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Andrea Petkovic

Andrea Petkovic
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Petkovic at the 2016 US Open
Full name Andrea Petkovic
Country (sports)  Germany
Residence Darmstadt, Germany
Born (1987-09-09) 9 September 1987 (age 29)
Tuzla, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Turned pro 2006
Plays Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money $ 6,285,585
Singles
Career record 407–253
Career titles 6 WTA, 9 ITF
Highest ranking No. 9 (10 October 2011)
Current ranking No. 51 (6 February 2017)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open QF (2011)
French Open SF (2014)
Wimbledon 3R (2011, 2014, 2015)
US Open QF (2011)
Doubles
Career record 86–94
Career titles 0 WTA, 3 ITF
Highest ranking No. 46 (14 July 2014)
Current ranking No. 87 (6 February 2017)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open QF (2017)
French Open 3R (2011, 2014)
Wimbledon SF (2014)
US Open 2R (2009, 2011, 2016)
Grand Slam Mixed Doubles results
US Open 1R (2012)
Team competitions
Fed Cup F (2014), record 14–9
Last updated on: 6 February 2017.

Andrea Petkovic (Serbian: Андреа Петковић, Petković pronounced [pêtkoʋit͡ɕ]; born 9 September 1987) is a German tennis player. Born in Tuzla, SFR Yugoslavia, to Serbian father Zoran and Bosniak mother Amira, she moved to Germany at six months old. Petkovic turned professional in 2006 and reached her career-high singles ranking of world number 9 in October 2011 after reaching the quarter-finals of that year's Australian Open, French Open and US Open. She suffered three separate injuries in 2012: a back injury in January, an ankle injury in August and a knee injury in December that kept her out for nine months and almost saw her fall out of the top 200. She has won five WTA titles, nine ITF singles titles and three ITF doubles titles. She won the season-ending tennis tournament WTA Tournament of Champions in 2014. Petkovic became the German national champion in 2007 and 2009 and is coached by Eric van Harpen.

Andrea Petkovic was born in Tuzla, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia. At the age of six months, the family relocated to Germany. 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, was a coach at a club in Darmstadt at the time. He introduced her to the sport and later became her coach. She was able to finish high school before competing in tennis full-time because Zoran never influenced her into joining the professional circuit.


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