She beat Rogers in straight sets. In 2009, Petkovic played her first tournament at the Australian Open due to a protected ranking. Petkovic then received a wildcard for the Miami Masters. She also received a wildcard for the Family Circle Cup in April, where she also reached the third round. 138 and she again contemplated retirement, but her coach didn't take her seriously: "He just laughed and a few days later [I] picked up my racquet again. Her next tournaments were the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix in Stuttgart, where she received a wildcard and lost in the first round to Ana Ivanovic; and the Madrid Open in May, where she lost in the first qualifying round to Bethanie Mattek-Sands. Elise Mertens (BEL). I've been struggling with it, but I've always believed it was going to be fine and so I pushed through the pain. After a rather mediocre clay season, Petkovic surprisingly reached the semifinals of the French Open. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Petkovic first took to the tennis courts when she was six; her father Zoran Petković, former Yugoslav tennis player and member of the Yugoslavia Davis Cup team,[17] was a coach at a club in Darmstadt at the time. I tried to pull my foot up, and it just flopped there. She beat Tímea Babos in the first round and lost to Dominika Cibulková in the second round. Anna-Lena Grönefeld und Andrea Petkovic müssen sich dem Schweizer Doppel geschlagen geben. [26] Next, Petkovic reached the quarterfinals of the Open GdF Suez, where she lost to Mattek-Sands in a tight three-set match. As the 15th seed, Petkovic reached the quarterfinals of the French Open. One month later, Petkovic lost in the third round at Wimbledon against the young Russian player Ksenia Pervak. ). On her way to the title, she defeated, amongst others, Anna-Lena Grönefeld and Iveta Benešová. At the Apia International Sydney, Petkovic lost in the first round to Australian wildcard Jarmila Gajdošová. "[33], She returned to the tour in March, having fallen back to world No. In 2011, Petkovic reached her highest ranking alongside her then coaching staff (Popovic/Vemić). Andrea Petkovic (Serbian: Andrea Petković, Андреа Петковић, pronounced [ǎndrea pêtkoʋitɕ];[12][13] born 9 September 1987) is a German tennis player. Petkovic would go on to lose to Wozniacki. Madison Keys (USA) 17. In the final, she lost to Wimbledon semifinalist Petra Kvitová. A defending champion at the Family Circle Cup, Petkovic beat Chanelle Scheepers, Madison Brengle, and Danka Kovinić before losing to eventual champion Angelique Kerber. Thanks to our reader Sebbi and my own research I can tell you that Andrea started dating Jesse probably in … She also played the doubles final in Bad Gastein, partnering Tatjana Malek. 52. She mostly kept on playing ITF tournaments until June with success. Kim Clijsters, the tournament director, stepped in unexpectedly at the last moment and beat Andrea in a single set exhibition match. September 1987 in Tuzla, Bosnien-Herzegowina in Ex-Jugoslawien als Tochter eines bosnischen Serben und einer Bosnierin geboren. Leider haben Anna-Lena Grönefeld mit ihrer Partnerin Andrea Petkovic das Match verloren. Andrea Petkovic und ihre slowakische Partnerin Magdalena Rybarikova setzten sich nach einer spannenden Partie mit 6:1, 7:6 gegen Julia Görges und Anna-Lena Grönefeld durch. "[32] Having suffered from a third serious injury in less than a year, Petkovic considered retiring. She advanced to the quarterfinals by defeating Jill Craybas, Anne Keothavong, injured number three seed Venus Williams, who retired after just one game, and No. News [60] At Luxembourg Open, she lost in quarterfinals to a qualifier Eugenie Bouchard. [63], At the US Open, she upset Kvitová in the second round, in straight sets. Bianca Andreescu (CAN) 8. At the Rogers Cup in Toronto, Canada, she made it to the quarterfinals where she lost to Agnieszka Radwańska. Die Tennis-Freundin hatte Kerber unmittelbar nach deren Grand-Slam-Turniersieg einen Heiratsantrag via Twitter gemacht. She lost in the final round of qualifying to Harriet Dart. 2007 und 2009 wurde sie jeweils Deutsche Meisterin. "[29] She attended weeks of rehabilitation to rebuild the muscles in her leg, working seven hours a day, five days a week.[29]. Similarly, in Miami, after bye in the first round, she lost to Caroline Garcia. Zudem brannte in der Nacht ein Mehrfamilienhaus. German team ended up second in Group A. In the first round, Petkovic beat qualifier Kirsten Flipkens, and in the second round, Petkovic got revenge on Zarina Diyas. Her first tournament was the Citi Open at the end of July, where she beat Jessica Pegula, Mona Barthel, Paula Ormaechea and Alizé Cornet to reach the final, where she lost to defending champion Magdaléna Rybáriková. Thomas Lohnes. She beat Ekaterina Bychkova and Zheng Jie to progress to the third round, where she beat the 18th seed Roberta Vinci to set up a fourth-round match with Carla Suárez Navarro, equalling her career best performance at the event up to that point. In mid-August, Petkovic entered the qualifiers for the Cincinnati Open, beating Maria Sanchez and Karolína Plíšková to enter the first round proper, where she beat Daniela Hantuchová. In that sense still feel very close to my heritage. She then played at the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix in Stuttgart, beating Kristina Barrois in the first round. In the semifinals, she lost to Maria Sharapova. Petkovic started her 2015 year at the Brisbane International where she was the fifth seed. [56], At Wimbledon, she defeated Zhang Shuai but then lost to Yanina Wickmayer in the second round. She lost her first match convincingly to Carla Suárez Navarro, but beat Tsvetana Pironkova, Dominika Cibulková, and Garbiñe Muguruza to reach the final. After that performance, Petkovic reached her new career-high ranking of No. Jetzt muss Deutschland in die Relegation (wahrscheinlich Mitte/Ende April 2016) Das Bild zum Vergrößern anklicken She then lost in the second qualifying round of the French Open. Ashleigh Barty (AUS) 2. Coming back from the brink of loss against Monica Puig, she lost to eventual finalist Caroline Wozniacki. [59], Petkovic reached semifinals in Linz, where she lost to qualifier Ekaterina Alexandrova. At the Royal Indian Open, she beat Sofia Shapatava, Chang Liu, and Nina Bratchikova before losing to eventual winner Elina Svitolina. Aber es hat seine guten Gründe. Danach gönnte sich die spielfreudige Andrea Petkovic noch eine Zugabe im Doppel, obwohl ihre Partnerin Julia Görges auch nicht fit ist. At the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix in Stuttgart, Petkovic upset No. [18] In the final, she beat Raluca Olaru. I'm very emotional, have lots of fire in my personality. Next, Petkovic faced Jelena Janković and defeated her too. And at the last major of the season, the US Open, she reached the third round. At the season-ending Fed Cup final, Petkovic lost the opening rubber to Petra Kvitová. And things did not go so well, as she won just one match during the Stuttgart, Madrid, and Rome, over Romina Oprandi in Rome, but lost all others, to Flavia Pennetta, Sara Errani and Serena Williams, respectively. [28], Petkovic made her comeback in a Fed Cup match in April, losing to Samantha Stosur. Andrea plays tennis for Germany, but she’s from the Balkans (born in Bosnia and Herzegovina to a Serbian father and Bosniak mother) and that’s one of the connections she and her boyfriend have, since he grew up surrounded by Balkan music and dance due to his parents being folk dance instructors. Andrea Petkovic „Die Welt“ bietet Ihnen News, Hintergründe und Bilder zu der deutschen Tennisspielerin Andrea Petkovic. At the Australian Open in January 2008, in her first-round match against Anna Chakvetadze, she suffered a cruciate ligament rupture in her right knee after only two minutes of play. Petkovic then played Fed Cup for Germany and helped them to a win over Slovenia with two wins in singles rubbers. There she sought revenge in two sets over 10th seed Sara Errani from the last match Andrea lost against her and got into her first Grand Slam semifinal. [64], (W) Won; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (A) absent; (NH) not held. At her next three tournaments, the US Open in August, the Pan Pacific Open in September and the China Open in October, Petkovic was eliminated in the first round, by Romina Oprandi, Petra Martić, and Jelena Janković, respectively. She performed her trademark dance to delight the audience after her fourth round win. She faced 12th seed Roberta Vinci in the second round and lost in three sets. In the final, Petkovic won the title by beating Carla Suárez Navarro who withdrew before the match started due to a neck injury. In einem hochklassigen Match beim Hopman Cup gewinnt der junge Hamburger einen Tiebreak mehr. Petkovic was the 30th seed at the Australian Open. Don’t cry.' She beat fellow German Kathrin Wörle to reach the second round but then lost to Alizé Cornet. But in the semifinals, they lost to the 14th seeds Babos and Mladenovic, also in two sets. Ahead of her return to the tour, Petkovic was worried that she had fallen behind: "I was really scared that I would not be able to compete with the top players and that I might not be able to get back to where I was. It had been causing her discomfort since her three-set loss to Tomljanović, so she withdrew as a precaution, noting her recent experience with injuries.[34]. Viele meiner Freunde haben ganze eigene, besondere Talente, die leider oft zu wenig Anerkennung und Aufmerksamkeit erhalten (ein weiterer Punkt, warum ich Politikwissenschaften studiere! In Datteln hat es einen schweren Unfall gegeben. At the Australian Open, Petkovic was the 22nd seed; she lost in the first round to Elizaveta Kulichkova. At Cincinnati, Petkovic made the semifinals in spite of injury, before losing to Jelena Janković in straight sets. After the win, she re-entered the world top 100 for the first time since September 2012. 14 seed Maria Sharapova. [62], Petkovic played for Germany in Fed Cup against Belarus, she lost her singles match against Aryna Sabalenka. Her first tournament of 2012 was the Brisbane International in January. Petkovic was seeded seventh at the UNICEF Open and advanced to the final with wins over Petra Kvitová, Ana Ivanovic, Sandra Záhlavová, and Kirsten Flipkens. Johanna Konta (GBR) 15. I feel like I am part of the 'system' and feel very rooted there. Angeschossener Baseball-Star Ortiz nach Boston gebracht. [54], At the French Open, Petkovic defeated Kristina Mladenovic[55] and Bethanie Mattek-Sands before losing to Simona Halep in the third round. Due to Petkovic winning Antwerp, she received a bye in the first round at the Dubai Tennis Championships, and she was also the 9th seed. [38], After disappointing results in Asia (Doha and Dubai) and also both Indian Wells (first-round loss to Camila Giorgi) and Miami (second-round loss to Alizé Cornet), Petkovic rallied past qualifier Lesia Tsurenko, Lourdes Domínguez Lino (with a double bagel, 6–0, 6–0), fourth seed and countrywoman Sabine Lisicki (with a near-double bagel 6–1, 6–0) and both in three sets seeded Lucie Šafářová and Eugenie Bouchard in Charleston, to set up the final match-up against Jana Čepelová of Slovakia, whom she beat in straight sets for her third WTA title.[39]. She won singles match against Svetlana Kuznetsova. But she finished the season in style, winning the last tournament of the season – the WTA Tournament of Champions, the tournament for the six players which had not qualified for the WTA Finals, but who had won at least one WTA International tournament. All rights reserved. Petkovic was the 13th seed at the Australian Open and lost in the first round to Madison Brengle. Nach ausgeglichenem Beginn übernahm die Kielerin nach und nach die Initiative und breakte Petko im ersten Durchgang zwei weitere Male. Germany went on to lose their first Fed Cup final since 1992, with a final score of 3–1 for the Czech Republic. Petkovic reaches quarterfinals in Eastbourne, where she lost to Caroline Wozniacki. [47][48], Petkovic began her 2016 year at the Brisbane International. She defeated world No. In the semifinals, Petkovic beat Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová to reach her first WTA final of 2015. [18] She was able to finish high school before competing in tennis full-time because Zoran never pressured her into joining the professional circuit. [21] She does the blog in both German and English. 138k Followers, 479 Following, 433 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Andrea Petkovic (@andreapetkovici) In Stanford, she beat Venus Williams in the quarterfinals to set up a clash with her sister Serena, but she could not beat both Williams sisters, as Serena ended Petkovic's eight-match winning streak and also won their third match of the year. Karolina Pliskova (CZE) 7. [22], Since the beginning of her professional career, she has kept a diary at irregular intervals about her life on the WTA Tour in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, a major German newspaper. Petkovic has won six WTA Tour singles titles, as well as nine ITF singles and three ITF doubles titles. [61], Petkovic started her 2019 season at the Brisbane International. She lost, however, to Simona Halep, in three sets. Next week, Petkovic played at the Qatar Open where she was the sixth seed. At the US Open at the end of the month, she lost in the first round in straight sets to Bojana Jovanovski. She lost in the first round to Kaia Kanepi. She won the Open Romania in Bucharest, defeating Jelena Dokić in the semifinals along the way, and regained a top-100 ranking. The injury ultimately kept her out for three months. In Germany. 1 seed Marion Bartoli and won the title after Bartoli retired early in the second set. Andrea Petkovic (Serbian: Andrea Petković, Андреа Петковић, pronounced [ǎndrea pêtkoʋitɕ]; born 9 September 1987) is a German tennis player. Her win over Muguruza was the first against a top five player since 2013. Petkovic then played at the Bad Gastein tournament on clay. Nevertheless, this long run catapulted her back into the world's top 20. [52], At the Australian Open, Petkovic defeated Petra Kvitová in the first round in a match lasting almost three hours. In April 2007, she became a member of the German Fed Cup team. She played her first tournament in 2010 in Brisbane, Australia, where she reached the semifinal with wins over Iveta Benešová, Vania King, and Daniela Hantuchová. Elena Rybakina (KAZ) 20. SR=strike rate (events won/competed). Returning to the Brisbane International, and with coach Petar Popović, Petkovic improved on her previous best semifinal appearance by reaching the final, with straight set wins over eighth seeded Alexandra Dulgheru, Jelena Dokić, Jarmila Groth, and fourth seeded Marion Bartoli. She finished the year with a ranking of 315. Andrea Petkovic ist mit ihrer kroatischen Partnerin Mirjana Lucic-Baroni im Doppel-Viertelfinale der Australian Open ausgeschieden. Andrea Petković (kyrillisch Андреа Петковић; * 9. In RE gab es trotz Coronaverdachts keinen Test für ein Kind. Her next tournament was the Qatar Open, where she defeated Ekaterina Makarova, Margarita Gasparyan, and CoCo Vandeweghe in straight sets en route to the quarterfinals, where she beat Garbiñe Muguruza in three sets. Due to those two wins, Petkovic helped Germany reach another semifinal after defeating Australia. There she won her fourth title, rallying past Jana Čepelová, compatriot Dinah Pfizenmaier, Stefanie Vögele, Grace Min and Shelby Rogers in the final. In her second round match against Victoria Azarenka, Petkovic was down 2–6 and 4–4 when she rolled her right ankle. In the second round, she had her win over a top-10 player in beating Svetlana Kuznetsova, but was knocked out by Agnieszka Radwańska in three sets. She rebounded in 2014 by reaching her first Grand Slam semifinal at the 2014 French Open and later winning the WTA Tournament of Champions at the end of the season. At Wimbledon she reached the third round as the 20th seed, losing to another French Open semifinalist and eventual Wimbledon finalist, Eugenie Bouchard. I asked a few magazines if I could do an internship. Während der erste Satz nach nicht einmal einer halben Stunde deutlich an Petkovic/ Rybarikova ging, dauerte der zweite Durchgang fast eine Stunde. She has been studying political science at the FernUniversität Hagen since 2008. She beat Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in the first round and lost to Agnieszka Radwańska in the second round. At the Australian Open, she lost in first round to Magdaléna Rybáriková. Trip down the memory lane with Belinda Bencic, Childhood photos: Gentle personality speaks through Petra Kvitova’s disarming blue eyes, Anastasija Sevastova wins the second leg of the Bett1 Aces in Berlin, Kvitova, Sevastova reach the Bett1 Aces final, Even exhibitions trigger hate comments! As we can notice from Jesse’s social media, he likes art, chunky rings, bold tattoos, and an overall dreamy, artistic lifestyle. Verdient bezwingt Angelique Kerber ihre Freundin Andrea Petkovic mit 6:2, 6:4 und zieht ins Viertelfinale von Stuttgart ein. She said of the injury: "I knew immediately that it was bad because I heard everything crack. She played her first Grand Slam tournament at the 2007 French Open where she reached the second round, after coming through the qualifying without losing a set and beating Jarmila Groth. Petkovic she became the sixth German player in history to crack the top 10 by winning her opening match at the Mercury Insurance Open in San Diego against American player Alexa Glatch. At the end of the month, she took part in the China Open. She went on to win the match against Navarro to secure her first ever quarterfinals spot at the US Open against the world No. To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated at the conclusion of a tournament or when the player's participation has ended. Bei den French Open nahm sie zum ersten Mal an einem Grand-Slam-Turnier teil und schaffte dort ohn… Petra Martic (CRO) 19. She was seeded second at the Linz Open in October but withdrew before the tournament began, citing a right knee injury. Germans are generally more cool, reserved. [20], Petkovic also has a successful YouTube channel which is home to her video blog entitled "Petkorazzi". Andrea and Jesse don’t post photos of them together on Instagram yet, but we can conclude that their most recent joint trip was Budapest, as both have pics from the city on their profiles. The following week, she reached the semifinals in Istanbul, losing to Lucie Hradecká in three tight sets. Jesse is the founder of the New York-based Balkan project Which Way East, as well as the co-founder of the indie-rock band Walking Shapes. She speaks Serbian, German, English, and French. In ihrer Karriere gewann sie bislang sechs WTA-Turniere im Einzel: 2009 und 2014 in Bad Gastein, 2011 in Straßburg, 2014 in Charleston sowie das Tournament of Champions 2014 und 2015 in Antwerpen. In the final, she faced Agnieszka Radwańska and lost in a tight three-setter. Sie ist Teil des selbsternannten "schlechtesten Doppels der Welt", und doch rechnet sich Andrea Petkovic zusammen mit WG-Partnerin Angelique Kerber bei ihrer Olympia-Premiere etwas aus. Die am 9. "[35][36] She then received a wildcard for the ITF Open de Marseille in June, which she won without dropping a set, beating Anabel Medina Garrigues in the final. In a 2009 interview with the WTA, she stated that her parents might move to Novi Sad, Serbia, where they have a second home. She was defeated by eventual finalist Li Na in the quarterfinals, her best achievement in a Grand Slam championship of her career. Rankings – TOP 20 (as of December 14, 2020), 1. "[29] Petkovic made her second comeback of the year at the New Haven Open in mid-August. Sie ist 40 Wochen im Jahr auf Achse, spielt Turnier nach Turnier, lebt in anonymen Hotels. "[27] As a result, Petkovic withdrew from the Australian Open the following week, where she would have been seeded 10th. She defeated Stefanie Vögele, Kristina Mladenovic and Dutch qualifier Kiki Bertens in these rounds, to reach the quarterfinals. London (dpa) - Andrea Petkovic hat mit ihrer Partnerin Magdalena Rybarikova beim Grand-Slam-Turnier in Wimbledon den Einzug ins Finale im Doppel verpasst. Kiki Bertens (NLD) 10. Petkovic finished the season for the second time in the top 20, ranked world No. She started the grass court season in 's-Hertogenbosch, where she lost in the second round. [14][16] At the age of six months, the family relocated to Germany. However, in the semifinals she lost to world No. Petkovic won her second WTA Tour title in Strasbourg, defeating Anna-Lena Grönefeld, Zhang Shuai, Maria Kirilenko and Daniela Hantuchová. Petkovic then played again in the Fed Cup where she defeated Grand Slam champion Samantha Stosur, in straight sets. It was her first tournament win for over two years, her last coming when she won the Internationaux de Strasbourg in May 2011. After the Australian Open, Petkovic helped Germany at the 2016 Fed Cup World Group. "I did actually ask for a few internships. [19], Apart from tennis, she likes to educate herself by reading; her favourite authors are Goethe and Wilde. In the quarterfinals, she beat 6th seed Dominika Cibulková. "[24] When the United States Tennis Association mistakenly played the Nazi-era version of the German national anthem (which includes the phrase "Deutschland über alles") at the Fed Cup in Hawaii in 2017, Petkovic became outraged and nearly walked off the court.[25]. She won the first set 6–4 but appeared to be suffering from a knee injury late on in the set. Next, Petkovic lost in the early rounds of Cincinnati and New Haven. Playing Switzerland, Petkovic lost her rubber to Belinda Bencic and then played in doubles with Anna-Lena Grönefeld, but they lost to Bencic/Hingis in two sets. She also reached the final of the Nürnberger Versicherungscup that same month, receiving a wildcard and beating Sofia Arvidsson, fourth seed Julia Görges, eighth seed Annika Beck and top seed Jelena Janković en route to the final, where she lost to seventh seed Simona Halep. [51], At French Open, Petkovic lost in the first round to Varvara Lepchenko. Petkovic followed her good form by playing at the Diamond Games as the ninth seed; she also received a bye into the second round where she saved eight match points to beat wildcard Alison Van Uytvanck. There are no WTA tournaments going on, it’s the off-season. Andrea Petkovic (Darmstadt) ist mit ihrer kroatischen Partnerin Mirjana Lucic-Baroni im Doppel-Viertelfinale der Australian Open ausgeschieden. [43], At the French Open, Petkovic defeated Shelby Rogers and Lourdes Domínguez Lino before losing to Sara Errani in the third round. I'm definitely scared of that. Also, Jesse revealed that the Hungarian capital got his parents together. During the match, Petkovic received treatment for what was revealed the following day to be a double stress fracture of her spine and a spinal disc herniation. 4, Simona Halep, missing break and game points in the second set. I'm just hoping for a quick recovery. Außerdem sicherte sie sich neun Einzel- und drei Doppeltitel bei ITF-Turnieren. That year, she reached the quarterfinals at three Grand Slam tournaments as well as a Premier Mandatory final at the China Open, and qualified as an alternate to the WTA Tour Championships. Maria Sharapova is engaged to Alexander Gilkes! Thanks to our reader Sebbi and my own research I can tell you that Andrea started dating Jesse probably in the period after the 2018 US Open, at least that’s when we saw their first social media interactions. [19] In April 2018 she started writing a column for the Süddeutsche Zeitung. Andrea darf sich über sechsten WTA-Titel freuen. Melbourne - Andrea Petkovic aus Darmstadt ist mit ihrer kroatischen Partnerin Mirjana Lucic-Baroni im Doppel-Viertelfinale der Australian Open ausgeschieden. Petra Kvitova (CZE) 9. Petkovic lost in the second round to Zarina Diyas. 2 and reigning champion, Victoria Azarenka, in the first round and Svetlana Kuznetsova in the second, but lost to Lucie Šafářová in the third round in three sets. She beat Taylor Townsend and Vania King and was due to face Caroline Wozniacki but withdrew before the match with a calf injury. He introduced her to the sport and later became her coach.