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Urszula Radwa?ska [ur??ula rad?va?ska] ( listen) (born 7 December 1990 in Ahaus, Germany) is a Polish tennis player. She reached her career high ranking of world No. 62 on 10 August 2009. She is the younger sister of Agnieszka Radwa?ska.
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1 Tennis career
2 2009
3 2010–2011
4 WTA Tour women's doubles finals (1)
5 ITF Circuit finals
5.1 Singles finals (7)
5.2 Doubles finals (14)
6 Junior grand slam finals
6.1 Singles (2)
6.2 Doubles (4)
7 Singles performance timeline
8 External links

[edit] Tennis career

As a junior player, Radwa?ska won Grand Slam titles, including the 2007 Wimbledon girls' singles, culminating in the junior year-ending world No. 1 ranking. This was the leaping pad into her professional career, where she has been getting into WTA main draws via qualifying and wildcards.

In 2007, Radwa?ska played in the main draw of three WTA tour tournaments. She lost in the first round of the Tier II J&S Cup in Warsaw, the second round of the Tier III Japan Open Tennis Championships in Tokyo, and the quarterfinals of the Tier III PTT Bangkok Open after defeating fourth-seeded Virginie Razzano in the third round. Urszula and Agnieszka won a doubles title together at the 2007 Istanbul Cup.

At the 2008 Wimbledon Championships, Radwa?ska made her Grand Slam singles debut, losing in the second round to two-time champion Serena Williams 6–4, 6–4. Having seen the fight she put up in this match, the commentator Andrew Castle observed, "She is sound in just about all areas, and she knows what to do with the ball, she seems to have an understanding, a little like Martina Hingis."[citation needed]
[edit] 2009
Urszula Radwa?ska practicing during the 2010 Bank of the West Classic.

On 16 February 2009, the Radwa?ska sisters played their first official tour match against each other in the first round of the Barclays Dubai Tennis Championships. Urszula won the match in straight sets 6–4, 6–3 hitting 6 aces and 25 winners.

At the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, California, Radwa?ska defeated sixth-seeded Svetlana Kuznetsova in three sets, the highest ranked player she had ever defeated. She then lost to ninth-seeded Caroline Wozniacki in her first ever WTA fourth round match 7–5, 6–3. Her results at this tournament caused her singles ranking to break into the top 100 for the first time.

At the Sony Ericsson Open in Key Biscayne, Florida, Urszula won two qualifying matches, before losing to Na Li in three sets 4–6, 7–5, 1–6.

In Warsaw, Urszula defeated Mariya Koryttseva of Ukraine in three sets. In the second round she lost to sixth-seeded Daniela Hantuchová 6–3, 6–1. In the second grand slam of the year, the French Open, Radwa?ska lost in the first round to Belgian Yanina Wickmayer 6–4, 3–6, 0–6.

In the grass court season, Urszula reached her first tournament quarterfinal of 2009 at the AEGON Classic, losing to Magdaléna Rybáriková. Urszula then won three qualifying matches to reach the main draw of the AEGON International, where in the first round she lost to her sister Agnieszka.

Urszula advanced to the second round of the 2009 Wimbledon Championships, after her win against Maša Zec Peškiri? 6–3, 6–3 in the first round, she fell to No.14 Dominika Cibulková 6–2, 6–4. Radwa?ska lost to 8th seeded Iveta Benešová in the opening round of the Swedish Open in three sets 6–3, 2–6, 2–6.

At the Istanbul Cup, Urszula won in the first round against Stefanie Vögele of Switzerland 6–2, 7–64, in the second round she defeated Ekaterina Dzehalevich of Belarus in three sets 7–5, 1–6, 6–4. In the Quarterfinals she was defeated handily by Timea Bacsinszky, winning only eleven points in the entire match.

At the 2009 LA Women's Tennis Championships, Urszula defeated Julie Coin 6–1, 6–2 in the first round, In the second round, she then defeated No.7 seeded Dominika Cibulková of Slovakia in three sets 6–4, 6–7(6), 6–4. In the third round Na Li withdrew from the match, granting Urszula a pass into her first Premier level quarterfinal. There, she lost to Maria Sharapova 6–4, 7–5.

At the Western & Southern Financial Group Women's Open in Cincinnati, Ohio, Urszula won two qualifying matches, before losing to Ágnes Szávay 7–5, 7–5. She then competed in the 2009 US Open losing to Kristina Barrois 6–4 6–4 in the opening round.

At the 2009 Hansol Korea Open, she lost her opening round match against Vera Dushevina. After successful attempts at qualifing for the next two Premier tournaments, Urszula lost both of her first round matches to Magdaléna Rybáriková and Patty Schnyder respectively.

At the 2009 Generali Ladies Linz, Urszula won her first WTA main draw match in over two months, defeating Yvonne Meusburger in straight sets. She fell to Lucie Šafá?ová in the next round. Urszula finished 2009 on a low note, losing her opening round match to Kirsten Flipkens at the 2009 BGL Luxembourg Open
[edit] 2010–2011

Radwa?ska lost in qualifying draw of the 2010 Medibank International Sydney to Jill Craybas and the first round of 2010 Australian Open to eventual champion Serena Williams. She has been out of action to undergo a spine surgery. She returned to action in August. However, she lost 3 in the qualifying draw of her first three tournaments since the surgery at the 2010 Mercury Insurance Open, 2010 Western & Southern Financial Group Women's Open, and 2010 Rogers Cup. At the US Open she scored her first main draw win of the year by defeating Anna Chakvetadze 6–3, 6–3. However she lost her next round to Lourdes Domínguez Lino. She then lost in the first round of the 2010 Hansol Korea Open to Maria Kirilenko and in the first round of qualifying of Toray Pan Pacific Open to Vania King. She then went back to ITF reaching 2 finals, winning one of them.

Urszula then lost in the qualifying draw 3 consecutive times at the 2011 Australian Open, 2011 Dubai Tennis Championships and 2011 Qatar Ladies Open. She is currently playing at the 2011 BMW Malaysian Openas a wild card where she earned her first main draw victory since the US Open defeating Junri Namagata 6–1, 6–3. She lost to 8th seed Bojana Jovanovski 1–6, 7–5, 6–4 despite being up a break in the second set. Urzsula advanced to the third round at the 2011 BNP Paribas Open falling to Victoria Azarenka 7–6, 6–3. At the 2011 Sony Ericsson Open, she lost her opening round to Simona Halep 6–3, 6–2.

She was unable to qualify for the 2011 French Open losing her first round to Mandy Minella. She was also unable to qualify for the 2011 Wimbledon Championships losing to Aleksandra Wozniak in her opening round of qualification.

At the at the 2011 Bank of the West Classic in Stanford she qualified to the main draw. She lost in the 2nd round to Ayumi Morita 4–6, 7–5, 6–1 despite holding a 6–4, 5–2 lead and having 3 match points.

Urszula won 3 qualifying matches at the 2011 U.S. Open to make the main draw. Unfortunately she drew her sister, Agnieszka Radwa?ska in the first round and was defeated 6–2, 6–3.

She reached her first WTA semifinal at the 2011 Tashkent Open losing to number 1 seed Ksenia Pervak 6–2, 6–4.

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