Monika Wejnert
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Monika Wejnert (born 6 April 1992) is an Australian tennis
Tennis
Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...

 player. Her highest WTA singles ranking is 324, which she reached on 30 November 2009. Her career high ranking in doubles is No. 576, which she reached on 22 February 2010.

Wejnert was born in Australia.

Career

During the 2009 Australian Open wildcards round robin, Wejnert Defeated Jelena Dokić
Jelena Dokic
Jelena Dokić is an Australian female professional tennis player.During the height of her career, she played for Serbia and Montenegro and reached a career-high ranking of World No. 4 on 19 August 2002. After several family-related difficulties , she slowly slipped down the rankings in 2006...

 in three sets, they met again in the final where She lost to Dokic in a three set thriller.
At the Brisbane International Wejnert lost to finalist Marion Bartoli
Marion Bartoli
Marion Bartoli is a French professional tennis player and the current French no. 1. She has won seven Women's Tennis Association singles titles and three doubles titles. She was also a runner-up at the 2007 Wimbledon Championships....

 6–1, 6–2.
At the Australian Open Wejnert lost in the first Round to Karin Knapp
Karin Knapp
Karin Knapp is an Italian female tennis player. She was ranked World No. 35 on 25 February 2008.-Career:...

 in a tight match 7–6, 6–4,
Monika has recently played in the AEGON trophy in Nottingham where she beat Mandy Minella
Mandy Minella
Mandy Minella is a professional Luxembourgian tennis player. Her highest singles ranking to date is World Number 125 on July 25, 2011, and World Number 250 for doubles on July 17, 2006...

 in the first round before losing to Sandra Záhlavová
Sandra Záhlavová
Sandra Záhlavová is a Czech tennis player. On 21 June 2010, she achieved her career-high WTA Event singles ranking of No. 78. On June 12, 2006, she claimed her highest Doubles rank of No. 165...

. At that time Monika was ranked 300 in the world rankings

Monika Wejnert attended Rochedale State School, Rochedale
Rochedale, Queensland
Rochedale is an outer suburb of the city of Brisbane, Australia. It is south-east of the Brisbane central business district.- History :During convict settlement, explorers passed through the region but it was not until 1865 that the first settlers started farming the area's rich alluvial soil.The...

, Brisbane before moving to Saint Stephens College on the Gold Coast for her final years of high school.

Grand Slam performance timeline

Tournament 2009 Career SR Career W-L
Australian Open
Australian Open
The Australian Open is the only Grand Slam tennis tournament held in the southern hemisphere. The tournament was held for the first time in 1905 and was last contested on grass in 1987. Since 1972 the Australian Open has been held in Melbourne, Victoria. In 1988, the tournament became a hard court...

1R
2009 Australian Open - Women's Singles
Maria Sharapova was the defending champion, but chose not to participate this year, due to a shoulder injury.Serena Williams won in the final 6–0, 6–3, against Dinara Safina.-Seeds:# Jelena Janković ...

0 / 1 0–1
French Open A 0 / 0 0–0
Wimbledon A 0 / 0 0–0
U.S. Open
U.S. Open (tennis)
The US Open, formally the United States Open Tennis Championships, is a hardcourt tennis tournament which is the modern iteration of one of the oldest tennis championships in the world, the U.S. National Championship, which for men's singles was first contested in 1881...

A 0 / 0 0–0
Grand Slam Win-Loss 0–1 0 / 1 0–1
Tournament Titles 0 N/A 0
Year End Ranking 334 N/A N/A
  • A = did not participate in the tournament.
  • LQ = lost in qualifying draw
  • SR = the ratio of the number of singles tournaments won to the number of those tournaments played.

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