Anikó Kapros (born 11 November 1983) is a former professional
tennis
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player from
Hungary
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. She won the junior's singles title at the
Australian Open
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in 2000.
Kapros caused an upset at the
2002 French Open, when she, as a qualifier, beat fifth seeded
Justine Henin-Hardenne in the first round.
Career
Early life
Her mother,
Anikó Kéry, won a bronze medal in
gymnastics at the Olympic Games in Munich 1972. When Kapros was two years old, she moved to the
Bahamas
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where her parents worked as acrobats. She returned to Hungary at the age of nine.
Professional career
In the
2002 French Open, as a qualifier, she upset future four-time French Open champion
Justine Henin
Justine Henin (; born 1 June 1982) is a Belgian former professional tennis player. She was ranked as the List of WTA number 1 ranked singles tennis players, world No. 1 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for 117 weeks, i ...
in the first round, 4–6, 6–1, 6–0. Kapros' senior career has been marred by recurring knee injuries. Her biggest success at a WTA tournament came in September 2003 when she reached the final of the Japan Open in Tokyo, where she lost to
Maria Sharapova
Maria Yuryevna Sharapova (, ; born 19 April 1987) is a Russian former professional tennis player. She was ranked as the world No. 1 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for 21 weeks. Sharapova won 36 WTA Tour-level sin ...
.
Her highest ranking in singles was world No. 44. Kapros was part of the Hungarian Olympics team in Athens in the year of 2004.
Retired in 2010 from professional tour, she is now the head coach and club director at Patak Party Tenisz Club in Budapest. Kapros is also the co-founder (partnering with Ágnes Szavay and Zsófia Gubacsi) of "Happy Tennis" - a company offering a special tennis program for schools and kindergartens in Hungary.
WTA Tour finals
Singles: 1 (runner-up)
ITF Circuit finals
Singles (2–5)
Doubles (4–0)
Best Grand Slam results details
Singles
Doubles
External links
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1983 births
Living people
Hungarian female tennis players
Olympic tennis players for Hungary
Tennis players at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Tennis players from Budapest
Grand Slam (tennis) champions in girls' singles
Grand Slam (tennis) champions in girls' doubles
Australian Open (tennis) junior champions
21st-century Hungarian sportswomen
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