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Simona Halep

Country	Romania
Residence	Constanţa, Romania
Date of birth	September 27, 1991 (1991-09-27) (age 18)
Place of birth	Constanţa, Romania
Height	1.72 m (5 ft 7+1⁄2 in)
Weight	59 kg (130 lb)
Plays	Right Handed; Double Handed Backhand
Career prize money	US$ 42,638
Singles
Career record	65–24
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	209 (November 2, 2009)
Current ranking	210 (November 9, 2009)
Grand Slam results
French Open
Junior	W (2008)
Doubles
Career record	31–15
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	234 (June 22, 2009)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	0
French Open	0
Wimbledon	0
US Open	0
Major doubles tournaments
WTA Championships	0
Last updated on: October 26, 2009.

Simona Halep (born September 27, 1991 in Constanţa, Romania) is a tennis player playing on the ITF Women's Circuit.^[1][2]

Contents 1 Career 1.1 2008 1.2 2009 2 Media coverage 3 References 4 See also 5 External links

[edit] Career

[edit] 2008

She started the year with a final in Nottinghill, lost to Arantxa Rus, then defeated Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in the quarterfinals at the Australian Open Junior Championships, before losing in the semifinal to Jessica Moore.

At the ITF $ 50,000 tournament in Bucharest, Simona produced an enormous surprise by eliminating a former Roland Garros semi-finalist, Sesil Karatantcheva in the 1st round, eventualy losing in the quarterfinals to Sorana Cirstea in 3 sets, 6-3 3-6 1-6.

Won an ITF $ 10,000 tournamant in Bucharest against Stephanie Vongsouthi.

In the junior competition Simona won Trofeo Bonfiglio. She defeted in the final Bojana Jovanovski 6-4 6-1.

At Roland Garros Junior Championships, she entered in the main draw as the 10th favorite. In the first round she defeted Charlotte Roder, 6-4 6-1, and then Karen Barbat from Denmark, 6-3 6-1. In the 3rd round won against the 5th favorite Jessica Moore, 6-0, 6-1. In quarterfinals Simona beat Ksenya Lykina, 6-1 6-2. In the semifinals she meet the #2 seed Arantxa Rus, Simona defeted Rus, 6-3 7-5, and then won the all-romanian final , 6-1 6-7(3) 6-2 against Elena Bogdan. ^[3]

[edit] 2009

At the Makarska $ 50,000 tournament, Simona began her campaign with wins over Ana Vrljic of Croatia and then continued her run with an upset over Ksenia Pervak. Having advanced to the third round, she defeated Anne Schaefer, 6-0 6-0. Simona continued her run with a 6-4 7-6(6) upset over the #2 seeded Araxanta Rus to advance to the final, where she faced #1 seed Tatjana Malek but lost by 6-4 5-7 1-6.

In May she reached the quarterfinals at the Bucharest ITF $100,000 tournamant.

Also in May, at Roland Garros, she entered for the first time in a senior Grand Slam qualification MD, loosing eventually to Vitalia Diatchenko, 6-2 1-6 3-6 in Q-R48 after defeting Michaella Krajicek, 6-4 7-5 in Q-R96.

In November Simona won the $ 25,000 tournamant in Maribor.

She was as of November 2009 ranked 209th in the world ^[4] .

[edit] Media coverage

Halep received significant media coverage over her decision to have breast reduction surgery in July 2009.^[5][6]

[edit] References

[edit] See also

• List of Grand Slam Girls' Singles champions
• List of French Open champions
• List of Romanians

[edit] External links

• Simona Halep profile on the WTA Tour's official website

v • d • e French Open girls’ singles champions 2009 Kristina Mladenovic  • 2008 Simona Halep  • 2007 Alizé Cornet  • 2006 Agnieszka Radwańska  • 2005 Ágnes Szávay  • 2004 Sesil Karatantcheva  • 2003 Anna-Lena Grönefeld  • 2002 Angelique Widjaja  • 2001 Kaia Kanepi  • 2000 Virginie Razzano  • 1999 Lourdes Domínguez  • 1998 Nadia Petrova  • 1997 Justine Henin  • 1996 Amélie Mauresmo  • 1995 Amélie Cocheteux  • 1994 Martina Hingis  • 1993 Martina Hingis  • 1992 Rossana de los Ríos  • 1991 Anna Smashnova  • 1990 Magdalena Maleeva  • 1989 Jennifer Capriati  • 1988 Julie Halard  • 1987 Natalia Zvereva  • 1986 Patricia Tarabini  • 1985 Laura Garrone  • 1984 Gabriela Sabatini  • 1983 Pascale Paradis  • 1982 Manuela Maleeva  • 1981 Bonnie Gadusek  • 1980 Kathy Horvath  • 1979 Lena Sandin  • 1978 Hana Mandlíková  • 1977 Anne Smith  • 1976 Michele Tyler  • 1975 Regina Maršíková  • 1974 Mariana Simionescu  • 1973 Mima Jaušovec  • 1972 Renáta Tomanová  • 1971 Elena Granatourova  • 1970 Veronica Burton  • 1969 Kazuko Sawamatsu  • 1968 Lesley Hunt

v • d • e Women's Tennis Association: Top ten Romanian female singles tennis players as of November 23, 2009 1. Sorana Cîrstea (46 ▬)  2. Alexandra Dulgheru (51 ▬)  3. Ioana Raluca Olaru (72 ▲1)  4. Monica Niculescu (101 ▬)  5. Edina Gallovits (102 ▬) 6. Simona Halep (199 ▼2)  7. Irina Begu (232 ▼2)  8. Agnes Szatmari (254 ▼4)  9. Elora Dabija (373 ▼67)  10. Liana Ungur (387 ▼5)