Kaia Kanepi

Kaia Kanepi ( born June 10, 1985 in Tallinn) is an Estonian tennis player. The best-placed in the WTA ranking Estin has its center of life in Haapsalu.

  • 3.1 Individual

Career

Kaia Kanepi, which began with eight years playing tennis, benefiting particularly from her powerful baseline game. Your preferred terrain is the clay court. As a junior, she won six individual titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. So she was there world number one before she became a professional in 2000.

After 2008, when she was elected to the Estonian Sportswoman of the Year, she played her best season in 2010. It reached a qualifier at Wimbledon quarter-finals ( 6:8 in the third set against Petra Kvitová ) and pulled at the U.S. Open after a two- set victory against the seeded Jelena Janković four one last sixteen. The first WTA title she won then on July 18 in Palermo with a final victory over Flavia Pennetta.

In 2012 she had two other WTA tournament victories in Brisbane and Estoril follow before she made at the French Open for another highlight, as they the former world number one Caroline Wozniacki transported out of the tournament in round three. In September, she reached the final in Seoul, where she was Wozniacki this time clearly inferior ( 1:6, 0:6 ).

After their second-round defeat at the WTA tournament in Tokyo in September 2012, she played more than half a year not a professional match. In the WTA tournament in Katowice, she returned to the tour.

2013, it was the fifth time in her career in the quarterfinals of a Grand Slam tournament for the second time at Wimbledon. There they defeated the later finalist Sabine Lisicki with 3:6 and 3:6. Previously, she was able to celebrate on sand in Brussels her fourth individual title at a WTA tournament.

Tournament Win

Singles

Performance at Grand Slam tournaments

Singles

Awards

  • 2008: Estonian Sportswoman of the Year
Australian Open 2010 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles 2010 US Open – Women's Singles Korea Open (tennis) Galatina Saint-Gaudens, Haute-Garonne Zhang Shuai (tennis) Peng Shuai 2013 Brussels Open 2010 WTA Tour 2011 WTA Tour 2012 WTA Tour 2013 WTA Tour 2006 Australian Open – Women's Singles 2007 Australian Open – Women's Singles 2009 Australian Open – Women's Singles 2010 Australian Open – Women's Singles 2011 Australian Open – Women's Singles 2012 Australian Open – Women's Singles 2006 French Open – Women's Singles 2007 French Open – Women's Singles 2008 French 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 2006 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles 2007 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles 2008 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles 2009 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles 2011 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles 2013 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles 2006 US Open – Women's Singles 2007 US Open – Women's Singles 2008 US Open – Women's Singles 2009 US Open – Women's Singles 2011 US Open – Women's Singles 2013 US Open – Women's Singles Estonian Sportspersonality of the year
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