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Tatjana Maria

Tatjana Maria

German tennis player (born 1987)


Tatjana Maria (née Malek; born 8 August 1987) is a German professional tennis player. In January 2024, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 42, and in June 2016, she peaked at No. 54 in the doubles rankings.

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She has won three singles titles and four doubles titles on the WTA Tour, as well as one singles title on the WTA Challenger Tour. She has also won 16 singles and 15 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. She has made 14 appearances (20 matches) for Germany in Fed Cup competition between 2006 and 2011 and between 2018 and 2023.

Career

2013–2016: Wimbledon & Miami Open third rounds, top 100 debut

Maria took a sabbatical in 2013, to have her first child, and returned to tour at the 2014 Copa Colsanitas.[1]

2017–2020: Top 50, first WTA Tour title

Maria reached a career-high ranking in the top 50 in November 2017.

She won her first singles WTA Tour title at the 2018 Mallorca Open defeating Anastasija Sevastova.[2]

2022: First Major semifinal at Wimbledon

Maria won her second title at the Copa Colsanitas, defeating Laura Pigossi in the final.[3]

At the Wimbledon Championships, she won in the third round against world No. 5, Maria Sakkari (her fifth top 10 win[4]), and in the round of 16 against 12th-seeded Jeļena Ostapenko, where she saved two match points.[5] This made her the oldest player to debut in a Wimbledon quarterfinal.[6] In the quarterfinal, she beat compatriot Jule Niemeier who was ranked 97th, in three sets. She reached a Wimbledon semifinal as the sixth female player in the Open Era over the age of 34,[7] and the sixth woman from Germany.[8] She lost her semifinal match to the second seed and world No. 2, Ons Jabeur, in three sets. She was the first mother-of-two to make the last four of a major since Margaret Court at Wimbledon 1975, and only the fourth player ranked outside the top 100 to reach the Wimbledon semifinals.[9] She was awarded the WTA Comeback Player of the Year for her performance in 2022.[10]

2023–2024: Third title, out of top 60

Maria defended her title at the Copa Colsanitas in Bogotá, defeating Peyton Stearns in the final.[11]

She was selected as the No. 2 WTA player representing team Germany for the 2024 United Cup.

In April 2024 in Bogotá, she could not defend her title losing to local favorite and 2021 champion Camila Osorio in the quarterfinals and fell down to No. 65 in the singles rankings.

Personal life

Her father Heinrich Malek (Polish: Henryk Małek) was a Polish international handball player originally from Zabrze.[12]

On 8 April 2013, she married her coach, the French former tennis player Charles-Edouard Maria. Their first child, a daughter named Charlotte, was born on 20 December 2013,[1] and their second daughter, Cecilia, was born on 2 April 2021.[13]

Performance timelines

Key
W  F  SF QF #R RR Q# P# DNQ A Z# PO G S B NMS NTI P NH
(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (P#) preliminary round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (Z#) Davis/Fed Cup Zonal Group (with number indication) or (PO) play-off; (G) gold, (S) silver or (B) bronze Olympic/Paralympic medal; (NMS) not a Masters tournament; (NTI) not a Tier I tournament; (P) postponed; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.
To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated at the conclusion of a tournament or when the player's participation has ended.

Only main-draw results in WTA Tour, Grand Slam tournaments, Billie Jean King Cup and Olympic Games are included in win–loss records.[14]

Singles

Current through the 2024 Madrid Open.

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Doubles

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WTA career finals

Singles: 3 (3 titles)

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Doubles: 8 (4 titles, 4 runner-ups)

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WTA Challenger finals

Singles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)

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Doubles: 1 (runner–up)

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ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 30 (17 titles, 13 runner–ups)

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Doubles: 25 (15 titles, 10 runner–ups)

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Record against top-10 players

Maria's record against players who have been ranked in the top 10. Active players are in boldface.[15]

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Wins over top-10 players

Maria has a 5–19 (20.8%) win-loss record against players who were, at the time the match was played, ranked in the top 10.[16]

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Billie Jean King Cup performance

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Note: Levels of Billie Jean King Cup in which Germany did not participate in a particular year are marked "NP".

Notes

  1. Formerly known as Fed Cup until 2020.
  2. The WTA International tournaments were reclassified as WTA 250 tournaments in 2021.
  3. The $50,000 tournaments were reclassified as $60,000 in 2017.
  4. The $75,000 tournaments were reclassified as $80,000 in 2017.

References

  1. "Nach Babypause: Tatjana Maria gibt Comeback". spox.com (in German). 7 April 2014. Retrieved 21 April 2018.
  2. "Maria stuns Sevastova for first singles title in Mallorca". WTA. 24 June 2018. Retrieved 28 June 2018.
  3. "Mumma Maria makes Wimbledon semi-finals". The Canberra Times. 5 July 2022. Retrieved 5 July 2022.
  4. "Tatjana Maria steht im Wimbledon-Halbfinale". Süddeutsche (in German). 5 July 2022. Retrieved 5 July 2022.
  5. "Tatjana Malek die neue Spitzenspielerin", www.schwaebische.de (in German), Schwäbische Zeitung, 2 October 2003
  6. "Head to Head". WTA Tennis.
  7. "Tatjana Maria". Tennis Abstract.
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