Kovinić at the 2016 Wimbledon Championships
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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) |
Plays | Right-handed (two-handed backhand) |
Coach(es) | Svetko Bjelotomić Veljko Radojicić |
Prize money | USD$ 980,486 |
Singles | |
Career record | 205–142 |
Career titles | 0 WTA, 9 ITF |
Highest ranking | No. 46 (22 February 2016) |
Current ranking | No. 68 (16 January 2017) |
Grand Slam Singles results | |
Australian Open | 2R (2016, 2017) |
French Open | 2R (2015) |
Wimbledon | 1R (2015, 2016) |
US Open | 2R (2015) |
Doubles | |
Career record | 69–60 |
Career titles | 1 WTA, 3 ITF |
Highest ranking | No. 68 (06 Jun 2016) |
Current ranking | No. 97 (16 January 2017) |
Grand Slam Doubles results | |
Australian Open | 2R (2016, 2017) |
French Open | 1R (2016) |
US Open | 1R (2015) |
Last updated on: 23 May 2016. |
Danka Kovinić (Serbian: Данка Ковинић; born 18 November 1994) is a professional Montenegrin tennis player and member of the Montenegro Fed Cup team.
On 22 February 2016, she reached her highest WTA singles ranking of 46, whilst her best doubles ranking was 68 on 06 Jun 2016.
Kovinić started playing professionally in 2010. Her first WTA singles tournament was the 2013 Budapest Grand Prix. By reaching the quarterfinals Kovinic became the first ever Montenegrin to reach the quarterfinals of a WTA event. 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 WTA doubles match 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.
In doubles play 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 number 10 seed Petra Kvitová in the first round of the 2016 French Open, she came within two points of winning the match.