Sport Championship: Aleksandra Wozniak Canadian professional tennis player

Monday 8 August 2011

Aleksandra Wozniak Canadian professional tennis player

Aleksandra Wozniak born September 7, 1987, in Montreal, Quebec is a Canadian professional tennis player. She turned professional in November 2005. Wozniak achieved a career-best ranking of no. 21 on June 22, 2009, making her the fourth-highest ranked Canadian singles player of all time. She has won one WTA and eight ITF tournaments. At the Bank of the West Classic in Stanford in 2008, she became the first Canadian in 20 years to capture a WTA singles title and is the only Quebecer in history to have accomplished such a feat. She reached a career-high ITF junior ranking of no. 3 on January 31, 2005. She was named Female Player of the Year by Tennis Canada four times (2009, 2008, 2006, 2004).

Wozniak trains at Uniprix Stadium in Montreal with her coach, Zdenek Zofka.

Contents

* 1 Early life

* 2 Tennis career

o 2.1 2002–05

o 2.2 2006

o 2.3 2008

o 2.4 2009

o 2.5 2010

o 2.6 2011

* 3 Fed Cup

* 4 Style of play

* 5 WTA Tour finals

o 5.1 Singles: 3 (1–2)

* 6 ITF Circuit finals

o 6.1 Singles: 11 (8–3)

o 6.2 Doubles: 2 (0–2)

* 7 Singles performance timeline

* 8 References

* 9 External links

Early life

Wozniak's family immigrated to Canada from Poland in 1983. She speaks Polish, English and French fluently. Also she has a elder sister Dorota, also playing tennis too. Aleksandra started playing tennis at the age of three. She was inspired to pick up a racquet by her sister and Monica Seles, her idol growing up and was coached by her father, Antoni.

Aleksandra Wozniak