Anne Schäfer (tennis player)

Anne Schäfer
Shepherd (2016)
Nation:	Germany
Birthday:	March 1, 1987
Size:	167 cm
Weight:	59 kg
1st professional season:	2005
Playing hand:	Right, two-handed backhand
Trainer:	Paolo Galli
Prize money:	$ 230,927
singles
Career record:	474: 263
Career title:	0 WTA , 21 ITF
Highest ranking:	161 (March 23, 2009)
Double
Career record:	125: 125
Career title:	0 WTA, 8 ITF
Highest ranking:	211 (July 25, 2016)
Last update of the infobox: March 9, 2020
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Anne Schäfer (born March 1, 1987 in Apolda ) is a German tennis player .

Career

Schäfer's professional career began in 2005 with the first participation in ITF tournaments. She celebrated her first tournament win in 2006 at the Getxo $ 10,000 tournament . So far, Schäfer has mainly won tournaments in this category. Two weeks later the first title win in doubles followed. Her greatest success so far was winning the 2012 $ 25,000 Dobrich tournament ; in previous years she had lost five other finals in this category.

Schäfer achieved her best placement in the WTA world rankings in March 2009 when she was ranked 161st.

She also competed in qualifying rounds for WTA and Grand Slam tournaments , but could not qualify for any main draw there until March 2016. At the Claro Open Colsanitas 2016 in Bogotá , she was in the main field of a WTA tournament for the first time. She won her first game against Chloé Paquet 6: 3, 2: 6 and 6: 2, but was eliminated in the second round against Lara Arruabarrena Vecino (1: 6 and 0: 6).

Schäfer played her last professional tournament in May 2019 and has not been in the world rankings since February 2020.

In the German tennis Bundesliga she played in the 2nd division in 2010 and in the 1st division in 2011 for the TC Rot-Weiß Wahlstedt . From 2012 to 2015 she played for the ETuF Essen , 2016 to 2019 for the TC Rüppurr Karlsruhe.

Tournament victories

singles

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	July 1, 2006	Getxo	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Irene Rehberger Bescos	6: 3, 3: 6, 6: 0
2.	July 16, 2006	Birkerød	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Piia Suomalainen	6: 4, 6: 2
3.	August 13, 2006	Gdynia	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Oksana Uzhylovska	6: 3, 7: 5
4th	August 20, 2006	Kędzierzyn-Koźle	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Kateřina Vaňková	7: 6 2 , 7: 5
5.	October 8, 2006	Sofia	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Tanja Germanliewa	6: 2, 6: 7 3 , 6: 4
6th	June 6, 2010	Galatina	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Lara Michel	4: 6, 6: 3, 6: 1
7th	October 9, 2010	Cagliari	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Francesca Mazzali	6: 2, 6: 2
8th.	March 27, 2011	Gonesse	ITF $ 10,000	Sand (hall)	Anastasia Grymalska	7: 5, 6: 1
9.	July 30, 2011	Gardone Val Trompia	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Martina Caregaro	7: 6 6 , 0: 6, 6: 4
10.	October 8, 2011	Settimo San Pietro	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Federica Di Sarra	3: 6, 6: 3, 7: 6 3
11.	23rd September 2012	Dobrich	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Angelique van der Meet	6: 2, 6: 2
12.	March 24, 2013	Gonesse	ITF $ 10,000	Sand (hall)	Kateřina Vaňková	6: 2, 2: 1 problem
13.	November 9, 2014	Santa Margherita di Pula	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Claudia Giovine	6: 0, 6: 3
14th	January 11, 2015	Antalya	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Elke Tiel	4-0 task
15th	February 8, 2015	Antalya	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Sopia Kwazabaia	6: 2, 6: 0
16.	April 26, 2015	Santa Margherita di Pula	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Alizé Lim	6: 4, 6: 3
17th	August 30, 2015	Bagnatica	ITF $ 15,000	sand	Tamara Zidanšek	2: 6, 6: 1, 6: 2
18th	5th October 2015	Santa Margherita di Pula	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Camilla Rosatello	6: 1, 6: 3
19th	February 7, 2016	Antalya	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Viktória Kužmová	2: 6, 6: 2, 6: 0
20th	February 14, 2016	Antalya	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Sopia Kwazabaia	6: 3, 6: 1
21st	March 13, 2016	Antalya	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Anastasija Wassyljewa	6: 3, 6: 3

Double

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Partner	Final opponents	Result
1.	July 16, 2006	Birkerød	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Julia Paetow	Karina Jacobsgaard Hanne Skak Jensen	7: 5, 6: 1
2.	March 3, 2012	Antalya-Kaya Belek	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Claudia Giovine	Sanaz Marand Nicola Slater	6: 3, 3: 6, [10: 7]
3.	March 3, 2013	Antalya	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Gioia Barbieri	Lenka Juríková Chantal Škamlová	4: 6, 6: 3, [10: 4]
4th	October 11, 2014	Santa Margherita di Pula	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Lisa Sabino	Anna Klasen Charlotte Klasen	6: 4, 5: 7, [10: 6]
5.	January 18, 2015	Antalya	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Lenka Wienerová	Audrey Albié Alice Bacquié	6: 4, 6: 4
6th	November 16, 2015	Bratislava	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Dalila Jakupović	Michaela Hončová Chantal Škamlová	6: 7, 6: 2, [10: 8]
7th	April 30, 2016	Chiasso	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Antonia Lottner	Olga Brózda Katarzyna Kawa	6: 1, 6: 1
8th.	June 11, 2016	eat	ITF $ 50,000	sand	Laura Pous Tio	Elyne Boeyken's Elena-Gabriela Ruse	6: 2, 6: 3

Web links

• WTA profile of Anne Schäfer (English)
• ITF profile of Anne Schäfer (English)