Stephanie Vogt

Stephanie Vogt (; born 15 February 1990) is a former professional tennis player from Liechtenstein.

In her career, Vogt won two doubles titles on the WTA Tour as wells as 12 singles and 11 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. On 24 February 2014, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 137. On 22 February 2016, she peaked at No. 69 in the WTA doubles rankings.

Playing for Liechtenstein Fed Cup team, Vogt achieved a win–loss record of 23–18.

Biography Vogt was born on 15 February 1990 to Erika and Ewald (the latter died 2007). She began playing tennis at age five. After playing with the Swiss junior team for some time, she turned professional in 2006, and simultaneously decided to move to Hungary to train with Zoltan Kuharszky, which would result in her reaching the mid-200s of the WTA rankings in 2008. She was awarded an invitation spot at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, but she was forced to withdraw due to a patella injury, which required surgery. Knee rehabilitation took approximately 18 months, during which Vogt finished school before returning to the professional circuit in 2011. Vogt was given the honor of being Liechtenstein's flag bearer during the 2012 Summer Olympics in London and also represented Liechtenstein at the 2016 Summer Olympics. By the time of her retirement in August 2016, she was the highest-ranked tennis player to ever represent her country.

Career Vogt had a successful junior career, winning five ITF singles titles, as well as six doubles titles. Her best ranking as a junior was world No. 5, and she finished her junior career with a record of 79–26.

Her success on the ITF Women's Circuit in 2008 led to the ITF announcing that she had been given one of the two invitations into the main draw for the Summer Olympics in Beijing. However, she was forced to withdraw through injury and that spot was given to Tamarine Tanasugarn of Thailand.

2010–2011 She reached six ITF singles finals, winning three in Egypt, Slovenia, and the Netherlands. She also reached five ITF doubles finals, losing all five. At the 2011 Games of the Small States of Europe, held in Liechtenstein, Vogt won three gold medals. She defeated Kathinka von Deichmann in the final of the singles, whilst also partnering with von Deichmann to win the women's doubles. The mixed doubles was won with Jirka Lokaj. This built on her success from the 2007 Games, when she won a gold medal in the singles, before combining with Marina Novak to take silver in the doubles. She did not participate in the 2009 event.

2012 Vogt represented Liechtenstein also at the London Summer Olympics. Ranked No. 236, she did not qualify through rankings and was thus given a Tripartite Commission Invitation to play in the singles draw. In the first round, she played against Anna Tatishvili of Georgia and lost, 2–6, 0–6. On the ITF Circuit, she won two tournaments in doubles, in Bath and Aschaffenburg, and reached the singles final at Netanya, losing to Anna Karolína Schmiedlová in three sets.

2013: First WTA Tour title In July, she won her biggest title in Biarritz, where she beat Schmiedlová in three sets. Following this win, Vogt cracked the top 150 for the first time in her career. She was in touching distance of a main-draw berth at the French Open, defeating two players in qualifying before losing out to Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová in straight sets. One month later, she won another singles title in Podgorica by beating Anett Kontaveit in the final, in straight sets.

In October, she took part in the qualifying of the WTA Ladies Linz in Austria, where she defeated Christina McHale in the first round but lost in the second against Katarzyna Piter, in a narrow three-setter. In the doubles, she teamed with Yanina Wickmayer, losing to the pair of Mona Barthel and Irina-Camelia Begu, in the super tie-breaker. The following week, she played the qualifying for the WTA tournament in Luxembourg, she beat Melanie South in the first round, 6–1, 6–2, but lost in the second round against Alison Van Uytvanck, in three sets. In the first round of the doubles, she partnered again with Yanina Wickmayer, and they defeated the pairing of Lourdes Domínguez Lino and Monica Niculescu. In the quarterfinals, they beat Līga Dekmeijere and Christina McHale. They were supposed to face Polona Hercog and Lisa Raymond in the semifinals but the other pair were forced to withdraw. So they entered the final in Luxembourg, and faced Kristina Barrois and Laura Thorpe, winning in two sets.

2015 In April, Vogt played in Stuttgart, Germany but lost in the first round to Kateřina Siniaková. Playing doubles with Petra Martić, she reached the semifinals before she and Martic were beaten by Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Lucie Šafářová. In the first round, they beat the team of Martina Hingis and Sania Mirza.

In July, she bowed out in the semifinals of the German tournament in Versmold. She then bowed out in the first round of qualifying for Bad Gastein in Austria but won the doubles title there with Danka Kovinić.

2016: Retirement In January, she won the doubles tournament in Hong Kong, along with Viktorija Golubic. She then bowed out in the first qualifying round of the Australian Open as she lost to Arina Rodionova, in straight sets. In doubles, she and her partner, Maria Sanchez, got through to the main draw of the tournament where they beat Darija Jurak and Nicole Melichar, in three sets in the first round, making this Vogt's first victory in the final table of a Grand Slam championship. Vogt did bow out sharply, however, in the second round when she and Sanchez lost to Caroline Garcia and Kristina Mladenovic, 2–6, 1–6.

In August, Vogt participated in her second Olympics where she lost in the first round to Johanna Konta, in straight sets. Afterwards, she announced her retirement from professional tennis.

WTA Tour finals Doubles: 2 (2 titles) LegendGrand Slam tournamentsPremier M & Premier 5PremierInternational (2–0)Finals by surfaceHard (1–0)Clay (1–0)Grass (0–0)Carpet (0–0)

ITF Circuit finals Singles: 19 (12 titles, 7 runner-ups) Legend$100,000 tournaments$50,000 tournaments$25,000 tournaments$15,000 tournaments$10,000 tournamentsFinals by surfaceHard (3–2)Clay (9–5) ResultNo.DateTournamentSurfaceOpponentScoreWin 1. 24 June 2007 ITF Davos, Switzerland Clay Jessica Moore 6–4, 4–6, 6–3Loss 1. 19 August 2007 ITF Pesaro, Italy Clay Polona Hercog 2–6, 6–2, 1–6Loss 2. 28 October 2007 ITF Mexico City Hard Olivia Sanchez 6–2, 2–6, 2–6Loss 3. 16 February 2008 ITF Mallorca, Spain Clay Polona Hercog 6–4, 1–6, 3–6Win 2. 4 May 2008 Makarska Ladies Open, Croatia Clay Anastasia Pivovarova 6–2, 6–3Win 3. 29 May 2010 ITF Velenje, Slovenia Clay Pavla Šmídová 6–1, 6–2Win 4. 31 October 2010 ITF Cairo, Egypt Clay Maša Zec Peškirič 6–1, 6–3Loss 4. 23 January 2011 Open Andrézieux-Bouthéon, France Hard Mona Barthel 3–6, 6–3, 4–6Loss 5. 10 July 2011 ITF Aschaffenburg, Germany Clay Florencia Molinero 6–7(6), 1–6Win 5. 11 September 2011 ITF Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands Clay Katarzyna Piter 6–2, 6–4Loss 6. 18 September 2011 ITF Rotterdam, Netherlands Clay Dinah Pfizenmaier 6–3, 1–6, 1–6Loss 7. 3 November 2012 ITF Netanya, Israel Hard Anna Karolína Schmiedlová 6–0, 3–6, 4–6Win 6. 10 March 2013 ITF Sutton, United Kingdom Hard (i) Carina Witthöft 3–6, 6–4, 6–3Win 7. 17 March 2013 GB Pro-Series Bath, United Kingdom Hard (i) An-Sophie Mestach 7–6(3), 6–3Win 8. 13 July 2013 Open de Biarritz, France Clay Anna Karolína Schmiedlová 1–6, 6–3, 6–2Win 9. 15 September 2013 Royal Cup, Montenegro Clay Anett Kontaveit 6–4, 6–3Win 10. 16 February 2014 ITF São Paulo, Brazil Clay Marina Melnikova 6–1, 6–4Win 11. 14 November 2014 GB Pro-Series Bath, United Kingdom Hard (i) Alberta Brianti 6–3, 7–6(3)Win 12. 6 June 2015 ITF Brescia, Italy Clay Andrea Gámiz 7–6(3), 6–4

Doubles: 27 (11 titles, 16 runner-ups) Legend$100,000 tournaments$75,000 tournaments$50,000 tournaments$25,000 tournaments$10,000 tournamentsFinals by surfaceHard (2–3)Clay (9–12)Grass (0–1) ResultNo.DateTournamentSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreWin 1. 16 February 2008 ITF Mallorca, Spain Clay Polona Hercog Leticia Costas Maite Gabarrús-Alonso 7–6(2), 6–3Loss 1. 19 April 2008 ITF Bari, Italy Clay Polona Hercog Alberta Brianti Anna Floris 3–6, 3–6Win 2. 4 May 2008 Makarska Ladies Open, Croatia Clay Polona Hercog Tadeja Majerič Maša Zec Peškirič 7–5, 6–2Loss 2. 11 April 2010 ITF Hvar, Croatia Clay Leonie Mekel Marlot Meddens Nicole Thyssen 4–6, 1–6Loss 3. 31 October 2010 ITF Cairo, Egypt Clay Maša Zec Peškirič Réka Luca Jani Martina Kubičíková 7–6(4), 1–6, [9–11]Loss 4. 3 July 2011 ITF Stuttgart, Germany Clay Hana Birnerová Darija Jurak Anaïs Laurendon 6–4, 1–6, [0–10]Loss 5. 10 July 2011 ITF Aschaffenburg, Germany Clay Hana Birnerová Pemra Özgen Yurika Sema 4–6, 6–7(5)Loss 6. 23 October 2011 GB Pro-Series Glasgow, UK Hard (i) Yvonne Meusburger Emma Laine Kristina Mladenovic 2–6, 4–6Win 3. 25 March 2012 GB Pro-Series Bath, UK Hard (i) Tatjana Malek Julie Coin Melanie South 6–3, 3–6, [10–3]Loss 7. 6 April 2012 ITF Tessenderlo, Belgium Clay (i) Tatjana Malek Demi Schuurs Maryna Zanevska 4–6, 3–6Win 4. 15 July 2012 ITF Aschaffenburg, Germany Clay Florencia Molinero Malou Ejdesgaard Réka Luca Jani 6–3, 7–6(2)Loss 8. 13 April 2013 ITF Edgbaston, UK Hard (i) Richèl Hogenkamp Kristina Barrois Ana Vrljić 4–6, 6–7(2)Win 5. 4 May 2013 ITF Civitavecchia, Italy Clay Renata Voráčová Paula Kania Magda Linette 6–3, 6–4Loss 9. 30 June 2013 ITF Stuttgart, Germany Clay Sandra Zaniewska Kristina Barrois Laura Siegemund 6–7(1), 4–6Win 6. 6 September 2013 Save Cup, Italy Clay Laura Thorpe Petra Krejsová Tereza Smitková 7–6(5), 7–5Loss 10. 7 March 2014 ITF Campinas, Brazil Clay Laura Thorpe Lyudmyla Kichenok Alexandra Panova 1–6, 3–6Win 7. 10 May 2014 Empire Slovak Open, Slovakia Clay Zheng Saisai Margarita Gasparyan Evgeniya Rodina 6–4, 6–2Win 8. 31 May 2014 Grado Tennis Cup, Italy Clay Verónica Cepede Royg Lara Arruabarrena Florencia Molinero 6–4, 6–2Loss 11. 14 June 2014 Nottingham Challenge, UK Grass Verónica Cepede Royg Jarmila Gajdošová Arina Rodionova 6–7(0), 1–6Loss 12. 5 July 2014 Reinert Open, Germany Clay Verónica Cepede Royg Gabriela Dabrowski Mariana Duque Mariño 4–6, 2–6Win 9. 11 July 2014 Open de Biarritz, France Clay Florencia Molinero Lourdes Domínguez Lino Teliana Pereira 6–2, 6–2Win 10. 26 September 2014 Royal Cup, Montenegro Clay Alexandra Cadanțu Xenia Knoll Arantxa Rus 6–1, 3–6, [10–2]Loss 13. 5 June 2015 Internazionali di Brescia, Italy Clay María Irigoyen Laura Siegemund Renata Voráčová 2–6, 1–6Loss 14. 13 September 2015 Open de Biarritz, France Clay Réka Luca Jani Başak Eraydın Lidziya Marozava 4–6, 4–6Loss 15. 16 November 2015 Scottsdale Challenge, US Hard Viktorija Golubic Julia Glushko Rebecca Peterson 6–4, 5–7, [6–10]Win 11. 8 January 2016 ITF Hong Kong Hard Viktorija Golubic Hsu Ching-wen Emma Laine 6–2, 1–6, [10–4]Loss 16. 5 June 2016 Internazionali di Brescia, Italy Clay Cindy Burger Deborah Chiesa Martina Colmegna 3–6, 6–1, [10–12]

Fed Cup Singles (14–12) EditionStageDateLocationAgainstSurfaceOpponentW/LScore R/R Antalya, Turkey Clay Mervana Jugić-SalkićL 2–6, 4–6 Namibia Suzelle DavinW Egypt Nihal Tarek-SalehW 6–0, 6–0 Botswana Puleng TlhophaneW 6–0, 6–0 R/R Turkey Hard İpek ŞenoğluL 6–4, 2–6, 4–6 Mauritius Marinne GiraudW 6–4, 6–4 Egypt Magy AzizW 6–2, 6–1 Azerbaijan Sevil AliyevaW 6–1, 6–1 R/R Greece Clay Eleni DaniilidouL Luxembourg Mandy MinellaL 4–6, 4–6 South Africa Chanel SimmondsW 7–5, 6–1 P/O 1 May 2010 Norway Ulrikke EikeriW 6–4, 7–5 R/R 8 May 2013 Madagascar Clay Nantenaina RamalalaharivololonaW 6–0, 6–2 9 May 2013 Norway Heda OdegaardW 6–1, 7–6(3) P/O Denmark Mai GrageL 3–6, 1–6 R/R Montenegro Hard (i) Tamara BojanićW 6–0, 6–1 17 April 2014 Lithuania Lina StančiūtėL Finland Piia SuomalainenW 6–2, 3–6, 6–1 P/O Bosnia and Herzegovina Jasmina TinjićW 6–3, 6–1 R/R Great Britain Hard (i) Heather WatsonL 2–6, 3–6 5 February 2015 Ukraine Elina SvitolinaL 6–4, 2–6, 3–6 6 February 2015 Turkey Çağla BüyükakçayL 2–6, 2–6 P/O Portugal L R/R 13 April 2016 Clay Dea HerdželašL 5–7, 6–2, 4–6 14 April 2016 Austria Tamira PaszekW 2–6, 6–1, 6–3 15 April 2016 Egypt Sandra SamirL 2–6, 6–3, 1–6

Doubles (10–6) EditionStageDateLocationAgainstSurfacePartnerOpponentsW/LScore R/R Antalya Egypt Clay Magy Aziz Nihal Tarek-SalehL 2–6, 2–6 R/R Phoenix Turkey Hard Pemra Özgen İpek ŞenoğluL 0–6, 1–6 Mauritius Marinne Giraud Astrid TixierW 7–6(3), 7–6(6) Egypt Aliaa Fakhry Nihal Tarek-SalehL Azerbaijan W w/o R/R Yerevan Greece Clay L R/R Chișinău Madagascar Clay Hariniony Andriamananarivo Nantenaina RamalalaharivololonaW 6–3, 6–4 Norway Andrea Raaholdt Melanie StokkeW 6–0, 6–0 P/O Denmark Malou Ejdesgaard Mai GrageW 6–3, 6–2 R/R Šiauliai Montenegro Hard (i) Tamara Bojanić Nikoleta BulatovićW 6–0, 6–1 Lithuania W 6–1, 6–4 Finland Kathinka von Deichmann Emma Laine Piia SuomalainenW 6–3, 7–5 R/R Budapest Great Britain Hard (i) Kathinka von Deichmann Jocelyn Rae Anna SmithL 1–6, 2–6 R/R 13 April 2016 Cairo Bosnia and Herzegovina Clay Kathinka von Deichmann Ema Burgić Bucko Anita HusarićW 7–6(9), 6–4 14 April 2016 Austria Kathinka von Deichmann Julia Grabher Sandra KlemenschitsW 7–5, 6–7(5), 6–4 15 April 2016 Egypt Kathinka von Deichmann Laila Elnimr Sandra SamirL 0–6, 6–7(3)