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In April 2000, she reached the quarterfinals of the $10k tournament in Bournemouth as a
qualifier.Baltacha was given a wildcard into the qualifying draw of her home Grand Slam,
Wimbledon, where Flavia Pennetta beat her in three sets.In October, she received another
wildcard, this one into the Swisscom Challenge, a Tier-I event held in Zürich.The very next
week, she was a quarterfinalist at the $50k tournament in Cardiff.Her season ending singles
ranking was 397.=== 2001–02 ===
Baltacha reached the quarterfinals of her first tournament of the year in January, a $10k
tournament in Jersey, when she was forced to retire early in the second set.She was out of
action until late April when she reached the quarterfinals of the $10k tournament in
Hatfield, Hertfordshire.Two weeks later she reached the quarterfinals of the $25k
tournament in Edinburgh as a qualifier.She followed this up with a run to the semifinals of
the $25k event in Surbiton.She was then given a wildcard into the qualifying draw for the
Tier-II Eastbourne International where she beat Virginie Razzano, in the final round of
qualifying to reach the main draw.Conchita Martínez beat her in the first round.Just a week
later she was given a wildcard into the main draw of Wimbledon to give her the first
appearance in the main draw of a Grand Slam championship.She was beaten by Nathalie
Dechy in round one.Following Wimbledon she reached yet another ITF quarterfinal; this
one in a $25k tournament in Felixstowe.She lost in round one of the qualifying tournament
for the US Open in August and competed in four more ITF tournaments, reaching the
quarterfinals of two of them (both $25k).She ended the year with a singles ranking of world
No.248.In February 2002, Baltacha reached the quarterfinals of the $25k tournament in
Sutton, London.She played for Great Britain in the Fed Cup in April and won her singles
rubber against Norway's Annette Aksdal.She then beat Lina Stančiūtė from Lithuania in the
relegation play-offs in three sets.Following this she attempted to qualify for the Tier III
Croatian Bol Ladies Open where she was beaten in round one of the qualifying draw.This
was the first of a string of five consecutive losses, the last of which was in the first round of
the qualifying draw for the Birmingham Classic, a Tier III event.She broke this string of
losses with a win over Alina Jidkova in round one of the qualifying draw for the Tier-II
Eastbourne International.She was beaten by Elena Likhovtseva in the second round of
qualifying.She was then given a wildcard into the main draw of Wimbledon where she beat
María Vento-Kabchi in the first round and Amanda Coetzer in the second before losing to
Likhovtseva (for the second time in two consecutive tournaments) in the third round.Her
next tournament was the $25k event in Felixstowe which she won by beating Irishwoman
Kelly Liggan in the final to give her the first ITF Circuit singles title of her career.Two weeks
later, she won her second title in Pamplona, again $25k, when she defeated Virginie Pichet
in the final.After this, she attempted to qualify for the US Open but lost in the first round of
the qualifying for the second consecutive year.She played two more $25k tournaments after
the US Open, Glasgow and Southampton, where she reached the semifinals and
quarterfinals, respectively.Her season ending ranking for 2002 was world No.157.===
2003–04 ===
Baltacha's 2003 season started slowly; she lost in round one of the qualifying tournament
for the first Grand Slam of the year, the Australian Open.In April she was again part of the
Great Britain Fed Cup team but lost her only match against Hungary's Petra Mandula.She
spent May failing to qualify for the Tier-III tournament, the Internationaux de Strasbourg
and French Open.In June she was given a wildcard into the main draw of the Birmingham
Classic but was forced to retire during her first round match against fellow Brit Jane
O'Donoghue after the first game of the final set.She was then awarded another wild card;
this one into the qualifying draw of the Tier II Eastbourne International where she was
beaten by Virginie Razzano.For the third year running, she received a wildcard into the
main draw of Wimbledon where she forced the former world No.5, Jelena Dokić, to fight for
her eventual three-set victory.This was Baltacha's final match of the year as she underwent
invasive surgery after Wimbledon (to determine the cause of her persistent liver troubles)
which put her out of action until 2004.As a result, her year-end singles ranking fell to world
number 373.Baltacha returned to action in January 2004, reaching the semifinals of her first
two ITF tournaments of the year.These were the $10k event in Kingston upon Hull and the
$25k event in Sunderland.She played in the Fed Cup for the Great Britain Fed Cup team
where she won her two singles rubbers against Turkey and Romania by beating Cigdem
Duru and Monica Niculescu, respectively.She also beat Irishwoman Yvonne Doyle in the
Europe/Africa Group II Play-offs.In June, Samantha Stosur beat her in the first round of the
Birmingham and Cara Black beat her in the final round of the qualifying tournament for the
Eastbourne International one week later.Baltacha then headed to Wimbledon main draw
courtesy of another wildcard.She demolished world No.61, Marta Marrero, in round one
before falling to three-time Grand Slam champion, Jennifer Capriati, in the second
round.Between Wimbledon and the US Open qualifying tournament (where she reached the
second round before being beaten by Angelique Widjaja), she suffered three consecutive
first-round losses in $50k tournaments in the United States.

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Elizabeth Stephens

ranking was 397.=== 2001–02 ===

tournament in Edinburgh as a qualifier.She followed this up with a run to the semifinals of

Eastbourne International.She was beaten by Elena Likhovtseva in the second round of

first-round losses in $50k tournaments in the United States.

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