Tatiana Maria

Tatiana Maria
Tatjana Maria 2017
Nickname:	Tadde
Nation:	Germany
Birthday:	August 8, 1987
Size:	172 cm
Weight:	62 kg
1st professional season:	2001
Playing hand:	Right, one-handed backhand
Trainer:	Charles Edouard Maria (husband)
Prize money:	$ 3,164,704
singles
Career record:	542: 421
Career title:	1 WTA, 15 ITF
Highest ranking:	46 (November 6, 2017)
Current placement:	93
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	259: 227
Career title:	4 WTA, 15 ITF
Highest ranking:	54 (June 6, 2016)
Current placement:	137
Grand Slam record
Mixed
Grand Slam record
Last update of the infobox: March 16, 2020
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Tatjana Maria (* 8. August 1987 as Tatjana Malek in Bad Saulgau ) is a German tennis player .

Career

Tatiana started playing tennis at the age of four. At the beginning of her career she played at TC Biberach and for TC RW Tuttlingen in the top league. In the Bundesliga she became German team champion with TC Radolfzell in 2010 and 2011. In 2012 she moved to the first division promoted Ratinger TC Grün-Weiß .

2004 to 2007

Maria's junior career was inconspicuous. Although she reached the top 50 in the world junior rankings in 2004 and competed in the junior tournaments of all Grand Slams, she was eliminated there in the first round except for Wimbledon 2004 . At the "International Whitsun Cup Tournament" of the Altlünen eV tennis club in 2005, she was able to secure the title after a 6: 4, 6: 4 final success over the Bulgarian Dessislawa Topalowa. In the same year she celebrated her debut on the WTA Tour when she received a wildcard for qualification from the organizers of the renowned WTA tournament in Berlin . However, she was eliminated there as in Filderstadt and Luxembourg after a defeat in the first qualifying round.

In 2006, after losing two finals in the $ 25,000 tournaments in Les Contamines and Hechingen , she won her first title on the ITF tour in succession. At the indoor tournament in Luxembourg she was able to qualify for the main draw of a WTA tournament for the first time. But there followed, as in Stuttgart , where she started with a wildcard and Anna-Lena Grönefeld was defeated in the first round. In 2007 she won her first main round match on the WTA Tour against Wassilissa Bardina in Berlin , but had no chance in round two against Justine Henin . After moving into the top 100 in the world, she was in the main draw in both Wimbledon and the 2007 US Open , but lost in the first round. She continued to earn a large part of her world ranking points on the ITF tour, where she won her biggest title to date after defeating the young Petra Kvitová at the end of the season in Bratislava .

2008 to 2013

In 2008 she suffered a pulmonary embolism due to a thrombosis at the Indian Wells tournament and had to take a three-month break. As a result, she fell far behind in the world rankings, but won against Kristina Barrois in front of a home crowd in Biberach . She celebrated her first major successes on the WTA Tour with the quarter-finals in three tournaments in the International category. So she was eliminated as a qualifier in Barcelona in the round of the last eight with 4: 6, 0: 6 against Carla Suárez Navarro ; 2010 in Pattaya she was defeated by Jaroslawa Schwedowa and again in Marbella by Suárez Navarro. Before that, she was able to win her first game in the main draw of a Grand Slam tournament against Jelena Dokić in Wimbledon in 2009, also as a qualifier, and triumphed in the New York Bronx , after another final victory against Barrois, for the second time at an ITF tournament of the highest Category.

Nevertheless, Maria did not manage to establish herself on the WTA Tour, so after numerous early defeats in 2011 she was forced to build up her ranking again by winning the ITF Tour. A respectable success achieved her with reaching the second round at the US Open 2012 , when she moved out of qualification in the second round, where she was defeated by Sloane Stephens . After her baby break in 2013, she returned to the tour at the WTA tournament in Bogotá , but played mostly on the ITF tour for the rest of the season. During maternity leave, she decided to switch from two-handed to one-handed backhand.

Comeback after maternity leave

In 2015, she made international headlines for the first time when she defeated a top 10 player for the first time in the second round of the Paribas Open in Indian Wells , Eugenie Bouchard . At Wimbledon she fought her way into the third round of a Grand Slam tournament and back into the top 100 in the world for the first time after a 10: 8 win in extra time against Duan Yingying ; there she lost to Madison Keys in two sentences. After six years she ended a tennis season among the top 100 in the world rankings. In the following season, Maria reached the second round in Melbourne and Paris . After she suffered a close three-set defeat to Alizé Cornet at the French Open , she subsequently raised serious allegations against the French woman and alleged that she had taken two medical breaks for tactical reasons in order to influence the momentum of the match in her favor.

In 2017, Maria won a tournament on grass for the first time in Southsea . She also reached two other finals at ITF tournaments of the highest category. In Québec she reached the semifinals of a WTA tournament for the first time, but failed there straight to Alison Van Uytvanck . Due to consistently good results on the ITF tour, she was listed among the top 50 in the world for the first time at the turn of the year.

She experienced her career highlight at the Mallorca Open 2018 , where, after 14 defeats in 16 games since the beginning of the year, she sensationally won her first individual title on the WTA Tour. In the final, she beat last year's Latvian winner Anastasija Sevastova 6: 4 and 7: 5. Then she won her second win against a top 10 player in the opening round of Wimbledon against Elina Switolina , but failed in round two after winning six matches in a row against Kristina Mladenovic . Although she slipped in the world rankings again in 2019, she achieved her best result so far at a tournament in the Premier Mandatory category in Miami after a sovereign victory over Sloane Stephens with the fourth round. Also thanks to her advancement to the semi-finals in Nottingham , where she lost to Donna Vekić , she finished in the top 100 in the world for the third year in a row in 2019.

Double

In doubles, Maria and alternating partners have already won four WTA titles at tournaments in the international category. In 2009 she and Andrea Petković lost the final against the pairing Andrea Hlaváčková / Lucie Hradecká in Bad Gastein with 2: 6, 4: 6. She won her first title on the WTA Tour in September 2012 in Quebec together with Kristina Mladenovic. In 2016 she won the triumph in Bogotá alongside Lara Arruabarrena , in 2018 she won the doubles competition with Heather Watson in Acapulco and in 2019, again together with Arruabarrena, the tournament in Seoul . She achieved her best Grand Slam result in 2018 alongside Watson when she reached the quarter-finals of Wimbledon . There the duo had to admit defeat in three close sets to third-placed Czechs Barbora Krejčíková and Kateřina Siniaková .

Fed Cup

Her first Fed Cup appearance was against China in July 2006, when she defeated Sun Tiantian in the singles . In her second game against Croatia in April 2007 , she won the decisive point for the German team when she defeated Ivana Lisjak 6-2 and 6-3. In July 2007 she contributed decisively to the 3-2 victory of the German team against Japan ; she won both singles and doubles alongside Anna-Lena Grönefeld . Your recent Fed Cup record, however, is rather mixed. In 2008 she lost her singles and doubles against the USA. In 2009 she won her doubles against Switzerland, but lost the singles in the game against China. In February 2010, she lost - again at Grönefeld's side - the double that was decisive for the encounter against the Czech Republic . In April 2010 she lost her singles to Aravane Rezaï . In her mission in February 2011 she defeated the Slovenian double Polona Hercog / Katarina Srebotnik with Grönefeld .

After a break of several years, Maria was reassigned to the Fed Cup team in 2018 and made a decisive contribution to winning the game against Belarus in the first round of the world group with two wins in one defeat . Since 2006, Maria has played a total of 18 singles and doubles matches for the German team, of which she won eleven (6: 5 in singles).

Tournament victories

singles

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	July 29, 2006	Les Contamines	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Sandra Záhlavová	6: 3, 6: 4
2.	August 13, 2006	Hechingen	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Magda Mihalache	6: 2, 6: 3
3.	October 28, 2007	Bratislava	ITF $ 100,000 + H	Hard court (hall)	Petra Kvitová	6: 2, 7: 6 7
4th	November 9, 2008	Ismaning	ITF $ 50,000	Carpet (hall)	Kristina Barrois	6: 2, 6: 3
5.	February 15, 2009	Stockholm	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court (hall)	Anikó Kapros	6: 3, 6: 2
6th	May 3, 2009	Makarska	ITF $ 50,000	sand	Simona Halep	6: 1, 4: 6, 6: 4
7th	August 29, 2009	Bronx	ITF $ 100,000 + H	Hard court	Kristina Barrois	6: 1, 6: 4
8th.	August 7, 2011	Hechingen	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Sarah Gronert	6: 3, 6: 4
9.	3rd August 2014	Fort Worth	ITF $ 10,000	Hard court	Hayley Carter	6: 1, 6: 1
10.	19th October 2014	Makinohara	ITF $ 25,000	race	Shūko Aoyama	6: 1, 6: 2
11.	December 14, 2014	Merida	ITF $ 25,000 + H	Hard court	Victoria Rodríguez	6: 0, 6: 3
12.	February 8, 2015	Midland	ITF $ 100,000	Hard court (hall)	Louisa Chirico	6: 2, 6: 0
13.	November 1, 2015	Toronto	ITF $ 50,000	Hard court (hall)	Jovana Jakšić	6: 3, 6: 2
14th	5th February 2017	Midland	ITF $ 100,000	Hard court (hall)	Naomi Broady	6: 4, 6: 7 6 , 6: 4
15th	June 30, 2017	Southsea	ITF $ 100,000 + H	race	Irina-Camelia Begu	6: 2, 6: 2
16.	June 24, 2018	Mallorca	WTA International	race	Anastasija Sevastova	6: 4, 7: 5

Double

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Partner	Final opponents	Result
1.	May 10, 2003	Warsaw	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Annette Kolb	Barbora Machovská Ivana Plateniková	6: 3, 6: 3
2.	May 1, 2009	Markarska	ITF $ 50,000	sand	Renata Voráčová	Tereza Hladíková Karolina Kosińska	6: 4, 5: 7, [10: 6]
3.	October 23, 2010	Joué-lès-Tours	ITF $ 50,000	Hardplatz (hall)	Irena Pavlovic	Stéphanie Cohen-Aloro Selima Sfar	6: 4, 5: 7, [10: 8]
4th	October 2010	Saint-Raphaël	ITF $ 50,000	Hard court (hall)	Sandra Klemenschits	Estrella Cabeza Candela Laura Pous Tió	6: 2, 6: 4
5.	April 22, 2011	Tessenderlo	ITF $ 25,000	Sand (hall)	Anna-Lena Grönefeld	Elina Switolina Maryna Sanewska	7: 5, 6: 3
6th	July 2, 2011	Toruń	ITF $ 50,000	sand	Stéphanie Foretz Gacon	Edina Gallovits-Hall Andreja Klepač	6: 2, 7: 5
7th	August 6, 2011	Hechingen	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Sandra Klemenschits	Korina Perkovic Laura Siegemund	4: 6, 6: 2, [10: 7]
8th.	March 24, 2012	Bath	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court (hall)	Stephanie Vogt	Julie Coin Melanie South	6: 3, 3: 6, [10: 3]
9.	June 30, 2012	Stuttgart-Vaihingen	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Sandra Klemenschits	Lenka Juríková Zuzana Luknárová	6: 3, 6: 2
10.	September 16, 2012	Quebec	WTA International	Carpet (hall)	Kristina Mladenovic	Alicja Rosolska Heather Watson	7: 6 5 , 6: 7 6 , [10: 7]
11.	April 20, 2013	Dothan	ITF $ 50,000	sand	Julia Cohen	Irina Falconi Maria Sanchez	6: 4, 4: 6, [11: 9]
12.	June 13, 2014	eat	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Kristina Barrois	Ysaline Bonaventure Elitsa Kostowa	6: 2, 6: 2
13.	19th October 2014	Makinohara	ITF $ 25,000	race	Miki Miyamura	Makoto Ninomiya Mari Tanaka	6: 3, 6: 1
14th	October 25, 2014	Hamamatsu	ITF $ 25,000	carpet	Miki Miyamura	Makoto Ninomiya Mari Tanaka	5: 7, 6: 2, [10: 5]
15th	December 6, 2014	Merida	ITF $ 25,000 + H	Hard court	Renata Zarazúa	Jan Abaza Hsu Chieh-yu	7: 6 1 , 6: 1
16.	December 13, 2014	Merida	ITF $ 25,000 + H	Hard court	Renata Zarazúa	Andrea Gámiz Valeria Savinych	6: 4, 6: 1
17th	17th April 2016	Bogotá	WTA International	sand	Lara Arruabarrena Vecino	Gabriela Cé Andrea Gámiz	6: 2, 4: 6, [10: 8]
18th	March 3, 2018	Acapulco	WTA International	Hard court	Heather Watson	Kaitlyn Christian Sabrina Santamaria	7: 5, 2: 6, [10: 2]
19th	22nd September 2019	Seoul	WTA International	Hard court	Lara Arruabarrena Vecino	Hayley Carter Luisa Stefani	7: 6 7 , 3: 6, [10: 7]

Performing in Grand Slam tournaments

singles

competition	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	Career
Australian Open	-	1	2	1	-	-	-	-	1	2	-	1	1	1	2
French Open	-	-	-	1	-	-	1	-	1	2	2	1	1		2
Wimbledon	1	-	2	1	-	-	1	-	3	1	2	2	1		3
US Open	1	-	1	-	-	2	-	-	1	-	2	2	1		2

Double

competition	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	Career
Australian Open	-	-	-	1	1	-	1	-	1	1	2	1	1	1	2
French Open	-	-	-	1	-	-	1	2	2	AF	-	2	1		AF
Wimbledon	2	-	1	1	-	-	1	-	1	2	2	VF	-		VF
US Open	-	-	2	1	-	2	-	-	1	1	1	1	1		2

Personal

Tatjana Maria initially lived in Bad Saulgau and graduated from school with a secondary school leaving certificate. Her father Heinrich Malek was a Polish national handball player. In her free time she also likes to play handball . In December 2008 her father, who had accompanied her to most tournaments, died.

On April 8, 2013, she married her trainer and manager Charles Edouard Maria in Palm Beach Gardens , Florida, and has lived in West Palm Beach ever since . After the 2013 Wimbledon tournament, she took a baby break; their daughter Charlotte was born on December 20, 2013. In April 2020, she announced that she was expecting her second child but would like to return to the tour after giving birth.

Web links

Commons : Tatjana Maria  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• WTA profile Tatjana Maria (English)
• ITF profile Tatjana Maria (English)
• Fed Cup Stats Tatjana Maria (English)
• Tatjana Malek in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Offenbach-Post : Health is the greatest good. In: www.op-online.de. April 22, 2009, accessed November 15, 2014 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Schwäbische Zeitung : Tatjana Malek the new top player. In: www.schwaebische.de. October 2, 2003, accessed November 18, 2014 . 
3. ↑ Klaus Schlütter: German tennis player was in mortal danger. In: The world . April 8, 2008, accessed November 18, 2014 . 
4. ↑ Bavarian Tennis Association : Malek suffered a pulmonary embolism in Indian Wells. In: www.btv.de. April 10, 2008, accessed November 18, 2014 . 
5. ↑ Tatjana Maria's bio. In: wtatennis.com. Retrieved July 7, 2020 . 
6. ↑ Maria scolds and breaks down in tears. In: sport1.de. May 26, 2016, accessed on July 7, 2020 (German). 
7. ^ Rheinische Post : Tatjana Maria wins tennis tournament on Mallorca. In: www.rp-online.de. June 24, 2018, accessed June 24, 2018 . 
8. ^ ^{A b} Marcel Friederich: Back on tour with Williams power. In: The world . January 30, 2014, accessed November 18, 2014 . 
9. ↑ Marriage: Tatjana Malek becomes Tatjana Maria. In: tennisnet.com. April 18, 2013, accessed November 18, 2014 . 
10. ↑ Pregnant: Maria reveals baby secret after Wimbledon. In: tennisnet.com. June 25, 2013, accessed November 18, 2014 . 
11. ↑ Tatjana Maria became a mother. In: tennisnet.com. January 5, 2014, accessed November 18, 2014 . 
12. ↑ Tatjana Maria becomes a mother for the second time. In: tennismagazin.de. April 3, 2020, accessed July 7, 2020 .