Kristina Barrois (born 30 September 1981) is a retired German

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player. Barrois won 15 singles and 16 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit in her career. On 9 May 2011, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 57. On 20 February 2012, she peaked at No. 55 in the WTA doubles rankings.

Early life

Barrois began playing tennis at the age of nine 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

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Ministry of Justice before turning professional in 2005.

Career

Barrois was trained by Patrick Schmidt, and later by Andreas Spaniol, and her stamina-trainer was the footballer

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. She played in the German Fed Cup team in 2006, losing her singles match to

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, 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

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and the US Open. At Wimbledon, she lost to

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. At the US Open, she lost to the world No. 1,

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. She then fell in the qualifying round of the Hobart event to British player

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. She also reached the first round of the Australian Open, where she pushed the fourth-seeded Russian

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, but eventually lost in three sets. In February, she reached the second round in Memphis, but fell short against former world No. 30,

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in the second round, but lost to

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in the next round. She reached the second round of the

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, where

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beat her and of the US Open, where she lost to

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. In 2010, she reached the second round of the

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, losing to

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. She then qualified for her first ever final in a WTA tournament, the

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, which

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won in straight sets. In Wimbledon, she reached the second round being knocked out by

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. In 2011, she reached again the second round of the

, this time losing to Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova. After losing to

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at the Luxembourg Open in October 2014, Barrois announced her retirement from professional tennis.

WTA career finals

Singles: 2 (2 runner-ups)

Doubles: 4 (1 title, 3 runner-ups)

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 22 (15–7)

Doubles: 30 (16–14)

Grand Slam performance timelines

Singles

Doubles

References

External links

* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Barrois, Kristina 1981 births Living people People from Neunkirchen (German district) German female tennis players German people of French descent 20th-century German women 21st-century German women