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The native form of this personal name is Czink Melinda. This article uses the Western name order.
Melinda Czink
At the 2007 Australian Open.
Country  Hungary
Residence New York, United States
Date of birth October 22, 1982 (1982-10-22) (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.

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.

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[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 Turkey Istanbul Hard Czech Republic Magdalena Zdenovcova 5–7 6–1 6–2
2. September 30, 2001 United States Raleigh Clay United States Ally Baker 6–3 6–2
3. October 7, 2001 United States Aventura, Florida Clay Haiti Neyssa Etienne 6–4 6–3
4. January 27, 2002 United States Miami Hard United States Lindsay Lee-Waters 7–5 6–2
5. February 3, 2002 Mexico Saltillo Hard Austria Petra Russegger 6–1 3–6 6–4
6. February 10, 2002 Mexico Monterrey Hard Ukraine Yuliana Fedak 6–3 3–6 6–1
7. February 17, 2002 Mexico Matamoros Hard Argentina Melisa Arevalo 6–2 6–3
8. May 12, 2002 United States Sea Island Clay United States Ashley Harkleroad 6–1 5–7 6–3
9. May 18, 2003 Sweden Bromma Clay Croatia Ivana Abramović 6–1 6–2
10. June 22, 2003 Switzerland Lenzerheide Clay Austria Stefanie Haidner 6–3 6–3
11. July 20, 2003 Italy Modena Clay People's Republic of China Sun Tiantian 6–3 6–3
12. November 23, 2003 Mexico Puebla Hard Brazil Carla Tiene 6–3 6–2
13. February 1, 2004 United States Waikoloa Hard Argentina María Emilia Salerni 7–6 6–2
14. November 28, 2004 Mexico San Luis Potosí Hard Argentina Mariana Díaz-Oliva 6–0 5–7 6–3
15. January 28, 2007 United States Waikoloa Hard Romania Edina Gallovits 6–2 6–3
16. August 5, 2007 United States Washington, D.C. Hard Ukraine Olga Savchuk 7–5 7–5
17. September 30, 2007 United States Ashland Hard United States Varvara Lepchenko 6–1 2–6 6–4
18. October 12, 2008 United States Pittsburgh Hard United States Varvara Lepchenko 6–2 3–6 6–1
19. September 20, 2009 Canada Quebec City Carpet Czech Republic 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

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 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 Career W-L
Australian Open 1R A A A A A 2R 1-2
French Open A A 1R A A 1R 0-2
Wimbledon A A 1R A A 1R 0-2
U.S. Open A A 1R A A 1R 0-2
Grand Slam Win-Loss 0-1 0-0 0-3 0-0 0-0 0-3 1-1 1-8
  • A = did not participate in the tournament

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