Melinda Czink

Melinda Czink
Melinda Czink
Country  Hungary
Residence New York, United States
Born October 22, 1982 (1982-10-22) (age 29)
Budapest, Hungary
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Turned pro 2000
Plays Left-handed (two-handed backhand)
Career prize money $1,180,319
Singles
Career record 372257
Career titles 1 WTA, 20 ITF
Highest ranking No. 37 (September 21, 2009)
Current ranking No. 147 (Oct 3, 2011)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open 2R (2004, 2009)
French Open 3R (2009)
Wimbledon 3R (2011)
US Open 3R (2003)
Doubles
Career record 119130
Career titles 0 WTA, 9 ITF
Highest ranking No. 78 (May 10, 2010)
Last updated on: July 4, 2011.

Melinda Czink (born October 22, 1982 in Budapest) is a Hungarian professional female tennis player. On September 21, 2009 Czink reached her career-high singles ranking of World No. 37.

She has reached two WTA Tour singles finals. In 2005, she lost to Ana Ivanović in Canberra. In 2009, she defeated Lucie Šafářová in Quebec City for her first WTA Tour title. On the ITF Tour, she has won 20 singles titles.

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Tennis career

20002008

She played her first tournament at Budapest as a wild-carded in 2000. She entered the top 100 first in 2003 also later she fall out. She won several single and double ITF titles, see below.

2009

She reached the top-50 and won her first title at Quebec. As 5th seeded she defeated Aleksandra Wozniak in the semifinal 63, 63 and Lucie Šafářová in the final 46, 63, 75. She also reached one semifinal and four quarterfinals during the season. At the end of the year she played at the Tournament of Champions at Bali where she lost to Aravane Rezaï 36, 57 and to Sabine Lisicki 62, 67(1), 46 in Round Robin.

2010

She started the year at Brisbane International in Australia as 7th seeded. She defeated Lucie Hradecká in the first round 64, 36, 63 and Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová in the second 63, 26, 61. In the quarterfinals she lost to Justine Henin 26, 63, 67(5). Meanwhile she reached the doubles final with Arantxa Parra Santonja where they lost to Andrea Hlaváčková and Lucie Hradecká by 62, 67(3), 410. Next she played at Moorilla Hobart International where she lost to Gisela Dulko in the first round 46, 26. Now she is facing to the Australian Open where she lost in the first round to Stefanie Vögele 57, 76(5), 79.

2011

Czink missed the Australian Open.

She won two ITF events in Dothan and Indian Harbour Beach before returning to Grand Slam play with a protected rank at the 2011 Wimbledon Championships. As the lowest ranked player in the tournament at World No. 262, she drew 10th seed Samantha Stosur in the first round. She recorded the biggest win of her career by upsetting the Australian 63, 64. She then beat Anastasiya Yakimova of Belarus 7-5 6-3. In the third round for the first time, Czink lost to the 20th seed from China, Peng Shuai 6-2 7-6(5).

Titles

Singles titles (21)

Legend
Grand Slam tournaments (0)
WTA Championships (0)
Premier Mandatory (0)
Premier 5 (0)
Premier (0)
International (1)
ITF Titles (20)
No. Date Tournament Surface Opponent in the final Score
1. February 4, 2001 Turkey Istanbul Hard Czech Republic Magdalena Zdenovcova 57 61 62
2. September 30, 2001 United States Raleigh Clay United States Ally Baker 63 62
3. October 7, 2001 United States Aventura, Florida Clay Haiti Neyssa Etienne 64 63
4. January 27, 2002 United States Miami Hard United States Lindsay Lee-Waters 75 62
5. February 3, 2002 Mexico Saltillo Hard Austria Petra Russegger 61 36 64
6. February 10, 2002 Mexico Monterrey Hard Ukraine Yuliana Fedak 63 36 61
7. February 17, 2002 Mexico Matamoros Hard Argentina Melisa Arevalo 62 63
8. May 12, 2002 United States Sea Island Clay United States Ashley Harkleroad 61 57 63
9. May 18, 2003 Sweden Bromma Clay Croatia Ivana Abramović 61 62
10. June 22, 2003 Switzerland Lenzerheide Clay Austria Stefanie Haidner 63 63
11. July 20, 2003 Italy Modena Clay China Sun Tiantian 63 63
12. November 23, 2003 Mexico Puebla Hard Brazil Carla Tiene 63 62
13. February 1, 2004 United States Waikoloa Hard Argentina María Emilia Salerni 76 62
14. November 28, 2004 Mexico San Luis Potosí Hard Argentina Mariana Díaz-Oliva 60 57 63
15. January 28, 2007 United States Waikoloa Hard Romania Edina Gallovits 62 63
16. August 5, 2007 United States Washington, D.C. Hard Ukraine Olga Savchuk 75 75
17. September 30, 2007 United States Ashland Hard United States Varvara Lepchenko 61 26 64
18. October 12, 2008 United States Pittsburgh Hard United States Varvara Lepchenko 62 36 61
19. September 20, 2009 Canada Quebec City Carpet Czech Republic Lucie Šafářová 46, 63, 75
20. April 18, 2011 United States Dothan Clay France Stéphanie Foretz Gacon 62, 63
21. May 2, 2011 United States Indian Harbour Beach Clay United States Alison Riske 46, 61, 64

Singles performance timeline

To prevent confusion and double counting, information in this table is updated only once a tournament or the player's participation in the tournament has concluded. This table is current through the 2010 US Open.

Tournament 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 Career W-L
Australian Open 1R 2R A 1R 1R A 2R 1R 26
French Open A 1R A 2R 1R A 3R 1R 35
Wimbledon A 1R 1R 2R 1R A 1R 1R 16
U.S. Open 3R 1R A 1R A A 2R A 34
Grand Slam Win-Loss 22 14 01 24 03 00 44 03 921
  • A = did not participate in the tournament

Doubles performance timeline

To prevent confusion and double counting, information in this table is updated only once a tournament or the player's participation in the tournament has concluded. This table is current through the 2010 US Open.

Tournament 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 Career W-L
Australian Open 1R A A A A A 2R 12
French Open A A 1R A A 1R 1R 03
Wimbledon A A 1R A A 1R 1R 03
U.S. Open A A 1R A A 1R A 02
Grand Slam Win-Loss 01 00 03 00 00 03 13 110
  • A = did not participate in the tournament

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