Polona Hercog
Polona Hercog ( born January 20, 1991 Maribor, then Yugoslavia) is a Slovenian tennis player.
- 2.2.1 Tournament Win
- 3.1 Individual
- 3.2 double
Biography
Polona Hercog in 2006 began her professional career with ITF tournaments. Already in the following year, she won her first title, including to the tournament in her hometown of Maribor. In her young career she was already nine singles and five doubles titles on ITF celebrate plane.
In 2007, she played thanks to a wildcard for the first time a tournament on the WTA Tour. In Slovenia Portoroz However she succumbed equal in the first round of the Russian Jelena Wesnina just in three sets.
2008 Hercog reached her partner Marina Erakovic at the WTA tournament in Istanbul's doubles final, which was also lost. In the same year she played for the first time a qualification at a Grand Slam tournament. At the U.S. Open she lost in the first qualifying round against Czech Sandra Zahlavova 3:6, 3:6. On the ITF Circuit, she gained more singles and doubles titles.
In 2009, she managed the first victory in the main draw of a WTA tournament. In Marbella, she defeated Stéphanie Cohen- Aloro 3:6, 7:64, 6:2. In the second round they then failed to Italian Sara Errani of. Her first WTA quarter -finals Hercog in the Moroccan Fez, where she lost to Alissa Kleibanowa. At the French Open she qualified for the first time for the main draw of a Grand Slam tournament. After a first round victory ( 6:2, 4:6, 6:1 ) over Alissa Kleibanowa Hercog Aravane Rezai defeated 6:3, 4:6, 2:6. At Wimbledon, she failed in the second qualifying round. Thanks to further four ITF tournament victories they achieved first time in 2009 the top 100 singles world ranking and qualified so directly for the main draw of the U.S. Open. Counter Christina McHale however came right in round one there the corner.
2010 at the clay court tournament in Acapulco, she celebrated her largest ever sporting success when she moved into the final, which she lost to Venus Williams in three sets. In Acapulco ( with Zahlavova Strycova - ) and in Seoul (on the side of Julia Goerges ) but they secured their first two doubles titles on the WTA Tour.
In 2011 she finally won her first WTA singles title when she defeated Johanna Larsson in Båstad with 6:4 and 7:5. In the Fed Cup match Slovenia vs. Canada, she won both the singles and also the double on the side of Srebotnik.
In 2012 she successfully defended her WTA title in Båstad with a three-set victory over the Frenchwoman Mathilde Johansson.
2013, it reached the China Open in Beijing the third round.