Magdalena Grzybowska (born 22 November 1978) is a former
Polish
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tennis player
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.
Grzybowska, born in
Poznań
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, won the juniors
singles
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competition at one
Grand Slam
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tournament, the
1996 Australian Open.
She also competed for Poland in the
1996 Olympics in Atlanta, where she lost in the first round.
Since then, until her knee injury in 1998, she managed a rather successful career, culminating in the 30th position in the cumulative
WTA rankings
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for that year, the highest ever standing for a Polish woman, until
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 ...
.
Her attempts to resume competition were ultimately unsuccessful and she retired in 2002, at the age of 24.
Playing for
Poland Fed Cup team, she has a win–loss record of 8–10.
After having retired from tennis, she completed her
university
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studies in Paris, and is working as a tennis
TV commentator for
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in
Warsaw
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, Poland.
ITF Circuit finals
Singles: 6 (4–2)
Doubles: 4 (3–1)
Head-to-head record
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Venus Williams
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1–0
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Arantxa Sánchez Vicario
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0–1
*
Lindsay Davenport
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0–1
*
Monica Seles
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0–1
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Dominique Monami 0–3
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1978 births
Living people
Polish female tennis players
Olympic tennis players of Poland
Tennis players at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Poznań
Grand Slam (tennis) champions in girls' singles
Australian Open (tennis) junior champions
20th-century Polish women
21st-century Polish women
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