Coco Vandeweghe

Country	United States
Residence	California
Date of birth	December 6, 1991 (1991-12-06) (age 18)
Place of birth	New York, NY
Retired	Active
Plays	Right Handed (Double Handed Backhand)
Career prize money	$75,814[1]
Singles
Career record	1-7
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	320 (October 12, 2009)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	-
French Open	-
Wimbledon	-
US Open	1R (2008)
Doubles
Career record	1-3
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	303 (November 23, 2009)
Last updated on: August 3, 2009.

Coco Vandeweghe (born December 6, 1991 in New York, NY) is an American professional tennis player. She played on the junior circuit, where she reached a high ranking of junior world no. 15, but is gradually playing more senior tournaments^{[citation needed]}. She won the 2008 US Open Girls' singles championship.

She made her WTA debut in Los Angeles, and reached her senior singles career high of world no. 393 on November 17, 2008.^[2]

Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 2.1 Junior 2.2 WTA 3 Personal 4 References

[edit] Early life

Coco first started playing tennis with her older brother, Beau.^[3]

[edit] Career

[edit] Junior

She received a wildcard into the 2008 US Open Girls' Singles tournament. She defeated 13th seed Elena Chernyakova in the first round. She defeated fellow wildcard Kristie Ahn in the second round and Katarzyna Piter in the third round. In the quarter finals, she defeated Belgian Tamaryn Hendler 6-2, 6-0. She defeated 12th seed Kristina Mladenovic in the semi finals^[4] and went on to win the final against Gabriela Paz-Franco 7-6(3), 6-1.^[5] She won the tournament without dropping a set.^[6]

[edit] WTA

She made her WTA debut in the 2007 Acura Classic as a wildcard. She lost to Elena Bovina 3-6, 5-7 in the first round.^[2] She also lost in the first rounds in tournaments in: Miami, to Sabine Lisicki and in Los Angeles to Marta Domachowska. In the 2008 US Open, where she won the girls' singles title, she received a wildcard for the women's singles main draw. She lost to Jelena Jankovic 3-6, 1-6 in the first round.^[2]

In 2009, she was granted a wildcard into the 2009 Sony Ericsson Open. she lost to Nuria Llagostera Vives 0-6, 3-6 in the first round. In her second WTA tournament of the year in Los Angeles, she recorded her first WTA-level win^{[citation needed]}. She defeated Tathiana Garbin 6-4, 6-4.She then lost to Flavia Pennetta 6-1 6-4.Coco gained wild card for qualifing at 2009 US Open.She lost in first round of qualifing.

[edit] Personal

She lives in Rancho Santa Fe, CA.^[3] She is the niece of Kiki Vandeweghe^[3] and grand daughter of Colleen Kay Hutchins and Ernie Vandeweghe^{[citation needed]}.

[edit] References

http://www.sonyericssonwtatour.com/page/Player/Info/0,,12781~13656,00.html

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