Simona Halep of Romania secured the 9th spot in the World Tennis Association rankings after a stunning performance and a winning finale at Qatar Tennis Open 2014 in Doha last Sunday, February 16. Simona Halep is her country’s fourth tennis player who made it to world’s top ten best female players and that happened after both reaching the quarterfinals of the most recent Australian Open and claiming the Premier-5 category tournament in Doha. At the age of 22, Halep has become the most awarded athlete in the history of Romanian women tennis.
Simona Halep career: overview
2008-2009: Simona Halep was born in Constanta in 1991 and won her career’s first important victory back in 2008 while a junior as she claimed the Roland Garros tournament, after beating country fellow Elena Bogdan in the final act. Across 2008 and 2009 she continued to participate at ITF tournaments and made her entry to the WTA Qualifying stages but without having notable performances in the latter competition. In 2009, when aged 18, Simona Halep decided to undergo a breast reduction surgery in order to improve her reaction time and prevent back pains. The surgery turned out to be successful resulting in visible enhancement of her sporting performance.
2010: The first notable successes in the WTA tournaments came out in 2010 when the Romanian growing star reached the quarter-finals in Marbella, Spain as well as her first final in Fes, Morocco, unfortunately losing to Iveta Benesova. As a senior, Halep started the 2010 season on the position 210 and made a spectacular leap, ending the year on 81 in the WTA rankings.
2011: Following another final in Fes, where she was defeated by Alberta Brianti, and subsequent progress to round 3 at the Australian Open and round 2 at the other Grand Slam tournaments, Simona Halep climbed to position 43 being for the first time among the best 50 female players in the world.
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Fantastic 2013: From 47 to 11: At the beginning of the 2013 season, Simona Halep was world’s 47th and twenty ranks behind her country fellow, Sorana Cârstea. She began with hesitation as she was eliminated in the first round at Hobart and Australian Open. But Rome Masters tournament brought a brilliant change for Halep who put Romania on the map of world quality tennis. In Roma, Halep was defeated only in the semifinals by Serena Williams, after thrashing big names including Svetlana Kutznetova, winner of two Grand Slam titles, U.S. Open and Roland Garros, Agnieszka Radwanska, WTA 4, and Jelena Jankovic, a former WTA number one. On June 16 she won her career’s first WTA title in Nurnberg where she beat Andrea Petkovic in the finale. Just one week later, Halep claimed the second consecutive tournament in ‘s-Hertogenbosch (known as Den Bosch), The Netherlands, after defeating Kirsten Flipkens.
And 2013 was not finished yet! Halep continued her success streak by winning the next four finals. She beat Yvonne Meusburger in Budapest, Petra Kvitova in New Haven, and Samantha Stosur at both Moscow and Sofia tournaments. Simona Halep had become the only female player in 2013 who grabbed victories on all surfaces, grass, hard, indoor and pitch and second best tennis athlete in terms of number of trophies, being surpassed only by Serena Williams. At the end of a dream year, the tennis star from Constanta secured a well deserved spot 11 in the WTA rankings, the best result of her career at that point.
2014: Halep started this year with an appearance in the quarter-final at the Australian Open, her best performance at a Grand Slam tournament, which pushed her one place forward just in top 10 WTA. Thus she became the 4th Romanian female tennis player entering the top ten players in the world, after Mariana Simionescu, Virginia Ruzici and Irina Spirla. The win over Angelique Kerber in the final match at Qatar Total Open in Doha on February 16, the seventh consecutive final , Simona Halep who earned $441,000 and 900 WTA points, which placed her on the 9th position in rankings of the Word Tennis Association. Halep’s total earnings from 2010 to present, amounted $2,739,187.