Barbara Rittner

Barbara Rittner
Barbara Rittner 2014 at the Nuremberg Insurance Cup
Nation:	Germany
Birthday:	April 25, 1973
Size:	173 cm
1st professional season:	1989
Resignation:	2005
Playing hand:	Right, two-handed backhand
Prize money:	$ 1,829,648
singles
Career record:	314: 275
Career title:	2 WTA , 2 ITF
Highest ranking:	24 (February 1 1993)
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	184: 209
Career title:	3 WTA, 1 ITF
Highest ranking:	23 (March 18, 2002)
Grand Slam record
Mixed
Grand Slam record
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Barbara Rittner (born April 25, 1973 in Krefeld ) is a former German tennis player . From 2005 to 2017 she was the captain of the Fed Cup team and since 2009 she has been the first national coach of the German Tennis Association .

Career

In the 15 years of her career from 1989 to 2004 she was one of the best German players. She competed 29 times for the German Fed Cup team, including the 1992 Federation Cup victory with Steffi Graf and Anke Huber . On February 1, 1993 she reached position 24, her best placement in the WTA world rankings.

Rittner won two WTA tournaments in singles : in 1992 the preparatory tournament for the US Open in Schenectady and in 2001 the clay court tournament in Antwerp . She was another three times in the final of a WTA tournament and also won three double titles. In her career she reached the second round of a Grand Slam tournament twice : in 1996 at the French Open , when she a. a. Local hero Mary Pierce could beat, and 2001 at the Australian Open .

Her successes also include a Wimbledon title in junior singles and junior doubles at the Australian Open in 1991. Barbara Rittner was regularly active for the Bundesliga club TC Benrath in Düsseldorf .

Rittner played her last individual on the tour in 2004 in the second qualifying round of the US Open, where she was 176th in the world rankings against Séverine Brémond in two sets. In 2005 she took part in two doubles tournaments before finally ending her career.

Barbara Rittner lives in Cologne.

Awards

• 2014: "Felix" - Trainer of the Year from North Rhine-Westphalia

Tournament victories

singles

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	August 30, 1992	Schenectady	WTA Tier V	Hard court	Brenda Schultz	7: 6 3 , 6: 3
2.	May 19, 2001	Antwerp	WTA Tier V	sand	Klára Koukalová	6: 3, 6: 2

Double

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Partner	Final opponents	Result
1.	February 9, 1992	eat	WTA Tier II	Carpet (hall)	Katerina Maleewa	Sabine Appelmans Claudia Porwik	7: 5, 6: 3
2.	April 15, 2001	Oeiras	WTA Tier IV	sand	Květa Hrdličková	Tina Križan Katarina Srebotnik	3: 6, 7: 5, 6: 1
3.	February 23, 2002	Dubai	WTA Tier II	Hard court	María Vento-Kabchi	Sandrine Testud Roberta Vinci	6: 3, 6: 2

Web links

Commons : Barbara Rittner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• WTA profile of Barbara Rittner (English)
• ITF profile of Barbara Rittner (English)
• Fed Cup Statistics for Barbara Rittner (English)
• Official homepage of Barbara Rittner