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| Country |  Denmark | |
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| Residence | Monte Carlo, Monaco | |
| Date of birth | 11 July 1990 | |
| Place of birth | Odense, Denmark | |
| Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 91⁄2 in) | |
| Turned pro | 18 July 2005 | |
| Plays | Right-handed; Two-handed backhand | |
| Career prize money | US$3,250,358 | |
| Singles | ||
| Career record | 173–73 | |
| Career titles | 6 WTA, 4 ITF | |
| Highest ranking | No. 3 (01 February 2010) | |
| Current ranking | No. 3 (01 February 2010) | |
| Grand Slam results | ||
| Australian Open | 4R (2008, 2010) | |
| French Open | 3R (2008, 2009) | |
| Wimbledon | 4R (2009) | |
| US Open | F (2009) | |
| Major tournaments | ||
| WTA Championships | SF (2009) | |
| Olympic Games | 3R (2008) | |
| Doubles | ||
| Career record | 30–43 | |
| Career titles | 2 WTA, 0 ITF | |
| Highest ranking | No. 52 (14 September 2009) | |
| Australian Open | 2R (2008) | |
| French Open | 1R (2008, 2009) | |
| Wimbledon | 2R (2009) | |
| US Open | 3R (2009) | |
| Last updated on: 19 October 2009. | ||
Personal life
Wozniacki is the daughter of Polish parents, father Piotr and mother Anna.Piotr Wozniacki acts as her coach.She is from a very sports-oriented family. Her mother played on the Poland women's national volleyball team.Her father played football professionally in Poland (Miedź Legnica and Zagłębie Lubin), Mannheim Germany, and they moved to Denmark when he signed for Danish club Boldklubben 1909.Her older brother Patrik is a professional football player for BK Frem in Denmark.
Since the 2009 US Open, Wozniacki is the face of Stella McCartney's adidas sportswear.
Asked about her hobbies, she told Teen Vogue, "I like handball, soccer, swimming, playing the piano, and all kinds of different things."Wozniacki is a fan of Liverpool striker Fernando Torres.
She speaks fluent Danish, Polish, and English, and understands Russian.
Playing style
Many tennis fans and commentators consider Wozniacki a counterpuncher although she can be aggressive when the time comes. She is known for her agility on the court and her tenacity at chasing down balls. Wozniacki is considered a passive player, but she is also crafty when it comes to setting up aggressive winners (See Doha 2009). Wozniacki is often regarded[weasel words] highly as having some of the best mental strength in the WTA (tennis) top ten. She is very resistant to choking and has the ability to pull out difficult situations. However, commentators remark[citation needed] that Wozniacki has the style of a pusher, and is not aggressive enough to be able to reach her goal of world number 1.
Career
She has won several junior tournaments (including the 2006 Wimbledon girls' singles tournament and the 2005 Orange Bowl tennis championship), and made her debut on the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour at Cincinnati's Western & Southern Financial Group Women's Open on 19 July 2005, losing to the top-seeded and later champion Patty Schnyder in the first round.
2006
In 2006, she was the first seed at the Australian Open (junior girl's singles), but lost the final to eight-seeded Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of Russia. She was seeded second with Anna Tatishvili in the doubles tournament, but the pair was knocked out in the semifinals by the French-Italian pair of Alizé Cornet and Corinna Dentoni, who were seeded eighth.
In February in Memphis, she reached her first WTA Tour quarterfinal, beating Kristina Brandi and Ashley Harkleroad in the first two rounds before losing to third-seeded Sofia Arvidsson of Sweden.
At Wimbledon girls final.
Later that year, she was given a wildcard to the 2006 Wimbledon Championships senior qualifying tournament, where she was beaten in the first qualifying round by Miho Saeki. However, Wozniacki went on to win the girls' singles tournament, beating Slovak Magdaléna Rybáriková in the final.
In August, she reached another WTA Tour quarter-final, this time at the Nordea Nordic Light Open in Stockholm. She defeated top 100 players Iveta Benešová and Eleni Daniilidou before falling to eventual champion and third-seeded Jie Zheng.
Wozniacki was seeded second in the year's last major tournament, the 2006 U.S. Open - Girls' Singles. In the first round on 3 September she won the first set against Russian Alexandra Panova, but was disqualified in the second set for verbally abusing an umpire. Wozniacki was said to have used an expletive in referring to a linesman who made a disputed call;[8] however, on her blog, she claimed to say "take your sunglasses of [sic]" and to be mistaken for talking to the linesman when she was criticizing herself after the next point.[9]
In her last junior tournament, the Osaka Mayor's Cup, she won the girls' singles and doubles.
Her first senior title came shortly after on 29 October, when she won the $25,000 ITF-tournament in Istanbul by beating Tatjana Malek in the final.
Wozniacki was set to face Venus Williams on 27 November in an exhibition match in Copenhagen,[10] but five days before the event, Williams canceled because of an injury.[11] The two did, however, face each other in the Memphis WTA Tier III event on 20 February. Williams beat Wozniacki, ending the nine-match winning streak Wozniacki had at the time.
On 30 November, Wozniacki was named ambassador for Danish Junior Tennis by the Culture Minister of Denmark at the time, Brian Mikkelsen.
[edit] 2007
On 4 February, she won the singles title in Ortisei, Italy, at an ITF $75,000 tournament, beating the Italian player Alberta Brianti 4–6, 7–5, 6–3. On March 4, she won the $75,000 ITF tournament in Las Vegas, beating top-seed Akiko Morigami in the final 6–3, 6–2.She obtained a wild card for the 2007 Pacific Life Open main draw and made her Tier I-debut there. She was knocked out in the second round by Martina Hingis 6–1, 6–3. The two faced each other again on 27 April in Copenhagen for an exhibition match, where Wozniacki again lost 7–6(7), 3–6, 6–2.
She then made the semifinals of the AIG Open in Tokyo in October, her first career semifinal and also the first Danish woman to reach a WTA semifinal since Tine Scheuer-Larsen in 1986 at Bregenz. Wozniacki lost to Venus Williams 6–3, 7–5.
[edit] 2008
At the French Open, she was seeded thirtieth, making this the first Grand Slam tournament in which Wozniacki was seeded. She lost however in the third round to the eventual champion and World No. 2 Ana Ivanović.
At Wimbledon, she reached the third round but lost to second-seeded Jelena Janković.[12]
Wozniacki won her first ever WTA tour title at the Nordic Light Open in Stockholm without losing a single set, defeating Vera Dushevina. She had previously beaten the no. 5 seed Anabel Medina Garrigues in the quarterfinals and the top seed and World No. 10, Agnieszka Radwańska in the semifinals.
At the Summer Olympics in Beijing, she beat World No. 12 Daniela Hantuchová in the second round before falling to the eventual gold-medalist Elena Dementieva. Wozniacki then won her second WTA tour title at the Pilot Pen Tennis in New Haven, defeating four seeded players in Dominika Cibulkova, Marion Bartoli and Alizé Cornet en route to the final, where she defeated World No. 11 Anna Chakvetadze.
She was 21st seed at the U.S. Open, and defeated World No. 14 Victoria Azarenka in the third round. In the fourth round, she lost to second-seeded and eventual runner-up Jelena Janković.
At the China Open, she lost her opening match to Anabel Medina Garrigues. However, she teamed up with Media Garrigues to clinch the doubles title, defeating the Chinese duo of Han Xinyun and Xu Yi-Fan. It was Wozniacki's first WTA doubles title. At the Tier III AIG Japan Open Tennis Championships, she was the top seed for the first time on the WTA Tour, and won her third career title, defeating Kaia Kanepi of Estonia in the final.
Wozniacki then took part in an ITF tournament in her hometown in Odense. She won the tournament there beating World No. 64 Sofia Arvidsson in the final.
Her final win-loss record for the year (ITF matches included, exhibition matches not included) was 58–20 in singles and 8–9 in doubles. She ended the year ranked 12th in singles and 79th in doubles. She finished thirteenth in the race for the Sony Ericsson Championships. She also won the Newcomer of the Year award for 2008.
[edit] 2009
In her first tournament of the year at the ASB Classic in Auckland, New Zealand, she lost in the quarterfinals to Russian Elena Vesnina 6–3, 0–6, 6–3. She then reached the quarter-finals of the Medibank International in Sydney where she lost to World No. 2 Serena Williams 6–7(5), 6–3, 7–6(3) despite having three match points when serving for the match at 6–5 in the third set. Seeded 11th at the Australian Open, Wozniacki advanced to the third round where she lost to Australian wild card Jelena Dokić 3–6, 6–1, 6–2.Wozniacki reached the quarter-finals of the Pattaya Women's Open in Thailand but lost to 8th seeded Magdaléna Rybáriková 6–4, 6–1. Seeded first at the Cellular South Cup in Memphis, Tennessee, Wozniacki advanced to the final but lost to the Belarussian teenager Victoria Azarenka 6–1, 6–3. Afterwards, Wozniacki and Azarenka won the doubles title, beating Michaella Krajicek and Yuliana Fedak 6–1, 7–6(2) in the final.
Wozniacki then took part in the first two Premier Mandatory tournaments of the year in North America. At the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, California, Wozniacki lost in the quarterfinals to eventual champion Vera Zvonareva 6–4, 6–2. At the Sony Ericsson Open in Miami, Wozniacki scored her first wins over 18th seeded Patty Schnyder and the 4th seed Elena Dementieva in the third and fourth rounds respectively. She lost to Svetlana Kuznetsova 6–4, 6–7(5), 6–1 in the quarter-finals.
Wozniacki won her first title of the year on the green clay of the MPS Group Championships in Ponte Vedra Beach. After surviving a tough first round encounter against Samantha Stosur, she then handily dispensed of Virginie Razzano and Daniela Hantuchová in straight sets to reach the semifinals where she survived four match points to defeat Elena Vesnina 2–6, 6–3, 7–6(5). She then defeated Canadian Aleksandra Wozniak in the final 6–1, 6–2. Seeded fifth on the green clay at the Family Circle Cup in Charleston, she defeated top seed Elena Dementieva 6–4, 5–7, 7–5 in the semi-finals before losing 6–2, 6–4 to Sabine Lisicki in the final.
Wozniacki then suffered early exits in her next two tournaments losing to Marion Bartoli 7–6(6), 6–4 in the second round at the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix in Stuttgart and losing in the third round of the Internazionali BNL d'Italia in Rome to Victoria Azarenka 6–2, 6–2. Wozniacki advanced to the final at the inaugural Premier Mandatory Mutua Madrileña Madrid Open where she lost to World No. 1 Dinara Safina 6–2, 6–4. Seeded 10th at the French Open in Paris, France, Wozniacki lost to Sorana Cîrstea of Romania, 7–6(3) 7–5. Cîrstea and Wozniacki lost in the first round of the doubles tournament to Maria Kirilenko and Flavia Pennetta, 6–4, 6–4.
During the grass court season, Wozniacki won her second title of the year at the AEGON International in Eastbourne. She advanced to the semi finals with defeats over Alisa Kleybanova, Samantha Stosur, and Ekaterina Makarova. There she faced near namesake Aleksandra Wozniak of Canada, recovering from a set down to win 2–6, 6–4, 6–4. She beat Virginie Razzano in the final 7–6, 7–5.[13]
Wozniacki was seeded 9th in Wimbledon, and faced Kimiko Date Krumm (20 years her senior) in the first round, winning in three sets. She then beat Maria Kirilenko, 6–0, 6–4, and the #20 seed Anabel Medina Garrigues 6–2, 6–2. She then crashed out to Sabine Lisicki in the fourth round, 6–4, 6–4.
On her 19th birthday she lost in the final of the Swedish Open 7–5, 6–4 to Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez of Spain. In her first hard-court tournament in preparation for the US Open, after receiving a bye in the first round of the LA Women's Tennis Championships she lost in the second round to Sorana Cîrstea 1–6, 6–4, 7–6(5). At the Cincinnati Masters, Wozniacki advanced to the quarterfinals, falling to Elena Dementieva 6–2, 6–1. In Toronto she lost in the second round to Zheng Jie 7–5, 6–3. She then went to defend her title at the Pilot Pen Tennis in New Haven. In the first round she had her first ever double bagel win, 6–0, 6–0 over Edina Gallovits in 41 minutes. In the final of the tournament she beat Russian challenger Elena Vesnina 6–2, 6–4 to win her third title of the season.
Wozniacki was the 9th seed at the US Open. She easily won her first three matches, 6–4, 6–0 over Galina Voskoboeva, 6–1, 6–0 over Petra Martić, and 6–3, 6–2 over her doubles partner Sorana Cîrstea. In the fourth round against reigning French Open champion Svetlana Kuznetsova, Wozniacki rallied from 3–1 down in the third set to win 2–6, 7–6(5), 7–6(3). She defeated World No. 70 Melanie Oudin 6–2, 6–2 in the quarterfinals, and followed that up with a 6–3, 6–3 win over fellow 19-year old Yanina Wickmayer in the semifinals. She was the first Danish woman to reach a Grand Slam final, where she was defeated 7–5, 6–3 by unseeded Belgian Kim Clijsters who had recently returned to the WTA Tour after retiring in 2007. Wozniacki's runner-up showing allowed her to reach a career high ranking of No. 6 which shortly after improved to No. 5 without playing. By reaching the US Open final in September she qualifed for the first time in her career for the WTA Tour Championships in Doha with start October 27.
In her first match since the US Open she retired due to a viral illness at 0–5 in the first set against Aleksandra Wozniak in the second round of the Toray Pan Pacific Open, after having received a bye in the first round. She then lost to Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez in the first round of the China Open 6–7(5), 7–6(2), 6–0.
She lost 6–0, 4–6, 6–4 to Samantha Stosur in the semifinals of the HP Open in Osaka. The following week in BGL Luxembourg Open, she retired with a hamstring injury in the first round when while leading 7–5, 5–0 over Anne Kremer.
In her first match in the round robin stage at the year-ending Sony Ericsson Championships in Doha, Wozniacki saved a match point in a 2 hour and 58 minute battle with Victoria Azarenka, prevailing 1–6, 6–4, 7–5, in the end.[14] In her second match, Wozniacki fought off severe cramping in her hamstring to defeat Vera Zvonareva, 6–0, 6–7(3), 6–4, after a marathon lasting 2 hours and 48 minutes in excrutiating heat and humidity.[15].In her third match, she lost to former World No. 1 Jelena Jankovic in final round robin match, 6–2, 6–2.[16]. Despite losing however, Wozniacki qualified for the semi-finals because of Azarenka's loss to Agnieszka Radwanska.[17] Still struggling with a stomach strain and a left thigh injury, Wozniacki lost to World No. 1 Serena Williams in the semis, retiring while trailing 6–4, 0–1.[18]
[edit] 2010
Wozniacki started the year with an exhibition tournament in Hong Kong where she lost two singles for Team Europe but won two mixed doubles with Stefan Edberg. Her first WTA tournament gave a first round loss in three sets to Li Na in Sydney.She was seeded 4th in the Australian Open, her first top-8 seed in a Grand Slam. She won the first round 6–4, 6–2 against Aleksandra Wozniak.[19] In the second round she won in just 1 hour and 5 minutes against Julia Goerges, 6–3, 6–1.[20] In the third round she defeated Israeli Shahar Pe'er, 6–4, 6–0 in 77 minutes.[21] She fell to Li Na of China in the fourth round, 6-4, 6-3, a rematch of her first round loss in the Medibank International.
[edit] Major finals
[edit] Grand Slam finals
[edit] Singles: 1 (0–1)
| Outcome | Year | Championship | Surface | Opponent in the final | Score in the final |
| Runner-up | 2009 | US Open | Hard |  Kim Clijsters | 7–5, 6–3 |
[edit] WTA Tour singles finals
[edit] Wins (6)
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No.  | Date | Tournament | Location | Surface | Opponent in Final | Score in Final |
| 1. | 8 August 2008 | Nordea Nordic Light Open | Stockholm, Sweden | Hard (O) |  Vera Dushevina | 6–0, 6–2 |
| 2. | 23 August 2008 | Pilot Pen Tennis | New Haven, Connecticut, USA | Hard (O) | Anna Chakvetadze | 3–6, 6–4, 6–1 |
| 3. | 5 October 2008 | AIG Japan Open | Tokyo, Japan | Hard (O) |  Kaia Kanepi | 6–2, 3–6, 6–1 |
| 4. | 12 April 2009 | MPS Group Championships | Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, USA | Clay |  Aleksandra Wozniak | 6–1, 6–2 |
| 5. | 20 June 2009 | AEGON International | Eastbourne, Great Britain | Grass |  Virginie Razzano | 7–6(5), 7–5 |
| 6. | 29 August 2009 | Pilot Pen Tennis | New Haven, Connecticut, USA | Hard | Elena Vesnina | 6–2, 6–4 |
[edit] Runner-ups (6)
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| No. | Date | Tournament | Location | Surface | Opponent in Final | Score in Final |
| 1. | 26 October 2008 | Fortis Championships Luxembourg | Luxembourg City, Luxembourg | Hard (I) | Elena Dementieva | 2–6, 6–4, 7–6(4) |
| 2. | 21 February 2009 | Cellular South Cup | Memphis, Tennessee, USA | Hard (I) |  Victoria Azarenka | 6–1, 6–3 |
| 3. | 19 April 2009 | Family Circle Cup | Charleston, South Carolina, USA | Clay |  Sabine Lisicki | 6–2, 6–4 |
| 4. | 17 May 2009 | Mutua Madrileña Madrid Open | Madrid, Spain | Clay | Dinara Safina | 6–2, 6–4 |
| 5. | 11 July 2009 | Swedish Open | Bastad, Sweden | Clay |  Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez | 7–5, 6–4 |
| 6. | 13 September 2009 | US Open | New York, USA | Hard | Kim Clijsters | 7–5, 6–3 |
[edit] WTA Tour doubles titles
[edit] Wins (2)
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| No. | Date | Tournament | Location | Surface | Partner | Opponent in Final | Score in Final |
| 1. | 28 September 2008 | China Open | Beijing, China | Hard | Anabel Medina Garrigues |  Han Xinyun Xu Yi-Fan | 6–1, 6–3 |
| 2. | 21 February 2009 | Cellular South Cup | Memphis, Tennessee, USA | Hard (i) | Victoria Azarenka |  Yuliana Fedak Michaella Krajicek | 6–1, 7–6(2) |
[edit] Runner-ups (1)
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| No. | Date | Tournament | Location | Surface | Partner | Opponent in Final | Score in Final |
| 1. | 26 February 2006 | Cellular South Cup | Memphis, Tennessee, USA | Hard | Victoria Azarenka |  Lisa Raymond Samantha Stosur | 7–6(2), 6–3 |
[edit] Singles performance timeline
To help interpret the performance table, the legend below explains what each abbreviation and color coded box represents in the performance timeline.| Terms to know | |||
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| SR | the ratio of the number of singles tournaments won to the number of those tournaments played | W-L | player's Win-Loss record |
| Performance Table Legend | |||
| NH | tournament not held in that calendar year | A | did not participate in the tournament |
| LQ | lost in qualifying draw | #R | lost in the early rounds of the tournament (RR = round robin) |
| QF | advanced to but not past the quarterfinals | SF | advanced to but not past the semifinals |
| F | advanced to the final, tournament runner-up | W | won the tournament |
| NM5 | means an event that is neither a Premier Mandatory nor a Premier 5 tournament. | |||
| Tournament | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | Career Win-Loss | |||||||||||
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| Australian Open | A | A | 4R | 3R | 4R | 8–3 | |||||||||||
| French Open | A | 1R | 3R | 3R | 4–3 | ||||||||||||
| Wimbledon | LQ | 2R | 3R | 4R | 6–4 | ||||||||||||
| US Open | A | 2R | 4R | F | 10–3 | ||||||||||||
| Year-End Championship | |||||||||||||||||
| WTA Tour Championships | A | A | A | SF | 2–2 | ||||||||||||
| Olympic Games | |||||||||||||||||
| Summer Olympics | Not Held | 3R | NH | 2–1 | |||||||||||||
| WTA Premier Mandatory Tournaments | |||||||||||||||||
| Indian Wells | A | 2R | 4R | QF | 7–3 | ||||||||||||
| Miami | A | A | 4R | QF | 6–2 | ||||||||||||
| Madrid | Not Held | F | 5–1 | ||||||||||||||
| Beijing | Not Tier I | 1R | 0–1 | ||||||||||||||
| WTA Premier 5 Tournaments | |||||||||||||||||
| Dubai | Not Tier I | A | 0–0 | ||||||||||||||
| Rome | A | A | 3R | 3R | 4–2 | ||||||||||||
| Cincinnati | Not Tier I | QF | 2–1 | ||||||||||||||
| Montreal/Toronto | A | 1R | A | 2R | 2–2 | ||||||||||||
| Tokyo | A | A | 1R | 2R | 0–2 | ||||||||||||
| Former WTA Tier I Tournaments (currently neither Premier Mandatory nor Premier 5 events) | |||||||||||||||||
| Charleston | A | A | A | A | 0–0 | ||||||||||||
| Moscow | A | A | 2R | A | 1–1 | ||||||||||||
| Doha | Not Tier I | QF | Not Held | 3–1 | |||||||||||||
| Berlin | A | A | 2R | 1–1 | |||||||||||||
| San Diego | A | A | NH | 0–0 | |||||||||||||
| Zurich | A | A | NM5 | 0–0 | |||||||||||||
| Career Statistics | |||||||||||||||||
| Tournaments played | 11 | 19 | 24 | 26 | 2 | 84 | |||||||||||
| Finals reached | 0 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 12 | |||||||||||
| Tournaments won | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 6 | |||||||||||
| Hardcourt win-loss | 10–5 | 14–9 | 41–12 | 36–17 | 3–2 | 104–47 | |||||||||||
| Clay win-loss | 5–3 | 7–6 | 7–5 | 23–6 | 0–0 | 42–20 | |||||||||||
| Grass win-loss | 0–1 | 1–1 | 4–2 | 8–1 | 0–0 | 13–5 | |||||||||||
| Carpet win-loss | 2–1 | 9–1 | 6–1 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 17–3 | |||||||||||
| Overall win-loss | 17–10 | 31–17 | 58–20 | 67–24 | 3–2 | 176–75 | |||||||||||
| Year-end ranking | 237 | 64 | 12 | 4 | N/A | ||||||||||||
[edit] WTA Tour career earnings
| Year | Grand Slam singles titles | WTA singles titles | Total singles titles | Earnings ($) | Money list rank |
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| 2005-06 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 40,586 | n/a |
| 2007 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 151,895 | 100 |
| 2008 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 686,327 | 23 |
| 2009 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 2,371,550 | 6 |
| 2010* | 0 | 0 | 0 | 82,413 | 20 |
| Career | 0 | 6 | 6 | 3,332,771 | 68 |
[edit] Head-to-head record against other players
Wozniacki's win-loss record against certain players who have been ranked World No. 10 or higher is as follows:Players who have been ranked World No. 1 are in boldface.
- Marion Bartoli 3–1
- Anna Chakvetadze 2–0
- Daniela Hantuchova 2–0
- Flavia Pennetta 2–0
- Jelena Dokic 2–1
- Svetlana Kuznetsova 2–2
- Victoria Azarenka 2–2
- Elena Dementieva 2–3
- Amelie Mauresmo 1–0
- Vera Zvonareva 1–1
- Agnieszka Radwanska 1–1
- Patty Schnyder 1–1
- Li Na 1-2
- Lindsay Davenport 0–1
- Kim Clijsters 0–1
- Dinara Safina 0–1
- Nadia Petrova 0–1
- Serena Williams 0–2