Timea Bacsinszky

Timea Bacsinszky

Bacsinszky in 2015
Country (sports)	Switzerland
Residence	Belmont-sur-Lausanne, Switzerland
Born	8 June 1989 Lausanne, Switzerland
Height	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Turned pro	October 2004
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	$ 3,599,755
Singles
Career record	343–185 (64.96%)
Career titles	4 WTA, 12 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 10 (12 October 2015)
Current ranking	No. 15 (2 May 2016)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	3R (2015)
French Open	SF (2015)
Wimbledon	QF (2015)
US Open	3R (2008)
Other tournaments
Olympic Games	1R (2008)
Doubles
Career record	139–80
Career titles	4 WTA, 14 ITF
Highest ranking	36 (31 January 2011)
Current ranking	238 (7 March 2016)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	2R (2010, 2011)
French Open	2R (2008, 2015)
Wimbledon	2R (2010)
US Open	3R (2010)
Mixed doubles
Grand Slam Mixed Doubles results
Wimbledon	1R (2010)
US Open	1R (2010)
Team competitions
Fed Cup	23–16
Last updated on: 8 February 2016.

Timea Bacsinszky^[1] (born 8 June 1989) is a Swiss professional tennis player who has reached a career-high ranking of No. 10 and won three singles and four doubles titles on the WTA Tour. 2015 was a breakthrough year for her in singles, winning a career-best 15 consecutive matches spanning two titles then reaching the semifinals of the French Open, the first time she advanced past the third round of a major. She also reached her first Premier Mandatory final at the China Open.

Playing for Switzerland in the Fed Cup, Bacsinszky has a career match record of 23–16.^[2] She also has won 12 singles and 14 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit.

Personal life

Bacsinszky, who first picked up a racket at age 3, was pushed hard to succeed in youth tennis by her father Igor, a Hungarian tennis coach born in Romania.^[3][4] She has stated that she resented him for this and remains estranged from him after her parents divorced, though she still developed a passion for competitive tennis.^[5] Her mother, Suzanne, is a dentist from Hungary.^[3] She has one brother, Daniel (music teacher), and two sisters, Sophie (musician and student) and Melinda.^[3] While growing up, Bacsinszky idolized Monica Seles.

Career

2004–10

Bacsinszky's early tennis highlights included reaching the semifinals of three junior Grand Slam tournaments in 2004–05. Her breakthrough professional tournament was the 2006 Zurich Open, where she qualified then defeated Anastasia Myskina and Francesca Schiavone before losing to former No. 1 Maria Sharapova. Her early years on tour were a learning experience, and she finished both 2006 and 2007 ranked in the 120s.

Her singles ranking climbed in 2008, and she finished in the top 54 three straight years. The breakthrough was reaching the semifinals of the Diamond Games in February, winning three qualifying and several main draw matches before losing to world No. 1 Justine Henin in three sets. She won her first WTA singles title at the 2009 Luxembourg Open then won her first three doubles titles the following year.

2011–14

Bacsinszky suffered a serious foot injury in the spring of 2011, requiring surgery and a long recovery.^[6] She returned at the Fed Cup the following February then used her protected ranking to play several WTA tournaments. She also played a number of ITF Women's Circuit events. However, she decided to skip the Olympics for personal reasons^[7] and soon took a hiatus from tennis altogether. She ended up working in restaurants and bars while preparing to attend hotel management school.^[8]

In May 2013 Bacsinszky received an email stating she was eligible to compete in that month's French Open qualifier. With no practice and having to take time off work, she drove from Lausanne to Paris; she lost her first match but felt her passion for the game reignited. Thus she hired Dimitri Zavialoff, former coach of compatriot Stan Wawrinka, and committed herself to reviving her tennis career.^[8][9][10] Her gradual return to the WTA Tour reached a big milestone at the 2014 Wuhan Open when she upset No. 4 Maria Sharapova in the third round. A few weeks later she won her fourth career doubles title.

2015: Breakthrough season, first Premier Mandatory final, Top 10 debut

Bacsinszky began the year in Shenzhen, upsetting No. 4 Petra Kvitová in the semifinal before losing to No. 3 Simona Halep in her first WTA final in five years. She then reached the third round of the Australian Open followed by back-to-back titles in Mexico at Acapulco and Monterrey, beating Caroline Garcia in both finals. As a result, her ranking rose into the top 30 for the first time. She continued this good form at the Indian Wells Premier Mandatory, defeating No. 8 Ekaterina Makarova en route to the quarterfinals where she lost to No. 1 Serena Williams, thereby ending her win streak at a career-best 15 matches.^[5]

At the French Open she advanced past the third round of a Grand Slam for the first time, once again upsetting Kvitová. She made it all the way to the semifinals and a rematch with No. 1 Williams; Bacsinszky led by a set and a break but lost the last 10 games.^[11] Then after making the quarterfinals of Wimbledon her ranking rose to 13.

The U.S. hard court season however saw unstable results of the Swiss, falling in the first round of all four tournament she entered, including losing to Barbora Strýcová in her opening match at the US Open. Entering the China Open in poor form, Bacsinszky beat Italian Camila Giorgi, qualifier Mariana Duque-Marino, and three former top-10 players including Carla Suárez Navarro, Sara Errani and Ana Ivanovic to advance her first ever premier mandatory final where she lost to Garbiñe Muguruza in straight sets. Her run to the final put her in the top 10 in the WTA Rankings for the first time.

She lost out on her run to the 2015 WTA Finals, however, because the last tournament she played (Luxembourg) held its final on Saturday and the points could not count for the race. She withdrew from the 2015 WTA Elite Trophy due to a left knee injury that had already forced her retirement in her first round match in Luxembourg. After the end of the season, Bacsinszky received the WTA's Most Improved Player Award.

2016

Bacsinszky's first two tournaments both ended in defeats as she lost to Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and Anna Karolina Scmiedlová at the Brisbane International and at the Sydney International, respectively. Her next tournament was the Australian Open, where she beat Katerina Siniakova but lost to Annika Beck. At the Fed Cup, Bacsinszky lost both of her matches in Switzerland's tie against Germany, but they didn't make a harm as Germany went down to Switzerland in the doubles. She then withdrew from the Dubai Tennis Championships. At the Qatar Open, Bacsinszky defeated Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Yulia Putintseva before losing to eventual champion Carla Suárez Navarro. However, due to WTA regulations Timea was not able to defend her back-to-back title in Acapulco and Monterrey from 2015.

In March, Bacsinszky reached fourth round at Indian Wells beating Tsvetana Pironkova and Eugenie Bouchard respectively, but lost to Darya Kasatkina subsequently. She then made a surprising semifinal run at Miami Open, beating Agnieszka Radwanska and Simona Halep, two top 5 players back-to-back. She lost to Svetlana Kuznetsova in straight sets in the semifinal.

Beginning of the clay season, Bacsinszky has won her fourth WTA title of her career in Rabat, losing only 1 set in the tournament.

Sponsors

Bacsinszky uses Babolat racquets and Asics clothes, having her apparel previously supplied by Lacoste and her shoes supplied by Nike. She is also an ambassador for Japanese car manufacturer Honda.

WTA career finals

Singles: 7 (4 titles, 3 runners-up)

Legend Grand Slam tournaments (0–0) WTA Tour Championships (0–0) Premier Mandatory & Premier 5 (0–1) Premier (0–0) International (4–2)

Finals by surface Hard (3–2) Clay (1–1) Grass (0–0) Carpet (0–0)

Outcome	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Winner	25 October 2009	Luxembourg Open, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg	Hard (i)	Sabine Lisicki	6–2, 7–5
Runner-up	25 July 2010	Gastein Ladies, Bad Gastein, Austria	Clay	Julia Görges	1–6, 4–6
Runner-up	10 January 2015	Shenzhen Open, Shenzhen, China	Hard	Simona Halep	2–6, 2–6
Winner	28 February 2015	Mexican Open, Acapulco, Mexico	Hard	Caroline Garcia	6–3, 6–0
Winner	9 March 2015	Monterrey Open, Monterrey, Mexico	Hard	Caroline Garcia	4–6, 6–2, 6–4
Runner-up	11 October 2015	China Open, Beijing, China	Hard	Garbiñe Muguruza	5–7, 4–6
Winner	30 April 2016	Morocco Open, Rabat, Morocco	Clay	Marina Erakovic	6–2, 6–1

Doubles: 6 (4 titles, 2 runner-ups)

Legend Grand Slam tournaments (0–0) WTA Tour Championships (0–0) Premier Mandatory & Premier 5 (0–0) Premier (0–0) International (4–2)

Finals by surface Hard (2–0) Clay (2–2) Grass (0–0) Carpet (0–0)

Outcome	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	17 April 2010	Barcelona Ladies Open, Barcelona, Spain	Clay	Tathiana Garbin	Sara Errani Roberta Vinci	1–6, 6–3, [2–10]
Winner	11 July 2010	Budapest Grand Prix, Budapest, Hungary	Clay	Tathiana Garbin	Sorana Cîrstea Anabel Medina Garrigues	6–3, 6–3
Winner	18 July 2010	Prague Open, Prague, Czech Republic	Clay	Tathiana Garbin	Monica Niculescu Ágnes Szávay	7–5, 7–6^(7–4)
Runner-up	25 July 2010	Gastein Ladies, Bad Gastein, Austria	Clay	Tathiana Garbin	Lucie Hradecká Anabel Medina Garrigues	7–6^(7–2), 1–6, [5–10]
Winner	24 October 2010	Luxembourg Open, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg	Hard (i)	Tathiana Garbin	Iveta Benešová Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová	6–4, 6–4
Winner	19 October 2014	Luxembourg Open, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg	Hard (i)	Kristina Barrois	Lucie Hradecká Barbora Krejčíková	3–6, 6–4, [10–4]

Performance timelines

Bacsinszky at the 2014 Wimbledon qualifying tournament

Singles

Current through the 2015 China Open (tennis)

Tournament	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	SR	W–L
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open	A	Q1	A	Q3	2R	A	1R	1R	A	A	A	3R	2R	0 / 5	4–5
French Open	A	A	A	2R	2R	2R	2R	A	A	Q1	2R	SF		0 / 6	10–6
Wimbledon	A	A	A	1R	2R	2R	1R	A	A	Q2	2R	QF		0 / 6	7–6
US Open	A	A	A	1R	3R	2R	1R	A	1R	A	2R	1R		0 / 7	4–7
Win–Loss	0–0	0–0	0–0	1–3	5–4	3–3	1–4	0–1	0–1	0–0	3–3	11–4	1–1	0 / 24	25–24
WTA Premier Mandatory Tournaments
Indian Wells	A	A	A	A	A	2R	1R	2R	2R	A	A	QF	4R	0 / 6	8–6
Miami	A	A	A	A	Q1	1R	4R	2R	A	A	A	A	SF	0 / 4	8–5
Madrid	Not Held					A	Q1	A	A	A	A	1R	3R	0 / 1	0–1
Beijing	Not Tier I					A	QF	A	1R	A	A	F		0 / 3	8–3
WTA Premier 5 Tournaments
Dubai / Doha^[1]	Not Tier I				A	A	1R	2R	A	A	A	A	3R	0 / 3	3–3
Rome	A	A	A	A	Q1	A	2R	A	1R	A	A	3R		0 / 3	3–3
Montréal / Toronto	A	A	A	A	A	A	2R	A	A	A	1R	1R		0 / 3	1–3
Cincinnati	Not Tier I					A	A	A	A	A	Q1	1R		0 / 1	0–1
Tokyo / Wuhan^[2]	A	A	A	A	A	A	1R	A	A	A	QF	A		0 / 2	3–2
Career statistics
Played	2	0	3	6	16	11	21	6	6	1	10	15
Titles	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2		3
Finals	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	4		6
Overall Win–Loss	0–2	0–0	3–3	2–6	13–16	17–10	19–21	3–6	2–6	0–1	11–10	37–13		107–94
Year-end ranking	247	392	121	123	53	54	51	242	185	285	48	12		10

Doubles

Tournament	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	W–L
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open	A	A	2R	2R	A	A	A	1R	2–3
French Open	2R	A	1R	A	A	A	A	2R	2–3
Wimbledon	1R	A	2R	A	A	A	Q2	1R	1–3
US Open	1R	1R	3R	A	A	A	1R	2R	3–5
Win–Loss	1–3	0–1	4–4	1–1	0–0	0–0	0–1	2–4	8–14
Year-end ranking	180	107	37	347	125	531	138

Wins over top 10 players

#	Player	Rank	Event	Surface	Round	Score
2008
1.	Daniela Hantuchová	No. 8	Antwerp, Belgium	Hard (i)	Quarterfinals	6–2, 4–6, 4–1, retired
2010
2.	Victoria Azarenka	No. 10	Beijing, China	Hard	2nd Round	4–6, 3–2, retired
2014
3.	Maria Sharapova	No. 4	Wuhan, China	Hard	3rd Round	7–6^(7–3), 7–5
2015
4.	Petra Kvitová	No. 4	Shenzhen, China	Hard	Semifinals	6–4, 6–4
5.	Ekaterina Makarova	No. 8	Indian Wells, United States	Hard	3rd Round	3–6, 7–5, 6–4
6.	Agnieszka Radwańska	No. 9	Fed Cup, Zielona Góra, Poland	Hard (i)	RR (WG PO)	6–1, 6–1
7.	Petra Kvitová	No. 4	French Open, Paris, France	Clay	4th Round	2–6, 6–0, 6–3
2016
8.	Agnieszka Radwańska	No. 2	Miami Open, Miami, United States	Hard	4th Round	2–6, 6–4, 6–2
9.	Simona Halep	No. 5	Miami Open, Miami, United States	Hard	Quarterfinals	4–6, 6–3, 6–2

References

1. Hungarian: Bacsinszky Tímea
2. Timea Bacsinszky at the Fed Cup
3. "Timea Bacsinszky Biography". 1 March 2015. Retrieved 1 March 2015.
4. "Adversar surpriză pentru Simona Halep în finala de la Shenzhen. Va juca contra unei jucătoare pe jumătate româncă" (in Romanian). Adevărul. 9 January 2015.
5. "The Power in Her". tennis.com. Retrieved 19 March 2015.
6. "Bacsinszky breaking those percentages". Women's Tennis Association. 7 March 2012. Retrieved 26 June 2014.
7. "ITF confirms Paszek's Olympic eligibility". International Tennis Federation. 6 July 2012. Retrieved 26 June 2014.
8. Rothenberg, Ben (28 May 2014). "Trying to Keep Peace at Home, While Losing Her Peace of Mind". New York Times. Retrieved 2 June 2015.
9. http://letstalktennis.org/bacsinszky-i-had-given-up-on-tennis/
10. Thomas, Louisa (1 June 2015). "Clay Courage: The Unlikely Rise of Timea Bacsinszky at the French Open". Grantland. Retrieved 2 June 2015.
11. "Serena Williams beats Timea Bacsinszky to reach French Open final – as it happened". theguardian.com. Retrieved 4 June 2015.

External links

• Timea Bacsinszky at the Women's Tennis Association
• Timea Bacsinszky at the International Tennis Federation
• Timea Bacsinszky at the Fed Cup
• Official website