Porsche Team Germany player Angelique Kerber WINS the Paris tournament
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 Angelique Kerber
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Stuttgart. What a dream week for Angelique Kerber:
She won her first match for Germany at Porsche Team Germany’s Fed Cup premiere in Stuttgart’s Porsche Arena.
And now in Paris, she has celebrated her first career WTA title.
In the thrilling final of the Open GDF SUEZ on Sunday, the 24 year-old German beat Frenchwoman Marion Bartoli after three hard-fought sets 7-6, 5-7, 6-3. She pocketed 107,000 dollars prize money and moved up the WTA world rankings to No. 22.
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En route to her second WTA final after Bogota in 2010, Angelique Kerber defeated superstar Maria Sharapova from Russia in the quarterfinals and then Belgian Yanina Wickmayer in the semifinals.
She had lost her last three matches against Marion Bartoli, the world No. 7. However as a 15-year-old teenager back in 2003, she won her very first match on the WTA Tour by beating the Frenchwoman in Berlin.
Now at the Premier Tournament in the Seine metropolis, she has pulled off the most important win of her career after a tough battle against the local hero who was the favourite going into the final.
“I was very nervous before my first final. This time around I tried to take the match like any other.
It worked quite well,” said Angelique Kerber.
“I made it a bit more tense than necessary but I’ve won my first WTA tournament. It’s all that counts.”
A Porsche Team Germany member also stood in the doubles final in Paris: Anna-Lena Grönefeld and her Croatian partner Petra Martic were however defeated by the Americans Liezel Huber/Lisa Raymond, currently the world’s best doubles pair, after putting up an impressive display in the first set 7-6, 6-1.
 Angelique Kerber
The Porsche Tennis Grand Prix, for which all the world’s Top 10 have entered for the first time in addition to Porsche Team Germany’s Andrea Petkovic plus Sabine Lisicki, Angelique Kerber and last year’s winner Julia Görges, will take place in the Porsche Arena from 21 to 29 April.
Porsche Tennis Grand Prix and the Porsche Team Germany
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Tags: Andrea Petkovic, angelique kerber, Angelique Kerber, gdf suez, Germany, Julia Görges, Julia Gorges, liezel huber, Marion Bartoli, Open GDF SUEZ, Porsche, Porsche Arena, Porsche Tennis, Porsche Tennis Grand Prix, Porsche Tennis Team Deutschland, Porsche Tennis Team Germany, Sabine Lisicki, wta tour, wta tournament, wta world rankings
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Kristof Boels
February 12, 2012 at 12:33 pm
Too bad our Belgian Yanina Wickmayer didn’t won though … 😛
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dedeporsche
February 12, 2012 at 12:53 pm
😉
Next time!
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abauerporsche
February 12, 2012 at 9:05 pm
Reblogged this on The Porsche Independent Repair.
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