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Mona Barthel

Mona Barthel
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Barthel at the 2016 US Open
Full name Mona Barthel
Country (sports)  Germany
Residence Neumünster, Germany
Born (1990-07-11) 11 July 1990 (age 26)
Bad Segeberg, West Germany
Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Turned pro 2009
Plays Right-handed (two handed backhand)
Prize money $2,278,371
Singles
Career record 281–185
Career titles 3 WTA, 5 ITF
Highest ranking 23 (18 March 2013)
Current ranking 111 (30 January 2017)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open 4R (2017)
French Open 3R (2014)
Wimbledon 2R (2013, 2014, 2016)
US Open 3R (2015)
Other tournaments
Olympic Games 1R (2012)
Doubles
Career record 52–65
Career titles 2 WTA, 1 ITF
Highest ranking 63 (14 September 2015)
Current ranking 606 (16 January 2017)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open 2R (2015)
French Open 2R (2013)
Wimbledon 3R (2015)
US Open 2R (2012, 2013, 2015)
Mixed doubles
Grand Slam Mixed Doubles results
Wimbledon 1R (2013)
Team competitions
Fed Cup 1–1
Last updated on: 27 June 2016.

Mona Barthel (born 11 July 1990) is a German tennis player.

Barthel has won three singles and two doubles titles on the WTA tour as well as five singles and one doubles title on the ITF circuit in her career. On 18 March 2013, Barthel reached her best singles ranking of world number 23. On 14 September 2015, she peaked at world number 63 in the doubles rankings.

Mona Barthel was born in Bad Segeberg to Wolfgang Barthel, who won the shot put event at the 1970 European Junior Athletics Championships in Paris, and Dr. Hannelore. She was raised in a tennis-playing family, and took an interest in the game at age 3. She has cited Steffi Graf as an inspiration. Barthel moved to Neumünster, where she completed her Abitur in 2009, having attended the Klaus Groth Schule.

Barthel played her first ITF tournament in July 2007 in Frinton where she qualified for the main tournament and reached the quarterfinals, losing to Jade Curtis. In July 2008, she reached the finals of the Frinton tournament, losing to Tara Moore, and the $10,000 event in Gausdal, losing to Svenja Weidemann. She also reached the doubles final in Gausdal partnering Weidemann, where they lost to Tegan Edwards and Marcella Koek. Her first ITF tournament victory was in January 2010 at the $10,000 ITF tournament in Wrexham, beating Anne Kremer of Luxembourg in straight sets. In February 2010, she reached the doubles final of the $50,000+H Biberach tournament, partnering Carmen Klaschka, losing to Stéphanie Cohen-Aloro and Selima Sfar. In April 2010, she won the singles title at the $50,000 Torhout tournament, beating Rebecca Marino in the final, and also won in doubles, partnering Justine Ozga, defeating Hana Birnerová and Ekaterina Bychkova in the final.


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