Petra Huber (tennis player)

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Petra Huber Tennis player
Nation: AustriaAustria Austria
Birthday: February 15, 1966
1st professional season: 1982
Resignation: 1989
Prize money: $ 112,418
singles
Career record: 62:69
Career title: 1 WTA, 2 ITF
Highest ranking: 37 (October 1 1984)
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record: 19:33
Career title: 2 WTA, 0 ITF
Highest ranking: 64 (March 15 1987)
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Petra Huber (born February 15, 1966 ) is a former Austrian tennis player .

Career

In her career in the 1980s, Petra Huber won a title on the WTA Tour in Barcelona ( Spain ) in 1986 against the Italian Laura Garrone . On October 1, 1984, she achieved her best position in the world rankings with rank 37 in the individual. In the same year she made it to the second round of the US Open , but was defeated there by Sylvia Hanika in two sets 4: 6, 5: 7. Petra Huber also played for the ÖTV in the Fed Cup . Your balance is ten wins and eleven defeats. Huber was able to win seven times in singles and three times in doubles. Between 1983 and 1987 she made twelve appearances for the Austrian Fed Cup team . She retired from active sports in 1989.

After her active career, she worked as a model, tennis youth trainer and manager of Jürgen Melzer .

Tournament victories

singles

No. date competition category Topping Final opponent Result
1. May 11, 1986 SpainSpain Barcelona WTA sand ItalyItaly Laura Garrone 7: 6 4 , 6: 0

Double

No. date competition category Topping Partner Final opponents Result
1. April 1984 ItalyItaly Tarent WTA sand Yugoslavia Socialist Federal RepublicYugoslavia Sabrina Goleš Soviet UnionSoviet Union Elena Eliseenko Natasha Reva
Soviet UnionSoviet Union 
6: 3, 6: 3
2. July 1986 AustriaAustria Bregenz WTA sand Germany Federal RepublicFederal Republic of Germany Petra Keppeler Yugoslavia Socialist Federal RepublicYugoslavia Sabrina Goleš Tine Scheuer-Larsen
DenmarkDenmark 
6: 2, 6: 4

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. What became of ... Petra Huber? ( Memento from February 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive )