Julia Görges

Julia Görges ( born November 2, 1988 in Bad Oldesloe ) is a German tennis player. She plays green - white for the Bundesliga team of Ratingen TC.

  • 3.1 Individual 3.1.1 Tournament Win
  • 3.1.2 finals
  • 3.2.1 Tournament Win
  • 3.2.2 finals
  • 4.1 Single
  • 4.2 double

Life

Julia Goerges is the daughter of a couple of insurance salespeople. With the tennis began as a five year old when THC BW Bad Oldesloe. At the age of twelve, she joined the THC Ahrensburg. As a teenager she was national champion of Schleswig -Holstein (U 14 ) and as a 17 -year-old already national champion of women. Up to GCSE, she attended the Theodor- Mommsen - school, a high school in Bad Oldesloe. Since October 2010, she attended the Dorothea Schlözer school in Lübeck with the goal of college entrance.

Career

2005-2007 - Beginnings in professional tennis

Since 2005 Görges is performed in the WTA world rankings and initially played mostly ITF tournaments in Germany. In 2006, Goerges celebrate the first ITF singles title at the tournament in Wahlstedt in her first final. Goerges played at the time for the TC Red White Wahlstedt. Just one week later the title followed the tournament in Bielefeld. In the final of the tournament in Erding they had to give up due to injury. Their rise began in March 2007 at the WTA tournament in Doha, where they first reached the main draw of a WTA tournament. With a wildcard for the qualifications they struggled against the last sixteen of the main field in which they are in the world rankings subject to fifth out Svetlana Kuznetsova at the time. It was her first match against a top ten player. There were other victories in ITF tournaments before Goerges in Stockholm for the first time reached the semifinals of a WTA tournament in August 2007. In the same month, she made ​​her debut in the main draw of a Grand Slam tournament. But At the U.S. Open she failed already in the first round with 0:6, 3:6 on the world number one Justine Henin. The end of 2007 Goerges was in Biberach German Vice-Champion; In the final she defeated Andrea Petkovic against which they then retired in 2009 in Offenburg in the semifinals of the German Championships. In November Görges announced that they will train in the future by Björn Jacob.

2008 to 2010 - Rise in the world rankings

At the beginning of 2008, traveled Goerges to tournaments in Australia, where she was eliminated in each of the qualification. For the quarterfinal match in the Fed Cup against the United States, she was nominated for the German team of Barbara Rittner first time. In her debut, she was against Lindsay Davenport but chance ( 1:6, 2:6 ). Goerges was end of May 2008 for the first time in the top 100 in the world rankings. In their Wimbledon debut then missed just five minutes to set the tournament record for the longest match in the history of the women's competition. Three hours and forty minutes it took the first round game against Katarina Srebotnik who Görges at the end of 4:6, 7:66, 16:14 could decide for themselves. Since the end of 2008 Görges trained with Sascha Nensel, of their official trainer was in May 2009.

At the Australian Open 2009 Goerges retired in the first round against Ana Ivanović. Also in Wimbledon and at the U.S. Open she got drawn against serious opponents and different from each in the opening round. A tournament victory in the individual could Goerges celebrate the ITF tournament in Biarritz. In doubles, she was in 2009 with several runners-up successfully on the WTA tour and celebrated her first WTA title with her partner Vladimira Uhlířová at the tournament in Portoroz.

At the first Grand Slam tournament of 2010, the Australian Open, Goerges reached the second round, where they eliminated against Caroline Wozniacki. This was followed by WTA tournaments in the U.S., where Görges but not make it past the second round. Also at the French Open, she retired on lap two against the then world number one Serena Williams. At Wimbledon, she was beaten in the first round Marion Bartoli. At the ITF tournament in Biarritz Goerges could defend her title from the previous year and celebrate the first tournament victory in 2010. They also won there with Sharon Fichman the doubles competition. On July 25, 2010 Görges celebrated her first WTA singles title. Through the two- set victory over the Swiss Timea Bacsinszky in Bad Gastein she climbed in the WTA world rankings ranked 42 and was the highest ranked German player Andrea Petkovic after. After a defeat in the second round of the U.S. Open against Yanina Wickmayer, they reached the finals of the WTA tournament in Luxembourg, where she lost to Roberta Vinci 3:6, 4:6. Other tournament victories in a double pass at the 2010 WTA tournaments Copenhagen with Anna -Lena Grönefeld and Polona Hercog in Seoul and at the ITF tournament in Dubai. Görges finished her hitherto most successful professional year to rank 40 of the single and the double rank 36 world rankings.

2011 to today

At the Fed Cup playoff against the United States in April 2011 won both her ​​singles match against Goerges Melanie Oudin ( 6:2, 7:65 ) and the doubles with Anna -Lena Grönefeld. With a smooth 5-0 win Germany rose again in the first World Group.

My biggest success achieved Görges 24 April 2011 by winning the WTA tournament in Stuttgart. In the final, she defeated by Caroline Wozniacki, the world number one ranking; already in the semifinals she defeated a top- ten player with Samantha Stosur. Görges This improved in the world rankings at number 27 in Madrid, where she again Wozniacki could beat in three sets in round three, she reached another semi-final, where they defeated Wiktoryja Azarenka in straight sets.

At the French Open, which Görges traveled all as number 18 in the world, she reached with a three-set victory over Lucie Šafářová the first time the third round, but lost their subsequent match against Marion Bartoli after a good start but still in three sets. In the doubles competition, she moved to the side of Andrea Petkovic after a hard-fought tie-break in the deciding set to the knockout stages, where the two mating Nadia Petrova / Anastasia Rodionova documents in two sets. At Wimbledon Goerges went as the 16th in the world rankings at the start and effortlessly reached the third round, in which they defeated Dominika Cibulková in three sets. In doubles, she failed with partner Maria Kirilenko, set at position 9, already in round one. In Bad Gastein, she had the number 1 of the tableau to suffer a first round defeat, as later in Stanford (USA) against their set of 6 doubles partner Kirilenko. Also in San Diego followed by a bye the reasons already in the opening match against Sloane Stephens ( 3:6, 5:7 ), which played its first season on the tour.

In double Görges can yet boast four WTA tournament victories. Your last it reported in June 2012 on the side of Jill Craybas in Bad Gastein.

Achievements

Singles

Tournament Win

Finals

Doubles

Tournament Win

Finals

Career statistics and tournament balance

Singles

Legend: S = tournament victory; F, HF, VF, AF = finals / semifinals / quarterfinals / knockout stages; 1, 2, 3 = eliminated in the first / second / third main round; RR = Round Robin ( Group Stage ); n a = not discharged; a K. = other category; PO ( Playoff) = promotion and relegation round of Fed Cup; K1, K2, K3 = participation in the Continental Group I, II, III in the Fed Cup.

Were considered the tournaments Tier I ( to 2008), or the tournaments of categories Premier Mandatory and Premier 5 ( since 2009).

Doubles

Qatar Ladies Open Nordea Nordic Light Open 2007 US Open – Women's Singles 2008 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles 2009 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles 2009 US Open – Women's Singles 2009 Banka Koper Slovenia Open 2010 Australian Open – Women's Singles 2010 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles 2010 US Open – Women's Singles 2010 BGL Luxembourg Open 2010 Hansol Korea Open 2011 Porsche Tennis Grand Prix Southern California Open Luxembourg Open Camille Pin Danish Open (tennis) Korea Open (tennis) Natalie Grandin Patty Schnyder Alberta Brianti Flavia Pennetta Cara Black Darija Jurak Abigail Spears 2005 WTA Tour 2011 WTA Tour 2012 WTA Tour 2013 WTA Tour 2014 WTA Tour 2009 Australian Open – Women's Singles 2011 Australian Open – Women's Singles 2012 Australian Open – Women's Singles 2013 Australian Open – Women's Singles 2014 Australian Open – Women's Singles 2009 French Open – Women's Singles 2010 French Open – Women's Singles 2011 French Open – Women's Singles 2012 French Open – Women's Singles 2013 French Open – Women's Singles 2011 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles 2012 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles 2013 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles 2008 US Open – Women's Singles 2011 US Open – Women's Singles 2012 US Open – Women's Singles 2013 US Open – Women's Singles WTA Tour Championships 2008 Qatar Ladies Open 2012 Qatar Total Open 2014 Qatar Total Open Internazionali BNL d'Italia WTA Madrid Open (tennis) WTA German Open 2008 Qatar Telecom German Open Rogers Cup (tennis) 2010 Toray Pan Pacific Open 2011 Toray Pan Pacific Open 2012 Toray Pan Pacific Open 2013 Toray Pan Pacific Open Tennis at the Summer Olympics Tennis at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's singles 2010 Fed Cup 2011 Fed Cup 2012 Fed Cup 2013 Fed Cup 2014 Fed Cup 2010 Australian Open – Women's Doubles 2011 Australian Open – Women's Doubles 2012 Australian Open – Women's Doubles 2013 Australian Open – Women's Doubles 2014 Australian Open – Women's Doubles 2010 French Open – Women's Doubles 2011 French Open – Women's Doubles 2012 French Open – Women's Doubles 2010 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Doubles 2011 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Doubles 2012 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Doubles 2013 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Doubles 2009 US Open – Women's Doubles 2010 US Open – Women's Doubles 2011 US Open – Women's Doubles 2012 US Open – Women's Doubles 2013 US Open – Women's Doubles Berliner Zeitung Angelique Kerber Annika Beck Mona Barthel Dinah Pfizenmaier Anna-Lena Friedsam Laura Siegemund Kristina Barrois Christina Shakovets Anna Zaja Antonia Lottner
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