Country (sports) Germany Weight 71 kg Prize money $1,082,117 Name Kristina Barrois Turned pro 2005 | Career record 349–244 Role Tennis Player Retired October 2014 Career titles 15 ITF Height 1.83 m | |
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Born 30 September 1981 (age 42)
Ottweiler, West Germany ( 1981-09-30 ) Plays Right-handed (single-handed backhand) Similar People Serena Williams, Stefanie Vogele, Venus Williams, Annika Beck, Tatjana Maria | ||
Highest ranking No. 57 (9 May 2011) | ||
Elena dementieva vs kristina barrois part 1
Kristina Barrois (born 30 September 1981) is a retired German tennis player.
Contents
- Elena dementieva vs kristina barrois part 1
- Elena dementieva vs kristina barrois part 2
- Early life
- Career
- References
Barrois won 15 singles and 16 doubles titles on the ITF tour in her career. On 9 May 2011, she reached her best singles ranking of world number 57. On 20 February 2012, she peaked at world number 55 in the doubles rankings.
Elena dementieva vs kristina barrois part 2
Early life
Barrois began playing tennis at the age of 9 in 1991 when she took the sport up herself and began to play at a tennis club. She completed her training as a government inspector at the Saarland Ministry of Justice before turning professional in 2005.
Career
Barrois was trained by Patrick Schmidt, but is now trained by Andreas Spaniol, and her stamina-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 also qualified for the main draws of the Wimbledon Championships and the US Open. At Wimbledon, she lost to Shenay Perry. At the US Open, she lost to the world number one Amélie Mauresmo.
On 14 December 2008, she won her second German Tennis Championship 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. She then fell in the qualifying round of the Hobart event to British player Melanie South. She also reached the first round of the Australian Open, where she pushed the number-four seeded Russian, Elena Dementieva, but eventually lost in three sets. In February she reached the second round in Memphis, but fell short against former world number 30 Michaëlla Krajicek. In March, she played an ITF event where she lost in the quarterfinals to British player Katie O'Brien. She did extremely well at the premier mandatory event in Indian Wells, where she beat French star Alizé Cornet in the second round. She lost, however, to Hungarian Ágnes Szávay in the next round. She reached the second round of the French Open, where Victoria Azarenka beat her and the US Open, where she lost to Dinara Safina.
In 2010, she reached the second round on the Australian Open, losing to Samantha Stosur. She qualified for her first ever final in a WTA tournament, the Internationaux de Strasbourg, which Maria Sharapova won in straight sets. She reached the second round of Wimbledon, being knocked out by Justine Henin.
In 2011, she reached the second round of the Australian Open, this time losing to Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova.
After losing to Lucie Hradecká at the Luxembourg Open in October 2014, Barrois announced her retirement from professional tennis.