| Country | Germany |
|---|---|
| Residence | Bad Oldesloe, Germany |
| Born | 2 November 1988 Bad Oldesloe, Germany |
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) |
| Turned pro | 2005 |
| Plays | Right-handed (two-handed backhand) |
| Career prize money | $1,495,107 |
| Singles | |
| Career record | 226–138 |
| Career titles | 2 WTA, 6 ITF |
| Highest ranking | No. 16 (6 June 2011) |
| Current ranking | No. 21 (14 November 2011) |
| Grand Slam results | |
| Australian Open | 3R (2011) |
| French Open | 3R (2011) |
| Wimbledon | 3R (2011) |
| US Open | 3R (2011) |
| Doubles | |
| Career record | 110–80 |
| Career titles | 3 WTA, 6 ITF |
| Highest ranking | No. 31 (6 June 2011) |
| Current ranking | No. 40 (14 November 2011) |
| Grand Slam Doubles results | |
| Australian Open | 3R (2011) |
| French Open | 3R (2011) |
| Wimbledon | QF (2010) |
| US Open | 3R (2010) |
| Last updated on: 14 November 2011. | |
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.
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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]
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.
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.
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.
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]
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]
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.
| Legend |
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| 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 |
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| Winner | 1. | 25 July 2010 | Bad Gastein, Austria | Clay | Timea Bacsinszky | 6–1, 6–4 |
| Runner-up | 1. | 24 October 2010 | Luxembourg City, Luxembourg | Hard (i) | Roberta Vinci | 3–6, 4–6 |
| Winner | 2. | 24 April 2011 | Stuttgart, Germany | Clay | Caroline Wozniacki | 7–6(7–3), 6–3 |
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| Grand Slam tournaments (0–0) |
| WTA Tour Championships (0–0) |
| Premier Mandatory & Premier 5 (0–0) |
| Premier (0–0) |
| International (3–4) |
| Outcome | No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Partner | Opponents in the final | Score in the final |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winner | 1. | 20 July 2009 | Portorož, Slovenia | Hard | Vladimíra Uhlířová | Camille Pin Klára Zakopalová |
6–4, 6–2 |
| Runner-up | 1. | 27 July 2009 | Istanbul, Turkey | Hard | Patty Schnyder | Lucie Hradecká Renata Voráčová |
6–2, 3–6, [10–12] |
| Runner-up | 2. | 12 July 2010 | Palermo, Italy | Clay | Jill Craybas | Alberta Brianti Sara Errani |
4–6, 1–6 |
| Winner | 2. | 2 August 2010 | Copenhagen, Denmark | Hard (i) | Anna-Lena Grönefeld | Vitalia Diatchenko Tatiana Poutchek |
6–4, 6–4 |
| Winner | 3. | 26 September 2010 | Seoul, South Korea | Hard | Polona Hercog | Natalie Grandin Vladimíra Uhlířová |
6–3, 6–4 |
| Runner-up | 3. | 17 July 2011 | Bad Gastein, Austria | Clay | Jarmila Gajdošová | Eva Birnerová Lucie Hradecká |
6–4, 2–6, [10–12] |
| Runner-up | 4. | 16 October 2011 | Linz, Austria | Hard (i) | Anna-Lena Grönefeld | Marina Erakovic Elena Vesnina |
5–7, 1–6 |
Only Main Draw results in WTA Tour are considered. This table is current through the 2012 ASB Classic.
| Tournament | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | SR | W–L | |||||||||
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| Australian Open | A | LQ | 1R | 2R | 3R | 0 / 3 | 3–3 | ||||||||||
| 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 / 5 | 3–5 | ||||||||||
| Win–Loss | 0–1 | 1–2 | 0–4 | 3–4 | 8–4 | 0–0 | 0 / 15 | 12–15 | |||||||||
| Fed Cup Singles | |||||||||||||||||
| World Group | A | 1R | A | 1R | PO | 0 / 3 | 2–3 | ||||||||||
| 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 | 1 | 72 | ||||||||||
| Titles–Runner-ups | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 2 / 72 | 2–1 | |||||||||
| Hardcourt Win–Loss | 4–5 | 5–6 | 3–6 | 15–13 | 18–16 | 1–1 | 0 / 46 | 46–47 | |||||||||
| 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 | 1–1 | 2 / 72 | 87–73 | |||||||||
| Win % | 44% | 43% | 45% | 56% | 61% | 50% | 54.38% | ||||||||||
| Year End Ranking | 131 | 102 | 78 | 40 | 21 | $1,495,107 | |||||||||||
*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 | ||||||
| Serena Williams | 0–1 | 0% | 0–0 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 0–0 |
| Justine Henin | 0–1 | 0% | 0–1 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 |
| Caroline Wozniacki | 2–0 | 100% | 0–0 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 |
| Number 2 ranked players | ||||||
| Maria Sharapova | 0–1 | 0% | 0–1 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 |
| Number 3 ranked players | ||||||
| Svetlana Kuznetsova | 0–1 | 0% | 0–1 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 |
| Victoria Azarenka | 0–1 | 0% | 0–1 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 |
| Number 4 ranked players | ||||||
| Caroline Wozniacki | 0–2 | 0% | 0–2 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 |
| Number 5 ranked players | ||||||
| Ana Ivanović | 0–1 | 0% | 0–1 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 |
| Victoria Azarenka | 1–1 | 50% | 0–0 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 0–0 |
| Number 6 ranked players | ||||||
| Svetlana Kuznetsova | 0–1 | 0% | 0–1 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 |
| Jelena Janković | 0–2 | 0% | 0–1 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 0–0 |
| Samantha Stosur | 1–0 | 100% | 0–0 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 |
| Number 7 ranked players | ||||||
| Samantha Stosur | 1–0 | 100% | 1–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 |
| Overall | 5–12 | 29.4% | 1–9 | 4–2 | 0–1 | 0–0 |
Görges's win-loss record (35–44, 44%) against players who have been ranked World No. 20 or higher is as follows :
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