Image by Michelle-Maria on Pixabay · Pixabay License
Casey Dellacqua
Sign in to saveAustralian tennis player
OverviewAI-generated
Casey Dellacqua is an Australian former tennis player who competed professionally from 2002 until 2018. Born in Perth in 1985, she represented Australia in international competition, including the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics. She was a member of the Australia Billie Jean King Cup team and held Australian citizenship.
Dellacqua was a left-handed player who achieved a singles record of 348–214 and a doubles record of 342–184. Her career prize money totaled 4,233,102. She resides in Perth and speaks English. Dellacqua identifies as a lesbian.
Synthesized by Vinony from 25 facts across 2 sources: Wikidata, Thesportsdb. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Key facts
- Country sports
- Australia
- Residence
- Sydney , Australia
- Born
- ( 1985-02-11 ) 11 February 1985 (age 41) , Perth , Western Australia
- Height
- 165 cm (5 ft 5 in)
- Plays
- Left (two-handed backhand)
- Prize money
- US$ 4,233,102
- Career record
- 348–214
- Highest ranking
- No. 26 (29 September 2014)
- Australian open
- 4R ( 2008 , 2014 )
- French open
- 3R ( 2008 )
- Wimbledon
- 3R ( 2008 , 2015 )
- Us open
- 4R ( 2014 )
- Olympic games
- 2R ( 2008 )
- Tour finals
- QF ( 2017 )
- Fed cup
- 19–9
- Hopman cup
- RR ( 2009 , 2015 )
via Wikipedia infobox
Sports profile
- Sport
- Tennis
- Position
- Tennis Player
- Nationality
- Australia
via TheSportsDB
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Casey
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Australia
- Place of birth
- Perth
- Occupation
- tennis player
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Participant in
- tennis at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Sport
- tennis
- Member of team
- Australia Billie Jean King Cup team
- Country for sport
- Australia
- Mass
- 66
- Official website
- www.caseydellacqua.com.au
- Image
- Casey Dellacqua 5, 2015 Wimbledon Championships - Diliff.jpg
- Height
- 165
- Residence
- Perth
Show 11 more facts
- handedness
- left-handedness
- date of birth
- 1985-02-11
- singles record
- 348–214
- doubles record
- 342–184
- Commons category
- Casey Dellacqua
- prize money
- 4233102
- ranking
- 3
- end of work period
- 2018-00-00
- start of work period
- 2002-00-00
- social media followers
- 39388
- sexual orientation
- lesbianism
via Wikidata · CC0
~40 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Casey Dellacqua (/dəˈlækwə/ də-LAK-wə; born 11 February 1985) is an Australian former professional tennis player and current commentator. Her best singles results on the WTA Tour have been semifinal appearances at the 2012 Texas Tennis Open and 2014 Birmingham Classic, a quarterfinal finish at the 2014 Indian Wells Open and fourth round appearances at the 2008 Australian Open, the 2014 Australian Open and the 2014 US Open; she also won 22 ITF singles titles.
Dellacqua's career highlights, however, have all come in doubles. She has won seven WTA Tour doubles titles, 23 ITF doubles titles, and one Grand Slam mixed-doubles title, at the 2011 French Open. She reached the finals of all four major events in women's doubles, appearing in seven finals from 2008 to 2017, however failed to win a title. She won her biggest women's doubles title at the Premier Mandatory 2015 Madrid Open, partnered with Yaroslava Shvedova. Dellacqua achieved her highest singles ranking of world No. 26 in September 2014, and career-high doubles ranking of No. 3 in February 2016.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Casey Dellacqua” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.