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==Biography==
|image = AleksandraWozniak.png
'''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.
|birthdate = September 7, 1987
|birthplace = Montréal, Québec, Canada
|dateofdeath =
|placeofdeath =
|from = Blainville, Québec, Canada
|residence =
|height = 5’9” (1,75m)
|styleofplay = Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
|turnedpro = 2005
|retired = 2018
|bestwtasinglesranking = No. 21 (June 22, 2009)
|bestwtadoublesranking = No. 136 (June 7, 2010)
|bestitfjuniorranking =
|canadiantennishalloffame =
|cdntennisprofile = [http://www.cdntennis.ca/aleksandrawozniak Profile on CdnTennis.ca]
}}
 
==Biography==
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.
'''Aleksandra Wozniak''' (born September 7, 1987 in Montréal, Québec, Canada) is a Canadian former professional tennis player. She reached a career-high WTA singles ranking of No. 21 on June 22, 2009 and a career-high WTA doubles ranking of No. 136 on June 7, 2010.
 
Wozniak has won one WTA and eleven ITF tournaments. Wozniak won her first Billie Jean King Cup (then known as 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 Billie Jean King Cup team]] record, as are her 32 wins in singles. She has appeared in 36 ties during her career in the Billie Jean King Cup, also a record. As a junior, she won the Grade A tournament Abierto Juvenil Mexicano in 2005. Also in 2005, she reached the semifinals of the junior Australian Open in singles. 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. 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. At the 2012 [[Canadian Open|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. Also in 2012, Wozniak qualified for the Summer Olympic Games in London, but lost to American Venus Williams in the second round. In doubles, she lost in the first round with [[Stéphanie Dubois]]. 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.
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 [[Canada Fed Cup team|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. Since retiring, Wozniak was the marketing director for Elixir Wear from February to November 2019, a company specialised in natural pain relief wearables developed to treat sports, muscle, and joint injuries. She is currently a motivational speaker and a tennis coach at her own tennis academy in Bedford, Québec named Académie de tennis Aleksandra Wozniak. She also has a Level 3 Coach certification from Tennis Canada. She married her partner in August 2020 and gave birth to their son James in July 2021.
 
==WTA career finals==
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|Grand Slam tournaments (0–0)
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|Olympic Games (0–0)
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|Apr 2009
|AmeliaPonte IslandVedra Beach Championships, United States
|International
|Clay
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|<small>4–2</small>
|Nov 2005
|style="background:lightblue;"|[[Tevlin Women's Challenger|Toronto]], Canada
|style="background:lightblue;"|$25,000
|Hard (i)
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|<small>8–3</small>
|Aug 2011
|style="background:#f88379;"|[[Odlum Brown VanOpen|Vancouver]], Canada
|style="background:#f88379;"|$100,000
|Hard
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|<small>10–3</small>
|Jul 2017
|style="background:lightblue;"|[[Challenger Banque Nationale de Gatineau|Gatineau]], Canada
|style="background:lightblue;"|$25,000
|Hard
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|ITF $100,000 tournaments (0–0)
|- style="background:#f7e98e;"
|ITF $75,000 / ITF $80,000 tournaments (0–0)
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|ITF $25,000 tournaments (0–1)
|- style="background:#ccccff;"
|ITF $15,000 tournaments (0–0)
|- style="background:#f0f8ff;"
|ITF $10,000 tournaments (0–1)
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!Tournament!!2001!!2002!!2003!!2004!!2005!!2006!!2007!!2008!!2009!!2010!!2011!!2012!!2013!!2014!!2015!!2016!!2017!!2018!!SR!!W–L!!Win %
|-
|colspan=22 style="text-align:left;"|'''Grand Slam Tournamentstournaments'''
|-
|style="text-align:left;"|Australian Open
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|40%
|-
|colspan=22 style="text-align:left;"|'''WTAYear-end Premier Mandatory / Premier 5 Tournamentschampionships'''
|-
|style="text-align:left;"|WTA Finals
|colspan=18 style="color:#cccccc;"|Did Not Qualify
|0 / 0
|0–0
|–
|-
|style="text-align:left;"|WTA Elite Trophy
|colspan=8 style="color:#cccccc;"|Not Held
|colspan=10 style="color:#cccccc;"|Did Not Qualify
|0 / 0
|0–0
|–
|-
|colspan=22 style="text-align:left;"|'''WTA Tier I / WTA Premier Mandatory & Premier 5 tournaments'''
|-
|style="text-align:left;"|Doha / Dubai<sup>1</sup>
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|-
|style="text-align:left;"|Madrid
|colspan=8 style="color:#ccccccccc;"|Not Held
|style="background:#afeeee;"|2R
|style="background:#afeeee;"|1R
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|33%
|-
|style="text-align:left;"|[[RogersCanadian CupOpen|Canada]]
|A
|A
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|-
|style="text-align:left;"|Cincinnati
|colspan=8 style="color:#ccccccccc;"|Not Tier I
|style="background:#afeeee;"|2R
|A
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|50%
|-
|style="text-align:left;"|Tokyo / Wuhan<sup>2</sup>
|colspan=13 style="color:#cccccc;"|Not Held
|A
|A
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|A
|A
|0 / 0
|style="background:#ecf2ff;"|Q1
|0–0
|A
|–
|style="background:#afeeee;"|1R
|style="background:#afeeee;"|3R
|A
|A
|A
|style="background:#afeeee;"|2R
|A
|A
|A
|A
|A
|0 / 3
|3–3
|50%
|-
|style="text-align:left;"|Beijing
|colspan=8 style="color:#ccccccccc;"|Not Tier I
|style="background:#afeeee;"|3R
|A
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|0–1
|1–3
|2–2
|2–3
|6–7
|8–8
|0–4
|1–1
|5–5
|0–2
|1–3
|3–3
|0–0
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|0–0
|0–0
|0 / 3431
|18–31
|21–34
|3837%
|-
|colspan=22 style="text-align:left;"|'''NationalFormer RepresentationWTA Tier I / WTA Premier Mandatory & Premier 5 tournaments'''
|-
|style="text-align:left;"|Summer OlympicsTokyo
|A
|colspan=3 style="color:#ccc;"|Not Held
|A
|A
|A
|A
|style="background:#ecf2ff;"|Q1
|A
|style="background:#afeeee;"|1R
|style="background:#afeeee;"|3R
|A
|A
|colspan=3 style="color:#ccc;"|Not Held
|A
|colspan=3 style="color:#ccc;"|Not Held
|style="background:#afeeee;"|2R
|colspan=35 style="color:#ccccccccc;"|Not HeldPremier 5
|0 / 3
|3–3
|50%
|-
|style="text-align:left;"|Berlin
|A
|A
|A
|A
|A
|A
|A
|A
|colspan=10 style="color:#cccccc;"|Not Held
|0 / 0
|0–0
|–
|-
|style="text-align:left;"|Charleston
|A
|A
|A
|A
|A
|A
|A
|style="background:#afeeee;"|1R
|colspan=10 style="color:#cccccc;"|Not Premier 5
|0 / 1
|0–1
|0%
|-
|style="text-align:left;"|Moscow
|A
|A
|A
|A
|A
|A
|A
|A
|colspan=10 style="color:#cccccc;"|Not Premier 5
|0 / 0
|0–0
|–
|-
|style="text-align:left;"|Zurich
|A
|A
|A
|A
|A
|A
|A
|style="color:#cccccc;"|NTI
|colspan=10 style="color:#cccccc;"|Not Held
|0 / 0
|0–0
|–
|-
|style="text-align:left;"|San Diego
|colspan=3 style="color:#cccccc;"|Not Held
|A
|A
|A
|A
|colspan=2 style="color:#cccccc;"|Not Held
|colspan=9 style="color:#cccccc;"|Not Premier 5
|0 / 0
|0–0
|–
|- style="font-weight:bold; background:#efefef;"
|style="text-align:left;"|Win–Loss
|0–0
|0–0
|0–0
|0–0
|0–0
|0–0
|0–0
|0–2
|2–1
|0–0
|0–0
|0–0
|1–1
|0–0
|0–0
|0–0
|0–0
|0–0
|0 / 4
|3–4
|43%
|-
|colspan=22 style="text-align:left;"|'''National representation'''
|-
|style="text-align:left;"|Olympic Games
|colspan=3 style="color:#cccccc;"|Not Held
|A
|colspan=3 style="color:#cccccc;"|Not Held
|A
|colspan=3 style="color:#cccccc;"|Not Held
|style="background:#afeeee;"|2R
|colspan=3 style="color:#cccccc;"|Not Held
|A
|colspan=2 style="color:#ccccccccc;"|Not Held
|0 / 1
|1–1
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|74%
|-
|colspan=22 style="text-align:left;"|'''Career Statisticsstatistics'''
|-
!!!2001!!2002!!2003!!2004!!2005!!2006!!2007!!2008!!2009!!2010!!2011!!2012!!2013!!2014!!2015!!2016!!2017!!2018!!SR!!W–L!!Win %
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|colspan=3|59.61%
|- style="background:#efefef;"
|style="text-align:left;"|Year-Endend Rankingranking
|–
|569
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|132
|844
|299300
|300
|1042
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'''Notes'''
*<sup>1</sup> The first WTA Premier 5 event of the year (now a WTA 1000) has switched back and forth between the Dubai Tennis Championships and the Qatar Ladies Open sincebeginning in 2009. Dubai was classified as a Premier 5 event from 2009–2011 before being succeeded by Doha for the 2012–2014 period. SinceFrom 2015 to 2023, the two tournaments alternatealternated between Premier 5 and Premier status every year.
*
*<sup>2</sup> In 2014, the Pan Pacific Open was downgraded to a Premier event and replaced by the Wuhan Open.
*
 
==Doubles performance timeline==
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!Tournament!!2007!!2008!!2009!!2010!!2011!!2012!!2013!!SR!!W–L!!Win %
|-
|colspan=11 style="text-align:left;"|'''Grand Slam Tournamentstournaments'''
|-
|style="text-align:left;"|Australian Open
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|5–13
|28%
|}
 
==Mixed doubles performance timeline==
{|class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
|-
!Tournament!!2009!!SR!!W–L!!Win %
|-
|colspan=5 style="text-align:left;"|'''Grand Slam tournaments'''
|-
|style="text-align:left;"|Australian Open
|style="background:#ffebcd;"|QF
|0 / 1
|2–1
|67%
|-
|style="text-align:left;"|French Open
|A
|0 / 0
|0–0
|–
|-
|style="text-align:left;"|Wimbledon
|A
|0 / 0
|0–0
|–
|-
|style="text-align:left;"|US Open
|A
|0 / 0
|0–0
|–
|- style="font-weight:bold; background:#efefef;"
|style="text-align:left;"|Win–Loss
|2–1
|0 / 1
|2–1
|67%
|}
 
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|Serena Williams (USA)
|style="background:#eee8aa;"|5
|style="background:#d4f1c5;"|Stanford Classic, United States
|style="background:#ccccff;"|Hard
|style="background:yellow;"|SF
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|Nadia Petrova (RUS)
|style="background:#eee8aa;"|10
|Ponte Vedra Beach Championships, United States
|style="background:#ebc2af;"|Clay
|style="background:yellow;"|SF
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|Svetlana Kuznetsova (RUS)
|style="background:#eee8aa;"|5
|style="background:#d4f1c5;"|Eastbourne International, United Kingdom
|style="background:#ccffcc;"|Grass
|style="background:#afeeee;"|1R
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|Caroline Wozniacki (DEN)
|style="background:#eee8aa;"|5
|style="background:#e9e9e9;"|TokyoPan Pacific Open, Japan
|style="background:#ccccff;"|Hard
|style="background:#afeeee;"|2R
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|35
|}
 
==External links==
*[http://www.cdntennis.ca/aleksandrawozniak Profile on CdnTennis.ca]
 
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[[Category:Canadian retired tennis players]]
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