Kim Grajdek

Kim Grajdek
Kim Grajdek 2016 in Cagnes-sur-Mer
Nation:	Germany
Birthday:	March 30, 1991
1st professional season:	2007
Prize money:	$ 64,182
singles
Career record:	144: 217
Career title:	0 WTA , 1 ITF
Highest ranking:	405 (November 21, 2011)
Double
Career record:	131: 130
Career title:	0 WTA, 8 ITF
Highest ranking:	332 (August 5, 2013)
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Kim-Alice Grajdek (born March 30, 1991 in Langenhagen ) is a former German tennis player .

Career

Grajdek started playing tennis at the age of six and prefers hard courts. She mainly plays in tournaments of the ITF Women's Circuit , where she has won one singles and eight doubles titles so far.

Grajdek played her first professional tournament in August 2006. At the end of 2007 she was listed for the first time in the world. She signed sponsors like Nike and Babolat. She trained for six years at the Hofsäss Academy in Marbella, where she lived and went to school. The owner of the Academy is Klaus Hofsäss, former trainer of the German Fed Cup team and also trainer of well-known greats such as Steffi Graf, Boris Becker, Nicholas Kiefer etc.

In July she received her first wildcard for a tournament on the WTA Tour . She started in the qualification for the Gastein Ladies 2008 , but lost there in her opening match to Bulgarian Sesil Karatantcheva with 1: 6 and 3: 6. She could not use the wildcard for qualifying for the Rogers Cup in Montreal , Canada , and lost her opening encounter against the Chinese Yuan Meng with 1: 6 and 2: 6. In October 2008 she reached the quarterfinals of an ITF tournament for the first time. She reached her first final in February 2011 in Coimbra, Portugal, where she had to give up against the Spaniard Rocío de la Torre-Sánchez when the score was 5-7 and 0-4 due to injury. Then Grajdek reached the quarter-finals or the last sixteen several times at ITF tournaments. In September 2014 she won her first $ 10,000 tournament in Antalya. In doubles, she has won eight tournaments with various partners so far, the first in 2010 and the last in 2015.

She has been working successfully as a trainer in Qatar since June 2016.

Grajdek played in the Bundesliga in 2008 for TEC Waldau Stuttgart ; She then moved to DTV Hannover , with whom she was promoted to the 2nd Bundesliga in 2013. In 2014 she was second in the table with her team. In 2015 she was promoted to the 1st Bundesliga with DTV Hannover, in which she also played in 2016 .

She played her last match in 2016 in Braunschweig, where she was eliminated in the first qualifying round against Laura Bente.

Tournament victories

singles

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	September 14, 2014	Antalya	ITF $ 10,000	Hard court	Kanami Tsuji	6: 3, 6: 4

Double

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Partner	Final opponents	Result
1.	September 24, 2010	Thessaloniki	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Anastasia Mukhametova	Chen Astrogo Keren Shlomo	6: 2, 6: 3
2.	February 5, 2011	Coimbra	ITF $ 10,000	Hard court	Barbara Sobaszkiewicz	Ulrikke Eikeri Arabela Fernandez Rabener	7: 6 1 , 6: 3
3.	May 7, 2011	Athens	ITF $ 10,000	Hard court	Zuzana Linhová	Alexandra Artamonowa Diāna Marcinkēviča	3: 6, 6: 3, 6: 4
4th	October 8, 2011	Madrid	ITF $ 10,000	Hard court	Justyna Jegiołka	Vanesa Furlanetto Aranza Salute	6: 3, 6: 3
5.	December 7, 2012	Potchefstroom	ITF $ 10,000	Hard court	Keren Shlomo	Lynn Kiro Zarah Razafimahatratra	2: 6, 6: 4, [10: 8]
6th	March 23, 2013	Sharm El Sheikh	ITF $ 10,000	Hard court	Sylwia Zagórska	Beatriz Morales Hernandez Andjela Novcic	6: 2, 6: 1
7th	May 10, 2014	Båstad	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Maria Sakkari	Dea Herdželaš Conny Perrin	7: 5, 6: 4
8th.	5th November 2015	Oslo	ITF $ 10,000	Hard court (hall)	Ekaterina Yaschina	Astrid Wanja Brune Olsen Malene Helgo	6: 2, 6: 3

Web links

Commons : Kim Grajdek  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• WTA Profile of Kim Grajdek (English)
• ITF Profile of Kim Grajdek (English)
• ITF junior profile Kim Grajdek (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ First ITF title for Kim Grajdek ( Memento of the original from August 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (ntv-tennis.de from September 15, 2014, accessed on August 9, 2016) 
2. ↑ Flyer Club Bundesliga (dtv-hannover.de, accessed on August 9, 2016)