Nicole Riner
Nicole Riner ( born June 13, 1990 in Ennetburgen ) is a former Swiss tennis player.
Career
Nicole Riner won the 2004 their first international tennis tournaments on the European Junior Tour 16 & U. Among other things, she won in Spain, Sweden and Switzerland. In the summer of 2005, she was the 5th time Swiss champion. In the same year she managed to win at the ITF U18 tournament in Switzerland. A year later, she was summoned for the Fed Cup team in Switzerland. Against Japan, she played for the first time against a player in the Top 100 and lost.
2006-2007
In the summer of 2006, she moved in with the tennis academy of Eric van Harpen. From Swiss Tennis she was admitted after the National Training Centre. On September 25, 2006, she was listed for the first time on the WTA rankings. In autumn 2006 she was awarded a wildcard for qualifying for the Zurich Open. The greatest victory of her career she reached on 20 May 2007, when she first won an ITF tournament in adults. Exactly one month later, she was able to celebrate in Davos her first double success in one ITF tournament. In July 2007, she won the Swiss Summer Championships at the U-18 juniors in the singles and the doubles. After their victories at the Swiss Championships Nicole Riner won in the premier class of the juniors at the European Championships in Bad Gastein the bronze medal in singles, as well as the silver medal in doubles. In Abu Dhabi, she could win a tournament in singles and in Porto, she was victorious in the doubles. In November 2007, then followed two tournaments in the Philippines. Both tournaments ended Nicole Riner, despite strong cold, victorious. These two successes they reached the 500 limit it to the world ranking. At the end she was able to move into the final at the Swiss Championships, as well as the New Year Cup.
2008
In the $ 10,000 tournament in Stuttgart Nicole Riner came in 2008 again the advance into the final. This success Nicole succeeded on the world rankings to leap into the top 500 in the world. In early March 2008 Nicole Riner qualified with their own ranking for the qualification of the $ 50,000 tournament in New Delhi. In April 2008, she tried to enter the $ 25,000 tournaments. She joined several times before in the main draw. In addition, she was summoned again for the Swiss Fed Cup team. Beginning of June 2008 Nicole Riner was given the opportunity to participate in the junior tournament of Roland Garros. Their first game they won clear. In the second game they had to retire due to injury. This injury forced her to a multi-week break. The end of July they could then give her comeback in the Interclub. After another change of coach in August Nicole Riner won the Austrian Pörtschach in August 2008, her fourth tournament victory in a $ 10,000 tournament.