Melinda Czink

The native form of this personal name is Czink Melinda. This article uses the Western name order.

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	372–257
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	119–130
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.

Tennis career

2000–2008

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 6–3, 6–3 and Lucie Šafářová in the final 4–6, 6–3, 7–5. 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 3–6, 5–7 and to Sabine Lisicki 6–2, 6–7(1), 4–6 in Round Robin.

2010

She started the year at Brisbane International in Australia as 7th seeded. She defeated Lucie Hradecká in the first round 6–4, 3–6, 6–3 and Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová in the second 6–3, 2–6, 6–1. In the quarterfinals she lost to Justine Henin 2–6, 6–3, 6–7(5). Meanwhile she reached the doubles final with Arantxa Parra Santonja where they lost to Andrea Hlaváčková and Lucie Hradecká by 6–2, 6–7(3), 4–10. Next she played at Moorilla Hobart International where she lost to Gisela Dulko in the first round 4–6, 2–6. Now she is facing to the Australian Open where she lost in the first round to Stefanie Vögele 5–7, 7–6(5), 7–9.

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 6–3, 6–4. 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	Istanbul	Hard	Magdalena Zdenovcova	5–7 6–1 6–2
2.	September 30, 2001	Raleigh	Clay	Ally Baker	6–3 6–2
3.	October 7, 2001	Aventura, Florida	Clay	Neyssa Etienne	6–4 6–3
4.	January 27, 2002	Miami	Hard	Lindsay Lee-Waters	7–5 6–2
5.	February 3, 2002	Saltillo	Hard	Petra Russegger	6–1 3–6 6–4
6.	February 10, 2002	Monterrey	Hard	Yuliana Fedak	6–3 3–6 6–1
7.	February 17, 2002	Matamoros	Hard	Melisa Arevalo	6–2 6–3
8.	May 12, 2002	Sea Island	Clay	Ashley Harkleroad	6–1 5–7 6–3
9.	May 18, 2003	Bromma	Clay	Ivana Abramović	6–1 6–2
10.	June 22, 2003	Lenzerheide	Clay	Stefanie Haidner	6–3 6–3
11.	July 20, 2003	Modena	Clay	Sun Tiantian	6–3 6–3
12.	November 23, 2003	Puebla	Hard	Carla Tiene	6–3 6–2
13.	February 1, 2004	Waikoloa	Hard	María Emilia Salerni	7–6 6–2
14.	November 28, 2004	San Luis Potosí	Hard	Mariana Díaz-Oliva	6–0 5–7 6–3
15.	January 28, 2007	Waikoloa	Hard	Edina Gallovits	6–2 6–3
16.	August 5, 2007	Washington, D.C.	Hard	Olga Savchuk	7–5 7–5
17.	September 30, 2007	Ashland	Hard	Varvara Lepchenko	6–1 2–6 6–4
18.	October 12, 2008	Pittsburgh	Hard	Varvara Lepchenko	6–2 3–6 6–1
19.	September 20, 2009	Quebec City	Carpet	Lucie Šafářová	4–6, 6–3, 7–5
20.	April 18, 2011	Dothan	Clay	Stéphanie Foretz Gacon	6–2, 6–3
21.	May 2, 2011	Indian Harbour Beach	Clay	Alison Riske	4–6, 6–1, 6–4

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	2–6
French Open	A	1R	A	2R	1R	A	3R	1R	3–5
Wimbledon	A	1R	1R	2R	1R	A	1R	1R	1–6
U.S. Open	3R	1R	A	1R	A	A	2R	A	3–4
Grand Slam Win-Loss	2–2	1–4	0–1	2–4	0–3	0–0	4–4	0–3	9–21

• 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	1–2
French Open	A	A	1R	A	A	1R	1R	0–3
Wimbledon	A	A	1R	A	A	1R	1R	0–3
U.S. Open	A	A	1R	A	A	1R	A	0–2
Grand Slam Win-Loss	0–1	0–0	0–3	0–0	0–0	0–3	1–3	1–10

• A = did not participate in the tournament

External links

• Melinda Czink at the Women's Tennis Association

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Name	Czink, Melinda
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Date of birth	October 22, 1982
Place of birth	Budapest, Hungary
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