Kristina Barrois

Country	Germany
Residence	Urexweiler, Marpingen, Germany
Date of birth	30 September 1981 (1981-09-30) (age 28)
Place of birth	Ottweiler, West Germany
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	71 kg (160 lb)
Turned pro	2005
Plays	Right-handed, single-handed backhand
Career prize money	$320,735
Singles
Career record	198-108
Career titles	0 WTA (13 ITF)
Highest ranking	No. 66 (August 3, 2009)
Current ranking	No. 80 (November 9, 2009)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	1r (2009)
French Open	2r (2009)
Wimbledon	1r (2006, 2009)
US Open	2r (2009)
Doubles
Career record	73–47
Career titles	0 WTA (7 ITF)
Highest ranking	No. 89 (July 6, 2009)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	1r (2009)
French Open	1r (2009)
Wimbledon	QF (2009)
Last updated on: June 22, 2009.

Kristina Barrois (born 30 September 1981 in Ottweiler, Saarland) is a German professional tennis player who has won two German Tennis Championships and who reached the main draw of two Grand Slam events in 2006. She lives in Urexweiler, Marpingen. Her career high rank is #66, achieved on August 3, 2009.

[edit] Early life

Barrois completed her training as a government inspector in the Saarland Ministry of Justice before turning professional in 2005.

[edit] Career

Barrois was trained by Patrick Schmidt, but is now trained by Andreas Spaniol, and her condition trainer is the footballer Bernd Franke.

She played in the German Fed Cup team in 2006, losing her singles match to Li Na, and also losing her doubles match. In the same year, she won the German Tennis Championship. She qualified for the main draw of the Wimbledon Championships and the US Open in 2006. At Wimbledon, she lost to Shenay Perry 5–7 7–5 6–7(6). At the US Open, she lost 1–6 5–7 to the world number one Amélie Mauresmo after leading in the second set 5–2.

On December 14, 2008, she won her second German Tennis Championship 7–6 6–1 against the unseeded Lydia Steinbach.

In 2009 she started off well as she qualified for Auckland but lost to up-and-coming Russian teenager Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 6–3 6–1. She then fell in the qualifying round of the Hobart event to British player Melanie South 7–5 6–0. She also reached the 1st round of the Australian Open, where she pushed the No.4 seeded Russian, Elena Dementieva but eventually lost 6–7(4) 6–2 1–6. In February she reached the 2nd round of Memphis but fell short against Dutch former world No.30 Michaella Krajicek 3–6 6–3 7–6(0). In March, she played an ITF event where she lost in the quarterfinals to British player Katie O'Brien 6–7(7) 3–6. She did extremely well at the premier mandatory event in Indian Wells, where she beat French star Alize Cornet 6–2 6–2 in the 2nd round. She lost, however, to Hungarian Agnes Szavay in the next round 6–3 6–4.

[edit] External links

• Kristina Barrois profile on the WTA Tour's official website
• Kristina Barrois at the Fed Cup
• Official website of Kristina Barrois in German