Marta Domachowska

At the 2009 US Open
Country	Poland
Residence	Podkowa Leśna, Poland
Born	(1986-01-16) January 16, 1986 (age 26) Warsaw, Poland
Height	1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight	60 kg (130 lb; 9.4 st)
Turned pro	2001
Plays	Right-handed
Career prize money	$ 973,559
Singles
Career record	271–192
Career titles	0 WTA, 8 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 37 (April 3, 2006)
Current ranking	No. 268 (June 13, 2011)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	4R (2008)
French Open	2R (2005, 2008)
Wimbledon	2R (2008)
US Open	1R (2005, 2006, 2008, 2009)
Doubles
Career record	93–108
Career titles	1 WTA, 3 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 62 (January 30, 2006)
Last updated on: June 19, 2011.

Marta Domachowska (Polish pronunciation: [ˈmarta dɔmaˈxɔfska]; born January 16, 1986 in Warsaw) is a Polish professional tennis player. She began playing at age 7. She reached the semi finals of Australian Open Junior Championships in 2003. Her racquet brand is Wilson. She speaks four languages: Polish, English, Spanish and Russian. Other than tennis, she enjoys sports such as football and swimming.^[1] She is engaged to Polish butterfly and freestyle swimmer Paweł Korzeniowski^{[citation needed]}.

Career [link]

Early life and Junior Career [link]

Marta was born in Warsaw to Wieslaw and Barbara. She started playing tennis at age seven,^[1] and reached the semi finals of the Australian Open Junior Championships in 2003.

Professional career [link]

2001-2006 [link]

In her sole appearance at a WTA tournament in 2001, as an unranked wildcard in Sopot qualifying, she lost in the first round. 2002 marked her second Tour appearance, as an unranked wildcard in Warsaw. During the year she reached the doubles semifinals in Sopot and won first her first two ITF singles titles along with her first doubles title. She debuted on Tour Rankings on May 20 at No.745 and amassed a 29-12 ITF singles record (finished as no. 356)^[1] and 9–7 doubles record. She again accepted a wildcard at Warsaw, and also at Sopot in 2003, where she in the first round of both. She won her third singles title and finished the season ranked no. 244 in singles.^[1]

In 2004, she won two more ITF titles and reached a WTA final in Seoul. She defeated Anna Smashnova to reach the semifinals in Sopot, and reached the quarter-finals in Casablanca. She made her debut in the top 100 (at no. 100) on September 27, 2004. Even though she failed to qualify for the French Open, Wimbledon and US Open, she compiled a 42-20 singles record and 12-9 doubles record, finishing the season ranked no. 74 in singles.^[1]

2005 was the best year for Domachowska results-wise. She was runner-up in the Tier III tournament in Strasbourg and reached the semis in Beijing, a Tier II. She made her debut in the main draw of all four majors and made her debut in the top 50 (at No. 48) on June 6. She was runner-up in two doubles tournaments. Although, she had to withdraw from Hyderabad and Memphis after spraining her right shoulder.^{[citation needed]} Her record for the year was 24-26 in singles (finishing the year no. 60)^[1] and 14-16 in doubles.

She won her first WTA tour title in 2006 with (Roberta Vinci) in a tournament in Canberra. She reached a singles final in Memphis and achieved a new singles career of no. 37 on April 3. She and Sania Mirza finished runner-up in Cincinnati, and with Marion Bartoli, reached the semi finals in Stanford. But she failed to advance past the first round in all four grand slams, and withdrew the Charleston, and Bali due to injuries. Poor results in Beijing and Seoul resulted in her finishing the year at no. 90.^[1]

2007-2009 [link]

After not playing Memphis in 2007, her ranking dropped to no. 166. As a result, she played multiple ITF-level tournaments, reaching the semi finals in one instance. She managed to qualify for the Seoul and Stockholm WTA tournaments, but failed to qualify for nine WTA events (including two majors), and lacked a win at all in grand slams that year. As the world no. 179, and as a qualifier, she won a $100,000 ITF tournament in Poitiers, defeating Anna Lapuschenkova 7-5, 6-0. It was her first singles title since 2003 and the biggest tournament win in her career. She won an ITF doubles title in Rome, and finished no. 143 in singles and no. 240 in doubles for the year.

In the 2008 Australian Open, she achieved her best grand slam result, reaching the fourth round (beating Li Na in the process), before she lost to Venus Williams 4-6, 4-6. She and Agnieszka Radwańska became the first Poles to reach the fourth round of a grand slam. Due to this result, Domachowska returned to the top 100 (at no. 82). Domachowska also represented Poland in the singles draw at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where she lost in the first round. She finished year at no. 56.^[1]

In 2009 in singles, she lost in the first round of all four grand slams, including the US Open as a qualifier. Domachowska, did however, manage to reach the singles quarterfinals of Istanbul.

Personal [link]

Marta was born to Barbara and Wieslaw and currently resides in Podkowa Leśna, Poland. She has an older sister Magdalena. Speaks Polish, English, Russian and Spanish. In addition to tennis her favorite sports are soccer and swimming. She is engaged to Polish butterfly and freestyle swimmer Paweł Korzeniowski^{[citation needed]}.

WTA Career Finals [link]

Singles: 3 (0–3) [link]

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in Final	Score in Final
Runner-up	1.	September 27, 2004	Seoul, South Korea	Hard	Maria Sharapova	6–1, 6–1
Runner-up	2.	May 21, 2005	Strasbourg, France	Clay	Anabel Medina Garrigues	6–4, 6–3
Runner-up	3.	February 25, 2006	Memphis, United States	Hard	Sofia Arvidsson	6–2, 2–6, 6–3

Doubles: 5 (1–4) [link]

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponent in Final	Score in Final
Runner-up	1.	January 31, 2005	Pattaya City, Thailand	Hard	Silvija Talaja	Rosa María Andrés Rodríguez Andreea Vanc	6–3, 6–1
Runner-up	2.	May 21, 2005	Strasbourg, France	Clay	Marlene Weingärtner	Marion Bartoli Anna-Lena Grönefeld	6–3, 6–2
Winner	1.	January 13, 2006	Canberra, Australia	Hard	Roberta Vinci	Claire Curran Liga Dekmeijere	7–6(5), 6–3
Runner-up	3.	July 23, 2006	Cincinnati, United States	Hard	Sania Mirza	Gisela Dulko Maria Elena Camerin	6–4, 3–6, 6–2
Runner-up	4.	September 14, 2008	Bali, Indonesia	Hard	Nadia Petrova	Hsieh Su-wei Peng Shuai	6–7(4), 7–6(3), [10–7]

ITF Circuit finals (17) [link]

ITF Circuit singles: 11 (8–3) [link]

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score in the final
Winner	1.	August 11, 2002	ITF $10,000 Olecko, Poland	Clay	Liana Balaci	1–6, 6–3, 6–1
Winner	2.	November 3, 2002	ITF $10,000 Stockholm, Sweden	Hard	Sabrina Jolk	6–3, 6–4
Winner	3.	July 13, 2003	ITF $25,000 Toruń, Poland	Clay	Anastasia Yakimova	7–5, 3–6, 6–4
Winner	4.	February 1, 2004	ITF $25,000 Belfort, France	Hard	Adriana Barna	3–6, 6–0, 6–0
Winner	5.	February 15, 2004	ITF $25,000 Warsaw, Poland	Carpet	Angelique Kerber	7–6(5), 3–6, 6–3
Winner	6.	November 25, 2007	ITF $100,000 Poitiers, France	Hard	Anna Lapushchenkova	7–5, 6–0
Winner	7.	January 30, 2011	ITF $25,000 Grenoble, France	Hard	Naomi Broady	6–4 6–4
Runner-up	1.	March 21, 2011	ITF $25,000 Bath, Great Britain	Hard	Stefanie Vögele	6–7(3), 7–5, 6–2
Winner	8.	June 13, 2011	ITF $25,000 Istanbul, Turkey	Hard	Margalita Chakhnashvili	7–5, 6–3
Runner-up	2.	July 24, 2011	ITF $25,000 Samsun, Turkey	Hard	Yulia Putintseva	7–6(6), 6–2
Runner-up	3.	October 29, 2011	ITF $75,000 Barnstaple, Great Britain	Hard	Anne Keothavong	6–1, 6–3

ITF Circuit doubles: 6 (3–3) [link]

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponent in the final	Score in the final
Winner	1.	November 3, 2002	ITF $10,000 Stockholm, Sweden	Hard	Elke Clijsters	Jenny Loow Suzanne van Hartingsveldt	6-1 6-1
Runner-up	1.	May 16, 2004	ITF $50,000 St. Gaudens, France	Clay	Natalia Gussoni	Ruxandra Dragomir-Ilie Andreea Vanc	6–3, 6–1
Winner	2.	May 12, 2007	ITF $100,000 Rome, Italy	Clay	Emma Laine	Maret Ani Caroline Maes	1-0 ret.
Runner-up	2.	February 4, 2011	ITF $25,000 Sutton, Great Britain	Hard (i)	Darija Jurak	Emma Laine Melanie South	3-6, 7-5 [8-10]
Runner-up	3.	March 21, 2011	ITF $25,000 Bath, Great Britain	Hard	Katarzyna Piter	Timea Babos Anne Kremer	7–6(5), 6–2
Winner	3.	June 13, 2011	ITF $25,000 Istanbul, Turkey	Hard	Teodora Mirčić	Daniella Dominikovic Melis Sezer	6–4, 6–2

Singles performance timeline [link]

To help interpret the performance table, the legend below explains what each abbreviation and color coded box represents in the 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

Sony Ericsson Open in Key Biscayne, Florida, which ended 5 April 2009.

References [link]

External links [link]

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v t e Women's Tennis Association: Top ten Polish female singles tennis players as of April 2, 2012 Agnieszka Radwańska (4 ) Urszula Radwańska (95 3) Marta Domachowska (176 10) Sandra Zaniewska (220 27) Magda Linette (251 2) Katarzyna Piter (343 8) Justyna Jegiołka (374 1) Patrycja Sanduska (390 15) Paula Kania (409 25) Katarzyna Kawa (469 4)