Vania King

Vania King
Vania King, at Wimbledon in 2013
Nation:	United States
Birthday:	3rd February 1989 (age 31)
Size:	165 cm
Weight:	59 kg
1st professional season:	2006
Resignation:	2020
Playing hand:	Right, two-handed backhand
Trainer:	Tarik Benhabiles
Prize money:	$ 4,536,959
singles
Career record:	269: 250
Career title:	1 WTA , 0 ITF
Highest ranking:	50 (November 6, 2006)
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	317: 198
Career title:	15 WTA, 6 ITF
Highest ranking:	3 (June 6, 2011)
Current placement:	78
Grand Slam record
Mixed
Grand Slam record
Last update of the infobox: End of career
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Vania King ( chin .: 金久慈; born February 3, 1989 in Monterey Park , California ) is a former American tennis player .

Career

Vania King, whose parents emigrated from Taiwan to the United States in 1982 , began playing tennis at the age of four. In 2006 she became a professional player and achieved her best individual position in the WTA world rankings in November of that year with rank 50 .

At the US Open in 2006 she reached the quarterfinals in mixed alongside Vincent Spadea , where she was defeated by Justin Gimelstob and Meghann Shaughnessy 4: 6, 6: 1, [7:10]. She celebrated her greatest success in 2010 at Wimbledon by winning the doubles title alongside Jaroslawa Schwedowa , with whom she also triumphed at the US Open that same year . In 2011, two more double titles followed with Schwedowa at the WTA tournaments in Cincinnati and Moscow . It was only in January 2016 that she was able to celebrate a double title on the WTA Tour again . At the side of Monica Niculescu she won the Chinese tournament in Shenzhen .

Between 2006 and 2011 she played a total of 12 games for the US Fed Cup team , of which she won five (double balance: 4: 3).

King won a single and 15 double titles on the WTA Tour and was in the finals of another 12 tournaments. In June 2011 she achieved her best ranking in the double world ranking with 3rd place.

King retired from active tennis in the 2020 season during the corona-related break .

Tournament victories

singles

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	October 15, 2006	Bangkok	WTA Tier III	Hard court	Tamarine Tanasu yarn	2: 6, 6: 4, 6: 4

Double

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Partner	Final opponents	Result
1.	June 20, 2004	Fort Worth	ITF $ 10,000	Hard court	Anne Mall	Neha Uberoi Shikha Uberoi	2: 6, 6: 3, 7: 6 5
2.	October 8, 2006	Tokyo (1)	WTA Tier III	Hard court	Jelena Kostanić	Chan Yung-jan Chuang Chia-jung	7: 6 2 , 5: 7, 6: 2
3.	October 15, 2006	Bangkok	WTA Tier III	Hard court	Jelena Kostanić	Mariana Díaz-Oliva Natalie Grandin	7: 5, 2: 6, 7: 5
4th	May 20, 2007	Fez	WTA Tier IV	sand	Sania Mirza	Andreea Ehritt-Vanc Anastassija Rodionowa	6: 1, 6: 2
5.	October 23, 2007	Calcutta	WTA Tier III	Hard court	Alla Kudryavtseva	Alberta Brianti Marija Korytzewa	6: 1, 6: 4
6th	September 21, 2008	Tokyo (2)	WTA Tier I	Hard court	Nadia Petrova	Lisa Raymond Samantha Stosur	6: 1, 6: 4
7th	November 2, 2008	Quebec	WTA Tier III	Hard court (hall)	Anna-Lena Grönefeld	Jill Crayba's tamarine tanasu yarn	7: 6 3 , 6: 4
8th.	January 11, 2009	Brisbane	WTA International	Hard court	Anna-Lena Grönefeld	Klaudia Jans Alicja Rosolska	3: 6, 7: 5, [10: 5]
9.	August 29, 2009	Bronx	ITF $ 100,000 + H	Hard court	Anna-Lena Grönefeld	Julie Coin Marie-Ève ​​Pelletier	6: 0, 6: 3
10.	September 20, 2009	Quebec	WTA International	Hard court (hall)	Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová	Sofia Arvidsson Séverine Beltrame	6: 1, 6: 3
11.	February 21, 2010	Memphis	WTA International	Hard court (hall)	Michaella Krajicek	Bethanie Mattek-Sands Meghann Shaughnessy	7: 5, 6: 2
12.	May 22, 2010	Strasbourg	WTA International	sand	Alizé Cornet	Alla Kudrjawzewa Anastassija Rodionova	3: 6, 6: 4, [10: 7]
13.	4th July 2010	Wimbledon	Grand Slam	race	Jaroslawa Schwedowa	Elena Wesnina Vera Swonaryova	7: 6 6 , 6: 2
14th	September 13, 2010	US Open	Grand Slam	Hard court	Jaroslawa Schwedowa	Nadja Petrowa Liezel Huber	2: 6, 6: 4, 7: 6 4
15th	August 21, 2011	Cincinnati	WTA Premier 5	Hard court	Jaroslawa Schwedowa	Natalie Grandin Vladimíra Uhlířová	6: 4, 3: 6, [11: 9]
16.	October 23, 2011	Moscow	WTA Premier	Hard court (hall)	Jaroslawa Schwedowa	Anastassija Rodionova Galina Voskoboyeva	7: 6 3 , 6: 3
17th	May 11th, 2013	Cagnes-sur-Mer	ITF $ 100,000	sand	Arantxa Rus	Catalina Castaño Teliana Pereira	4: 6, 7: 5, [10: 8]
18th	November 8, 2015	Waco	ITF $ 50,000	Hard court	Nicole Gibbs	Julia Glushko Rebecca Peterson	6: 4, 6: 4
19th	January 9, 2016	Shenzhen	WTA International	Hard court	Monica Niculescu	Xu Yifan Zheng Saisai	6: 1, 6: 4
20th	February 2, 2018	Burnie	ITF $ 60,000	Hard court	Laura Robson	Momoko Kobori Chihiro Muramatsu	7: 6 3 , 6: 1
21st	11th August 2019	Landisville	ITF $ 60,000	Hard court	Claire Liu	Hayley Carter Jamie Loeb	4: 6, 6: 2, [10: 5]

Performing in Grand Slam tournaments

singles

competition	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	Balance sheet	Career
Australian Open	-	-	1	1	-	2	2	3	1	1	-	2	1	-	5: 9	3
French Open	-	1	1	2	-	1	3	2	2	1	-	-	-	1	5: 9	3
Wimbledon	-	2	1	1	2	1	1	1	1	1	-	Q3	-	-	2: 9	2
US Open	2	2	1	1	3	2	3	1	1	2	1	2	-	2	10:13	3

Double

competition	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	Balance sheet	Career
Australian Open	-	-	2	1	1	2	1	VF	1	2	-	VF	AF	VF	1	17:13	VF
French Open	-	1	1	1	AF	2	HF	VF	AF	1	-	1	-	AF	-	14:11	HF
Wimbledon	-	1	1	AF	VF	S.	2	1	AF	1	-	2	-	AF	-	16:10	S.
US Open	1	2	AF	1	AF	S.	F.	AF	2	AF	2	AF	-	1	HF	28:13	S.

World ranking positions at the end of the season

year	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018
singles	825	202	50	107	129	79	86	76	70	84	112	466	79	487	380
Double	636	357	59	27	34	32	4th	6th	22nd	51	77	275	23	92	36

Web links

Commons : Vania King  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• WTA profile Vania King (English)
• ITF profile Vania King (English)
• Fed Cup statistics Vania King (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Champion tennis player seeks more Taiwanese fan support. Retrieved January 24, 2015 . 
2. ↑ Vania King Goes Quietly Into Retirement, Now Serving Up Hope. tennis-tourtalk.com, April 8, 2020, accessed on August 10, 2020 (English).