Gisela Dulko
Gisela Dulko ( born January 30, 1985 in Buenos Aires ) is a former Argentine tennis player.
Career
After she had watched her older brother for some time while she began at the age of seven years of playing tennis. Alejandro Dulko was also her coach.
Even as a junior won Gisela Dulko Grand Slam tournaments in doubles, the U.S. Open ( in 2000), Wimbledon ( 2001) and the Australian Open ( 2002).
In her career she won four singles and 17 doubles titles on the WTA Tour. Their highest placing in the individual rankings, it reached on 21 November 2005 with rank 26 your biggest single success could celebrate at Wimbledon in 2009 when she defeated Maria Sharapova. In February 2011, it secured the clay tournament in Acapulco her first WTA title since 2008. During the same year she moved for the second time in the second round of the French Open. Your start in Wimbledon she had to cancel because of a groin injury.
In doubles, she won in 2010 with partner Flavia Pennetta of its duration, the WTA Tour Championships in Doha and sat down at the top of the double world rankings. 2011 she succeeded in winning the title at the Australian Open on the side of Pennetta, with whom she could win a total of eleven WTA title, the first Grand Slam success on the professional tour. In the final two, the duo Wiktoryja Azarenka / Maria Kirilenko defeated with 2:6, 7:5 and 6:1.
On November 19, 2012 Gisela Dulko announced their careers end.