Simona Halep born on 27 September 1991 is a Romanian professional tennis player and the current Romanian number 1, out of four Romanian players in the top 60. She is currently ranked a career high number 11 in the world. She is coached by Adrian Marcu, and managed by Virginia Ruzici, after having worked with Andrei Mlendea, and her current fitness coach is Teo Cercel.
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She started the year playing in junior competitions, reaching the final in Nottinghill, where she lost to Arantxa Rus, then defeated Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in the quarterfinals at the Australian Open Junior Championships, before losing in the semifinal to Jessica Moore. She went on to win a pair events in May and June. First, a victory in the finals at Trofeo Bonfiglio, winning over Bojana Jovanovski by a score of 6–4, 6–1. Then, at theRoland Garros Junior Championships, she entered the main draw as the 9th seed. In the first round, she defeated Charlotte Rodier, 6–4, 6–1, then Karen Barbat from Denmark, 6–3, 6–1, and in the 3rd round Halep won against 5th seed Jessica Moore, 6–0, 6–1. In the quarterfinals, Simona beat 13th seed Ksenia Lykina, 6–1, 6–2, and in the semifinals, Halep defeated second seed Arantxa Rus 6–3, 7–5. She closed things by winning the all–Romanian final, 6–4, 6–7, 6–2 against 10th seed Elena Bogdan.
She also started entering senior developmental ITF tournaments in the spring. Success arrived when she won two smaller ITF $10,000 tournaments in Bucharest (1 & 3) in April–May, against Elena Bogdan, 6-1, 6-3 and then against Stéphanie Vongsouthi by a score of 7–6, 6–3.
At the main ITF $50,000 tournament in Bucharest (2) in May, Halep eliminated former Roland Garros quarterfinalist Sesil Karatantchevain the first round, before losing in the quarterfinals to Sorana Cîrstea in three sets, 6–3, 3–6, 1–6. That was followed in June by a victory at the ITF $25,000 tournament in Sweden at Kristienhamn, by defeating the 5th seeded Anne Schaefer, 6-3, 6-2 in the final.
She continued to play on the ITF circuit the entire of 2009, while also entering qualifying for main WTA tournaments at Paris Indoors in February and Roland Garros in May, losing in the 2nd round each time.
In April and May she met the first real successes. First, at the ITF $50,000 tournament in Makarska, Halep began her campaign with wins over Ana Vrljić of Croatia and an upset victory over Ksenia Pervak. She defeated Anne Schäfer, 6–0, 6–0, and beat second seededArantxa Rus with a 6–4, 7–6 win to advance to the final. However, Halep fell to the top seed Tatjana Malek by a score of 6–1, 4–6, 6–4. She then reached the quarterfinals at the Bucharest ITF $100,000 tournament, losing to German Andrea Petkovic 6–2, 7–6.
Making her first attempt to qualify for a senior Grand Slam tournament at Roland Garros, she defeated 17th seed Michaëlla Krajicek, 6–4, 7–5 in her first match, but fell to Vitalia Diatchenko, 2–6, 6–1, 6–3 in the following round.
In August, Halep won the ITF $25,000 tournament in Maribor, defeating top seed Katalin Marosi of Hungary in the final 6–4, 6–2. She also made the semifinals of the indoors ITF $50,000 tournament in Minsk, Belarus and ITF $25,000 tournament in Opole, Poland in November.
At almost 18 years old, Halep decided that her large bust was interfering with her game. She underwent mastopexy to reduce her bust size to 34C from 34DD. There was wide criticism of her decision to reduce her bust in order to improve her game. Fans petitioned her to reconsider her decision. She responded, saying, "It's the weight that troubles me. My ability to react quickly, my breasts make me uncomfortable when I play. I don’t like them in my everyday life, either. I would have gone for surgery even if I hadn’t been a sportswoman." She also experienced back pain. She later revealed her reduced bust size at the French Open in May 2010. Since the surgery, she has moved up over 450 places in the world rankings.
In January, she reached the quarterfinals in the 2011 ASB Classic defeating Ayumi Morita and Elena Vesnina, but losing to the second seed, Yanina Wickmayer. She would go then to the 2011 Moorilla Hobart International but she would lose in the third qualifying round, in a decisive set against Magdaléna Rybáriková. At the 2011 Australian Open, Halep qualified for the first time in her career in the third round of a tennis Grand Slam on seniors, beating the 24th seed Alisa Kleybanova 6–4, 7–6 before losing in straight sets to the 12th seed Agnieszka Radwańska and not progressing to the fourth round. In April at the 2010 Grand Prix SAR La Princesse Lalla Meryem, she repeated her prior year's accomplishment of reaching the finals but lost to Alberta Brianti 3–6, 4–6.
Halep began the year as the Romanian no. 2, ranked no. 47 in the world, 20 places behind Sorana Cirstea. Her first two tournaments, Hobart Internationaland Australian Open, ended in defeats. Her first major tournament breakthrough came at the Internazionali BNL d'Italia in May, gaining three of the biggest victories of her career. Halep defeated two-time Grand Slam champion Svetlana Kuznetsova, world no. 4 Agnieszka Radwańska, and two-time tournament champion and former world no. 1 Jelena Janković (but saved 2 match points) to reach the semifinals, where she was defeated soundly by eventual champion Serena Williams in straight sets. At theFrench Open, Halep suffered her second successive first-round exit at a Grand Slam, falling to Carla Suarez Navarro, despite taking the first set comfortably. She rebounded well, however, going on to win her first two WTA titles back-to-back, first at the Nürnberger Versicherungscup in June, where she defeatedAndrea Petkovic in the final, and then at the Topshelf Open, where she defeated world no. 11 Roberta Vinci with the loss of just one game in the second round, before defeating Kirsten Flipkens in the final. She became the first Romanian tennis player to win back-to-back tournaments on different surfaces. She claimed her first Grand Slam match win of the year at Wimbledon, defeating Olga Govortsova of Belarus, before falling to Li Na in three sets.
Following the grass-court season, Halep went on to win her third title of the year, at the Budapest Grand Prix, where she defeated Sesil Karatantcheva, Ágnes Bukta, Tímea Babos, and fellow Romanian Alexandra Cadanțu en route to her third final of the year. She defeated Austrian Yvonne Meusburger in three sets to win her third WTA title. She reached her second Premier 5 quarterfinal in Cincinnati, where once again she lost to Serena Williams. She won her fourth WTA title, and first in a Premier level tournament, at the New Haven Open, defeating Petra Kvitova in the final in straight sets. At the US Open, Halep reached the fourth round of a Grand Slam for the first time in her career, where she ultimately lost to Italian Flavia Pennetta in two sets. She then went on to win her fifth title of the year, and her second at a Premier event, beating Samantha Stosur in the final of the Kremlin Cup. As a result of her highly successful summer, Halep became the only player of the year to win titles on clay, grass, hard, and indoor courts, as well as the second most successful player behind Serena Williams in terms of number of titles won. In November, Halep defeated former world no. 1 Ana Ivanovic to reach the final of the WTA Tournament of Champions, her ninth career final and sixth of the year. Simona defeated Samantha Stosur in three sets for her sixth WTA title of the season. She finished her breakthrough year ranked no. 11 in the world. On 21 November 2013, she won the award WTA's Most Improved Player Of The Year for 2013.
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