Aleksandra Wozniak (born September 7, 1987 in Montréal, Québec, Canada) 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 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. 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).
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 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 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.
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
This table is current through the 2018 French Open.
Tournament
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
SR
W–L
Win %
Grand Slam Tournaments
Australian Open
A
A
1R
1R
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
0 / 2
0–2
0%
French Open
1R
A
1R
2R
A
2R
A
A
A
A
A
A
0 / 4
2–4
33%
Wimbledon
A
A
2R
2R
A
1R
A
A
A
A
A
0 / 3
2–3
40%
US Open
A
1R
1R
A
A
1R
2R
A
A
A
A
0 / 4
1–4
20%
Win–Loss
0–1
0–1
1–4
2–3
0–0
1–3
1–1
0–0
0–0
0–0
0–0
0–0
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
*Statistics as of April 17, 2016
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
–
–
Career
0
1
1
2,027,856
201
*As of November 6, 2017
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