Magda Linette

Magda Linette

Magda Linette at the 2016 French Open.
Country (sports)  Poland
Residence Poznań, Poland
Born (1992-02-12) 12 February 1992
Poznań, Poland
Height 1.71 m (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in)
Turned pro 2009
Retired Active
Plays Right-handed, two-handed backhand
Prize money $ 524,314
Official website magdalinette.com
Singles
Career record 232–151
Career titles 0 WTA, 10 ITF
Highest ranking No. 64 (21 September 2015)
Current ranking No. 81 (9 May 2016)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open 1R (2016)
French Open 1R (2015, 2016)
Wimbledon 1R (2015, 2016)
US Open 2R (2015)
Doubles
Career record 114–91
Career titles 0 WTA, 8 ITF
Highest ranking No. 95 (27 July 2015)
Current ranking No. 151 (21 March 2016)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open 1R (2016)
French Open 2R (2015)
Wimbledon 1R (2015)
US Open 1R (2015)
Last updated on: 8 February 2016.

Magda Linette (born 12 February 1992) is a professional Polish tennis player. Her highest WTA singles ranking is 64, which she reached on September 21, 2015.[1] Her career high in doubles is 95, achieved on July 27, 2015.

She made her first appearance in a WTA main draw at the Internationaux de Strasbourg in May 2013, where she also scored her first win at this level. The same year, she reached her first WTA semifinal in Baku, coming from qualifying.

Magda Linette won her first WTA 125 title in November 2014 by defeating China's Wang Qiang in the final of the Ningbo International Women's Tennis Open.

Personal life

Magda Linette was born to Tomasz and Beata and currently resides in Poznań, Poland.[2] She is a right-handed player and is currently coached by Izudin Zunić.[2] Her favourite tennis surfaces are hard and clay.[2]

Tennis career

2010

In May, Magda Linette received a wild card to the qualifying draw of Polsat Warsaw Open – part of WTA Premier series. She beat her doubles partner Paula Kania in straight sets but lost to Anna Chakvetadze (4–6 6–4 1–6). In June, she won her first professional tournament in Szczecin as a wild card entrant.[3] In July, she made it to the final of the ITF Toruń tournament but lost to top seed Ksenia Pervak from Russia in straight sets.[4]

Magda Linette won another two ITF titles in August, in Hechingen and Versmold, both in Germany. In Hechingen, as a qualifier, she defeated Sílvia Soler Espinosa of Spain, while in Versmold she beats Romanian Irina-Camelia Begu in straight sets, 6–2, 7–5.[5]

She continued to play $25,000 ITF tournaments and won her fourth title of the season in Katowice, where she defeated former top 100 player Eva Birnerová (3–6 6–2 6–2). The week after, she reached another final in Zagreb but eventually lost to Renata Voráčová in three sets, after 21 consecutive wins on the ITF circuit. After some weeks of rest, she wasn't able to win her first matches in $50,000 ITF tournaments, in Athens and Ismaning; nevertheless she succeeded in reaching the final in Opole, but lost to Sandra Záhlavová (7–5 6–7 4–6).

2011

Magda Linette 2011 US Open 01
Magda Linette at the 2011 French Open

In early February, Magda Linette played for the first time as a member of Polish team in Fed Cup. She defeated Anne Kremer easily (6–1 6–1), but lost her three other matches, including one against Belarusian and top 100 player Olga Govortsova on an honorable score (6–7 6–7).

In May, for her first appearance in a Grand Slam tournament, she played the qualifying of the French Open and defeated Claire de Gubernatis (6–4 6–3) to reach the second round, where she lost to Mandy Minella.

In September, Linette played in the qualifying tournament of the U.S. Open, losing a three-set match to Russian Valeria Savinykh, 6–7(2), 6–4, 6–2.

After some difficult months despite encouraging debuts on $50,000 and $100,000 ITF tournaments during the summer, Magda Linette surprisingly defeated Sorana Cîrstea in the first round of the tournament of Poitiers in October, 3–6 6–4 6–2. The month after, she reached the semifinals of the ITF tournament of Opole in her home country, beating en route top seed Lesia Tsurenko.

2012

Starting the season with several early exits after a notable straight sets win over Mónica Puig in Andrézieux-Bouthéon, Magda Linette reached her first singles final in over 18 months at the $10,000 event of Florence in May but lost to Anaïs Laurendon (4–6 4–6). After four first round losses, she finally competed again in a $25,000 final in Kristinehamn a month later after beating Elena Bovina by coming from a set down, but was defeated by Australia's Sacha Jones. In Ystad, she won her very first doubles title pairing up with her friend Katarzyna Piter.

Linette's performances during the summer were quite disappointing, exceeding the first round only once. Her next good run occurred in Dobrich where she finally qualified for the semifinals with victories over Irina Khromacheva and Jasmina Tinjić, losing to Anne Schäfer after a final set tie-break. The week after, she entered and won the $10,000 of Prague after beating Kateřina Siniaková and Zuzana Luknárová without dropping a set, lifting her fifth singles trophy in career and the first since September 2010.

In October and November, Linette got some of her best wins of the season by beating Eleni Daniilidou in Limoges, Mónica Puig again in Nantes and Karolína Plíšková in Équeurdreville, but reached at best the quarterfinals in these tournaments. Nevertheless, she added two more doubles titles to her prize list, including her first $50,000 level trophy in Limoges with compatriot Sandra Zaniewska. In December, she ended her season by winning another tournament in doubles with Katarzyna Piter in Ankara.

2013

In early 2013, Magda Linette hired Izo Zunić as her new coach and started to train in Split.

After a brief warm-up tournament in France in January where she won three matches, Linette spent some weeks in South America to play two WTA tournaments but suffered early losses in both Cali and Acapulco.

Back in Europe in late March, Linette reached the semifinals at the indoor hard tournament of Tallinn, falling to Aliaksandra Sasnovich. Some days later, she beat Valeria Savinykh in the first qualifying round of the BNP Paribas Katowice Open but didn't manage to qualify for the main draw. At the end of the month, Linette entered the $25,000 event of Civitavecchia and reached the singles final by defeating successively Anne Schäfer, Arantxa Parra Santonja, Alizé Lim and Corinna Dentoni before losing to Anna Karolína Schmiedlová. The week after, she won at $50,000+H Johannesburg her biggest doubles title to date along with Chanel Simmonds.

At mid-May, Magda Linette qualified for the first time for a WTA main draw in Strasbourg, not losing a set in qualifying. She scored her first win at this level against Olga Puchkova and, doing so, her second victory over a top 100 player, advanced to the second round and falling to eventual champion Alizé Cornet. Then she had some tougher weeks until mid-July as she reached the quarterfinals only once, in Toruń.

Getting through another WTA qualifying draw on the occasion of the Baku Cup, Linette made her second appearance in a main draw at this level. She defeated Julia Cohen, runner-up of the previous edition, then Kristýna Plíšková to reach the quarterfinals where she benefited from a controversial retirement of Ons Jabeur.[6] She lost in her first WTA semifinals to Shahar Pe'er. Thanks to her deep run in Baku, she returned to the top 200 for the first time since August 2011 and got a new career-high in rankings of No.159.

Trying to enter the US Open main draw, she fell in the first qualifying round to Turkey's Çağla Büyükakçay.

After fruitless tournaments in September, Linette started to compete in successive indoor hard events in France and got more success. She reached the semifinals at $50,000 Joué-lès-Tours with victories over Valeria Savinykh, Ana Vrljić and Marta Domachowska, only losing to Mirjana Lučić-Baroni. The week after, she won her eighth doubles title, pairing up with Viktorija Golubic. Finally, she competed in her very first $50,000+H singles final in Nantes beating en route Sofia Arvidsson and Claire Feuerstein but falling to in-form player Aliaksandra Sasnovich (6–4 4–6 2–6). This performance made her advance to No.148 in singles.

In December she came back to play a $25,000 tournament in Pune, which she won as the top seed.

2014

Linette started the season slowly with a few wins in Australia before falling into a seven match losing streak from January to April, combining WTA and ITF events. She finally reached the quarterfinals at the Malaysian Open in Kuala Lumpur.

Preparing for the French Open, she had mixed results at two European $100,000 tournaments and failed to pass the first qualifying round in Paris where she lost to Ksenia Pervak. She launched her grass season with two ITF tournaments in Great Britain but lost twice to Estonia's Anett Kontaveit in straight sets. She sustained an ankle injury from her first qualifying match at Wimbledon and had to stop playing for a month.

Magda Linette during the 2014 China Open (Beijing)

Linette returned to the competition in August but failed again to get through the first qualifying round at the US Open. In September, she flew to Asia to play a serie of WTA events. Winning one match each time in Suzhou, Hong Kong and Guangzhou (losing to Timea Bacsinszky in three sets), she reached in the latter her very first WTA doubles final, partnering Alizé Cornet. After two losses in Beijing and Tianjin, she was top seed in a $25,000 event in Goyang and won it.

In late October two weeks later, she entered another WTA 125 tournament in Ningbo, China. Defeating seventh seed Shahar Pe'er and Xu Yifan in the first two rounds, she came back from a 1–6 0–4 deficit to beat second seed Zheng Saisai in the quarterfinals[7] before taking out fellow Pole and friend Paula Kania to qualify for the final. She defeated sixth seed Wang Qiang in the final (3–6, 7–5, 6–1) to win the tournament, the biggest title of her career and her first WTA trophy of any kind until then.[8]

She ended her season with a quarterfinal appearance in the WTA 125 event of Taipei the week after, beating again Wang Qiang but losing to top seed Anna-Lena Friedsam. She reached the 109th position in the WTA singles rankings at the end of November 2014.

WTA career finals

Singles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)

Legend
Grand Slam tournaments (0–0)
WTA Tour Championships (0–0)
Premier Mandatory & Premier 5 (0–0)
Premier (0–0)
International (0–1)
WTA 125 Series (1–0)
Outcome No. Date Championship Surface Opponent Score
Winner 1. 27 October 2014 Ningbo International Women's Tennis Open, Ningbo, China Hard China Wang Qiang 3–6, 7–5, 6–1
Runner-up 1. 19 September 2015 Japan Women's Open, Tokyo, Japan Hard Belgium Yanina Wickmayer 6–4, 3–6, 3–6

Doubles: 2 (2 runners-up)

Legend
Grand Slam tournaments (0–0)
WTA Tour Championships (0–0)
Premier Mandatory & Premier 5 (0–0)
Premier (0–0)
International (0–2)
Outcome No. Date Championship Surface Partner Opponent Score
Runner–up 1. 20 September 2014 Guangzhou International Women's Open, Guangzhou, China Hard France Alizé Cornet Chinese Taipei Chuang Chia-jung
China Liang Chen		 6–2, 6–7(3), [7–10]
Runner–up 2. 16 October 2016 Tianjin Open, Tianjin, China Hard China Xu Yifan United States Christina McHale
China Peng Shuai 		6–7(8–10), 0–6

ITF Career statistics

ITF Circuit singles: 19 (10 titles, 9 runners-up)

$100,000 tournaments
$75,000 tournaments
$50,000 tournaments
$25,000 tournaments
$10,000 tournaments
Outcome No. Date Tournament Surface Opponent Score
Winner 1. June 7, 2010 Szczecin, Poland Clay Estonia Margit Rüütel 6–2, 6–0
Runner–up 1. June 28, 2010 Toruń, Poland Clay Russia Ksenia Pervak 4–6, 1–6
Winner 2. August 2, 2010 Hechingen, Germany Clay Spain Sílvia Soler-Espinosa 7–5, 3–6, 6–2
Winner 3. August 9, 2010 Versmold, Germany Clay Romania Irina-Camelia Begu 6–2, 7–5
Winner 4. September 6, 2010 Katowice, Poland Clay Czech Republic Eva Birnerová 3–6, 6–2, 6–2
Runner–up 2. September 13, 2010 Zagreb, Croatia Clay Czech Republic Renata Voráčová 1–6, 6–4, 4–6
Runner–up 3. November 15, 2010 Opole, Poland Carpet Czech Republic Sandra Záhlavová 7–5, 6–7(4–7), 4–6
Runner–up 4. May 7, 2012 Florence, Italy Clay France Anaïs Laurendon 4–6, 4–6
Runner–up 5. June 18, 2012 Kristinehamn, Sweden Clay Australia Sacha Jones 4–6, 4–6
Winner 5. September 24, 2012 Prague, Czech Republic Clay Slovakia Zuzana Luknárová 6–2, 7–6(9–7)
Runner–up 6. April 29, 2013 Civitavecchia, Italy Clay Slovakia Anna Karolína Schmiedlová 0–6, 1–6
Runner–up 7. October 28, 2013 Nantes, France Hard Belarus Aliaksandra Sasnovich 6–4, 4–6, 2–6
Winner 6. December 2, 2013 Pune, India Hard Kazakhstan Kamila Kerimbayeva 7–5, 7–6(7–5)
Runner–up 8. December 9, 2013 Navi Mumbai, India Hard Japan Rika Fujiwara 6–2, 6–7(5–7), 6–7(4–7)
Winner 7. October 13, 2014 Goyang, South Korea Hard Czech Republic Renata Voráčová 6–3, 3–6, 6–3
Winner 8. February 2, 2015 Grenoble, France Hard Czech Republic Tereza Martincová 7–6(7–2), 4–6, 6–1
Winner 9. February 16, 2015 New Delhi, India Hard Slovenia Tadeja Majerič 6–1, 6–1
Runner–up 9. June 15, 2015 Ilkley, Great Britain Grass Germany Anna-Lena Friedsam 7–5, 3–6, 1–6
Winner 10. May 8, 2016 Cagnes-sur-Mer, France Clay Germany Carina Witthöft 6–3, 7–5

ITF Circuit doubles: 17 (8 titles, 9 runners-up)

$100,000 tournaments
$75,000 tournaments
$50,000 tournaments
$25,000 tournaments
$10,000 tournaments
Outcome No. Date Tournament Surface Partner Opponent Score
Runner-up 1. November 15, 2010 Opole, Poland Carpet Poland Paula Kania Georgia (country) Oksana Kalashnikova
Belarus Polina Pekhova		 3–6, 4–6
Runner-up 2. April 11, 2011 Casablanca, Morocco Clay Poland Katarzyna Piter Austria Sandra Klemenschits
France Kristina Mladenovic		 3–6, 6–3, [8–10]
Runner-up 3. May 30, 2011 Rome-Tiro a Volo, Italy Clay Romania Liana Ungur Australia Sophie Ferguson
Australia Sally Peers		 Walkover
Runner-up 4. September 12, 2011 Mestre, Italy Clay Hungary Tímea Babos Ukraine Valentyna Ivakhnenko
Russia Marina Melnikova		 4–6, 5–7
Runner-up 5. November 7, 2011 Opole, Poland Carpet Poland Paula Kania United Kingdom Naomi Broady
France Kristina Mladenovic		 6–7(5), 4–6
Winner 1. June 25, 2012 Ystad, Sweden Clay Poland Katarzyna Piter Georgia (country) Oksana Kalashnikova
Slovakia Lenka Wienerová		 6–3, 6–3
Runner–up 6. September 24, 2012 Prague, Czech Republic Clay Czech Republic Kateřina Kramperová United Kingdom Lucy Brown
Italy Angelica Moratelli		 3–6, 7–5, [6–10]
Winner 2. October 15, 2012 Limoges, France Hard Poland Sandra Zaniewska France Irena Pavlovic
Switzerland Stefanie Vögele		 6–1, 5–7, [10–5]
Winner 3. November 5, 2012 Équeurdreville, France Hard Poland Katarzyna Piter Switzerland Amra Sadiković
Croatia Ana Vrljić		 6–4, 7–6(7–4)
Winner 4. December 17, 2012 Ankara, Turkey Hard Poland Katarzyna Piter Ukraine Irina Buryachok
Russia Valeria Solovyeva		 6–2, 6–2
Runner-up 7. April 29, 2013 Civitavecchia, Italy Clay Poland Paula Kania Liechtenstein Stephanie Vogt
Czech Republic Renata Voráčová		 3–6, 4–6
Winner 5. May 6, 2013 Johannesburg, South Africa Hard South Africa Chanel Simmonds United Kingdom Samantha Murray
United Kingdom Jade Windley		 6–1, 6–3
Winner 6. May 27, 2013 Maribor, Slovenia Clay Poland Paula Kania Argentina Mailen Auroux
Argentina Maria Irigoyen		 6–3, 6–0
Winner 7. July 1, 2013 Toruń, Poland Clay Poland Paula Kania Ukraine Yuliya Beygelzimer
Romania Elena Bogdan		 6–2, 4–6, [10–5]
Runner-up 8. September 23, 2013 Loughborough, Great Britain Hard Czech Republic Tereza Smitková Turkey Çağla Büyükakçay
Turkey Pemra Özgen		 2–6, 7–5, [6–10]
Winner 8. October 14, 2013 Limoges, France Hard Switzerland Viktorija Golubic Italy Nicole Clerico
Czech Republic Nikola Fraňková		 6–4, 6–4
Runner-up 9. March 31, 2014 Edgbaston, Great Britain Hard Switzerland Amra Sadiković United Kingdom Jocelyn Rae
United Kingdom Anna Smith		 6–3, 5–7, [4–10]

Grand Slam performance timeline & Head to Head vs. top 10 ranked players

Singles

Grand Slam tournaments
Tournament20152016W–L
Australian Open 1Q 1R 0–1
French Open 1R 1R 0–2
Wimbledon 1R 1R 0–2
US Open 2R 1R 1–2
Win–Loss 1–3 0–4 1–7

Head-to-head vs. top 10 ranked players and players which has been in top 10

References

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