Bartel, Mona

Mona is one of the two daughters of Wolfgang and Hannelore Barthel. My father now works as a doctor, and previously was involved in athletics and won the European Junior Championship in shot put, his mother once worked as a teacher, and now accompanies her daughter in competitions. Mona's elder sister, Zunna Kristina, also tried herself on a professional tour ^[3] , but she ended up playing early due to a shoulder injury.

Mona started playing tennis at the age of three, following her sister. Strengths in the German game is a powerful serve, successful tactical actions and good movement. Favorite cover - hard.

Carier start.

Bartel won her first victory in tournaments from the ITF cycle in January 2010 at a tournament with a minimum prize pool of $ 10,000. In April of the same year, she was subdued by the 50-thousandth ITF in Torhout in singles and doubles. In the same month, Mona made her debut at the main competitions of the WTA tour , playing in the tournament doubles in Stuttgart . The solo debut took place in October of the same year, when Barthel, through qualification, got into a tournament in Luxembourg . In her first match at this level, she met against No. 15 in the world of Aravan Rezai and lost in two sets.

In January 2011, Bartel won the 25 thousandth ITF in France. In May, she qualified for the French Open, qualifying for her first Grand Slam tournament in her career. The German woman was able to overcome the first round in the person of Sibil Bammer , and in the second she lost No. 15 in the world at that time Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova . In June, Mona was able to perform well at the tournament in Copenhagen . Having overcome the qualification, she was able to win three matches in a row and reach the semifinals. At this stage, Bartel first met with the current first racket of the world, which at that time was Carolina Wozniacki . The Danish tennis player, as a favorite, defeated Mona in the fight for reaching the final. The qualification for the Wimbledon tournament was also successfully completed for Bartel, however, in the main draw she lost in the first round. Before the US Open, she first rises in the first hundred women's singles ranking. At the Grand Slam in the USA, Mona enters the second round stage. In September, in the ITF Tournament Cycle, she won the 50,000th in Mestre , and a week after that, the 75,000th in Shrewsbury . According to the results of the season, she took already 67th place in the world classification.

2012-14. Three WTA titles.

In January 2012, Bartel won her debut title on the WTA tour. At the tournament in Hobart, she began her performance with qualifications, and then was able to go through the grid to the finals. In the decisive match, the German beat the first seeded at the tournament Janina Wikmeier with a score of 6-1, 6-2. This victory allowed her to get into the Top 50 of the world ranking. At the debut Australian Open, Mona was able to enter the third round, where her promotion was stopped by Victoria Azarenka . In February, at the Premier Tournament in Paris, Bartel reached the quarterfinals, where she took revenge for the defeat in Hobart, Ioannina Wickmayer. In April, she reached the quarter finals at tournaments in Copenhagen and Stuttgart, and also won her first victory at a tennis player from the Top 10 ( Marion Bartoli ). In July, she reached the semi-finals of the dirt tournament in Bostad . The next tournament for Bartel was the Olympics in London . In the first round, she lost to the Polish girl Ursula Radvanskaya . In September, Mona reached the semi-finals of the tournament in Quebec .

The season of 2013, the 22-year-old tennis player began with the semi-finals in Auckland . At the tournament in Hobart, she stopped a step away from defending last year's title, losing to Elena Vesnina in the final - 3-6, 4-6. In February, she triumphantly completed the tournament in Paris. Bartel was able to win the first title at the Premier Tournament, defeating in his course two tennis players from the Top 10. In the quarter finals, Mona defeated Marion Bartoli again, and in the final, the seventh racket of the world, Sarah Errani, with a score of 7-5, 7-6 (4). A week after this victory in the match of the second round of the tournament in Doha, she defeated the world's No. 6 Angelica Kerber (6-1, 6-2), but in the third round she could not beat Karolina Wozniacki. In March, Bartel rose to the 23rd line in the ranking - the highest in his career. In April, she first played for the German national team in the Federation Cup . Mona helped her team beat the playoffs for getting into the world group of Serbia by winning one of their two matches. A week after that, Bartel took the first WTA trophy in pairs, winning a duet with compatriot Sabina Lisicki at a tournament in Stuttgart.

At the Australian Open 2014, Bartel entered the third round. The first part of the season was unsuccessful for her, only once in May in Nuremberg she was able to reach the quarterfinals. At Roland Garros, Mona first went to the third round. In July, she won her third WTA single title, winning the tournament in Bostad. In the final of those competitions, Bartel outplayed South African Chanel Schepers - 6-3, 7-6 (3). In September, in a duet with Mandy Minella, she reached the doubles finals of the tournament in Seoul . At the end of the season, the German reached the semifinal of the tournament in Luxembourg.

2015-17.

In February 2015, at a tournament in Antwerp, Bartel replayed the seventh racket of the world Eugenie Bouchard and reached the quarterfinals. In July, she was unable to defend her last year's title in Bostad, but reached the final. In the decisive match, Mona lost to the “mistress” of the tournament, Johannes Larsson - 3-6, 6-7 (2). In August, she played in the quarter-finals of the tournament at Stanford . At the US Open, the German first entered the third round. In September, the best result was reaching the quarterfinals of the tournament in Seoul. At the last tournament of the season in Luxembourg, Bartel was able to play in the finals of singles and doubles. Alone, she lost the battle for the main prize to the Japanese Misaki Doi - 4-6, 7-6 (7), 0-6. In pairs, she was able to win the trophy together with Laura Siegemund .

At the start of the 2016 season, Bartel played in the quarterfinals of the tournament in Hobart. Due to health problems, she missed four months between Australia and France. In September, missed tournaments and poor form caused Bartel to fly out of the top hundred.

In 2017, the German woman began to return to her previous results. At the Australian Open, where due to the low rating she had to make her way through the qualification, she first entered the fourth round of the Grand Slam. In the quarterfinal match, Mona lost to Venus Williams . In February, she regained her place in the Top 100. In early May, Bartel was able to win the tournament in Prague . She won, including qualification eight matches in a row, and in the final she defeated Kristina Plishkova with a score of 2-6, 7-5, 6-2.

2018 season

At the Budapest Grand Prix , in the second half of February, Mona managed to reach the semifinals, where she lost to the first seeded tennis player Dominika Tsibulkova .

At the French Open, she lost in the first round to German Angelique Kerber in three sets. Won three matches in the qualification for the Wimbledon tournament , but lost in the main draw in the first round, Ioannina Wikmeier from Belgium. In July, Mona Barthel went to the ITF tournament in Contrexville (France) where she was able to get to the quarterfinals in which she lost to tennis player from Switzerland Stefanie Fegele in two sets (6: 7 2: 6). In late July, Mona Barthel went to a tournament in Prague (Czech Republic) where she was able to get to the quarterfinals, where she lost to Poland tennis player Iga Swiatek with a score of 2: 0 (6: 2 6: 3). At the US Open (USA), Mona Barthel lost in the first round to Czech tennis player Marketet Vondrusova with a score of 2: 0 (6: 1 6: 4)

2019 season

In March, at a tournament in Indian Wells (USA) she reached the 1/8 finals, where she lost to American Venus Williams in two sets.

In April 2019, Bartel and compatriot Anna-Lena Fridzam took part in the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix , where they reached the final and beat a pair of tennis players Lucia Shafarzhova from the Czech Republic and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova from Russia. The fate of the title was decided at the champion tiebreak, where the Germans were stronger with a score of 10-6.

• Official website (German)

• WTA Website Profile
• Profile on ITF website
• Profile on the Federation Cup website

• Interview to WTA (inaccessible link) (eng.)