Dinah Pfizenmaier

Dinah Pfizenmaier
Dinah Pfizenmaier at the 2015 French Open
Nickname:	Pfizi
Nation:	Germany
Birthday:	13th January 1992 (age 28)
Size:	171 cm
Weight:	63 kg
1st professional season:	2011
Playing hand:	Right, two-handed backhand
Trainer:	Michael Schmidtmann
Prize money:	$ 489,829
singles
Career record:	171: 106
Career title:	0 WTA , 9 ITF
Highest ranking:	79 (March 17, 2014)
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	31:31
Career title:	0 WTA, 2 ITF
Highest ranking:	245 (February 2, 2015)
Last update of the infobox: March 9, 2020
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Dinah Pfizenmaier (born January 13, 1992 in Bielefeld ) is a German tennis player .

Career

Pfizenmaier, who prefers the clay court, started playing tennis when she was eight. In summer 2011 she passed her Abitur at the municipal high school in Kamen ; in the same year she became German champion among the active for the first time. In her professional career, she has won nine singles and two doubles titles at ITF tournaments so far .

2008 to 2011

Pfizenmaier played her first tournament in 2008 at the ITF Women's Circuit in Versmold , where she was eliminated in the first round. In 2009 she managed only one win in Mallorca against Avgusta Tsybysheva in five games . The year 2010 she also finished five matches without a win.

In 2011 she made her breakthrough at the ITF level. First, she reached the semi-finals in Knokke-Heist in July , after playing through qualifying. A week later she reached the final in Tampere without losing a set , where she lost to Piia Suomalainen 5: 7 and 0: 6. This was followed by two quarter-finals in Savitaipale and Versmold and a semi-final in Ratingen , before Pfizenmaier won her first ITF title in Braunschweig without giving up a set. The following tournament in Rotterdam , where she started as a qualifier, she also won. Two more titles followed in Plovdiv and Netanya , the latter on hard court. Thus Pfizenmaier had won four tournaments in a row. In early November she played another tournament in Ismaning , where she reached the quarter-finals, and a series of tournaments in Helsinki , in which she was eliminated relatively early.

2012

The year 2012 began for Pfizenmaier with a first round defeat in Stuttgart . A week later she won the tournament in Kaarst on carpet without losing a set, reached the quarter-finals in Moscow and won another tournament in Phuket , where she beat four seeded players without losing a set and won her first indoor title. Pfizenmaier first played on the WTA Tour at the WTA tournament in Barcelona ; in qualification, however, she failed in three sets to Elena Bogdan . In Stuttgart , too , she did not get past the first qualifying round and lost to Russian Anastassija Piwowarowa 4: 7 and 6: 7.

At the French Open , she played the qualification for a Grand Slam tournament for the first time . In the first two qualifying rounds she defeated Kristýna Plíšková 2: 6, 6: 2, 6: 1 and the Japanese Misaki Doi, who was seeded in 7th position, 6: 4, 3: 6 and 6: 2. In the qualifying final she defeated Mónica Puig from Puerto Rico 5: 7, 7: 5 and 6: 2 and thus reached the main draw of a Grand Slam tournament for the first time. Here she defeated the French Caroline Garcia 3: 6, 6: 4 and 6: 3 in the first round , before she had to admit defeat to the world number one Wiktoryja Asaranka with 1: 6 and 1: 6.

2013

The year 2013 began for Dinah Pfizenmaier with the elimination in the first qualifying round of the Australian Open against Monique Adamczak from Australia. At the Copa Bionaire 2013 she was eliminated in the opening round of the main draw against Alexandra Dulgheru 7: 6, ¹⁰ , 5: 7 and 3: 6. A week later, she played her way into the qualifying final of the WTA tournament in Bogotá , which she lost to Teliana Pereira . She won her first title in 2013 as the top seed at the ITF tournament in Mallorca. She won her next title in Spanish torrent. In April she survived the qualification at the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix in Stuttgart, but was eliminated in the first round against Nadja Petrowa . At the $ 50,000 ITF tournament in Saint-Gaudens, France, she was only defeated in the final by the Argentine Paula Ormaechea .

As in 2012, she achieved her greatest success of the season at the French Open in Paris. After surviving the qualification, she first defeated Mandy Minella from Luxembourg . In round two there was a two-set victory over Urszula Radwańska from Poland , before she also lost in two sets to her older sister Agnieszka Radwańska . In the further course of the season she was eliminated in the first round at WTA Nuremberg and in the first qualifying round of Wimbledon . In July she won her third title of the season in Versmold, before narrowly losing the quarter-finals to Klára Zakopalová in Palermo, Italy . At the WTA tournament in Båstad , she was eliminated against Teliana Pereira. Against the world number three Wiktoryja Asaranka she lost at the US Open with 0: 6 and 0: 6. At the penultimate WTA tournament of the season in Linz , she failed in the qualification. At the WTA tournament in Taipei she reached the semi-finals after victories over Misaki Doi , Stéphanie Dubois and Katarzyna Piter , which she lost against the eventual winner Alison Van Uytvanck 6: 7, ⁵ and 3: 6.

Since 2014

At the French Open 2015, Pfizenmaier was eliminated in singles after successfully qualifying in the first round against Sarina Dijas . She did not play her next match until 2016, when she lost to Valeria Strachova in the first qualifying round of the US Open . There was another long break until she started at the WTA tournament in Stuttgart in April 2017 , where she was eliminated in the second qualifying round. Pfizenmaier played her last international tournament so far in August 2017. She is therefore no longer in the world rankings.

Tournament victories

singles

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	August 28, 2011	Braunschweig	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Syna Kayser	7: 6 5 , 6: 1
2.	September 18, 2011	Rotterdam	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Stephanie Vogt	3: 6, 6: 1, 6: 1
3.	October 2, 2011	Plovdiv	ITF $ 10,000	Hard court	Jovana Jakšić	6: 4, 6: 4
4th	October 29, 2011	Netanya	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Çağla Büyükakçay	7: 6 5 , 4: 6, 6: 1
5.	January 29, 2012	Kaarst	ITF $ 10,000	Carpet (hall)	Alison Van Uytvanck	6: 4, 6: 4
6th	March 24, 2012	Phuket	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Noppawan Lertcheewakarn	6: 2, 6: 4
7th	March 3, 2013	Mallorca	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Anastasia Grymalska	6: 4, 4: 6, 7: 5
8th.	April 7, 2013	Torrent	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Justine Ozga	6: 3, 6: 1
9.	July 7, 2013	Versmold	ITF $ 50,000	sand	Maryna Sanewska	6: 4, 4: 6, 6: 4

Double

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Partner	Final opponents	Result
1.	October 2, 2011	Plovdiv	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Julia Wachaczyk	Clelia Melena Stefanie Rubini	6: 4, 7: 5
2.	February 16, 2014	São Paulo	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Beatriz García Vidagany	Mariana Duque Mariño Paula Cristina Gonçalves	7: 6 8 , 4: 6, [10: 8]

Performing in Grand Slam tournaments

singles

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

Web links

Commons : Dinah Pfizenmaier  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• WTA profile Dinah Pfizenmaier (English)
• ITF profile of Dinah Pfizenmaier (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kirstin Krelle: Pfizenmaier and Struff are German champions 2011. In: Website of the German Tennis Association . November 12, 2011, accessed July 3, 2013 .