Marlene Weingärtner
Marlene Weingartner ( born January 30, 1980 in Heidelberg) is a former German tennis player.
- 2.1 Single 2.1.1 finals
- 2.2.1 Siege
- 2.2.2 finals
Career
Marlene Weingartner, whose parents are German Romania ( Banat Swabians ), began with eight years playing tennis and was soon recorded the first successes. In the junior women she stood each in the final of the French Open, U.S. Open and Australian Open.
In her career she was able to win four doubles titles, including three on the ITF tour and WTA on the tour. Their highest placing in the individual at the Tennis World Ranking 2002 was number 36, on the double world ranking was conducted in January 2005 at number 34.
In addition to her tennis career, she was active as an artist; her pictures she signed with the artist name Marwei.
Due to injury, finished Marlene Weingartner in 2005 their athletic career. Their last match was a loss to 2:6-0:6 Sun Tian Tian from China in qualifying for the U.S. Open in September, the last victory a 1:6, 6:2, 6:2 against Martina Hingis in February 2005 in Pattaya.
In the German tennis league was in 2004 with the TC Moers 08 German team champion.
Short-term comeback
In the WTA tournament in Bad Gastein in July 2008 husbandmen took one last time at a professional contest on. At the convalescent from a serious cancer disease Sandra Klemenschits page it survived without a fight in the first round in the doubles in the second round, had the two, however, the Chinese pairing of Xu Yifan / Zhang Shuai defeated.
Success on the WTA Tour
Singles
Finals
2004 French Open: Eighth- 2003 Luxembourg: Semi-finals, Australian Open 2002: Eighth, 2001 Charleston: Semi-finals
Weingartner was able to defeat at the Australian Open 2003 title holder and former number 3 Jennifer Capriati in the first round by Theorem residue. The high-ranking opponents that they could beat the course of their career, are also among other things, Arantxa Sánchez Vicario, Sandrine Testud, Nadia Petrova, Amanda Coetzer and Martina Hingis.