Victoria Duval

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Victoria Duval Tennis player
Victoria Duval
Victoria Duval at Wimbledon 2014
Nation: United StatesUnited States United States
Birthday: November 30, 1995
Size: 178 cm
Weight: 68 kg
1st professional season: 2010
Playing hand: Right, two-handed backhand
Trainer: Nick Bollettieri
Prize money: $ 422,060
singles
Career record: 131: 92
Career title: 0 WTA , 1 ITF
Highest ranking: 87 (August 4, 2014)
Current placement: 392
Grand Slam record
Grand Slam title: 00000  0
Australian Open 1R (2016)
French Open -
Wimbledon 2R (2014)
US Open 2R (2013)
Double
Career record: 18:12
Career title: 0 WTA, 2 ITF
Highest ranking: 383 (October 20, 2014)
Current placement: 1021
Last update of the infobox:
August 19, 2019
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Victoria Duval (born November 30, 1995 in Miami ) is an American tennis player .

Life

Duval has Haitian ancestry. After she was born, her family returned to Haiti, where she was held hostage when she was seven. The family returned to the United States when they were eight. Her father was buried in the Haiti earthquake in 2010.

Career

During qualifying for the 2014 Wimbledon Championships , Duval was told that she had Hodgkin's lymphoma . She continued the qualification and came in the main draw up to the second round; then she went for treatment. On September 21, 2014, she announced on Twitter . that she is now cancer free.

So far, she has won a single and two double titles at ITF tournaments. She also won the USTA's U18 girls' championship in August 2012 and received a wild card for the US Open . In the first round she was defeated there by Kim Clijsters .

Duval's greatest success on the WTA Tour was reaching the second round at the Sony Open Tennis in 2013. At the US Open , she survived 2013 for the first time qualifying at a Grand Slam tournament ; after a victory over number 11 seeded Samantha Stosur, she lost to Daniela Hantuchová in round two .

Tournament victories

singles

No. date competition category Topping Final opponent Result
1. 3rd November 2013 CanadaCanada Toronto ITF $ 50,000 Hard court (hall) HungaryHungary Tímea Babos 7: 5, task

Double

No. date competition category Topping Partner Final opponents Result
1. 1. November 2013 CanadaCanada Toronto ITF $ 50,000 Hard court (hall) CanadaCanada Françoise Abanda United StatesUnited States Melanie Oudin Jessica Pegula
United StatesUnited States  		7: 6 5 , 2: 6, [11: 9]
2. 22nd September 2017 United StatesUnited States Lubbock ITF $ 25,000 Hard court RussiaRussia Alissa Kleibanova IndiaIndia Karman Kaur Thandi Ana Veselinović
MontenegroMontenegro  		2: 6, 6: 4, [10: 8]

Web links

Commons : Victoria Duval  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 17-year-old Victoria Duval first sensation , Kleine Zeitung of August 28, 2013, accessed on April 30, 2020
  2. ^ Young American Qualifier Says She Has Cancer. Retrieved October 18, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Vicky Duval: I Am Cancer Free. Retrieved October 18, 2014 .
  4. ↑ 2012 US Open: Victoria Duval, 16, ready for Opening night match vs. Kim Clijsters , accessed November 5, 2013
  5. ↑ Former champion Stosur stunned by qualifier Duval , accessed on November 5, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Duval, Victoria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1995
PLACE OF BIRTH Miami , United States