Madison Brengle

Madison Brengle

Country (sports)	United States
Born	(1990-04-03) April 3, 1990 Dover, Delaware, United States
Height	5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	$ 1,248,784
Singles
Career record	345–260
Career titles	0 WTA, 8 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 35 (4 May 2015)
Current ranking	No. 57 (8 February 2016)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	4R (2015)
French Open	1R (2008, 2015, 2016)
Wimbledon	1R (2015, 2016)
US Open	3R (2015)
Doubles
Career record	89–123
Career titles	0 WTA, 6 ITF
Highest ranking	148 (21 September 2015)
Current ranking	199 (8 February 2016)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	1R (2016)
French Open	2R (2015)
Wimbledon	1R (2015)
US Open	1R (2007, 2015)
Last updated on: 8 February 2016.

Madison Brengle (born April 3, 1990) is an American professional tennis player currently on the WTA Tour. Her biggest success occurred in early 2015, reaching her first WTA final in January followed by a fourth round major appearance at the Australian Open. She also defeated world No. 4 Petra Kvitová in April.^[1]

Brengle toiled for years in the ITF Women's Circuit. Over the course of 24 consecutive majors she failed to make it out of the pre-tournament qualifier; the streak ended when she earned a wildcard for the 2014 US Open main draw, which she capitalized on for her first major match win. Her ranking soon rose into the world top 100 for the first time.^[2]

Career

Junior career

Brengle was born in Dover, Delaware. As a teenager she participated in an experimental USTA training regimen.^[3]

In 2006, Brengle won the Easter Bowl doubles championships with Kristy Frilling, defeating Sanaz Marand and Ashley Weinhold in the final. In 2007, Brengle reached the 2007 Australian Open girls' singles final, before going down to Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova. Even though Brengle and Julia Cohen were the top seeds at the 2007 French Open girls' doubles competition, the team lost in the first round.

Seeded seventh, Brengle lost in the 2007 Wimbledon girls' singles competition to Urszula Radwańska, 2–6, 6–3, 6–0. Along with this singles performance, Brengle and Chelsey Gullickson reached the girls' doubles semifinals before losing to top seeds and eventual champions Pavlyuchenkova and Radwańska.

Professional career

2005 saw Brengle win her first ITF title, when, as a fifteen-year-old, she won a title in Baltimore. In the final, she defeated Beau Jones.

In 2007, Brengle received wildcard entries into two Grand Slam tournaments, losing in the first round both times. Accepted into the 2007 Australian Open women's draw, Brengle lost to ninth-seeded Patty Schnyder. She was allowed another wildcard into the 2007 U.S. Open, where she lost to Bethanie Mattek. Brengle and Ashley Weinhold were doubles wildcards, but lost in the first round of the doubles competition to eventual quarterfinalists Stéphanie Foretz and Yaroslava Shvedova.

Brengle won her first WTA match of the 2007 season by defeating former top-20 player Flavia Pennetta before losing to Elena Dementieva in the following round. In addition, the American reached the second round of the 2007 French Open qualifying draw.

On the ITF Circuit, Brengle reached three out of four singles finals in the first four months of the year. Brengle and Kristie Frilling won an ITF doubles title in Augusta, Georgia. In the final, the team defeated Angelina Gabueva and Alisa Kleybanova.

In 2008, Brengle received a wild card into the French Open after winning a wild card tournament, defeating Ahsha Rolle in the finals. The US Open and the French Open agreed to exchange wild cards in their respective tournaments.

In 2011, Brengle finally won her second ITF title at Hammond, LA. She also reached the final at another ITF event at Rancho Santa Fe, CA. At College Park she defeated recent Wimbledon third rounder Melinda Czink to win her first WTA match since Quebec City in 2009.

In 2012, Brengle won her third ITF title at Fort Walton Beach, Florida. She also won the doubles title with Paula Kania of Poland.

In 2013, Brengle won her fourth ITF title at Rancho Santa Fe, CA.

Brengle had a strong start to her 2014 season, qualifying through to the main draw at the Moorilla Hobart International, but was narrowly defeated in the first round by top seed Samantha Stosur in a final-set tiebreak. The next week, she was in touching distance of a main draw berth at the Australian Open, but lost to Irina-Camelia Begu in the final qualifying round. In July, she won the $50,000 Kentucky Bank Tennis Championships, beating Nicole Gibbs in the final. Later in the year, she was awarded a wildcard into the main draw of the US Open, where she recorded her first ever Grand Slam win over Julia Glushko of Israel.

She moved into the Top 100 for first time on 29 September 2014 after winning $50,000 2014 Redrock Open in Las Vegas defeating Nicole Vaidišová, Kateryna Bondarenko and Michelle Larcher de Brito all in straight sets.

At the 2015 Australian Open Brengle defeated the 13th ranked Andrea Petkovic in the first round. Then she won in straight sets against both Irina Falconi and Coco Vandeweghe, eventually losing in the 4th round to Madison Keys, 2–6 4–6. This was her best performance in a Grand Slam tournament so far.

WTA finals

Singles: 1 (0–1)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Runner-up	1.	17 January 2015	Hobart International, Hobart, Australia	Hard	Heather Watson	3–6, 4–6

ITF finals

Singles: 15 (8–7)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Winner	1.	17 July 2005	Baltimore, United States	Hard	Beau Jones	6–4, 6–1
Runner–up	1.	11 June 2006	Hilton Head, United States	Hard	Julie Ditty	3–6, 2–6
Runner–up	2.	25 February 2007	Clearwater, United States	Hard	Stanislava Hrozenská	4–6, 3–6
Runner–up	3.	1 April 2007	Hammond, United States	Hard	Yuan Meng	2–6, 2–6
Runner–up	4.	27 June 2010	Boston, United States	Hard	Jamie Hampton	2–6, 1–6
Runner–up	5.	6 February 2011	Rancho Santa Fe, United States	Hard	Michelle Larcher de Brito	6–3, 4–6, 1–6
Winner	2.	6 March 2011	Hammond, United States	Hard	Stéphanie Foretz Gacon	6–3, 6–3
Winner	3.	11 March 2012	Fort Walton Beach, United States	Hard	Tereza Mrdeža	6–4, 3–6, 6–3
Winner	4.	17 February 2013	Rancho Santa Fe, United States	Hard	Nicole Gibbs	6–1, 6–4
Runner–up	6.	6 July 2013	Sacramento, United States	Hard	Mayo Hibi	5–7, 0–6
Winner	5.	11 August 2013	Landisville, United States	Hard	Olivia Rogowska	6–2, 6–0
Runner–up	7.	27 October 2013	Florence, United States	Hard	Anna Tatishvili	2–6, 6–4, 4–6
Winner	6.	21 July 2014	Lexington, United States	Hard	Nicole Gibbs	6–3, 6–4
Winner	7.	28 September 2014	Las Vegas, United States	Hard	Michelle Larcher de Brito	6–1, 6–4
Winner	8.	3 April 2016	Osprey, United States	Hard	Lara Arruabarrena	4–6, 6–4, 6–3

Doubles: 9 (6–3)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score
Winner	1.	28 October 2007	Augusta, United States	Hard	Kristy Frilling	Angelina Gabueva Alisa Kleybanova	6–3, 6–3
Winner	2.	11 May 2008	Indian Harbour Beach, United States	Clay	Kristy Frilling	Raquel Kops-Jones Abigail Spears	2–6, 6–4, [10–7]
Runner–up	1.	9 August 2009	Vancouver, Canada	Hard	Lilia Osterloh	Ahsha Rolle Riza Zalameda	6–4, 6–3
Runner–up	2.	18 April 2010	Osprey, United States	Clay	Asia Muhammad	María Irigoyen Florencia Molinero	6–1, 7–6(7–3)
Winner	3.	17 October 2010	Troy, United States	Hard	Asia Muhammad	Alina Jidkova Laura Siegemund	6–2, 6–4
Runner–up	3.	23 October 2011	Rock Hill, United States	Hard	Gabriela Paz	Maria Abramović Roxane Vaisemberg	3–6, 6–3, [10–5]
Winner	4.	11 March 2012	Fort Walton Beach, United States	Hard	Paula Kania	Elena Bovina Alizé Lim	6–3, 6–4
Winner	5.	27 October 2013	Florence, United States	Hard	Anamika Bhargava	Kristi Boxx Abigail Guthrie	7–5, 7–5
Winner	6.	26 October 2014	Macon, United States	Hard	Alexa Glatch	Anna Tatishvili Ashley Weinhold	6–0, 7–5

Singles performance timeline

References

External links

• Madison Brengle at the Women's Tennis Association
• Madison Brengle at the International Tennis Federation