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Andrea Petkovic
Nickname(s)	Andy; Petko
Country	Germany
Residence	Griesheim, Germany
Date of birth	September 9, 1987 (age 22)
Place of birth	Tuzla, Yugoslavia
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight	69 kg (150 lb)
Turned pro	2006
Retired	Active
Plays	Right-handed, two handed backhand
Career prize money	$US 358.456
Singles
Career record	180-110
Career titles	1 WTA (8 ITF)
Highest ranking	No. 52 (August 3, 2009)
Current ranking	No. 55 (December 26, 2009)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	2R (2009)
French Open	2R (2007)
US Open	2R (2007)
Doubles
Career record	42-29
Career titles	0 WTA (3 ITF)
Highest ranking	No. 68 (September 28, 2009)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Wimbledon	1R (2009)
US Open	2R (2009)
	Last updated on: December 26, 2009.

Andrea Petkovic (born September 9, 1987 in Tuzla, Yugoslavia) is a German professional tennis player. She is living in Griesheim near Darmstadt, Germany.

As of December 17, 2009, Petkovic reached her career-high singles ranking of World Number 52 on August 3, 2009. Petkovic's highest doubles ranking was World Number 68 on September 28, 2009. She has won 1 WTA title, but she has won 8 ITF singles titles and 3 ITF doubles titles. Petkovic became the German national champion in 2007 and 2009.

[edit] Early and personal life

Andrea Petkovic first took the tennis courts when she was six; her father, Zoran Petkovic, a former Yugoslavian Davis Cup player, was a coach at a club in Darmstadt at the time. He introduced her into the sport and later became her coach.^[1]

Apart from tennis, she likes to educate herself by reading, her favourite authors are Goethe and Wilde.^[1] Petkovic graduated from school in 2006 with Abitur at the Georg-Büchner-Schule in Darmstadt, a Gymnasium. Since 2008, she's studying Political science at the Distance University of Hagen.^[2]

Besides German, she speaks English, French and Serbian.^[1]

Since the beginning of her professional career, she is writing a diary at irregular intervals about her life on the WTA-Tour in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, a big German newspaper.^[3]

Petkovic attained German citizenship in 2001 since she has lived there for almost her whole life.

[edit] Career

[edit] early career - 2008

Petkovic turned professional in 2006 after she finished school.^[1] But she had already won 4 ITF-titles before. She was the winner of the tournaments in Antalya, Podgorica (both in 2004), Davos and Alphen aan den Rijn (both in 2005).

In April 2007, she became a member of the German Fed Cup-Team. She has played her first Grand Slam at the 2007 French Open, where she reached the second round after coming through the qualifying without losing a set and beating Jarmila Groth. There she lost 6:0 2:6 3:6 to later Wimbledon-finalist Marion Bartoli. After this and having some success on the ITF-Circuit (she won the ITF title in Contrexéville in July 2007), she has reached the Top 100 in the WTA-Ranking for the first time. Considering that, she was able to play in the 2007 US Open main draw without having to qualify. She once again reached the second round after beating Audra Cohen. In round two she lost to Lucie Šafářová 3:6 3:6.

At the Australian Open in January 2008, in her first round match against Russia's Anna Chakvetadze, she suffered a cruciate ligament rupture in her right knee after only two minutes of play. Therefore she wasn't able to play any tournament for almost eight months which let her ranking drop down to 465 at worst.^[1]^[2] After the injury she started playing mostly on the ITF-Circuit again where she could win a tournament in Istanbul in November 2008. She finished the year with a ranking of 315.

[edit] 2009

In 2009, Petkovic played her first tournament at the Australian Open due to a protected ranking. She beat fellow German Kathrin Wörle to reach the second round but then lost to Alizé Cornet. She mostly kept on playing ITF tournaments until June with a lot of success, for example she won the 100.000$US-tournament in Bucharest, where she defeated Jelena Dokic in the semis. So she could rise her ranking back into the Top 100.

In July 2009, Andrea Petkovic won her first WTA tournament in Bad Gastein by losing only one set.^[1] In the final, she beat Ioana-Raluca Olaru 6:2 and 6:3. Amongst others, on her way to the title she defeated Anna-Lena Grönefeld and Iveta Benesova. She was also playing the doubles final in Bad Gastein together with Tatjana Malek. The following week, Petkovic reached the semifinal in Istanbul, losing to Lucie Hradecka in 3 tight sets. After those two weeks, she achieved her so far career high singles ranking of 52.

For the rest of the year she struggled to repeat her success but had another good tournament at the Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo where she came through the qualifying and reached the round of last 16. In second round she had her first Top 10-win by beating Svetlana Kuznetsova 7:5 4:6 6:3. Afterwards she lost to Agnieszka Radwanska in three sets.

[edit] Titles

[edit] Singles

Legend (Singles)
Grand Slam (0)
WTA Championships (0)
Premier Mandatory (0)
Premier 5 (0)
Premier (0)
International (1)
ITF Circuit (8)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	May 16, 2004	Antalya	Clay	Kateryna Avdiyenko	6–3 6–4
2.	June 20, 2004	Podgorica	Clay	Danica Krstajic	6–1 6–3
3.	June 26, 2005	Davos	Clay	Janette Bejlkova	6–4 6–2
4.	September 4, 2005	Alphen A/D Rijn	Clay	Eva Pera	7–5 7–5
5.	September 17, 2006	Sofia	Clay	Simona Iulia Matei	7–5 7–5
6.	July 22, 2007	Contrexeville	Clay	Ksenia Milevskaya	6–2 6–0
7.	November 02, 2008	Istanbul-Ted	Hard	Anna Gerasimou	6–2 6–2
8.	May 10, 2009	Bucharest	Clay	Stefanie Voegele	6–3 6–2
9.	July 20, 2009	Bad Gastein	Clay	Ioana Raluca Olaru	6–2 6–3