Anna-Lena Friedsam

Anna-Lena Friedsam
Anna-Lena Friedsam 2019
Nation:	Germany
Birthday:	February 1, 1994
Size:	174 cm
Weight:	68 kg
1st professional season:	2011
Playing hand:	right, two-handed backhand
Trainer:	Sascha Müller
Prize money:	$ 1,465,148
singles
Career record:	265: 148
Career title:	0 WTA , 1 WTA Challenger, 13 ITF
Highest ranking:	45 (August 15, 2016)
Current placement:	106
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	64:51
Career title:	1 WTA, 3 ITF
Highest ranking:	41 (February 3, 2020)
Current placement:	45
Grand Slam record
Last update of the infobox: March 16, 2020
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Anna-Lena Friedsam (born February 1, 1994 in Neuwied ) is a German tennis player .

Career

Friedsam began playing tennis at the age of six. In 2009 she became German youth champion.

2012 season

She won six ITF tournaments that year . This improved it by around 450 places in the world rankings between January and August . In the second round of qualifying for the WTA tournament in Luxembourg , she defeated Andrea Hlaváčková for the first time, a top 100 player in 2012 .

2013 season

In August she won the ITF in Kazan and in September in Trabzon . At the French Open , in Wimbledon and the US Open, as well as in several WTA tournaments, she took part in the qualification, with a victory against Peng Shuai in Stuttgart , but not qualifying for a main draw.

2014 season

With a victory over Luksika Kumkhum Friedsam was able to qualify for the first time in Shenzhen for the main draw of a WTA tournament; with a victory over Bojana Jovanovski she moved there into the round of 16, in which she was defeated by Jana Čepelová . At the Australian Open , she failed in qualifying. At the indoor tournament in Paris , she qualified for a tournament in the premier category for the first time. In Rio de Janeiro , where she was qualified for the first time directly for the main draw of a WTA tournament, she reached the second round. Also in Wimbledon and in Roland Garros she was qualified for the first time for the main round because of her world ranking position; however, it never got beyond the first round. After leaving in the qualification of the US Open , she won early September 2014 her first WTA Challenger tournament in the individual; she defeated the Chinese Duan Yingying 6: 1, 6: 3 in the final in Suzhou .

Her greatest success so far was in the first round of the WTA tournament in Linz with a win (2: 6, 6: 3, 6: 4) over the third-placed Australian Open finalist Dominika Cibulková . After further victories over Jana Čepelová and Stefanie Vögele , Friedsam reached the semifinals of a WTA tournament for the first time, in which she lost to Karolína Plíšková .

2015 season

For the main field of the Australian Open she was directly qualified; In the first round, however, she met Eugenie Bouchard , who was placed 7th , to whom she lost 2: 6, 4: 6. At the French Open and Wimbledon , she reached the second round each. On July 20, she suffered a double ligament tear in the game against Klára Koukalová at the Nuremberg Gastein Ladies at a score of 6: 1 and 4: 0, which forced her to take a longer break. After her return she reached the final of the Generali Ladies Linz with victories over Magdaléna Rybáriková , Andreea Mitu , Margarita Gasparjan and Johanna Larsson . At the end of the year Friedsam became German tennis champion when she defeated Katharina Hobgarski 6-0 and 6-1 in the final of the national championships .

2016 season

At the beginning of the season she first reached the semifinals in Shenzhen , where she was defeated by Agnieszka Radwańska . At the following Australian Open , she made it into the round of 16 of a Grand Slam tournament for the first time in her career . At the US Open , she played her last match for the time being, because her shoulder problems, which eventually had to be operated on, increased over the course of the season.

Since 2017

Because of her shoulder operation Friedsam was only able to start her comeback at the ITF tournament in Clermont-Ferrand at the end of 2017 and won the ITF tournament in Shrewsbury .

At the Australian Open 2018 she had Angelique Kerber as an opponent in the first round and lost. In the first week of April Friedsam had to have his shoulder operated on again and could not start training until the end of May.

2020 season

Friedsam made his debut for the German Fed Cup team on February 8, 2020 . A little later she achieved her greatest international success to date at the tournament in Lyon , where she reached the final of a WTA International Tournament for the second time after Linz 2015 , but lost it to Sofia Kenin 2: 6, 6: 4, 4: 6. During the tournament, the unset German defeated three seeded players, first number two on the seeding list, Kristina Mladenovic , and then Viktória Kužmová and Darja Kassatkina .

successes

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Tournament victories

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	March 12, 2012	Astana	ITF $ 10,000	Hard court	Ekaterina Yuryevna Yaschina	6: 4, 6: 3
2.	May 27, 2012	Velenje	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Agnese zucchini	6: 1, 6: 3
3.	June 3, 2012	Maribor	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Teliana Pereira	2: 6, 7: 6 2 , 6: 2
4th	17th June 2012	Padua	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Corinna Dentoni	6: 2, 6: 2
5.	July 15, 2012	Aschaffenburg	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Kathrin Wörle	6: 4, 2: 6, 6: 4
6th	August 26, 2012	Charleroi	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Angelique van der Meet	6: 4, 7: 6 5
7th	March 24, 2013	Sunderland	ITF $ 15,000	Hard court	Alison Van Uytvanck	6: 2, 7: 6 4
8th.	August 31, 2013	Kazan	ITF $ 50,000	Hard court	Marta Sirotkina	6: 2, 6: 3
9.	September 14, 2013	Trabzon	ITF $ 50,000	Hard court	Julija Bejhelsymer	4: 6, 6: 3, 6: 3
10.	September 28, 2013	Loughborough	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court (hall)	Alison Van Uytvanck	6: 3, 6: 0
11.	September 6, 2014	Suzhou	WTA Challenger	Hard court	Duan Yingying	6.1, 6: 3
12.	June 15, 2015	Ilkley	ITF $ 50,000	race	Magda Linette	5: 7, 6: 3, 6: 1
13.	November 11, 2017	Shrewsbury	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court (hall)	Lesley Kerkhove	6: 4, 6: 2
14th	September 28, 2019	Roehampton	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Indy de Vroome	6: 3, 6: 3

Final participation

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Tournament winner	Result
1.	October 18, 2015	Linz	WTA International	Hard court	Anastassija Pavlyuchenkova	4: 6, 3: 6
2.	March 8, 2020	Lyon	WTA International	Hard court (hall)	Sofia Kenin	2: 6, 6: 4, 4: 6

Double

Tournament victories

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Partner	Final opponents	Result
1.	February 13, 2012	Glue	ITF $ 10,000	Hard court (hall)	Julia Kimmelmann	Elyne Boeyken's Jana Nabel	6: 1, 7: 6 4
2.	May 21, 2012	Velenje	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Vanda Lukacs	Anja Prislan Dejana Raickovic	7: 6 3 , 5: 7, [10: 4]
3.	March 25.2013	Croissy-Beaubourg	ITF $ 50,000	Hard court (hall)	Alison Van Uytvanck	Stéphanie Foretz Eva Hrdinová	6: 3, 6: 4
4th	April 28, 2019	Stuttgart	WTA Premier	Sand (hall)	Mona Barthel	Anastassija Pavlyuchenkova Lucie Šafářová	2: 6, 6: 3, [10: 6]

Final participation

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Partner	Tournament winners	Result
1.	November 10, 2013	Taipei	WTA Challenger	Hard court (hall)	Alison Van Uytvanck	Caroline Garcia Jaroslawa Schwedowa	3: 6, 3: 6

Performing in Grand Slam tournaments

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competition	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	Career
Australian Open	-	1	AF	-	1	-	Q1	AF
French Open	1	2	1	-	-	-	-	2
Wimbledon	1	2	3	-	-	1	-	3
US Open	-	1	1	-	-	-		1

Double

competition	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	Career
Australian Open	-	-	1	-	1	1
French Open	AF	-	-	-	-	AF
Wimbledon	1	-	-	AF	-	AF
US Open	1	-	-	AF		AF

Web links

Commons : Anna-Lena Friedsam  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• WTA profile of Anna-Lena Friedsam (English)
• ITF profile of Anna-Lena Friedsam (English)
• Fed Cup statistics from Anna-Lena Friedsam (English)
• Official website of Anna-Lena Friedsam

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Anna-Lena Friedsam suffers from two torn ligaments. Retrieved July 21, 2015 . 
2. ↑ DM 2015: Friedsam and Otte win in Biberach , on: dtb-tennis.de, from December 20, 2015, accessed May 31, 2018
3. ↑ Gerald Kleffmann: Friedsam rocks Melbourne , on: sueddeutsche.de, from January 22, 2016, accessed January 24, 2016
4. ↑ ^{a b} Anna-Lena Friedsam: "Finally back on the court" , on: dtb-tennis.de, October 2, 2017, accessed May 31, 2018
5. ↑ Anna-Lena Friedsam had another shoulder operation , on: spox.com, April 7, 2018, accessed May 31, 2018
6. ↑ Blog & News - Advanced Training, on: anna-lena-friedsam.de, May 28, 2018, accessed May 31, 2018