Steffi Distelmans

Steffi Distelmans
Nation:	Belgium
Birthday:	June 1, 1993
Playing hand:	Right, two-handed backhand
Trainer:	Ben Vanhoudt
Prize money:	$ 26,442
singles
Career record:	83: 106
Career title:	0 WTA , 1 ITF
Highest ranking:	662 (August 31, 2015)
Double
Career record:	89:67
Career title:	0 WTA, 7 ITF
Highest ranking:	349 (August 22, 2016)
Last update of the infobox: March 9, 2020
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Steffi Distelmans (born June 1, 1993 ) is a Belgian tennis player .

Career

Distelmans, who started playing tennis at the age of six, prefers clay courts. She mostly plays on the ITF Women's Circuit , where she has won one tournament in singles and seven in doubles.

She played her first ITF tournament in April 2009. Until July 2012, she was regularly eliminated in the first or second round of qualification. It was only in July 2012 after the $ 25,000 tournament in Zwevegem had reached the second round, it was first in the world rankings conducted. With the two semi-finals at the tournaments in Brussels and Maaseik in July 2012, she was able to place in the top 900 in the world. She reached one more semifinals before winning her first individual title in August 2014; in the final of Oldenzaal , she defeated Melanie Stokke just 5: 7, 6: 3 and 7: 6 ⁵ . Even after that, she barely got past the semi-finals in $ 10,000 tournaments.

In the German tennis Bundesliga , Steffi Distelmans rose to the first division with TK Blau-Weiss Aachen in 2013 . After relegation, she joined the team in 2016 in the second division, where she made a significant contribution to Aachen's rise again with her record of 12-0 victories (she won all singles and doubles).

Distelmans played the last professional tournament for the time being in January 2017.

Tournament victories

singles

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	August 24, 2014	Oldenzaal	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Melanie Stokke	5: 7, 6: 3, 7: 6 5

Double

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Partner	Final opponents	Result
1.	November 25, 2011	La Marsa	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Desiree Bastianon	Diana Isajewa Margarita Latsarewa	7: 5, 6: 2
2.	July 25, 2014	Maaseik	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Magali Kempen	Bernice van de Velde Kelly Versteeg	6: 4, 6: 3
3.	June 12, 2015	Madrid	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Elyne Boeykens	Aliona Bolsova Zadoinov Lucia Cervera Vazquez	6: 3, 7: 6 4
4th	July 24, 2015	Maaseik	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Kelly Versteeg	Katharina Hering Lisa Matviyenko	6: 1, 7: 6 4
5.	22nd August 2015	Oldenzaal	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Kelly Versteeg	Valentini Grammatikopoulou Swjatlana Piraschenka	6: 3, 7: 5
6th	February 13, 2016	Antalya	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Daiana Negreanu	Josephine Boualem Li Yuenu	6-0, 6-2
7th	August 12, 2016	Koksijde	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Demi Schuurs	Başak Eraydın Ilona Kremen	6: 1, 6: 4

Web links

• WTA profile of Steffi Distelmans (English)
• ITF profile of Steffi Distelmans (English)
• ITF junior profile Steffi Thistle Mans (English)
• Profile of Steffi Distelmans at Tennis Belge (French)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ TK Blau-Weiss Aachen (1004), women, summer 2016 (dtb.liga.nu, accessed on August 12, 2016)