Tamira Paszek
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Paszek at the 2016 Aegon Classic Birmingham
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| Full name | Tamira Shelah Paszek |
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| Country (sports) |
 Austria
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| Born |
6 December 1990 Dornbirn, Austria |
| Height | 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in) |
| Turned pro | 26 October 2005 |
| Plays | Right-handed (two-handed backhand) |
| Prize money | $2,414,217 |
| Singles | |
| Career record | 279–215 |
| Career titles | 3 WTA, 3 ITF |
| Highest ranking | No. 26 (11 February 2013) |
| Current ranking | No. 191 (20 February 2017) |
| Grand Slam Singles results | |
| Australian Open | 2R (2007, 2013) |
| French Open | 2R (2007, 2014) |
| Wimbledon | QF (2011, 2012) |
| US Open | 4R (2007) |
| Other tournaments | |
| Olympic Games | 1R (2012) |
| Doubles | |
| Career record | 48–71 |
| Career titles | 0 WTA, 3 ITF |
| Highest ranking | No. 93 (6 May 2013) |
| Current ranking | No. 458 (20 February 2017) |
| Grand Slam Doubles results | |
| Australian Open | 2R (2012) |
| French Open | 1R (2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013) |
| Wimbledon | 2R (2012, 2013) |
| US Open | 3R (2012) |
| Team competitions | |
| Fed Cup | 8–13 |
| Last updated on: 27 June 2016. | |
Tamira Shelah Paszek (born 6 December 1990 in Dornbirn) is an Austrian tennis player.
Paszek has won three singles titles on the WTA tour, as well as three singles and three doubles titles on the ITF circuit in her career. On 11 February 2013, she reached her best singles ranking of world number 26. On 6 May 2013, she peaked at world number 93 in the doubles rankings.
Paszek was introduced to tennis by her mother, Françoise Paszek, at age four-and-a-half. Her mother is a Chilean-born Austrian of Polish and French descent; and her father, Ariff Mohamed, a Tanzanian-born, Kenyan-raised Canadian of Indian descent. It is because of her maternal grandfather that Tamira has a Polish surname.
As a junior, Paszek was a finalist in the 2005 Girls' Singles Championship at Wimbledon and at the US Open – Girls' Singles in 2006.
In September 2005 she won her first title at an ITF tournament in Sofia. In October of the same year she received a wild card to appear at her first WTA tournament in Linz; she defeated Elena Vesnina in the first round and lost to Ana Ivanovic after a tough first set.
In 2006 she passed qualifications in Istanbul, where she lost in the second round to Catalina Castaño; and in Portorož at the Banka Koper Slovenia Open, where she won her first WTA title by defeating number 6 seed Maria Elena Camerin in straight sets. This was a career-first tour singles title in only her third tour main draw. That title made her the youngest tour singles titlist in 2006 and the seventh-youngest of all-time, the youngest winner being Tracy Austin. A month later, at the Zürich Open, she lost to Camerin in the second round of qualifying. She finished 2006 as world number 181 in the WTA rankings.
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