Residence: Lyngby, Denmark
DOB: April 18, 1992
Birthplace: Lyngby, Denmark
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Plays: Right Handed (Double Handed Backhand)
Status:
Current Sony Ericsson WTA Tour Rankings as of July 26, 2010:
Singles ---
Race Singles 873
Doubles ---
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YTD Career
Sony Ericsson WTA Tour singles titles: 0 0
Sony Ericsson WTA Tour doubles titles: 0 0
ITF Women's Circuit singles titles: 0 0
ITF Women's Circuit doubles titles: 0 0
Prize Money: $460 $925
Win Loss Record - Singles: 1 - 1 1 - 2
Win Loss Record - Doubles: 0 - 0 0 - 1
Junior
Mai Grage has played almost exclusively on the Junior circuit - reaching a career high ranking of #30 earlier in 2010. She has played at all 4 grand slams as a junior, and reached the SF at Roland Garros in doubles this year (with Saisai Zheng). Mai has also won a couple of Junior tournaments incl. the Grade 1 tournament Mediterranee Avenir in 2009 defeating the very talented Monica Puig in the Final.
ITF - WTA
Mai has never played in the main draw of any ITF or WTA tournaments (10K Chiswick today will be her first ever!) but she has tried to qualify a couple of times, for instance at 100K Danish Open in 2008, and at 220K Slovenia Open 2010 where she won in the 1st round of qualification defeating Olga Savchuk (UKR).
FED Cup
Mai played two Fed Cup singles matches for Denmark in 2009 (16 years of age at the time), and four singles matches in 2010 - winning her matches vs. Israel and Latvia.
Ambitions
Mai Grage has been part of a special development program at the 'Center of Elite' supported by the Danish Tennis Federation and Team Danmark. Mai Grage has been the best Danish tennis player her age (b. 1992) for some time now and aims at being #10 in the world.
Heather Watson/Jocelyn Rae (GBR) def. Grage/Wozniacki 5-7 7-5 7-5
It was a close match and Grage played extremely well. According to Michael Mortensen this was the best he has ever seen her play in a doubles match. Good luck in the relegation match against Greece :yeah:
I'm not 100% sure but I beleive Denmark had a lead in the second set (5-2 or something?). It's a disappointing result, but I'm sure Mai and Caro did the best they could. The Greek team was simply better.
I hope Mai will get going at the ITF futures. She said earlier this year, or at the end of last year, that she wants to commit herself 100% this season to improve her ranking. Good luck.
Excerpted and paraphrased translation (full article in Danish here)
Mai Grage ends her pro career. She wants to study, and also finds it lonely on the pro tour. She still loves playing tennis, and she'll continue to play in Denmark an try to win Danish titles. She'll also continue on the Fed cup team. She says she may possibly try the pro tour agian later in her career...
What a shame. I really thought she could become at least a solid top 200 player It's not looking good for Danish tennis if we don't consider Caroline, but I hope Martine Ditlev, Cecilie Melsted and Simone Alipieva can turn into great players.
Mai Grage won the 2nd part of the Danish Grand prix series at Århus this weekend in a very convincing manner:
1R: Mai Grage (Lyngby) def. Ella Hedeboe (Gentofte) 6-0 6-1
2R: Mai Grage (Lyngby) def. Sofie Skovbo Jensen (Helsingør) 6-0 6-0
QF: Mai Grage (Lyngby) def. Stefanie Jolak (Holbæk) 6-1 6-0
SF: Mai Grage (Lyngby) def. Julie Noe (KB) 6-2 6-0
F: Mai Grage (Lyngby) def. Martine Ditlev (TC Odense) 6-0 6-0
It must be said though, that Sandra Roma (Sweden) who won the first tournament in the series, had to give a walkover in the semi final in the other half of the draw. She would easily have gone to the final, and would probably be the favourite against Mai Grage (Sandra Roma defeated Mai two weeks ago). Melsted was also missing (because of ITF in Sweden), and a also few other of the best Danish women . Anyway, seeing how far above everyone else Mai is here makes it all the more depressing that she won't play international pro tennis anymore. I mean, losing only four games in five matches! Well done!