Katharina Kruger

Katharina Kruger
Katharina Krüger 2014
Nation:	Germany
Birthday:	January 3, 1990
Playing hand:	Right
singles
Career record:	461: 293
Highest ranking:	6 (August 24, 2009)
Current placement:	8th
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	329: 241
Highest ranking:	5 (February 2, 2009)
Current placement:	10
Grand Slam record
Last update of the infobox: January 22nd, 2018
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Katharina Krüger (born January 3, 1990 in Berlin-Zehlendorf ) is a German wheelchair tennis player . She competes in singles and doubles.

Career

Since its birth, the student who Rehabilitation Education a paraplegic due to spina bifida . She plays for SV Zehlendorfer Wespen. She is trained by Karsten Weigelt and Akhem Khan.

At the Summer Paralympics 2008 she reached the last sixteen, where she lost to the later gold medalist Esther Vergeer from the Netherlands . Also in 2012 she failed in the second round to Esther Vergeer. And 2016 was the last sixteen, this time against Huang Huimin.

In 2014 she reached the finals in the double competition of the Wheelchair Tennis Masters for the first time .

Sporting successes

2008

• Number 8 in the world wheelchair tennis rankings
• Number 1 in the junior world rankings
• Reaching the round of 16 at the 2008 Paralympics in Beijing
• German wheelchair tennis champion: 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010

2009

• Number 6 of the wheelchair tennis world rankings in individual
• Number 5 in the wheelchair tennis world rankings in doubles

Web links

Commons : Katharina Krüger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• ITF profile of Katharina Krüger (English)