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Melinda Czink
Country	Hungary
Residence	New York, United States
Date of birth	October 22, 1982 (age 27)
Place of birth	Budapest, Hungary
Height	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Turned pro	2000
Plays	Left; Two-handed backhand
Career prize money	$967,681
Singles
Career record	339–230
Career titles	1 WTA, 18 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 37 (September 21, 2009)
Current ranking	No. 41 (February 1, 2010)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	2nd (2004, 2009)
French Open	3rd (2009)
Wimbledon	2nd (2006)
US Open	3rd (2003)
Doubles
Career record	110–115
Career titles	0 WTA, 9 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 100 (February 16, 2009)
	Last updated on: October 19, 2009.

The native form of this personal name is Czink Melinda. This article uses the Western name order.

Melinda Czink (born October 22, 1982 in Budapest) is a Hungarian professional female tennis player. On September 21, 2009 Czink reached her career-high singles ranking of World No. 37.

She has reached two WTA Tour singles finals. In 2005, she lost to Ana Ivanović in Canberra. In 2009, she defeated Lucie Šafářová in Quebec City for her first WTA Tour title. On the ITF Tour, she has won an incredible 18 singles titles.

[edit] Tennis career

[edit] 2000-2008

She pleyed her first tournament at Budapest as a wild-carded in 2000. She entered the top 100 first in 2003 also later she fall out. She won several single and double ITF title, see below.

[edit] 2009

She reached the top-50 and won her first title at Quebec. As 5th seeded she defeated Aleksandra Wozniak in the semifinal 6-3, 6-3 and Lucie Šafářová in the final 4-6, 6-3, 7-5. She also reached one semifinal and four quaterfinals during the season. At the end of the year she played at the Tournament of Champions at Bali where she lost to Aravane Rezaï 3-6, 5-7 and to Sabine Lisicki 6-2, 6-7(1), 4-6 in Round Robin.

[edit] 2010

She started the year at Brisbane International in Australia as 7th seeded. She defeated Lucie Hradecká in the first round 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 and Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová in the second 6-3, 2-6, 6-1. In the quarterfinals she lost to Justine Henin 2-6, 6-3, 6-7(5). Meanwhile she reached the doubles final with Arantxa Parra Santonja where they lost to Andrea Hlaváčková and Lucie Hradecká by 6-2, 6-7(3), 4-10. Next she played at Moorilla Hobart International where she lost to Gisela Dulko in the first round 4-6, 2-6. Now she is facing to the Australian Open where she lost in the fist round to Stefanie Vögele 5-7, 7-6(5), 7-9.

[edit] Titles

[edit] Singles titles (19)

Legend
Grand Slam tournaments (0)
WTA Championships (0)
Premier Mandatory (0)
Premier 5 (0)
Premier (0)
International (1)
ITF Titles (18)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	February 4, 2001	Istanbul	Hard	Magdalena Zdenovcova	5–7 6–1 6–2
2.	September 30, 2001	Raleigh	Clay	Ally Baker	6–3 6–2
3.	October 7, 2001	Aventura, Florida	Clay	Neyssa Etienne	6–4 6–3
4.	January 27, 2002	Miami	Hard	Lindsay Lee-Waters	7–5 6–2
5.	February 3, 2002	Saltillo	Hard	Petra Russegger	6–1 3–6 6–4
6.	February 10, 2002	Monterrey	Hard	Yuliana Fedak	6–3 3–6 6–1
7.	February 17, 2002	Matamoros	Hard	Melisa Arevalo	6–2 6–3
8.	May 12, 2002	Sea Island	Clay	Ashley Harkleroad	6–1 5–7 6–3
9.	May 18, 2003	Bromma	Clay	Ivana Abramović	6–1 6–2
10.	June 22, 2003	Lenzerheide	Clay	Stefanie Haidner	6–3 6–3
11.	July 20, 2003	Modena	Clay	Sun Tiantian	6–3 6–3
12.	November 23, 2003	Puebla	Hard	Carla Tiene	6–3 6–2
13.	February 1, 2004	Waikoloa	Hard	María Emilia Salerni	7–6 6–2
14.	November 28, 2004	San Luis Potosí	Hard	Mariana Díaz-Oliva	6–0 5–7 6–3
15.	January 28, 2007	Waikoloa	Hard	Edina Gallovits	6–2 6–3
16.	August 5, 2007	Washington, D.C.	Hard	Olga Savchuk	7–5 7–5
17.	September 30, 2007	Ashland	Hard	Varvara Lepchenko	6–1 2–6 6–4
18.	October 12, 2008	Pittsburgh	Hard	Varvara Lepchenko	6–2 3–6 6–1
19.	September 20, 2009	Quebec City	Carpet	Lucie Šafářová	4–6, 6–3, 7–5

[edit] Singles performance timeline

To prevent confusion and double counting, information in this table is updated only once a tournament or the player's participation in the tournament has concluded. This table is current through the 2010 Australian Open.

Tournament	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	Career W-L
Australian Open	1R	2R	A	1R	1R	A	2R	1R	2–6
French Open	A	1R	A	2R	1R	A	3R		3–4
Wimbledon	A	1R	1R	2R	1R	A	1R		1–5
U.S. Open	3R	1R	A	1R	A	A	2R		3–4
Grand Slam Win-Loss	2-2	1-4	0-1	2-4	0-3	0-0	4-4	0-1	9-19

A = did not participate in the tournament

[edit] Doubles performance timeline