page_title: Daniela Hantuchová
section_title: 2013: Sixth WTA title, second US Open quarterfinal since 2002 and return to the top 50
hierarchical_section_title: Daniela Hantuchová / Career / 2013: Sixth WTA title, second US Open quarterfinal since 2002 and return to the top 50
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context_page_description: Daniela Hantuchová is a retired Slovak tennis player and commentator. She turned professional in 1999 and had her breakthrough year in 2002, when she won her first WTA tournament, the Indian Wells Masters, defeating Martina Hingis in the final and becoming the lowest-ranked player to ever win the tournament. She also reached the quarterfinals of that year's Wimbledon Championships and US Open, ending the year in the top ten. She was part of the Slovak team that won the 2002 Fed Cup and the 2005 Hopman Cup.
  Hantuchová reached her highest ranking of world No. 5 in January 2003, after playing the quarterfinals of the Australian Open. She has won seven WTA tournaments, including the Indian Wells Masters for a second time in 2007, with the 2015 Thailand Open being her last victory. She also reached the semifinals of the Australian Open in 2008, her best result in a Grand Slam tournament. Her biggest career wins include victories over defending champion Serena Williams in the third round of the 2006 Australian Open and world No. 1 Caroline Wozniacki in the third round of the 2011 French Open.
context_section_description: Hantuchová started her year off in January with a quarterfinal appearance at the Brisbane International, beating Lourdes Domínguez Lino and fifth seed Sara Errani before losing to Lesia Tsurenko. She then suffered two successive first round defeats: at the Sydney International to Ayumi Morita and at the Australian Open to Chan Yung-jan. At the Pattaya Open at the end of the month, Hantuchová was the reigning champion but after beating Olga Puchkova in the first round, she had to retire during her second round match against Nina Bratchikova.
  Hantuchová's next two matches were first round Fed Cup ties in February for Slovakia against Serbia. She won them both, beating Bojana Jovanovski and Vesna Dolonc in straight sets, helping her team progress to the quarterfinals. Hantuchová's next tournament was the Qatar Ladies Open, where she beat Laura Robson and Ekaterina Bychkova, losing in the third round to sixth seed Sara Errani 5–7, 7–5, 2–6. At the Dubai Tennis Championships, Hantuchová entered the qualifiers. She beat Karolína Plíšková, recorded a walkover against Simona Halep and beat Carla Suárez Navarro. In the first round proper, she lost to sixth seed Petra Kvitová.
  In March, Hantuchová reached the second round in back to back tournaments. First, the Indian Wells Masters, beating Stéphanie Foretz Gacon and losing to first seed and defending champion Victoria Azarenka. Then, the Miami Masters, beating Tsvetana Pironkova and losing to sixth seed Errani. At the Family Circle Cup in April, she lost in the first round to Marina Erakovic. In the Fed Cup semifinal against Russia, Hantuchová beat Maria Kirilenko and lost in three sets to Ekaterina Makarova as Slovakia were defeated 3–2. At the Marrakech Grand Prix at the end of the month, she lost her round match to Olga Puchkova, 6–3, 6–7, 5–7.
  At the Madrid Open in May, Hantuchová received a wildcard, beating Sloane Stephens and eighth seed Kvitová before losing to Kaia Kanepi in the third round. At the Rome Masters, Hantuchová lost in the second qualifying round to Simona Halep. Hantuchová then suffered two first round defeats, at the Internationaux de Strasbourg, where she was seeded eighth, to María Teresa Torró Flor, 3–6, 6–4, 6–7, and then at the French Open, to Jelena Janković, 4–6, 6–7.
  Hantuchová won her first tournament of 2013 in June when she won the Aegon Classic in Birmingham. Unseeded for the tournament, she beat qualifier Casey Dellacqua 6–1, 7–6 in the first round. In the second round, she beat seventh seed Laura Robson 6–3, 6–4, securing her 500th career win and becoming only the 37th woman in the Open era to do so. In the third round, she beat 12th seed Kristina Mladenovic 3–6, 7–6, 6–4. In the quarterfinals, she beat 15th seed Francesca Schiavone 6–7, 6–4, 7–6. In the semifinal she beat qualifier Alison Riske 5–7, 6–1, 6–4 and in the final, she beat Donna Vekić 7–6, 6–4. Her first match after that was at the Rosmalen Grass Court Championships, where she received a wildcard and retired in her first round match again Lesia Tsurenko. At the Wimbledon Championships, she lost in the first round again, this time against Klára Zakopalová. 
  Hantuchová began her US Open Series at the end of July at the Bank of the West Classic, winning in the first round against Yanina Wickmayer, but losing in the second round against seventh seed Urszula Radwańska 6–7, 6–7. In the doubles she and Lisa Raymond were seeded third. They reached the semifinals, where they lost to first seeds and eventual champions Raquel Kops-Jones and Abigail Spears. In the Southern California Open at the start of August, she defeated Tamira Paszek in the first round, and lost in the second round to second seed Agnieszka Radwańska. In the doubles she teamed up with Martina Hingis, for whom it was a comeback to the WTA tour. They reached the quarterfinals, Hantuchová and her partner again losing to the third seeds and eventual champions Kops-Jones and Spears. Hantuchová did not enter the singles of the Canadian Open but she and Hingis did enter the doubles. They received a wildcard, beating Kerber and K
caption: Daniela Hantuchová in 2013
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