Samantha Stosur was born on the 30th of March 1984 in Brisbane, Australia. She is a tennis player and as a doubles player she is placed on the first position of Top 100 along Lisa Raymond.

Biography and Career :

After becoming a professional tennis player in 1999 she won four ITF single titles, 22 WTA doubles titles and 11 ITF doubles titles.
Lisa Raymond is often her partner and they won two Grand Slam doubles titles. The first one was won in 2005 at the US Open, their opponents were Elena Dementieva and Flavia Pennetta, and the second one year later at the French Open. There they played the final against Daniela Hantuchova and Ai Sugiyama.
In 2006 they played the final at the Australian open but lost to Yan Zi and Zheng Jie.
Another lost final happened in 2005 at the Aus tralian Open where she and Scott Draper lost to Liezel Huber and Kevin Ullyett.
The 22 WTA doubles titles were won at Sydney, Amelia Island, Luxembourg, Moscow, Tokyo, Memphis, Indian Wells, Miami, Charleston, Stuttgart, Linz, Berlin, Eastbourne and some others.
20 of them were won along Lisa Raymond and the first two along Bryanne Stewart from Australia.
Her results as a single player at the Grand Slam tournaments are not very impressive. She has reached the second round in 2004 at the US Open and had the same result at Wimbledon in 2006 and 2007.
At the French Open she stopped in the third round in 2007 and at the Australian Open in the fourth round in 2006.
A big success for her was defeating Amélie Mauresmo in the Rome Masters in 2007 in the second round. Unfortunately she was stopped in the third round by Patty Schnyder from Switzerland.
She is talented but until now she has had more important successes as a doubles player than as a single player.

Trivia :

- Height: 172 cm
- Weight: 65 kg
- She plays: right-handed
- She turned pro in 1999

Career Review :

- Singles Record: 201-169
- Singles Titles: 4
- Doubles Record: 260-110
- Doubles Titles: 33
- Prize Money: $2,565,590
- Career High ATP Ranking - Singles: 27 (8-Jan-2007)
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Category: Sport Stars  - ( Sport Stars Archive)

Date Added: 24 October '07

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