_(48199100627).jpg) Petkovic at the2019 French Open | |
| Native name | Андреа Петковић |
|---|---|
| Country (sports) |  Germany |
| Born | (1987-09-09)9 September 1987 (age 38) |
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) |
| Turned pro | 2006 |
| Retired | 2022 |
| Plays | Right-handed (two-handed backhand) |
| Prize money | US$8,829,248 |
| Singles | |
| Career record | 518–366 |
| Career titles | 7 |
| Highest ranking | No. 9 (10 October 2011) |
| Grand Slam singles results | |
| Australian Open | QF (2011) |
| French Open | SF (2014) |
| Wimbledon | 3R (2011,2014,2015) |
| US Open | QF (2011) |
| Doubles | |
| Career record | 106–120 |
| Career titles | 1 |
| Highest ranking | No. 46 (14 July 2014) |
| Grand Slam doubles results | |
| Australian Open | QF (2017) |
| French Open | 3R (2011,2014) |
| Wimbledon | SF (2014) |
| US Open | 2R (2009,2011,2016,2021) |
| Grand Slam mixed doubles results | |
| Australian Open | 1R (2010) |
| Wimbledon | 3R (2011) |
| US Open | 1R (2012) |
| Team competitions | |
| Fed Cup | F (2014), record 15–15 |
Andrea Petkovic (Serbian:Андреа Петковић,romanized: Andrea Petković,pronounced[ǎndreapêtkoʋitɕ];[1][2] born 9 September 1987) is a German former professionaltennis player.[3] Born inTuzla, SFR Yugoslavia, toSerbian fatherZoran andBosniak mother Amira, she moved to Germany at six months old and turned professional in 2006 at the age of 18. A former top-10 player, Petkovic reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 9 on 10 October 2011, becoming the first German female player ranked inside the top 10 sinceSteffi Graf in 1999. That year, she played in the quarterfinals of threeGrand Slam tournaments as well as a Premier Mandatory final at theChina Open, and qualified as an alternate to theWTA Tour Championships.
Petkovic suffered three separate injuries in 2012: a back injury in January, an ankle injury in August and a knee injury in December that kept her out for nine months, and almost saw her fall out of the top 200. She rebounded in 2014 by reaching her first Grand Slam semifinal at the2014 French Open and later winning theWTA Tournament of Champions at the end of the season. Petkovic has won sevenWTA Tour singles titles and one doubles title, as well as nineITF singles and three ITF doubles titles. Petkovic became the German national champion in 2007 and 2009.
Andrea Petkovic was born inTuzla,SR Bosnia and Herzegovina,SFR Yugoslavia.[3][4] When she was six months old, the family relocated to Germany. Petkovic first took to the tennis courts when she was six; her fatherZoran Petković, former Yugoslav tennis player and member of theYugoslavia Davis Cup team,[5] was a coach at a club in Darmstadt at the time. He introduced her to the sport and later became her coach.[6] She was able to finish high school before competing in tennis full-time because Zoran never pressured her into joining the professional circuit.[7]
Apart from tennis, she likes to educate herself by reading; her favourite authors areGoethe andWilde.[6] Her mother Amira is a dental assistant while her younger sister Anja is a student.[6] Petkovic graduated from high school in 2006 with anAbitur from theGeorg-Büchner-Schule in Darmstadt. She has been studyingpolitical science at theFernUniversität Hagen since 2008.[8]
Petkovic also has a successful YouTube channel which is home to her video blog entitled "Petkorazzi". In the blog, she makes fun of herself, gives fans chances to win prizes, and shows fans what life is like on the tour.[9] She does the blog in both German and English.[7] In April 2018, she started writing a column for theSüddeutsche Zeitung.[10]
Since the beginning of her professional career, she has kept a diary at irregular intervals about her life on the WTA Tour in theFrankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, a major German newspaper.[11] Petkovic obtained German citizenship in 2001. She speaksSerbian, German, English, and French.[6] Petkovic is ofBosniak andSerb ancestry. In a 2009 interview with the WTA, she stated that her parents might move toNovi Sad, Serbia, where they have a second home.[12] When asked how German she feels, Petkovic replied, "Obviously I'm German, but I always say my soul is still Serbian. Germans are generally more cool, reserved. I'm very emotional, have lots of fire in my personality. In that sense still feel very close to my heritage. For all that, there is much to appreciate about Germany. I feel like I am part of the 'system' and feel very rooted there."[12]
Petkovic turned professional in 2006 after she finished school,[6] but she had already won four titles on theITF Circuit. She was the winner of the tournaments inAntalya,Podgorica (both in 2004),Davos andAlphen aan den Rijn (both in 2005).
In April 2007, she became a member of theGerman Fed Cup team. She played her firstGrand Slam tournament at the2007 French Open where she reached the second round, after coming through the qualifying without losing a set and beatingJarmila Groth. There she lost to laterWimbledon championMarion Bartoli. After this, and having some success on the ITF Circuit (she won the ITF title inContrexéville in July 2007), she reached the top 100 of theWTA rankings for the first time. Because of that, she was able to play in theUS Open main draw without having to qualify. She once again reached the second round after beatingAudra Cohen. In round two she lost toLucie Šafářová.
At theAustralian Open in January 2008, in her first-round match againstAnna Chakvetadze, she suffered acruciate ligament rupture in her right knee after only two minutes of play. This prevented her from playing any tournament for almost eight months, which caused her ranking drop to 465.[6][8] After the injury, she started playing mostly on the ITF Circuit again where she won a tournament inIstanbul in November 2008. She finished the year with a ranking of 315.
In 2009, Petkovic played her first tournament at theAustralian Open due to a protected ranking, where she reached the second round. She mostly kept on playing ITF tournaments until June with success. She won theOpen Romania in Bucharest, defeatingJelena Dokić in the semifinals along the way, and regained a top-100 ranking.
In July 2009, Petkovic won her first WTA tournament inBad Gastein, losing only one set throughout the tournament.[6] In the final, she beatRaluca Olaru.The following week, she reached the semifinals inIstanbul, losing toLucie Hradecká in three tight sets. After those two weeks, she achieved her then career high singles ranking of world No. 52.
For the rest of the year, she struggled to repeat her success but had another good tournament at thePan Pacific Open in Tokyo where she came through the qualifying and reached the round of 16. In the second round, she had her win over a top-10 player in beatingSvetlana Kuznetsova, but was knocked out byAgnieszka Radwańska.
She played her first tournament in 2010 inBrisbane, Australia, where she reached the semifinal before losing to eventual championKim Clijsters. After that tournament, she reached the top 50 of the WTA rankings for the first time.
Petkovic's best singles performance in aGrand Slam event came at theUS Open. Her first two matches were three-set upset victories overNadia Petrova andBethanie Mattek-Sands. She performed an on-court dance following both triumphs. After she received a third-round walkover due to an injury toPeng Shuai, Petkovic lost her first careerArthur Ashe Stadium appearance to eventual tournament finalistVera Zvonareva.[7]
Returning to theBrisbane International, and with coachPetar Popović, Petkovic improved on her previous best semifinal appearance by reaching the final, where she lost to Wimbledon semifinalist Petra Kvitová.
Petkovic reached the quarterfinals of theAustralian Open, where she was defeated by eventual finalistLi Na, her best achievement in a Grand Slam championship of her career.
Petkovic then playedFed Cup forGermany and helped them to a win overSlovenia with two wins in singles rubbers.[13]
Petkovic defeated world number one Caroline Wozniacki in the fourth round at theSony Ericsson Open in Miami, eventually reaching the semi-finals.
Petkovic won her second WTA Tour title inStrasbourg, defeating Marion Bartoli by retirement in the second set. After that performance, Petkovic reached her new career-high ranking of No. 12 as of 23 May 2011.
As the 15th seed, Petkovic reached the quarterfinals of theFrench Open.
In August, coachDušan Vemić joined the team. Petkovic became the sixth German player in history to crack the top 10 by winning her opening match at theSouthern California Open in San Diego against American playerAlexa Glatch.
At theUS Open, Petkovic was seeded tenth. She reached her first ever quarterfinals spot at the US Open against the world No. 1, Caroline Wozniacki. She performed her trademark dance to delight the audience after her fourth round win. On 8 September she lost to Wozniacki.
Seeded ninth at theChina Open, Petkovic reached the final, where she lost to Agnieszka Radwańska. It was her last match of the year. She was seeded second at theLinz Open in October but withdrew before the tournament began, citing a right knee injury. In 2011, Petkovic reached her highest ranking alongside her then coaching staff (Popovic/Vemić).
Her first tournament of 2012 was theBrisbane International in January. Seeded second, she reached the quarterfinal before losing to eventual winner Kaia Kanepi. Petkovic then played at theSydney International the following week, where she lost to Agnieszka Radwańska in the second round. During the match, Petkovic received treatment for what was revealed the following day to be a doublestress fracture of her spine and aspinal disc herniation. She explained: "I've been having some back problems for the last three or four months. I've been struggling with it, but I've always believed it was going to be fine and so I pushed through the pain. The last two weeks in Australia I've been having bigger problems and I could only play for 30–45 minutes without pain."[14] As a result, Petkovic withdrew from theAustralian Open the following week, where she would have been seeded 10th. The injury ultimately kept her out for three months.[15]
Petkovic made her comeback in a Fed Cup match in April, losing toSamantha Stosur. She then played at thePorsche Tennis Grand Prix in Stuttgart. In her second round match againstVictoria Azarenka, Petkovic was down 2–6 and 4–4 when she rolled her right ankle. She was forced out with what was later revealed to be torn ankle ligaments, which required surgery and kept her out for another four months, including theFrench Open,Wimbledon, and theLondon Olympics. She said of the injury: "I knew immediately that it was bad because I heard everything crack. I tried to pull my foot up, and it just flopped there. The first thing I thought was: 'Don't cry. Don't cry. Don't cry.' With 4,000 people watching. In Germany."[16] She attended weeks of rehabilitation to rebuild the muscles in her leg, working seven hours a day, five days a week.[16]
Ahead of her return to the tour, Petkovic was worried that she had fallen behind: "I was really scared that I would not be able to compete with the top players and that I might not be able to get back to where I was. Your expectations once you were in the top 10 are to be back in the top 10. Not to be in the top 30 – you're not going to be satisfied with that. I'm definitely scared of that."[16] Petkovic made her second comeback of the year at theNew Haven Open in mid-August, reaching the second round. At her next three tournaments, theUS Open in August, thePan Pacific Open in September and theChina Open in October, Petkovic was eliminated in the first round, byRomina Oprandi,Petra Martić, and Jelena Janković, respectively. After her defeat in China, Petkovic fell to world rank 192, her lowest since March 2009. She received a wildcard for theGenerali Ladies Linz in October, beating Záhlavová-Strýcová in the first round and losing to Ana Ivanovic in the second round. She had much more success in her final two tournaments of the year, reaching the semifinals of theLuxembourg Open and theRoyal Indian Open By this time, her world ranking had risen to 126.
Petkovic's final match of 2012 was on 29 December in the2013 Hopman Cup againstAshleigh Barty. She won the first set 6–4 but appeared to be suffering from a knee injury late on in the set. She received treatment for it before the second set but could not continue and retired from the match in tears.[17]
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The injury was identified as aruptured meniscus in her right knee, the second time in two years she had suffered the injury, and she underwent surgery on it in early January.[18] She said of the injury: "My team and I are actually managing to take it tragically funny... Everything bad that could happen, happened to me. So nothing surprises me anymore. I'm quite relieved it wasn't the ACL because it was a very similar pain and very similar symptoms to what I had in 2008 when I had my ACL torn in Australia. I'm just hoping for a quick recovery. I would so much appreciate if I could be back on court after three or four weeks."[19] Having suffered from a third serious injury in less than a year, Petkovic considered retiring. "I did actually ask for a few internships. I asked a few magazines if I could do an internship. I asked a few politicians that I know if I could do an internship. They all told me you can come whenever you want, and you can stay as long as you want. But I never really wanted."[20]
She returned to the tour in March, having fallen back to world No. 177, entering the qualifiers for theIndian Wells Open and losing in the second qualifying round. Petkovic then received a wildcard for theMiami Masters, where she reached the third round. She also received a wildcard for theFamily Circle Cup in April, where she also reached the third round. She was due to face Caroline Wozniacki but withdrew before the match with a calf injury. It had been causing her discomfort since her loss to Tomljanović, so she withdrew as a precaution, noting her recent experience with injuries.[21]
Her next tournaments were thePorsche Tennis Grand Prix in Stuttgart, where she received a wildcard and lost in the first round to Ana Ivanovic; and theMadrid Open in May, where she lost in the first qualifying round to Bethanie Mattek-Sands. She then lost in thesecond qualifying round of theFrench Open. After that defeat, her ranking fell back down to world No. 138 and she again contemplated retirement, but her coach didn't take her seriously: "He just laughed and a few days later [I] picked up my racquet again."[22][23] She then received a wildcard for the ITFOpen de Marseille in June, which she won without dropping a set, beatingAnabel Medina Garrigues in the final. It was her first tournament win for over two years, her last coming when she won theInternationaux de Strasbourg inMay 2011. After the win, she re-entered the world top 100 for the first time since September 2012. She also reached the final of theNürnberger Versicherungscup that same month, after receiving a wildcard.[24] Petkovic received a wildcard for theWimbledon Championships, making only her second Grand Slam appearance since reaching the quarterfinals of the US Open in 2011. She reached the second round.
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After a defeat to Petra Martić at theGastein Ladies on 16 July, Petkovic traveled to America for theUS Open Series. Her first tournament was theWashington Open at the end of July, where she reached the final, losing to defending champion,Magdaléna Rybáriková.
At the end of September, she took part in theChina Open, where she reached the third round.
Petkovic started the year inBrisbane where she defeated Bethanie Mattek-Sands before losing toSerena Williams. At theAustralian Open, she lost in first round to Magdaléna Rybáriková.
In the first round of theFed Cup World Group, Petkovic defeated Dominika Cibulková, the reigningAustralian Open finalist, and contributed to a 3–1 win for Germany.[25]
After losing in results in Asia (Doha and Dubai) and also bothIndian Wells andMiami, Petkovic won her third WTA title inCharleston.[26]
Petkovic then played again in the Fed Cup where she defeated Grand Slam champion Samantha Stosur. With that win, she helped Germany into the 2014 Fed Cup final for the first time since 1992 when they won the title.
After that, she played four tournaments on clay to prepare for the second annual Grand Slam,Roland Garros. She won just one match during theStuttgart,Madrid, andRome, before reaching the quarterfinals inStrasbourg.
After a rather mediocre clay season, Petkovic surprisingly reached the semifinals of theFrench Open. She lost to world No. 4, Simona Halep. Nevertheless, this long run catapulted her back into the world's top 20.
She started the grass court season in's-Hertogenbosch, where she lost in the second round. AtWimbledon she reached the third round as the 20th seed, losing to another French Open semifinalist and eventual Wimbledon finalist, Eugenie Bouchard. She reached the semi finals in doubles with Magdaléna Rybáriková.
Petkovic then played at theBad Gastein tournament on clay. There she won her fourth title, beatingShelby Rogers in the final.[27] In Stanford, she beat Venus Williams in the quarterfinals to set up a clash with her sister Serena, but she could not beat both Williams sisters, as Serena ended Petkovic's eight-match winning streak and also won their third match of the year. Next, Petkovic lost in the early rounds of Cincinnati and New Haven. And at the last major of the season, theUS Open, she reached the third round, losing to eventual finalist Caroline Wozniacki.
Petkovic played two events in Europe and she won a total of nine matches with only two losses. But she finished the season in style, winning the last tournament of the season – theWTA Tournament of Champions, the tournament for the six players which had not qualified for the WTA Finals, but who had won at least oneWTA International tournament. She lost her first match convincingly to Carla Suárez Navarro, but beatTsvetana Pironkova, Dominika Cibulková, and Garbiñe Muguruza to reach the final. There she beat Flavia Pennetta in three sets for the biggest title of her career.
At the season-endingFed Cup final, Petkovic lost the opening rubber to Petra Kvitová. Germany went on to lose their first Fed Cup final since 1992, with a final score of 3–1 for the Czech Republic.
Petkovic finished the season for the second time in the top 20, ranked world No. 13.
After losing in the first rounds ofBrisbane,Sydney, and theAustralian Open, Petkovic bounced back at the2015 Fed Cup World Group by beating Sam Stosur and Jarmila Gajdošová. Due to those two wins, Petkovic helped Germany defeat Australia and reach another semifinal.
She followed her good form by playing at theDiamond Games as the ninth seed, winning the title as Carla Suárez Navarro withdrew due to a neck injury. Kim Clijsters, the tournament director, stepped in unexpectedly at the last moment and beat Andrea in a single set exhibition match. Due to this success, Petkovic broke back into the top 10 for the first time since Miami in 2012.
After receiving a first round bye and suffering an early loss inIndian Wells, she reached the semifinals of theMiami Open for the second time in her career. Petkovic played for Germany inFed Cup semifinals where they lost to Russia.
Petkovic withdrew fromStuttgart due to a thigh injury.[28] InMadrid, she reached the second round before withdrawing due to illness.[29] InNürnberg, Petkovic retired in her first-round match againstYulia Putintseva due to injury.[30] She went on to reach the third round at the French Open.[31]
At Wimbledon, she double-bageled Shelby Rogers in the first round.[32] She went on to win againstMariana Duque before losing to Zarina Diyas in the third round.[33][34]
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Petkovic began the year at theBrisbane International where she reached the quarterfinals. At theAustralian Open, Petkovic was the 22nd seed; she lost in the first round toElizaveta Kulichkova. After the Australian Open, she represented Germany as they lost to Switzerland in the2016 Fed Cup World Group. After reaching the quarterfinals in theDubai Championships, Petkovic played in theQatar Open, where she reached the semi finals, beating Garbiñe Muguruza en route. Her win over Muguruza was the first against a top-five player since 2013. However, Petkovic had to retire in her match againstJeļena Ostapenko due to a left thigh injury.[35]
Petkovic represented Germany in2017 Hopman Cup alongsideAlexander Zverev, where they finished second in Group A.
InHobart, Petkovic lost in second round toVerónica Cepede Royg.[36] At theAustralian Open, she lost in second round to Barbora Strýcová.[37]
At theFrench Open, she lost in the first round toVarvara Lepchenko.[38]
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At theAustralian Open, Petkovic defeated Petra Kvitová in the first round in a match lasting almost three hours.[39] In the second round, she lost toLauren Davis without winning a single game during the second and third set.[40]
At theFrench Open, Petkovic defeated Kristina Mladenovic[41] and Bethanie Mattek-Sands before losing to Simona Halep in the third round.[42]
AtWimbledon, she defeated Zhang Shuai but then lost toYanina Wickmayer in the second round.[43]
InWashington, she defeated two seeded playersSloane Stephens and Belinda Bencic, before losing toSvetlana Kuznetsova in the semifinals.[44] AtUS Open, she lost in the first round toJeļena Ostapenko.[45]
Petkovic reached semifinals inLinz, and lost to qualifierEkaterina Alexandrova.[46] AtLuxembourg Open, she lost in quarterfinals to a qualifier Eugenie Bouchard.[47]
Petkovic started her 2019 season at theBrisbane International where she lost in the final round of qualifying toHarriet Dart. At theAustralian Open, she retired from her first-round match against Irina-Camelia Begu.[48]
Petkovic played for Germany inFed Cup against Belarus, she lost her singles match againstAryna Sabalenka.[49]
At theUS Open, she upset Kvitová in the second round in straight sets, only her third top-ten win since 2016, but lost in the next round toElise Mertens.[50]
In September 2020, she returned to the WTA Tour, after an extended absence of almost a year, at the2020 French Open where she lost in the first round to BulgarianTsvetana Pironkova.[51] She finished the year 2020 ranked No. 102, having played only one match on WTA level.
Petkovic started off her 2021 season at theGippsland Trophy where she lost in the second round to the third seedElina Svitolina in straight sets. She wouldn't record another match win until Miami including a first-round loss at the Australian Open toOns Jabeur. In Miami, she defeated Zhang Shuai in straight sets before losing to fourth seedSofia Kenin. This was the start of a five match losing-streak in main draws which lasted the entire clay-court season. She reached the second round atBad Homburg[52] and atWimbledon losing toAmanda Anisimova andBarbora Krejčíková, respectively. Petkovic's season started to turn once, she returned to her best surface - clay. She reached her first final in six years at theHamburg Open. However, she was upset by qualifierElena-Gabriela Ruse. She also made the semifinals inBelgrade losing to eventual runner upArantxa Rus. She then won theWinners Open inCluj-Napoca, Romania, defeatingMayar Sherif to claim her first WTA Tour title since Antwerp in 2015 and her seventh career title.[53]
On 28 August, Petkovic announced that she would retire from professional tennis after theUS Open or a European tournament afterwards.[54] In the first round of the US Open, she lost toBelinda Bencic in three sets.[55]
| W | F | SF | QF | #R | RR | Q# | DNQ | A | NH |
| Tournament | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | SR | W–L | Win % |
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| Australian Open | A | 1R | 2R | 2R | QF | A | A | 1R | 1R | 1R | 2R | 2R | 1R | A | 1R | 1R | 0 / 12 | 8–12 | 40% |
| French Open | 2R | A | Q1 | 2R | QF | A | Q2 | SF | 3R | 2R | 1R | 3R | 3R | 1R | 1R | 2R | 0 / 12 | 19–12 | 61% |
| Wimbledon | Q1 | A | Q2 | 1R | 3R | A | 2R | 3R | 3R | 2R | 1R | 2R | 1R | NH | 2R | 1R | 0 / 11 | 10–11 | 48% |
| US Open | 2R | A | 1R | 4R[1] | QF | 1R | 1R | 3R | 3R | 2R | 1R | 1R | 3R | A | 2R | 1R | 0 / 14 | 15–14 | 52% |
| Win–loss | 2–2 | 0–1 | 1–2 | 4–4 | 14–4 | 0–1 | 1–2 | 9–4 | 6–4 | 3–4 | 1–4 | 4–4 | 4–4 | 0–1 | 2–4 | 1–4 | 0 / 49 | 52–49 | 51% |
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