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Samantha Stosur Biography
Samantha first played professional tennis in 1999 on the ITF circuit. In 2000 she debuted on the Women's Tennis Association tour where she lost in the first round of Australian Open qualifying to Louise Latimer. In 2001 she won four straight ITF titles (three in Japan and one in Australia). In 2002 she lost to Anastasia Myskina at the first round at the Gold Coast event; she was also given a Wildcard into the Australian Open where she lost in three sets to Greta Arn. For the rest of the 2002 season, Samantha played on the ITF Circuit.

In 2003 Samantha won her first WTA singles match on home soil where she reached the third round of the Australian Open, beating Conchita Martinez and Vanessa Webb in the first and second round respectively. She lost in the third round to Daniela HantuchovÃ¡ with a scoreline of 6-4 6-2. Samantha qualified for a WTA event in Memphis. She played more ITF events and failed to qualify for Roland Garros losing in the first qualifying round to Wynne Prakusya. She was given a Wildcard into Wimbledon, meeting Lindsay Davenport in the first round where she lost 7-6 7-5.

In 2004 she reached the semi-final of the Gold Coast event, beating Meghann Shaughnessy, Karolina Å prem and Magui Serna along the way, before falling to Ai Sugiyama, who would go on to win the tournament. The next week she reached the second round of the WTA tournament in Hobart and then the second round of the Australian Open, losing to Aniko Kapros. She later successfully qualified for WTA events in Acapulco, Indian Wells, Vienna and Birmingham. She lost in the first round of Roland Garros and Wimbledon. She competed at the Athens Olympics where she lost in the first round of the tennis competition to Chanda Rubin. She continued to play WTA qualifying events, successfully qualifying for the Japan Open and Bali in the autumn of 2004.

In 2005 she reached her first WTA tour final at the Gold Coast event, losing to Patty Schnyder; the next week she made her second final at Sydney losing to Alicia Molik. She met AmÃ©lie Mauresmo in the first round of the Australian Open, losing 6-2 6-3. However, she won the mixed doubles title with fellow Australian Scott Draper. In 2005 she won seven WTA doubles titles with her partners Bryanne Stewart (Sydney and Amelia Island) and Lisa Raymond (New Haven, US Open, Luxembourg, Moscow, Year Ending Championships).
Samantha finished the year ranked #96 in singles and #2 in doubles.
In 2006 she represented Australia along with Todd Reid at the Hopman Cup and won all her singles matches. Then she lost in the first round of Sydney to Nicole VaidiÅ¡ovÃ¡ in three sets.

During the 2006 Australian Open, she made it to the fourth round, the highest round she has made it to ever in a Grand Slam event. She beat Sybille Bammer in the third round of Austria in three sets 7-5 4-6 6-3, then went on to lose to Martina Hingis 6-1 7-6 (8) in the round of sixteen. She previously had beaten Severine Beltrame and Ana Ivanovic in the first and second rounds.
In February, 2006, Samantha reached the quarter finals at the Tier I event in Tokyo, beating Aiko Nakamura and Daniela Hantuchova before falling to Maria Sharapova.

Seeded fifth in the WTA event in Memphis, USA, Samantha lost in the first round to American Ashley Harkleroad.

In Indian Wells in March, 2006, she reached the second round, beating Yulina Fedak in round one, before falling to Russia's Dinara Safina. In Miami, Samantha beat Dutch star Brenda Schaltz-McCarthy, before losing again to AmÃ©lie Mauresmo.
In April 2006, Stosur crashed out in round one of Charleston to rising Czech teenager Lucie Safarova.

In May 2006, Stosur who was the 5th seed, made the final in Prague but lost to 3rd seed Shahar Peer 6-4 2-6 1-6. In the matches before the final she beat 4th seed Emile Loit and 7th seed Shuai Peng both in straight sets. This was her 3rd WTA final.

At the Los Angeles Open in August 2006, Stosur has defeated Lindsay Davenport 6-7 (4), 6-4, 6-3 on the second round for the first time in their 4 meetings career. On the 28th of August 2006, and after reaching the semifinals at New Haven, Stosur achieved a career high ranking of number 30.

At the ZÃ¼rich Open in October 2006, Stosur pushed AmÃ©lie Mauresmo to a first set tiebreak, but lost 6-7 (4) 3-6 in the 2nd round.

Stosur finished off the year winning the doubles Sony Championships title in Madrid with Lisa Raymond, ended the year ranked number 1 in doubles and a career high 29 in singles.

Stosur started 2007 by competing in her home city tournament, Sam reached the quarters of the singles before losing a hard fought match to eventual champion Dinara Safina. Stosur's Australian open warm up tournament was at Medibank International at sydney where she defeated Vera Zvonareva in the first round (she had never previously beaten) then lost in the second round the very in form Serb Jelena Jankovic. Her Australian Open campaign was brought to an end by Croatian Jelena Kostanić ToÅ¡ić, going down 4-6 6-2 2-6.

In Tokyo, Stosur reached the quarters, beating Li Na and Vera Zvonareva, eventually losing to eventual champion Martina Hingis 6-0 6-1. In the doubles, Stosur and Lisa Raymond won title in 3 sets over Vania King and Rennae Stubbs.
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