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Melinda Czink

Country	Hungary
Residence	New York, United States
Born	(1982-10-22) October 22, 1982 (age 30) Budapest, Hungary
Height	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight	62 kg (140 lb; 9.8 st)
Turned pro	2000
Plays	Left-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	$1,180,319
Singles
Career record	372–257
Career titles	1 WTA, 20 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 37 (September 21, 2009)
Current ranking	No. 87 (July 24, 2012)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	2R (2004, 2009)
French Open	3R (2009)
Wimbledon	3R (2011)
US Open	3R (2003)
Doubles
Career record	119–130
Career titles	0 WTA, 9 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 78 (May 10, 2010)
Last updated on: July 4, 2011.

Melinda Czink (born October 22, 1982 in Budapest) is a Hungarian professional female tennis player. On September 21, 2009 Czink reached her career-high singles ranking of world no. 37.

She has reached two WTA Tour singles finals. In 2005, she lost to Ana Ivanović in Canberra. In 2009, she defeated Lucie Šafářová in Quebec City for her first WTA Tour title. On the ITF Tour, she has won 20 singles titles.

Tennis career [edit]

2000–2008 [edit]

She played her first tournament at Budapest as a wild-carded in 2000. She entered the top 100 first in 2003 but slid down later. She won several single and double ITF titles, see below.

2009 [edit]

She reached the top 50 and won her first title at Quebec. As fifth seed, she defeated Aleksandra Wozniak in the semifinal, 6–3, 6–3, and Lucie Šafářová in the final, 4–6, 6–3, 7–5. She also reached one semifinal and four quarterfinals during the season. At the end of the year, she played at the Tournament of Champions in Bali where, she lost to Aravane Rezaï, 3–6, 5–7, and to Sabine Lisicki, 6–2, 6–7(1), 4–6, in the round-robin stage.

2010 [edit]

She started the year at Brisbane International in Australia as seventh seed. She defeated Lucie Hradecká in the first round, 6–4, 3–6, 6–3, and Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová in the second, 6–3, 2–6, 6–1. In the quarterfinals, she lost to Justine Henin, 2–6, 6–3, 6–7(5). Meanwhile, she reached the doubles final with Arantxa Parra Santonja, where they lost to Andrea Hlaváčková and Lucie Hradecká, 6–2, 6–7(3), 4–10. Next, she played the Moorilla Hobart International, where she lost to Gisela Dulko in the first round, 4–6, 2–6. In the Australian Open, she lost in the first round to Stefanie Vögele, 5–7, 7–6(5), 7–9.

2011 [edit]

Czink missed the Australian Open. She won two ITF events in Dothan and Indian Harbour Beach before returning to Grand Slam play with a protected rank at the 2011 Wimbledon Championships. As the lowest-ranked player in the tournament at world no. 262, she drew tenth seed Samantha Stosur in the first round. She recorded the biggest win of her career by upsetting the Australian, 6–3, 6–4. She then beat Anastasiya Yakimova of Belarus, 7–5, 6–3. In the third round for the first time, Czink lost to the 20th seed from China, Peng Shuai, 2–6, 6-7(5).

2012 [edit]

Czink began the 2012 season at the Brisbane International, but lost in the first round to qualifier Vania King in straight sets, 3-6, 4-6. Following this loss, she continued her hard-court season at the Apia International Sydney, where she won all three of her qualifying matches with wins over Silvia Soler-Espinosa, Barbora Zahlavova-Strycova, and Eleni Danilidou. In the main draw, she was defeated by Chanelle Scheepers, 4-6, 2-6 in the first round. At the Australian Open, Czink lost in her second qualifying match to Nina Bratchikova in straight sets.

Czink's next tournament was the 2012 Abierto Mexicano Telcel. In the first round, she defeated Canadian Stephanie Dubois in straight sets, before falling to Estrella Cabeza Candela in the second round. After this, she headed to Indian Wells for the BNP Paribas Open, but was eliminated by Alla Kudryavtseva in three sets in the first round of qualifying. Melinda then lost in the second round of an ITF event in Florida.

Czink then qualified for the Sony Ericsson Open, posting wins over Patricia Mayr-Achleitner and Laura Robson. In the first round, she crushed Italy's Alberta Brianti, 6–1, 6–2, but her run was cut short by 2011 French Open champion Li Na. After this, Melinda took a break from the WTA Tour and played another ITF tournament in Florida, losing in the first round to top seed Lucie Hradecka.

Melinda continued her U.S season by qualifying for the Family Circle Cup in Charleston, South Carolina. However, she was sent crashing out in the first round by Anastasia Rodionova, 2-6, 6-2, 1-6. After this, she flew to Denmark for the e-Boks Open, defeating Maria Abramovic, Kathrin Wörle, and Amra Sadikovic to qualify. She lost in three sets to Anne Keothavong in the first round.

Melinda's next tournament was the Grand Prix SAR La Princesse Lalla Meryem. She qualified without dropping a set, but was ousted by third seed Petra Cetkovska in the first round of the main draw. Due to her recent success, she cracked the top one 120 for the first time in over a year.

Czink then headed to her home tournament at the Budapest Grand Prix. In the first round of qualifications, she overcame French teenager Kristina Mladenovic, 4–6, 6–3, 6–4, and backed this up by demolishing Slovak Romana Tabak in the final round of qualifying. She faced fellow qualifier Mervana Jugic-Salkic in the first round of the main draw. She defeated Jugic-Salkic, 6–7(3), 6–0, 6–3, but fell in the second round to top seed Sara Errani, 4-6, 6-1, 1-6.

After this, Melinda played the 100K Open GDF SUEZ de Cagnes-sur-Mer Alpes-Maritimes, beating second seed Timea Babos, 3-6, 7-6 ^7-4, 6-2, in the first round on the way to the quarterfinals, where she fell to wildcard Caroline Garcia in three sets. She then lost in the first round of a 50K event in France to Aravane Rezai.

At the French Open, Melinda crushed British Anne Keothavong, 6-1, 6-2, in the first round, but was defeated by 22nd seed Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, 6-4, 3-6, 3-6, in the following round.

2013 [edit]

Czink lost in the first round of the Australian Open.

Titles [edit]

Singles titles (21) [edit]

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
1.	February 4, 2001	Istanbul	Hard	Magdalena Zděnovcová	5–7 6–1 6–2
2.	September 30, 2001	Raleigh	Clay	Ally Baker	6–3 6–2
3.	October 7, 2001	Aventura, Florida	Clay	Neyssa Etienne	6–4 6–3
4.	January 27, 2002	Miami	Hard	Lindsay Lee-Waters	7–5 6–2
5.	February 3, 2002	Saltillo	Hard	Petra Russegger	6–1 3–6 6–4
6.	February 10, 2002	Monterrey	Hard	Yuliana Fedak	6–3 3–6 6–1
7.	February 17, 2002	Matamoros	Hard	Melisa Arevalo	6–2 6–3
8.	May 12, 2002	Sea Island	Clay	Ashley Harkleroad	6–1 5–7 6–3
9.	May 18, 2003	Bromma	Clay	Ivana Abramović	6–1 6–2
10.	June 22, 2003	Lenzerheide	Clay	Stefanie Haidner	6–3 6–3
11.	July 20, 2003	Modena	Clay	Sun Tiantian	6–3 6–3
12.	November 23, 2003	Puebla	Hard	Carla Tiene	6–3 6–2
13.	February 1, 2004	Waikoloa	Hard	María Emilia Salerni	7–6 6–2
14.	November 28, 2004	San Luis Potosí	Hard	Mariana Díaz-Oliva	6–0 5–7 6–3
15.	January 28, 2007	Waikoloa	Hard	Edina Gallovits	6–2 6–3
16.	August 5, 2007	Washington, D.C.	Hard	Olga Savchuk	7–5 7–5
17.	September 30, 2007	Ashland	Hard	Varvara Lepchenko	6–1 2–6 6–4
18.	October 12, 2008	Pittsburgh	Hard	Varvara Lepchenko	6–2 3–6 6–1
19.	September 20, 2009	Quebec City	Carpet	Lucie Šafářová	4–6, 6–3, 7–5
20.	April 18, 2011	Dothan	Clay	Stéphanie Foretz Gacon	6–2, 6–3
21.	May 2, 2011	Indian Harbour Beach	Clay	Alison Riske	4–6, 6–1, 6–4

Singles performance timeline [edit]

Doubles performance timeline [edit]

External links [edit]

• Melinda Czink at the Women's Tennis Association

v t e Women's Tennis Association: Top Hungarian female singles tennis players as of 20 May 2013 1. Tímea Babos (100 1) 2. Melinda Czink (108 4) 3. Gréta Arn (218 2) 4. Réka-Luca Jani (310 2) 5. Ágnes Bukta (463 1) 6. Katalin Marosi (474 5) 7. Vanda Lukács (679 9) 8. Naomi Totka (778 4) 9. Csilla Borsányi (829 4) 10. Csilla Argyelán (1106 2)