Anett Kontaveit

Anett Kontaveit

Kontaveit at the 2012 US Open
Full name	Anett Kontaveit
Country (sports)	Estonia
Residence	Viimsi, Estonia
Born	(1995-12-24) 24 December 1995 Tallinn, Estonia
Height	1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)
Turned pro	2010
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	$51,634
Singles
Career record	94–35
Career titles	9 ITF
Highest ranking	201 (3 March 2014)
Current ranking	201 (3 March 2014)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open Junior	SF (2013)
French Open Junior	SF (2012)
Wimbledon Junior	SF (2012)
US Open Junior	F (2012)
Doubles
Career record	35–16
Career titles	4 ITF
Highest ranking	285 (11 November 2013)
Current ranking	288 (3 March 2014)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open Junior	2R (2012)
French Open Junior	2R (2012)
Wimbledon Junior	QF (2012, 2013)
US Open Junior	2R (2012)
Team competitions
Fed Cup	5–8
Last updated on: 3 March 2014.

Anett Kontaveit (born 24 December 1995 in Tallinn) is an Estonian tennis player.

Kontaveit has won nine singles and four doubles titles on the ITF tour during her career. On 3 March 2014, she reached her best singles ranking of world number 201. On 11 November 2013, she peaked at world number 285 in the doubles rankings.

Kontaveit won the Estonian Championships in 2009 and again in 2010, being the youngest player ever in Estonia to do so. Kontaveit is coached by Peeter Lamp.

Career

2011

Kontaveit had success on the junior tour in 2011, her best Grand Slam result of the year being at Roland Garros in May. There she made the quarterfinals with wins over world number six Danka Kovinić and future-Wimbledon junior champion Ashleigh Barty. At the quarterfinal stage she lost to Irina Khromacheva, the Wimbledon junior runner-up.

Kontaveit won her first ITF title in SEB Tallink Open 2011, beating Zuzana Luknárová in the final. She was also a member of Estonia Fed Cup team. Kontaveit has also had surprising success on the professional tour as she has won three professional titles. Besides these successes she has also had a semifinal singles result at a tennis tournament in Almere on clay and a quarterfinal result in another tournament in Tallinn. She also made the finals of the SEB Tallink Open in doubles with Maret Ani. She lost in the quarterfinals of the Tampere Open to Piia Suomalainen. Kontaveit won her second ITF title at the 2011 Savitaipale Open, where she beat Lisanne van Riet in the final.

Kontaveit continued her success with a third title win at the Djursholm Tennis Klub Stockholm Open. She won the tournament by defeating number one seed Marion Gaud and then Syna Kayser in the final.

On 11 December, Kontaveit won the Orange Bowl, a Grade A tournament on the ITF Junior Circuit. During the tournament, she beat Eugenie Bouchard and Yulia Putintseva, both having top 300 WTA Tour rankings. Her junior ranking skyrocketted to her career high of number nine.

She won the European Under-16 Junior Championships with 14-year-old Tatjana Vorobjova in girls' doubles, where they beat first seeded Czechs Barbora Krejčíková and Petra Rohanová.

2012

Kontaveit began her year at the Loy Yang Power Traralgon International, an under 18 girls tournament in Traralgon, Australia. Seeded second, she got to the third round where she lost to future junior Australian Open champion Taylor Townsend.

Next, Kontaveit headed to Melbourne for the junior Australian Open. She defeated Miho Kowase and Lee So-ra to advance to the third round, where she lost once more to eventual champion Taylor Townsend.

Kontaveit played the Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone I, where she posted the biggest wins of her career. She started the event disappointingly, losing to Tsvetana Pironkova of Bulgaria, but in her next two matches she had record breaking wins. She become the lowest ranked person to beat a top 50 player in seven years, with her straight-sets victory over Tamira Paszek of Austria. She then backed up her result with a win over Bibiane Schoofs of the Netherlands. Despite Kontaveit's solid performances, Estonia was relegated to the Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone II.

In February 2012, Kontaveit won the $10,000 ITF tournament in her hometown of Tallinn as an unseeded player. After this, she flew to the United Kingdom for a $25,000 tournament in Bath, Somerset. In the first round, Kontaveit defeated Frenchwoman Alizé Lim, backed up by another win over qualifier Patrysja Sanduska. However, she lost in the third round to another qualifier, Diāna Marcinkēviča.

Kontaveit was awarded a wildcard for the qualifying draw of her first WTA tournament, the e-Boks Danish Open in Copenhagen. In the first round of qualifying, she defeated Lenka Wienerová of Slovakia to advance to the second qualifying round. Here she overcame fellow teenager Kristina Mladenovic, but was knocked out of the tournament in the final round of qualifying by Annika Beck.

Kontaveit's next tournament was a $25,000 event in Tunis. In the first round she swept aside Lina Stančiūtė but was defeated by Richèl Hogenkamp in the second. Following this loss, Kontaveit played another $25,000 tournament in Chiasso, Switzerland, where she fell in the second round.

Kontaveit then played a girl's under-18 tournament in Milan, losing in the second round. After this, she reached the semifinals of the 2012 French Open – Girls' Singles, losing to eventual champion Annika Beck. Then, to begin her short grass court season, Kontaveit played an under-18 girl's tournament in Roehampton, once more losing in the second round. However, she saw better results at Wimbledon, reaching her second consecutive junior Grand Slam semifinal, where she lost to eventual champion Eugenie Bouchard.

In July, Kontaveit played the President's Cup $100,000 event in Astana, Kazakhstan. However, she lost in the first round of qualifying to top qualifying seed Sun Shengnan.

Kontaveit became the first Estonian to reach the final of the junior draw at the 2012 US Open, but she was defeated in straight sets by Samantha Crawford for the championship.

ITF finals (13–6)

Singles (9–3)

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Finals by surface Hard (7–2) Clay (2–1) Grass (0–0) Carpet (0–0)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Winner	1.	24 January 2011	Tallinn 2, Estonia	Hard (i)	Zuzana Luknárová	6–4, 4–6, 6–2
Winner	2.	1 August 2011	Savitaipale, Finland	Clay	Lisanne van Riet	6–3, 6–1
Winner	3.	24 October 2011	Stockholm 3, Sweden	Hard (i)	Syna Kayser	6–4, 6–2
Winner	4.	20 February 2012	Tallinn 2, Estonia	Hard (i)	Katarzyna Piter	7–5, 6–4
Winner	5.	20 August 2012	San Luis Potosí, Mexico	Hard	Victoria Rodríguez	6–1, 6–1
Winner	6.	13 May 2013	Marathon 2, Greece	Hard	Lucy Brown	6–4, 6–7 (6–8), 6–3
Winner	7.	27 May 2013	Moscow 2, Russia	Clay	Çağla Büyükakçay	6–1, 6–1
Winner	8.	29 July 2013	Izmir 2, Turkey	Hard	Başak Eraydın	3–6, 7–6(7–4), 6–0
Runner-up	1.	9 September 2013	Podgorica, Montenegro	Clay	Stephanie Vogt	4–6, 3–6
Winner	9.	7 October 2013	Margaret River, Australia	Hard	Irina Falconi	6–2, 6–4
Runner-up	2.	10 February 2014	Tallinn, Estonia	Hard (i)	Timea Bacsinszky	3–6, 3–6
Runner-up	3.	17 February 2014	Moscow, Russia	Hard (i)	Aliaksandra Sasnovich	3–6, 2–6

Doubles (4–3)

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Finals by surface Hard (3–2) Clay (1–1) Grass (0–0) Carpet (0–0)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	1.	24 January 2011	Tallinn 2, Estonia	Hard (i)	Maret Ani	Tamara Čurović Yevgeniya Kryvoruchko	6–7(8–10), 1–6
Winner	1.	20 August 2012	San Luis Potosí, Mexico	Hard	Emily Fanning	Erin Clark Elizabeth Ferris	6–0, 6–3
Winner	2.	25 March 2013	Tallinn, Estonia	Hard (i)	Jeļena Ostapenko	Lyudmyla Kichenok Nadiya Kichenok	2–6, 7–5, [10–0]
Winner	3.	29 April 2013	Edinburgh, United Kingdom	Clay	Jessica Ren	Anna Smith Francesca Stephenson	6–2, 6–3
Runner-up	2.	13 May 2013	Marathon 2, Greece	Hard	Laura Deigman	Lina Gjorcheska Despoina Vogasari	4–6, 6–2, [6–10]
Winner	4.	29 July 2013	Izmir 2, Turkey	Hard	Polina Leykina	Hülya Esen Lütfiye Esen	6–4, 7–5
Runner-up	3.	2 September 2013	Moscow, Russia	Clay	Olga Ianchuk	Anna Shkudun Alyona Sotnikova	3–6, 4–6

Junior Grand Slam finals

Girls' Singles

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Opponent	Score
Runner-up	2012	US Open	Hard	Samantha Crawford	5–7, 3–6

External links

• Official website
• Anett Kontaveit at the Women's Tennis Association
• Anett Kontaveit at the Billie Jean King Cup