Dinah Pfizenmaier
Dinah Pfizenmaier ( born January 13, 1992 in Bielefeld ) is a German tennis player.
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Career
Pfizenmaier began with eight years playing tennis. Your preferred playing surface is the clay court. In the summer of 2011, she passed her school; In the same year she was the first time German champion in the assets. So far, she won in her tennis career six singles and one doubles title on the ITF Tour.
2008-2011
On the ITF Tour Pfizenmaier played starting in 2008, a tournament in Versmold from which it was eliminated in the first round. 2009 she succeeded in five matches a victory against the then number 464 in the world, Awgusta Tsybyschewa, Majorca. The year 2010 closed Pfizenmaier without a win in five matches played.
In 2011 it made a breakthrough on the ITF Tour: First, they reached the semifinals in Knokke -Heist in July after she had already played through qualifying. A week later, she reached the final without dropping a set in Tampere, where they Piia Suomalainen but lost with 5:7 and 0:6. It was followed by two quarter-finals in Savitaipale and Versmold and a semi-final in Ratingen before Pfizenmaier in Braunschweig won her first title on the ITF Tour, where they gave no sentence. The subsequent tournament in Rotterdam in August she won after she had already fought his way through qualifying. It was followed by two more titles in Plovdiv and Netanya, the latter. On Hard Court Thus Pfitzenmaier had won four tournaments in a row. In early November, she played another tournament in Ismaning, where they reached the quarter- finals and a series of tournaments in Helsinki, but from which they retired relatively early.
2012
The year 2012 started Pfizenmaier in Stuttgart with a first round defeat. A week later she won the tournament in Kaarst on carpet without dropping a set, reached Moscow in the quarter-finals and won another tournament in Phuket, where she beat four seeded players inside without dropping a set and won her first title in the hall. At the WTA Tournament Barcelona Pfizenmaier first participated in a WTA event; however, in the qualification they failed in three sets to Elena Bogdan. In Stuttgart they do not make it past the first qualifying round and defeated the Russian Anastasia Piwowarowa with 4:7 and 6:7.
At the French Open in 2012, she played for the first time at a Grand Slam tournament to qualify for a place in the main draw. In the first qualifying round, she defeated Kristyna Pliskova with 2:6, 6:2 and 6:1, and in the second the set at position seven Japanese Misaki Doi 6-4, 3-6, 6-2. The final qualification game they played against Monica Puig of Puerto Rico, they won with 5:7, 7:5 and 6:2 and reached for the first time as the main draw of a Grand Slam tournament. Here she won in the first round against the Frenchwoman Caroline Garcia with 3:6, 6:4 and 6:3. In the second round they had to compete against the world ranked first Wiktoryja Azarenka against which they lost with 1:6 and 1:6.
2013
The year 2013 began with the departure of Dinah Pfizenmaier in the first qualifying round of the Australian Open against Monique Adamczak of Australia. At the Copa Bionaire 2013 she divorced in the first round of the main draw against Alexandra Dulgheru 7:610, 5:7 and 3:6. A week later she came into the qualifying final of the WTA tournament in Bogotá, which she lost to the Brazilian Teliana Pereira. Their first title in 2013 she won the ITF tournament in Mallorca as the top seed. The next title she won in the Spanish Torrent. In April, she came through the qualifying at the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix in Stuttgart, but separated already in the first round against Russian Nadia Petrova from. At the ITF $ 50,000 tournament in French Saint- Gaudens first lost in the final against the Argentine Paula Ormaechea.
Her biggest success of the season they reached - as early as 2012 - at the French Open in Paris: After surviving skills they defeated Mandy Minella from Luxembourg in the first round. In the second round was followed by a two- set victory over the Pole Urszula Radwańska before they also lost in the third round against her older sister Agnieszka Radwańska in straight sets. In the rest of the season she was disqualified in the first round at the WTA Nuremberg and in the first qualifying round of Wimbledon Championships. In July, she won her third season title in Versmold before she lost just in the quarter-final against Palermo Italian Klára Zakopalová. When WTA Båstad she was eliminated by the Brazilian Teliana Pereira. Against the world number three Azarenka Wiktoryja they lost with 0:6 and 0:6 at the U.S. Open. At the penultimate WTA tournament this season in Linz she failed in the qualification. In the WTA tournament in Taipei in 2013, she reached the semi-finals after victories over Misaki Doi, Stephanie Dubois and Katarzyna Piter, which she lost to the eventual winner Alison Van Uytvanck with 7:65 and 6:3.