Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Marta Domachowska

Marta Domachowska is a Polish professional tennis player. She began playing at age 7. She reached the semi finals of Australian Open Junior Championships in 2003. Her racquet brand is Wilson. She speaks four languages: Polish, English, Spanish and Russian. Other than tennis, she enjoys sports such as football and swimming. She is engaged to Polish butterfly and freestyle swimmer Paweł Korzeniowski.

After not playing Memphis in 2007, her ranking dropped to no. 166. As a result, she played multiple ITF-level tournaments, reaching the semi finals in one instance. She managed to qualify for the Seoul and Stockholm WTA tournaments, but failed to qualify for nine WTA events (including two majors), and lacked a win at all in grand slams that year. As the world no. 179, and as a qualifier, she won a $100,000 ITF tournament in Poitiers, defeating Anna Lapuschenkova 7-5, 6-0. It was her first singles title since 2003 and the biggest tournament win in her career. She won an ITF doubles title in Rome, and finished no. 143 in singles and no. 240 in doubles for the year.

In the 2008 Australian Open, she achieved her best grand slam result, reaching the fourth round (beating Li Na in the process), before she lost to Venus Williams 4-6, 4-6. She and Agnieszka Radwańska became the first Poles to reach the fourth round of a grand slam. Due to this result, Domachowska returned to the top 100 (at no. 82). Domachowska also represented Poland in the singles draw at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where she lost in the first round. She finished year at no. 56.

In 2009 in singles, she lost in the first round of all four grand slams, including the US Open as a qualifier. Domachowska, did however, manage to reach the singles quarterfinals of Istanbul.

stats
Country : Poland Poland
Residence : Podkowa Leśna, Poland
Date of birth : January 16, 1986 (1986-01-16)
Place of birth: Warsaw, Poland
Height: 1.76 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in)
Weight : 60 kg (130 lb; 9.4 st)
Turned pro : 2001
Plays Right-handed

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