Corina Morariu

Corina Morariu
Corina Morariu 2007 at the Acura Classic
Nation:	United States
Birthday:	January 26, 1978
Size:	174 cm
1st professional season:	1994
Resignation:	September 19, 2007
Playing hand:	Right
Prize money:	$ 1,733,916
singles
Career record:	160: 134
Career title:	1 WTA , 5 ITF
Highest ranking:	29 (August 24 1998)
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	248: 158
Career title:	13 WTA, 9 ITF
Highest ranking:	1 (April 3, 2000)
Weeks as No. 1:	7th
Grand Slam record
Mixed
Grand Slam record
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Corina Morariu (born January 26, 1978 in Detroit , Michigan ) is a former American tennis player of Romanian descent.

Career

Corina Morariu was best known as a dual specialist. At the side of Lindsay Davenport she won the Wimbledon Championships in 1999 and with her she was in the final of the Australian Open in 2005 . Together with the South African Ellis Ferreira , she secured the mixed title at the Australian Open in 2001 .

Morariu won a total of one single and 14 double titles in her career. On April 3, 2000 she was number 1 in the double world rankings for the first time , which she led for a total of seven weeks.

In 2001 the American was diagnosed with leukemia . After her recovery - she had undergone chemotherapy , among other things - she returned to the tour. After her defeat in the quarter-finals of the US Open , Corina Morariu announced her resignation on September 19, 2007.

Tournament victories

singles

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	May 2, 1999	Bol	WTA Tier IVa	sand	Julie Halard-Decugis	6: 2, 6: 0

Double

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Partner	Final opponents	Result
1.	November 22, 1997	Pattaya	WTA Tier IV	Hard court	Kristine Kunce	Florencia Labat Dominique Van Roost	6: 3, 6: 4
2.	January 8, 1999	Gold coast	WTA Tier III	Hard court	Larisa Neiland	Kristine Kunce Irina Spîrlea	6: 3, 6: 3
3.	April 17, 1999	Tokyo	WTA Tier III	Hard court	Kimberly Po	Catherine Barclay-Reitz Kerry-Anne Guse	6: 3, 6: 2
4th	June 12, 1999	Birmingham	WTA Tier III	race	Larisa Neiland	Alexandra Fusai Inés Gorrochategui	6: 4, 6: 4
5.	July 3, 1999	Wimbledon	Grand Slam	race	Lindsay Davenport	Mariaan de Swardt Olena Tatarkowa	6: 4, 6: 4
6th	July 31, 1999	Stanford	WTA Tier II	Hard court	Lindsay Davenport	Anna Kurnikowa Jelena Lichowzewa	6: 4, 6: 4
7th	August 7, 1999	San Diego	WTA Tier II	Hard court	Lindsay Davenport	Serena Williams Venus Williams	6: 4, 6: 1
8th.	February 26, 2000	Oklahoma	WTA Tier III	Hard court (hall)	Kimberly Po	Tamarine Tanasugarn Olena Tatarkowa	6: 4, 4: 6, 6: 2
9.	March 17, 2000	Indian Wells	WTA Tier I	Hard court	Lindsay Davenport	Anna Kurnikowa Natallja Swerava	6: 2, 6: 3
10.	May 6, 2000	Bol	WTA Tier III	sand	Julie Halard-Decugis	Tina Križan Katarina Srebotnik	6: 2, 6: 2
11.	October 14, 2000	Tokyo	WTA Tier III	Hard court	Julie Halard-Decugis	Tina Križan Katarina Srebotnik	6: 1, 6: 2
12.	January 12, 2006	Sydney	WTA Tier II	Hard court	Rennae Stubbs	Virginia Ruano Pascual Paola Suarez	6: 3, 5: 7, 6: 2
13.	September 16, 2006	Bali	WTA Tier III	Hard court	Lindsay Davenport	Natalie Grandin Trudi Musgrave	6: 3, 6: 4

Mixed

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	January 28, 2001	Australian Open	Grand Slam	Hard court	Ellis Ferreira	Barbara Schett Joshua Eagle	6: 1, 6: 3

Performing in Grand Slam tournaments

Double

competition	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	Career
Australian Open	-	2	2	2	HF	F.	-	-	AF	F.	1	1	F.
French Open	1	1	AF	2	-	-	-	1	-	HF	-	1	HF
Wimbledon	1	2	2	S.	-	-	-	1	-	2	-	1	S.
US Open	AF	1	1	VF	-	-	VF	1	2	VF	2	VF	VF

Awards

Corina Morariu at the 2009 US Open

• In 2002 she received the first Corina Comeback Award . The prize was named after Morariu by the WTA and presented to her as the first prize winner by Jennifer Capriati .
• In 2002 she received another WTA Tour Comeback Player of the Year award from the WTA .

After her tennis career

Morariu has been a commentator for the US TV broadcaster Tennis Channel since the French Open 2009 .

In February 2010, she published her first book entitled Living through the Racket: How I Survived Leukemia and Rediscovered My Self .

Web links

Commons : Corina Morariu  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• WTA profile Corina Morariu (English)
• ITF profile Corina Morariu (English)
• Fed Cup stats by Corina Morariu (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Corina Morariu happy to be on tour. Retrieved December 27, 2014 . 
2. ↑ Corina Morariu (liquisearch.com, accessed on September 10, 2015)
3. ↑ WTA Player Profile Corina Morariu - Career in Review (wtatennis.com, accessed on September 10, 2015)
4. ↑ Kleybanova named WTA comeback player of the year (norcaltennisczar.blogsport.de, accessed on September 10, 2015)
5. ↑ Living through the Racket: How I Survived Leukemia.and Rediscovered My Self (amazon.com, accessed September 10, 2015)
6. ↑ Corina  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (tennischannel.com, accessed September 10, 2015)