Danka Kovinić

Danka Kovinić
Danka Kovinić at Wimbledon in 2016
Nation:	Montenegro
Birthday:	18th November 1994 (age 25)
Size:	169 cm
Weight:	67 kg
1st professional season:	2010
Playing hand:	Right, two-handed backhand
Trainer:	Svetko Bjelotomić Veljko Radojičić
Prize money:	$ 1,577,661
singles
Career record:	304: 233
Career title:	0 WTA , 12 ITF
Highest ranking:	46 (February 22, 2016)
Current placement:	91
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	122: 112
Career title:	1 WTA, 4 ITF
Highest ranking:	67 (June 20, 2016)
Current placement:	161
Grand Slam record
Last update of the infobox: March 16, 2020
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Danka Kovinić (born November 18, 1994 in Herceg Novi ) is a Montenegrin tennis player .

Career

Kovinić started playing tennis at the age of seven and was one of the best in her class in the junior division. Her greatest success with the juniors was reaching the quarter-finals at the Australian Open 2011 in singles and in the following year she made it into the double-finals alongside Irina Chromatschowa . At the beginning of 2012 she achieved her highest position in the world junior rankings with eighth place .

In 2009, Kovinić gained her first experience in small tournaments of the ITF Women's Circuit , where she has won 12 singles and four doubles titles so far. In 2012 she won a tournament in the $ 25,000 category for the first time in Torun and two more titles in Sweden the following year. In July 2013, she played her first ever WTA tournament in Budapest and after two victories she went straight to the quarter-finals, which she lost to Chanelle Scheepers 6: 4, 0: 6, 6: 7. Kovinić made her first appearance in a qualifying tournament of a Grand Slam at the US Open 2013 , where she was eliminated in the second round. In 2014 she started regularly in smaller WTA tournaments and celebrated her biggest title on the ITF tour in Saint-Gaudens . In Paris , Kovinić managed to jump into the main draw of a Grand Slam for the first time after three victories in qualifying; However, in the first round she lost to Kirsten Flipkens . At the premier tournament in Charleston , she reached the quarter-finals in April 2015, in which she was defeated by Andrea Petković . Three weeks later she was also in the quarter-finals in Prague , which she lost again in three sets against Yanina Wickmayer . This was followed by triumph at the $ 100,000 ITF tournament in Trnava and at the 2015 French Open, her first victory in the main draw of a Grand Slam tournament against Klára Koukalová . After another major round success at the US Open and reaching her first WTA Tour final at the Tianjin Open 2015 , in which she lost 1: 6 and 2: 6 to Agnieszka Radwańska without a chance, she finished the season confidently in the top 100 of the world rankings .

In February 2016, following her first entry into the second round of the Australian Open , she reached her highest position to date with 46th place. The first round defeats on the WTA Tour increased afterwards, but with the final participation in the TEB BNP Paribas İstanbul Cup 2016 , where she lost to Çağla Büyükakçay in three sets, she was able to another semi-final in Tianjin as well as winning the big ITF tournament in Marseille achieve further respectable successes. In Madrid , in the first round against Roberta Vinci, she also managed her first and so far only win against a top 10 player. After a series of ten lost games in spring 2017, Kovinić returned increasingly to the ITF tour, where she failed to win a title in four finals and so dropped out of the top 100 in the world rankings. After an even weaker season in 2018, she went to work in the second half of 2019 again strong results on the ITF Tour and the WTA Challenger Series , where they in the final game of, among other Bastad came they against Misaki Doi lost before she could win her twelfth ITF title in Székesfehérvár in the final against Irina-Camelia Begu . In Melbourne , after a break of more than two years and missing nine qualifications in a row, she was back in the main draw of a Grand Slam tournament, but had to admit defeat to Elise Mertens in the first round .

Since 2011 Kovinić has been playing for the Montenegrin Fed Cup team with great success ; she has won 21 of her 28 Fed Cup games to date.

Tournament victories

singles

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	October 10, 2010	Dobrich	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Isabella Schinikova	6: 4, 6: 3
2.	June 26, 2011	Bals	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Alice-Andrada Radu	6-0, 6-1
3.	April 13, 2012	Tlemcen	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Alexandra Romanova	6: 2, 6: 2
4th	July 8, 2012	Toruń	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Paula Kania	6: 3, 4: 6, 6: 3
5.	June 22, 2013	Ystad	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Melanie Klaffner	6: 3, 6: 3
6th	30th of June 2013	Kristinehamn	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Jasmina Tinjić	6: 1, 7: 5
7th	May 18, 2014	Saint-Gaudens	ITF $ 50,000 + H	sand	Pauline Parmentier	6: 1, 6: 2
8th.	May 10, 2015	Trnava	ITF $ 100,000	sand	Margarita Gasparjan	7: 5, 6: 3
9.	5th June 2016	Marseille	ITF $ 100,000	sand	Hsieh Su-wei	6: 2, 6: 3
10.	March 31, 2019	Campinas	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Julia Grabher	6: 2, 3: 6, 6: 3
11.	June 23, 2019	Ystad	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Richèl Hogenkamp	2: 6, 6: 3, 6: 3
12.	October 27, 2019	Székesfehérvár	ITF $ 100,000	Sand (hall)	Irina-Camelia Begu	6: 4, 3: 6, 6: 3

Double

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Partner	Final opponents	Result
1.	May 24, 2013	Caserta	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Renata Voráčová	Elena Bogdan Cristina Dinu	6: 4, 7: 6 3
2.	February 13, 2015	São Paulo	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Andreea Mitu	Tatiana Búa Paula Cristina Gonçalves	6: 2, 7: 5
3.	July 11, 2015	Contrexéville	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Oksana Kalashnikova	Irina Ramialison Constance Sibille	2: 6, 6: 3, [10: 6]
4th	July 26, 2015	Bad Gastein	WTA International	sand	Stephanie Vogt	Lara Arruabarrena Vecino Lucie Hradecká	4: 6, 6: 4, [10: 3]
5.	March 30, 2019	Campinas	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Laura Pigossi	Carolina M. Alves Gabriela Cé	6: 3, 6: 2

Performing in Grand Slam tournaments

singles

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

Web links

Commons : Danka Kovinić  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• WTA profile Danka Kovinić (English)
• ITF profile Danka Kovinić (English)
• Fed Cup stats by Danka Kovinić (English)