Tamira Paszek

Tamira Shelah Paszek (born December 6, 1990 in Dornbirn, Austria) is a professional tennis player from Austria. As of September 11, 2009, she is the third ranked tennis player from Austria in the WTA ranking, at No. 88.

She was introduced to tennis by her mother, Françoise Paszek, at age four-and-a-half. Her mother is Chilean born, and her father is Ariff Mohamed, who is Tanzanian-born, Kenya-raised and lived in Canada. Both her paternal grandparents are from India. She is currently being coached by Angel Giminez having previously been coached by Larri Passos (former coach of former ATP No.1 Gustavo Kuerten).

She then entered 2010 Wimbledon, qualified but lost to Kurumi Nara in second round 7-5 6-4.

She tried to qualify in Budapest defeating Eleni Danilidou and Jessica Moore but lost to Andreja Klepac 5-7 6-2 6-1. Her next tournament will be 2010 ECM Prague Open. She entered qualifing. Tamira defeated Tadeja Majeric 6-4 6-0 and then crushed first seed Anastasia Rodionova. She than lost to Liana Ungur 2-6 3-2. After losing the first set 6-2, Tamira went to play better breaking Ungur serve and lead 2-0.On the other side Ungur came back broke twice to lead 3-2. Tamira then retired because of heat and stomach inyuri.But,because Gisela Dulko withdrew Tamira gained her chance to enter to the main draw. She faced French star Alize Cornet and lost 7-6 6-7 6-4 in match that last 3 hours and 40-minutes.

Her next tournament will be 2010 Banka Koper Slovenia Open where she defeated Jelena Kostanić Tošić 7-5 6-2 for her first main draw win since Ponte Vedra Beach in 2009. She faced Stefanie Voegele and lost 7-5 6-4.

After some bad losses in qualifying of the Premier tournaments, Tamira found her form in the 2010 US Open where she entered qualifying. She defeated Michaella Krajicek, Koreas Kim So- Jing and Russias Evgeniya Rodina to reach the main draw. In the final qualifying round, Paszek trailed Rodina 2-6 after the first set before coming back to win the second and blank the Russian in the third. In the 1st round of the main draw, she defeated 26th seed Lucie Šafářová despite being down 2-6 1-4 in the second set. She lost to Chan Yung-jan in the second round.

Her next tournament will be 2010 Bell Challenge. She defeated Marina Erakovic 6-0 6-4 and Jill Craybas in the second round 6-2 6-3.In her first quarter-final of the 2010 she defeated No.8 seed Sofia Arvidsson 6-3 6-4.She than crushed Christina McHale in the semifinal to book her place in the final where she won the title by beating Bethanie Mattek-Sands 7-6(6) 2-6 7-5.
She will be in the 100 rankings again.



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Country : Austria
Residence : Dornbirn, Austria
Date of birth : December 6, 1990 (1990-12-06)
Place of birth : Dornbirn, Austria
Height : 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight : 60 kg (130 lb; 9.4 st)
Turned pro : October 26, 2005
Plays : Right-handed (two-handed backhand)