Olivia Rogowska (Polish pronunciation: [rɔˈɡɔfska]; born 7 June 1991)[1] is an Australian former tennis player.
Rogowska started her professional career on the ITF Circuit at age 14, losing in the first round of qualifying at a $25k tournament in Mount Gambier.
She received a wildcard into the Australian Open where she lost in the first round to the 31st seed Alona Bondarenko in a three-set match.
[3] She then received a wildcard into the French Open and defeated Maria Kirilenko in the first round in straight sets.
[3] After gaining another wildcard entry into the US Open, Olivia almost caused a major upset in her first-round match, taking world No.
Rogowska played her first tournament in the Brisbane International defeating Anastasia Yakimova in the first qualifying round, before losing to Evgeniya Rodina.
That began an 11-match losing streak, including a three-set loss to Sorana Cîrstea at the Australian Open.
Up until the end of March, she played in singles and doubles at four $25k tournaments in Sydney, Mildura, Ipswich and Bunderberg.
Then in Bundaberg, Rogowska defeated Sandra Zaniewska, Olga Puchkova, Sacha Jones and Wsu Wen-hsin, before losing the final to Casey Dellacqua 2–6, 3–6.
Shen then played a $25k event in Grado and made the semifinal defeating Karolína Plíšková 6–4, 6–0, Yulia Putintseva 7–5, 6–2 and won when Lenka Juriková retired but lost to world No.
She won her first singles tournament of the year in Alice Springs, after defeating Abbie Myers, Alison Bai, Tammi Patterson, Akiko Omae and Isabella Holland.
Her good form continued with a quarterfinal in Kalgoorlie and then winning her second tournament of the year in Port Pirie beating world No.
She then made two consecutive semifinals to end her year on the pro tour, losing to Sacha Jones 5–7, 2–6 in Traralgon, and Isabella Holland, 4–6, 4–6 in Bendigo.
Her final tournament of the year was the Australian Open Wildcard Playoff where she won her pool matches against Azra Hadzic, Daniella Jeflea and Belinda Woolcock.
In Launceston, her good form looked like it was over in the first round before Rogowska's comeback to win 1–6, 7–5, 7–6 over Sandra Zaniewska.
In Sydney, Rogowska made the final by beating Akiko Omae 6–2, 6–0, Monique Adamczak by walkover, Zheng Saisai 6–4, 6–1 and qualifier Richèl Hogenkamp 3–6, 6–0, 6–2.
In the main draw of the Malaysian Open, she won in the first round against Elitsa Kotsova 6–4, 6–0 which was her third WTA main-draw win.
She continued her good form into the second round upsetting defending champion Jelena Dokić 3–6, 6–4, 7–6, making the quarterfinals.
In the quarterfinals, she lost to Eleni Daniilidou 2–6, 6–3, 2–6 although Rogowska won the second set after a rain delay.
Olivia then had a bad patch with a first-round qualifying defeat at the French Open then two disappointing results on grass.
Due to big ranking improvements in 2012, Rogowska was awarded wildcards in Brisbane, Sydney and the Melbourne.
In Brisbane, Rogowska drew qualifier Monica Puig and lost in straight sets.
At the Australian Open, Rogowska played qualifier Vesna Dolonc but was defeated in an extremely close three-set match where she lost 6–8 in the final set.
As the top seed, she defeated Camilla Rosatello, Misa Eguchi, Arina Rodionova and Bojana Bobusic all in straight sets.
Rogowska then competed in qualifying at the Dubai Tennis Championships where she defeated Fatma Al-Nabhani in straight sets.
Rogowska was given direct entry into the WTA event, the Malaysian Open where she lost in the first round against qualifier Luksika Kumkhum.
At the French Open, Rogowska competed in qualifying where again defeated Solovyeva in straight sets.
Rogowska competed in qualifying at the US Open where she upset eighth seed Johanna Konta.
However, Rogowska was awarded a lucky-loser place in the main draw after Ayumi Morita had to withdraw with a back injury.