Aleksandra Wozniak

Biography

Aleksandra Wozniak (born September 7, 1987 in Montréal, Québec, Canada) is a Canadian former 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 eleven 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 Québécoise in history to have accomplished such a feat. As a junior, she reached a career-high ITF ranking of No. 3 on January 31, 2005 and won the Grade A tournament Abierto Juvenil Mexicano in 2005. Also in 2005, she reached the semifinals of the junior Australian Open in singles. Wozniak was named Female Player of the Year by Tennis Canada five times (2004, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2012) and received the Bobbie Rosenfeld Award as the Canadian female athlete of the year in 2009. She retired on December 19, 2018.

At the 2009 French Open, Wozniak became Canada's first representative in the fourth round of the French Open women's draw in 17 years, and the first Canadian woman to survive into the second week at the French Open since Patricia Hy-Boulais in 1992. Wozniak was also the first Canadian to reach the fourth round of a Grand Slam event since Maureen Drake qualified for the round of 16 at the 1999 Australian Open. In 2012, Wozniak qualified for the Summer Olympic Games in London, but lost to American Venus Williams in the second round. At the 2012 Rogers Cup, she reached the quarterfinals at a Premier 5 tournament for the first time of her career, where she lost to Caroline Wozniacki. She became the first Canadian in 20 years (since Patricia Hy-Boulais in 1992) to reach the quarterfinals there. In doubles, she lost in the first round with Stéphanie Dubois. In 2014, Wozniak had to end her season prematurely to have shoulder surgery and only returned to competition eleven months after.

Wozniak won her first Fed Cup match in 2004, defeating Swiss Timea Bacsinszky and boasts a 40–12 record through April 2016. Her 40 total victories are a Canadian Fed Cup record, as are her 32 wins in singles. She has appeared in 36 ties during her career in the Fed Cup, also a record.

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. She 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.

WTA career finals

Singles: 3 (1 title, 2 runners-up)

Legend Grand Slam tournaments (0–0) WTA Finals (0–0) WTA Tier I / WTA Premier Mandatory & Premier 5 (0–0) WTA Tier II / WTA Premier (1–0) WTA Tier III, IV & V / WTA International (0–2)

Titles by surface Hard (1–0) Clay (0–2) Grass (0–0) Carpet (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0–1	May 2007	Morocco Open, Morocco	Tier IV	Clay	Milagros Sequera (VEN)	1–6, 3–6
Win	1–1	Jul 2008	Stanford Classic, United States	Tier II	Hard	Marion Bartoli (FRA)	7–5, 6–3
loss	1–2	Apr 2009	Amelia Island Championships, United States	International	Clay	Caroline Wozniacki (DEN)	1–6, 2–6

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 14 (11 titles, 3 runners-up)

Legend ITF $100,000 tournaments (2–0) ITF $75,000 / ITF $80,000 tournaments (1–0) ITF $50,000 / ITF $60,000 tournaments (1–0) ITF $25,000 tournaments (6–3) ITF $10,000 / ITF $15,000 tournaments (1–0)

Titles by surface Hard (9–2) Clay (2–1) Grass (0–0) Carpet (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1–0	Jun 2002	Lachine, Canada	$10,000	Hard	Beier Ko (CAN)	6–0, 6–3
Win	2–0	Jul 2005	Hamilton, Canada	$25,000	Clay	María José Argeri (ARG)	6–1, 6–2
Loss	2–1	Oct 2005	Pelham, United States	$25,000	Clay	Soledad Esperón (ARG)	5–7, 2–6
Win	3–1	Oct 2005	Victoria, Mexico	$25,000	Hard	Olga Blahotová (CZE)	2–6, 6–0, 6–4
Loss	3–2	Oct 2005	Mexico City, Mexico	$25,000	Hard	María José Argeri (ARG)	4–6, 0–4 retired
Win	4–2	Nov 2005	Toronto, Canada	$25,000	Hard (i)	Olena Antypina (UKR)	6–4, 6–3
Win	5–2	Jul 2006	Hamilton, Canada (2)	$25,000	Clay	Valérie Tétreault (CAN)	6–1, 6–7(5–7), 6–2
Win	6–2	Oct 2006	Ashland, United States	$50,000	Hard	Ágnes Szávay (HUN)	6–1, 7–6(7–2)
Win	7–2	Nov 2006	Pittsburgh, United States	$75,000	Hard (i)	Victoria Azarenka (BLR)	6–2, retired
Loss	7–3	Mar 2008	Redding, United States	$25,000	Hard	Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová (CZE)	6–7(4–7), 3–6
Win	8–3	Aug 2011	Vancouver, Canada	$100,000	Hard	Jamie Hampton (USA)	6–3, 6–1
Win	9–3	Mar 2012	Nassau, Bahamas	$100,000	Hard	Alizé Cornet (FRA)	6–4, 7–5
Win	10–3	Jul 2017	Gatineau, Canada	$25,000	Hard	Ellen Perez (AUS)	7–6(7–4), 6–4
Win	11–3	Oct 2017	Stillwater, United States	$25,000	Hard	Marie Bouzková (CZE)	7–5, 6–4

Doubles: 2 (2 runners-up)

Legend ITF $100,000 tournaments (0–0) ITF $75,000 / ITF $80,000 tournaments (0–0) ITF $50,000 / ITF $60,000 tournaments (0–0) ITF $25,000 tournaments (0–1) ITF $10,000 / ITF $15,000 tournaments (0–1)

Titles by surface Hard (0–1) Clay (0–1) Grass (0–0) Carpet (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	Jun 2002	Toronto, Canada	$10,000	Hard	Diana Srebrovic (CAN)	Lauren Cheung (AUS) Christina Horiatopoulos (AUS)	3–6, 1–6
Loss	0–2	Jul 2006	Hamilton, Canada	$25,000	Clay	Soledad Esperón (ARG)	Nicole Kriz (AUS) Story Tweedie-Yates (USA)	4–6, 1–6

Singles performance timeline

Tournament	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	SR	W–L	Win %
Grand Slam Tournaments
Australian Open	A	A	A	A	A	A	1R	Q1	1R	1R	A	2R	A	Q1	A	Q1	Q1	A	0 / 4	1–4	20%
French Open	A	A	A	A	A	A	1R	3R	4R	3R	2R	3R	A	1R	A	1R	Q1	A	0 / 8	10–8	56%
Wimbledon	A	A	A	A	A	A	1R	2R	1R	2R	1R	2R	A	1R	A	A	A	A	0 / 7	3–7	30%
US Open	A	A	A	A	A	A	1R	1R	3R	1R	1R	2R	2R	1R	A	A	A	A	0 / 8	4–8	33%
Win–Loss	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–4	3–3	5–4	3–4	1–3	5–4	1–1	0–3	0–0	0–1	0–0	0–0	0 / 27	18–27	40%
WTA Premier Mandatory / Premier 5 Tournaments
Doha / Dubai1	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	1R	A	A	A	A	A	A	0 / 1	0–1	0%
Indian Wells	A	A	A	A	A	A	1R	Q2	3R	2R	Q1	1R	A	4R	A	Q2	A	A	0 / 5	4–5	44%
Miami	A	A	A	A	Q1	A	1R	2R	2R	2R	A	3R	1R	1R	A	A	A	A	0 / 7	3–7	30%
Madrid	Not Held								2R	1R	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	0 / 2	1–2	33%
Rome	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	2R	A	A	1R	A	A	A	A	A	A	0 / 2	1–2	33%
Canada	A	A	Q1	1R	1R	1R	2R	2R	1R	1R	2R	QF	A	1R	A	1R	Q1	A	0 / 11	6–11	35%
Cincinnati	Not Tier I								2R	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	0 / 1	1–1	50%
Tokyo / Wuhan2	A	A	A	A	A	Q1	A	1R	3R	A	A	A	2R	A	A	A	A	A	0 / 3	3–3	50%
Beijing	Not Tier I								3R	A	A	A	1R	A	A	A	A	A	0 / 2	2–2	50%
Win–Loss	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–1	0–1	0–1	1–3	2–3	8–8	0–4	1–1	5–5	1–3	3–3	0–0	0–1	0–0	0–0	0 / 34	21–34	38%
National Representation
Summer Olympics	Not Held			A	Not Held			A	Not Held			2R	Not Held			A	Not Held		0 / 1	1–1	50%
Fed Cup	A	A	A	PO	AZ1	WG2	WG2	AZ1	WG2	WG2	WG2	AZ1	A	PO	A	WG2	A	A	0 / 0	32–11	74%
Career Statistics
	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	SR	W–L	Win %
Tournaments	1	4	4	6	14	26	27	23	25	18	14	21	7	17	5	17	20	3	252
Titles	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Finals	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3
Hardcourt Win–Loss	0–0	11–3	0–1	5–3	19–5	34–15	16–18	29–14	13–14	3–9	19–10	23–10	2–6	14–11	4–4	21–14	21–12	1–2	1 / 158	235–151	61%
Clay Win–Loss	0–0	0–0	1–2	6–3	25–7	7–6	5–3	6–5	10–7	6–6	5–2	8–6	0–0	8–4	0–0	0–3	2–5	1–1	0 / 60	90–60	60%
Grass Win–Loss	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–1	0–3	2–2	4–3	5–3	3–1	3–3	0–0	7–2	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0 / 18	24–18	57%
Carpet Win–Loss	2–1	0–0	1–1	0–0	0–1	2–2	1–5	3–1	3–1	0–0	1–1	1–0	0–1	0–0	0–1	0–1	0–1	0–0	0 / 16	14–17	45%
Overall Win–Loss	2–1	11–3	2–4	11–6	44–13	43–24	22–29	40–22	30–25	14–18	28–14	35–19	2–7	29–17	4–5	21–18	23–18	2–3	1 / 252	363–246	60%
Win %	67%	79%	33%	65%	79%	64%	43%	65%	55%	44%	67%	65%	22%	63%	44%	54%	56%	40%	59.61%
Year-End Ranking	–	569	878	491	190	91	130	34	35	126	105	43	280	132	844	299	300	1042	–

Notes

• ¹ The first Premier 5 event of the year has switched back and forth between the Dubai Tennis Championships and the Qatar Ladies Open since 2009. Dubai was classified as a Premier 5 event from 2009–2011 before being succeeded by Doha for the 2012–2014 period. Since 2015, the two tournaments alternate between Premier 5 and Premier status every year.
• ² In 2014, the Pan Pacific Open was downgraded to a Premier event and replaced by the Wuhan Open.

Doubles performance timeline

Tournament	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	SR	W–L	Win %
Grand Slam Tournaments
Australian Open	A	A	1R	1R	A	A	A	0 / 2	0–2	0%
French Open	1R	A	1R	2R	A	2R	A	0 / 4	2–4	33%
Wimbledon	A	A	2R	2R	A	1R	A	0 / 3	2–3	40%
US Open	A	1R	1R	A	A	1R	2R	0 / 4	1–4	20%
Win–Loss	0–1	0–1	1–4	2–3	0–0	1–3	1–1	0 / 13	5–13	28%

Record against top-20 players

Wozniak's win-loss record (11–37, 23%) against players who were ranked world No. 20 or higher when played is as follows:
Players who have been ranked world No. 1 are in boldface.

Player Top-20 record Overall record Marion Bartoli (FRA) 2–1 2–1 Amélie Mauresmo (FRA) 1–0 1–0 Svetlana Kuznetsova (RUS) 1–0 1–0 Francesca Schiavone (ITA) 1–0 2–1 Sabine Lisicki (GER) 1–0 3–2 Zheng Jie (CHN) 1–0 2–1 Serena Williams (USA) 1–1 1–1 Nadia Petrova (RUS) 1–1 1–1 Jelena Janković (SRB) 1–4 1–4 Caroline Wozniacki (DEN) 1–7 1–8 Ana Ivanovic (SRB) 0–1 0–1 Dinara Safina (RUS) 0–1 0–1 Vera Zvonareva (RUS) 0–1 0–1 Samantha Stosur (AUS) 0–1 3–2 Patty Schnyder (SUI) 0–1 0–1 Dominika Cibulková (SVK) 0–1 0–4 Flavia Pennetta (ITA) 0–1 0–2 Alizé Cornet (FRA) 0–1 3–2

Player Top-20 record Overall record Shahar Pe'er (ISR) 0–1 2–2 Lucie Šafářová (CZE) 0–1 1–3 Sybille Bammer (AUT) 0–1 2–1 Victoria Azarenka (BLR) 0–2 1–4 Li Na (CHN) 0–2 1–3 Elena Dementieva (RUS) 0–2 0–2 Sloane Stephens (USA) 0–2 1–3 Agnieszka Radwańska (POL) 0–4 0–4 Total 11–37 29–55

Wins over top-10 opponents

Wozniak has a 4–21 (16%) record against players who were, at the time the match was played, ranked in the top 10.

Wins over top-10 opponents per season

Season	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	Total
Wins	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4

No.	Opponent	Rank	Event	Surface	Round	Score	Wozniak Rank
2008
1.	Serena Williams (USA)	5	Stanford, United States	Hard	SF	6–2, 3–1 retired	85
2009
2.	Nadia Petrova (RUS)	10	Ponte Vedra Beach, United States	Clay	SF	6–4, 4–6, 6–2	35
3.	Svetlana Kuznetsova (RUS)	5	Eastbourne, United Kingdom	Grass	1R	6–0, 6–3	23
4.	Caroline Wozniacki (DEN)	5	Tokyo, Japan	Hard	2R	5–0 retired	35

Career prize money

Annual and career earnings summary (singles and doubles)

	Titles			Earnings
Year	Grand Slam	WTA	Total	US$	WTA rank
2007	0	0	0	20,135	n/a
2008	0	1	1	277,473	60
2009	0	0	0	443,283	51
2010	0	0	0	218,732	85
2011	0	0	0	112,437	n/a
2012	0	0	0	336,002	65
2013	0	0	0	104,542	n/a
2014	0	0	0	206,579	123
2015	0	0	0	2,841	1010
2016	0	0	0	61,559	228
2017	0	0	0	30,669	337
2018	0	0	0	688	1864
Career	0	1	1	2,028,797	221

*As of December 17, 2018