Eleni Daniilidou

Eleni Daniilidou
Eleni Daniilidou at Wimbledon in 2005
Nation:	Greece
Birthday:	September 19, 1982
Size:	182 cm
Weight:	72 kg
1st professional season:	1996
Playing hand:	Right
Prize money:	$ 2,929,165
singles
Career record:	509: 431
Career title:	5 WTA , 11 ITF
Highest ranking:	14 (May 12, 2003)
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	298: 277
Career title:	3 WTA, 16 ITF
Highest ranking:	21 (January 29, 2007)
Current placement:	766
Grand Slam record
Mixed
Grand Slam record
Last update of the infobox: July 1st, 2019
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Eleni Daniilidou ( Greek Ελένη Δανιηλίδου , born September 19, 1982 in Chania ) is a Greek tennis player .

Career

Between 2002 and 2007 (with the exception of 2005) she was one of the 50 best players in the WTA world rankings . In Grand Slam tournaments she was three times in the round of 16; At Wimbledon in 2002 she lost 6-1 in the third set against Jennifer Capriati , who was seeded at 3 , at the Australian Open the following year she ended up against the later tournament winner Serena Williams and at the US Open in 2004 she was eliminated with 6-3 in the third set against Shinobu Asagoe . In 2005 she prevailed against Justine Henin in the first round of Wimbledon , with which the Belgian conceded her first defeat after 24 victories in a row.

On the WTA Tour , Daniilidou entered the list of winners five times in singles. She celebrated her first WTA title in 2002 at the lawn tournament in 's-Hertogenbosch . In the same year she was at the Tier II tournament of Costa do Sauípe in the final, which she lost to Anastassija Myskina . Daniilidou also won the Auckland WTA tournament twice (2003, 2004) and the Seoul WTA tournament once (2006). At the start of the 2008 season, she won her last title so far at the Hobart tournament .

At the side of doubles specialist Todd Woodbridge , she celebrated her entry into the final in the mixed competition of the Australian Open in 2003 . In 2006 she moved to the semi-finals of the French Open together with Anabel Medina Garrigues ; they were defeated there by Lisa Raymond and Samantha Stosur 2: 6 and 2: 6.

In 2010 she won an ITF tournament in Athens, where she defeated Anna-Lena Grönefeld in the first round . She also reached the quarter-finals in Linz , where she won her first victory on the WTA Tour in two years; the quarter-final they then lost to Andrea Petković . In 2014 she was at the side of Kristina Barrois once again in the semifinals of a WTA tournament; in Bad Gastein they were defeated by the twin sisters Karolína and Kristýna Plíšková in two smooth sentences.

For the Greek Fed Cup team , for which she first appeared in 1998, she scored 29 wins in 44 games.

Daniilidou played her last professional tournament so far in December 2018 in Solarino .

Tournament victories

singles

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1	June 22, 2002	's-Hertogenbosch	WTA Tier III	race	Jelena Dementjewa	3: 6, 6: 2, 6: 3
2	January 4, 2003	Auckland	WTA Tier IV	Hard court	Cho Yoon-jeong	6: 4, 4: 6, 7: 6 2
3	January 10, 2004	Auckland	WTA Tier IV	Hard court	Ashley Harkleroad	6: 3, 6: 2
4th	October 1, 2006	Seoul	WTA Tier IV	Hard court	Ai Sugiyama	6: 3, 2: 6, 7: 6 3
5	January 11, 2008	Hobart	WTA Tier IV	Hard court	Vera Swonaryova	without a fight

Double

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Partner	Final opponents	Result
1	July 18, 2004	Stanford	WTA Tier II	Hard court	Nicole Pratt	Claudine Schaul Iveta Benešová	6: 2, 6: 4
2	August 1, 2010	Istanbul	WTA International	Hard court	Jasmin Woehr	Marija Kondratjewa Vladimíra Uhlířová	6: 4, 1: 6, [11: 9]
3	17th September 2011	Tashkent	WTA International	Hard court	Vitalia Dyachenko	Lyudmyla Kitschenok Nadija Kitschenok	6: 4, 6: 3

Web links

Commons : Eleni Daniilidou  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• WTA profile of Eleni Daniilidou (English)
• ITF profile Eleni Daniilidou (English)
• Fed Cup stats by Eleni Daniilidou (English)
• Website of Eleni Daniilidou