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Agnieszka Radwańska
Born: 6 March 1989 in Cracow
Agnieszka Radwańska is a professional tennis player from Poland. She is the first Polish female tennis player who won a WTA title in singles. She is the older sister of another professional tennis player, Urszula Radwańska.
She has won eighteen career singles titles*, and is nicknamed "The Professor" among fellow players. She is the first Polish player to reach a WTA Grand Slam singles final (the 2012 Wimbledon Championships), the first Pole to win the WTA Finals (in 2015), the first Pole to claim a WTA singles title (the 2007 Nordea Nordic Light Open), and was part of the first Polish double team to win the Hopman Cup tournament. In addition, she won the WTA Award for Most Impressive Newcomer in 2006. Radwańska has been voted the WTA's Fan Favorite Singles Player for five consecutive years (2011–2015). In 2013 she was awarded the Gold Cross of Merit by Polish President Bronisław Komorowski. According to Forbes in 2012 she was the ninth highest-earning female athlete in the world.
* Last update January 28,2016
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