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Ioana Ducu

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#1 · (Edited)
Name: Ioana DUCU

Country: Romania

Date of birth: 18 Apr 1996

Place of birth: Bucharest, Romania

Plays: Right Handed (Double Handed Backhand)

Current Junior Ranking (C): -

Highest Junior Ranking (C): 14 (20 Jan 2014)

Current WTA Ranking (S): 971

Highest WTA Ranking (S): 830 (09 Sep 2013)

Current WTA Ranking (D): 751

Highest WTA Ranking (D): 736 (03 Nov 2014)

Doubles Titles: 1 (ITF)

2014 - 10k Sharm el Sheikh (Hard) - with Eden SILVA.
 
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#35 ·
Maybe in 2,3 years we will see her in top 50 WTA
 
#41 ·
Thanks to Colette Lewis

In the third set, Black was up 4-1 and serving, only to again lose five straight games, with Ducu's variety, and especially her drop shot, proving the difference. Ducu refused to hit two balls at the same pace or height, alternating a moonball with a penetrating backhand, a slice or a volley. But it was the drop shot, executed perfectly regardless of her court position or the game score, that produced winner after winner, and in the final game, with Black serving at 4-5, Ducu hit two drop shot return winners, the final one on match point, giving the 17-year-old her first trip to a Grade A semifinal.
 
#55 ·
It`s been a long time since Ioana enter a tournament, don`t know why, maybe she was injured or just because all the G1-G2 tournaments were played so for from Romania, but here are some of the events she will attend in the next:

30th Perin Memorial (G1) - Croatia - Clay (Outdoor) - No. 1 seed (25 March - 30 March 2014)
VIII ITF Junior Benicarlo (G2) - Spain - Clay (Outdoor) - No. 1 seed (01 April - 05 April 2014)
Trofeo Juan Carlos Ferrerro (G1) - Spain - Clay (Outdoor) - No. 1 seed (08 April - 13 April 2014)
 
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