The 21st century
Austria · born Dornbirn, 1990 · right-handed · Eastbourne champion 2012
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26
Career-high WTA singles ranking, February 2013
3
WTA singles titles, one of them on grass
2
Wimbledon quarter-finals, 2011 and 2012
5
Match points saved in the 2012 Eastbourne final
11-9
Final set of her 3 hour 43 minute win over Francesca Schiavone, Wimbledon 2011
Tamira Paszek was born in Dornbirn, Austria, in 1990 and was introduced to tennis by her mother at four. At 14 she reached the 2005 Wimbledon girls' final, and in 2006 the US Open girls' final. That year, in only her third WTA main draw, she won the title in Portorož, the youngest singles champion of the season.
At 16 she reached the fourth round of Wimbledon in 2007, beating the seeds Tatiana Golovin and Elena Dementieva, and then the fourth round of the US Open. In 2008, aged 17, she beat the world No. 1 Ana Ivanovic in Montreal. She won a second title in Quebec City in 2010, reached the Wimbledon quarter-finals in 2011 and 2012, and won Eastbourne in 2012. She reached her highest ranking, No. 26, in February 2013.
A run of injuries from 2013 took her out of the top 100. In 2017 she was out of the game with a chronic facial nerve condition. She has not played a WTA-level match since 2016, and the WTA lists her as inactive.
| Eastbourne 2012 | Unseeded, ranked 59 and with a 2-10 record for the year, she beat Daniela Hantuchová, Tsvetana Pironkova and the defending champion Marion Bartoli, from a set and 4-0 down, then Angelique Kerber 5-7, 6-3, 7-5 in the final, saving five match points and winning the last four games |
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| Wimbledon 2011 | Ranked 80, she beat the sixth seed Francesca Schiavone 3-6, 6-4, 11-9 in 3 hours 43 minutes in the third round and reached the quarter-finals, where she lost to Victoria Azarenka 6-3, 6-1 |
| Wimbledon 2012 | Beat the seventh seed Caroline Wozniacki in the first round in a match of 3 hours 12 minutes, then Alizé Cornet, Yanina Wickmayer and Roberta Vinci; lost the quarter-final to Azarenka again, 6-3, 7-6 |
| Wimbledon 2007 | Aged 16, beat the 17th seed Tatiana Golovin and the 12th seed Elena Dementieva before losing to Svetlana Kuznetsova 6-3, 6-2 in the fourth round |
| Wimbledon girls' 2005 | Unseeded at 14, lost the final to Agnieszka Radwańska 6-3, 6-4 |
| Eastbourne | ||
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| 2012 | Women's singles | |
Leading grass titles only: the grass majors, tour-level grass events since 1968 and the leading grass championships before 1968. †single source; ‡ sources disagree. Roll of champions
"To be honest, I didn't realize it was match point or I was 5-3 down. I was just enjoying being on the court, enjoying the atmosphere with this amazing crowd."
The person behind the player.
Wimbledon, 2005
Unseeded, she reached the girls' singles final at Wimbledon at 14 and lost to Agnieszka Radwańska 6-3, 6-4. In her WTA biography she named it, with her first WTA match at Linz that autumn, as her best memory.
Source: Wimbledon Compendium 2025; WTAMontreal, 2008
At 17 she beat the world No. 1 Ana Ivanovic at night in a full stadium at the Rogers Cup. "That memory will last forever," she said in 2017, "especially since it was against Ana, someone I'd looked up to in the first few years of my career."
Source: WTAEastbourne, June 2012
She won the title in front of people she had known since she was two: her godparents lived in the area, and her father came down from London that morning as a surprise. Her mother and brother watched on television. "I was dead tired in the third set. I could hardly move," she said.
Source: Fox News (AP)Sardinia, 2017
Out of the game in 2017, she was told by doctors to spend more time in the sun, an odd prescription, she noted, for a player who had spent two decades chasing summer. After a trip to Sardinia she reported her tan was back: "for the first time in my career, I have brown feet!"
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