Urszula Radwańska (born in Ahaus, Germany, December 7, 1990, age 24 years) is a Polish citizenship tennis player who was the sister of tennis player Agnieszka Radwańska world. Radwańska has won one doubles title on the WTA tour, as well as four singles and ten doubles titles on the ITF tour in her career. On 8 October 2012, she reached her best singles ranking of world number 29. On 21 September 2009, she peaked at world number 74 in the doubles rankings.
Urszula began the season in Brisbane where she scored a 3 set win over Tamira Paszek in the first round. She then lost a tight match against Ksenia Pervak, losing 6 points to 8 in a final set tie-break. She lost in the first round at the Apia International to Caroline Wozniacki. Urszula was seeded for the first time of her career at a Slam at the Australian Open but fell in the first round to Jamie Hampton. She suffered another first round lost to Mona Barthel at the Open GDF Suez. She won her first tour match of 2013 at the Qatar Total Open defeating Nadiya Kichenok in the first round. She then defeated Roberta Vinci in the next round but was taken out by Serena Williams in the third round.
Urszula won three qualifying rounds at the Dubai Tennis Championships to make the main draw. However she lost in round one to Jie Zheng. As an unseeded player at the French Open, she upset seven-time Grand Slam champion Venus Williams 7–6, 6–7, 6–4 in the first round. At Wimbledon, she reached the second round before being defeated by Alison Riske in three sets. She played at the 2013 Bank of the West Classic in which she reached the quarter-finals, following an easy victory over Christina McHale and a difficult match against former no. 5 Daniela Hantuchova, which she won 7–6(3), 7–6(3).
She then lost to eventual winner Dominika Cibulkova. She next played at the 2013 Southern California Open, taking out Marina Erakovic and former world no. 1 Jelena Jankovic before falling to top seed and eventual runner-up Victoria Azarenka. Ula then fell in the first round of the next tournament 2013 Rogers Cup to the feisty Italian Flavia Pennetta. In the next tournament, she was the top seed in the qualifying tournament for the 2013 Western & Southern Open. Sadly, she crashed out in the first round of qualifying to Croatia's Petra Martic in three tight sets. She was scheduled to play in the 2013 New Haven Open at Yale, but withdrew due to illness. At the 2013 US Open, Urszula defeated Irina-Camelia Begu in straight sets in the opening round. However, she fell to the No. 15 seed, American Sloane Stephens, in the second round.
Urszula pulled out of the 2014 Australian Open due to a shoulder injury. She began the 2014 season in February, when she played at the Dow Corning Tennis Classic at Midland, Michigan. Here she defeated Sachia Vickery in the first round and Siniakova in the second round. She then played in Acapulco, Mexico, where she lost to Dominika Cibulkova in the first round.
Following Acapulco, she played at the BNP Paribas Open Indian Wells, where she lost to Aleksandra Wozniak in the first round. The following week she took part in the Sony Open Tennis in Miami, where lost to Nadia Petrova 5–7, 6–1, 4–6. Ula then played at Monterrey Open, where she lost to Ana Ivanovic, who ended up winning the tournament.
Ula next competed at Marrakech Grand Prix, Morocco where she lost to Lara Arruabarrena in the first round. The string of early exits continued with losses at the Portugal Open ( lost to Yanina Wickmayer 4–6, 5–7), Mutua Madrid Open (lost to Laura Pous Tió), French Open (lost to Magdaléna Rybáriková 6–4, 4–6, 0–3, Retired), Aegon Classic (lost to Casey Dellaqua 1–6, 3–6), Topshelf Open (lost to Mona Barthel 6–3, 6–2, and Wimbledon (lost to Angelique Kerber 2–6, 4–6).
Her first main draw win since February would come at the Baku Cup, where she defeated Alison Van Uytvanck 6–1, 0–0, by retirement; the success though was short lived, as Ula experienced a disappointing loss in the next round to Japanese qualifier Misa Eguchi 2–6, 1–6. Most likely one of the most shocking losses of Ula's career came about in her next tournament, The Rogers Cup, with a loss to American Asia Muhammad in the first round. Ula lost in the second round of qualifying at the US Open. She next played in Tashkent, where she picked up elusive back to back wins, one over Vesna Dolonc 6–2, 6–2, and the other against the number five seed Donna Vekic 6–3,6–3. She lost in the quarterfinals to the number one seed Bojana Jovanovski 6–4, 4–6, 3–6.
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