Anna Zaja

Anna Zaja
Anna Zaja 2019 at Wimbledon
Nation:	Germany
Birthday:	June 25, 1991
Size:	183 cm
Playing hand:	Right, two-handed backhand
Prize money:	$ 277,238
singles
Career record:	316: 229
Career title:	0 WTA , 6 ITF
Highest ranking:	184 (May 6, 2019)
Current placement:	386
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	158: 108
Career title:	0 WTA, 13 ITF
Highest ranking:	145 (April 28, 2014)
Current placement:	683
Last update of the infobox: March 16, 2020
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Anna Zaja (born June 25, 1991 in Sigmaringen ) is a German tennis player .

Career

So far, Zaja has won six ITF tournaments in singles and twelve in doubles. Her greatest success so far was her entry into the semi-finals of the doubles competition at the WTA tournament in Stuttgart (category: Premier) in 2014 alongside Antonia Lottner . Both of them had surprisingly moved up into the main field, where they lost in the semi-finals of the pairing Cara Black / Sania Mirza only in the match tie-break with 2: 6, 6: 2 and [4:10].

In July 2018, Zaja jumped from position 240 to position 191 in the world rankings thanks to three successful tournaments in the ITF Women's Circuit . In Stuttgart she had to admit defeat to Mandy Minella , who was also strong , in the final, but won the final against Katharina Hobgarski the following week in Aschaffenburg . In the $ 60,000 Reinert Open in Versmold , she reached the semi-finals, which she then lost to Laura Siegemund .

Zaja played in 2007 , 2008 and 2009 for the TC Großhesselohe and in 2015 for the TEC Waldau Stuttgart in the German 2nd tennis Bundesliga .

Tournament victories

singles

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	April 21, 2012	Muscat	ITF $ 10,000	Hard court	Laëtitia Sarrazin	6: 2, 6: 2
2.	March 30, 2014	Heraklion	ITF $ 10,000	Hard court	Kathinka von Deichmann	6: 4, 6: 1
3.	February 7, 2016	Glasgow	ITF $ 10,000	Hard court (hall)	Maia Lumsden	6: 4, 6: 3
4th	March 21, 2016	Sharm El Sheikh	ITF $ 10,000	Hard court	Anastassija Komardina	6: 4, 7: 5
5.	19th March 2017	Gonesse	ITF $ 15,000	sand	Priscilla Heise	6: 3, 2: 6, 7: 6 6
6th	July 8, 2018	Aschaffenburg	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Katharina Hobgarski	6: 4, 7: 5

Double

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Partner	Final opponents	Result
1.	June 19, 2011	Cologne	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Vanessa Henke	Carolin Daniels Christina Shakovets	1: 6, 6: 3, [10: 2]
2.	July 17, 2011	Darmstadt	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Natela Dsalamidse	Hana Birnerová Karolína Plíšková	7: 5, 2: 6, [10: 6]
3.	April 14, 2012	Fujairah	ITF $ 10,000	Hard court	Jana Sisikowa	Fatma Al-Nabhani Kyra Shroff	6: 4, 6: 1
4th	23rd September 2012	Podgorica	ITF $ 50,000	sand	Nicole Clerico	Email Auroux María Irigoyen	4: 6, 6: 3, [11: 9]
5.	May 20, 2013	Casablanca	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Justine Ozga	Eliza Kostowa Sandra Zaniewska	6: 4, 6: 2
6th	October 31, 2015	Ismaning	ITF $ 10,000	Carpet (hall)	Lena Rüffer	Michaela Boev Hristina Dishkova	5: 7, 7: 6 3 , [10: 3]
7th	17th July 2016	Aschaffenburg	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Nicola Geuer	Dalila Jakupović Lu Jiajing	6: 4, 6: 4
8th.	August 14, 2016	Hechingen	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Nicola Geuer	Vivian Heisen Pia King	6: 3, 6: 1
9.	January 27, 2017	Andrézieux-Bouthéon	ITF $ 60,000	Hard court (hall)	Nicola Geuer	Ana Bogdan Ioana Loredana Roșca	6: 3, 2: 2 problem
10.	April 8, 2017	Jackson	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Alla Kudryavtseva	Alexa Guarachi Ronit Yurovsky	6: 2, 6: 0
11.	23rd June 2017	Baja	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Chantal Škamlová	Ágnes Bukta Vivien Juhászová	6: 7 5 , 6: 1, [11: 9]
12.	April 7, 2018	Santa Margherita di Pula	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Valery Solovyova	Manon Arcangioli Chantal Škamlová	7: 5, 6: 3
13.	February 23, 2019	Glasgow	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court (hall)	Lesley Kerkhove	Freya Christie Jana Fett	6: 4, 3: 6, [10: 3]

Performing in Grand Slam tournaments

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singles

competition	2017	Career
Australian Open	-	-
French Open	-	-
Wimbledon	-	-
US Open	1R	1R

Web links

Commons : Anna Zaja  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• WTA profile of Anna Zaja (English)
• ITF profile of Anna Zaja (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lottner / Zaja miss the double final. In: www.rp-online.de. April 26, 2014, accessed April 28, 2014 .