Maria Jespersen

Maria Jespersen
Nation:	Denmark
Birthday:	3rd December 1991 (age 28)
Playing hand:	Right, two-handed backhand
Trainer:	Jonas Svendesen
Prize money:	$ 3,782
singles
Career record:	13:13
Career title:	0 WTA , 2 ITF
Double
Career record:	13: 8
Career title:	0 WTA, 0 ITF
Highest ranking:	850 (April 30, 2018)
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Maria Jespersen (born December 3, 1991 in Hornbaek ) is a former Danish tennis player .

Career

Jespersen, who started playing tennis at the age of seven, prefers hard courts according to the ITF profile.

As a junior, Jespersen played various youth tournaments on the ITF Juniors Circuit from 2005 to 2009 and competed in three tournaments of the ITF Women's Circuit in 2006, 2008 and 2009 . So far she has won two double titles on the ITF tour

For the ITF tournament in Odense in 2008, endowed with 100,000 US dollars , she received a wildcard for qualification, where she was also able to win her first-round encounter against her compatriot Maria Christensen before losing to Tatjana Malek in two sets. In 2011 she played four tournaments and also received a wildcard for qualification for her first tournament on the WTA Tour , the e-Boks Sony Ericsson Open 2011 in Copenhagen . There she lost in the first round against the Slovenian Dalila Jakupović with 3: 6 and 1: 6. From 2012 to 2013 she played in 16 tournaments on the ITF tour, but could not achieve any significant success.

In August 2014 she played a tournament in Copenhagen endowed with 10,000 US dollars, where she made it to the round of 16 in singles after successfully qualifying, in doubles with her partner Emilie Francati even the final, which the doubles pair then won 4: 6 and 1 : 6 lost.

In 2017 she competed at the Summer Universiade in Taipei , but lost in three sets in the first round against the Japanese Haruka Kaji .

In the 2nd tennis Bundesliga she played from 2013 to 2015 for the club on the Alster in Hamburg , with which she made it to the 1st Bundesliga in 2015 .

In 2013 she played in the Fed Cup for the Danish Fed Cup team , where she won two out of three singles against Liniques Theron from Namibia and Nadia Lalami from Morocco. So far she has won 5 of her 8 Fed Cup games.

Jespersen played her last professional tournament in April 2018, and has not been in the world rankings since December 2018.

Others

Jespersen's announcement to the ITF that she was offered $ 30,000 at the international tournament in Copenhagen in 2014 for losing a set caused a stir. As a result, she expressed herself critical of the so-called match fixing in her sport.

Tournament victories

Double

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Partner	Final opponents	Result
1.	March 24, 2018	Heraklion	ITF $ 15,000	sand	Emilie Francati	Emily Appleton Mia Nicole Eklund	7: 5, 4: 6, [10: 8]
2.	March 31, 2018	Heraklion	ITF $ 15,000	sand	Emilie Francati	Michaela Boev Ioana Gaspar	6: 3, 6: 2

Web links

Commons : Maria Jespersen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• WTA profile of Maria Jespersen (English)
• ITF profile Maria Jespersen (English)
• ITF junior profile Maria Jespersen (English)
• Fed Cup stats by Maria Jespersen (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Tennis women in the Fed Cup without a chance (az.com.na from May 14, 2013, accessed on January 1, 2018)
2. ↑ Dansk tennisspiller tilbudt 30,000 kroner for at tabe et sæt: Maria Jespersen blev tilbudt at deltage i aftalt spil i dansk international tennisturnering (dr.dk of October 13, 2014, accessed on January 1, 2018, Danish)
3. ↑ Dansk spiller: 'Jeg fik tilbudt stor sum for at tabe et sæt' (bt.dk of November 10, 2016, accessed on January 1, 2018)