Anikó Kapros

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Anikó Kapros Tennis player
Nation: HungaryHungary Hungary
Birthday: November 11, 1983
Size: 173 cm
Playing hand: Right, two-handed backhand
Prize money: $ 490,850
singles
Career record: 197: 184
Career title: 0 WTA , 2 ITF
Highest ranking: 44 (May 10, 2004)
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record: 25:43
Career title: 0 WTA, 4 ITF
Highest ranking: 222 (February 8, 2010)
Grand Slam record
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Anikó Kapros (born November 11, 1983 in Budapest ) is a former Hungarian tennis player .

Career

Kapros, who loved to play hard courts, started playing tennis at the age of five.

In 2000 she triumphed in the finals of the jury singles and doubles at the Australian Open . In singles, she beat María José Martínez Sánchez 6: 2, 3: 6, 6: 2 and in doubles alongside Christian Wheeler, the pairing Lauren Barnikow / Erin Burdette 6: 3 and 6: 4.

Kapros won two singles and four doubles titles at the ITF Women's Circuit during her career . On the WTA Tour she reached a final with the AIG Japan Open Tennis Championships 2003 , which she lost to Marija Sharapova 6: 2, 2: 6 and 6: 7 5 .

For her country of birth, she took part in the 2004 Summer Olympics in doubles in Athens . At Melinda Czink's side , she lost in the first round to the Japanese pairing Akiko Morigami / Saori Obata 6: 3, 5: 7 and 3: 6.

Between 2002 and 2010 she played for the Hungarian Fed Cup team , for which she won three of their nine games.

Tournament victories

singles

No. date competition category Topping Final opponent Result
1. February 2001 United StatesUnited States Clearwater ITF $ 25,000 Hard court RussiaRussia Alina Schidkova 6: 3, 6: 2
2. May 2006 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Beijing ITF $ 25,000 Hard court (hall) China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Xie Yanze 6: 4, 6: 2

Double

No. date competition category Topping Partner Final opponents Result
1. March 2009 EgyptEgypt Cairo ITF $ 25,000 sand HungaryHungary Katalin Marosi United StatesUnited States Megan Moulton-Levy Laura Siegemund
GermanyGermany 
7: 5, 6: 3
2. May 2009 ItalyItaly Grado ITF $ 25,000 sand AustriaAustria Sandra Klemenschits ArgentinaArgentina Jorgelina Cravero Anna Tatishvili
GeorgiaGeorgia 
6: 3, 6: 0
3. June 2009 ItalyItaly Padova ITF $ 25,000 sand AustriaAustria Sandra Klemenschits ItalyItaly Elena Pioppo Valentina Sulpizio
ItalyItaly 
7: 6, 6: 1
4th October 2009 United StatesUnited States Las Vegas ITA $ 25,000 Hard court ArgentinaArgentina Agustina Lepore United StatesUnited States Kimberly Couts Lindsay Lee-Waters
United StatesUnited States 
6: 2, 7: 5

Performing in Grand Slam tournaments

singles

competition 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 Career
Australian Open - 1 1 AF 1 AF
French Open - 3 - 1 - 3
Wimbledon - - 3 2 - 3
US Open 1 - 1 1 - 1

Double

competition 2004 2005 Career
Australian Open 2 1 2
French Open - - -
Wimbledon - - -
US Open - - -

Personal

She married in 2012 and had a daughter in 2013. Her mother, Anikó Kéry , won a bronze medal in the team all- round competition of gymnastics competitions at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Bolondul a lányáért Kapros Anikó. In: borsonline.hu. December 6, 2013, accessed March 22, 2020 (Hungarian).