"Polona Hercog"


Polona Hercog (born 20 January 1991) is a Slovenian tennis player. Her highest ranking is No. 35 in singles and No. 56 in doubles. Hercog has won four WTA Tour titles; two each in singles and doubles. She also enjoyed success on the ITF Circuit, winning nine singles and five doubles titles.

Partnering with Jessica Moore, she won the 2008 French Open and Wimbledon Championships junior titles in the doubles competition.



Polona Hercog was born to florist Romana and bar owner Vojko. She began playing tennis aged four in the tennis clinic opened by Mima Jaušovec in Maribor, and moved to Italy at age 14 to train professionally. Hercog is fluent in Slovenian, English, and Italian, and cites Justine Henin as her role model. She currently resides in her hometown of Maribor and practices in Budapest. Hercog is a fan of snowboarding, football, basketball and surfing.



Hercog made her WTA Tour debut in Portorož, Slovenia, losing to Elena Vesnina in three sets, 6–3, 6–7(6), 6–4. In 2008, Hercog participated in the 2008 Istanbul Cup, where she lost in the first round to Tsvetana Pironkova 6–4, 7–5, but reached the finals of the doubles competition partnering with New Zealand's Marina Erakovic. The same year, Hercog and Australian Jessica Moore won two grand slam junior doubles titles, the French Open and the Wimbledon Championships. She also played the qualifications for the US Open, but lost to Sandra Záhlavová in the first round, 6–3, 6–3.



Hercog entered the 2009 Grand Prix SAR La Princesse Lalla Meryem in Fes, Morocco via the qualifying rounds, and beat seventh seed Roberta Vinci to reach the quarterfinals, where she was defeated by Alisa Kleybanova. At that year's French Open she upset 23rd seeded Kleybanova 6–2, 4–6, 6–1, but was in turn beaten by Aravane Rezaï 3–6, 6–4, 6–2. At the US Open, Hercog was beaten by American wildcard Christina McHale 6–3, 6–1 in the first round. She also played the BGL Luxembourg Open, defeating Maria Elena Camerin 3–6, 7–5, 7–5 in the opening round. She then lost to Sabine Lisicki 7–6(1), 6–4. Polona managed to make it up to the second round at the 2009 Allianz Cup in Sofia, Bulgaria but was beaten by Bojana Jovanovski.



Hercog opened the season with early losses at her first three tournaments, including a second round showing at the Australian Open, where she lost to Alona Bondarenko. After playing for Slovenia Fed Cup team, she won the ITF event in Cali, Colombia, but then suffered an opening round loss to Catalina Castaño at the Copa Sony Ericsson Colsanitas.

At the tournament in Acapulco, Mexico, Hercog reached her first WTA Tour singles final and won her first WTA Tour doubles title. She defeated Rossana de los Ríos 6–4, 6–1 in the first round, Alizé Cornet 6–4, 6–2 in the second, Ágnes Szávay retired from the quarterfinals match when Hercog was leading 6–4, 0–1, and Carla Suárez Navarro 6–3, 7–5 in the semifinals.[6] In the final, Hercog faced the first seed and former World No. 1 Venus Williams, and lost 6–2, 2–6, 3–6, despite winning the first set. Partnering with Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová, she won her first Tour doubles title, beating the Italian team of Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci 2–6, 6–1, [10–2].



At the 2010 BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells, Hercog defeated Ioana Raluca Olaru 7–5, 6–4 in the first round and was defeated by 11th seed Marion Bartoli in the second round 6–4, 6–2.

Hercog caused an upset in the second round of the 2010 French Open by defeating #24 Lucie Šafářová.



In Portoroz, she reached the semi-finals, leading 6–0 1–0 against Anna Chakvetadze but then lost the match mentally 6–0 2–6 2–6.

Seeded 6th at the 2010 e-Boks Danish Open in Copenhagen, she had a chance to take revenge on Anna Chakvetadze as they met in the quarterfinals. Hercog lost the match, this time in straight sets 4–6, 3–6.



Hercog began the year with three straight losses, including a first-round loss at the 2011 Australian Open to Anastasija Sevastova. In Fed Cup against Germany, she split her singles rubbers, defeating Julia Görges but losing to Andrea Petkovic. She split with her long-time coach, Zoltan Kuharszky, and is now working with Vladimir Platenik. She lost in the first rounds of clay tournaments in Bogota and Acapulco, where she had reached the final in 2010. She then reached the semifinals of Monterrey, where she lost to Jelena Janković.On 9 July she defeated Johanna Larsson in the final at Bastad to win her first WTA Tournament.

In July 2012, Hercog successfully defended the Swedish Open title by defeating Mathilde Johansson, 0–6 6–4 7–5.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org

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