Sony Ericsson WTA Tour

JANUARY - Fell 1r at Brisbane (as No.4 seed, l. to Errani in 3s); reached 2r at Sydney (l. to No.6 seed A.Radwanska); reached 3r at Australian Open (as No.19 seed, l. to No.15 seed Cornet in 3s).

FEBRUARY - Went 1-0 in Slovakia's 4-1 Fed Cup World Group II win over Belgium; reached 2r at Paris [Indoors] (as WC, l. to No.5 seed Cornet in 3s); reached 3r at Dubai (l. to Razzano in 3s).

MARCH - Reached 4r at Indian Wells (as No.30 seed, l. to No.23 seed Bammer); reached 2r at Miami (l. to No.22 seed Chakvetadze).

APRIL - Reached QF At Ponte Vedra Beach (as WC, d. No.8 seed Mattek-Sands en route; l. to No.2 seed and eventual champion Wozniacki); went 1-2 in Slovakia's 3-2 Fed Cup World Group Play-off loss to France; reached 2r at Stuttgart (l. to top seed Safina).

MAY - Reached 2r at Rome (l. to No.7 seed Kuznetsova); reached 2r at Madrid (l. to No.4 seed Jankovic); reached SF at Warsaw (as No.6 seed, l. to qualifier and eventual champion Dulgheru in 3s); fell 1r at Roland Garros (l. to Razzano).

JUNE - Reached QF at 's-Hertogenbosch (as No.6 seed, l. to top seed Safina in 3s); reached 4r at Wimbledon (d. No.16 seed Zheng en route; l. to No.2 seed and eventual champion S.Williams).

JULY - Reached QF at Stanford (d. No.7 seed A.Radwanska en route; l. to No.3 seed Dementieva).

AUGUST - Reached 2r at Los Angeles (l. to top seed Safina); reached QF at Cincinnati (d. No.7 seed Zvonareva en route; l. to No.14 seed Pennetta); fell 1r at Toronto (l. to qualifier Shvedova); reached 4r at US Open (as No.22 seed, l. to No.2 seed S.Williams).

SEPTEMBER - Reached QF at Seoul (as top seed, l. to eventual champion Date Krumm in 3s); reached 2r at Tokyo (l. to No.11 seed A.Radwanska in 3s); reached 2r at Beijing (l. to No.13 seed Petrova 75 third set).

OCTOBER - Withdrew from Linz w/back injury; reached QF at Luxembourg (as No.4 seed, l. to Peer).

1998 - Played first event of career on ITF Circuit.

1999 - Played first Tour main draw at Bratislava, falling 1r (as WC); fell in Tour qualifying once; won two singles titles and one doubles title on ITF Circuit.

2000 - Reached first two QF, at Strasbourg and Luxembourg (d. No.7 Tauziat en route for first Top 10 win); fell in Australian Open, Wimbledon and US Open qualifying; won one singles title on ITF Circuit.

2001 - First Top 100 season, finishing at No.38; SF twice, at Oklahoma City (d. No.10 Coetzer en route for second Top 10 win; l. to Capriati) and Birmingham (l. to Oremans); QF at Basel, Leipzig and Zürich; made main draw debuts at all four Grand Slams, best results being 2r at Roland Garros and Wimbledon; made Top 100 debut on February 26 (after Oklahoma City; rose from No.108 to No.86) and Top 50 debut on August 20 (moving from No.54 to No.50); won first Grand Slam mixed doubles title at Wimbledon (w/Friedl).

2002 - First Top 10 season, highlighted by winning first Tour singles title at Indian Wells (d. Hingis in final); made Top 20 debut afterwards on March 18 (rose from No.26 to No.17; runner-up at Filderstadt (l. to Clijsters); made Top 10 debut afterwards on October 14 (rose from No.11 to No.9); SF four times, at Eastbourne (l. to Myskina), Montréal (l. to Mauresmo), New Haven (l. to V.Williams) and Linz (l. to Stevenson); QF six times, most notably first two Grand Slam QF finishes at Wimbledon and US Open (l. to S.Williams at both) but also Hamburg, Berlin, Leipzig and Zürich; notched six Top 10 wins during season, at Indian Wells (No.7 Henin, No.4 Hingis), Berlin (No.9 Dokic), Wimbledon (No.7 Dokic), Fed Cup (No.10 Mauresmo) and US Open (No.6 Henin), bringing career tally to eight; in other two Grand Slams, reached 3r at Australian Open (l. to V.Williams) and 4r at Roland Garros (l. to Seles); member of winning Slovak Fed Cup team (went 2-0 during 3-1 victory over Spain in final, incl. 3hr 21min singles win over Martínez); won two Tour doubles titles; qualified for Tour Championships in singles (l. 1r to Maleeva) and doubles (w/Sánchez-Vicario; withdrew due to Sánchez-Vicario's right thigh strain); reached career-high No.5 in doubles on August 26; won second Grand Slam mixed doubles title at Australian Open (w/Ullyett).

2003 - Reached third consecutive Grand Slam QF at Australian Open (l. to V.Williams), then on January 27 became first Slovak woman to rank Top 5 (rising from No.8 to No.5); SF once, at Antwerp (l. to V.Williams); QF six more times, at Sydney, Paris [Indoors], Charleston, Amelia Island, Berlin and Eastbourne; suffered early losses at other three Grand Slams, falling 2r at Roland Garros (l. to Harkleroad 76(2) 46 97; trailed 5-1 third set, rallying back and serving for match at 6-5), 2r at Wimbledon (l. to Asagoe 06 64 1210; led 5-2 third set and held 3mp) and 3r at US Open (l. to Tanasugarn).

2004 - Season highlighted by runner-up finish at Eastbourne (d. No.4 Mauresmo in SF for ninth Top 10 win; l. to Kuznetsova in final); won back-to-back matches three more times during season, reaching QF at Tokyo [Pan Pacific] and New Haven and 3r at US Open (l. to Schnyder 76 third set; held mp); fell to No.54 on June 7 (lowest since September 2001) and rose back to No.31 by year's end; reached Hopman Cup final for Slovakia (w/Kucera); withdrew from Paris [Indoors] and Birmingham w/respiratory infection.

2005 - Another Top 20 season; runner-up once, at Los Angeles (l. to Clijsters in final); SF three times, at Doha (l. to Sharapova), Cincinnati (l. to Morigami) and Filderstadt (l. to Davenport); QF six times, at Tokyo [Pan Pacific], Dubai, Stanford, New Haven, Luxembourg and Linz; had three Top 10 wins, at Dubai (No.8 Molik), Los Angeles (No.8 Dementieva) and Filderstadt (No.10 Schnyder); made Top 20 return on August 29 (after New Haven; rose from No.20 to No.19; first time in Top 20 since January 2004); won two Grand Slam mixed doubles titles at Roland Garros (w/Santoro) and US Open (w/Bhupathi); became second woman in Open Era (Navratilova) and fourth in tennis history (also Court, King) to complete career Grand Slam in mixed doubles; helped Slovakia win Hopman Cup (w/Hrbaty).

2006 - Another Top 20 season; runner-up once, at Zürich (l. to Sharapova in final); SF once, at Auckland (l. to Zvonareva); QF twice, at Sydney and Stuttgart; had four Top 10 wins, at Sydney (No.7 Schnyder), Stuttgart (No.10 Safina) and Zürich (No.8 Schnyder, No.4 Kuznetsova); best Grand Slams were 4r at Australian Open (d. S.Williams in 3r for first win in 12 meetings vs. Williams sisters; l. to Sharapova), Roland Garros (l. to Clijsters) and Wimbledon (l. to Henin); returned to doubles career-high No.5 on June 12 (after reaching Roland Garros final w/Sugiyama; rose from No.11 to No.5).

2007 - Second Top 10 season, highlighted by winning second and third Tour singles titles at Indian Wells (d. Kuznetsova in final; was first Tour singles title since same event five years earlier) and Linz (d. Schnyder in final); runner-up twice, at Bali (l. to Davenport in final) and Luxembourg (l. to Ivanovic 36 64 64; led 63 30); SF five times, at Doha (l. to Kuznetsova), Rome (l. to Kuznetsova; was first SF in 34th career Tour clay court events), 's-Hertogenbosch (l. to Chakvetadze), Stanford (l. to Chakvetadze) and Kolkata (l. to Kirilenko); QF three times, at Dubai (l. to Mauresmo), Amelia Island (l. to Bammer) and Birmingham (l. to Bartoli); had five Top 10 wins in regular season, at Doha (No.6 Hingis), Indian Wells (No.6 Hingis, No.4 Kuznetsova), Rome (No.10 Chakvetadze) and 's-Hertogenbosch (No.6 Ivanovic); made Top 10 return on June 18 (after Birmingham; had spent 47 straight weeks there from October 14, 2002 to September 7, 2003; would spend 13 non-consecutive weeks there until end of 2007 season); qualified for second Tour Championships, falling in RR stage (went 1-2 in RR; d. No.3 Kuznetsova for sixth Top 10 win of season and 22nd of career; also first win over a Top 3 player, her best previous wins being three wins over No.4s); best Grand Slams were 4r at Australian Open (l. to Clijsters) and Wimbledon (l. to S.Williams); also surpassed $5 million in career prize money during season, first Slovak woman to achieve that.

2008 - Strong start marred by mid-season injury lay-off, resulting in first non-Top 20 finish since 2004; went 12-7 to start, a stretch highlighted by reaching first career Grand Slam SF at Australian Open (as No.9 seed, d. No.29 seed A.Radwanska in QF, having been 0-3 in Grand Slam QF before; l. to No.4 seed Ivanovic 06 63 64, having led 60 20) and three QF, at Paris [Indoors] (as No.2 seed, l. to No.7 seed Szavay 76(4) 61; led 4-1 first set), Antwerp (as No.3 seed, ret. vs. qualifier Bacsinszky w/respiratory illness that caused subsequent withdrawals from Doha and Dubai) and Indian Wells (as No.5 seed, l. to No.4 seed Sharapova 76(2) 61; led 5-2 first set w/sp at 5-4); three pre-QF losses in that stretch came at Sydney (as No.6 seed, l. to Vaidisova in 2r), Miami (as No.7 seed, l. to Sugiyama 64 67(8) 75 in 3r; rallied from 64 52 down and saved mp in second set tie-break, then led 4-2 third set before falling) and Amelia Island (as No.3 seed w/1r bye, l. to qualifier Sprem in 3s in 2r); missed rest of clay court season and grass court lead-up w/right heel stress fracture (withdrew from Berlin, Rome, Istanbul, Roland Garros and 's-Hertogenbosch); went 10-13 thereafter, a stretch highlighted by SF at Bali (as top seed, l. to Paszek in 3s) and three QF, at New Haven (as No.2 seed, l. to No.7 seed Cornet in 3s), Beijing (as No.7 seed, l. to top seed and eventual champion Jankovic 75 61; held 2sp at 5-4 first set) and Luxembourg (as No.3 seed, l. to No.8 seed Cirstea 76(2) 62; led 5-2 first set w/sp at 6-5); fell 1r or 2r nine times in that stretch, incl. Wimbledon (comeback event; as No.10 seed, l. to Kleybanova in 3s in 2r), Olympics (as No.10 seed, l. to Wozniacki in 2r) and US Open (as No.11 seed, l. to qualifier Groenefeld in 1r); spent 90th career week in Top 10 between June 16 and 22 then dipped out for rest of season (spent first 47 weeks in Top 10 between October 14, 2002 and September 7, 2003, all consecutive; next 43 weeks came non-consecutively between June 18, 2007 and June 22, 2008); after falling out of Top 10 spent rest of 2008 ranked between No.11 and No.19, then dipped to No.21 on November 10 year-end rankings (first time outside of Top 20 in over two years).

SINGLES
Winner (3): 2007 - Indian Wells, Linz; 2002 - Indian Wells; 2000 - ITF/Bronx, NY-USA; 1999 - ITF/Jackson, MS-USA, ITF/Fano-ITA.
Finalist (6): 2007 - Bali, Luxembourg; 2006 - Zürich; 2005 - Los Angeles; 2004 - Eastbourne; 2002 - Filderstadt.

DOUBLES
Winner (8): 2006 - Doha, Rome (both w/Sugiyama); 2005 - Birmingham (w/Sugiyama), Filderstadt (w/Myskina); 2002 - Amelia Island, New Haven (both w/Sánchez-Vicario); 2001 - Luxembourg (w/Bovina); 2000 - Bratislava (w/Habsudova); 1999 - ITF/Civitanova-ITA (w/Dyrberg).
Finalist (12): 2009 - Australian Open, Rome, Tokyo [Pan Pacific] (all w/Sugiyama); 2006 - Roland Garros, Los Angeles (both w/Sugiyama); 2005 - San Diego, Zürich (both w/Sugiyama); 2002 - Australian Open, Hamburg, Berlin (all w/Sánchez-Vicario), San Diego, Los Angeles (both w/Sugiyama).

MIXED DOUBLES
Winner (4): 2005 - Roland Garros (w/Santoro), US Open (w/Bhupathi); 2002 - Australian Open (w/Ullyett); 2001 - Wimbledon (w/Friedl).
Finalist (1): 2002 - Wimbledon (w/Ullyett).

ADDITIONAL
Slovak Fed Cup Team, 1999-2003, 2007, 2009; Slovak Olympic Team, 2004, 2008.

Coached by Larri Passos (since April 2009); fitness trainer is Marco Panici ... All-court game; favorite surface is grass; favorite tournament is Wimbledon ... Trained at Bollettieri Academy between ages 16 and 18 ... Father, Igor, is a computer scientist; mother, Marianna, is a toxicologist; older brother, Igor, is an architect working in Bratislava ... Qualified for top university in Slovakia but deferred it to pursue tennis ... Speaks Slovak, English, German; learning Spanish ... Studied classical piano between ages 6 and 14 ... Interests include skiing, ice skating, roller blading, swimming, jet skiing, cooking ... Favorite foods are sushi, seafood; favorite dessert is crêpes with nutella; favorite drink is hot chocolate ... Favorite song is 'One' by U2 & Mary J. Blige; favorite actors are Brad Pitt and George Clooney ... Favorite designers are Armani, Cavalli, Dior and Missoni ... Favorite city is Rome and likes to visit Cape Town, South Africa ... Admires athletes Roger Federer, Pete Sampras, Michael Jordan and Michael Schumacher.

Official Website: www.dhantuchova.com

- Alongside Ivanovic, featured in Sony Ericsson's first tennis-themed TV ad, 'Never Miss A Shot', in July 2006.
- Featured in January 2005 issue of Italian Vogue magazine.
- Awards received include 2002 Tour Most Improved Player of the Year and 2006 Fan Favorite Doubles Team w/Sugiyama (presented at Stars for Stars in Miami on March 21, 2006); also nominated for Laureus World Sports Award as 2002 World Newcomer of Year (fellow nominees included David Nalbandian).
- Tour mentor was Martina Navratilova in the Partners for Success program, the mentor division of the Tour's Professional Development Program.