Julia Görges
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Görges at the 2016 US Open
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| Full name | Julia Görges |
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| Country (sports) |
 Germany
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| Born |
2 November 1988 Bad Oldesloe, West Germany |
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) |
| Turned pro | 2005 |
| Plays | Right-handed (two-handed backhand) |
| Prize money | US$ 4,939,484 |
| Singles | |
| Career record | 351–263 |
| Career titles | 2 WTA, 6 ITF |
| Highest ranking | No. 15 (5 March 2012) |
| Current ranking | No. 55 (24 October 2016) |
| Grand Slam Singles results | |
| Australian Open | 4R (2012, 2013, 2015) |
| French Open | 4R (2015) |
| Wimbledon | 3R (2011, 2012) |
| US Open | 3R (2011) |
| Other tournaments | |
| Olympic Games | 3R (2012) |
| Doubles | |
| Career record | 235–179 |
| Career titles | 5 WTA, 6 ITF |
| Highest ranking | No. 12 (22 August 2016) |
| Current ranking | No. 17 (24 October 2016) |
| Grand Slam Doubles results | |
| Australian Open | SF (2015, 2016) |
| French Open | 3R (2011) |
| Wimbledon | SF (2016) |
| US Open | QF (2012) |
| Other doubles tournaments | |
| Tour Finals | QF (2016) |
| Olympic Games | 2R (2012) |
| Mixed doubles | |
| Grand Slam Mixed Doubles results | |
| Australian Open | QF (2014) |
| French Open | F (2014) |
| Wimbledon | QF (2012) |
| US Open | 1R (2012, 2013, 2014) |
| Team competitions | |
| Fed Cup | F (2014), record 9–9 |
| Last updated on: 27 October 2016. | |
Julia Görges (born 2 November 1988) is a German tennis player.
Görges has won two singles and four doubles titles on the WTA tour, as well as six singles and six doubles titles on the ITF circuit in her career. On 5 March 2012, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 15. On 25 April 2016, she peaked at world No. 16 in the doubles rankings.
Julia Görges was born in Bad Oldesloe to Klaus and Inge Görges, both of whom work in insurance. She has one elder maternal half-sister named Maike, who also works in insurance. She attended the Klaus-Groth-Schule and Theodor-Mommsen-Schule in Bad Oldesloe from 1995 to 2005, and completed the mittlere Reife (Realschulabschluss).
She began playing tennis around the age of 5 when she realised her parents would never stop talking about insurance, so she went to the local club. Her tennis idol growing up was Martina Hingis, and she is also a fan of Roger Federer. She was coached by Sascha Nensel, former coach of fellow German player Nicolas Kiefer until 2015. The surfaces she prefers are hard and grass courts, and her favorite tournament is the Australian Open.
In 2005 she began her career on the ITF Women's Circuit, playing in 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 quarterfinal-loss to Olga Govortsova in the 2008 Cellular South Cup.
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