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Name: Daniela Hantuchová
Height: 5'11"
Birth Date: April 23, 1983
Birth Place: Poprad, Slovakia
Occupation: Athlete/ Tennis Player
Daniela Hantuchová
(born April 23, 1983 in Poprad, Slovakia) is
a Slovak professional tennis player. The Englishman
Nigel Sears has twice been her coach. She is
currently working with Angel Giminez, one of
the coaches who works under the Sanchez-Casal
Academy. Her WTA Tour mentor in the Partners
for Success program was Martina Navratilova,
who was her doubles partner for a brief period
in early 2005. As of 2 October 2006 she is ranked
#19 in the world in singles and #10 in the world
in doubles.
Hantuchová has won one WTA singles tournament
in her career, in 2002 at the Tier I Pacific
Life Open in Indian Wells defeating Martina
Hingis 6-3 6-4 in the final. She has reached
three other finals (Filderstadt 2002, Eastbourne
2004 and Los Angeles 2005) but has yet to win
a second title. Her best Grand Slam singles
achievements were playing in the quarter finals
in 2002 at Wimbledon and at the US Open, and
in 2003 at the Australian Open.
She made her breakthrough in 2002 beating the
then world #1 Martina Hingis in straight sets
in the final at Indian Wells. This win catapulted
her onto the world stage, with Ace Tennis Magazine
even touting her as being the next contender
for the Williams sisters' throne. In the same
year, she reached the quarter finals of Wimbledon
and the US Open. She also reached the quarter
finals at the following year's Australian Open.
And even though Hantuchová was unable
to add another singles title to the one at Indian
Wells, consistent performances enabled her to
reach a career high of #5 in the world (she
was the first ever Slovak woman to reach this
level).
In 2003, at Wimbledon, however, Hantuchová
suffered the most public of breakdowns during
her match with Shinobu Asagoe in the 2nd Round.
She lost the match 10-12 in the final set and
was seen crying between points as early as the
14th game. She continued to cry after the match,
and suffered a sudden dip in her form in subsequent
matches. She also suffered significant weight
loss during 2003 and into 2004. Her breakdown
at Wimbledon was widely believed to be due to
not being able to deal with such high hopes
at such a young age.
In 2004 Hantuchová showed a rise in her
fortunes when she reached the final at Eastbourne.
This was to be a turning point in her career,
as she pulled herself out of the low 60s in
her ranking, finishing the year inside the top
30, despite a setback right at the end of the
year when she was surprisingly defeated in Quebec
by unknown Canadian Melanie Gloria, a player
ranked outside the top 1,000. In 2005 she had
her best year since her breakthrough in 2002,
getting to the final of Los Angeles and also
reaching 3 semifinals and 6 quarterfinals on
the WTA tour. She finished the year inside the
top 20.
In 2006, what promised to be a good year started
well with Hantuchová reaching the quarter
finals of Sydney with a win over top 10 player
Patty Schynder and the semifinals of Auckland,
as well as shocking the tennis world at the
Australian Open with her 6-1, 7-6 (5) victory
over defending champion and seven-time Grand
Slam tournament champion Serena Williams, before
losing 4th-seeded Maria Sharapova in straight
sets. Since then, she has been unable to find
a consistent level of form, not winning back-to-back
matches at tour level, though she reached the
fourth round at the French Open and Wimbledon.
However, her fourth-round streak ended when
she was beaten by a resurgent Serena Williams
at the second round of the US Open. She reached
the quarter finals of Stuttgart with a easy
victory over top 10 player, Dinara Safina on
the way. She returned to Fed Cup duty the same
year, in July 2006 leading the Slovakia to a
5-0 whitewash of Thailand.
Her biggest successes have so far come in mixed
doubles. In this event, she won the 2001 Wimbledon
with Leoš Friedl, the 2002 Australian Open
with Kevin Ullyett, the 2005 Roland Garros with
Fabrice Santoro, and 2005 US Open with Mahesh
Bhupathi. She was runner-up in the 2002 Wimbledon
with Ullyett, and reached the semi-finals at
the French Open in 2004 with Todd Woodbridge.
At the 2005 US Open she completed a career mixed
doubles Grand Slam with Mahesh Bhupathi when
they beat Katarina Srebotnik & Nenad Zimonjic
in the final in straight sets 6-4, 6-2. This
makes her only the 4th women in tennis history
(behing Court, King and Navratilova) to complete
a career Gland Slam in mixed doubles. In Perth,
Western Australia also in 2005, Hantuchová
won the Hopman Cup with Dominik Hrbatý.
Hantuchová's other achievements include
winning eight doubles titles (as of May 21 2006).
Hantuchová currently plays doubles with
Ai Sugiyama, with some fans affectionately referring
to the team as 'Hantuyama'. They have won 3
titles together in Rome, Doha, and Birmingham
as well as reaching the final at Roland Garros
in 2006. 'Hantuyama' won 'Fans favorite doubles
team 2005' at the Stars for Stars in Miami.
Hantuchová had won over US$3,400,000
in prize money by the end of 2005.
June 15, 2006
The 25-year-old Brazilian model boasts three
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of rocker Lenny Kravitz is now reportedly dating
Prince Wence of Lichtenstein, heir to a royal
fortune Forbes estimates at $4 billion.
