Daniela Hantuhova - talented Slovak tennis player

Daniela Khantukhova (photo below) is a famous Slovak tennis player. The winner of sixteen WTA events (7 in singles and 9 in doubles). Finalist of the Grand Slam tournament. Semifinalist of the Australian Championship (2008). This article will describe a brief biography of the athlete.

general information

Daniela was born in the city of Poprad (Czechoslovakia) in 1983. Her mother Marianna worked as a toxicologist, and father Igor - a computer technician. Also the girl has an older brother, who now works as an architect in Bratislava.

Khantukhova speaks three languages fluently (German, English, Slovak) and plays well on the classical piano. The girl does not spare herself in training, as she is a perfectionist.

2001-2002

The professional career of Daniel Hantuhov began at 15 years old. In 2001, the girl hit the 37th line of the world ranking. And in 2002 she was already at the Australian Championship. The athlete managed to reach the third round, where she lost to Venus Williams.

2003-2004

At the beginning of the season, Daniela Khantukhova was able to break into the quarter-finals of the Grand Slam. Here the sportswoman again met with Venus and again lost to her. Nevertheless, according to the results of the season, the tennis player took the fifth line of the WTA rating, which was the highest achievement in her career.

After that, Daniela began a black streak. Her parents divorced, and she was very worried about this. Khantukhova lost a lot of weight, and many journalists began to suspect her of anorexia.

Naturally, all this affected the game results. At Wimbledon, Daniela lost to Japanese Sinobu Asago, who was on the 81st place in the ranking. After the match, Khantukhova burst into tears. At the end of the year, she dropped to the nineteenth line in the table of ranks.

In 2004, the game crisis only worsened. When Daniela burned points for last year's "Australian Open", she flew out of the top thirty. And by the end of summer the tennis player left the top 50.

2005-2006

In the new season, Daniela Khantukhova gathered and overcame the recession. In the asset athlete appeared three semi-finals, six quarter-finals and the final in Los Angeles, where the tennis player defeated Kim Clijsters. And at the end of the year, Daniela was able to return to the top 20 ranking.

In 2006, at the "Australian Open" Hantuhova was able to beat herself Serena Williams. But in one eighth finals athlete lost to Maria Sharapova. Also Daniela reached the fourth round at Wimbledon and Roland Garros.

2007

This season has become one of the best in the career of athletes. Khantukhova finally managed to remove the "curse of the finals." It happened at the memorable tournament in Indian Wells. Then Daniela got to one eighth Wimbledon and Roland Garros. But at the end of the year she reached the final three times - in Linz, Luxembourg and Bali. In the first of them the sportswoman won the title. Such impressive successes allowed the girl to return to the top ten tennis players of the planet.

2008-2009

In 2008, Daniela Khantukhova showed the best result for her career in the Grand Slam competitions. The sportswoman reached the finals, where Anna Ivanovich lost in a bitter struggle . After that, Khantukhova took the eighth line of the world ranking. Then in the career of the tennis player, the recession began, and at the end of the season the girl was outside the top-20.

In the first half of 2009, the Slovak athlete acted even more unsuccessfully, having slipped to the 43rd line of the rating. But then Khantukhova got the form, went to the fourth round of "US Open" and climbed to the 24th place.

2010-2016

Over the past six years, Hantukhova's career is on the decline. If in 2011 it could cede in four consecutive meetings, then in 2016 this figure rose to eleven. And from the last twenty matches the tennis player was able to win only four.

Personal life

This is something that Daniela Khantukhova does not like to spread. The personal life of a tennis player is taboo for the public. Nevertheless, some information about this leaked in the media. This material became a photo of Daniela with her physical therapist Marco Panichi, who is older than a sportswoman for a couple of decades. In the pictures they walked around the arm through the streets of Bratislava on Christmas Eve. Khantukhova refused to comment on these photos, but Panichi admitted that they love each other and are happy. However, soon the pair broke up. Now nothing is known about the personal life of the heroine of this article.

Style of play

Daniela Khantukhova, whose biography is presented above, uses deep flat shots. But in general, her playing style can be described as aggressive. The athlete has an excellent variable feed, a reliable backhand and a powerful right-hand strike. Khantukhova has a decent game of rally and confidently feels at the net. Weak places tennis player - speed, poor mobility and psychological imbalance (because of her Daniela lost a lot of matches).

Since the athlete acts in an attacking style, quick coverings are more preferable for her: grass and hard. Khantukhov does not like a slow ground. And this is confirmed by her playing practice: all the finals the sportswoman played on grass and hard. And the best achievement of Daniela on the earthen courts is the semi-finals.