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This is a list of the main career statistics of German professional tennis player, Angelique Kerber. To date, Kerber has won ten WTA singles titles including two grand slam singles titles at the 2016 Australian Open and 2016 US Open and at least one title on each playing surface (hard, clay and grass). She was also the runner-up at the 2016 Wimbledon Championships and a Silver medalist at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics. Kerber became the world No. 1 for the first time in her career on 12 September 2016.
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Career achievements
Kerber's breakthrough occurred at the 2011 US Open where while ranked world No. 92, she upset twelfth seed Agnieszka Radwańska and twenty sixth seed Flavia Pennetta to advance to her first grand slam semifinal where she fell in three sets to the ninth seed and eventual champion Samantha Stosur. After the tournament, she rose into the world's top 40, climbing to world No. 34 in the WTA rankings.
In February the following year, she defeated Maria Sharapova and Marion Bartoli, the top two seeds at the Open GDF Suez to win her first WTA singles title before reaching her first WTA Premier Mandatory semifinal in Indian Wells where she lost in straight sets to the world No. 1 and eventual champion Victoria Azarenka. After achieving her career-best result at the French Open thus far, she enjoyed a stellar grass court season in which she reached the final in Eastbourne and the semifinals of Wimbledon where she lost to the third seeded Radwańska. A few weeks later, Kerber progressed to the quarterfinals of the London Olympics, falling to Azarenka before upsetting Serena Williams en route to her first WTA Premier 5 final at the Western & Southern Open.
Between 2013 and 2014, she made a second consecutive semifinal appearance at the BNP Paribas Open, reached another two WTA Premier 5 finals in Tokyo and Doha and advanced to her second quarterfinal at Wimbledon after defeating Sharapova in a tight three set match in the fourth round. 2015 saw Kerber reverse her previous season's 0–4 record in singles finals by winning 4 titles including her maiden titles on clay and grass at the Family Circle Cup and Aegon Classic.
Kerber began 2016 with a finals appearance at the Brisbane International before claiming her first win over Azarenka en route to her first major final at the Australian Open, where she overcame Serena Williams in three sets to win her maiden grand slam singles title. As a result, she prevented Williams from surpassing Steffi Graf's Open Era record of 22 grand slam singles titles and ascended to a new career high of world No. 2. In April, she successfully defended her title at the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix before rebounding from her first round loss at the French Open with a runner-up finish at the Wimbledon Championships. After beginning her US Open Series with a new career-best semifinal appearance at the Rogers Cup, Kerber reached back-to-back finals at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics and Western & Southern Open. At the US Open, Kerber avenged her straight sets loss to Karolína Plíšková in Cincinnati by defeating the Czech in a three set final to win her first title at the event and second grand slam singles title overall. With the victory and Plíšková's win over the defending champion Serena Williams in the semifinals, Kerber became the world No. 1 for the first time in her career.
ITF Circuit finals
Since Kerber's professional debut in 2003, she has won 11 ITF Titles in singles. She also reached 5 ITF doubles finals, winning 3 titles.
Singles performance timeline
Current through the 2017 Qatar Total Open.
Record against top 10 players
Kerber's match record against players who have been ranked in the top 10.