Tamira Paszek

Tamira Paszek has been eliminated at the first stage of the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, California at the hands of Anabel Medina Garrigues. The experienced Spaniard, ranked 12 places higher and eight years senior than our Austrian girl showed her dominance with a straightforward 6-1 6-1 victory over Mimi on Thursday night. The [...]

Tamira Paszek qualified for the main draw of the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, California last night with a victory over Andrea Hlavackova. The 11th seeded Austrian had to come-from-behind against her Czech opponent after Hlavackova raced away with the first set, 6-2. Mimi picked up her game after the opening set, winning the [...]

Seeded 11th in the qualifying rounds to get to next week’s BNP Paribas main card, Tamira Paszek crushed American wildcard Madison Brengle in the first qualifying round of the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, California yesterday. The Austrian showed her superiority against the young American, ranked at number 170 in the world, beating Brengle [...]

As of today, Tamira Paszek is the only Austrian female tennis player inside the top 100 of the WTA rankings. Paszek moved up one place into 89th spot, somewhere shot of her previous best, 35 in 2007. 30-year old Sybille Bammer was the biggest loser, as she dropped 18 places into 107th. Patricia Mayr-Achleitner lost [...]