Carina Witthöft

Carina Witthöft (also spelled Witthoeft; born 16 February 1995 ) is a German former professional tennis player. She won one singles title on the WTA Tour whereas on the ITF Women's Circuit, she won eleven singles titles and one doubles title. On 8 January 2018, she reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 48.

Career Witthöft made her WTA Tour debut at the 2012 Swedish Open. Having defeated Marina Shamayko, Akgul Amanmuradova and Jill Craybas to qualify, she lost in the first round of the main draw against Kateryna Bondarenko.

She won her first WTA title at the 2017 Luxembourg Open, defeating Monica Puig in straight sets in the final.

She was coached by Torben Beltz and then by Philip Lang.

2018 Witthöft started the season at the Brisbane International where she lost in the first round to Aleksandra Krunić. Despite being defeated in the final round of qualifying at the Sydney International by Camila Giorgi, Witthöft entered the main draw as a lucky loser. She lost in the first round to Australian wildcard Sam Stosur. At the Australian Open, Witthöft was defeated in the first round by eighth seed Caroline Garcia.

In Doha at the Qatar Open, she lost in the second round to top seed Caroline Wozniacki.

2019 Witthöft played her last professional match at the Australian Open qualifying, where she lost in the first round.

Singles performance timeline

WTA career finals Singles: 1 (1 title) LegendGrand Slam tournaments Premier M & Premier 5 Premier International (1–0)Finals by surfaceHard (1–0)Clay (0–0)Grass (0–0)Carpet (0–0) ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScoreWin 1–0 Luxembourg Open International Hard (i) Monica Puig 6–3, 7–5

ITF Circuit finals Singles: 20 (11 titles, 9 runner–ups) Legend $100,000 tournaments (1–1) $75,000 tournaments (0–1) $50,000 tournaments (3–0) $25,000 tournaments (6–5) $10,000 tournaments (1–2)Finals by surfaceHard (3–2)Clay (7–7)Grass (0–0)Carpet (1–0)

Doubles: 1 (1 title) ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreWin 1–0 ITF Barnstaple, United Kingdom25,000 Hard (i) Alizé Lim Viktorija Golubic Diāna Marcinkēviča 6–2, 6–1

Record against top 10 players Witthöft's match record against players who have been ranked in the top 10.

Julia Görges 2–0 CoCo Vandeweghe 2–0 Kiki Bertens 2–2 Belinda Bencic 1–0 Ons Jabeur 1–0 Jeļena Ostapenko 1–0 Aryna Sabalenka 1–0 Francesca Schiavone 1–0 Nicole Vaidišová 1–0 Kimiko Date 1–1 Carla Suárez Navarro 1–1 Karolína Muchová 1–1 Timea Bacsinszky 0–1 Eugenie Bouchard 0–1 Dominika Cibulková 0–1 Sara Errani 0–1 Beatriz Haddad Maia 0–1 Ana Ivanovic 0–1 Jelena Janković 0–1 Barbora Krejčíková 0–1 Andrea Petkovic 0–1 Karolína Plíšková 0–1 Agnieszka Radwańska 0–1 Lucie Šafářová 0–1 Sloane Stephens 0–1 Samantha Stosur 0–1 Elina Svitolina 0–1 Roberta Vinci 0–1 Serena Williams 0–1 Svetlana Kuznetsova 0–2 Garbiñe Muguruza 0–2 Markéta Vondroušová 0–2 Caroline Wozniacki 0–2 Caroline Garcia 0–3 Angelique Kerber 0–3 Anett Kontaveit 0–3