Endorsement Earnings : $1.5 Million
Career Prize Money : $9,090,583
Date of Birth : September 27, 1991
Country / Birthplace : Constanța, Romania
Source of Income : Tennis
Age : 23 Year Old
Simona Halep is a Romanian professional tennis player who is currently ranked world number 2 in WTA rankings . She has won 11 WTA titles and 12 ITF Single titles in her career . She is one of the most improved athelte in tennis .
She started the year 2008 playing in junior competitions, reaching the final in Nottinghill, where she lost to Arantxa Rus, then defeated Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in the quarterfinals at the Australian Open Junior Championships, before losing in the semifinal to Jessica Moore. She went on to win a pair events in May and June. First, a victory in the finals at Trofeo Bonfiglio, winning over Bojana Jovanovski in two sets.
She then headed to Melbourne for the Australian Open, where she was the number 11 seed. In her opening match she faced qualifier Katarzyna Piter, defeating the Pole in 54 minutes, dropping just one game throughout the whole match. She next faced the American Varvara Lepchenko where she dropped the first set, but easily won the next two sets. In the third round.
In January 2014, Simona Halep hired Belgian coach Wim Fissette, former coach of Kim Clijsters and Sabine Lisicki. At the end of the year, she chose to split with him and hired Romanian coach Victor Ioniță, with Thomas Högstedt serving as a coaching consultant for the first three tournaments of the year.She is managed by Virginia Ruzici. Her fitness coach is Teo Cercel
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