Samantha Stosur

Samantha Stosur

Country (sports)	Australia
Residence	Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
Height	5' 7 3/4" (1.72 m)
Turned pro	1999
Plays	Right (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	$3,109,545
Singles
Career record	222–183
Career titles	0 WTA, 4 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 27 (January 8, 2007)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	4r (2006)
French Open	3r (2007)
Wimbledon	2r (2006, 2007, 2008)
US Open	2r (2004)
Doubles
Career record	284–121
Career titles	22 WTA, 11 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 1 (February 6, 2006)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open	F (2006)
French Open	W (2006)
Wimbledon	F (2008)
US Open	W (2005)
Other doubles tournaments
Tour Finals	W (2005, 2006)
Last updated on: September 22, 2008.

Samantha Stosur (born March 30 1984 in Brisbane, Queensland) is an Australian professional tennis player. She is a former world No. 1 on WTA Tour in doubles, together with Lisa Raymond from the United States.

Tennis career

Early career

Stosur first played professional tennis in 1999 on the ITF circuit. In 2000 she debuted on the Women's Tennis Association tour where she lost in the first qualifying round of the Australian Open. In 2001 she won four straight ITF titles. In 2002 she lost in the first round at the Gold Coast event.

In 2003 Stosur won her first WTA singles match on home soil where she reached the third round of the Australian Open. She lost in the third round 6–4, 6–2 to No. 7 seed, Daniela Hantuchová. She also qualified for a WTA event in Memphis.

In 2004 Stosur reached the semifinals of the Gold Coast event, before falling to Ai Sugiyama 7–5, 3–6, 6–3. The next week she reached the second round of the WTA tournament in Hobart, then the second round of the Australian Open. She later successfully qualified for WTA events in Acapulco, Indian Wells, Vienna and Birmingham. Stosur competed at the Athens Olympics, where she lost in the first round. She continued to play WTA qualifying events, successfully qualifying for the Japan Open and Bali in the autumn of 2004. At the end of the 2004 season, Stosur reached the doubles final in Quebéc City, partnering Els Callens from Belgium.

2005

In 2005 Stosur reached her first WTA tour final at her home event in Gold Coast, losing to Patty Schnyder. She was also a runner-up at the Sydney event, where she lost an all-Australian final to Alicia Molik 6-7(5), 6-4, 7-5, and won her first doubles title partnering Australian Bryanne Stewart at the same tournament. Stosur lost to World no.2 Amélie Mauresmo 6–2, 6–3 in the first round of the Australian Open, but won the mixed doubles title with Scott Draper over Liezel Huber and Kevin Ullyett.

In the summer she teamed up with American tennis player Lisa Raymond, winning seven WTA doubles titles until the end of the year, including the U.S. Open, the Kremlin Cup and the WTA Tour Championships. Stosur finished the year ranked #46 in singles and #2 in doubles.

2006

In 2006 Stosur represented Australia along with Todd Reid at the Hopman Cup and won all of her singles matches. After that, she lost in the first round of Sydney in a three-setter against Czech Nicole Vaidisova, 6-4, 4-6, 6-1. At the 2006 Australian Open, Stosur made it to the fourth round in singles, falling to Martina Hingis 6-1, 7-6(8). She and Lisa Raymond also made it to the Women's Doubles final, being defeated by Chinese duo Yan Zi and Zheng Jie, 2-6, 7-6(7), 6-3.

In February, Stosur reached the quarterfinals at the Tier I event in Tokyo, beating no. 6 seed Daniela Hantuchová 7-6(5), 6-2 before falling to no. 1 seed Maria Sharapova 6-1, 6-4. In doubles, after losing at the Australian Open, Stosur and Raymond won 18 straight matches, winning titles in Tokyo, Memphis, Indian Wells and Miami. They also won in Charleston, at the French Open and the WTA Tour Championships.

On the 28th of August, after reaching the semifinals at New Haven, where she lost to Lindsay Davenport in two tiebreakers, Stosur achieved a career-high ranking of number 30. She finished off the year winning the doubles title at the WTA Tour Championships in Madrid, ranked #1 in doubles and a career-high #29 in singles.

2007

Stosur, together with Lisa Raymond, successfully defended her doubles titles titles in Tokyo, Indian Wells and Miami. The duo also won the German Open in Berlin. In singles, Stosur reached three quarterfinals, at Gold Coast, Tokyo and Memphis. In Rome, she defeated #1 seed Amélie Mauresmo in the second round before losing to Patty Schnyder in the following.

After the French Open, Stosur started showing symptoms of what would only after months be diagnosed as Lyme disease, an infection transmitted by the bite of ticks. By then she had slumped to a 2nd round defeat in Wimbledon and withdrawn from many tournaments on the US hardcourt circuit before losing in the 1st round of the U.S. Open, where she was the 29th seed, to then ranked no. 96 Alizé Cornet of France. Stosur did not play any more tournaments in 2007.

2008

Stosur was scheduled to make a comeback at the Gold Coast tournament. However, it was announced on her website that she would take an extended break to fully recover from her illness. Stosur stated that she was aiming to make a comeback in March, at Indian Wells. Her comeback was then further delayed, after she injured her shoulder in training. She has a protected ranking of 46, which she can use for 8 tournaments over 6 months.

Stosur returned playing two ITF Tournaments before the 2008 Rome Masters, in May, where she was defeated in the second round by Venus Williams 6-4, 6-1. The tournament also saw the return of the doubles team of Stosur and Lisa Raymond with a second round loss. Less than a month later they were defeated in the third round of the 2008 French Open, where Stosur reached the second round of singles losing to Petra Kvitova 6-2, 6-1.

As a qualifier, Stosur entered Birmingham and was ousted in the second round by eventual champion Kateryna Bondarenko 6-3, 6-2. Stosur and Raymond were defeated in the first round, and at the 2008 International Women's Open in Eastbourne they fell in the quarterfinals to the no.2 seeded pair of Kveta Peschke and Rennae Stubbs. Stosur also played her way into the singles semifinals, defeating Caroline Wozniacki 7-6(3), 6-4 before losing to no.8 seed Nadia Petrova in straight sets.

Stosur showed great promise at Wimbledon; while only making the second round in Singles, losing to Nicole Vaidisova 6-2, 0-6, 6-4, she made the finals of both the Ladies and Mixed Doubles. Partnering Lisa Raymond, they lost the final to Venus Williams and Serena Williams, both of whom were in the singles final, 6-2, 6-2. Partnering Bob Bryan, they overcame Mike Bryan and Katarina Srebotnik 7-5, 6-4 to win the title.

After losing in the final round of the Stanford qualifying draw to eventual champion Aleksandra Wozniak 6-4, 6-2, Stosur entered the event as a lucky loser after Lindsay Davenport withdrew. She defeated the no.3 seed Vera Zvonareva 6-3, 6-2 to reach the quarterfinals, where she was again defeated by Wozniak, 6-2, 5-7, 6-4. In Los Angeles, Stosur beat Shahar Pe'er 6-1, 6-1 and was later defeated in the third round by Victoria Azarenka 6-4, 7-6(4). Raymond and Stosur were eliminated in the semifinals by top seeds Chan Yung-Jan and Chuang Chia-Jung.

At the Beijing Olympics, Stosur was defeated in the second round of the singles tournament by no.4 seed Serena Williams. In doubles, the former world no.1 partnered Rennae Stubbs, ranked no.5 in the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour Doubles Rankings at the time; however, the pair was unseeded as the ITF determined the seedings for the doubles competition based on both singles and doubles rankings standings. The Australians ended up on losing in the second round to the Spanish team of Anabel Medina Garrigues and Virginia Ruano Pascual 4-6, 6-4, 6-4, then ranked no.2 in the Race to the Sony Ericsson Championships.

At the US Open, Stosur lost in the first round of singles to seventh seed Venus Williams 6-2, 6-3. Partnering Mahesh Bhupathi, she was eliminated in the second round of the mixed doubles competition by Rennae Stubbs and Robert Lindstedt 2-6, 6-3, 12-10. Raymond and Stosur were runners-up at the women's doubles event, losing to no.1 ranked team of Cara Black and Liezel Huber 6-3, 7-6(6).

At the Toray Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo, Raymond and Stosur reached their third final of the year, this time falling to Nadia Petrova and Vania King 6-1, 6-4. Stosur was also the runner-up at the Hansol Korea Open Tennis Championships in Seoul, losing to top seed Maria Kirilenko 2-6 6-1 6-4 in the final.

Her next scheduled tournament is the AIG Japan Open Tennis Championships in Tokyo.

Grand Slam Doubles Finals (4)

Wins (2)

Year	Championship	Partner	Opponents in Final	Score in Final
2005	US Open	Lisa Raymond	Elena Dementieva Flavia Pennetta	6–2, 5–7, 6–3
2006	French Open	Lisa Raymond	Daniela Hantuchová Ai Sugiyama	6–3, 6–2

Runner-Up (2)

Year	Championship	Partner	Opponents in Final	Score in Final
2006	Australian Open	Lisa Raymond	Yan Zi Zheng Jie	2–6, 7–6(7), 6–3
2008	Wimbledon	Lisa Raymond	Serena Williams Venus Williams	6–2, 6–2
2008	US Open	Lisa Raymond	Cara Black Liezel Huber	6–3, 7–6(6)

Mixed Doubles Wins (2)

Year	Championship	Partner	Opponents in Final	Score in Final
2005	Australian Open	Scott Draper	Liezel Huber Kevin Ullyett	6–2, 2–6, 7–6(6)
2008	Wimbledon	Bob Bryan	Katarina Srebotnik Mike Bryan	7–5, 6–4

WTA Tour Finals (32)

Doubles (29)

Wins (22)

Legend Grand Slam (2) WTA Championships (2) Tier I (9) Tier II (7) Tier III (2) Tier IV & V (0) Olympic Games (0)

Titles by surface Hard 15 Clay 4 Grass 1 Carpet 2

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score
1.	January 15, 2005	Sydney, Australia	Hard	Bryanne Stewart	Elena Dementieva Ai Sugiyama	walkover
2.	April 10, 2005	Amelia Island, United States	Green Clay	Bryanne Stewart	Květa Peschke Patty Schnyder	6–4, 6–2
3.	August 27, 2005	New Haven, United States	Hard	Lisa Raymond	Gisela Dulko Maria Kirilenko	6–2, 6–7, 6–1
4.	September 10, 2005	U.S. Open, New York City, USA	Hard	Lisa Raymond	Elena Dementieva Flavia Pennetta	6–2, 5–7, 6–3
5.	October 2, 2005	Luxembourg, Luxembourg	Hard Indoors	Lisa Raymond	Cara Black Rennae Stubbs	7–5, 6–1
6.	October 16, 2005	Moscow, Russia	Carpet	Lisa Raymond	Cara Black Rennae Stubbs	6–2, 6–4
7.	November 13, 2005	WTA Tour Championships, United States	Hard Indoors	Lisa Raymond	Cara Black Rennae Stubbs	6–7, 7–5, 6–4
8.	February 5, 2006	Tokyo, Japan	Carpet	Lisa Raymond	Cara Black Rennae Stubbs	6–2, 6–1
9.	February 25, 2006	Memphis, United States	Hard Indoors	Lisa Raymond	Victoria Azarenka Caroline Wozniacki	7–6, 6–3
10.	March 18, 2006	Indian Wells, United States	Hard	Lisa Raymond	Virginia Ruano Pascual Meghann Shaughnessy	6–2, 7–5
11.	April 1, 2006	Miami, United States	Hard	Lisa Raymond	Liezel Huber Martina Navratilova	6–4, 7–5
12.	April 16, 2006	Charleston, United States	Green Clay	Lisa Raymond	Virginia Ruano Pascual Meghann Shaughnessy	3–6, 6–1, 6–1
13.	June 10, 2006	Roland Garros, Paris, France	Red Clay	Lisa Raymond	Daniela Hantuchová Ai Sugiyama	6–3, 6–2
14.	October 8, 2006	Stuttgart, Germany	Hard Indoors	Lisa Raymond	Cara Black Rennae Stubbs	6–3, 6–4
15.	October 29, 2006	Linz, Austria	Hard Indoors	Lisa Raymond	Corina Morariu Katarina Srebotnik	6–3, 6–0
16.	November 5, 2006	Hasselt, Belgium	Hard Indoors	Lisa Raymond	Eleni Daniilidou Jasmin Wöhr	6–2, 6–3
17.	November 12, 2006	WTA Tour Championships, Spain	Hard Indoors	Lisa Raymond	Cara Black Rennae Stubbs	3–6, 6–3, 6–3
18.	February 4, 2007	Tokyo, Japan	Hard	Lisa Raymond	Vania King Rennae Stubbs	7–6, 3–6, 7–5
19.	March 17, 2007	Indian Wells, United States	Hard	Lisa Raymond	Chan Yung-jan Chuang Chia-jung	6–3, 7–5
20.	April 3, 2007	Miami, United States	Hard	Lisa Raymond	Cara Black Liezel Huber	6–4, 3–6, [10-2]
21.	May 7, 2007	Berlin, Germany	Clay	Lisa Raymond	Tathiana Garbin Roberta Vinci	6–3, 6–4
22.	June 23, 2007	Eastbourne, England	Grass	Lisa Raymond	Květa Peschke Rennae Stubbs	6–7(5), 6–4, 6–3

Runner-ups (7)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents in Final	Score in Final
1.	November 7, 2004	Quebec City, Canada	Hard Indoors	Els Callens	Carly Gullickson Maria Emilia Salerni	7-5, 7-5
2.	November 6, 2005	Philadelphia, United States	Hard Indoors	Lisa Raymond	Cara Black Rennae Stubbs	6-4, 7-6(4)
3.	January 27, 2006	Australian Open, Melbourne	Hard	Lisa Raymond	Yan Zi Zheng Jie	2-6, 7-6(7), 6-3
4.	August 26, 2006	New Haven, United States	Hard	Lisa Raymond	Yan Zi Zheng Jie	6-4, 6-2
5.	July 5, 2008	Wimbledon, London	Grass	Lisa Raymond	Serena Williams Venus Williams	6-2, 6-2
6.	September 7, 2008	US Open, New York	Hard	Lisa Raymond	Cara Black Liezel Huber	6-3, 7-6(6)
7.	September 21, 2008	Tokyo, Japan	Hard	Lisa Raymond	Vania King Nadia Petrova	6-1, 6-4

Singles (4)

Runner-ups (4)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in Final	Score in Final
1.	January 8, 2005	Gold Coast, Australia	Hard	Patty Schnyder	1-6, 6-3, 7-5
2.	January 15, 2005	Sydney, Australia	Hard	Alicia Molik	6-7(5) 6-4, 7-5
3.	May 4, 2006	Prague, Czech Republic	Clay	Shahar Pe'er	4-6, 6-2, 6-1
4.	September 28, 2008	Seoul, Korea	Hard	Maria Kirilenko	2-6, 6-2, 6-4

ITF Titles (15)

Singles (4)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	Sep. 16, 2001	ITF/Ibaraki, Japan	Hard	Nicole Kriz	6–0, 6–1
2.	Sep. 23, 2001	ITF/Osaka, Japan	Hard	Beti Sekulovski	6–2, 3–6, 7–5
3.	Sep. 30, 2001	ITF/Kyoto, Japan	Hard Indoors	Jin-Hee Kim	6–1, 7–5
4.	Oct. 21, 2001	ITF/Cairns, Australia	Hard	Bryanne Stewart	7–5, 6–4

Doubles (11)

• 2001: Benalla (/w Monique Adamczak)
• 2001: Ibaraki (/w Julian Dowse)
• 2001: Osaka (/w Julian Dowse)
• 2001: Kyoto (/w Julian Dowse)
• 2001: Nuriootpa (/w Evie Dominikovic)
• 2001: Mount Gambier (/w Evie Dominikovic)

• 2002: Bendigo (/w S Stone)
• 2002: Warrnambool (/w S Stone)
• 2002: Lenzerneide (/w N. Sewell)
• 2002: Bath (/w S Stone)
• 2002: Dalby (/w Evie Dominikovic)

Singles Performance Timeline

To prevent confusion and double counting, information in this table is updated only once a tournament or the player's participation in the tournament has concluded.

Tournament	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	Career W/L
Grand Slams
Australian Open	A	A	A	1R	3R	2R	1R	4R	2R	A	7-6
French Open	A	A	A	A	A	1R	2R	1R	3R	2R	4-5
Wimbledon	A	A	A	A	1R	1R	1R	2R	2R	2R	3-6
U.S. Open	A	A	A	A	A	2R	1R	1R	1R	1R	1-5
Grand Slam W/L	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-1	2-2	2-4	1-4	4-4	4-4	2-3	15-22
WTA Tour Tier I
Doha	Not Tier I									A	0-0
Tokyo	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	QF	QF	A	4-2
Indian Wells	A	A	A	A	A	3R	3R	2R	3R	A	5-4
Miami	A	A	A	A	A	A	1R	2R	3R	A	2-3
Charleston	A	A	A	A	A	A	2R	1R	1R	A	1-3
Berlin	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	1R	A	0-1
Rome	A	A	A	A	A	A	2R	2R	3R	2R	5-4
San Diego	Not Tier I					A	1R	2R	A	Not Held	1-2
Montreal/Toronto	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	0-0
Moscow	A	A	A	A	A	A	2R	2R	A		2-2
Zurich	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	2R	A	Not Tier I	1-1
Tier I W/L	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	2-1	4-6	8-8	6-6	1-1	21-22
Career Statistics
Overall W/L1	1-3	6-7	36-11	24-27	20-24	41-28	23-25	33-26	17-18	21-12	222-181
Win %	25%	46%	77%	47%	45%	59%	48%	56%	49%	64%	55%
Year End Ranking	Unknown	682	271	265	153	65	46	29	46		N/A

• ¹ Includes ITF tournaments.

Women's Doubles Performance Timeline

Tournament	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	Career SR	Career W/L
Grand Slams
Australian Open	A	A	A	1R	1R	2R	2R	F	SF	A	0 / 6	11-6
French Open	A	A	A	A	A	3R	3R	W	SF	3R	1 / 5	16-4
Wimbledon	A	A	A	A	2R	2R	SF	3R	SF	F	0 / 6	15-4
U.S. Open	A	A	A	A	2R	3R	W	SF	3R	F	1 / 6	22-7
Grand Slam SR	0 / 0	0 / 0	0 / 0	0 / 1	0 / 3	0 / 4	1 / 4	1 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 3	2 / 21	N/A
Grand Slam W/L	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-1	2-3	6-4	13-3	17-3	14-4	12-3	N/A	64-21
WTA Tour Championships
WTA Tour Championships	A	A	A	A	A	A	W	W	A		2 / 2	4-4
WTA Tour Tier I
Doha	Not Tier I									A	0 / 0	0–0
Tokyo	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	W	W	F	2 / 3	11-1
Indian Wells	A	A	A	A	A	A	1R	W	W	A	2 / 3	10-1
Miami	A	A	A	A	A	A	2R	W	W	A	2 / 3	11-1
Charleston	A	A	A	A	A	A	QF	W	2R	A	1 / 3	6-2
Berlin	A	A	A	A	A	2R	A	A	W	A	1 / 2	5-1
Rome	A	A	A	A	A	A	1R	2R	2R	2R	0 / 4	1-4
San Diego	Not Tier I					A	2R	SF	A	Not Held	0 / 2	2-2
Montreal/Toronto	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	0 / 0	0-0
Moscow	A	A	A	A	A	A	W	1R	A		1 / 2	4-1
Zurich	A	A	A	A	A	A	SF	SF	A	Not Tier I	0 / 2	4-2
Tier I SR	0 / 0	0 / 0	0 / 0	0 / 0	0 / 0	0 / 1	1 / 7	4 / 8	4 / 6	0 / 2	9 / 24	N/A
Tier I W/L	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	1-1	9-6	22-4	18-2	4-2	N/A	54-15
Career Statistics
Runner-Up	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	2	0	2	5	N/A
Tournaments Won	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	10	5	0	22	N/A
Overall W/L1	0-1	1-4	31-5	47-21	19-22	21-20	46-18	60-13	37-7	22-10	N/A	284-121
Win %	0%	20%	86%	69%	46%	51%	72%	82%	84%	69%	N/A	70%
Year End Ranking	Unknown		291	131	141	53	2	1	5		N/A	N/A

• ¹ Includes ITF tournaments.

Women's Grand Slam mixed doubles performance timeline

To prevent confusion and double counting, information in this table is updated only once a tournament or the player's participation in the tournament has concluded.

Tournament	2005	2006	2007	2008	Career W/L
Grand Slams
Australian Open	W	SF	QF	A	16-2
French Open	SF	A	QF		9-2
Wimbledon	QF	QF	3R	W	17-3
U.S. Open	A	A	A	2R	1-1
Grand Slam Win-Loss	16-2	9-2	6-2	8-1	39-7

References

• [1] Sports Illustrated column by doubles partner Lisa Raymond

External links

• Samantha Stosur Official Website
• Samantha Stosur at the Women's Tennis Association
• Australian Open Profile