Aleksandra Wozniak
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| Country (sports) |
 Canada
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| Residence | Blainville, Quebec, Canada |
| Born |
September 7, 1987 Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) |
| Turned pro | November 2005 |
| Plays | Right-handed (two-handed backhand) |
| Prize money | $1,995,200 |
| Official website | aleksandrawozniak.com |
| Singles | |
| Career record | 334–223 |
| Career titles | 1 WTA, 9 ITF |
| Highest ranking | No. 21 (June 22, 2009) |
| Current ranking | No. 326 (September 26, 2016) |
| Grand Slam Singles results | |
| Australian Open | 2R (2012) |
| French Open | 4R (2009) |
| Wimbledon | 2R (2008, 2010, 2012) |
| US Open | 3R (2009) |
| Other tournaments | |
| Olympic Games | 2R (2012) |
| Doubles | |
| Career record | 33–55 |
| Career titles | 0 WTA, 0 ITF |
| Highest ranking | No. 136 (June 7, 2010) |
| Current ranking | No. 876 (September 26, 2016) |
| Grand Slam Doubles results | |
| Australian Open | 1R (2009, 2010) |
| French Open | 2R (2010, 2012) |
| Wimbledon | 2R (2009, 2010) |
| US Open | 2R (2013) |
| Other doubles tournaments | |
| Olympic Games | 1R (2012) |
| Grand Slam Mixed Doubles results | |
| Australian Open | QF (2009) |
| Team competitions | |
| Fed Cup | 40–12 |
| Last updated on: September 26, 2016. | |
Aleksandra Wozniak (born September 7, 1987) is a Canadian professional tennis player. She turned professional in November 2005. Wozniak achieved a career-best ranking of no. 21 on June 22, 2009, making her the fourth highest-ranked Canadian singles player of all time. She has won one WTA and nine ITF tournaments. At the Bank of the West Classic in Stanford in 2008, she became the first Canadian in 20 years to capture a WTA singles title and the first Quebecer in history to have accomplished such a feat. She reached a career-high ITF junior ranking of No. 3 on January 31, 2005. Wozniak was named Female Player of the Year by Tennis Canada five times (2004, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2012).
Wozniak's family immigrated to Canada from Poland in 1983, before she was born. She speaks Polish, English and French fluently. She has an elder sister Dorota who also played tennis. Aleksandra started playing tennis at the age of three. She was inspired to pick up a racquet by her sister and Monica Seles, her idol growing up, and was coached by her father Antoni.
In 2002, as a 14-year-old, Wozniak won the Canadian Indoors Under-16 and Under-18 championships. Aleksandra won the Kentucky International Junior Tennis Derby in 2004. In 2005, Wozniak reached no. 3 in the juniors. She also won the Tevlin Challenger 25K tournament in Toronto, the Hamilton Challenger 25K in Canada, the Victoria Challenger 25K and the Junior Casablanca Cup (as well as the doubles) in Mexico, and the Junior Del Cafe Cup (as well as the doubles) in Costa Rica.
In 2006, Wozniak won the Pittsburgh Challenger (defeating Belarusian Victoria Azarenka), and the Ashland Challenger (defeating Hungarian Ágnes Szávay). Wozniak also won the Challenger in Hamilton the same year. In February she beat her first top-100 player, world no. 63 Li Na in Thailand. In November 2006, she defeated her first top-50 player, world no. 40 Olga Puchkova in Pittsburgh.
In the first round of the French Open in June, Wozniak made it to the third round, before losing to 11th seed Vera Zvonareva. It was by far her best performance at any of the Grand Slams, and she became the first Québécoise to reach the third round of a Grand Slam since 2002.
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