Tímea Babos, Hungarian tennis player
Tímea Babos (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈtiːmɛɒ ˈbɒboʃ]; born 10 May 1993) is a Hungarian professional tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking of No. 25 by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA). She gained world No. 1 in the doubles rankings, becoming the first Hungarian player to reach the top of the WTA rankings in either singles or doubles. She has won three singles and 24 doubles titles on the WTA Tour, as well as one singles and one doubles title at tournaments of the WTA 125K series, and twelve singles and nine doubles titles on the ITF Circuit.
Babos made significant results as junior. She won all of her three Grand Slam junior doubles titles in 2010, the Australian Open, Wimbledon and the US Open, partnering at all of them with Sloane Stephens. An accomplished junior player, Babos's greatest success has come in senior doubles, winning the 2018 Australian Open, the 2019 and 2020 French Open and the 2020 Australian Open, and having reached the women's doubles final of the 2014 Wimbledon Championships and 2018 US Open with Kristina Mladenovic of France and the 2016 Wimbledon Championships with Yaroslava Shvedova of Kazakhstan, and the mixed doubles final of the 2015 Wimbledon Championships with Alexander Peya of Austria and the 2018 Australian Open with Rohan Bopanna of India.
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