 6-0 won the first set - Radwańska in the quarterfinals of Carlsbad (San Diego ), each in three sets. At the U.S. Open she reached the semi-finals, in which both the U.S. women Huber and Raymond smooth documents with 2:6, 4:6 on the side of Radwańska.
2012
In the WTA tournament in Brisbane Hantuchová in the finals, at the Australian Open, she reached the third round. In February, she succeeded in Bratislava the 30th victory in the Fed Cup, with their two victories in the match against France led Slovakia into the play- off round of the World Group. With a playoff victory over Maria Kirilenko, she defended her title in Pattaya. In Paris, they did not occur at 2012, and at the other Grand Slam tournaments at Wimbledon and New York, she dropped out of each in the first round.
2013
In the first months of the year Hantuchová could show good performance. In June, she won the tournament in Birmingham, where they only Laura Robson and Francesca Schiavone defeated in the finals and then 13 years younger Donna Vekić defeated. In August, she made it after 11 years again at the U.S. Open in the quarter-finals of the Grand Slam tournament.
2014
Hantuchová reached the third round at the Australian Open.
Tournament Win
Singles
Doubles
Mixed
Team
Performance at Grand Slam tournaments
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