Beatrix Bielik (born November 28, 1980), is an American former professional
tennis
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player. Her highest WTA singles ranking is 130, which she reached on August 25, 2003. In 2002, she won the
National Collegiate Athletics Association
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(NCAA) women's tennis singles championships representing
Wake Forest University
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; subsequently Bielik was given a Wild Card into the Main Draw of the
US Open. She entered the tournament ranked 1,102 in the world. In the first round she defeated world number 148
Renata Voráčová
Renata Voráčová (; born 6 October 1983) is a Czech professional tennis player.
Voráčová has won 11 doubles titles on the WTA Tour and three on WTA 125 tournaments, as well as 15 singles and 56 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. On 11 Oc ...
of the
Czech Republic
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in straight sets, 6–4, 6–4, but the major upset came in the 2nd round, when she defeated comfortably Thailand's
Tamarine Tanasugarn
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, who was a top 30 player at the time, 6–4, 6–2. She then lost in the 3rd round to world number 6
Justine Henin
Justine Henin (; born 1 June 1982) is a Belgian former professional tennis player. She spent a total of 117 weeks as the world No. 1 and was the year-end No. 1 in 2003, 2006 and 2007. Henin, coming from a country with limited success in tenni ...
7–5, 6–1. She was named the 2002 female
ACC Athlete of the Year
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Anthony J. ...
by the
Atlantic Coast Conference. In 2003, she failed to qualify for the
French Open, but qualified for
Wimbledon's Main Draw, losing to
Svetlana Kuznetsova in the first round. She also lost in the first round of the US Open, this time to
Patty Schnyder
Patty Schnyder (born 14 December 1978)
Weltwoche, 14. September 2011
.
Bielik's main weapon was her powerful serve.
College
While at
Wake Forest, she won the
Honda Sports Award as the nation's best female tennis player in 2002.
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1980 births
Living people
American female tennis players
Hungarian emigrants to the United States
Tennis players from Budapest
People from Valley Stream, New York
Sportspeople from Hempstead, New York
Tennis players from New York (state)
Wake Forest Demon Deacons women's tennis players
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