Carina Witthöft

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Carina Witthöft Tennis player
Carina Witthöft
At the French Open (2018)
Nation: GermanyGermany Germany
Birthday: February 16, 1995
Size: 176 cm
Weight: 68 kg
Playing hand: Right, two-handed backhand
Trainer: Philip Lang
Prize money: $ 1,967,633
singles
Career record: 271: 183
Career title: 1 WTA , 11 ITF
Highest ranking: 48 (January 8, 2018)
Grand Slam record
Grand Slam title: 00000  0
Australian Open 3R (2015)
French Open 3R (2017)
Wimbledon 3R (2016, 2017)
US Open 3R (2016)
Double
Career record: 17:47
Career title: 0 WTA, 1 ITF
Highest ranking: 168 (July 16, 2018)
Grand Slam record
Grand Slam title: 00000  0
Australian Open 2R (2018)
French Open 2R (2018)
Wimbledon 1R (2015, 2017, 2018)
US Open 2R (2017)
Last update of the infobox:
March 16, 2020
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Carina Witthöft (born February 16, 1995 in Wentorf near Hamburg ) is a German tennis player .

Career

Witthöft started playing tennis at the age of five and prefers hard courts. She has won 12 individual titles so far, including 11 on the ITF Women's World Tennis Tour and one WTA title.

2011 to 2013

On April 30, 2011 Witthöft celebrated her first tournament victory at the ITF tournament in Zell am Harmersbach . In the summer of 2012 he won the ITF tournaments in Ystad and Wrexham . In July 2012 she made her debut at the Sony Swedish Open 2012 on the WTA Tour ; in the qualification she had prevailed against Marina Shamayko , Oqgul Omonmurodova and Jill Craybas . She lost to Kateryna Bondarenko in the first round . In June 2013 she was in the main draw of a Grand Slam tournament for the first time at Wimbledon . After surviving the qualification, she lost her first round game against Kimiko Date-Krumm with 0: 6, 2: 6. In August 2013 she won her fourth ITF title at the tournament in Hechingen .

2014 to 2016

From 2014 she was trained by Thorben Beltz. With victories over Melanie Klaffner , Anastassija Rodionowa and Alizé Lim , she qualified for the Australian Open , where she lost to Mandy Minella in the first round . In Roland Garros , Wimbledon and at the US Open , she failed in the qualification. Witthöft won four ITF tournaments this year: in August she defended her title in Hechingen , in September she won the tournaments in Barnstaple and Saint-Malo and in October she won the tournament in Joué-lès-Tours by beating Urszula Radwańska in the final . Then she was in the top 100 of the world rankings for the first time.

At the start of the 2015 season, she played the qualifications of the WTA tournaments in Shenzhen and Hobart and was eliminated in the opening round. At the Australian Open , where she was directly qualified for the main draw of a Grand Slam tournament for the first time, she achieved her greatest success to date. After victories over Carla Suárez Navarro and Christina McHale , she was in the third round, in which she then had to admit defeat to Irina-Camelia Begu . In Kuala Lumpur she reached the quarterfinals of a WTA tournament for the first time in her career, in which she was defeated by Caroline Wozniacki .

In 2016 she was eliminated in the first round at the Australian Open and the French Open , but reached the third round for the first time at Wimbledon and the US Open . At the WTA tournament in Gstaad , she was again in a quarter-finals.

First WTA title in 2017

After leaving the Australian Open in the second round against Angelique Kerber , she reached the semi-finals of a WTA tournament in Budapest for the first time. In October 2017 she won her first WTA title at the tournament in Luxembourg with a final victory over Mónica Puig .

Time out from 2019

Carina Witthöft played her last full professional season in 2018, the last tournament was the Australian Open 2019 , where she gave up her first round match against Conny Perrin with a score of 1: 5 in the first set. Since October 2019 it has not been included in the world rankings.

Witthöft canceled a planned comeback to the ITF Altenkirchen in February 2020 at short notice.

National successes

Witthöft became the youngest Hamburg women's champion in 2009 at the age of 14 .

From 2012 to 2019 Witthöft competed for her home club Der Club an der Alster in the tennis Bundesliga , from 2012 to 2015 and 2019 in the 2nd division and 2016 to 2018 in the 1st division .

In December 2016 she won the national German indoor tennis championships 2016 in women's singles.

In 2017 she played two doubles at Laura Siegemund's side for the German Fed Cup team , both of which were lost.

Tournament victories

singles

No. date competition category Topping Final opponent Result
1. April 30, 2011 GermanyGermany Zell am Harmersbach ITF $ 10,000 sand GermanyGermany Vanessa Henke 4: 6, 6: 3, 6: 4
2. June 30, 2012 SwedenSweden Ystad ITF $ 25,000 sand RussiaRussia Valery Solovyova 6: 2, 6: 1
3. July 29, 2012 United KingdomUnited Kingdom Wrexham ITF $ 25,000 Hard court CroatiaCroatia Donna Vekic 6: 2, 6: 7 7 , 6: 2
4th August 11, 2013 GermanyGermany Hechingen ITF $ 25,000 sand FranceFrance Laura Thorpe 6: 1, 6: 4
5. August 10, 2014 GermanyGermany Hechingen ITF $ 25,000 sand GermanyGermany Laura Siegemund 4: 6, 6: 4, 6: 3
6th September 7, 2014 United KingdomUnited Kingdom Barnstaple ITF $ 25,000 Hard court (hall) SwitzerlandSwitzerland Viktorija Golubic 6: 2, 6: 4
7th September 14, 2014 FranceFrance Saint Malo ITF $ 50,000 sand ItalyItaly Alberta Brianti 6-0, 6-1
8th. 19th October 2014 FranceFrance Joué-lès-Tours ITF $ 50,000 Hard court (hall) PolandPoland Urszula Radwańska 6: 3, 7: 6 6
9. February 22, 2015 GermanyGermany Altenkirchen ITF $ 25,000 Carpet (hall) GermanyGermany Antonia Lottner 6: 3, 6: 3
10. May 10, 2015 FranceFrance Cagnes-sur-Mer ITF $ 100,000 sand GermanyGermany Tatiana Maria 7: 5, 6: 1
11. July 12, 2015 GermanyGermany Versmold ITF $ 50,000 sand SwedenSweden Johanna Larsson 6: 3, 6: 3
12. October 21, 2017 LuxembourgLuxembourg Luxembourg WTA International Hard court (hall) Puerto RicoPuerto Rico Mónica Puig 6: 3, 7: 5

Double

No. date competition category Topping Partner Final opponents Result
1. September 7, 2014 United KingdomUnited Kingdom Barnstaple ITF $ 25,000 Hard court (hall) FranceFrance Alizé Lim SwitzerlandSwitzerland Viktorija Golubic Diāna Marcinkēviča
LatviaLatvia  		6: 2, 6: 1

Performing in Grand Slam tournaments

singles

competition 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 Career
Australian Open - 1 3 1 2 1 3
French Open Q2 Q3 2 1 3 1 3
Wimbledon 1 Q2 1 3 3 1 3
US Open Q1 Q3 1 3 1 2 3

Double

competition 2015 2016 2017 2018 Career
Australian Open - 1 1 2 2
French Open - - 1 2 2
Wimbledon 1 - 1 1 1
US Open - 1 2 - 2

Personal

Witthöft's father runs several tennis facilities in Hamburg. Her sister, who is three years older than her, studies fashion and, like her, has been playing for the club on the Alster since 2010 in the first and second Bundesliga. At the Hechingen Ladies Open 2013 , the two sisters competed in the main field of doubles, but lost in the first round.

Influencer

It has been marketed in social media by the Hamburg media agency Jung von Matt / Sports since 2017 . Her self-chosen break from tennis from January 2019 and marketing outside of her tennis career earned her increasing criticism from fans and the media.

Web links

Commons : Carina Witthöft  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Qualified! Witthoeft celebrates Wimbledon premiere. In: kicker.de . June 20, 2013, accessed September 7, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Carina Witthöft attacks with ex-Kerber trainer Beltz. In: Hamburger Abendblatt . March 12, 2014, accessed September 7, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Hamburg's tennis hope Carina Witthöft missed the French Open. In: Hamburger Abendblatt. May 26, 2014, accessed September 7, 2014 .
  4. ↑ Carina Witthöft wins first WTA title in Luxembourg In: Eurosport . October 21, 2017. Retrieved October 21, 2017.
  5. ↑ Carina Witthöft in an interview: The return to professional business is in the stars (focus.de from December 4, 2019, accessed on May 10, 2020)
  6. ↑ All the best and the question: Is there anything else coming, Carina? . mytennis.info from February 16, 2020, accessed on May 10, 2020.
  7. ↑ WTA: But no comeback - Carina Witthöft cancels Altenkirchen (tennisnet.com from February 19, 2020, accessed on May 10, 2020)
  8. ↑ With talent and will to the top. In: The world . January 8, 2012, accessed September 7, 2014 .
  9. ↑ a b c Carina Witthöft on her tennis break "You are surrounded by people who don't treat you to anything" (spiegel.de from July 21, 2019, accessed on May 10, 2020)
  10. ↑ a b The Carina Witthöft case: When sports stars fall into the influencer trap (absatzwirtschaft.de of February 21, 2019, accessed on May 10, 2020)
  11. ↑ The Club an der Alster eV (04004) women, summer 2019 (dtb.liga.nu, accessed on May 14, 2020)
personal data
SURNAME Witthöft, Carina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1995
PLACE OF BIRTH Wentorf near Hamburg , Germany