SIMONA HALEP

Simona Halep is a Romanian professional tennisplayer and the current Romanian No 1. . She
is currently ranked a career high No. 3 in the world. Halep first broke into the world's top 50 at
the end of 2012, and won her first 6 WTA titles in the same calendar year in 2013 being named
the WTA's Most Improved Player at its end, as well as being named ESPN Center Court's 2013.

Simona was born in the city of Constana to an Aromanian family. Her father, Stere (a
former footballer at Sgeata Stejaru playing in the lower leagues), owns a dairy products
factory.
Halep started playing tennis at the age of four, in emulation of her older brother. At age 16, she
relocated to Bucharest to further her tennis career.

2008-2009 She started the year playing in junior competitions, reaching the final in Nottinghill,
where she lost to Arantxa Rus, then defeated Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in the quarterfinals at
the Australian Open Junior Championships, before losing in the semifinal to Jessica Moore. .
First, a victory in the finals at Trofeo Bonfiglio, winning over Bojana Jovanovski in two sets.
She also started entering senior developmental ITF tournaments in the spring. Success arrived
when she won two smaller ITF $10,000 tournaments in Bucharest (1 & 3) in AprilMay,
againstElena Bogdan[13] and then against Stphanie Vongsouthi.
She continued to play on the ITF circuit the entire of 2009, while also entering qualifying for
main WTA tournaments at Paris Indoors in February and Roland Garros in May, losing in the
2nd round each time.
2010-2012. She was ranked 166 in the world as of 5 April 2010.
2014 Halep began the year at the Sydney International, where she was the number 7 seed in a
draw that contained 6 of the WTA's top 10, however was knocked out in her opening match
against up and coming American Madison Keys, her first loss since September.[47]
She then headed to Melbourne for the Australian Open, where she was the number 11 seed. In
her opening match she faced qualifier Katarzyna Piter, defeating the Pole in 54 minutes,
dropping just one game throughout the whole match.
In present Simona Halep se afla pe locul 3 mondial facandu-ne pe toti sa fim mandrii ca suntem
romani .
Simona Halep este modelul meu in viata deoarece a dat si da dovada de multa seriozitate si
multa ambitie , 2 aspecte care au condus-o pe marele podium al lumii in domeniul tenisului.