Paula Kania

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Paula Kania
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Kania in 2014
Full name Paula Maria Kania
Country (sports)  Poland
Residence Sosnowiec, Poland
Born (1992-11-06) 6 November 1992 (age 31)
Sosnowiec, Poland
Height 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Turned pro 2008
Plays Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money $400,132
Singles
Career record 168–126
Career titles 0 WTA, 5 ITF
Highest ranking 128 (15 June 2015)
Current ranking 136 (13 July 2015)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open Q2 (2014)
French Open 2R (2015)
Wimbledon 1R (2014)
US Open 1R (2014)
Doubles
Career record 127–79
Career titles 1 WTA, 11 ITF
Highest ranking 64 (8 June 2015)
Current ranking 64 (15 June 2015)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open
French Open 3R (2015)
Wimbledon
US Open 2R (2014)
Team competitions
Fed Cup 1–1
Last updated on: 4 February 2015.

Paula Kania (born 6 November 1992) is a professional Polish tennis player.

Kania has won one WTA title in doubles, five ITF titles in singles, and eleven in doubles. On 29 September 2014, she reached her best singles ranking of world number 155 and best doubles ranking of world number 67.[1]

Personal life

Paula was born to Paweł and Zadzisława Kania on 6 November 1992 in Sosnowiec. She has one sister – Zuzanna. She began playing tennis aged 7 and her favourite surface is hard. Her personal interests include music and reading. She has named Martina Hingis as the player she admires most. She became a professional tennis player in 2008. Her ambition in tennis is advance to the WTA top 10.[2]

Career

2012

Kania and Polina Pekhova won the title on 2012 Tashkent Open defeating Anna Chakvetadze and Vesna Dolonc in the final, when their opponents retired after losing the first set 2–6. This was her first WTA title of any kind.

2014

Kania qualified for her first main draw of a Grand Slam at 2014 Wimbledon Championships, losing to World No. 2 Li Na in straight sets in the first round. The match was not only Kania's first Grand Slam main draw, but her first singles main draw of any WTA Tour event after participating in qualifying at 20 tournaments.[3] Kania continued her momentum by qualifying for another WTA main draw a month later: the 2014 Bank of the West Classic.

WTA career finals

Doubles: 5 (1 title, 4 runners-up)

Legend
Grand Slam tournaments (0–0)
WTA Tour Championships (0–0)
Premier Mandatory & Premier 5 (0–0)
Premier (0–1)
International (1–2)
Finals by surface
Hard (1–3)
Clay (0–1)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)
Outcome No. Date Tournament Surface Partner Opponents Score
Winner 1. 15 September 2012 Tashkent Open, Tashkent, Uzbekistan Hard Belarus Polina Pekhova Russia Anna Chakvetadze
Serbia Vesna Dolonc
6–2, retired
Runner-up 1. 20 July 2014 İstanbul Cup, Istanbul, Turkey Hard Georgia (country) Oksana Kalashnikova Japan Misaki Doi
Ukraine Elina Svitolina
4–6, 0–6
Runner-up 2. 3 August 2014 Bank of the West Classic, Stanford, United States Hard Czech Republic Kateřina Siniaková Spain Garbiñe Muguruza
Spain Carla Suárez Navarro
2–6, 6–4, [5–10]
Runner-up 3. 31 July 2015 Brasil Tennis Cup, Florianópolis, Brazil Clay Argentina María Irigoyen Germany Annika Beck
Germany Laura Siegemund
3–6, 6–7(1–7)
Runner-up 4. 20 September 2015 Coupe Banque Nationale, Quebec City, Canada Hard (i) Argentina María Irigoyen Czech Republic Barbora Krejčíková
Belgium An-Sophie Mestach
6–4, 3–6, [10–12]

Single career statistics

Tournament 2013 2014 2015 W–L
Grand Slam Tournaments
Australian Open A Q2 Q1 0–0
French Open Q3 Q2 2R 1–1
Wimbledon Q1 1R Q1 0–1
US Open Q2 1R 0–1
Win–Loss 0–0 0–2 1–1

ITF finals

Singles (5–3)

$100,000 tournaments
$75,000 tournaments
$50,000 tournaments
$25,000 tournaments
$10,000 tournaments
Outcome No. Date Tournament Surface Opponent Score
Winner 1. 30 August 2010 Gliwice, Poland Clay Poland Anna Korzeniak 7–6(2), 3–6, 7–5
Runner-up 2. 14 March 2011 Amiens, France Clay Italy Nastassja Burnett 6–2, 1–6, 4–6
Winner 3. 18 July 2011 Horb am Neckar, Germany Clay Germany Carina Witthöft 4–6, 6–4, 7–5
Runner-up 4. 7 November 2011 Opole, Poland Carpet Croatia Ana Vrljić 3–6, 6–2, 6–7(4)
Runner-up 5. 8 July 2012 Toruń, Poland Clay Montenegro Danka Kovinić 3–6, 6–4, 3–6
Winner 6. 7 July 2013 Toruń, Poland Clay Poland Katarzyna Piter 6–4, 6–4
Winner 7. 2 November 2013 Taipei, Taiwan Clay Kazakhstan Zarina Diyas 6–1, 6–3
Winner 8. 10 August 2014 Landisville, United States Hard Tunisia Ons Jabeur 5–7, 6–3, 6–4

Doubles (12–11)

Outcome # Date Tournament Surface Partner Opponents Score
Winner 1. 12 July 2010 Piešťany, Slovakia Clay Poland Weronika Domagała Czech Republic Gabriela Horáčková
Czech Republic Petra Krejsová
6–1, 6–1
Runner-up 2. 27 September 2010 Tbilisi, Georgia Clay Hungary Zsófia Susányi Georgia (country) Tatia Mikadze
Georgia (country) Sofia Shapatava
3–6, 2–6
Runner-up 3. 8 November 2010 Minsk, Belarus Hard Poland Katarzyna Piter Russia Elena Bovina
Russia Ekaterina Bychkova
4–6, 0–6
Runner-up 4. 15 November 2010 Opole, Poland Carpet Poland Magda Linette Georgia (country) Oksana Kalashnikova
Belarus Polina Pekhova
3–6, 4–6
Runner-up 5. 24 January 2011 Kaarst, Germany Carpet Russia Marina Melnikova Czech Republic Nikola Fraňková
Czech Republic Tereza Hladíková
6–3, 6–7(1), [8–10]
Winner 6. 14 March 2011 Amiens, France Clay Poland Barbara Sobaszkiewicz Czech Republic Iveta Gerlová
Czech Republic Lucie Kriegsmannová
3–6, 6–4, [10–6]
Winner 7. 18 July 2011 Horb am Neckar, Germany Clay Poland Katarzyna Kawa Hungary Vaszilisza Bulgakova
Germany Christina Shakovets
1–6, 6–3, [10–2]
Runner-up 8. 15 August 2011 Piešťany, Slovakia Clay Czech Republic Martina Kubičíková Czech Republic Simona Dobrá
Czech Republic Lucie Kriegsmannová
4–6 2–6
Runner-up 9. 7 November 2011 Opole, Poland Carpet Poland Magda Linette United Kingdom Naomi Broady
France Kristina Mladenovic
6–7(5), 4–6
Winner 10. 16 January 2012 Stuttgart-Stammheim, Germany Hard Russia Ksenia Lykina Ukraine Lyudmyla Kichenok
Ukraine Nadiya Kichenok
6–4, 6–3
Winner 11. 5 March 2012 Fort Walton Beach, United States Hard United States Madison Brengle Russia Elena Bovina
France Alizé Lim
6–3, 6–4
Runner-up 12. 16 April 2012 Namangan, Uzbekistan Hard United Kingdom Naomi Broady Georgia (country) Oksana Kalashnikova
Russia Marta Sirotkina
6–2, 7–5
Winner 13. 30 April 2012 Moscow, Russia Hard Belarus Polina Pekhova Russia Tatiana Kotelnikova
Belarus Lidziya Marozava
6–4, 3–6, [10–7]
Runner-up 14. 11 June 2012 Craiova, Romania Clay Russia Irina Khromacheva Czech Republic Renata Voráčová
Slovakia Lenka Wienerová
2–6, 6–3, [10–6]
Winner 15. 15 October 2012 Seville, Spain Clay Poland Katarzyna Piter Bulgaria Aleksandrina Naydenova
Brazil Teliana Pereira
5–7, 6–4, [10–6]
Runner-up 16. 29 April 2013 Civitavecchia, Italy Clay Poland Magda Linette Liechtenstein Stephanie Vogt
Czech Republic Renata Voráčová
3–6, 4–6
Winner 17. 27 May 2013 Maribor, Slovenia Clay Poland Magda Linette Argentina Mailen Auroux
Argentina María Irigoyen
6–3, 6–0
Winner 18. 10 June 2013 Padua, Italy Clay Russia Irina Khromacheva Romania Cristina Dinu
Slovenia Maša Zec Peškirič
6–3, 6–1
Runner-up 19. 24 June 2013 Zlín, Czech Republic Clay Poland Katarzyna Piter Czech Republic Martina Borecká
Czech Republic Tereza Smitková
1–6, 7–5, [8–10]
Winner 20. 6 July 2013 Toruń, Poland Clay Poland Magda Linette Ukraine Yuliya Beygelzimer
Romania Elena Bogdan
6–2, 4–6, [10–5]
Winner 21. 25 October 2013 Casablanca, Morocco Clay Russia Valeria Solovyeva Chile Cecilia Costa Melgar
Italy Anastasia Grymalska
7–6(7–3), 6–4
Winner 22. 4 May 2015 Tunis, Tunisia Clay Argentina Maria Irigoyen France Julie Coin
France Stephanie Foretz
6-1, 6–3
Runner-up 23. 18 December 2015 Ankara, Turkey Hard (i) Netherlands Lesley Kerkhove Russia Marina Melnikova
Spain María José Martínez Sánchez
4–6, 7–5, [8–10]

References

  1. Paula Kania at the Women's Tennis Association
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