Melanie Oudin
Melanie Oudin ( born September 23, 1991 Marietta, Georgia) is an American tennis player.
- 3.1 Individual
- 3.2 Mixed
- 4.1 Single
Personal
Oudin is of French descent and has a twin sister, Katherine. At the age of seven, she was brought up by her grandmother in the tennis game. From seventh grade on, she was taught at home, so they had more time for training. Their model is Justine Henin, from the Oudin once said: " To win, you do not have to be big. "
Career
2007
Oudin won consecutively on the ITF Junior Tour including the " Eddie Herr International Junior" Tennis Championships 27 games and 4 tournaments. She was about to win the fifth tournament, but lost the singles final of the Under -18s at the Orange Bowl against Michelle Larcher de Brito of Portugal.
2008
In February 2008, she joined the WTA Tour. In April, she won the Easter Bowl and the USTA International Spring Championships. For the tournament in Miami, she received a wild card, she was defeated in round one Tathiana Garbin in three sets.
At the French Open, she reached the quarterfinals, she lost to Elena Bogdan 4:6, 4:6 in the Junior Women. In the junior competition at Wimbledon, she was placed at number 1, but different from the eventual winner Laura Robson from 1:6, 3:6.
In August, she received a wildcard for the main draw of the U.S. Open. She lost against Jessica Moore with 6:7, 6:7. In the junior girls she made it to the semifinals, which she lost to Gabriela Paz Franco. In October, she participated in the Bell Challenge in Quebec City. In the first round she defeated Sybille Bammer the set of 3 with 6:4, 3:6, 7:5, then the Russian Olga Putschkowa 6:1, 7:6. In her first WTA quarter-final they had to admit defeat of the set of 6 Bethanie Mattek -Sands with 6:7 and 1:6.
2009
At the Australian Open, she came through the qualifying, but lost in the first round against Akgul Amanmuradova with 1:6, 4:6.
Also in Wimbledon she came on the qualification into the main draw. In the first round she defeated again with 4:6, 6:4, 6:2 Sybille Bammer and met in the second round to Yaroslava Shvedova, she defeated 3:6, 6:2, 6:4. With a 6:78 -, 7:5 -, 6:2 victory against the seeded Jelena Janković 6 they moved into the second round, which she lost 4:6, 5:7 against Agnieszka Radwańska.
At the U.S. Open, she had a run and initially defeated Elena Dementieva, then number 4 in the world, with 5:7, 6:4, 6:3, and then the former world number one Maria Sharapova with 3:6, 6:4 and 7: 5 In the second round she turned the third Russian woman, Nadia Petrova, of also in three sets. In the quarterfinals, she had to retire against Caroline Wozniacki of 2:6 and 2:6.
2010 - 2012
2010 was not a good year for tennis Oudin. Also at the U.S. Open, she retired in the second round. As she had previously reached the quarterfinals of the year, she lost a lot of world ranking points.
A surprise success she succeeded in 2011 when she won the mixed title of the U.S. Open with Jack Sock. It was her first title at a Grand Slam tournament.
In 2012 she won her first WTA Birmingham last single title. As an unseeded player, she defeated Janković in the final this time clearly in two sentences.