Danka Kovinić
Country (sports) | Montenegro |
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Residence | Herceg Novi, Montenegro |
Born | Cetinje, FR Yugoslavia | 18 November 1994
Height | 1.69 m (5 ft 6+1⁄2 in) |
Turned pro | 2010 |
Plays | Right (two-handed backhand) |
Coach | Svetko Bjelotomić Veljko Radojičić |
Prize money | $1,299,506 |
Singles | |
Career record | 245–187 (56.7%) |
Career titles | 0 WTA, 9 ITF |
Highest ranking | No. 46 (22 February 2016) |
Current ranking | No. 117 (2 July 2018) |
Grand Slam singles results | |
Australian Open | 2R (2016, 2017) |
French Open | 2R (2015) |
Wimbledon | 1R (2015, 2016) |
US Open | 2R (2015) |
Doubles | |
Career record | 85–78 |
Career titles | 1 WTA, 3 ITF |
Highest ranking | No. 68 (6 June 2016) |
Current ranking | No. 240 (11 June 2018) |
Grand Slam doubles results | |
Australian Open | 2R (2016, 2017) |
French Open | 1R (2016) |
US Open | 1R (2015) |
Last updated on: 11 June 2018. |
Danka Kovinić (Serbian Cyrillic: Данка Ковинић; born 18 November 1994) is a Montenegrin professional tennis player and a member of the Montenegrin Fed Cup team.
On 22 February 2016, she reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 46, whilst her best doubles ranking, No. 68, was achieved on 6 June 2016.
Career
2010–2015
Kovinić started playing professionally in 2010. Her first WTA singles tournament was the 2013 Budapest Grand Prix, where Kovinić became the first ever Montenegrin to reach the quarterfinals of a WTA event.[1] Her first singles Grand Slam match wins were at the 2015 French Open and the 2015 US Open, and she reached her first singles WTA final at the Tianjin Open in October 2015.
Her first doubles match on the WTA Tour was at Bogotá, Colombia in April 2014, and she won her first WTA doubles tournament, with Stephanie Vogt, in July 2015 at Bad Gastein, Austria.
2016
In doubles, she advanced to two finals, with Barbora Strýcová at Auckland in January, and with Xenia Knoll at the İstanbul Cup in April. At the same time, she also reached the singles final in İstanbul. The next month, playing No. 10 seed Petra Kvitová in the first round of the 2016 French Open, she came within two points of winning the match.[2][3]
WTA career finals
Singles: 2 (2 runner-ups)
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Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Opponent | Score |
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Loss | 0–1 | Oct 2015 | Tianjin Open, China | International | Hard | Agnieszka Radwańska | 1–6, 2–6 |
Loss | 0–2 | Apr 2016 | Istanbul Cup, Turkey | International | Clay | Çağla Büyükakçay | 6–3, 2–6, 3–6 |
Doubles: 5 (1 title, 4 runners-up)
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Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
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Win | 1–0 | Jul 2015 | Gastein Ladies, Austria | International | Clay | Stephanie Vogt | Lara Arruabarrena Lucie Hradecká |
4–6, 6–4, [10–3] |
Loss | 1–1 | Jan 2016 | ASB Classic, New Zealand | International | Hard | Barbora Strýcová | Elise Mertens An-Sophie Mestach |
6–2, 3–6, [5–10] |
Loss | 1–2 | Apr 2016 | Istanbul Cup, Turkey | International | Clay | Xenia Knoll | Andreea Mitu İpek Soylu |
w/o |
Loss | 1–3 | Jul 2018 | Bucharest Open, Romania | International | Clay | Maryna Zanevska | Irina-Camelia Begu Andreea Mitu |
3–6, 4–6 |
Loss | 1–4 | Sep 2018 | Guangzhou Open, China | International | Hard | Vera Lapko | Monique Adamczak Jessica Moore |
6–4, 5–7, [4–10] |
ITF Circuit finals
$100,000 tournaments |
$75,000 tournaments |
$50,000 tournaments |
$25,000 tournaments |
$10,000 tournaments |
Singles: 15 (9–6)
Outcome | No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Opponent | Score |
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Winner | 1. | 10 October 2010 | Dobrich, Bulgaria | Clay | Isabella Shinikova | 6–4, 6–3 |
Runner-up | 1. | 12 June 2011 | Nyíregyháza, Hungary | Clay | Simona Dobrá | 4–6, 2–6 |
Winner | 2. | 26 June 2011 | Balş, Romania | Clay | Alice-Andrada Radu | 6–0, 6–1 |
Runner-up | 2. | 11 September 2011 | Podgorica, Montenegro | Clay | Paula Ormaechea | 1–6, 1–6 |
Winner | 3. | 13 April 2012 | Tlemcen, Algeria | Clay | Alexandra Romanova | 6–2, 6–2 |
Winner | 4. | 8 July 2012 | Toruń, Poland | Clay | Paula Kania | 6–3, 4–6, 6–3 |
Winner | 5. | 22 June 2013 | Ystad, Sweden | Clay | Melanie Klaffner | 6–3, 6–3 |
Winner | 6. | 30 June 2013 | Kristinehamn, Sweden | Clay | Jasmina Tinjić | 6–1, 7–5 |
Winner | 7. | 18 May 2014 | Saint-Gaudens, France | Clay | Pauline Parmentier | 6–1, 6–2 |
Runner-up | 3. | 8 March 2015 | Curitiba, Brazil | Clay | Lourdes Domínguez Lino | 6–4, 2–6, 3–6 |
Winner | 8. | 10 May 2015 | Trnava, Slovakia | Clay | Margarita Gasparyan | 7–5, 6–3 |
Winner | 9. | 5 June 2016 | Marseille, France | Clay | Hsieh Su-wei | 6–2, 6–3 |
Runner-up | 4. | 18 June 2017 | Hódmezövásárhely, Hungary | Clay | Mihaela Buzărnescu | 2–6, 1–6 |
Runner-up | 5. | 15 July 2017 | Budapest, Hungary | Clay | Jana Čepelová | 4–6, 3–6 |
Runner-up | 6. | 20 August 2017 | Vancouver, Canada | Hard | Maryna Zanevska | 7–5, 1–6, 3–6 |
Doubles: 9 (3–6)
$100,000 tournaments |
$75,000 tournaments |
$50,000 tournaments |
$25,000 tournaments |
$10,000 tournaments |
Outcome | No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
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Runner-up | 1. | 11 September 2011 | Podgorica, Montenegro | Clay | Danica Krstajić | Corinna Dentoni Florencia Molinero |
4–6, 7–5, [5–10] |
Runner-up | 2. | 29 October 2011 | Lagos, Nigeria | Carpet (i) | Elina Svitolina | Melanie Klaffner Ágnes Szatmári |
0–6, 7–6, [5–10] |
Runner-up | 3. | 13 April 2013 | Mamaia, Romania | Clay | Tadeja Majerič | Elena Bogdan Raluca Olaru |
6–7(4–7), 3–6 |
Runner-up | 4. | 1 September 2012 | La Marsa, Tunisia | Clay | Laura Pigossi | Réka Luca Jani Eugeniya Pashkova |
3–6, 6–4, [5–10] |
Winner | 1. | 25 May 2012 | Caserta, Italy | Clay | Renata Voráčová | Elena Bogdan Cristina Dinu |
6–4, 7–6(7–3) |
Winner | 2. | 13 February 2015 | São Paulo, Brazil | Clay | Andreea Mitu | Tatiana Búa Paula Cristina Gonçalves |
6–2, 7–5 |
Winner | 3. | 10? July 2015 | Contrexéville, France | Clay | Oksana Kalashnikova | Irina Ramialison Constance Sibille |
2–6, 6–3, [10–6] |
Runner-up | 5. | 10 March 2018 | Zhuhai, China | Hard | Nao Hibino | Anna Blinkova Lesley Kerkhove |
5–7, 4–6 |
Runner-up | 6. | 17 March 2018 | Shenzhen, China | Hard | Wang Xinyu | Anna Kalinskaya Viktória Kužmová |
4–6, 6–1, [7–10] |
Other finals
Singles
Outcome | Year | Championship | Surface | Opponent | Score |
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Gold | 2015 | Games of the Small States of Europe | Clay | Kathinka von Deichmann | 6–0, 6–1 |
Grand Slam performance timelines
Singles
Tournament | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | SR | W–L |
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Australian Open | Q3 | Q1 | 2R | 2R | Q2 | 0 / 2 | 2–2 |
French Open | 1R | 2R | 1R | 1R | Q1 | 0 / 4 | 1–4 |
Wimbledon | Q3 | 1R | 1R | 1R | Q3 | 0 / 3 | 0–3 |
US Open | Q1 | 2R | 1R | Q2 | Q1 | 0 / 2 | 1–2 |
Total | 0–1 | 2–3 | 1–4 | 1–3 | 0–0 | 0 / 11 | 4–11 |
Doubles
Tournament | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | SR | W–L |
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Australian Open | A | 2R | 2R | 0 / 2 | 2–2 |
French Open | A | 1R | A | 0 / 1 | 0–1 |
Wimbledon | A | 1R | A | 0 / 1 | 0–1 |
US Open | 1R | 2R | A | 0 / 2 | 1–2 |
Total | 0–1 | 2–4 | 1–1 | 0 / 6 | 3–6 |
Wins over top-10 players
Season | 2016 | 2017 | Total |
Wins | 1 | 0 | 1 |
# | Player | Rank | Event | Surface | Round | Score |
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1. | Roberta Vinci | No. 8 | Mutua Madrid Open | Clay | 1st round | 6–4, 6–2 |
References
- ^ "Danka Kovinic Biography". International Tennis Federation. Retrieved 7 March 2016.
- ^ "Kvitova survives Danka Kovinic scare to enter second round". beIN Sports. 22 May 2016. Retrieved 23 May 2016.
- ^ "Kvitova avoids shock exit at sodden Roland Garros". Hindustan Times. 22 May 2016. Retrieved 23 May 2016.