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Julia Görges
Julia Görges at the 2018 Roland Garros
Country (sports) Germany
ResidenceBad Oldesloe, Germany
Born (1988-11-02) 2 November 1988 (age 35)
Bad Oldesloe, Germany
Height1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Turned pro2005
PlaysRight-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money$1,505,732
Singles
Career record227–140
Career titles2 WTA, 6 ITF
Highest rankingNo. 16 (6 June 2011)
Current rankingNo. 21 (30 January 2012)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open4R (2012)
French Open3R (2011)
Wimbledon3R (2011)
US Open3R (2011)
Doubles
Career record113–81
Career titles3 WTA, 6 ITF
Highest rankingNo. 31 (6 June 2011)
Current rankingNo. 38 (16 January 2012)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open3R (2011)
French Open3R (2011)
WimbledonQF (2010)
US Open3R (2010)
Last updated on: 16 January 2012.

Julia Görges (born 2 November 1988 in Bad Oldesloe, Schleswig-Holstein) is a professional tennis player from Germany. Görges reached career-high WTA singles ranking of No. 16 on 6 June 2011 and a doubles ranking of 31 on 6 June 2011. She has won two WTA singles titles and three doubles titles as of September 2011.

Personal life

Julia Görges was born in Bad Oldesloe to Klaus and Inge Görges, both of whom work in insurance.[1] She has one half-sister named Maike, who also works in insurance.[1] She attended the Klaus-Groth Schule and Theodor-Mommsen Schule in Bad Oldesloe from 1995 to 2005, and completed the mittlere Reife (Realschulabschluss).[2][3]

She began playing tennis around the age of 5 when her parents began taking her to the local club.[1][3] Her tennis idol growing up was Martina Hingis, and she is also a fan of Roger Federer.[1] She is coached by Sascha Nensel, former coach of fellow German player Nicolas Kiefer.[1] The surfaces she prefers are hard and grass courts, and her favorite tournament is the Australian Open.[1]

Career

2005

In 2005 she began her career on the ITF Women's Circuit, playing in only seven tournaments and losing in the first round in five of them.

2006–2007

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.

2008

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.[4]

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, 4–6, 7–6, 16–14, in a three-hour, 41-minute first-round match.[1] 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.[5]

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.[5]

Görges reached the third round of the AEGON Classic, falling to Urszula Radwańska, 6–7, 3–6. She went on to play against Jelena Janković in the first round of the Wimbledon Championships, losing 4–6, 6–7. She lost prior to the third round at the Banka Koper Slovenia Open, the Istanbul Cup, and the US Open (where she faced Svetlana Kuznetsova).[5]

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.[5]

2010

Görges started the 2010 season at the 2010 ASB Classic, losing in the first round to Yanina Wickmayer, 3–6, 5–7. She went on to play at the Australian Open, where she beat Tamira Paszek in the first round, 6–0, 3–6, 6–3, but then lost to Caroline Wozniacki in the second round.[6]

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.[6]

At the 2010 Gastein Ladies, Görges won her first career WTA singles title by defeating Timea Bacsinszky in the final, 6–1, 6–4. 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 6–3, 0–6, 6–7.[6]

Görges defeated Romina Oprandi in the first round of the U.S. 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, defeating Dinara Safina, 6–1, 5–7, 6–2. In the next round, she defeated fourth seed Samantha Stosur, 7–5, 6–2, for her first win over a top-10 player. However, she was defeated by Coco Vandeweghe in the quarterfinals.[6]

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, 6–3, 6–1. She eventually reached her second career WTA final, falling to Roberta Vinci.[6]

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 6–4, 3–6, 6–4. Her third-round match against the 2008 Australian Open champion Maria Sharapova was a three-set battle, which Görges eventually lost 6–4, 4–6, 4–6.[7] 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 January 31, 2011.

On February 5–6, 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.[8] Switching to hard-court, she then lost in the first round of Monterrey to Ksenia Pervak 1–6, 5–7. She 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.[7]

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 7–6, 6–3, to become the first German to win Stuttgart since Anke Huber in 1994.[7]

Less than two weeks after winning in Stuttgart, Görges defeated Wozniacki once again at the Madrid Open, 6–4, 1–6, 6–3.[9] 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.

WTA Career Finals

Singles: 3 (2–1)

Legend
Grand Slam tournaments (0–0)
WTA Tour Championships (0–0)
Premier Mandatory & Premier 5 (0–0)
Premier (1–0)
International (1–1)
Outcome No. Date Tournament Surface Opponent in the final Score in the final
Winner 1. 25 July 2010 Austria Bad Gastein, Austria Clay Switzerland Timea Bacsinszky 6–1, 6–4
Runner-up 1. 24 October 2010 Luxembourg Luxembourg City, Luxembourg Hard (i) Italy Roberta Vinci 3–6, 4–6
Winner 2. 24 April 2011 Germany Stuttgart, Germany Clay (i) Denmark Caroline Wozniacki 7–6(7–3), 6–3

Doubles: 8 (3–5)

Legend
Grand Slam tournaments (0–0)
WTA Tour Championships (0–0)
Premier Mandatory & Premier 5 (0–0)
Premier (0–0)
International (3–5)
Outcome No. Date Tournament Surface Partner Opponents in the final Score in the final
Winner 1. 20 July 2009 Slovenia Portorož, Slovenia Hard Czech Republic Vladimíra Uhlířová France Camille Pin
Czech Republic Klára Zakopalová 		6–4, 6–2
Runner-up 1. 27 July 2009 Turkey Istanbul, Turkey Hard Switzerland Patty Schnyder Czech Republic Lucie Hradecká
Czech Republic Renata Voráčová 		6–2, 3–6, [10–12]
Runner-up 2. 12 July 2010 Italy Palermo, Italy Clay United States Jill Craybas Italy Alberta Brianti
Italy Sara Errani 		4–6, 1–6
Winner 2. 2 August 2010 Denmark Copenhagen, Denmark Hard (i) Germany Anna-Lena Grönefeld Russia Vitalia Diatchenko
Belarus Tatiana Poutchek 		6–4, 6–4
Winner 3. 26 September 2010 South KoreaSeoul, South Korea Hard Slovenia Polona Hercog South Africa Natalie Grandin
Czech Republic Vladimíra Uhlířová 		6–3, 6–4
Runner-up 3. 17 July 2011 Austria Bad Gastein, Austria Clay Australia Jarmila Gajdošová Czech Republic Eva Birnerová
Czech Republic Lucie Hradecká 		6–4, 2–6, [10–12]
Runner-up 4. 16 October 2011 Austria Linz, Austria Hard (i) Germany Anna-Lena Grönefeld New Zealand Marina Erakovic
Russia Elena Vesnina 		5–7, 1–6
Runner-up 5. 7 January 2012 New Zealand Auckland, New Zealand Hard Italy Flavia Pennetta Czech Republic Andrea Hlaváčková
Czech Republic Lucie Hradecká 		7–6(7–2), 2–6, [7–10]

Singles Performance Timeline

Only Main Draw results in WTA Tour are considered. This table is current through the 2012 Fed Cup World Group.

Tournament 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 SR W–L
Australian Open A LQ 1R 2R 3R 4R 0 / 4 6–4
French Open A LQ 1R 2R 3R 0 / 3 3–3
Wimbledon A 2R 1R 1R 3R 0 / 4 3–4
US Open 1R 1R 1R 2R 3R 0 / 6 3–5
Win–Loss 0–1 1–2 0–4 3–4 8–4 3–1 0 / 16 15–16
Fed Cup Singles
World Group A 1R A 1R PO 1R 0 / 4 2–4
WTA Premier Mandatory Tournaments
Indian Wells A LQ LQ 2R 3R 0 / 2 2–2
Miami A A 2R 2R 1R 0 / 3 2–3
Madrid Not Held A A SF 0 / 1 4–1
Beijing No Tier I A 1R 1R 0 / 2 0–2
Win–Loss 0–0 0–0 1–1 2–3 5–4 0–0 0 / 8 8–8
WTA Premier 5 Tournaments
Dubai A A 1R A A 0 / 1 0–1
Rome A A A A A 0 / 0 0–0
Cincinnati A A A A 1R 0 / 1 0–1
Canada A A A A 2R 0 / 1 1–1
Tokyo A A A 3R 3R 0 / 2 4–2
Win–Loss 0–0 0–0 0–1 2–1 3–3 0–0 0 / 5 5–5
Career Statistics
Tournaments Played 5 7 11 23 25 3 74
Titles–Runner-ups 0–0 0–0 0–0 1–1 1–0 0–0 2 / 74 2–1
Hardcourt Win–Loss 4–5 5–6 3–6 15–13 18–17 4–4 0 / 48 49–50
Clay Win–Loss 0–0 0–1 1–2 13–8 18–7 0–0 2 / 18 32–18
Grass Win–Loss 0–0 1–1 2–2 0–1 2–2 0–0 0 / 6 5–6
Carpet Win–Loss 0–0 0–0 3–1 1–1 0–0 0–0 0 / 2 4–2
Overall Win–Loss 4–5 6–8 9–11 29–23 38–25 4–4 2 / 74 90–76
Win % 44% 43% 45% 56% 61% 50% 54%
Year End Ranking 131 102 78 40 21 $1,500,932

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
United States Serena Williams 0–1 0% 0–0 0–1 0–0 0–0
Belgium Justine Henin 0–1 0% 0–1 0–0 0–0 0–0
Denmark Caroline Wozniacki 2–0 100% 0–0 2–0 0–0 0–0
Number 2 ranked players
Russia Maria Sharapova 0–1 0% 0–1 0–0 0–0 0–0
Czech Republic Petra Kvitová 0–1 0% 0–1 0–0 0–0 0–0
Number 3 ranked players
Russia Svetlana Kuznetsova 0–1 0% 0–1 0–0 0–0 0–0
Belarus Victoria Azarenka 0–1 0% 0–1 0–0 0–0 0–0
Number 4 ranked players
Denmark Caroline Wozniacki 0–2 0% 0–2 0–0 0–0 0–0
Number 5 ranked players
Serbia Ana Ivanović 0–1 0% 0–1 0–0 0–0 0–0
Belarus Victoria Azarenka 1–1 50% 0–0 1–1 0–0 0–0
Number 6 ranked players
Russia Svetlana Kuznetsova 0–1 0% 0–1 0–0 0–0 0–0
Serbia Jelena Janković 0–2 0% 0–1 0–0 0–1 0–0
Australia Samantha Stosur 1–0 100% 0–0 1–0 0–0 0–0
Number 7 ranked players
Australia Samantha Stosur 1–0 100% 1–0 0–0 0–0 0–0
Number 8 ranked players
Poland Agnieszka Radwańska 0–1 0% 0–1 0–0 0–0 0–0
Overall 5–14 26.3% 1–11 4–2 0–1 0–0

Head-to-head record against Top 20 players

Görges's win-loss record (36–46, 44%) against players who have been ranked World No. 20 or higher is as follows :

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g "Getting to Know...Julia Goerges"
  2. ^ "Julia Görges: "Habe mich so gefreut" Ich habe mir meine Schultüte selbst ausgesucht", erinnert sich die Tennisspielerin Julia Görges an ihre Einschulung 1995 in die Klaus-Groth-Schule..." Hamburger Abendblatt (in German). 4 September 2008. Retrieved 8 February 2011.
  3. ^ a b Dietrich, Janina (January 2008). "Interview mit Julia Görges" (pdf). Tennis Wahlstedt Aktuell (in German). Retrieved 8 February 2011.
  4. ^ "Julia Goerges Stats 2008". ESPN.com. Retrieved 7 May 2011.
  5. ^ a b c d "Julia Goerges Stats 2009". ESPN.com. Retrieved May 7, 2011. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  6. ^ a b c d e "Julia Goerges Stats 2010". TennisMagazine.com. Retrieved 7 May 2011.
  7. ^ a b c "Julia Goerges Stats 2011". TennisMagazine.com. Retrieved May 7, 2011. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  8. ^ Fed Cup – Germany overpowers Slovenia in Maribor
  9. ^ "Julia Goerges stuns Caroline Wozniacki". ESPN.com. 5 May 2011. Retrieved 7 May 2011.

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