Kaia Kanepi

Kaia Kanepi
Kaia Kanepi at Wimbledon 2013
Nation:	Estonia
Birthday:	June 10, 1985
Size:	181 cm
Weight:	74 kg
1st professional season:	2000
Playing hand:	Right, two-handed backhand
Prize money:	$ 6,249,710
singles
Career record:	500: 293
Career title:	4 WTA , 14 ITF
Highest ranking:	15 (August 20, 2012)
Current placement:	99
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	46:63
Career title:	0 WTA, 2 ITF
Highest ranking:	106 (June 6, 2011)
Current placement:	1183
Grand Slam record
Last update of the infobox: August 26, 2019
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Kaia Kanepi (born June 10, 1985 in Haapsalu ) is an Estonian tennis player .

Career

Kaia Kanepi, who started playing tennis at the age of eight, benefits most from her powerful baseline game . Their preferred terrain is the clay court . As a junior, she won six individual titles on the ITF Women's Circuit . She was number one in the world before moving to professional life in 2000.

At the French Open 2006 Kanepi was in the main field of a Grand Slam tournament for the first time and immediately moved into the second round. In the same year she reached in Hasselt out of the qualification and as the first tennis player in Estonia ever the final of a WTA tournament, in which she had to admit defeat Kim Clijsters in three sets.

The next leap in performance followed in 2008 when she advanced to the quarter-finals of a Grand Slam tournament for the first time at the French Open , where she was able to record her first of a total of eleven successes against top 10 players with her victory over Anna Tschakwetadze . In the same year she reached her second WTA final in Tokyo , where she lost to Caroline Wozniacki . In 2008 she was voted Sportswoman of the Year in her Estonian homeland . Despite sporadic good results, Kanepi found it difficult to consistently call up her performance potential. After a mixed season in 2009 she drew attention again in 2010 when she moved out of qualification and without losing a set in the quarter-finals of Wimbledon , where she was defeated in a closely contested match by Petra Kvitová . A little later, on her third attempt, she won her first WTA title in Palermo in the final against Flavia Pennetta and thus became the first first woman to succeed in winning a WTA tournament. At the following US Open , she confirmed her ascending condition with another jump into the round of eight.

But even in 2011, Kanepi failed to match the good results of the previous season, also due to minor injury problems, and fell back in the world rankings. Only at the end of the year did I get back to the finals at the Kremlin Cup in Moscow, but lost there against Dominika Cibulková . Kanepi preserved her good form over the subsequent break of the season and won her second individual title in Brisbane in January 2012 , followed by the triumph in Oeiras against Carla Suárez Navarro and her second place in the quarter-finals of the French Open in May . Due to an injury to the Achilles tendon, she had to cancel participation in Wimbledon and the Summer Olympics in London. Nevertheless, she reached her highest position in the world rankings with number 15 in August and when she returned to the tour in September she immediately reached the final in Seoul , but there was no chance against Caroline Wozniacki.

In 2013, she was only able to return to the WTA tour in April due to persistent problems with the Achilles tendon. Nevertheless, after a two-sentence win over Peng Shuai , she was able to win her fourth and so far last WTA title in Brussels and then another quarter-finals at Wimbledon . Over the next three years, the Estonian, plagued by plantar fasciitis in both feet and a protracted illness from glandular glandular fever , continuously fell back in the world rankings and even ended the 2016 season outside the top 300.

After making her comeback on the ITF tour in June 2017 after a one-year injury break, she made it to the quarter-finals as a qualifier at the US Open . The following season, she surprised again in New York when she eliminated world number one Simona Halep in two sets in the first round , before losing to Serena Williams in the fourth round . At the French Open 2019 , she was in the second week of a Grand Slam tournament for the last time. No longer able to play a full tournament calendar, she ended the season just outside the top 100.

For the Estonian Fed Cup team she has played 56 games since 2000, of which she won 41 (double balance: 13: 4).

Tournament victories

singles

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	June 25, 2000	Tallinn	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Margit Rüütel	6: 1, 6: 2
2.	June 17, 2001	Tallinn	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Ľubomíra Kurhajcová	7: 6 4 , 6: 3
3.	June 8, 2003	Galatina	ITF $ 25,000	sand	María José Martínez Sánchez	6: 3, 6: 3
4th	September 13, 2003	Turin	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Mervana Jugic-Salkic	6: 3, 6: 3
5.	February 16, 2004	Sunderland	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court (hall)	Anna Chakvetadze	7: 6 5 , 6: 0
6th	4th July 2005	Fanø	ITF $ 75,000	sand	Melinda Czink	3: 6, 6: 1, 7: 5
7th	May 2, 2010	Cagnes-sur-Mer	ITF $ 100,000	sand	Maša Zec Peškirič	6: 3, 6: 2
8th.	May 16, 2010	Saint-Gaudens	ITF $ 50,000	sand	Zhang Shuai	6: 2, 7: 5
9.	July 18, 2010	Palermo	WTA International	sand	Flavia Pennetta	6: 4, 6: 3
10.	January 7, 2012	Brisbane	WTA Premier	Hard court	Daniela Hantuchová	6: 2, 6: 1
11.	May 5, 2012	Oeiras	WTA International	sand	Carla Suarez Navarro	3: 6, 7: 6 6 , 6: 4
12.	May 25, 2013	Brussels	WTA Premier	sand	Peng Shuai	6: 2, 7: 5
13.	July 12, 2014	Biarritz	ITF $ 100,000	sand	Teliana Pereira	6: 2, 6: 4
14th	19th December 2015	Bangkok	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Patty Schnyder	6: 3, 6: 3
15th	June 10, 2017	eat	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Patty Schnyder	6: 3, 6: 7 5 , 2: 0 task
16.	29th July 2017	Parnu	ITF $ 15,000	sand	Polina Golubovskaya	6: 1, 6: 0
17th	5th November 2017	Nantes	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court (hall)	Richèl Hogenkamp	6: 3, 6: 4
18th	June 10, 2018	Brescia	ITF $ 60,000	sand	Martina Trevisan	6: 4, 6: 3

Double

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Partner	Final opponents	Result
1.	October 11, 2003	jersey	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court (hall)	Sofia Arvidsson	Yvonne Meusburger Hanna Nooni	6: 3, 7: 5
2.	July 14, 2007	Biella	ITF $ 100,000	sand	Maret Ani	Mervana Jugić-Salkić Renata Voráčová	6: 4, 6: 1

Performing in Grand Slam tournaments

singles

competition	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2017	2018	2019	2020	Career
Australian Open	-	2	1	3	2	2	2	-	1	1	-	3	1	1	3
French Open	2	1	VF	1	2	3	VF	2	1	1	-	1	AF		VF
Wimbledon	1	2	1	1	VF	1	-	VF	2	1	-	1	2		VF
US Open	3	1	2	1	VF	2	-	3	AF	2	VF	AF	2		VF

Double

competition	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2018	Career
Australian Open	-	1	-	1	1	2	2	-	2	-	2
French Open	1	1	1	2	-	2	AF	-	AF	-	AF
Wimbledon	1	1	AF	AF	2	-	-	-	1	2	AF
US Open	1	1	1	1	1	-	-	1	-	1	1

Awards

• 2008: Estonia's Sportswoman of the Year

Web links

Commons : Kaia Kanepi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• WTA profile Kaia Kanepi (English)
• ITF profile of Kaia Kanepi (English)
• Fed Cup stats by Kaia Kanepi (English)
• Kaia Kanepi's website

Individual evidence

1. ^ Kanepi Pulls Out of Olympics. In: news.err.ee. July 18, 2012, accessed July 2, 2020 . 
2. ^ Catching up with Kaia Kanepi. In: wtatennis.com. August 30, 2017, accessed on July 2, 2020 .