Kristina Barrois
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| Full name |
Kristina Barrois |
| Country |
 Germany |
| Residence |
Urexweiler, Marpingen, Germany |
| Born |
30 September 1981 (1981-09-30) (age 30)
Ottweiler, West Germany |
| Height |
1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) |
| Turned pro |
2005 |
| Plays |
Right-handed (single-handed backhand) |
| Career prize money |
$915,297 |
| Singles |
| Career record |
269–178 |
| Career titles |
0 WTA, 13 ITF |
| Highest ranking |
57 (9 May 2011) |
| Current ranking |
115 (27 February 2012) |
| Grand Slam results |
| Australian Open |
2R (2010, 2011) |
| French Open |
2R (2009) |
| Wimbledon |
2R (2010) |
| US Open |
2R (2009) |
| Doubles |
| Career record |
128–94 |
| Career titles |
0 WTA, 10 ITF |
| Highest ranking |
55 (20 February 2012) |
| Current ranking |
57 (27 February 2012) |
| Grand Slam Doubles results |
| Australian Open |
1R (2009, 2011) |
| French Open |
1R (2009) |
| Wimbledon |
QF (2009) |
| Last updated on: 27 February 2012. |
Kristina Barrois (born 30 September 1981 in Ottweiler) is a professional German tennis player who has won two German Tennis Championships and reached the second round of all four Grand Slam events, as well as the final of two WTA tournaments. She lives in Urexweiler, Marpingen. Her career high rank is World No. 57, achieved on 9 May 2011.
[edit] Early life
She began playing tennis at the age of nine in 1991 when she took the sport up herself; began playing at a tennis club, Barrois completed her training as a government inspector in the Saarland Ministry of Justice before turning professional in 2005.
[edit] Career
Barrois was trained by Patrick Schmidt, but is now trained by Andreas Spaniol, and her condition trainer is the footballer Bernd Franke.
She played in the German Fed Cup team in 2006, losing her singles match to Li Na, and also losing her doubles match. In the same year, she won the German Tennis Championship. She qualified for the main draw of the Wimbledon Championships and the US Open in 2006. At Wimbledon, she lost to Shenay Perry 5–7 7–5 6–7(6). At the US Open, she lost 1–6 5–7 to the world number one Amélie Mauresmo after leading in the second set 5–2.
On 14 December 2008, she won her second German Tennis Championship 7–6 6–1 against the unseeded Lydia Steinbach.
In 2009 she started off well as she qualified for Auckland but lost to up-and-coming Russian teenager Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 6–3 6–1. She then fell in the qualifying round of the Hobart event to British player Melanie South 7–5 6–0. She also reached the 1st round of the Australian Open, where she pushed the No.4 seeded Russian, Elena Dementieva but eventually lost 6–7(4) 6–2 1–6. In February she reached the 2nd round of Memphis but fell short against Dutch former world No.30 Michaëlla Krajicek 3–6 6–3 7–6(0). In March, she played an ITF event where she lost in the quarterfinals to British player Katie O'Brien 6–7(7) 3–6. She did extremely well at the premier mandatory event in Indian Wells, where she beat French star Alizé Cornet 6–2 6–2 in the 2nd round. She lost, however, to Hungarian Ágnes Szávay in the next round 6–3 6–4. She reached the second round of the French Open, where Victoria Azarenka beat her 7–6 7–5, and the US Open, where Dinara Safina beat her 6–7 6–2 6–3.
In 2010, she reached the second round on the Australian Open, where Samantha Stosur beat her 7–5 6–3. She qualified for her first ever final in a WTA tournament, the Internationaux de Strasbourg,[1] which Maria Sharapova won 7–5 6–1.[2] She reached the second round of Wimbledon, where Justine Henin beat her 6–3 7–5.
In 2011, she reached the second round of the Australian Open, where Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova beat her 6–2 6–2.
[edit] WTA career finals
[edit] Singles: 2 (0–2)
| Legend |
| Grand Slam tournaments (0–0) |
| WTA Tour Championships (0–0) |
| Premier Mandatory & Premier 5 (0–0) |
| Premier (0–0) |
| International (0–2) |
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| Titles by Surface |
| Hard (0–0) |
| Grass (0–0) |
| Clay (0–2) |
| Carpet (0–0) |
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[edit] Doubles: 1 (0–1)
| Legend |
| Grand Slam tournaments (0–0) |
| WTA Tour Championships (0–0) |
| Premier Mandatory & Premier 5 (0–0) |
| Premier (0–1) |
| International (0–0) |
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| Titles by Surface |
| Hard (0–0) |
| Grass (0–0) |
| Clay (0–1) |
| Carpet (0–0) |
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[edit] References
[edit] External links
| Persondata |
| Name |
Barrois, Kristina |
| Alternative names |
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| Short description |
German tennis player |
| Date of birth |
30 September 1981 |
| Place of birth |
Ottweiler, West Germany |
| Date of death |
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| Place of death |
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Germany
Strasbourg, France
Maria Sharapova
Estoril, Portugal
Anabel Medina Garrigues
Samantha Stosur
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