Kira Nagy (born 29 December 1977) is a former professional
tennis
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player from Hungary. She won 18 singles and ten doubles titles on tournaments of the
ITF Circuit.
Kira won her first match on the
WTA Tour
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in 2007 at the
Palermo Ladies Open, defeating German
Tatjana Malek
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She has won two singles ...
6–2, 7–5, before losing to
Émilie Loit
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Besides her three career singles titles, all on clay, included Estoril and Casablanca both in 2004, and Acapulco in 2007, she won 16 doubles titles on the WTA Tour. Her hi ...
.
She competed in the
2007 US Open, where she drew
Venus Williams
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in the first round, losing 2–6, 1–6. This was her second Grand Slam tournament, after qualifying for the US Open in 2000.
Nagy retired from professional tennis 2014.
ITF Circuit finals
Singles: 33 (18 titles, 15 runner-ups)
Doubles: 22 (10 titles, 12 runner-ups)
ITF Junior Circuit
Singles (3–2)
Doubles (0–2)
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1979 births
Living people
Hungarian female tennis players
Olympic tennis players of Hungary
Tennis players at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Tennis players from Budapest
20th-century Hungarian women