Annika Beck

Annika Beck
Annika Beck 2015 at the French Open
Nation:	Germany
Birthday:	February 16, 1994
Size:	170 cm
Weight:	59 kg
1st professional season:	2009
Resignation:	2018
Playing hand:	Right, two-handed backhand
Trainer:	Randolf Fischer
Prize money:	$ 2,254,932
singles
Career record:	251: 189
Career title:	2 WTA , 7 ITF
Highest ranking:	37 (July 18, 2016)
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	28:61
Career title:	1 WTA, 0 ITF
Highest ranking:	84 (July 18, 2016)
Grand Slam record
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Annika Beck (born February 16, 1994 in Giessen ) is a former German tennis player .

Career

Beck, who started playing tennis at the age of five, prefers the hard court . On January 31, 2010 she won her first ITF tournament in Kaarst when she defeated Audrey Bergot from France 6: 2 and 7: 5 in the final.

On April 10, 2012, she made her debut at the tournament in Copenhagen on the WTA Tour with a two-set defeat against Petra Martić (4-6, 4-6). In June she was the first German after Anna-Lena Grönefeld , the winner of 2003, to reach the finals of the Roland Garros junior women competition . There she defeated the Slovak Anna Karolína Schmiedlová 3: 6, 7: 5, 6: 3. In June 2012 Beck managed to move into the main draw of a Grand Slam tournament for the first time at Wimbledon . She met Wolha Hawarzowa in the first round , to whom she lost 3: 6, 6: 3, 3: 6. With her six ITF titles in 2012, four of them from August to November, Beck achieved 78th place in the individual world rankings . In addition, she became German champion at the end of the year when she beat Antonia Lottner 6-1 and 6-0 in the final .

In 2013 she made her debut in the German Fed Cup team against France . She competed in doubles with Anna-Lena Grönefeld . They lost to the French pairing Alizé Cornet / Kristina Mladenovic 3: 6, 4: 6. In the same year she reached the semifinals of a WTA tournament in Katowice for the first time in her career . There she lost to Roberta Vinci 1: 6, 0: 6. In 2013, the quarter-finals at the Nuremberg Insurance Cup as well as at the WTA tournaments in Budapest and the following week in Bad Gastein were worth mentioning . Due to her improved world ranking, she took part in all four Grand Slam tournaments in 2013 and reached the second round three times.

The year 2014 began at the WTA tournament in Shenzhen , where she was eliminated in the semifinals against the later winner Li Na . In Hobart she failed in the first round, at the Australian Open she lost to Ana Ivanović in round two . As in the previous year, she reached the final at the WTA tournament in Luxembourg, where she defeated Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová 6: 2, 6: 1 and thus won her first title on the WTA Tour. In the Grand Slam tournaments, she only reached the second round at the Australian Open this year , otherwise she lost her opening encounters.

At the French Open in 2015 she was in the third round of a Grand Slam tournament for the first time; in the first round she managed a three-set victory over Agnieszka Radwańska , in the other she lost her first round games. In August in Florianópolis she won the doubles competition with Laura Siegemund and thus her first WTA title in doubles. In the individual final she was defeated there by Teliana Pereira 4: 6, 6: 4 and 1: 6. In September, she secured her second title on the tour at the WTA tournament in Québec with a final victory over Jeļena Ostapenko .

At the Australian Open in 2016, after winning over Priscilla Hon , Timea Bacsinszky and Laura Siegemund , she reached the round of 16 for the first time in a Grand Slam tournament, in which she lost to the eventual winner Angelique Kerber . In Roland Garros and Wimbledon she reached the third round each. She did not reach the final at a WTA tournament this year, in Nuremberg she reached the semi-finals.

Beck ended her career in October 2018 in favor of her medical degree .

successes

singles

Tournament victories

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	January 31, 2010	Kaarst	ITF $ 10,000	Carpet (hall)	Audrey Bergot	6: 2, 7: 5
2.	February 26, 2012	Moscow	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court (hall)	Kirsten Flipkens	6: 1, 7: 5
3.	July 8, 2012	Versmold	ITF $ 50,000	sand	Anastasija Sevastova	6: 3, 6: 1
4th	August 12, 2012	Koksijde	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Bibiane Schoofs	6: 1, 6: 1
5.	22nd September 2012	Shrewsbury	ITF $ 75,000	Hard court (hall)	Stefanie Vögele	6: 2, 6: 4
6th	October 28, 2012	Ismaning	ITF $ 75,000	Carpet (hall)	Eva Birnerová	6: 3, 7: 6 8
7th	4th November 2012	Barnstaple	ITF $ 75,000	Hard court (hall)	Eleni Daniilidou	6: 7 1 , 6: 2, 6: 2
8th.	October 18, 2014	Luxembourg	WTA International	Hard court (hall)	Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová	6: 2, 6: 1
9.	20th September 2015	Quebec	WTA International	Carpet (hall)	Jeļena Ostapenko	6: 2, 6: 2

Final participation

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Tournament winner	Result
1	20th October 2013	Luxembourg	WTA International	Hard court (hall)	Caroline Wozniacki	2: 6, 2: 6
2	August 1, 2015	Florianópolis	WTA International	sand	Teliana Pereira	4: 6, 6: 4, 1: 6

Double

Tournament victory

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Partner	Final opponents	Result
1	July 31, 2015	Florianópolis	WTA International	sand	Laura Siegemund	María Irigoyen Paula Kania	6: 3, 7: 6 1

Performing in Grand Slam tournaments

singles

competition	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	Career
Australian Open	-	2	2	1	AF	1	AF
French Open	-	2	1	3	3	1	3
Wimbledon	1	2	1	1	3	1	3
US Open	-	1	1	1	2	1	2

Double

competition	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	Career
Australian Open	-	1	2	1	1	2	2
French Open	-	1	2	2	1	1	2
Wimbledon	-	1	1	Q2	2	-	2
US Open	-	1	1	1	1	-	1

Web links

Commons : Annika Beck  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• WTA profile of Annika Beck (English)
• ITF profile of Annika Beck (English)
• Fed Cup stats by Annika Beck (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Juniors: Beck wins in Paris . Sport1.de , June 10, 2012, accessed on January 23, 2016
2. ↑ Annika Beck fails at Grand Slam premiere . sid message on Welt.de , June 27, 2012, accessed on January 23, 2016
3. ↑ Annika Beck wins German championship . Rheinische Post , December 21, 2012, accessed on January 23, 2016
4. ↑ Draws and Results: France 1: 3 Germany. World Group II 1st Round . fedcup.com, accessed January 23, 2016.
5. ↑ Annika Beck fails in the semi-finals . ( Memento of the original from April 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. sid message on handelsblatt.com , April 13, 2013, accessed January 24, 2016.  
6. ↑ WTA Luxemburg - Beck makes the first title perfect . ( Memento of the original from October 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. sid message on yahoo.com , October 18, 2014, accessed January 23, 2016  
7. ↑ Second title for Annika Beck . kicker.de , September 20, 2015, accessed on January 23, 2016
8. ↑ Nikolas Fink: WTA: Annika Beck announces the end of her career - medical studies instead of tennis. In: spox.com. October 21, 2018, accessed October 21, 2018 .