Julia Görges

Julia Görges

Full name	Julia Görges
Country	Germany
Residence	Hanover, Germany
Born	(1988-11-02) 2 November 1988 Bad Oldesloe, West Germany
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Turned pro	2005
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	$2,731,265
Singles
Career record	275–181
Career titles	2 WTA, 6 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 15 (5 March 2012)
Current ranking	No. 35 (17 June 2013)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	4R (2012, 2013)
French Open	3R (2011, 2012)
Wimbledon	3R (2011, 2012)
US Open	3R (2011)
Other tournaments
Olympic Games	3R (2012)
Doubles
Career record	149–111
Career titles	4 WTA, 6 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 21 (22 October 2012)
Current ranking	No. 34 (17 June 2013)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	3R (2011)
French Open	3R (2011)
Wimbledon	QF (2010)
US Open	QF (2012)
Other Doubles tournaments
Olympic Games	2R (2012)
Grand Slam Mixed Doubles results
US Open	1R (2012)
Team Competitions
Fed Cup	6–6
Last updated on: 17 June 2013.

Julia Görges (born 2 November 1988) is a professional German tennis player. Görges reached a career-high WTA singles ranking of world number 15 on 5 March 2012 and a doubles ranking of world number 21 on 22 October 2012. To date, she has won two WTA singles titles and four doubles titles.

Personal life

Julia Görges was born in Bad Oldesloe to Klaus and Inge Görges, both of whom work in insurance. She has one half-sister named Maike, who also works in insurance. She attended the Klaus-Groth Schule and Theodor-Mommsen Schule in Bad Oldesloe from 1995 to 2005, and completed the mittlere Reife (Realschulabschluss).

She began playing tennis around the age of five when her parents began taking her to the local club. Her tennis idol growing up was Martina Hingis, and she is also a fan of Roger Federer. She is coached by Sascha Nensel, former coach of fellow German player Nicolas Kiefer. The surfaces she prefers are hard and grass courts, and her favorite tournament is the Australian Open.

Career

2005–2008

In 2005 she began her career on the ITF Women's Circuit, playing in seven tournaments and losing in the first round in five of them. In 2006 and 2007 she continued to play mostly ITF Women's Circuit tournaments. In 2006 she won the Wahlstedt and Bielefeld tournaments. In 2007 she won tournaments in Antalya and Bucharest and made her first WTA Tour main draw appearances, the highlight of which was a semifinals achievement in Stockholm. There she lost to Vera Dushevina in three sets. Görges made her Grand Slam main draw debut at the 2007 US Open, losing to Justine Henin in the first round in straight sets. In 2008 Görges continued to play in a mix of ITF Women's Circuit and WTA Tour events. Her best performances were reaching the semifinals of the 2008 Banka Koper Slovenia Open, where she lost to Anabel Medina Garrigues, and a quarterfinals loss to Olga Govortsova in the 2008 Cellular South Cup.

She made her top-100 debut in the rankings after the French Open. She won her first Grand Slam main-draw match at Wimbledon, where she upset 23rd seed Katarina Srebotnik in a three-hour, 41-minute first-round match. However, she bowed out in the second round to Marina Erakovic in straight sets.

2009

In 2009, Görges began to play in WTA events more exclusively. It was the first season that she played in the main draw of all four Grand Slam events. She began her season at the 2009 Brisbane International, where she lost in qualifying to Anna-Lena Grönefeld.

Görges competed at the Australian Open, the Open GDF Suez, and the Warsaw Open, losing before the third round of each. She retired in the first round of the French Open in a match against Iveta Benešová due to heat exhaustion.

Görges reached the third round of the Aegon Classic, falling to Urszula Radwańska. She went on to play against Jelena Janković in the first round of the Wimbledon Championships, losing in straight sets. She lost prior to the third round at the Banka Koper Slovenia Open, the İstanbul Cup, and the US Open (where she faced Svetlana Kuznetsova).

At the Bell Challenge, she managed to reach the semifinals, before losing to Lucie Šafářová. She was defeated by Ioana Raluca Olaru in the second round of the 2009 Generali Ladies Linz.

2010

Görges started the 2010 season at the 2010 ASB Classic, losing in the first round to Yanina Wickmayer. She went on to play at the Australian Open, where she beat Tamira Paszek, but then lost to Caroline Wozniacki in the second round.

Görges practicing in San Diego

Görges reached the quarterfinals of the 2010 Internationaux de Strasbourg, losing to Maria Sharapova. Following a second-round loss at the French Open and a first-round loss at Wimbledon, she reached the semifinals of the 2010 Internazionali Femminili di Palermo, losing to Flavia Pennetta.

At the 2010 Gastein Ladies, Görges won her first career WTA singles title by defeating Timea Bacsinszky in the final in two sets. She made her top-50 debut in the rankings afterward. At the 2010 e-Boks Danish Open, she reached the quarterfinals, but was unable to take advantage of a 5–3 third-set lead over top seed Caroline Wozniacki, eventually falling in a tiebreak.

Görges defeated Romina Oprandi in the first round of the US Open, before falling to 15th seed Yanina Wickmayer in the second round. At the Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships, she scored her first win over a former no. 1 player in the first round by defeating Dinara Safina. In the next round, she defeated fourth seed Samantha Stosur for her first win over a top-10 player. However, she was defeated by Coco Vandeweghe in the quarterfinals.

At the Generali Ladies Linz, she reached the quarterfinals, but fell to eventual champion Ana Ivanović. In her final tournament of the season, the BGL Luxembourg Open, she won a quarterfinals rematch with Ana Ivanović, defeating her in two easy sets. She eventually reached her second career WTA final, falling to Roberta Vinci.

2011

Beginning her season at the 2011 ASB Classic, Görges lost in the semifinals to eventual champion Gréta Arn. In the second round of the Australian Open, she upset no. 20 seed Kaia Kanepi. Her third-round match against the 2008 Australian Open champion Maria Sharapova was a three-set battle, which Görges eventually lost. This marked her best performance in a Grand Slam to-date, and she was rewarded by achieving a career-high no. 34 singles ranking on 31 January 2011.

Görges at the 2011 Aegon Championships

On 5–6 February, she helped Germany defeat Slovenia in Fed Cup competition by clinching the tie with a straight-sets win over Maša Zec Peškirič, her first career win in Fed Cup competition. Switching to hard-court, she then lost in the first round of Monterrey to Ksenia Pervak, and then continued to struggle at the BNP Paribas Open and the Sony Ericsson Open, losing in the 2nd and 1st round, respectively. In the Family Circle Cup in Charleston, however, she made a quarterfinal appearance on the green clay, losing to Elena Vesnina in three sets.

Heading to Stuttgart for Fed Cup, she won a rubber for Germany against Melanie Oudin, whom she lost to earlier in Miami. Staying in Stuttgart for the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix, she won her first Premier-level tournament and second WTA tournament overall, upsetting Samantha Stosur along the way and benefiting from a retirement by Victoria Azarenka. In the final, Görges scored the biggest win of her career by defeating world no. 1 Caroline Wozniacki in two sets, to become the first German to win Stuttgart since Anke Huber in 1994.

Less than two weeks after winning in Stuttgart, Görges defeated Wozniacki once again at the Madrid Open. She reached the semi-finals, where she lost to Azarenka.

Görges was the 17th seed at the 2011 French Open, but fell to 11th seed Marion Bartoli in the third round in three sets.

After a first round exit to Ana Ivanovic at the 2011 Aegon International, she reached the third round of the 2011 Wimbledon Championships where she fell to 24th seed Dominika Cibulková in 3 sets.

Several early round exits plagued Görges at Bad Gastein, Stanford, Carlsbad, Toronto, Cincinnati, and Dallas, not advancing past the second round of any of them. As the 24th seed at the US Open, she fell to 13th seed Peng Shuai in two close sets in the third round.

Taking part in the Asian part of the WTA tour, she fell in the quarterfinals of the 2011 Hansol Korea Open, the third round of the 2011 Toray Pan Pacific Open, and the first round of the China Open. She finished of her 2011 season with a semifinal loss to Victoria Azarenka at the 2011 BGL Luxembourg Open. She finished the year ranked 21st accumulating a 38–25 singles record and a 22–18 doubles record.

2012

Seeded 5th at the 2012 ASB Classic, she defeated defending champion Gréta Arn, before falling to compatriot Angelique Kerber in straight sets. Görges experienced more success in doubles reaching the final with Flavia Pennetta before falling to the Czech duo of Andrea Hlaváčková and Lucie Hradecká in a third-set super tiebreak. After retiring in the first round of the 2012 Apia International Sydney to Jelena Janković, she achieved her best Australian Open to date by reaching the fourth round. Görges defeated Polona Hercog, Eleni Daniilidou, and Romina Oprandi, before being dominated by eighth seed Agnieszka Radwańska. Playing in the Fed Cup for Germany, she lost to Petra Kvitová in an extremely tight three-setter. Partnering with Anna-Lena Grönefeld, they lost to Iveta Benešová and Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová as Germany lost to Czech Republic 1–4.

Ranked 21st and seed 6th, she reached the quarterfinals of the 2012 Open GDF Suez, falling to Klára Zakopalová in three sets. Görges then fell in the second round of Qatar to Varvara Lepchenko, before reaching the final of Dubai. She defeated Svetlana Kuznetsova, Casey Dellacqua, Daniela Hantuchová, before scoring a two set win over third seed Caroline Wozniacki, before falling to Agnieszka Radwańska again. Due to her good result at the 2012 Dubai Tennis Championships, she achieved a career high ranking of 15.

Seeded 14th at the 2012 BNP Paribas Open, she advanced to the fourth round in straight sets, before becoming another victim of undefeated Victoria Azarenka. After receiving another bye into the second round, Görges was defeated by four-time Grand Slam champion Kim Clijsters.

At Roland Garros Görges was seeded 25th. She reached the third round, beating Lucie Hradecká and Heather Watson along the way. She lost in the third round to Arantxa Rus, ending the match with two double faults. At the end of the third set Görges complained of lack of light, which was set aside by the head supervisor. After this she asked for a medical time-out and asked again to suspend the match, which again was denied by the umpire. In the women doubles she lost in the first round with partner Samantha Stosur.

She was the number one seed in Bad Gastein but lost in three sets to the Dutch qualifier Richèl Hogenkamp. Hogenkamp, ranked 211 at the time, won her first WTA match.

She reached the second round of the Swedish Open losing to Polona Hercog in straight sets.

WTA career finals

Singles: 5 (2–3)

Legend
Grand Slam tournaments (0–0)
WTA Tour Championships (0–0)
Premier Mandatory & Premier 5 (0–0)
Premier (1–1)
International (1–2)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Winner	1.	25 July 2010	Gastein Ladies, Bad Gastein, Austria	Clay	Timea Bacsinszky	6–1, 6–4
Runner-up	1.	24 October 2010	BGL Luxembourg Open, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg	Hard (i)	Roberta Vinci	3–6, 4–6
Winner	2.	24 April 2011	Porsche Tennis Grand Prix, Stuttgart, Germany	Clay (i)	Caroline Wozniacki	7–6(7–3), 6–3
Runner-up	2.	25 February 2012	Dubai Tennis Championships, Dubai, United Arab Emirates	Hard	Agnieszka Radwańska	5–7, 4–6
Runner-up	3.	14 October 2012	Generali Ladies Linz, Linz, Austria	Hard (i)	Victoria Azarenka	3–6, 4–6

Doubles: 12 (4–8)

Legend
Grand Slam tournaments (0–0)
WTA Tour Championships (0–0)
Premier Mandatory & Premier 5 (0–0)
Premier (0–1)
International (4–7)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Winner	1.	20 July 2009	Banka Koper Slovenia Open, Portorož, Slovenia	Hard	Vladimíra Uhlířová	Camille Pin Klára Zakopalová	6–4, 6–2
Runner-up	1.	27 July 2009	İstanbul Cup, Istanbul, Turkey	Hard	Patty Schnyder	Lucie Hradecká Renata Voráčová	6–2, 3–6, [10–12]
Runner-up	2.	12 July 2010	Internazionali Femminili di Palermo, Palermo, Italy	Clay	Jill Craybas	Alberta Brianti Sara Errani	4–6, 1–6
Winner	2.	2 August 2010	e-Boks Sony Ericsson Open, Copenhagen, Denmark	Hard (i)	Anna-Lena Grönefeld	Vitalia Diatchenko Tatiana Poutchek	6–4, 6–4
Winner	3.	26 September 2010	Hansol Korea Open, Seoul, South Korea	Hard	Polona Hercog	Natalie Grandin Vladimíra Uhlířová	6–3, 6–4
Runner-up	3.	17 July 2011	Gastein Ladies, Bad Gastein, Austria	Clay	Jarmila Gajdošová	Eva Birnerová Lucie Hradecká	6–4, 2–6, [10–12]
Runner-up	4.	16 October 2011	Generali Ladies Linz, Linz, Austria	Hard (i)	Anna-Lena Grönefeld	Marina Erakovic Elena Vesnina	5–7, 1–6
Runner-up	5.	7 January 2012	ASB Classic, Auckland, New Zealand	Hard	Flavia Pennetta	Andrea Hlaváčková Lucie Hradecká	7–6(7–2), 2–6, [7–10]
Runner-up	6.	29 April 2012	Porsche Tennis Grand Prix, Stuttgart, Germany	Clay	Anna-Lena Grönefeld	Iveta Benešová Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová	4–6, 5–7
Winner	4.	17 June 2012	Gastein Ladies, Bad Gastein, Austria	Clay	Jill Craybas	Anna-Lena Grönefeld Petra Martić	6–7(4–7), 6–4, [11–9]
Runner-up	7.	14 October 2012	Generali Ladies Linz, Linz, Austria	Hard (i)	Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová	Anna-Lena Grönefeld Květa Peschke	3–6, 4–6
Runner-up	8.	5 January 2013	ASB Classic, Auckland, New Zealand	Hard	Yaroslava Shvedova	Cara Black Anastasia Rodionova	6–2, 2–6, [5–10]

Singles performance timeline

• Only main draw results on the WTA Tour are considered. This table was last updated during the 2013 French Open.

Tournament	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	SR	W–L
Australian Open	A	LQ	1R	2R	3R	4R	4R	0 / 6	9–5
French Open	A	LQ	1R	2R	3R	3R	1R	0 / 5	5–5
Wimbledon	A	2R	1R	1R	3R	3R		0 / 5	5–5
US Open	1R	1R	1R	2R	3R	1R		0 / 6	3–6
Win–Loss	0–1	1–2	0–4	3–4	8–4	7–4	3–2	0 / 22	22–21
Fed Cup Singles
World Group	A	QF	A	PO	PO	QF		0 / 4	3–5
WTA Premier Mandatory Tournaments
Indian Wells	A	LQ	LQ	2R	3R	4R	3R	0 / 4	5–4
Miami	A	A	2R	2R	1R	2R	2R	0 / 5	2–5
Madrid	Not Held		A	A	SF	1R	2R	0 / 3	5–2
Beijing	Not Tier I		A	1R	1R	3R		0 / 3	2–3
Win–Loss	0–0	0–0	1–1	2–3	5–4	4–4	2–2	0 / 15	14–14
WTA Premier 5 Tournaments
Dubai	Not Tier I		1R	A	A	NP5		0 / 1	0–1
Doha	NTI	1R	Not Held		NP5	2R	A	0 / 2	1–2
Rome	A	A	A	A	A	3R	2R	0 / 2	3–2
Cincinnati	Not Tier I		A	A	1R	2R		0 / 2	1–2
Canada	A	A	A	A	2R	1R		0 / 2	1–2
Tokyo	A	A	A	3R	3R	2R		0 / 3	5–3
Win–Loss	0–0	0–1	0–1	2–1	3–3	5–5	1–1	0 / 12	11–12
Career statistics
Tournaments Played	5	7	11	23	25	26	14	111
Titles–Runner-ups	0–0	0–0	0–0	1–1	1–0	0–2	0–0	2 / 111	2–3
Hardcourt Win–Loss	4–5	5–6	3–6	15–13	18–16	22–17	5–7	0 / 68	72–70
Clay Win–Loss	0–0	0–1	1–2	13–8	18–7	9–8	8–6	2 / 32	49–32
Grass Win–Loss	0–0	1–1	2–2	0–1	2–2	4–3	0–0	0 / 9	9–9
Carpet Win–Loss	0–0	0–0	3–1	1–1	0–0	0–0	0–0	0 / 2	4–2
Overall Win–Loss	4–5	6–8	9–11	29–23	38–25	35–28	13–13	2 / 111	134–113
Win %	44%	43%	45%	56%	61%	56%	50%	54.25%
Year End Ranking	131	102	78	40	21	18		$2,620,035

Doubles performance timeline

• This table was last updated during the 2013 Australian Open.

Tournament	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	W–L
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open		1R	3R	2R	2R	4–4
French Open		2R	3R	1R	1R	3–4
Wimbledon		QF	1R	1R		3–3
US Open	1R	3R	2R	QF		6–4
Win–Loss	0–1	6–4	5–4	4–4	1–2	16–15

Head-to-head statistics

Head-to-head vs. top 10 ranked players

*Ranking denotes ranking when played, so even they have met more times, respective players were ranked outside the top 10, thus the results do not count in the statistics.

Player	Record	W%	Hardcourt	Clay	Grass	Carpet
Number 1 ranked players
Serena Williams	0–1	0%	0–0	0–1	0–0	0–0
Justine Henin	0–1	0%	0–1	0–0	0–0	0–0
Caroline Wozniacki	2–0	100%	0–0	2–0	0–0	0–0
Victoria Azarenka	0–2	0%	0–2	0–0	0–0	0–0
Maria Sharapova	0–3	0%	0–2	0–1	0–0	0–0
Number 2 ranked players
Petra Kvitová	0–1	0%	0–1	0–0	0–0	0–0
Agnieszka Radwańska	1–0	100%	0–0	0–0	1–0	0–0
Number 3 ranked players
Svetlana Kuznetsova	0–1	0%	0–1	0–0	0–0	0–0
Victoria Azarenka	0–1	0%	0–1	0–0	0–0	0–0
Number 4 ranked players
Caroline Wozniacki	2–2	50%	2–2	0–0	0–0	0–0
Number 5 ranked players
Ana Ivanović	0–1	0%	0–1	0–0	0–0	0–0
Victoria Azarenka	1–1	50%	0–0	1–1	0–0	0–0
Samantha Stosur	0–1	0%	0–1	0–0	0–0	0–0
Number 6 ranked players
Svetlana Kuznetsova	0–1	0%	0–1	0–0	0–0	0–0
Jelena Janković	0–2	0%	0–1	0–0	0–1	0–0
Samantha Stosur	1–0	100%	0–0	1–0	0–0	0–0
Agnieszka Radwańska	0–1	0%	0–1	0–0	0–0	0–0
Number 7 ranked players
Samantha Stosur	1–0	100%	1–0	0–0	0–0	0–0
Marion Bartoli	1–0	100%	0–0	1–0	0–0	0–0
Sara Errani	0–1	0%	0–0	0–1	0–0	0–0
Number 8 ranked players
Agnieszka Radwańska	0–1	0%	0–1	0–0	0–0	0–0
Overall	9–19	32.1%	3–15	5–3	1–1	0–0

Head-to-head record against top 20 players

Görges's win-loss record (45–56, 45%) against players who have been ranked World No. 20 or higher is as follows:

• Alizé Cornet 3–0
• Eleni Daniilidou 3–0
• Caroline Wozniacki 3–2
• Anabel Medina Garrigues 3–2
• Katarina Srebotnik 2–0
• Anne Kremer 2–0
• Sybille Bammer 2–0
• Shahar Pe'er 2–0
• Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 2–0
• Dinara Safina 2–1
• Sara Errani 1–2
• Kaia Kanepi 2–1
• Samantha Stosur 2–1
• Alexandra Stevenson 1–0
• Virginie Razzano 1–0
• Andrea Petkovic 1–0
• Aravane Rezaï 1–0
• Daniela Hantuchová 2–0
• Petra Kvitová 1–1
• Anna-Lena Grönefeld 1–1
• Ágnes Szávay 1–1
• Sabine Lisicki 1–1
• Svetlana Kuznetsova 1–2
• Marion Bartoli 1–2
• Agnieszka Radwańska 1–2
• Victoria Azarenka 1–3
• / Jelena Janković 1–3
• / Ana Ivanović 1–3
• Yanina Wickmayer 1–4
• Roberta Vinci 0–1
• Flavia Pennetta 0–1
• Vera Zvonareva 0–1
• Lindsay Davenport 0–1
• Dominika Cibulková 0–1
• Peng Shuai 0–1
• Nadia Petrova 0–1
• Kim Clijsters 0–1
• Angelique Kerber 1–2
• Maria Kirilenko 0–2
• Serena Williams 0–2
• Karolina Šprem 0–2
• Justine Henin 0–2
• Zheng Jie 0–2
• María José Martínez Sánchez 0–2
• Maria Sharapova 0–3

External links

• Official website
• Julia Görges at the Women's Tennis Association
• Julia Görges at the International Tennis Federation
• Julia Görges at the International Tennis Federation Junior Profile
• Julia Görges at the Fed Cup
• Julia Goerges on Twitter