Timea Bacsinszky

Timea Bacsinszky

Timea Bacsinszky at the 2015 French Open

Nickname:

Timi

Nation:

Switzerland

Birthday:

June 8, 1989

Size:

170 cm

Weight:

62 kg

1st professional season:

2004

Playing hand:

Right, two-handed backhand

Trainer:

Dimitri Tsawialoff

Prize money:

$ 6,665,012

singles

Career record:

422: 246

Career title:

4 WTA , 12 ITF

Highest ranking:

9 (May 16, 2016)

Current placement:

291

Grand Slam record

Grand Slam title: 00000 0

Australian Open	3R (2015, 2017, 2019)
French Open	HF (2015, 2017)
Wimbledon	VF (2015)
US Open	3R (2008)

Double

Career record:

171: 106

Career title:

5 WTA, 1 WTA Challenger, 14 ITF

Highest ranking:

36 (January 31, 2011)

Current placement:

267

Grand Slam record

Grand Slam title: 00000 0

Australian Open	2R (2010, 2011)
French Open	2R (2008, 2015)
Wimbledon	2R (2010)
US Open	AF (2010, 2018)

Mixed

Grand Slam record

Grand Slam title: 00000 0

Australian Open	1R (2019)
French Open	-
Wimbledon	-
US Open	-

Olympic games

Olympic medals:


silver	2016 Rio de Janeiro	Double

Last update of the infobox:
March 16, 2020

Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Timea Bacsinszky (born June 8, 1989 in Lausanne ) is a Swiss tennis player .

Career

Bacsinszky became Swiss Junior Champion in 2000. At the age of 12 she won the prestigious junior tournament Les Petits As in Tarbes . In 2003 she won the tournament again, like Martina Hingis eleven years earlier. One day after her 14th birthday, she played her first tournament on the WTA Tour , the Zurich Open , for which she had received a wildcard for qualification ; However, she had to cancel her second round game due to an adductor injury . She received an invitation from those responsible for the Swiss Fed Cup team , for which she has now played 43 games and celebrated 23 victories.

First successes on the professional tour

At the end of 2004 she was number 224 in the WTA world rankings . Because of problems with the Swiss Tennis Federation Swiss Tennis , however, and disputes with the Fed Cup team and a tournament break they fell back by the end of 2005. With the Fed Cup team, she lost to Japan, but defeated a top 100 player for the first time.

Two ITF tournament victories followed, and in May 2006 she appeared on the seed list of a WTA tournament in Strasbourg for the first time. At the Zurich Open she then defeated two top ten players and made it to the quarter-finals.

With a victory over Anda Perianu in the third qualifying round of the French Open , Bacsinszky was in the main draw of a Grand Slam tournament for the first time in 2007 ; with a victory in round one over Zheng Jie , she improved to 89th place in the world rankings. She was also in the main field for Wimbledon , but failed immediately at Wera Duschewina .

2008-2010

Bacsinszky 2008 in Budapest

At the start of the season at the Gold Coast WTA tournament , Bacsinszky was eliminated in two sets against Flavia Pennetta after successfully qualifying . She also survived qualification at the Australian Open ; she defeated the Australian Sophie Ferguson 6: 4, 6: 3 and then lost to Sania Mirza with 1: 6, 6: 4 and 5: 7. In February in Antwerp she defeated Wolha Hawarzowa 6: 3, 3: 6 and 7: 5 after surviving the qualification after she had fought off a match point in the third set when the score was 4-5. In the round of 16 she prevailed against Julie Ditty in two sets, then she benefited from her injury-related task in 6: 2, 4: 6 and 4: 1 against Daniela Hantuchová . In the semifinals she lost to number 1, Justine Henin , with 6: 2, 3: 6 and 3: 6. Bacsinszky jumped from 94th to 60th in the world rankings. In Dubai and Miami she failed in the first round of the qualification, in Amelia Island as well as in Charleston in the first round of the main draw. At the tournament in Strasbourg she first defeated Jelena Dokić in two sets , then the number 8 seed Yan Zi in three sets. In the quarter-finals she managed to take revenge against number 2 seeded Aljona Bondarenko for the defeat in Zurich the year before. Bacsinszky missed her first final on the professional tour with a two-set defeat against Anabel Medina Garrigues . At the French Open , she defeated Tamira Paszek in three sets before losing to Patty Schnyder 4: 6, 6: 4 and 1: 6. After that she took a break and began preparing for the lawn season. At Wimbledon , she beat Julie Ditty 7-5 and 6-3. Against number 5 seed Jelena Dementjewa she was in the third set, after 6: 4 and 3: 6 in sets one and two, already leading 3: 0, but then lost the decisive set with 3: 6.

She had to cancel the Australian Open in 2009 due to a knee injury. In February she lost 3-2 with the Swiss Fed Cup team to Germany . In March she reached the second round in Indian Wells, in which she was defeated by Caroline Wozniacki . Also at the French Open she was in the second round after her opening win over Émilie Loit , in which she failed due to Li Na . At Wimbledon, she was also defeated by Marion Bartoli in round two. At the US Open , Bacsinszky could not repeat the good result of the previous year; she was eliminated in the second round in three sets against Hantuchová. In October she achieved her greatest success to date, when she defeated Sabine Lisicki 6: 2, 7: 5 in the final of the BGL Luxembourg Open and celebrated her first WTA title.

In 2010 she made it into the finals in Bad Gastein , where she lost to Julia Görges in two sets. Both players had already faced each other there in the final of the qualification, which had ended with the same result. In addition, she reached the round of 16 in Miami (category: Premier Mandatory) (outright defeat against Yanina Wickmayer ). At the French Open, she lost to Alexandra Dulgheru in the second round .

2012-2014

Bacsinszky won two ITF tournaments in 2012, in Brasília and in Mont-de-Marsan . 2013 followed a title win at the ITF tournament in Contrexéville ; the qualifications at the French Open and Wimbledon , however, were not successful.

In April 2013 she ended her career and started an internship in a hotel. A month later, she received a short term entry for qualifying for the French Open , whereupon she continued her career.

Bacsinszky reached the second round at the French Open , Wimbledon and the US Open in 2014 . With her victory over Maria Sharapova in the third round at the WTA tournament in Wuhan , she was again in the top 50 of the world rankings in September 2014 after four years.

Since 2015

In February 2015, she won her second WTA singles title at the Acapulco tournament with a final victory over Caroline Garcia . Just a week later, she secured her third individual title in Monterrey , again against Garcia. At the French Open , Bacsinszky reached the semifinals of a Grand Slam tournament for the first time ; after a very good start she was defeated by the eventual tournament winner Serena Williams in three sets. Despite the defeat, she was then in the top 20 for the first time; after her quarter-finals at Wimbledon she improved to 14th place. With the entry into the finals at the Premier Mandatory tournament in Beijing , Bacsinszky secured for the first time the place in the top ten. After Manuela Maleeva , Martina Hingis and Patty Schnyder, she is the fourth Swiss woman to have succeeded.

In 2016, her most notable successes were winning the title in Rabat and reaching the quarter-finals at the French Open . At the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro she won silver together with Martina Hingis in the doubles competition .

Tournament victories

singles

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	October 25, 2009	Luxembourg Luxembourg	WTA International	Hard court (hall)	Germany Sabine Lisicki	6: 2, 7: 5
2.	February 28, 2015	Mexico Acapulco	WTA International	Hard court	France Caroline Garcia	6: 3, 6: 0
3.	March 8, 2015	Mexico Monterrey	WTA International	Hard court	France Caroline Garcia	4: 6, 6: 2, 6: 4
4th	April 30, 2016	Morocco Rabat	WTA International	sand	New Zealand Marina Eraković	6: 2, 6: 1

Double

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Partner	Final opponents	Result
1.	July 11, 2010	Hungary Budapest	WTA International	sand	Italy Tathiana Garbin	Romania Sorana Cîrstea Anabel Medina Garrigues Spain	6: 3, 6: 3
2.	July 18, 2010	Czech Republic Prague	WTA International	sand	Italy Tathiana Garbin	Romania Monica Niculescu Ágnes Szávay Hungary	7: 5, 7: 6 ⁴
3.	October 24, 2010	Luxembourg Luxembourg	WTA International	Hard court (hall)	Italy Tathiana Garbin	Czech Republic Iveta Benešová Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová Czech Republic	6: 4, 6: 4
4th	October 18, 2014	Luxembourg Luxembourg	WTA International	Hard court (hall)	Germany Kristina Barrois	Czech Republic Lucie Hradecká Barbora Krejčíková Czech Republic	3: 6, 6: 4, [10: 4]
5.	4th February 2018	Russia St. Petersburg	WTA Premier	Hard court (hall)	Russia Vera Swonaryova	Russia Alla Kudrjawzewa Katarina Srebotnik Slovenia	2: 6, 6: 1, [10: 3]
6th	June 8, 2019	Croatia Bol	WTA Challenger	sand	Luxembourg Mandy Minella	Sweden Cornelia Lister Renata Voráčová Czech Republic	0: 6, 7: 6 ³ , [10: 4]