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Casey Dellacqua
Casey Dellacqua

Casey Dellacqua (born February 11, 1985) is an Australian professional tennis player who currently resides in Perth, Australia. After the 2008 Australian Open, she became Australia's highest-ranked women's player. She is currently ranked 39 in singles and 27 in doubles.

She is of Italian descent through her father, and Irish through her mother. [1]

Early life

Casey attended Woodvale Primary School from kindergarten all the way up to year 7 then attended Woodvale Senior High School until she was sixteen before moving to Canberra to train with the Australian Institute of Sport. She was an active member of local tennis clubs and teams.

Greatest achievements

Her highest rankings to this point are 41 in singles (achieved on June 9, 2008) after a third round showing at the French Open and 35 in doubles (June 23, 2008) after reaching the French Open Final! She has 11 ITF singles titles and 13 ITF doubles titles to her name. After reaching the fourth round at the Australian Open, she became the number one female tennis player in Australia.

At the 2008 Australian Open, Dellacqua defeated former world No.1 Amelie Mauresmo to reach the fourth round, her best result in a Grand Slam event. She has also achieved notable victories over former top 10 players Alicia Molik, Nicole Vaidisova, Patty Schnyder and Marion Bartoli.

She reached her first WTA Tour Quarter-Final in Hobart in 2008, before losing to Greek Eleni Danilidou.

Partnering Francesca Schiavone, Dellacqua was the finalist in the Women's Doubles competition at the 2008 French Open.

2006

Dellacqua played in the Australian Open as a wild-card, with Lindsay Davenport as her first-round opponent. However, she was soundly beaten by Davenport, receiving much criticism after the match for her lack of fitness.

2007

Dellacqua entered the 2007 Australian Open, again as a wildcard, but was beaten by Slovenian Katarina Srebotnik in the first round. She failed to make it past the first round in both the French Open and the Wimbledon Championships (however she did manage to win through qualifying). Dellacqua reached the second round of the US Open when she defeated Yaroslava Shvedova in straight sets. However she was then beaten handily in straight sets by Maria Sharapova.

2008

Trained by Brian Porter, Dellacqua looked to be once again making an early exit in the 2008 Australian Open after losing the first set against Italian player Karin Knapp. However, she managed to make a brave fightback and won the match, taking the third and deciding set 8-6. She then faced 15th seed Patty Schnyder, a former semi-finalist. Despite once again losing the opening set, she fought back to claim the highest ranked scalp of her career. In the third round Dellacqua upset Amelie Mauresmo, former World No.1 and the 2006 Australian Open champion, on Rod Laver Arena, winning the third and deciding set 6-4.

Her remarkable run ended in the fourth round with a straight sets loss to third seed Jelena Jankovic. She lost no supporters and is now known by almost all of Australia. She is now the highest ranked Australian female tennis player.

Dellacqua then competed in the 2008 Pattaya Open in Thailand, where she reached the second round and lost to Andreja Klepac of Slovakia 7-5, 2-6, 6-2.

She then participated in the WTA Tier I Event the Pacific Life Open in Indian Wells. She easily defeated Olga Poutchkova 6-1, 6-1 in the first round. She then upset highly rated Czech, and seventh seeded Nicole Vaidisova 6-1 3-6 6-4 in the second round. She continued her run into the third round in Indian Wells, leading the thirty-second seeded Tamira Paszek of Austria, 6-1 4-0 before her opponent retired. She was eventually defeated by the twelfth seed, Vera Zvonareva, 6-7(5) 6-0 6-4 in the fourth round.

The French Open started well for Dellacqua. She pulled off another major upset by defeating the 9th seed Marion Bartoli, 6-7 6-3 6-2, in the first round. She made quick work of Nathalie Dechy in the second round, 6-4 6-2. Her French Open run ended in the 3rd round against Carla Suarez Navarro when she lost 6-3 6-3, a match that went for 1 hour and 21 minutes. In doubles, she partnered with Italian player, Francesca Schiavone for the first time and entered the tournament unseeded.They successfully managed to reach the semi-finals, defeating seeded players including 17th seeds Tatiana Poutchek & Anastasia Rodionova, 3rd seeds Kveta Peschke and Rennae Stubbs and 6th seeds Victoria Azarenka and Shahar Peer. In the semi-finals Dellacqua and her partner Schiavone smashed Alona Bondarenko and Kateryna Bondarenko 6-2 6-1. In the finals, Dellacqua and Schiavone lost to 10th seed spanish team Anabel Medina Garrigues & Virginia Ruano Pascual 2-6 7-5 6-4 after two-hours-and-a-half. Dellacqua reached a career high of #41 in singles and #36 in doubles after her success at the French Open

For the first round of the 2008 Wimbledon Championships Casey faced the 12th seed Swiss Patty Schnyder, who she had already beaten earlier this year in the second round of The Australian Open. Although she lost the first set to her again, Dellacqua had a convincing win against Schnyder 4-6, 6-3, 6-1. In Caseys second round match against French player Pauline Parmentier, Dellacqua won during a tight match. It looked an easy win for Parmentier, but Casey pulled through winning 1-6, 6-2, 6-3. Casey faced Nicole Vaidisova,in the 3rd round, but unfortunely lost the match 6-2, 6-4 to Vaidosova. In the Women's Doubles Event, Casey partnered with Nathalie Dechy of France who she already partnered with at the 2008 International Women's Open at Eastbourne. They started well deafeating Great Britain's wildcards Anna Fitzpatrick and Anna Elizabeth Hawkins 6-1, 6-0 in the first round. They had an easy second round match easily beating Tatiana Perebiynis and Alicja Rosolska 6-3, 6-2. They won their Third Round match after beating American qualifiers Raquel Kops-Jones and Abigail Spears 6-4, 7-6(9). They won a tight Quarter- Finals match against Spanians Nuria Llagostera Vives and Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez 6-2, 7-6(6), 6-4. Their great Wimbledon run ended when they lost to Venus Williams and Serena Williams in straight sets 3-6, 3-6. In the Mixed Doubles Event, Casey partnered with American Scott Lipsky. Dellacqua and Lipsky got through their first round after winning in three sets against Marta Domachowska and Fernando Verdasco 4-6, 6-3, 7-5. In the second round they upset 7th seeds Mark Knowles and Zi Yan again in three sets, 6-3, 3-6, 6-4. They eventually lost to 9th seeds Andy Ram and Nathalie Dechy

At the 2008 Beijing Olympics Casey will be representing Australia along with Alicia Molik and Samantha Stosur in the singles event.

In the doubles event Dellacqua will be partnering Alicia Molik while Samantha Stosur will partner Rennae Stubbs.[2].

ITF Singles Winner (11)

ITF Doubles Winner (13)

End of Year Rankings

Singles Doubles
Year Rank Change Rank Change
2002 458 - 545 -
2003 275 Increase (183) 224 Increase (321)
2004 301 Decrease (26) 117 Increase (107)
2005 223 Increase (78) 114 Increase (3)
2006 172 Increase (51) 121 Decrease (7)
2007 86 Increase (86) 123 Decrease (2)

Singles Performance Timeline

Tournament 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 Career SR Career
Win-Loss
Grand Slam Tournaments
Australian Open 1R 1R 1R 1R 1R 4R 0 / 6 3-6
French Open A A A A 1R 3R 0 / 2 2-2
Wimbledon A A A A 1R 3R 0 / 2 2-2
U.S. Open A A A A 2R 0 / 1 1-1
Grand Slam SR 0 / 1 0 / 1 0 / 1 0 / 1 0 / 4 0 / 3 0 / 11 8–11

Women's 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.

Tournament 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 Career W/L
Grand Slams
Australian Open 2R 2R 1R 2R 1R 1R 3-6
French Open A A A A A F 5-1
Wimbledon A A A A A SF 4-1
U.S. Open A 1R A A 2R 1-2
Grand Slam Win-Loss 1-1 1-2 0-1 1-1 1-2 9-3 13-10

References

Video

  1. ^ Irish Times, 25 June 2008
  2. ^ [1]
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