Laura Siegemund

2000: Junior

Siegemund won the Junior Orange Bowl in the "12 and under" age category as the first German since Steffi Graf in 1981.

2002–14: Contesting mainly on ITF Circuit

In 2002, she played her first events on the ITF Circuit. The following year, she contested her first WTA qualifying in Leipzig, Germany. In 2004, Siegemund continued playing on ITF tournaments, and won her first ITF doubles title in 2005 in Darmstadt, Germany, and her first ITF singles title in 2006 in Lagos, Nigeria; and in that year also three other ITF doubles titles, but fell in WTA singles qualifying twice.

In 2007, Siegemund won one ITF doubles title, but fell in WTA singles qualifying once. Siegemund won three ITF doubles titles in 2008 and two ITF doubles titles in 2009, but fell in WTA singles qualifying at the US Open. In 2010, she played her first WTA main draw in Båstad, Sweden, falling in the first round as a qualifier. She also won four doubles titles on the ITF Circuit, but fell in WTA singles qualifying once.

Siegemund won one ITF singles title in 2011, but fell in WTA singles qualifying nine times (incl. Roland Garros, Wimbledon, US Open). In 2012, she won three singles titles and one doubles title on the ITF Circuit. In 2013, she won three singles titles and two doubles titles on ITF Circuit, but fell in WTA singles qualifying once (again US Open). She won her first main-draw match on the WTA Tour in 2014 in Båstad, defeating Yaroslava Shvedova in the first round. She won two singles titles and two doubles titles on ITF Circuit, but fell in the first round once and in WTA singles qualifying four times (incl. Roland Garros, Wimbledon, US Open).

Siegemund at the Wimbledon qualifying in 2015

2015: Progressing into a first Grand Slam main draw

Siegemund got to the top 100 in WTA ranking (finishing No. 90). She reached the quarterfinals at WTA Tour twice in Florianópolis, Brazil and in Kockelscheuer, Luxembourg. She reached the second round once; fell in the first round four times (incl. Wimbledon and US Open) and in qualifying five times (incl. the other two majors). In Wimbledon, she reached her first Grand Slam main draw after exiting ten times in the qualification rounds.

She won three WTA doubles titles and also won one singles and one doubles title on ITF Circuit.

2016: Breakthrough, first WTA title and maiden Grand Slam title

At the Australian Open, Siegemund scored one of her biggest victories, defeating former world No. 1 Jelena Janković in the second round in three sets.^[3]

In April, she made an upset by reaching the final as a qualifier in Stuttgart, losing to compatriot and defending champion Angelique Kerber. On her way to this success she beat three top-10 players in a row (Simona Halep, Roberta Vinci and Agnieszka Radwańska), all of them in straight sets.^[4]

At the Premier Mandatory tournament in Madrid, she reached as a qualifier the third round. After beating 9th-seed Svetlana Kuznetsova and Mirjana Lučić-Baroni she lost to Sorana Cîrstea. At the French Open and in Wimbledon, she was knocked out in the first round.

In July, Siegemund won the first WTA title of her career in Båstad, the place where she played her first match on the WTA Tour in 2010. In the final, she defeated Kateřina Siniaková in straight sets.^[5]

She got to the quarterfinals at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. In September, she won her first Grand Slam title, winning the US Open mixed-doubles championship with Mate Pavić.^[6]

2017: First Premier title and injury

After winning only one of nine matches on hardcourt, Siegemund started the clay-court season by reaching the semifinals of the Charleston Open.

She won her second career title in her hometown Premier event Stuttgart Open after a wildcard entry, defeating Kristina Mladenovic in the final in three sets.^[7]

In May at the Nuremberg Cup, she suffered a knee injury which kept her out for the rest of the season.^[8]

2018: Return to the tour

Siegemund made her return to the WTA Tour at the Charleston Open in April, where she got to the second round.^[9]

She received a wildcard to compete at the Stuttgart Open as the defending champion, but lost to CoCo Vandeweghe in the second round.^[10]

Mixed doubles: 1 (1 title)

Result	Year	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	2016	US Open	Hard	Mate Pavić	CoCo Vandeweghe Rajeev Ram	6–4, 6–4

Singles: 3 (2 titles, 1 runner-up)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0–1	Apr 2016	Stuttgart Open, Germany	Premier	Clay (i)	Angelique Kerber	4–6, 0–6
Win	1–1	Jul 2016	Swedish Open, Sweden	International	Clay	Kateřina Siniaková	7–5, 6–1
Win	2–1	Apr 2017	Stuttgart Open, Germany	Premier	Clay (i)	Kristina Mladenovic	6–1, 2–6, 7–6(7–5)

Doubles: 6 (3 titles, 3 runner-ups)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	Apr 2015	Morocco Open, Morocco	International	Clay	Maryna Zanevska	Tímea Babos Kristina Mladenovic	1–6, 6–7(5–7)
Win	1–1	Jun 2015	Rosmalen Championships, Netherlands	International	Grass	Asia Muhammad	Jelena Janković Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	6–3, 7–5
Win	2–1	Jul 2015	Brasil Tennis Cup, Brazil	International	Clay	Annika Beck	María Irigoyen Paula Kania	6–3, 7–6(7–1)
Win	3–1	Oct 2015	Luxembourg Open, Luxembourg	International	Hard (i)	Mona Barthel	Anabel Medina Garrigues Arantxa Parra Santonja	6–2, 7–6(7–2)
Loss	3–2	Jun 2016	Mallorca Open, Spain	International	Grass	Anna-Lena Friedsam	Gabriela Dabrowski María José Martínez Sánchez	4–6, 2–6
Loss	3–3	Aug 2018	Connecticut Open, United States	Premier	Hard	Hsieh Su-wei	Andrea Sestini Hlaváčková Barbora Strýcová	4–6, 7–6(9–7), [4–10]

Singles: 26 (12 titles, 14 runner-ups)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0–1	Oct 2006	Lagos, Nigeria	25,000	Hard	Magdalena Kiszczyńska	4–6, 2–6
Win	1–1	Nov 2006	Majorca, Spain	10,000	Clay	Gracia Radovanovic	6–4, 6–1
Loss	1–2	Nov 2007	Jounieh, Lebanon	25,000	Clay	Mariya Koryttseva	1–6, 3–6
Loss	1–3	Apr 2009	Jackson, United States	25,000	Clay	Yuliana Fedak	2–6, 1–6
Loss	1–4	May 2009	Indian Harbour Beach, United States	50,000	Clay	Melanie Oudin	5–7, 7–5, 2–6
Loss	1–5	Apr 2010	Charlottesville, United States	50,000	Clay	Michaëlla Krajicek	2–6, 4–6
Win	2–5	Jan 2011	Lutz, United States	25,000	Clay	Jessica Pegula	6–7(4–7), 6–1, 6–2
Loss	2–6	Apr 2012	Wiesbaden, Germany	10,000	Clay	Anna Danilina	6–7(2–7), 6–7(4–7)
Win	3–6	Jul 2012	Darmstadt, Germany	25,000	Clay	Anna Karolína Schmiedlová	7–6(9–7), 6–3
Win	4–6	Jul 2012	Horb, Germany	10,000	Clay	Gaia Sanesi	6–3, 6–0
Win	5–6	Aug 2012	Ratingen, Germany	10,000	Clay	Caitlin Whoriskey	6–2, 6–1
Loss	5–7	Jan 2013	Stuttgart, Germany	10,000	Hard (i)	Julia Kimmelmann	4–6, 3–6
Win	6–7	Apr 2013	Jackson, United States	25,000	Clay	Florencia Molinero	6–4, 6–0
Win	7–7	Jun 2013	Lenzerheide, Switzerland	25,000	Clay	Beatriz Haddad Maia	6–2, 6–3
Win	8–7	Jun 2013	Stuttgart, Germany	25,000	Clay	Viktorija Golubic	6–3, 3–6, 7–6(7–4)
Win	9–7	Jan 2014	Vero Beach, United States	25,000	Clay	Gabriela Dabrowski	6–3, 7–6(12–10)
Win	10–7	Apr 2014	Pelham, United States	25,000	Clay	Yulia Putintseva	6–1, 6–4
Loss	10–8	Aug 2014	Hechingen, Germany	25,000	Clay	Carina Witthöft	6–4, 4–6, 3–6
Loss	10–9	Nov 2014	Sharm EL Sheikh, Egypt	25,000	Hard	Evgeniya Rodina	2–6, 2–6
Loss	10–10	Nov 2014	Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt	25,000	Hard	Evgeniya Rodina	7–5, 3–6, 2–6
Loss	10–11	Apr 2015	Pelham, United States	25,000	Clay	Anhelina Kalinina	3–6, 5–7
Win	11–11	Sep 2015	Biarritz, France	100,000	Clay	Romina Oprandi	7–5, 6–3
Loss	11–12	Sep 2015	Saint-Malo, France	50,000	Clay	Daria Kasatkina	5–7, 6–7(4–7)
Loss	11–13	Jul 2018	Versmold, Germany	60,000	Clay	Olga Danilović	7–5, 1–6, 3–6
Win	12–13	Aug 2018	Bad Saulgau, Germany	25,000	Clay	Alexandra Cadanțu	6–4, 6–2
Loss	12–14	Aug 2018	Hechingen, Germany	60,000	Clay	Ekaterine Gorgodze	2–6, 1–6

Doubles: 32 (20 titles, 12 runner-ups)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1–0	Jul 2005	Darmstadt, Germany	25,000	Clay	Vanessa Henke	Vasilisa Bardina Yaroslava Shvedova	6–4, 6–2
Loss	1–1	Jul 2005	Garching, Germany	10,000	Clay	Lenka Dlhopolcová	Zuzana Hejdová Eva-Maria Hoch	6–4, 4–6, 3–6
Win	2–1	Jul 2006	Les Contamines-Montjoie, France	25,000	Hard	Catarina Ferreira	Christina Horiatopoulos Caroline Maes	6–4, 2–6, 7–5
Win	3–1	Aug 2006	Wahlstedt, Germany	10,000	Clay	Julia Görges	Raluca Ciulei Neda Kozić	6–1, 6–3
Win	4–1	Oct 2006	Lagos, Nigeria	25,000	Hard	Magda Mihalache	Lisa Sabino Montinee Tangphong	6–3, 6–3
Loss	4–2	Nov 2006	Majorca, Spain	10,000	Clay	Anja Prislan	Nuria Sánchez García Neuza Silva	3–6, 1–6
Win	5–2	Jun 2007	Lenzerheide, Switzerland	10,000	Clay	Eva-Maria Hoch	Amra Sadiković Paola Sprovieri	6–4, 6–3
Loss	5–3	Aug 2007	Maribor, Slovenia	25,000	Clay	Ana Jovanović	Darija Jurak Michaela Paštiková	6–1, 4–6, 1–6
Win	6–3	Jun 2008	Stuttgart, Germany	25,000	Clay	Kristina Barrois	Katalin Marosi Marina Tavares	6–3, 6–4
Loss	6–4	Oct 2008	Jounieh, Lebanon	50,000	Clay	Carmen Klaschka	Chayenne Ewijk Anastasiya Yakimova	5–7, 5–7
Loss	6–5	Nov 2008	Ismaning, Germany	50,000	Carpet (i)	Julia Görges	Oxana Lyubtsova Ksenia Pervak	2–6, 6–4, [7–10]
Win	7–5	Nov 2008	Kolkata, India	50,000	Hard	Ágnes Szatmári	Lu Jingjing Sun Shengnan	7–5, 6–3
Win	8–5	Nov 2008	Saint-Denis, Réunion, France	25,000	Hard	Carmen Klaschka	Surina De Beer Tamaryn Hendler	6–3, 6–1
Loss	8–6	Jan 2009	Laguna Niguel, United States	25,000	Hard	Megan Moulton-Levy	Vanessa Henke Darija Jurak	6–4, 3–6, [8–10]
Loss	8–7	Mar 2009	Cairo, Egypt	25,000	Clay	Megan Moulton-Levy	Anikó Kapros Katalin Marosi	5–7, 3–6
Win	9–7	Jun 2009	Montpellier, France	25,000	Clay	Yuliya Beygelzimer	Stefania Boffa Story Tweedie-Yates	6–4, 6–1
Win	10–7	Jun 2009	Stuttgart, Germany	25,000	Clay	Katalin Marosi	Leonie Mekel Kathrin Wörle	7–6(7–2), 6–7(6–8), [10–4]
Win	11–7	Feb 2010	Laguna Niguel, United States	25,000	Hard	Anastasia Pivovarova	Amanda Fink Elizabeth Lumpkin	6–2, 6–3
Loss	11–8	Mar 2010	Clearwater, United States	25,000	Hard	Alina Jidkova	Xu Yifan Zhou Yimiao	4–6, 4–6
Win	12–8	May 2010	Brno, Czech Republic	25,000	Clay	Carmen Klaschka	Darya Kustova Lesia Tsurenko	w/o
Win	13–8	Jun 2010	Montpellier, France	25,000	Clay	Lu Jingjing	Amandine Hesse Lyudmyla Kichenok	6–4, 6–2
Loss	13–9	Jun 2010	Getxo, Spain	25,000	Clay	Lu Jingjing	Sandra Klemenschits Andreja Klepač	0–6, 0–6
Win	14–9	Jul 2010	Darmstadt, Germany	25,000	Clay	Vitalia Diatchenko	Irina-Camelia Begu Erika Sema	4–6, 6–1, [10–4]
Loss	14–10	Oct 2010	Troy, United States	50,000	Hard	Alina Jidkova	Madison Brengle Asia Muhammad	2–6, 4–6
Loss	14–11	Aug 2011	Hechingen, Germany	25,000	Clay	Korina Perkovic	Sandra Klemenschits Tatjana Malek	6–4, 2–6, [7–10]
Win	15–11	Apr 2012	Wiesbaden, Germany	10,000	Clay	Caitlin Whoriskey	Alexandra Romanova Sylwia Zagórska	6–0, 6–0
Win	16–11	Feb 2013	Leimen, Germany	10,000	Hard (i)	Carolin Daniels	Antonia Lottner Daria Salnikova	6–1, 6–4
Win	17–11	Jun 2013	Stuttgart, Germany	25,000	Clay	Kristina Barrois	Stephanie Vogt Sandra Zaniewska	7–6(7–1), 6–4
Win	18–11	Jun 2014	Stuttgart, Germany	25,000	Clay	Viktorija Golubic	Lesley Kerkhove Arantxa Rus	6–3, 6–3
Win	19–11	Nov 2014	Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt	25,000	Hard	Antonia Lottner	Olga Ianchuk Nastja Kolar	6–1, 6–1
Win	20–11	Jun 2015	Brescia, Italy	50,000	Clay	Renata Voráčová	María Irigoyen Stephanie Vogt	6–2, 6–1
Loss	20–12	Jun 2015	Montpellier, France	50,000	Clay	Renata Voráčová	María Irigoyen Barbora Krejčíková	4–6, 2–6

Singles

Current through the 2018 China Open.

Doubles

Mixed doubles

Record against top-10 players

Player	Years	Record	Win %	Hard	Clay	Grass	Carpet	Last Match
Number 1 ranked players
Karolína Plíšková	2017	1–0	100%	–	1–0	–	–	Won (7–6(7–3), 5–7, 6–3) at 2017 Stuttgart QF
Simona Halep	2016–2017	2–1	67%	–	2–1	–	–	Lost (4–6, 4–6) at 2017 Rome 2R
Jelena Janković	2016–2017	1–1	50%	1–1	–	–	–	Lost (1–6, 6–1, 4–6) at 2017 Australian Open 1R
Venus Williams	2016–2017	1–1	50%	0–1	1–0	–	–	Won (6–4, 6–7(3–7), 7–5) at 2017 Charleston 2R
Angelique Kerber	2016	0–1	0%	–	0–1	–	–	Lost (4–6, 0–6) at 2016 Stuttgart F
Serena Williams	2016	0–1	0%	0–1	–	–	–	Lost (2–6, 1–6) at 2016 Indian Wells 2R
Number 2 ranked players
Svetlana Kuznetsova	2015–2017	2–1	67%	–	2–0	0–1	–	Won (6–4, 6–3) at 2017 Stuttgart 2R
Agnieszka Radwańska	2006–2016	1–1	50%	0–1	1–0	–	–	Won (6–4, 6–2) at 2016 Stuttgart SF
Petra Kvitová	2015	0–1	0%	0–1	–	–	–	Lost (1–6, 1–6) at 2015 US Open 1R
Number 3 ranked players
Number 4 ranked players
Kimiko Date	2015	1–0	100%	–	1–0	–	–	Won (6–0, 6–1) at 2015 Charleston Q2
Johanna Konta	2015–2018	2–1	67%	0–1	2–0	–	–	Lost (2–6, 5–7) at 2018 New Haven 1R
Naomi Osaka	2016–2018	2–2	50%	1–1	1–1	–	–	Lost (3–6, 2–6) at 2018 US Open 1R
Jelena Dokić	2008	0–1	0%	–	0–1	–	–	Lost (1–6, 2–6) at 2008 Stuttgart ITF 2R
Francesca Schiavone	2016	0–1	0%	0–1	–	–	–	Lost (2–6, 2–6) at 2016 Luxembourg 1R
Dominika Cibulková	2016–2017	0–2	0%	0–2	–	–	–	Lost (2–6, 0–6) at 2017 Sydney 1R
Number 5 ranked players
Lucie Šafářová	2017	1–0	100%	–	1–0	–	–	Won (6–2, 6–3) at 2017 Charleston 3R
Eugenie Bouchard	2016	0–1	0%	–	0–1	–	–	Lost (2–6, 2–6) at 2016 French Open 1R
Sara Errani	2006	0–2	0%	–	0–1	–	0–1	Lost (1–6, 1–6) at 2006 Torrent ITF 1R
Number 6 ranked players
Carla Suárez Navarro	2005–2014	1–1	50%	–	1–1	–	–	Lost (6–7(3–7), 6–1, 4–6) at 2014 Bad Gastein 1R
Flavia Pennetta	2015	0–1	0%	–	0–1	–	–	Lost (6–4, 1–6, 3–6) at 2015 Marrakesh 2R
Number 7 ranked players
Belinda Bencic	2013	2–0	100%	–	2–0	–	–	Won (6–2, 6–4) at 2013 Lenzerheide ITF SF
Roberta Vinci	2016	1–0	100%	–	1–0	–	–	Won (6–1, 6–4) at 2016 Stuttgart QF
Madison Keys	2016	1–1	50%	–	1–0	0–1	–	Lost (3–6, 1–6) at 2016 Wimbledon 1R
Number 8 ranked players
Ekaterina Makarova	2006	0–2	0%	–	0–2	–	–	Lost (0–6, 1–6) at 2006 Moscow ITF 2R
Number 9 ranked players
Julia Görges	2006–2016	1–1	50%	–	1–1	–	–	Won (4–6, 6–3, 4–0 ret.) at 2016 Båstad SF
Timea Bacsinszky	2006–2015	1–2	33%	1–1	0–1	–	–	Won (4–6, 6–4, ret.) at 2015 Luxembourg 1R
Andrea Petkovic	2008	0–1	0%	0–1	–	–	–	Lost (2–6, 2–6) at 2008 Istanbul ITF 2R
CoCo Vandeweghe	2009–2018	0–5	0%	0–2	0–3	–	–	Lost (4–6, 4–6) at 2018 French Open 1R
Number 10 ranked players
Kristina Mladenovic	2016–2017	2–0	100%	1–0	1–0	–	–	Won (6–1, 2–6, 7–6(7–5)) at 2017 Stuttgart F
Kiki Bertens	2016	1–0	100%	1–0	–	–	–	Won (6–4, 7–5) at 2016 Australian Open 1R
Total	2005–2018	24–32	43%	5–14 (26%)	19–15 (56%)	0–2 (0%)	0–1 (0%)	Statistics correct as of 8 October 2018.

Top 10 wins

Siegemund has a 9–7 record against players who were, at the time the match was played, ranked in the top 10.

#	Player	Rank	Event	Surface	Round	Score	LS Rank
2015
1.	Timea Bacsinszky	10	Luxembourg, Luxembourg	Hard (i)	1st Round	4–6, 6–4, ret.	101
2016
2.	Simona Halep	6	Stuttgart, Germany	Clay (i)	2nd Round	6–1, 6–2	71
3.	Roberta Vinci	8	Stuttgart, Germany	Clay (i)	Quarterfinals	6–1, 6–4	71
4.	Agnieszka Radwańska	2	Stuttgart, Germany	Clay (i)	Semifinals	6–4, 6–2	71
2017
5.	Venus Williams	10	Charleston, United States	Clay	2nd Round	6–4, 6–7(3–7), 7–5	37
6.	Svetlana Kuznetsova	9	Stuttgart, Germany	Clay (i)	2nd Round	6–4, 6–3	49
7.	Karolina Pliskova	3	Stuttgart, Germany	Clay (i)	Quarterfinals	7–6(7–3), 5–7, 6–3	49
8.	Simona Halep	5	Stuttgart, Germany	Clay (i)	Semifinals	6–4, 7–5	49
9.	Johanna Konta	6	Madrid, Spain	Clay	1st Round	3–6, 7–5, 6–4	30