Magdalena Grzybowska (born 22 November 1978) is a former

Polish Polish may refer to: * Anything from or related to Poland, a country in Europe * Polish language * Poles Poles,, ; singular masculine: ''Polak'', singular feminine: ''Polka'' or Polish people, are a West Slavic nation and ethnic group, w ...

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. Grzybowska, born in

Poznań Poznań () is a city on the River Warta in west-central Poland, within the Greater Poland region. The city is an important cultural and business centre, and one of Poland's most populous regions with many regional customs such as Saint John ...

, won the juniors

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competition at one

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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

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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

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studies in Paris, and is working as a tennis TV commentator for

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, Poland.

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 6 (4–2)

Doubles: 4 (3–1)

Head-to-head record

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1–0 *

Arantxa Sánchez Vicario Aránzazu Isabel María "Arantxa" Sánchez Vicario (; born 18 December 1971) is a Spanish former List of WTA number 1 ranked singles tennis players, world No. 1 tennis player. She won 14 Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam titles: four in singles, ...

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Lindsay Davenport Lindsay Ann Davenport Leach (born June 8, 1976) is an American former professional tennis player. Davenport was ranked singles world No. 1 for a total of 98 weeks, and was the year-end singles world No. 1 four times (1998, 2001, 2004, and 2005) ...

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Monica Seles Monica Seles (; hu, Széles Mónika, ; sr, Моника Селеш, Monika Seleš; born December 2, 1973) is a retired professional tennis player who represented Yugoslavia and the United States. A former world No. 1, she won nine Grand Slam ...

0–1 * Dominique Monami 0–3

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