Barthel at the 2016 US Open
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Full name | Mona Barthel |
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Country (sports) | Germany |
Residence | Neumünster, Germany |
Born |
Bad Segeberg, West Germany |
11 July 1990
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.