Yanina Wickmayer

Yanina Wickmayer
Yanina Wickmayer 2015 in Eastbourne
Nation:	Belgium
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
singles
Career record:	456: 311
Career title:	5 WTA , 1 WTA Challenger, 11 ITF
Highest ranking:	12 (April 19, 2010)
Current placement:	145
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	144: 108
Career title:	2 WTA, 1 WTA Challenger, 12 ITF
Highest ranking:	71 (February 15, 2010)
Current placement:	99
Grand Slam record
Last update of the infobox: March 9, 2020
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 2010 at the Porsche Grand Prix in Stuttgart

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
1.	August 20, 2006	Koksijde	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Kristina Steiert	6: 4, 6: 1
2.	November 19, 2006	Florianópolis	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Estefania Craciún	6: 1, 6: 0
3.	November 26, 2006	Cordoba	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Teliana Pereira	6: 1, 6: 7 4 , 6: 0
4th	July 29, 2007	Les Contamines	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Julie Coin	6: 2, 7: 6 3
5.	October 28, 2007	Hamanako	ITF $ 25,000	carpet	Junri Namigata	4: 6, 6: 4, 6: 2
6th	November 11, 2007	Taizhou	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Han Xinyun	6: 2, 6: 2
7th	November 18, 2007	Kunming	ITF $ 50,000	Hard court	Urszula Radwańska	7: 5, 6: 4
8th.	May 11, 2008	Indian Harbor Beach	ITF $ 50,000	sand	Bethanie Mattek	6: 4, 7: 5
9.	February 22, 2009	Surprise	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Julia Vakulenko	6: 7 0 , 6: 3, 4: 3 task
10.	May 8, 2009	Oeiras	WTA International	sand	Ekaterina Makarova	7: 5, 6: 2
11.	October 18, 2009	Linz	WTA International	Hard court (hall)	Petra Kvitová	6: 3, 6: 4
12.	January 9, 2010	Auckland	WTA International	Hard court	Flavia Pennetta	6: 3, 6: 2
13.	17th October 2010	Torhout	ITF $ 100,000	Hard court	Simona Halep	6: 3, 6: 2
14th	20th September 2015	Tokyo	WTA International	Hard court	Magda Linette	4: 6, 6: 3, 6: 3
15th	November 29, 2015	Carlsbad	WTA Challenger	Hard court	Nicole Gibbs	6: 3, 7: 6 4
16.	July 24, 2016	Washington	WTA International	Hard court	Lauren Davis	6: 4, 6: 2
17th	February 18, 2018	Surprise	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Ana Sofía Sánchez	3: 6, 6: 3, 6: 4

Double

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Partner	Final opponents	Result
1.	November 11, 2006	Itajaí	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Teliana Pereira	Fernanda Hermenegildo Monika Kochanová	6: 3, 6: 3
2.	November 25, 2006	Cordoba	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Teliana Pereira	Florencia Molinero Veronica mirror	7: 5, 6: 4
3.	May 19, 2007	Trivandrum	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Lauren Albanese	Nicole Clerico Agnes Szatmari	3: 6, 7: 5, 6: 0
4th	July 7, 2007	Stuttgart-Vaihingen	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Ekaterina Dzehalevich	Darija Jurak Carmen Klaschka	6: 3, 6: 2
5.	July 28, 2007	Les Contamines	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	Petra Cetkovská Sandra Záhlavová	not started
6th	November 17, 2007	Kunming	ITF $ 50,000	Hard court	Urszula Radwańska	Han Xinyun Xu Yifan	6: 4, 6: 1
7th	April 5, 2008	Torhout	ITF $ 75,000	Hard court	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	Stéphanie Cohen-Aloro Selima Sfar	6: 4, 4: 6, [10: 8]
8th.	April 10, 2009	Torhout	ITF $ 100,000	Hard court	Michaëlla Krajicek	Julia Görges Sandra Klemenschits	6: 4, 6: 0
9.	20th October 2013	Luxembourg	WTA International	Hard court (hall)	Stephanie Vogt	Kristina Barrois Laura Thorpe	7: 6 2 , 6: 4
10.	23rd July 2016	Washington	WTA International	Hard court	Monica Niculescu	Shūko Aoyama Risa Ozaki	6: 4, 6: 3
11.	October 28, 2017	Poitiers	ITF $ 100,000	Hard court (hall)	Belinda Bencic	Mihaela.Buzărnescu Nicola Geuer	7: 6 7 , 6: 3
12.	February 18, 2018	Surprise	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Misaki Doi	Jacqueline Cako Caitlin Whoriskey	2: 6, 6: 3, [10: 8]
13.	March 3, 2018	Indian Wells	WTA Challenger	Hard court	Taylor Townsend	Jennifer Brady Vania King	6: 4, 6: 4
14th	16th February 2019	Shrewsbury	ITF $ 60,000	Hard court (hall)	Arina Rodionova	Freya Christie Valeria Savinykh	6: 2, 7: 5
15th	4th May 2019	Wiesbaden	ITF $ 60,000	sand	Anna Blinkova	Jaimee Fourlis Kathinka from Deichmann	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

Commons : Yanina Wickmayer  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• WTA profile of Yanina Wickmayer (English)
• ITF profile of Yanina Wickmayer (English)
• Fed Cup Statistics for Yanina Wickmayer (English)
• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lifting of the ban
2. ↑ Biographical information ( memento of December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) on Wickmayer's website