Ãgnes SzÃ¡vay

Ágnes Szávay [a ː sa ː ɡnɛʃ vɒ.i ] ( born December 29, 1988 in Kiskunhalas ) is a former Hungarian tennis player. She lives in Wolkersdorf in Austria.

2.1 Single
2.2 double

3.1 Individual
3.2 double

Career

Szávay grew up in Soltvadkert. She started at the age of six years playing tennis. Coaches and managers were initially the parents. Her debut on the WTA tour she gave in Budapest in 2004. In June 2005, she won the French Open junior interior with a Final Ioana Raluca Olaru of victory over Romania ( 6-2, 6-1 ). Since 2005 Szávay is a professional player, even her five years younger sister Blanka plays tennis.

2007

In 2007 Szávay the breakthrough. She reached the quarterfinals at the U.S. Open (in double stormed it with Vladimira Uhlířová even the semi-finals ) and also won the Tier II tournament in Beijing (Final victory over Jelena Janković ). Previously, she had been in the final of the German Palermo defeated Martina Müller. At the end of the year Szávay was voted Newcomer of the 2007 season.

2008

The start to 2008 was tedious. Szávay failed in Gold Coast and at the Australian Open in Round 1 After reaching the final in Paris ( 3:6, 6:2, 2:6 against Anna Chakvetadze ), she came in Antwerp, Doha and Dubai, do not re- the first round also. Successes brought again until the tournaments in Charleston and Berlin, where she defeated Dinara Safina and Marion Bartoli. At the French Open Szávay came in the third round, and at Wimbledon, she showed good performance and made it to the second round, in Bad Gastein, she reached the semi-finals. At the Olympic Games as well as in Tokyo and Stuttgart, the blow came in the first round at the U.S. Open and in Beijing she said goodbye to each according to their second-round game. In October Szávay had to cancel because of an injury to participate in the Kremlin Cup in Moscow. In Zurich and Linz let her finish off the 2008 season, again it set defeats in their opening games.

2009

After the first round -off in Hobart she failed at the Australian Open in Melbourne again in round 1 From a series of six consecutive defeats pulled Szávay consequences and separated from their manager Zoltán Kuhárszky. The end of February she went to Acapulco, where she won her first match on tour since September 2008. Then defeated in the quarterfinals of the later champion Venus Williams. In Indian Wells and Miami, where she, among others the former world number one Ana Ivanović defeated, she reached the second round respectively. The Clay Court Season positive development. At the tournament in Madrid Szávay succeeded in the quarter-finals, by checking Wiktoryja Azarenka defeated. At the French Open, she managed with a clear victory over Venus Williams ( 6-0, 6-4 ) the knockout phase. At Wimbledon, she conceded again a first round defeat, however, they won under their new coach Karl Heinz Wetter her home tournament in Budapest. The hard court season was disappointing (eg only 1 round at the U.S. Open ). Thanks to their triumph in Budapest they still qualified for the final tournament of years in Bali, in which they, however, do not make it past the first round.

2010

After two unsuccessful start to the season Szávay succeeded in Brisbane, Sydney ( where they had to go through the qualification ) and at the Australian Open each of the draw in the second round, so that it was advancing again at No. 34 in the world rankings. They also defeated in Sydney, the former world number one Jelena Jankovic. After the quarter-finals in Paris Szávay went to the Americas and repeated in Acapulco and Monterrey her result of Paris. The two Premier Mandatory tournaments in Indian Wells and Miami, she parted from each in the third round, but made in Miami Alicia Molik 6-0, 6-0 from. From April to June, they played relatively unsuccessful. Only in Stuttgart, at the French Open and the grass tournament in Eastbourne she managed the move up to the second round. At Wimbledon Szávay failed already in round 1 to Ekaterina Makarova ( 4:6, 6:7 ). In July, she played the last two tournaments before the U.S. Open Series in Eastern Europe. First she ran as local hero and Titelverteidigigerin in Budapest, they played at the " ECM Prague Open " in the Czech Republic their last tournament on clay this season. Both in Budapest (Final victory over the Swiss Patty Schnyder ) as well as in Prague, she shone as a tournament winner. The rest of the season passed without further success. She ended the year 2010 to position 37 ( previous year: 39 ) in the world rankings.

2011

Plagued by persistent injury problems, she decided to skip the Australian Open and enter only the beginning of February at the Fed Cup again. They also moved the beginning of the year once again the manager. She has since worked with former Hungarian professional tennis player Gábor Köves. However, they never came out in the first half of the second round. At the Grand Slam tournament at Roland Garros put it even a first round defeat. Then she said the rest of the season off due to a back injury.

2012

After eleven months of injury Szávay attacked in Stuttgart for the first time in the tournament action a, but she was disqualified in the first qualifying round. During the year Szávay took, inter alia, at the Olympic Games and the U.S. Open in part. It benefited from a rule of the WTA Tour, after which players in the long run can not participate in the tour, have the opportunity to play for a certain number of tournaments with a protected ranking. However, because of her back injury had Szávay the season again prematurely.

2013

On February 6, Szávay announced on her website that she ended her career at the age of 24 years. The reason she called her permanent injury occurring problems. Since you were able to give the doctors, even in the case of an operation, not a guarantee of complete rehabilitation, the Hungarian ruled against the health risk. With five tournament titles on the WTA Tour and 13th (2008) as the highest ranking in the world rankings Szávay was one of the most successful tennis players of their country.