Biography

Vandeweghe was born in New York City. She is the granddaughter of 1952 Miss America Colleen Kay Hutchins and former New York Knick Ernie Vandeweghe, the niece of basketball player Kiki Vandeweghe and the daughter of former olympic swimmer Tauna Vandeweghe. She first started playing tennis with her older brother, Beau, at the age of 11, the last sport she played in her early life before turning pro in April 2008. Self-described as a "total California girl", CoCo spends most of her off-season at the beach with her family.

Playing style

Vandeweghe is known to have one of the strongest serves on the tour. In 2014, she hit 306 aces, the third highest on the tour. She plays very aggressively, and likes to take the ball early and on the rise on both sides. Her groundstrokes are heavy and are delivered flat and powerful. Vandeweghe is efficient at the net and enjoys moving forward to avoid extended rallies. Because of her consistent serve, she has a solid mental game. Overall fitness and movement are cited as her weaknesses. Vandeweghe's favorite shot is her forehand down the line, and her preferred surfaces are hard and grass courts.

Career

Junior

She received a wildcard into the 2008 US Open girls' singles. She defeated 13th seed Elena Chernyakova in the first round. She defeated fellow wildcard Kristie Ahn in the second round and Katarzyna Piter in the third round. In the quarterfinals, she defeated Belgian Tamaryn Hendler. She defeated 12th seed Kristina Mladenovic in the semifinals and went on to win the final against Gabriela Paz-Franco. She won the tournament without dropping a set.

WTA

2007-2009

Vandeweghe made her WTA debut in the 2007 Acura Classic as a wildcard. She lost to Elena Bovina, 3-6, 5-7, in the first round.

In 2008, she lost to Sabine Lisicki in the first round in Miami and to Marta Domachowska in Los Angeles. In the 2008 US Open, where she had won the girls' singles title, she received a wildcard for the women's singles main draw. She lost to Jelena Janković, 3-6, 1-6, in the first round.

In 2009, Vandeweghe obtained an invitation from the Hong Kong Tennis Patrons' Association to play the 2009 JB Group Classic with her compatriot Venus Williams and Argentine Gisela Dulko in January, and then she was granted a wildcard to the 2009 Sony Ericsson Open. She lost to Nuria Llagostera Vives, 0-6, 3-6, in the first round. In her second WTA tournament of the year in Los Angeles, she recorded her first WTA-level win. She defeated Tathiana Garbin, 6-4, 6-4. She then lost to Flavia Pennetta, 6-1, 6-4. Coco gained a wildcard for qualifying at the 2009 US Open. She lost in the first round of qualifying.

2010

In 2010, Vandeweghe received a wildcard to the Australian Open, but she lost to Sandra Záhlavová, 0-6, 1-6, in the first round. Then, she played an ITF tournament in Rancho Mirage, retiring in the first round to Tadeja Majerič. She lost once again to Georgie Stopp in the first round at the ITF tournament in Laguna Niguel but reached the second round at the tournament in Surprise, where she lost to Julia Boserup. At Indian Wells, she lost in the first round of qualifying to Arantxa Parra Santonja, 3-6, 1-6.

In the following months, Vandeweghe won two ITF tournament in a row. She then cracked into the top 200 on the WTA list.

She qualified for the 2010 Mercury Insurance Open, beating Gisela Dulko, 6-0, 3-0 when Dulko retired due to an ankle sprain. She went on to defeat Vera Zvonareva, 2-6, 7-5, 6-4, for her first top-10 victory, despite being a break down in both the second and third sets. In the quarterfinals, she led former US Open Champion Svetlana Kuznetsova 5-2 in the first set, before falling 7-5, 6-2. Despite high expectations at the 2010 US Open, Vandeweghe was defeated by Sabine Lisicki, 1-6, 0-6, in the first round. Ranked No. 172 in the world, Vandeweghe travelled to Japan to compete at the 2010 Toray Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo. She qualified by defeating veteran Tathiana Garbin, 7-5, 6-4 and rising star Jarmila Groth, 6-4, 7-6(2). In the first round of the main draw, she defeated world no. 37 Klára Zakopalová 6-4, 7-6(6). In the second round she caused a massive upset by defeating world no. 18 and 14th seed Aravane Rezaï, 6-4, 6-4. In the third round, she handily defeated Julia Görges, 6-3, 6-0. She faced eighth seed Victoria Azarenka for a place in the semifinals, but lost 2-6, 1-6.

2011

Vandeweghe began 2011 at the Brisbane International. She was defeated in the first round of qualifying by Russia's Alexandra Panova, 6-7, 6-7. Next up was the Medibank International Sydney, where she was again defeated in the first round of qualifying, this time by Ekaterina Makarova. Vandeweghe came through the qualifying rounds at the Australian Open; however, she was defeated in the first round of the main draw by Alizé Cornet, 2-6, 1-6.

Up next was Memphis Tennis Championships, where Vandeweghe made the main draw without having to qualify. She defeated Anna-Lena Grönefeld in the first round, 6-3, 6-2. In the second round, she defeated fellow American Alexandra Stevenson, 6-2, 6-2. Unfortunately, Vandeweghe was defeated in the quarterfinals by eventual finalist Rebecca Marino, 1-6, 6-7. Even though she was beaten, she broke into the WTA top 100 for the first time in her career.

Vandeweghe then travelled to Indian Wells, where she gained a wildcard to the main draw. In the first round, she defeated Edina Gallovits-Hall, 4-6, 6-3, 6-4. She lost to sixth seed and defending champion Jelena Janković in the second round, 2-6, 1-6.

At the US Open, she defeated Alberta Brianti in the first round, 7-5, 6-3, but lost to eventual champion Samantha Stosur in the second, 3-6, 4-6.

2012

Vandeweghe made it to the first WTA-level semifinal of her career in the Bank of the West Classic at Stanford after posting a win over Poland's Urszula Radwańska 6-4, 6-4. In the Semifinal, she defeated fifth-seeded Belgian Yanina Wickmayer in three sets to book a place in her first WTA final against top-seeded Serena Williams. Vandeweghe lost to Williams in straight sets in the final 7-5, 6-3.

2013

Vandeweghe posted a win against Marion Bartoli in the first round at the Monterrey Open and later reached the second rounds at Stanford, Carlsbad and the US Open after qualifying for each.

2014: First WTA title

Vandeweghe had impressive results in 2014, including first-round wins at both the French Open and Wimbledon. She reached the Round of 16 after qualifying in Miami, beating Samantha Stosur along the way. She won her first WTA tournament, again as a qualifier, at the Topshelf Open grass tournament in The Netherlands, beating Zheng Jie in the final. After qualifying for the Rogers Cup in Montreal, she beat the ninth seed, Ana Ivanovic, and the seventh seed, Jelena Janković, to reach the quarterfinals.

2015: Steady ranking

She made her best Grand Slam result at 2015 Australian Open, where she made the third round for the first time after victories over Francesca Schiavone and Samantha Stosur, falling to Madison Brengle.

In 2015, just three days before the French Open, CoCo and coach Maciej Synowka parted ways, having worked with each other for over a year. Vandeweghe is now coached by Craig Kardon, who has previously worked with star players like Martina Navratilova, Lindsay Davenport, Jennifer Capriati, and Ana Ivanovic.

She upgraded her best Grand Slam result at Wimbledon, where she made the quarterfinals after victories over Anna Karolína Schmiedlová, Karolína Plíšková, Samantha Stosur, and Lucie Šafářová before falling in three sets to Maria Sharapova.

She made her first Grand Slam semifinals in doubles with Anna-Lena Grönefeld at the US Open.

2016: First WTA doubles title

Coco won her first doubles title in March at Indian Wells partnering Bethanie Mattek-Sands. They defeated Julia Görges and Karolina Plíšková in the final.

Team Tennis

Vandeweghe has played in the World TeamTennis pro league for four seasons. She is currently a roster player for the Philadelphia Freedoms after previously playing for the Boston Lobsters.

Significant finals

Grand Slam finals

Mixed Doubles: 1 (0-1)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score in the final
Runner-up	2016	Australian Open	Hard	Horia Tecău	Elena Vesnina Bruno Soares	4-6, 6-4,

Premier Mandatory/Premier 5 finals

Doubles: 1 (1 title)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Winner	2016	BNP Paribas Open	Hard	Bethanie Mattek-Sands	Julia Görges Karolína Plíšková	4-6, 6-4,

WTA career finals

Singles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)

Winner — Legend Grand Slam tournaments (0-0) WTA Tour Championships (0-0) Tier I / Premier Mandatory & Premier 5 (0-0) Tier II / Premier (0-1) Tier III, IV & V / International (1-0)

Titles by Surface Hard (0-1) Grass (1-0) Clay (0-0) Carpet (0-0)

Outcome	No.	Date	Championship	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score in the final
Runner-up	1.	July 15, 2012	Bank of the West Classic, Stanford, United States	Hard	Serena Williams	5-7, 3-6
Winner	1.	June 21, 2014	Topshelf Open, Rosmalen, Netherlands	Grass	Zheng Jie	6-2, 6-4

Doubles: 1 (1- 0)

Winner - Legend
Grand Slam tournaments (0-0)
WTA Tour Championships (0-0)
Tier I / Premier Mandatory & Premier 5 (0-0)
Tier II / Premier (0-0)
Tier III, IV & V / International (0-0)

Outcome	No.	Date	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents in final	Score in final
Winner	1.	March 20, 2016	BNP Paribas Open, Indian Wells, United States	Hard	Bethanie Mattek-Sands	Julia Görges Karolína Plíšková	4-6, 6-4,

Singles performance timeline

Tournament	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	W-L
Australian Open	A	A	1R	1R	LQ	1R	LQ	3R	1R	2-5
French Open	A	A	A	1R	LQ	1R	2R	1R		1-4
Wimbledon	A	A	A	1R	1R	1R	2R	QF		5-5
US Open	1R	LQ	1R	2R	1R	2R	2R	2R		4-7
Win-Loss	0-1	0-0	0-2	1-4	0-2	1-4	3-3	7-4	0-1	12-21

Women's doubles performance timeline

Tournament	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	W-L
Australian Open								1R	QF	2-2
French Open				1R				1R		0-2
Wimbledon								3R		2-1
US Open	1R		2R			2R	2R	SF		7-5
Win-Loss	0-1	0-0	1-1	0-1	0-0	1-1	1-1	6-4	2-1	11-10

Wins over top 10 players

#	Player	Rank	Event	Surface	Round	Score
2010
1.	Vera Zvonareva	No. 9	San Diego, US	Hard	2nd Round	2-6, 7-5, 6-4
2014
2.	Ana Ivanovic	No. 10	Montreal, Canada	Hard	2nd Round	6-7(7-9), 7-6(9-7), 6-4
3.	Jelena Janković	No. 9	Montreal, Canada	Hard	3rd Round	7-6(10-8), 2-6, 7-5
2015
4.	Lucie Šafářová	No. 6	Wimbledon, London, UK	Grass	4th Round	7-6(7-1), 7-6(7-4)
2016
5.	Belinda Bencic	No. 7	Doha, UAE	Hard	2nd Round	6-4, 6-2
6.	Carla Suárez Navarro	No. 6	Miami, US	Hard	2nd Round	6-4, 6-2

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