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Jill Craybas
Country	United States
Residence	Huntington Beach, California, U.S.
Date of birth	July 4, 1974 (age 35)
Place of birth	Providence, Rhode Island
Height	1.60 m (5 ft 3 in)
Weight	56 kg (120 lb)
Turned pro	1996
Plays	Right; Two-handed backhand
Career prize money	US$1,969,798
Singles
Career record	352–335
Career titles	1 WTA (4 ITF)
Highest ranking	No. 39 (April 17, 2006)
Current ranking	No. 77 (October 19, 2009)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	3R (2004)
French Open	2R (2001, 2007, 2009)
Wimbledon	4R (2005)
US Open	2R (2004, 2005, 2006, 2009)
Doubles
Career record	104–176
Career titles	4 WTA
Highest ranking	No. 41 (June 23, 2008)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	2R (2007)
French Open	2R (2009)
Wimbledon	3R (2007)
US Open	2R (2004-6)
	Last updated on: October 19, 2009.

Jill Craybas (born July 4, 1974, Providence, Rhode Island) is an American professional tennis player.

[edit] Career

Before entering the professional ranks in 1996, she attended and graduated from the University of Florida in Gainesville, and was the 1996 NCAA singles champion. Her major was telecommunications and she has said in interviews that she hopes to enter this field (film or TV production) when her playing days are over. She credits all her achievements to her longtime coach, Michael Daly. Michael has worked with her from the start of her tennis career.

Craybas has won one WTA title at the Tokyo Japan Open. She beat Silvija Talaja in the final after trailing 4–0 in the third set. In the 2006 season, Craybas had reached one quarterfinal at Hobart as the eighth seed, losing to unseeded Italian Mara Santangelo in three sets. She has also reached the semifinals of a Tier III event in Memphis, a fourth-round showing at the Tier I event in Key Biscayne, Florida and a further quarterfinal appearance at Stanford in late July.

Craybas is best known for her 2005 defeat of Serena Williams in the 3rd round of Wimbledon. She beat Williams 6–3, 7–6, then lost to Serena's older sister, Venus Williams 6–0, 6–2.

On March 25, 2006, Craybas once again served up an early round defeat of a top seeded player. This time it was second-seeded Kim Clijsters in the second round of the NASDAQ-100 tournament. After having lead in both the first and third sets, Clijsters eventually lost by a score of 7–5, 3–6, 7–5. It was Clijsters earliest ever exit from the NASDAQ-100, and Clijsters was the defending champion.

Craybas, who may be a veteran on the tour nowadays, is thought to be playing the best tennis of her life. However, after having a successful start to 2006, has fallen short of what was expected of her from her dramatically impressive start, losing to lower-ranked opponents in first rounds or having difficult first round draws against the top players in the world.

She began 2007 by reaching the semifinals of a Tier IV event in Auckland, New Zealand. She beat all of her opponents in straight sets before bowing out to Russian Vera Zvonareva 6–3, 7–5. She next took part in the Tier II event in Sydney, where she lost in the last round of qualifying to Russian Vera Dushevina 6–1, 3–6, 6–1. At the first Grand Slam tournament of the year at the Australian Open, she suffered a first-round loss to the tenth-eeded Nicole Vaidišová 6–4, 5–7, 6–1. Craybas bounced back into winning form at her next tournament in the U.S., at an ITF tournament in Midland, Texas. As the top-seeded, she beat all of her opponents in straight sets until a hard-fought 2–6, 6–3, 6–3 victory over second-seeded and fellow American Laura Granville. Because of her lower ranking, she has suffered in tough draws, not going further than the second round of any tournament since.

Jill Craybas at the 2008 US Open

At the start of 2008, Craybas entered the Pattaya Women's Open in Pattaya, Thailand, where, as the seventh-seed, she played some of the best tennis of her career and beat Olga Savchuk 6–1, 6–1 in the first round, Renata Voráčová 2–6, 6–1, 6–3 in the second round and Andreja Klepač 6–4, 6–4 in the quarterfinals. In the semifinals she beat Akgul Amanmuradova 6–4, 6–0 and lost to the top seed Agnieszka Radwańska in a tie-break in the third set, 6–2, 1–6, 7–6. Craybas's ranking improved from World No. 77 to World No. 60 because of these results.

Craybas won the Istanbul Cup in doubles.

Craybas represented the United States at the 2008 Summer Olympics in the tennis singles event. She became the last qualifier for the event, replacing Tamira Paszek of Austria.^[1] The opening came available when fellow American Ashley Harkleroad elected to skip the games after she became pregnant.^[2]

[edit] WTA Tour singles finals (2)

[edit] Wins (1)

Legend: Before 2009	Legend: Starting in 2009
Grand Slam (0)
WTA Championships (0)
Tier I (0)	Premier Mandatory (0)
Tier II (0)	Premier 5 (0)
Tier III (1)	Premier (0)
Tier IV & V (0)	International (0)

No.	Date	Tournament	Location	Surface	Opponent in Final	Score in Final
1.	6 October 2002	Japan Open Tennis Championships	Tokyo, Japan	Hard	Silvija Talaja	2–6, 6–4, 6–4

[edit] Runners up (1)

No.	Date	Tournament	Location	Surface	Opponent in Final	Score in Final
1.	10 February 2008	Pattaya Women's Open	Pattaya, Thailand	Hard	Agnieszka Radwańska	6–2, 1–6, 7–6(4)

[edit] WTA Tour women's doubles finals (12)

[edit] Wins (4)

Legend: Before 2009	Legend: Starting in 2009
Grand Slam (0)
WTA Championships (0)
Tier I (0)	Premier Mandatory (0)
Tier II (0)	Premier 5 (0)
Tier III (4)	Premier (0)
Tier IV & V (0)	International (0)

No.	Date	Tournament	Location	Surface	Partner	Opponent in Final	Score in Final
1.	19 May 2003	Open de España Madrid 2012	Madrid, Spain	Clay	Liezel Huber	Rita Grande Angelique Widjaja	6-4, 7-6(6)
2.	16 August 2004	Western & Southern Financial Group Women's Open	Cincinnati, USA	Hard	Marlene Weingartner	E Gagliardi A-L Grönefeld	7-5, 7-6(2)
3.	19 May 2008	Istanbul Cup	Istanbul, Turkey	Clay	Olga Govortsova	Marina Eraković Polona Hercog	6-1, 6-2
4.	4 October 2008	AIG Japan Open Tennis Championships	Tokyo, Japan	Hard	Marina Eraković	Ayumi Morita Aiko Nakamura	4-6, 7-5, 10-6

[edit] Runner ups (8)

No.	Date	Tournament	Location	Surface	Partner	Opponent in Final	Score in Final
1.	31 October 2004	Fortis Championships Luxembourg	Luxembourg City, Luxembourg	Hard	Marlene Weingartner	V Ruano Pascual Paola Suárez	6–1, 6–7, 6–3
2.	26 September 2005	Hansol Korea Open Tennis Championships	Seoul, South Korea	Hard	Natalie Grandin	Chan Yung-jan Chuang Chia-jung	6–2, 6–4
3.	9 January 2006	Moorilla Hobart International	Hobart, Australia	Hard	Jelena Kostanić	Émilie Loit Nicole Pratt	6–2, 6–1
4.	18 June 2006	DFS Classic	Birmingham, United Kingdom	Grass	Liezel Huber	Jelena Janković Li Na	6–2, 6–4
5.	30 October 2006	Bell Challenge	Quebec City, Canada	Hard	Alina Jidkova	Carly Gullickson Laura Granville	6–3, 6–4
6.	10 September 2007	Commonwealth Bank Tennis Classic	Bali, Indonesia	Hard	Natalie Grandin	Ji Chunmei Sun Shengnan	6–3, 6–2
7.	28 Aprill 2008	ECM Prague Open	Prague, Czech Republic	Clay	Michaëlla Krajicek	Andrea Hlaváčková Lucie Hradecká	1-6, 6-3, [10-6]
8.	2 November 2008	Bell Challenge	Quebec City, Canada	Hard	Tamarine Tanasugarn	A-L Grönefeld Vania King	7–6(3), 6–4

[edit] Grand Slam History

Tournament	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	Career SR	Career Win-Loss
Australian Open	A	A	A	1R	LQ	1R	2R	1R	3R	1R	1R	1R	2R	1R	0 / 11	10–11
French Open	A	A	A	LQ	A	2R	1R	1R	1R	1R	1R	2R	1R	2R	0 / 10	3–10
Wimbledon	A	A	A	LQ	LQ	1R	2R	1R	2R	4R	1R	1R	1R	2R	0 / 11	6–11
US Open	1R	A	1R	1R	1R	1R	1R	1R	2R	2R	2R	1R	1R	2R	0 / 13	10–13

[edit] External links

Jill Craybas profile on the WTA Tour's official website

[edit] References

[0] ttp://www.itftennis.com/olympics/news/newsarticle.asp?articleid=19057

[1] ttp://www.usatoday.com/sports/olympics/2008-06-03-3513293212_x.htm

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