Canadian Female Tennis Players - Aleksandra Wozniak, Nathalie Dechy, Jill Hetherington, Sharon Fichman, Carling Bassett-Seguso (Paperback)

Chapters: Aleksandra Wozniak, Nathalie Dechy, Jill Hetherington, Sharon Fichman, Carling Bassett-Seguso, Patricia Hy-Boulais, St phanie Dubois, Val rie T treault, Helen Kelesi, Marie- ve Pelletier, Maureen Drake, Jana Nejedly, Renata Kolbovic, Sonya Jeyaseelan. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 60. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Aleksandra Wozniak (born September 7, 1987, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a professional Canadian tennis player of Polish descent. Wozniak is Canada's highest-ranked women's singles player at #48 in the world (May 24, 2010), and the 4th-highest ranked Canadian singles player of all time. She has won one WTA and seven ITF tournaments, and is the only Qu b coise ever to have won a WTA tournament. Wozniak speaks six languages, having learned Polish first. She has been coached since she was 3 years old by her Polish-born father,, Antoni, a former pro soccer player whose "day" job is that of a truck inspector. Her older sister, Dorota, was the No. 1 player in Canada in the 14-and-unders and the 16-and-unders, and 2-time NCAA champion for San Diego State. In 2002, as a 14-year-old, Wozniak won the Canadian Indoors Under-16 and Under-18 championships. Aleksandra won the Kentucky International Junior Tennis Derby in 2004. In 2005, Wozniak reached #3 in the juniors. She also won the Tevlin Challenger 25K tournament in Toronto, the Hamilton Challenger 25K in Canada, the Victoria Challenger 25K and the Junior Casablanca Cup (as well as the doubles) in Mexico, and the Junior Del Cafe Cup (as well as the doubles) in Costa Rica. Wozniak won the Pittsburgh Challenger (defeating Belarusian Victoria Azarenka), the Ashland Challenger (defeating Hungarian gnes Sz vay), and Hamilton Challenger tournaments. In February she beat her first top 100 player, world #63 Na Li in...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=1130713