Magda Linette (born 12 February 1992) is a Polish professional
tennis
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player. Having made her tour debut in 2009, she reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 33 in February 2020. Linette has reached five finals on the
WTA Tour
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, winning two titles.
Linette made her first appearance in a WTA tournament main draw at the
Internationaux de Strasbourg
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in May 2013, where she also scored her first match win at this level. The same year, she reached her first WTA semifinal in
Baku
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, coming from qualifying. Linette won her first
WTA 125
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In the past (2012–2015) sometimes called the WTA Challenger series2014 Ningbo International Open, and her first WTA Tour title at the 2019 Bronx Open. Her best result in
WTA Premier tournaments
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In 2020, Premier events included:
* Four "Premier Mandatory" events in In ...
is the quarterfinals of 2016 Pan Pacific Open.
Linette has reached the third round of all Grand Slam championships; her most successful in terms of winning percentage is the
French Open
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Peng Shuai
Peng Shuai (; born 8 January 1986) is a Chinese retired professional tennis player. In February 2014, she was ranked world No. 1 doubles player by the WTA, becoming the first Chinese tennis player to achieve that ranking (in either single ...
played en route to her second WTA Tour title at the Thailand Open.
Personal life
Magda Linette was born on 12 February 1992 in
Poznań
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to Tomasz Linette and Beata Linette. Her father is a tennis coach and her mother is an educator. Linette was coached by Izudin Zunić during the first half of her career, but beginning in 2018, formed a partnership with Great Britain's Mark Gellard.
Tennis career
Youth
As a youth she represented local club Grunwald Poznań with successes at junior level.
2010
In May, Linette received a wildcard to the qualifying draw of the
Warsaw Open
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, a Premier-level tournament. She beat her doubles partner
Paula Kania
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in straight sets but lost to
Anna Chakvetadze
Anna Djambuliovna Chakvetadze ( ; born 5 March 1987) is a Russian former professional tennis player.
In her career, Chakvetadze won eight WTA Tour singles titles, the biggest being the 2006 Kremlin Cup. She booked her highest singles ranking o ...
. In June, she won her first professional tournament in Szczecin as a wildcard entrant. In July, she made it to the final of the ITF Circuit tournament at Toruń but lost to top seed
Ksenia Pervak
Ksenia Yuryevna Pervak (russian: Ксения Юрьевна Первак; born 27 May 1991) is a retired tennis player from Russia.
Pervak won one singles title on the WTA Tour, as well as nine singles and three doubles titles on the ITF Circ ...
, in straight sets.
Magda Linette won another two ITF titles in August, in Hechingen and Versmold, both in Germany. In Hechingen, as a qualifier, she defeated
Sílvia Soler Espinosa
Sílvia Soler Espinosa (; born 19 November 1987) is a retired Spanish tennis player.
In her career, she has won one doubles title on the WTA Tour, as well as five singles and three doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 21 May 2012, she ...
of Spain, and in Versmold, she beat
Irina-Camelia Begu
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, in straight sets.
She continued to play $25k tournaments and won her fourth title of the season in Katowice, where she defeated
Eva Birnerová
Eva Birnerová (born 14 August 1984) is a Czech former tennis player.
In her career, she won three doubles titles on the WTA Tour, as well as eight singles and 11 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 29 January 2007, she reached her be ...
in three sets. The week after, she reached another final in Zagreb but lost to
Renata Voráčová
Renata Voráčová (; born 6 October 1983) is a Czech professional tennis player.
Voráčová has won 11 doubles titles on the WTA Tour and three on WTA 125 tournaments, as well as 15 singles and 56 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. On 11 Oc ...
in three sets, after 21 consecutive wins on the
ITF Women's Circuit
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History
It serves as a developmental ...
. She reached the final in Opole, losing to
Sandra Záhlavová
Sandra Záhlavová (born 10 October 1985) is a Czech former tennis player.
Záhlavová won 12 singles and nine doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit in her career. On 21 June 2010, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 78. On 12 ...
in three sets.
2011
In early February, Linette played for the first time as a member of Poland Fed Cup team. She defeated
Anne Kremer
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Anne completed her schooling at the Athénée de Luxe ...
in straight sets, but lost her three other matches. In May, she made her first appearance in a Grand Slam tournament, playing in the qualifying rounds.
2012
Starting the season with several early exits, Magda Linette reached her first singles final in over 18 months at the $10k event of Florence in May but lost to
Anaïs Laurendon
Anaïs Laurendon (born 15 April 1985) is a former French tennis player.
Her best WTA singles ranking is 180, which she reached on 11 October 2010. Her career-high in doubles is 246, attained on 11 July 2011.
Laurendon played her last match on ...
. She reached a $25k final in Kristinehamn a month later, defeated by
Sacha Jones
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from Australia. In Ystad, she won her first doubles title with her friend
Katarzyna Piter
Katarzyna Piter (; born 16 February 1991) is a Polish professional tennis player.
In the spring of 2014, she reached her career-high rankings, No. 95 in singles and 67 (new high in July 2022: No. 66) in doubles. She has won eight singles and 25 ...
.
She won a $10k tournament in Prague, after beating
Kateřina Siniaková
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She is a six-time Grand Slam champion in doubles, having won the 2018 and 2021 French Opens, 2018 and 2022 Wimbled ...
and Zuzana Luknárová without dropping a set, lifting her fifth singles trophy in career and the first since September 2010.
In October and November, Linette got some of her best wins of the season by beating
Eleni Daniilidou
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She is considered one of the best Greek tennis players of the Open Era, winning five singles titles and t ...
in Limoges,
Monica Puig
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in Nantes, and
Karolína Plíšková
Karolína Hrdličková ( née Plíšková; ; born 21 March 1992) is a Czech professional tennis player. She is a former world No. 1 in singles, reaching the top of the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) rankings on 17 July 2017 and holding the pos ...
in Équeurdreville. She added two more doubles titles to her prize list, including her first $50k-level trophy in Limoges with compatriot
Sandra Zaniewska
Sandra Zaniewska (born 3 January 1992) is a Polish tennis coach and former professional player.
In her career, she won ten singles tournaments as well as a further seven in doubles on the ITF Circuit, and was the runner-up of the 2009 Australi ...
. In December, she ended her season by winning another tournament in doubles with Katarzyna Piter in Ankara.
2013
Back in Europe in late March, Linette reached semifinals of the indoor hardcourt tournament in Tallinn, falling to
Aliaksandra Sasnovich
Aliaksandra Aliaksandraŭna Sasnovich ( be, Аляксандра Аляксандраўна Сасновіч; born 22 March 1994) is a Belarusian tennis player. She has won eleven singles and seven doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. She has rea ...
. At the end of the month, she lost the singles final at the $25k Civitavecchia event to
Anna Karolína Schmiedlová
Anna Karolína Schmiedlová (; born 13 September 1994) is a Slovak tennis player.
She has won three singles titles on the WTA Tour, one singles title on the WTA Challenger Tour as well as 12 singles titles on the ITF Circuit. On 12 October 201 ...
.
Getting through WTA tournament qualifying at the
Baku Cup
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, Linette made her second appearance in a main draw at this level. She defeated
Julia Cohen
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, runner-up of the previous edition, then
Kristýna Plíšková
Kristýna Plíšková (; born 21 March 1992) is an inactive Czech professional tennis player. Plíšková has won one singles and four doubles titles on the WTA Tour, as well as nine singles and eight doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. On 31 Ju ...
to reach the quarterfinals where she benefited from a controversial retirement of
Ons Jabeur
Ons Jabeur ( ar, أُنْس جَابِر, ʾUns Jābir, ; born 28 August 1994) is a Tunisian professional tennis player. She has a career high Women's Tennis Association (WTA) ranking of world No. 2 achieved on 27 June 2022. Jabeur is the curre ...
. She lost her first semifinal match on WTA Tour to
Shahar Pe'er
Shahar Pe'er ( he, שחר פאר, ; born ) is an Israeli retired tennis player.
Pe'er won five singles and three doubles titles on the WTA Tour, as well as four singles and three doubles titles on the ITF circuit in her career. She reached ...
.
Linette started to compete in successive indoor hardcourt events in France and got more success. She reached semifinals at the $50k event in Joué-lès-Tours. The week after, she won her eighth doubles title, partnering with
Viktorija Golubic
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. She competed in her first $50,000+H singles final in Nantes, falling to Aliaksandra Sasnovich. In December, she won a $25k tournament in Pune.
2014
Linette launched her grass-court season with two ITF tournaments in England but lost twice to
Anett Kontaveit
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in straight sets. She sustained an ankle injury from her first qualifying match at
Wimbledon
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* Wimbledon, London, a district of southwest London
* Wimbledon Championships, the oldest tennis tournament in the world and one of the four Grand Slam championships
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and had to stop playing for a month.
In September, she played a series of WTA events. At
Guangzhou
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, she reached her first WTA doubles final, partnering Alizé Cornet.
In late October, she won the
WTA 125
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In the past (2012–2015) sometimes called the WTA Challenger seriesNingbo International Open, defeating sixth seed Wang Qiang in the final; it was the biggest title of her career.
2015: First top-100 season
Linette won a
Grand Slam
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match for the first time when she beat compatriot
Urszula Radwańska
Urszula Radwańska (; born 7 December 1990) is a Polish professional tennis player.
Radwańska has won one doubles title on the WTA Tour, as well as seven singles and ten doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 8 October 2012, she reached ...
Agnieszka Radwańska
Agnieszka Roma Radwańska (; born 6 March 1989) is a Polish former professional tennis player. She won 20 career singles WTA Tour titles, two doubles titles, and achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 2 on 9 July 2012. Her achievem ...
. She reached the
Japan Women's Open
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final, peaking at No. 64 in the rankings.
2016–2018
Linette reached the quarterfinals at the
Katowice Open
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and the
Pan Pacific Open
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. At the end of the year, she was ranked No. 96.
Her 2017 season was highlighted by third tour-level semifinal of her career at Kuala Lumpur and the semifinals at the Malaysian Open. She appeared in her third career WTA Tour doubles final at Bogotá (with Cepede Royg), having been runner-up at 2014 Guangzhou and 2016 Hong Kong. In 2018, Linette advanced to the quarterfinals at the Taiwan Open and the
Copa Colsanitas
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A clay court is one of the types of tennis ...
in Bogotá.
2019–2020: First WTA titles and top 50
In August, Linette won the first edition of the Bronx Open, her first WTA Tour title. The following week, Linette continued at Flushing Meadows where she lost to defending champion
Naomi Osaka
is a Japanese professional tennis player. She has been ranked world No. 1 in singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) and is the first Asian player to hold the top ranking in singles. Osaka is a four-time Grand Slam singles champio ...
in the second round of the US Open. Linette cracked the top 50 for the first time in her career, after reaching the second round of the US Open.
Linette reached her third WTA Tour final at the Korea Open, losing to
Karolína Muchová
Karolína Muchová (; born 21 August 1996) is a Czech tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 19, achieved on 17 May 2021. Muchová has reached two finals on the WTA Tour, winning one title, the International-level Kore ...
.
In February, Linette won the Thailand Open, rising to a career-high ranking of No. 33. In December, she was honoured by the WTA with the Fan Favorite Shot of the Year, which she performed in round two of the Thailand Open against
Peng Shuai
Peng Shuai (; born 8 January 1986) is a Chinese retired professional tennis player. In February 2014, she was ranked world No. 1 doubles player by the WTA, becoming the first Chinese tennis player to achieve that ranking (in either single ...
.
2021: WTA semifinal, new coach, first Grand Slam doubles semifinal, two Grand Slam singles 3rd rounds
Linette started the season at the end of March due to a knee injury. In May, she advanced to her first semifinal since triumphing at the Hua Hin Championships last February. At
Strasbourg
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, she defeated
Yulia Putintseva
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in the quarterfinal before losing a three-set semifinal match against
Sorana Cîrstea
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.
On May 21, Linette posted on Instagram that she started a new coaching partnership with
Dawid Celt
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, who was previously coaching
Agnieszka Radwańska
Agnieszka Roma Radwańska (; born 6 March 1989) is a Polish former professional tennis player. She won 20 career singles WTA Tour titles, two doubles titles, and achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 2 on 9 July 2012. Her achievem ...
.
At the
French Open
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, Linette defeated
Chloé Paquet
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Career 2010–2016: WTA Tour debut
Paquet made her d ...
and No. 1 seed
Ashleigh Barty
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*Ashleigh Ball (born 1983), Canadian ...
. In the third round, she lost to
Ons Jabeur
Ons Jabeur ( ar, أُنْس جَابِر, ʾUns Jābir, ; born 28 August 1994) is a Tunisian professional tennis player. She has a career high Women's Tennis Association (WTA) ranking of world No. 2 achieved on 27 June 2022. Jabeur is the curre ...
in three sets. At the same tournament in doubles, she reached the semifinals, partnering with American
Bernarda Pera
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, for the first time in her career.
Linette continued at
Wimbledon
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* Wimbledon, London, a district of southwest London
* Wimbledon Championships, the oldest tennis tournament in the world and one of the four Grand Slam championships
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, where she defeated
Amanda Anisimova
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and No. 3 seed
Elina Svitolina
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to advance to the third round, where she lost to
Paula Badosa
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in three sets.
She lost her opening match at the US Open to
Coco Gauff
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.
2022: Second doubles title on WTA Tour
In April, Linette won two three-set matches in one day to reach the
Charleston Open
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quarterfinals, upsetting No. 7 seed
Leylah Fernandez
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in the second round in 2 hours and 36 minutes, before returning to defeat
Kaia Kanepi
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Described as a 'resident Grand Slam upset spec ...
in the third round in 2 hours and one minute. In the quarterfinal, she lost to
Ekaterina Alexandrova
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She has won three WTA singles titles, three WTA 125 titl ...
in two sets. At the same tournament in doubles, Linette won her first doubles title, partnering with
Andreja Klepač
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Career
She ha ...
.
At the
French Open
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, she defeated
Ons Jabeur
Ons Jabeur ( ar, أُنْس جَابِر, ʾUns Jābir, ; born 28 August 1994) is a Tunisian professional tennis player. She has a career high Women's Tennis Association (WTA) ranking of world No. 2 achieved on 27 June 2022. Jabeur is the curre ...
in the first round before losing to
Martina Trevisan
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in the second round. In June, Linette and
Aleksandra Krunic
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were crowned
Eastbourne International
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doubles champions.
At the
Chennai Open
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, she reached her fifth WTA Tour final, losing to
Linda Fruhvirtová
Linda Fruhvirtová (; born 1 May 2005) is a Czech professional tennis player. In February/March 2023, she achieved career-high WTA rankings of 50 in singles and 221 in doubles.
She made her WTA Tour main-draw debut at the 2020 Prague Open, ...
, in three sets.
Playing style
Linette started out as a defensive player, whose game was primarily built around her strong movement and consistent ball striking from the baseline. The Pole has, however, began finding an increasing amount of success after altering her game style away from being a
counterpuncher
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Players typically specialize or naturally play in a certain way, bas ...
, to actively creating opportunities to hit winners on the court. Ever since partnering with Mark Gellard, Linette also worked on improving the mental aspect of her game.
Her strengths on court are her speed, footwork, court coverage, and anticipation. Her strongest groundstroke is her two-handed backhand, which is hit flat and with depth, and which is responsible for many of the winners she accumulates on court. Her forehand is also strong, and is hit with topspin, making it a safe and reliable shot.
Having spent a significant time on the doubles circuit as well, Linette has developed solid volleying skills and often looks to finish points off at the net. She is capable of introducing drop shots and sliced backhands into points, constantly breaking up an opponent's rhythm, and to attempt to draw unforced errors out of aggressive players.
Linette's serve is not particularly strong, with her first serve averaging 95 mph (153 km/h) and her second serve averaging 80 mph (130 km/h), but is reliable, meaning that, whilst she does not ace frequently, double faults are also uncommon. She is a strong player on return, also, effectively neutralising strong first serves with a backhand down-the-line or a cross-court forehand.
Performance timelines
''Only main-draw results in WTA Tour, Grand Slam tournaments, Fed Cup/Billie Jean King Cup and Olympic Games are included in win–loss records.''