Yanina Wickmayer

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**Yanina Wickmayer**

Country	Belgium
Residence	Deurne, Belgium
Date of birth	October 20, 1989 (1989-10-20) (age 18)
Place of birth	Lier, Belgium
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight	66 kg (150 lb/10.4 st)
Turned pro	2004
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Career prize money	$114,093
Singles
Career record:	101-39
Career titles:	0 (8 ITF)
Highest ranking:	No. 85 (June 9, 2008)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open
French Open	1st (2008)
Wimbledon
US Open
Doubles
Career record:	38-18
Career titles:	0 (7 ITF)
Highest ranking:	No. 126 (November 26, 2007)
Infobox last updated on: June 9, 2008.

Yanina Wickmayer (born October 20, 1989 in Lier, Antwerp) is a Belgian professional tennis player who is currently ranked World No. 85. She is currently the highest ranked Belgian player after Justine Henin retired from the sport.

1 Personal
2 2006
3 2007
4 2008
5 ITF titles
- 5.1 Singles (8)
- 5.2 Doubles (7)
6 References
7 External links

[edit] Personal

Wickmayer's mother and brother died at an early age. She is coached by Ann Devries.

[edit] 2006

Wickmayer obtained her first real successes: 3 singles ITF titles and 2 ITF doubles (see below).

[edit] 2007

Wickmayer continued her success on the ITF circuit by winning several tournaments in Asia during the fall season (see external links). It was around this time that Wickmayer surpassed Caroline Maes as the number two Belgian female tennis player. At the start of the year, Wickmayer was number 534 in the world but by November 2007 was around number 170. Wickmayer has now won 8 singles titles and 7 doubles titles on the ITF circuit.

She was also selected by team captain Sabine Appelmans to represent the Belgium Fed Cup team at the 2007 Fed Cup. She lost to Venus Williams 6–1, 6–2 in her World Group match before Winning one rubber and losing the other against Chinese opposition.

[edit] 2008

In the 2008 Fed Cup tie versus the Ukraine, Wickmayer sprung a surprise victory over reigning Australian Open women's doubles champion Katerina Bondarenko.^[1] She won her first 75 000 Dollar doubles title at Torhout Belgium.

Wickmayer qualified in singles for the French Open, but lost 2-6, 5-7 in the first round to Akgul Amanmuradova of Uzbekistan.

[edit] ITF titles

[edit] Singles (8)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	20/08/2006	Koksijde	Clay	Kristina Steiert	6–4, 6–1
2.	19/11/2006	Florianópolis	Clay	Estefania Craciun	6–1, 6–0
3.	26/11/2006	Córdoba	Clay	Teliana Pereira	6–1, 6–7(4), 6–0
4.	29/7/2007	Les Contamines	Hard	Julie Coin	6–2, 7–6(3)
5.	28/10/2007	Hamanako	Carpet	Junri Namigata	4–6, 6–4, 6–2
6.	11/11/2007	Taizou	Hard	Xinyun Han	6–2, 6–2
7.	18/11/2007	Kunming	Hard	Urszula Radwańska	7–5, 6–4
8.	11/05/2008	Indian Harbour Beach	Clay	Bethanie Mattek	6–4, 7–5

[edit] Doubles (7)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	11/11/2006	Itajaí	Clay	Teliana Pereira	Fernanda Hermenegildo / Monika Kochanova	6–3, 6–3
2.	26/11/2006	Córdoba	Clay	Teliana Pereira	Florencia Molinero / Veronika Spiegel	7–5, 6–4
3.	18/05/2007	Trivandrum	Clay	Lauren Albanese	Nicole Clerico / Agnes Szatmari	3–6, 7–5, 6–0
4.	08/07/2007	Stuttgart-Vaihingen	Clay	Ekaterina Dzehalevich	Darija Jurak / Carmen Klaschka	6–3, 6–2
5.	28/07/2007	Les Contamines	Hard	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	Petra Cetkovská / Sandra Zahlavová	Walk Over
6.	18/11/2007	Kunming	Hard	Urszula Radwańska	Xinyun Han / Yi-Fan Xu	6–4, 6–1
7.	06/04/2008	Torhout	Hard	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	Stephanie Cohen-Aloro / Selima Sfar	6-4, 4-6 (10-8)