WTA Tour

JANUARY - Captured 12th career Tour doubles title (and first in five-and-a-half years) at Sydney (as No.3 seeds w/Stubbs; d. top seeds Raymond/Stosur in SF and No.4 seeds Ruano Pascual/Suarez in final); consecutive 1r losses at Australian Open (w/Mirza) and Tokyo [Pan Pacific] (w/Dementieva).

MARCH - Consecutive 2r losses at Indian Wells (w/Loit) and Miami (w/Krajicek).

APRIL - Upset in 1r at Amelia Island (w/Stubbs; l. to Pratt/Stewart 76(5) 76(20), featuring the longest tie-break in Tour history).

AUGUST - Doubles SF at Los Angeles (w/Petrova; upset top seeds Raymond/Stosur en route).

SEPTEMBER - Won 13th career Tour doubles title at Bali (w/Davenport; was their first time playing together in over a year, and they won their fifth title as a team).

OCTOBER - Doubles runner-up at Linz (in first-time pairing w/Srebotnik; now 13-7 in Tour doubles finals).

1994 - Played first four ITF Circuit events, winning ITF/Nicolosi-ITA.

1995 - Won ITF/Salzburg-AUT, ITF/Katowice-POL and ITF/Sochi-RUS.

1996 - Played first Tour event at Miami as a WC, reaching 2r; qualified for Tokyo [Japan Open], reaching QF; direct entrant into career-first Grand Slams at Wimbledon and US Open.

1997 - First Top 100 finish; won ITF/Bogotß-COL and reached first Tour final at Bol (l. to Lucic 76 third set); afterwards (May 5), broke into Top 100 at No.91; suffered a kidney infection April-September which resulted in 2r ret. vs. Osterloh at US Open; QF of Tokyo [Japan Open], QuTbec City and Pattaya City.

1998 - First Top 50 finish; two singles finals, at Tokyo [Japan Open] (d. Sawamatsu, Frazier) and Bol for second year (l. to Lucic again); Top 50 debut on February 23 at No.48 and on August 24, reached career-high No.29; scored first Top 20 win, d. No.17 Raymond en route to Berlin 3r; stretched No.8 seed Graf to 3s in US Open 1r and upset No.14 Testud in Znrich; extended No.5 V.Williams to 3s in Stanford.

1999 - Season highlighted by career-first Tour singles and Grand Slam doubles titles; ended 10-match losing streak (starting from Moscow in October 1998) by reaching Tokyo [Japan Open] SF (l. to Frazier in 3s); at Australian Open, held mp on eventual runner-up Mauresmo in 1r before falling; in third consecutive Bol final, won first Tour singles title (d. No.21 Halard-Decugis in final); QF at Strasbourg, Stanford, Znrich (d. No.7 Schett for first Top 10 win); won six doubles titles (w/three partners), incl. Wimbledon (w/Davenport; without losing a set); qualified for season-ending Championships in doubles (w/Davenport), reaching SF.

2000 - Became world No.1 doubles player on April 3, winning four doubles titles (w/three partners); in singles, career-first Tier I SF in Rome, d. No.9 Testud en route; Indian Wells 3r (l. to No.6 Pierce in 3s); as defending champion at Bol, reached QF, l. to Mauresmo after holding mp; fell, fractured left elbow during 1r at Wimbledon vs. No.2 seed Davenport, ret. from match and withdrew from doubles, where they were defending champions; missed US Open due to the injury; returned to the Tour in October at Tokyo [Princess Cup].

2001 - In Sydney, stunned No.8 Kournikova with a 62 61, 46-minute victory to reach QF; earned second career Grand Slam title at Australian Open, winning mixed doubles (w/E.Ferreira); reached womenÆs doubles final (w/Davenport), falling to Williams sisters in 3s on her 23rd birthday; sprained right foot in Berlin, withdrawing from Rome; off the Tour for the rest of the season after being diagnosed with acute promyelocytic leukemia in May; underwent chemotherapy, after which she was in remission.

2002 - Underwent chemotherapy treatment; returned to competition on the Tour at San Diego in doubles (w/Po-Messerli), (l. 1r to Rubin/Shaughnessy 75 third set); tournament awarded her the first annual Corina Comeback Award, presented by Capriati; following week at Los Angeles, played singles for first time since Berlin in May 2001 (l. to Mikaelian in 3s) and reached doubles SF (w/Po-Messerli); reached US Open mixed doubles SF (w/Gimelstob) and doubles QF (w/Po-Messerli); suffered from right shoulder tendonitis late in season, forcing ret. in Bali 2r vs. Taylor.

2003 - In singles, went 3-8 in season dominated by rehabilitation from right shoulder surgery in 2002/2003 off-season and right knee injury suffered at Birmingham; didnÆt play first event of season until Strasbourg in May, reaching 2r there and at Roland Garros; withdrew from San Diego and Los Angeles w/right knee injury; ret. during singles and doubles matches in Shanghai with right shoulder tendonitis, forcing her withdrawal from Tokyo [Japan Open], Tashkent and Luxembourg; Roland Garros mixed doubles QF (w/Bjorkman).

2004 - Strong doubles season, highlighted by first final in three years (and 15th overall) at Philadelphia (w/L.Huber; l. to Molik/Raymond); also SF (w/Davenport) at Sydney (d. top seeds Navratilova/Raymond û d. them the next week at Australian Open û ret. in Sydney vs. Black/Stubbs due to DavenportÆs shoulder injury), Tokyo [Pan Pacific] (d. L.Huber/Sugiyama) and Indian Wells (d. Black/Stubbs, Petrova/Shaughnessy, l. to Ruano Pascual/Sußrez in 3s).

2005 - Season spent playing exclusively in doubles, highlighted by reaching third Grand Slam final; seeded No.15 (w/Davenport) at Australian Open, reached first major doubles final in four years (won 1999 Wimbledon, runner-up at 2001 Australian Open), falling to No.6 seeds Kuznetsova/Molik; in next event at Tier I Tokyo [Pan Pacific] (also w/Davenport), reached final (d. top seeds Black/L.Huber 61 63 en route; l. to No.2 seeds Husarova/Likhovtseva); two-time semifinalist, at Roland Garros (w/Schnyder; d. No.3 seeds Raymond/Stubbs en route, falling to No.2 seeds Black/L.Huber) and Beijing (w/Pennetta); also reached US Open QF (w/Schnyder); in Fed Cup, was 1-0 in United StatesÆ 5-0 victory over Belgium in World Group I 1r (w/Davenport, d. Flipkens/Van Hyfte), and 0-1 in 4-1 loss to Russia in SF (w/V.Williams, l. to Dushevina/Safina in doubles rubber); finished season as year-end world No.15 doubles player, and unranked in singles.

SINGLES
Winner (1): 1999 - Bol; 1997 - ITF/Bogotß-COL; 1995 - ITF/Salzburg-AUT, ITF/Katowice-POL, ITF/Sochi-RUS; 1994 - ITF/Nicolosi-ITA.
Finalist (3): 1998 - Tokyo [Japan Open], Bol; 1997 - Bol.
Semifinalist (2): 2000 - Rome; 1999 - Tokyo [Japan Open].

DOUBLES
Winner (13): 2006 - Sydney (w/Stubbs), Bali (w/Davenport); 2000 - Oklahoma City (w/Po), Indian Wells (w/Davenport), Bol, Tokyo [Japan Open] (both w/Halard-Decugis); 1999 - Wimbledon, Stanford, San Diego (all w/Davenport), Gold Coast, Birmingham (both w/Neiland), Tokyo [Japan Open] (w/Po); 1997 - Pattaya City (w/Kunce).
Finalist (7): 2006 - Linz (w/Srebotnik); 2005 - Australian Open, Tokyo [Pan Pacific] (both w/Davenport); 2004 - Philadelphia (w/L.Huber); 2001 - Australian Open (w/Davenport); 2000 - Berlin (w/Coetzer); 1997 - Tokyo [Japan Open] (w/Guse).

MIXED DOUBLES
Winner (1): 2001 - Australian Open (w/E.Ferreira). Semifinalist (1): 2002 - US Open (w/Gimelstob).

ADDITIONAL
United States Fed Cup Team, 2005.

Coached by Raj Chaudhuri ... Parents, Albin and Rodica, are Romanian-born and, along with brother, Mircea, are all physicians ... Father, a neurologist, was Tim GulliksonÆs personal neurologist ... In 2000, made a grant to the Tim and Tom Gullikson Foundation for a college scholarship program for brain tumor patients or their children ... Graduated from St. Andrews High School in June 1996, where she played No.1 singles for her school team.

ò Recipient of Family Circle Magazine 2003 Player Who Makes a Difference Award in recognition of and to celebrate her victory over leukemia and to praise her commitment to increasing awareness and funding for cancer research.
ò In 2002, named Tour Comeback Player of the Year and Leukemia & Lymphoma SocietyÆs first International Sports Ambassador (also member of the societyÆs ChairmanÆs Advisory Council).
ò In juniors, won doubles at 1995 Australian Open, Roland Garros and US Open, and 1994 Australian Open; ended 1994 and 1995 as the worldÆs No.3 doubles player; in singles, reached QF at 1995 Australian Open and SF at 1992 USTA National 16s; member of the 1996 US National Team.