Agnieszka Radwanska
Get to know rising female tennis star Agnieszka Radwanska.
Agnieszka Radwańska
Nickname(s) AgaIsiaAgiCountry Poland Residence Kraków, Poland
Date of birth March 6, 1989 (1989-03-06) (age 19)
Place of birth Kraków, Poland
Height 5ft 7in (172 cm)
Weight 132 lb (56 kg)
Turned pro April 23, 2005
Plays Right, two-handed backhand
Career prize money $1,399,658
Agnieszka Radwańska [agˈɲɛʂka radˈvaɲska] ( listen) (born 6 March 1989 in Kraków, full name Agnieszka Roma Radwańska) is a WTA Tour top 10 Polish tennis player.
She defeated Tamira Paszek of Austria to win the 2005 Girls' Singles Championship at Wimbledon. As a professional, her highest WTA ranking to-date is World No. 10, achieved on 7 July 2008.
In 2007, Radwanska became the first Polish player in history to claim a Sony Ericsson WTA Tour singles title when she won the Nordea Nordic Light Open. In 2008, she won three more singles titles: the Pattaya Women's Open, the Istanbul Cup, and the International Women's Open.
At the 2008 Australian Open, Radwanska became the first Polish woman to reach a Grand Slam singles quarterfinal during the open era[citation needed] and only the second Polish woman (the other being Jadwiga Jedrzejowska during the 1930s) ever to reach a Grand Slam singles quarterfinal.
On May 24, 2008, she became the first Polish female tennis player to surpass US$1 million in career prize money.
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