Casey Dellacqua

• Date of birth:  February 11, 1985
• Birthplace: Perth, Australia
• Residence: Perth, Australia
• Height:  5' 5" (1.65 m)
• Weight: 150 lbs. (68 kg)
• Plays: Left-handed (two-handed backhand)
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Casey Dellacqua (born February 11, 1985) is an Australian professional tennis player who currently resides in Perth, Australia. After the 2008 Australian Open, she will be Australia's highest ranked female tennis player in singles.

Her highest rankings to this point are 77 in singles (achieved on November 5, 2007) and 111 in doubles (November 1, 2004). She has 10 ITF singles titles and 13 ITF doubles titles to her name. After beating former world number 1 Amélie Mauresmo at the Australian Open, she became the number one female tennis player in Australia.

At the 2008 Australian Open, Dellacqua defeated former world number 1 Amelie Mauresmo to reach the fourth round, her best result in a Grand Slam event. She has also achieved notable victories over former world number eight Alicia Molik and former top 20 players Karolina Sprem and Tamarine Tanasugarn.

She reached her first WTA Tour Quarter-Final in Hobart in 2008, before losing to Greek Eleni Danilidou.

2006

Dellacqua played in the Australian Open as a wild-card, with Lindsay Davenport as her first-round opponent. However, she was soundly beaten by Davenport, receiving much criticism after the match for her lack of fitness.

2007

Dellacqua entered the 2007 Australian Open, again as a wildcard, but was beaten by Slovenian Katarina Srebotnik in the first round. She failed to make it past the first round in both the French Open and the Wimbledon Championships. Dellacqua reached the second round of the US Open when she defeated Yaroslava Shvedova in straight sets. However she was then thrashed in straight sets by Maria Sharapova.

2008

Trained by Brian Porter, Dellacqua looked to be once again making an early exit in the 2008 Australian Open after losing the first set against Italian player Karin Knapp. However, she managed to make a brave fightback and won the match, taking the third and deciding set 8-6. She then faced 15th seed Patty Schnyder, a former semi-finalist. Despite once again losing the opening set, she fought back to claim the highest ranked scalp of her career. In the third round Dellacqua upset Amélie Mauresmo, former World No.1 and the 2006 Australian Open champion, on Rod Laver Arena, winning the third and deciding set 6-4.

Her remarkable run ended in the fourth round with a straight sets loss to third seed Jelena Jankovic. She lost no supporters and is now known by almost all of Australia. She is now the highest ranked Australian female tennis player, and the "pride of the nation".

Dellacqua then competed in the 2008 Pattaya Open in Thailand, where she reached the second round and lost to Andreja Klepac of Slovakia 7-5, 2-6, 6-2.

She then participated in the WTA Tier I Event the Pacific Life Open in Indian Wells. She easily defeated Olga Poutchkova 6-1, 6-1 in the first round. She then upset highly rated Czech, and seventh seeded Nicole Vaidisova 6-1 3-6 6-4 in the second round. She continued her run into the third round in Indian Wells, leading the thirty-second seeded Tamira Paszek of Austria, 6-1 4-0 before her opponent retired. She was eventually defeated by the twelfth seed, Vera Zvonareva, 6-7(5) 6-0 6-4 in the fourth round.

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