Klaudia Jans-Ignacik (née Jans; born 24 September 1984) is a retired Polish
tennis
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player. On 16 August 2004, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 410. On 10 September 2012, she peaked at No. 28 in the doubles rankings.
Jans-Ignacik won three WTA doubles tournaments,
2009 Andalucia Tennis Experience with Alicja Rosolska,
2012 Internationaux de Strasbourg with
Olga Govortsova
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, and
2012 Rogers Cup with
Kristina Mladenovic
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She is a nine-time Grand Slam c ...
.
In 2012, she advanced to her first Grand Slam final at the
French Open, with
Santiago Gonzalez
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in the mixed-doubles tournament. Jans-Ignacik is one of nine Polish tennis players in history who played in a Grand Slam final, others being
Jadwiga Jędrzejowska
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,
Wojciech Fibak
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,
Mariusz Fyrstenberg
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Fyrstenberg primarily partnered Marcin Matkowski. The pair won the Madrid Open twice, in addition to reaching the fin ...
,
Łukasz Kubot
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He is a two-time Grand Slam champion in doubles, having won the 2014 Australian Open with Robert Lindstedt, as well as the 2017 W ...
,
Marcin Matkowski
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,
Agnieszka Radwańska
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,
Alicja Rosolska
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On 9 June 2003, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 636. On 10 June 2019, she peaked at No. 23 in the doubles rankings.
Rosolska has won nine ...
and
Iga Świątek
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.
She represented Poland in the
Fed Cup
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and both the
2008
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and
2012 Summer Olympics. Playing for
Poland
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at the Fed Cup, Jans-Ignacik has a win–loss record of 20–12.
Klaudia married Bartosz Ignacik in 2011 and added his surname to her own. On 31 December 2012, Jans-Ignacik announced that she was pregnant with her first child and would miss the entire
2013 WTA Tour
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. On 1 August 2013, she gave birth to her first daughter Aniela Ignacik.
In 2014, she returned to professional competitions and reached six doubles semifinals, one of them in her home country, at the
Katowice Open.
In January 2015, Jans-Ignacik advanced to her first women's doubles Grand Slam quarterfinal, with
Andreja Klepač
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Career
She ha ...
, at the
Australian Open. They lost in straight sets to
Chan Yung-jan
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and
Zheng Jie
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.
On 1 September 2016, Jans-Ignacik announced her retirement from professional tennis.
Significant finals
Grand Slam tournaments
Mixed doubles: 1 runner-up
Premier Mandatory/Premier 5 finals
Doubles: 1 title
WTA career finals
Doubles: 10 (3 titles, 7 runner-ups)
WTA 125 series finals
Doubles: 1 runner-up
ITF finals
Singles (1–1)
Doubles (11–8)
Doubles performance timeline
References
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1984 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Gdynia
Polish female tennis players
Tennis players at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Tennis players at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Tennis players at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Olympic tennis players of Poland
Universiade medalists in tennis
Universiade silver medalists for Poland
20th-century Polish women
21st-century Polish women