159 Facts About Agnieszka Radwanska

Agnieszka Roma Radwanska is a Polish former professional tennis player.

Agnieszka Radwanska won 20 career singles titles, two doubles titles, and achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No 2 on 9 July 2012.

Agnieszka Radwanska's achievements include winning the season-ending WTA Finals in 2015, Women's Tennis Association Fan Favourite Award six times, Shot of the Year five times, and Shot of the Month on a regular basis.

Agnieszka Radwanska is the first Polish player in the Open Era to reach a Grand Slam singles final, the first Pole to win the WTA Finals, the first Pole to claim a WTA singles title, and was one half of the first Polish team to win the Hopman Cup tournament.

Agnieszka Radwanska's accomplishments have only recently been overtaken by compatriot Iga Swiatek starting with Swiatek's first grand slam singles title win at the 2020 French Open.

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Agnieszka Radwanska was voted the WTA's Fan Favorite Singles Player for six consecutive years, the most of any player, in polls held by WTATennis.

Agnieszka Radwanska won WTA's Fan Favorite Shot of the Year for five consecutive years.

On 14 November 2018, Agnieszka Radwanska announced her retirement from professional tennis at the age of 29.

Agnieszka Radwanska is a practising Roman Catholic, and she took part in the Catholic campaign in her native country "".

Agnieszka Radwanska released a video for the campaign in which she urged her fans to "not be ashamed of believing" and arranged her tennis balls so they would read "JEZUS".

In 2016, Agnieszka Radwanska got engaged to Dawid Celt, a former Polish tennis player, her hitting partner, and current coach of Top 50 player Magda Linette.

In March 2019, Agnieszka Radwanska partnered with Italian professional dancer Stefano Terrazzino to participate in the next edition of Dancing with the Stars: Taniec z gwiazdami.

In January 2020, Agnieszka Radwanska announced that she was pregnant with her first child.

Agnieszka Radwanska won the junior singles title at Wimbledon in 2005, defeating Tamira Paszek.

Agnieszka Radwanska went on to win the French Open junior title in 2006 with a victory over Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova.

Agnieszka Radwanska went on to drop a second-round match to Tatiana Golovin at the US Open.

At the Fortis Championships Luxembourg tournament, Agnieszka Radwanska lost in the semifinals to Francesca Schiavone after defeating former world No 1, Venus Williams, in the second round, and Dementieva in the quarterfinals.

Agnieszka Radwanska participated at the 2007 Australian Open, where she lost to Ana Ivanovic in the second round.

At the Sony Ericsson Open, Agnieszka Radwanska defeated her longtime idol, Martina Hingis, in a three-set third-round match.

Agnieszka Radwanska exited in the fourth round following a loss to Tathiana Garbin.

Agnieszka Radwanska went on to defeat defending champion Maria Sharapova in the third round of the US Open, before losing to Israeli Shahar Pe'er in the fourth round.

Agnieszka Radwanska reached the quarterfinals of the 2008 Australian Open, upsetting world No 2 Svetlana Kuznetsova in the third round, then following it up with a defeat of 14th seeded Nadia Petrova before eventually falling to Daniela Hantuchova.

At the Thailand Open, Agnieszka Radwanska won her second WTA singles title, beating Jill Craybas in the final.

At the Qatar Ladies Open, Agnieszka Radwanska reached the semifinals, losing to eventual champion Maria Sharapova.

Agnieszka Radwanska went on to reach the fourth round of the US Open, losing to Venus Williams.

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Agnieszka Radwanska later went to the Tour Championships as an alternate and replaced Ana Ivanovic after the latter withdrew.

Agnieszka Radwanska ended the year as the first Polish woman to surpass in career prize money, as well as the first to be ranked world No 10.

Agnieszka Radwanska reached the quarterfinals of the Sydney International, losing in three sets to eventual champion Elena Dementieva.

Agnieszka Radwanska was defeated in the first round of the Australian Open by Kateryna Bondarenko.

Agnieszka Radwanska reached her first semifinal of the 2009 season in Tokyo, where she fell in three sets to eventual champion Maria Sharapova.

Agnieszka Radwanska reached her first final of the year in China, losing in straight sets to Svetlana Kuznetsova.

In Indian Wells, Agnieszka Radwanska won her fifth straight match against Marion Bartoli, and went on to upset Elena Dementieva in the quarterfinals before losing to Caroline Wozniacki in the semifinals.

Agnieszka Radwanska entered the 2010 Sony Ericsson Open, where she was defeated in the quarterfinals by Venus Williams.

Agnieszka Radwanska reached the final of the Southern California Open in San Diego, falling to Svetlana Kuznetsova.

Agnieszka Radwanska reached the quarterfinals of the Australian Open, losing to eventual champion Kim Clijsters.

Agnieszka Radwanska went on to reach the fourth round in Indian Wells, where she lost to Victoria Azarenka, and the quarterfinals in Miami, losing to Vera Zvonareva.

Agnieszka Radwanska went on to reach the fourth round of the French Open, losing to Maria Sharapova.

Agnieszka Radwanska suffered her earliest ever exit at Wimbledon, when she was defeated in the second round by Czech qualifier Petra Cetkovska.

Agnieszka Radwanska went on to lose a three-set semifinal match against Samantha Stosur.

Agnieszka Radwanska avenged this loss at the Toray Pan Pacific Open, defeating Kerber in three sets before advancing to the final, where she won her third straight match against Vera Zvonareva, earning her first Premier 5 title.

Agnieszka Radwanska dropped a three-set opening match to Caroline Wozniacki.

Agnieszka Radwanska won the championship without losing a set throughout the tournament.

Agnieszka Radwanska then entered the Madrid Open, where she lost to Azarenka in the semifinals, securing the world No 3 ranking.

Agnieszka Radwanska reached her first career Grand Slam final at Wimbledon.

Agnieszka Radwanska defeated Maria Kirilenko in the quarterfinals and Angelique Kerber in the semifinals, losing the championship match to Serena Williams in three sets.

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Agnieszka Radwanska was the flag bearer for Poland in the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Agnieszka Radwanska was defeated in the fourth round of the US Open by Roberta Vinci.

Agnieszka Radwanska again reached the final of the Toray Pan Pacific Open, losing in three sets to Nadia Petrova.

Agnieszka Radwanska exited the China Open following a quarterfinal loss to Li Na.

Agnieszka Radwanska won her opening round-robin match at the WTA Championships, defeating the defending champion Petra Kvitova in straight sets.

Agnieszka Radwanska then defeated Williams in straight sets during an exhibition in Toronto.

Agnieszka Radwanska won her second straight tournament of 2013 at the Sydney International, where she defeated Dominika Cibulkova without losing a game.

Agnieszka Radwanska reached the quarterfinals of the Australian Open, exiting the tournament following a loss to Li Na.

Agnieszka Radwanska went on to play the Qatar Total Open where she was eliminated in the semifinals by then-world No 1 Victoria Azarenka, the eventual champion.

Agnieszka Radwanska reached the quarterfinals in Dubai, where she lost to Petra Kvitova.

Agnieszka Radwanska then entered the Sony Open as the defending champion.

Agnieszka Radwanska exited the tournament with a loss to Serena Williams in the semifinals.

Agnieszka Radwanska beat Li Na in the quarterfinals of Wimbledon but lost her semifinal match to Sabine Lisicki.

Agnieszka Radwanska was later awarded the Gold Cross of Merit by Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski.

Agnieszka Radwanska then beat Varvara Lepchenko, as well as Jamie Hampton, losing to Dominika Cibulkova in the final.

In September, Agnieszka Radwanska defeated Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova to win the KDB Korea Open, her third singles title of 2013.

Agnieszka Radwanska was eliminated from the WTA Championships in the round robin stage, exiting with a loss to Angelique Kerber.

Agnieszka Radwanska began the 2014 season by representing Poland at the Hopman Cup, where she competed alongside her compatriot, Grzegorz Panfil.

Agnieszka Radwanska defeated Victoria Azarenka to reach her first Australian Open semifinal, but lost to Dominika Cibulkova.

Agnieszka Radwanska reached the semifinal of the Qatar Total Open in Doha, losing to eventual champion Simona Halep.

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Agnieszka Radwanska avenged her loss Halep in the semifinal of the Indian Wells Masters, reaching the final for the first time in her career.

Agnieszka Radwanska was in tears while apologizing to the crowd afterward, saying she was unable to run.

Agnieszka Radwanska reached the quarterfinals of the Porsche Grand Prix in Stuttgart and the semifinals of the Madrid Open, losing both matches to Maria Sharapova.

At the Rogers Cup in Montreal, Agnieszka Radwanska defeated Barbora Zahlavova-Strycova, Sabine Lisicki, Victoria Azarenka and Ekaterina Makarova to reach the final, where she defeated Venus Williams to win her first title of the season and the first Canadian Open of her career.

At the US Open, Agnieszka Radwanska beat Sharon Finchman in the first round but lost in straight sets to Peng Shuai in the next round.

Agnieszka Radwanska then faced Varvara Lepchenko in the quarterfinals but could not avenge her loss to Lepchenko at Stanford earlier, losing in three sets again.

Agnieszka Radwanska then lost to Caroline Garcia in the second round at Wuhan Open.

Agnieszka Radwanska defeated Petra Kvitova in her opening round-robin group match but lost close matches to Maria Sharapova and Caroline Wozniacki.

Agnieszka Radwanska started 2015 by teaming with Jerzy Janowicz to win the Hopman Cup, Poland's first title in the event.

Agnieszka Radwanska competed in Sydney, where she defeated Alize Cornet but lost to Garbine Muguruza in the second round.

Agnieszka Radwanska reached the fourth round of Australian Open, where she lost to Venus Williams for the first time since 2010, in three sets.

Agnieszka Radwanska then progressed to Indian Wells where she lost in the third round to Heather Watson.

At the Madrid Open, Agnieszka Radwanska defeated Lara Arruabarrena and Casey Dellacqua before losing to Caroline Wozniacki in the third round.

Agnieszka Radwanska then started her Wimbledon campaign just three days after her final at Eastbourne.

Agnieszka Radwanska then defeated Jelena Jankovic and Madison Keys to advance to the semifinals where she faced Garbine Muguruza.

Agnieszka Radwanska began her summer hard court season at the Bank of the West Classic, where she lost a tight three-set match to Angelique Kerber in the quarterfinals.

At the Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo Agnieszka Radwanska defeated Coco Vandeweghe, Elina Svitolina, Karolina Pliskova, Dominika Cibulkova and Belinda Bencic to win her first title of the season.

Agnieszka Radwanska took the Toray Pan-Pacific in 2011, and is the first player to have won the event twice since it moved outdoors, and onto a hard court, in 2008.

Only 36 hours after her win in Tokyo Agnieszka Radwanska competed at the Wuhan Open tournament in China where she lost to Venus Williams for a third time this season.

Agnieszka Radwanska continued at the Tianjin Open, where she defeated Olga Savchuk, Wang Qiang, Elizaveta Kulichkova, Karolina Pliskova and Danka Kovinic to win her second title of the year and 16th of her career.

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At the WTA Finals, Agnieszka Radwanska was drawn into the Red Group alongside Simona Halep, Maria Sharapova and Flavia Pennetta.

Agnieszka Radwanska lost her first round robin match to Maria Sharapova in three sets.

Agnieszka Radwanska defeated Petra Kvitova in three sets and claimed her first WTA Finals title.

Agnieszka Radwanska became the fourth player since the re-introduction of the round robin format in 2003 to advance to the final after losing two matches, and the first to win the title.

Agnieszka Radwanska began her season at the Shenzhen Open, where she defeated Aleksandra Krunic, Zhang Shuai, Wang Qiang, Anna-Lena Friedsam and Alison Riske, to win her 18th WTA Title.

Agnieszka Radwanska lost to Carla Suarez Navarro in two sets, but moved up to world No 3.

Agnieszka Radwanska lost a tight match with a second-set tiebreaker to Serena Williams in the semifinals.

At her first tournament of the clay season, the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix, top-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska defeated Andrea Petkovic and Karolina Pliskova for the seventh and sixth time respectively.

At Roland Garros, second-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska defeated Bojana Jovanovski, Caroline Garcia and Barbora Strycova before losing to Tsvetana Pironkova.

Agnieszka Radwanska led the encounter prior to the resumption of the match in the rain.

Agnieszka Radwanska was awarded a wildcard entry into the Birmingham Classic, which opened the grass-court season.

Agnieszka Radwanska beat Eugenie Bouchard to reach her first quarterfinal on grass courts this season.

Agnieszka Radwanska defeated Kateryna Kozlova in the first round, followed by a three-set thriller against Ana Konjuh and then comfortably beating Katerina Siniakova in the third round.

Agnieszka Radwanska found herself on the losing end of a tight three-set match against Dominika Cibulkova, which lasted almost three hours.

At the start of the summer hard-court season Agnieszka Radwanska pulled out of the Bank of the West Classic, due to an injured right hand.

Agnieszka Radwanska caught an injury to her right hand during the marathon third set in the fourth round of the Wimbledon Championships against Cibulkova.

Agnieszka Radwanska lost to last year's Cincinnati runner-up Simona Halep.

Top-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska defeated Jelena Ostapenko, Kirsten Flipkens and two-time defending champion Petra Kvitova to move into the final.

Agnieszka Radwanska started the Asian leg of the WTA calendar with the Pan Pacific Open tournament in Tokyo.

At Wuhan Open third-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska defeated Ekaterina Makarova to set up a rematch with Caroline Wozniacki.

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Agnieszka Radwanska continued at the China Open, the fourth and last Premier Mandatory stop of the season.

Agnieszka Radwanska is just the fourth player to own three or more Premier Mandatory trophies, along with Serena Williams, Victoria Azarenka, and Maria Sharapova.

Agnieszka Radwanska beat Tatjana Maria and Evgeniya Rodina in straight sets, but withdrew from her QF match with right-thigh injury.

Agnieszka Radwanska returned to Singapore for the sixth consecutive year, the longest active streak on the tour.

At the WTA Finals Agnieszka Radwanska was drawn into the White Group alongside Karolina Pliskova, Garbine Muguruza and Svetlana Kuznetsova.

Agnieszka Radwanska took top honors with her hot shot against Monica Niculescu at the Indian Wells Masters Tournament.

Agnieszka Radwanska began the year at the Shenzhen Open as the top seed and defending champion, where she reached the quarterfinal before losing to Alison Riske.

Agnieszka Radwanska lost in straight sets to Ekaterina Makarova in the first round.

Agnieszka Radwanska later withdrew from her forthcoming tournaments in Madrid and Rome, citing a foot injury.

Agnieszka Radwanska had won seven of their eight previous matches, including the only one on clay - at the French Open nine years ago - but this time lost to Cornet in two sets.

Agnieszka Radwanska withdrew from the Ricoh Open and Birmingham Classic due to a viral illness.

Agnieszka Radwanska came into the Eastbourne International as the No 9 seed but fell to Lauren Davis.

Agnieszka Radwanska then started her Wimbledon Championships campaign where she defeated Jelena Jankovic, Christina McHale and Timea Bacsinszky before falling to Svetlana Kuznetsova in the fourth round.

Agnieszka Radwanska began her summer hard-court season at the Rogers Cup in Toronto, Canada, where she defeated CoCo Vandeweghe and Timea Babos before falling to Caroline Wozniacki in the third round.

Agnieszka Radwanska defeated Petra Martic and Yulia Putintseva in straight sets to advance to the third round.

Agnieszka Radwanska was forced out of the Pan Pacific Open tournament in Tokyo due to a bout of flu.

Agnieszka Radwanska defeated Julia Gorges in the second round, claiming her 500th main draw victory on the WTA.

Agnieszka Radwanska began her title defense at the China Open with two straight-sets victories over Carina Witthoft and Zhang Shuai before falling to Daria Kasatkina in a third-round three set meeting.

Agnieszka Radwanska ended her season ranked 28th, her worst since 2005, following a second round defeat in Hong Kong to Samantha Stosur.

Agnieszka Radwanska turned defense to offense in a stunning way to thwart a would-be winner from Julia Gorges during their match at Wuhan Open.

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Agnieszka Radwanska began the year at the Auckland Open where as the fourth seed, she defeated Beatriz Haddad Maia and Taylor Townsend but lost to qualifier Sachia Vickery in the quarterfinal.

Agnieszka Radwanska then competed at the Sydney International, overpowering the defending champion Johanna Konta and Catherine Bellis to advance to the quarterfinal, where she lost to Camila Giorgi.

Agnieszka Radwanska reached the third round, after defeating Kristyna Pliskova and Lesia Tsurenko, but lost to Hsieh Su-wei, who beat Garbine Muguruza in the second round.

Agnieszka Radwanska made it three three-set victories in a row over Mona Barthel to make a winning start to her Qatar Open campaign.

Agnieszka Radwanska ultimately needed 10 match points, but avoided the tiebreak and finally closed out the match after two hours and 26 minutes.

At Dubai, Agnieszka Radwanska lost to eventual finalist Daria Kasatkina in the opening round.

At the Miami Open, Agnieszka Radwanska made a promising start, defeating world No 1, Simona Halep, in three sets.

Agnieszka Radwanska extended her great record in Miami, too; reaching the round of 16 or better in ten of her 12 appearances.

Agnieszka Radwanska ended her run in Miami with a loss to Victoria Azarenka in the fourth round.

Agnieszka Radwanska opened her clay-court season in Istanbul where she retired in the first-round match to Donna Vekic.

Agnieszka Radwanska made a winning return from injury against Timea Babos in the first round of the Nature Valley International.

Agnieszka Radwanska progressed to the second round of the Korea Open thanks to a two set victory over Bethanie Mattek-Sands.

Agnieszka Radwanska participated in the Fed Cup from 2006 to the present.

Agnieszka Radwanska played a total of 48 Fed Cup matches with 41 wins and 7 losses.

Agnieszka Radwanska first scored a win against Wozniacki in July 2007 at the Nordic Light Open in Stockholm.

Agnieszka Radwanska defeated Wozniacki at the Sydney International, Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo, and tournaments in Doha, Wuhan and Beijing.

Agnieszka Radwanska had a rivalry with Russian player Vera Zvonareva, which began in 2007.

Zvonareva was considered the more powerful of the two, while Agnieszka Radwanska was noted as more focused at times, utilizing what Sports Illustrated's Courtney Nguyen dubbed "selective aggression" during the pair's 2011 matches.

Agnieszka Radwanska won the three of their four matches on grass and their only meeting on clay.

Agnieszka Radwanska lost their first three meetings, but in the four meetings that eventuated in 2008, she would win three of them, including in the third round of the Australian Open and in the fourth round of Wimbledon.

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Agnieszka Radwanska lost to Kuznetsova in the two finals in which they met, first at Beijing in 2009 and then at San Diego in 2010.

In 2015, Agnieszka Radwanska lost to Kuznetsova again in the opening match of Fed Cup tie between Russia and Poland.

Agnieszka Radwanska's game is founded on variety, mobility, and a tendency to anticipate her opponent's actions.

Agnieszka Radwanska often uses this style to construct rallies—either opening the court up for a winner, or prompting a surprised opponent to hit a misplaced return.

Agnieszka Radwanska makes use of a disguised drop shot, often swung with the same motion as a normal stroke during a rally.

Agnieszka Radwanska is noted for her crouching shots, during which she quickly drops in place to return or redirect a low ball, along with her use of an overhead backhand while on defense.

Agnieszka Radwanska's serve, especially her second serve, is generally slow and vulnerable to attack.

Agnieszka Radwanska says she can play with any racket and likes to use one for an entire match, unlike most players, who routinely grab frames with fresh strings.

Agnieszka Radwanska played with the Babolat Pure Drive Lite racquets until the end of the 2016 season.

At the start of the 2017 season, beginning with the Shenzhen Open tournament, Agnieszka Radwanska started playing with a new tennis racket, made by the Japanese manufacturer, Srixon.

Agnieszka Radwanska began her tennis career with her father, Robert Radwanski, as her coach.

In 2011, Agnieszka Radwanska began working with Fed Cup coach Tomasz Wiktorowski, who replaced her father.

Agnieszka Radwanska hired Martina Navratilova as part of her team at the conclusion of the 2014 season.

On 23 July 2022 Agnieszka Radwanska participated in a charity tennis event in Krakow, Poland, organised by Iga Swiatek to raise funds for children and teenagers impacted by the war in Ukraine.