Paula Kania

Paula Kania in Wimbledon, 2014
Full name	Paula Maria Kania
Country (sports)	Poland
Residence	Sosnowiec, Poland
Born	(1992-11-06) 6 November 1992 (age 27) Sosnowiec, Poland
Height	1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Turned pro	2008
Plays	Right (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	$622,475
Singles
Career record	235-198
Career titles	5 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 128 (15 June 2015)
Current ranking	No. 685 (22 July 2019)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	Q2 (2014, 2016)
French Open	2R (2015)
Wimbledon	1R (2014, 2016)
US Open	1R (2014)
Doubles
Career record	194-150
Career titles	1 WTA, 12 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 58 (2 May 2016)
Current ranking	No. 156 (22 July 2019)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	1R (2016)
French Open	3R (2015)
Wimbledon	1R (2016, 2017)
US Open	2R (2014, 2016)
Team competitions
Fed Cup	2-5
Last updated on: 27 July 2019.

Paula Kania (Polish pronunciation: ['pau?la 'ka?a]; born 6 November 1992) is a professional Polish tennis player.

Kania has won one WTA title in doubles, as well as five titles in singles and twelve in doubles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 15 June 2015, she reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 128, and on 2 May 2016, she reached her best doubles ranking of No. 58.

Tennis career

Paula was born to Pawe? and Zdzis?awa Kania. She has one sister - Zuzanna. Paula began playing tennis at the age of seven and her favourite surface is hard court. She became a professional player in 2008.

2012

Kania and Polina Pekhova won the title on Tashkent Open defeating Anna Chakvetadze and Vesna Dolonc in the final, when their opponents retired after losing the first set 2-6. This was her first WTA title of any kind.

2014

Having qualified for her first main draw of a Grand Slam tournament at Wimbledon, Kania lost in the first round to world No. 2 Li Na in straight sets. The match was also her first singles main draw of any WTA Tour event, after participating in qualifying at 20 tournaments.^[1] Kania continued her momentum by qualifying for another main draw a month later, at the Bank of the West Classic.

WTA career finals

Doubles: 6 (1 title, 5 runner-ups)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Winner	1.	15 September 2012	Tashkent Open, Uzbekistan	Hard	Polina Pekhova	Anna Chakvetadze Vesna Dolonc	6-2, ret.
Runner-up	1.	20 July 2014	?stanbul Cup, Turkey	Hard	Oksana Kalashnikova	Misaki Doi Elina Svitolina	4-6, 0-6
Runner-up	2.	3 August 2014	Bank of the West Classic, Stanford	Hard	Kate?ina Siniaková	Garbiñe Muguruza Carla Suárez Navarro	2-6, 6-4, [5-10]
Runner-up	3.	31 July 2015	Brasil Tennis Cup, Florianópolis	Clay	María Irigoyen	Annika Beck Laura Siegemund	3-6, 6-7(1-7)
Runner-up	4.	20 September 2015	Coupe Banque Nationale, Quebec City	Hard (i)	María Irigoyen	Barbora Krej?íková An-Sophie Mestach	6-4, 3-6, [10-12]
Runner-up	5.	29 April 2016	J&T Banka Prague Open, Czech Republic	Clay	María Irigoyen	Margarita Gasparyan Andrea Hlavá?ková	4-6, 2-6

ITF finals

Singles (5-3)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Winner	1.	30 August 2010	Gliwice, Poland	Clay	Anna Korzeniak	7-6(7-2), 3-6, 7-5
Runner-up	1.	14 March 2011	Amiens, France	Clay	Nastassja Burnett	6-2, 1-6, 4-6
Winner	2.	18 July 2011	Horb, Germany	Clay	Carina Witthöft	4-6, 6-4, 7-5
Runner-up	2.	7 November 2011	Opole, Poland	Carpet (i)	Ana Vrlji?	3-6, 6-2, 6-7(4-7)
Runner-up	3.	8 July 2012	Toru?, Poland	Clay	Danka Kovini?	3-6, 6-4, 3-6
Winner	3.	7 July 2013	Toru?, Poland	Clay	Katarzyna Piter	6-4, 6-4
Winner	4.	2 November 2013	Taipei, Taiwan	Clay	Zarina Diyas	6-1, 6-3
Winner	5.	10 August 2014	Landisville, United States	Hard	Ons Jabeur	5-7, 6-3, 6-4

Doubles (12-14)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Winner	1.	12 July 2010	Pieany, Slovakia	Clay	Weronika Domaga?a	Gabriela Horá?ková Petra Krejsová	6-1, 6-1
Runner-up	1.	27 September 2010	Tbilisi, Georgia	Clay	Zsófia Susányi	Tatia Mikadze Sofia Shapatava	3-6, 2-6
Runner-up	2.	8 November 2010	Minsk, Belarus	Hard	Katarzyna Piter	Elena Bovina Ekaterina Bychkova	4-6, 0-6
Runner-up	3.	15 November 2010	Opole, Poland	Carpet (i)	Magda Linette	Oksana Kalashnikova Polina Pekhova	3-6, 4-6
Runner-up	4.	24 January 2011	Kaarst, Germany	Carpet (i)	Marina Melnikova	Nikola Fra?ková Tereza Hladíková	6-3, 6-7(1-7), [8-10]
Winner	2.	14 March 2011	Amiens, France	Clay	Barbara Sobaszkiewicz	Iveta Gerlová Lucie Kriegsmannová	3-6, 6-4, [10-6]
Winner	3.	18 July 2011	Horb, Germany	Clay	Katarzyna Kawa	Vaszilisza Bulgakova Christina Shakovets	1-6, 6-3, [10-2]
Runner-up	5.	15 August 2011	Pieany, Slovakia	Clay	Martina Kubi?íková	Simona Dobrá Lucie Kriegsmannová	4-6, 2-6
Runner-up	6.	7 November 2011	Opole, Poland	Carpet (i)	Magda Linette	Naomi Broady Kristina Mladenovic	6-7(5-7), 4-6
Winner	4.	16 January 2012	Stuttgart, Germany	Hard	Ksenia Lykina	Lyudmyla Kichenok Nadiya Kichenok	6-4, 6-3
Winner	5.	5 March 2012	Fort Walton Beach, United States	Hard	Madison Brengle	Elena Bovina Alizé Lim	6-3, 6-4
Runner-up	7.	16 April 2012	Namangan, Uzbekistan	Hard	Naomi Broady	Oksana Kalashnikova Marta Sirotkina	6-2, 7-5
Winner	6.	30 April 2012	Moscow, Russia	Hard	Polina Pekhova	Tatiana Kotelnikova Lidziya Marozava	6-4, 3-6, [10-7]
Runner-up	8.	11 June 2012	Craiova, Romania	Clay	Irina Khromacheva	Renata Vorá?ová Lenka Wienerová	2-6, 6-3, [10-6]
Winner	7.	15 October 2012	Seville, Spain	Clay	Katarzyna Piter	Aleksandrina Naydenova Teliana Pereira	5-7, 6-4, [10-6]
Runner-up	9.	29 April 2013	Civitavecchia, Italy	Clay	Magda Linette	Stephanie Vogt Renata Vorá?ová	3-6, 4-6
Winner	8.	27 May 2013	Maribor, Slovenia	Clay	Magda Linette	Mailen Auroux María Irigoyen	6-3, 6-0
Winner	9.	10 June 2013	Padua, Italy	Clay	Irina Khromacheva	Cristina Dinu Ma?a Zec Pe?kiri?	6-3, 6-1
Runner-up	10.	24 June 2013	Zlín, Czech Republic	Clay	Katarzyna Piter	Martina Borecká Tereza Smitková	1-6, 7-5, [8-10]
Winner	10.	6 July 2013	Toru?, Poland	Clay	Magda Linette	Yuliya Beygelzimer Elena Bogdan	6-2, 4-6, [10-5]
Winner	11.	25 October 2013	Casablanca, Morocco	Clay	Valeria Solovyeva	Cecilia Costa Melgar Anastasia Grymalska	7-6(7-3), 6-4
Winner	12.	4 May 2015	Tunis, Tunisia	Clay	Maria Irigoyen	Julie Coin Stephanie Foretz	6-1, 6-3
Runner-up	11.	18 December 2015	Ankara, Turkey	Hard (i)	Lesley Kerkhove	Marina Melnikova María José Martínez Sánchez	4-6, 7-5, [8-10]
Runner-up	12.	15 January 2017	Daytona Beach United States	Clay	Katarzyna Piter	Robin Anderson Anhelina Kalinina	4-6, 1-6
Runner-up	13.	21 January 2017	Orlando, United States	Clay	Katarzyna Piter	Sophie Chang Madeleine Kobelt	3-6, 6-3, [6-10]
Runner-up	14.	24 June 2017	Ilkley, Great Britain	Grass	Maryna Zanevska	Anna Blinkova Alla Kudryavtseva	1-6, 4-6

Grand Slam singles performance timeline

References

External links

• Paula Kania at the Women's Tennis Association
• template ITF profile is being considered for merging.> Paula Kania at the International Tennis Federation
• Paula Kania at the Fed Cup