Marta Domachowska

Polish tennis player
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroPolish tennis player
PlacesPoland
isAthlete Tennis player
Work fieldSports
Gender
Female
Birth16 January 1986, Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
Age38 years
ResidenceWarsaw
Stats
Height:176
Weight:60
The details

Biography

Marta Domachowska (Polish pronunciation: [ˈmarta dɔmaˈxɔfska]; born 16 January 1986 in Warsaw) is a Polish retired professional tennis player ranked World No. 37 in singles (2006) and World No. 62 in doubles (2006). She reached 2008 Australian Open fourth round in singles and won 2006 Canberra International in doubles with Roberta Vinci. She also reached three WTA Tour singles finals at 2004 Hansol Korea Open (lost to Maria Sharapova), 2005 Internationaux de Strasbourg (lost to Anabel Medina Garrigues) and 2006 U.S. National Indoor Tennis Championships (lost to Sofia Arvidsson). She was 2003 Australian Open finalist in girls' singles, represented Poland at the 2008 Summer Olympics and was member of Poland Fed Cup team. Domachowska was the best female Polish tennis player after Magdalena Grzybowska's retirement and before Agnieszka Radwańska's successes.

Career

Early life and junior career

Marta was born in Warsaw to Wieslaw and Barbara. She started playing tennis at age seven, and reached the semi finals of the Australian Open Junior Championships in 2003.

Professional career

2001–2006

In her sole appearance at a WTA tournament in 2001, as an unranked wildcard in Sopot qualifying, she lost in the first round. 2002 marked her second Tour appearance, as an unranked wildcard in Warsaw. During the year she reached the doubles semifinals in Sopot and won first her first two ITF singles titles along with her first doubles title. She debuted on Tour Rankings on May 20 at No.745 and amassed a 29-12 ITF singles record (finished as no. 356) and 9–7 doubles record. She again accepted a wildcard at Warsaw, and also at Sopot in 2003, where she won the first round of both. She won her third singles title and finished the season ranked no. 244 in singles.

In 2004, she won two more ITF titles and reached a WTA final in Seoul. She defeated Anna Smashnova to reach the semifinals in Sopot, and reached the quarter-finals in Casablanca. She made her debut in the top 100 (at no. 100) on 27 September 2004. Even though she failed to qualify for the French Open, Wimbledon and US Open, she compiled a 42-20 singles record and 12-9 doubles record, finishing the season ranked no. 74 in singles.

2005 was the best year for Domachowska results-wise. She was runner-up in the Tier III tournament in Strasbourg and reached the semis in Beijing, a Tier II. She made her debut in the main draw of all four majors and made her debut in the top 50 (at No. 48) on June 6. She was runner-up in two doubles tournaments. Although, she had to withdraw from Hyderabad and Memphis after spraining her right shoulder. Her record for the year was 24-26 in singles (finishing the year no. 60) and 14-16 in doubles.

She won her first WTA tour title in 2006 with (Roberta Vinci) in a tournament in Canberra. She reached a singles final in Memphis and achieved a new singles career of no. 37 on April 3. She and Sania Mirza finished runner-up in Cincinnati, and with Marion Bartoli, reached the semi finals in Stanford. But she failed to advance past the first round in all four grand slams, and withdrew the Charleston, and Bali due to injuries. Poor results in Beijing and Seoul resulted in her finishing the year at no. 90.

2007–2009

After not playing Memphis in 2007, her ranking dropped to no. 166. As a result, she played multiple ITF-level tournaments, reaching the semi finals in one instance. She managed to qualify for the Seoul and Stockholm WTA tournaments, but failed to qualify for nine WTA events (including two majors), and lacked a win at all in grand slams that year. As the world no. 179, and as a qualifier, she won a $100,000 ITF tournament in Poitiers, defeating Anna Lapushchenkova 7-5, 6-0. It was her first singles title since 2003 and the biggest tournament win in her career. She won an ITF doubles title in Rome, and finished no. 143 in singles and no. 240 in doubles for the year.

In the 2008 Australian Open, she achieved her best grand slam result, reaching the fourth round, before she lost to Venus Williams 4-6, 4-6. Due to this result, Domachowska returned to the top 100 (at no. 82). Domachowska also represented Poland in the singles draw at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where she lost in the first round. She finished year at no. 56.

In 2009 in singles, she lost in the first round of all four grand slams, including the US Open as a qualifier. Domachowska, did however, manage to reach the singles quarterfinals of Istanbul.

In March 2013, she posed for the Polish edition of Playboy.

In December 2015, she retired from professional tennis. She later went into coaching assistant activities, becoming the hitting partner of Caroline Wozniacki in 2014.

Personal

Marta was born to Barbara and Wieslaw and currently resides in Podkowa Leśna, Poland. She has an older sister Magdalena. Speaks Polish, English, Russian and Spanish. Other than tennis, she enjoys sports such as football and swimming.

WTA career finals

Singles: 3 (0–3)

OutcomeNo.DateTournamentSurfaceOpponentScore
Runner-up1.September 27, 2004Seoul, South KoreaHard Maria Sharapova1–6, 1–6
Runner-up2.May 21, 2005Strasbourg, FranceClay Anabel Medina Garrigues4–6, 3–6
Runner-up3.February 25, 2006Memphis, United StatesHard Sofia Arvidsson2–6, 6–2, 3–6

Doubles: 5 (1–4)

OutcomeNo.DateTournamentSurfacePartnerOpponentScore
Runner-up1.January 31, 2005Pattaya City, ThailandHard Silvija Talaja Rosa María Andrés Rodríguez
Andreea Vanc
3–6, 1–6
Runner-up2.May 21, 2005Strasbourg, FranceClay Marlene Weingärtner Marion Bartoli
Anna-Lena Grönefeld
3–6, 2–6
Winner1.January 13, 2006Canberra, AustraliaHard Roberta Vinci Claire Curran
Līga Dekmeijere
7–6(5), 6–3
Runner-up3.July 23, 2006Cincinnati, United StatesHard Sania Mirza Gisela Dulko
Maria Elena Camerin
4–6, 6–3, 2–6
Runner-up4.September 14, 2008Bali, IndonesiaHard Nadia Petrova Hsieh Su-wei
Peng Shuai
7–6(4), 6–7(3), 7–10

ITF Circuit finals

ITF Circuit singles: 14 (8–6)

$100,000 tournaments
$75,000 tournaments
$50,000 tournaments
$25,000 tournaments
$10,000 tournaments
OutcomeNo.DateTournamentSurfaceOpponent in the finalScore in the final
Winner1.August 11, 2002Olecko, PolandClay Liana Ungur1–6, 6–3, 6–1
Runner-up2.August 5, 2002Gdynia, PolandClay Delia Sescioreanu6–7, 1–6
Winner3.November 3, 2002Stockholm, SwedenHard Sabrina Jolk6–3, 6–4
Winner4.July 13, 2003Toruń, PolandClay Anastasiya Yakimova7–5, 3–6, 6–4
Runner-up5.October 20, 2003Opole, PolandCarpet Tatsiana Uvarova4-6, 6-3, 4-6
Winner6.February 1, 2004Belfort, FranceHard Adriana Barna3–6, 6–0, 6–0
Winner7.February 15, 2004Warsaw, PolandCarpet Angelique Kerber7–6(5), 3–6, 6–3
Runner-up8.February 5, 2006Urtijëi, ItalyCarpet (i) Eva Birnerová6-4, 5-7, 2-6
Winner9.November 25, 2007Poitiers, FranceHard Anna Lapushchenkova7–5, 6–0
Winner10.January 30, 2011Grenoble, FranceHard Naomi Broady6–4 6–4
Runner-up11.March 21, 2011Bath, Great BritainHard Stefanie Vögele6–7(3), 7–5, 6–2
Winner12.June 13, 2011Istanbul, TurkeyHard Margalita Chakhnashvili7–5, 6–3
Runner-up13.July 24, 2011Samsun, TurkeyHard Yulia Putintseva7–6(6), 6–2
Runner-up14.October 29, 2011Barnstaple, Great BritainHard Anne Keothavong6–1, 6–3

ITF Circuit doubles: 10 (5–5)

$100,000 tournaments
$75,000 tournaments
$50,000 tournaments
$25,000 tournaments
$10,000 tournaments
OutcomeNo.DateTournamentSurfacePartnerOpponent in the finalScore in the final
Winner1.November 3, 2002Stockholm, SwedenHard Elke Clijsters Jenny Loow
Suzanne van Hartingsveldt
6-1 6-1
Runner-up2.May 16, 2004St. Gaudens, FranceClay Natalia Gussoni Ruxandra Dragomir-Ilie
Andreea Vanc
6–3, 6–1
Winner3.May 12, 2007Rome, ItalyClay Emma Laine Maret Ani
Caroline Maes
1-0 ret.
Runner-up4.October 26, 2009Poitiers, FranceHard Michaëlla Krajicek Julie Coin
Marie-Ève Pelletier
3-6 6-3 3-10
Runner-up5.February 4, 2011Sutton, Great BritainHard (i) Darija Jurak Emma Laine
Melanie South
3-6, 7-5 8-10
Runner-up6.March 21, 2011Bath, Great BritainHard Katarzyna Piter Tímea Babos
Anne Kremer
7–6(5), 6–2
Winner7.June 13, 2011Istanbul, TurkeyHard Teodora Mirčić Daniella Dominikovic
Melis Sezer
6–4, 6–2
Runner-up8.July 30, 2012Trnava, Slovak RepublicClay Sandra Klemenschits Elena Bogdan
Renata Voráčová
6-7, 4-6
Winner9.September 23, 2013Clermont-Ferrand, FranceHard Michaëlla Krajicek Margarita Gasparyan
Alyona Sotnikova
5-7 6-4 10-8
Winner10.October 21, 2013Saguenay, Quebec, CanadaHard (i) Andrea Hlaváčková Françoise Abanda
Victoria Duval
7-5 6-3

Singles performance timeline

Key
W F SFQF#RRRQ#ANH

This table is current through the Sony Ericsson Open in Key Biscayne, Florida, which ended 5 April 2009.

Tournament200420052006200720082009201020112012W-L
Grand Slam Tournaments
Australian OpenA2R1R1R4R1RQ1AQ27-6
French OpenQ12R1RQ12R1RQ2AQ13-6
WimbledonQ21R1RA2R1RAAQ12-5
US OpenQ31R1RQ21R1RQ1Q3Q13-6
Win–Loss3-22-40-41-38-40–41-30-00-015-23
Year End Ranking746090143180140299157225N/A
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