Yanina Wickmayer
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Yanina Wickmayer 2015 in Eastbourne | |||||||||||||
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Birthday: | 20th October 1989 (age 30) | ||||||||||||
Size: | 182 cm | ||||||||||||
Weight: | 68 kg | ||||||||||||
1st professional season: | 2004 | ||||||||||||
Playing hand: | Right, two-handed backhand | ||||||||||||
Trainer: | Michiel Antheunis | ||||||||||||
Prize money: | $ 5,175,884 | ||||||||||||
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Career record: | 456: 311 | ||||||||||||
Career title: | 5 WTA , 1 WTA Challenger, 11 ITF | ||||||||||||
Highest ranking: | 12 (April 19, 2010) | ||||||||||||
Current placement: | 145 | ||||||||||||
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Career record: | 144: 108 | ||||||||||||
Career title: | 2 WTA, 1 WTA Challenger, 12 ITF | ||||||||||||
Highest ranking: | 71 (February 15, 2010) | ||||||||||||
Current placement: | 99 | ||||||||||||
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Last update of the infobox: March 9, 2020 |
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Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links ) |
Yanina Wickmayer (born October 20, 1989 in Lier ) is a Belgian tennis player .
Career
Wickmayer, who started tennis at the age of nine, has been a professional player since 2004. She has won five singles and two doubles titles on the WTA Tour so far; there is also a single title at a WTA Challenger tournament. At ITF tournaments she recorded 11 singles and 12 doubles titles.
Wickmayer has been playing for the Belgian Fed Cup team since 2007 ; Their record so far shows 26 wins out of 13 defeats.
2009
Wickmayer ended her best season to date in 18th place in the WTA world rankings . She won the tournaments of Estoril (final victory over Jekaterina Makarowa ) and Linz (against Petra Kvitová ). But she celebrated her greatest success when she made it to the semifinals of the US Open , in which she was defeated by Caroline Wozniacki in two sets. She was also in the final of 's-Hertogenbosch , which she lost to Tamarine Tanasugarn in straight sets.
The Belgian Anti-Doping Tribunal imposed a one-year ban on Wickmayer and her compatriot Xavier Malisse on November 5, 2009. In three cases, both had failed to inform the national anti-doping authority of their whereabouts in good time. On December 14, a civil court lifted the ban.
2010
Wickmayer was able to build on its successes from the previous year. She won the Auckland final with a final victory over Flavia Pennetta . At the Grand Slam tournament in Melbourne , she reached the second round (three-set defeat against her compatriot Justine Henin ) and at the US Open (three-set defeat against Estonian Kaia Kanepi ). At the French Open (two-set defeat against Daniela Hantuchová ) and in Wimbledon (defeat against Wera Swonarjowa ) she was eliminated in the third round. In Miami (Category: Premier Mandatory) and Cincinnati (Category: Premier 5) came the end against Marion Bartoli and the unseeded Anastassija Pavlyuchenkova each in the quarter-finals. On April 19, she reached her best world ranking position to date with 12th place.
2011 to 2013
In 2011 Wickmayer was only once in a final, as defending champion in Auckland. In 2012 she reached the finals in Hobart (two-set defeat against Mona Barthel ) and in Bad Gastein, where she lost to French Alizé Cornet 5: 7 and 6: 7 1 . At Wimbledon, she lost in three sets against Tamira Paszek in round three . At the Australian Open she reached the third round in 2013, at the other Grand Slam tournaments she did not get beyond the opening round. In October, she achieved her only double success on the WTA Tour in Luxembourg alongside Stephanie Vogt from Liechtenstein.
Since 2014
In 2014 she was in the second round in Melbourne, Paris and Wimbledon, in New York she did not get past the first round again. In 2015 she made it into the round of 16 at the Australian Open again (straight two-set defeat against Simona Halep ). She celebrated successes in Tokyo in September , where she won her fourth WTA singles title, and at the Challenger tournament in Carlsbad , where she defeated the American Nicole Gibbs in the final . In February 2016 she reached the semi-finals at the Acapulco WTA tournament , where she lost to Sloane Stephens 2: 6, 0: 6.
Tournament victories
singles
No. | date | competition | category | Topping | Final opponent | Result |
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1. | August 20, 2006 |
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ITF $ 10,000 | sand |
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6: 4, 6: 1 |
2. | November 19, 2006 |
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ITF $ 10,000 | sand |
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6: 1, 6: 0 |
3. | November 26, 2006 |
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ITF $ 10,000 | sand |
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6: 1, 6: 7 4 , 6: 0 |
4th | July 29, 2007 |
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ITF $ 25,000 | Hard court |
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6: 2, 7: 6 3 |
5. | October 28, 2007 |
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ITF $ 25,000 | carpet |
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4: 6, 6: 4, 6: 2 |
6th | November 11, 2007 |
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ITF $ 25,000 | Hard court |
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6: 2, 6: 2 |
7th | November 18, 2007 |
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ITF $ 50,000 | Hard court |
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7: 5, 6: 4 |
8th. | May 11, 2008 |
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ITF $ 50,000 | sand |
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6: 4, 7: 5 |
9. | February 22, 2009 |
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ITF $ 25,000 | Hard court |
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6: 7 0 , 6: 3, 4: 3 task |
10. | May 8, 2009 |
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WTA International | sand |
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7: 5, 6: 2 |
11. | October 18, 2009 |
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WTA International | Hard court (hall) |
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6: 3, 6: 4 |
12. | January 9, 2010 |
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WTA International | Hard court |
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6: 3, 6: 2 |
13. | 17th October 2010 |
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ITF $ 100,000 | Hard court |
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6: 3, 6: 2 |
14th | 20th September 2015 |
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WTA International | Hard court |
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4: 6, 6: 3, 6: 3 |
15th | November 29, 2015 |
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WTA Challenger | Hard court |
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6: 3, 7: 6 4 |
16. | July 24, 2016 |
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WTA International | Hard court |
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6: 4, 6: 2 |
17th | February 18, 2018 |
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ITF $ 25,000 | Hard court |
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3: 6, 6: 3, 6: 4 |
Double
No. | date | competition | category | Topping | Partner | Final opponents | Result |
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1. | November 11, 2006 |
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ITF $ 10,000 | sand |
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6: 3, 6: 3 |
2. | November 25, 2006 |
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ITF $ 10,000 | sand |
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7: 5, 6: 4 |
3. | May 19, 2007 |
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ITF $ 10,000 | sand |
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3: 6, 7: 5, 6: 0 |
4th | July 7, 2007 |
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ITF $ 25,000 | sand |
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6: 3, 6: 2 |
5. | July 28, 2007 |
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ITF $ 25,000 | Hard court |
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6th | November 17, 2007 |
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ITF $ 50,000 | Hard court |
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6: 4, 6: 1 |
7th | April 5, 2008 |
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ITF $ 75,000 | Hard court |
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6: 4, 4: 6, [10: 8] |
8th. | April 10, 2009 |
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ITF $ 100,000 | Hard court |
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6: 4, 6: 0 |
9. | 20th October 2013 |
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WTA International | Hard court (hall) |
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7: 6 2 , 6: 4 |
10. | 23rd July 2016 |
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WTA International | Hard court |
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6: 4, 6: 3 |
11. | October 28, 2017 |
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ITF $ 100,000 | Hard court (hall) |
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7: 6 7 , 6: 3 |
12. | February 18, 2018 |
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ITF $ 25,000 | Hard court |
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2: 6, 6: 3, [10: 8] |
13. | March 3, 2018 |
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WTA Challenger | Hard court |
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6: 4, 6: 4 |
14th | 16th February 2019 |
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ITF $ 60,000 | Hard court (hall) |
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6: 2, 7: 5 |
15th | 4th May 2019 |
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ITF $ 60,000 | sand |
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6: 3, 4: 6, [10: 3] |
Trivia
Wickmayer got her first name after Giannina Dinorah, the younger daughter of Diego Maradona ; the name Wickmayer is of Austrian origin.
Web links
- WTA profile of Yanina Wickmayer (English)
- ITF profile of Yanina Wickmayer (English)
- Fed Cup Statistics for Yanina Wickmayer (English)
- Official website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lifting of the ban
- ↑ Biographical information ( memento of December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) on Wickmayer's website
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Wickmayer, Yanina |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian tennis player |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 20, 1989 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Lier , Belgium |