53 Facts About Julia Goerges

Julia Goerges won seven singles and five doubles titles on the WTA Tour, as well as six singles and six doubles titles on the ITF Circuit.

Julia Goerges broke into the top ten for the first time in February 2018, before going on to reach the semifinals at the 2018 Wimbledon Championships.

Julia Goerges was a two-time semifinalist in women's doubles at the Australian Open, and reached the finals in mixed doubles with Nenad Zimonjic at the 2014 French Open.

Julia Goerges announced her retirement from professional tennis on 21 October 2020, two weeks before her 32nd birthday.

Julia Goerges Gorges was born in Bad Oldesloe to Klaus and Inge Gorges, both of whom work in insurance.

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Julia Goerges has one elder maternal half-sister named Maike, who works in insurance.

Julia Goerges attended the Klaus-Groth-Schule and Theodor-Mommsen-Schule in Bad Oldesloe from 1995 to 2005, and completed the Mittlere Reife.

Julia Goerges's tennis idol growing up was Martina Hingis, and she is a fan of Roger Federer.

Julia Goerges was coached by Sascha Nensel, former coach of fellow German player Nicolas Kiefer, until 2015.

Julia Goerges preferred hard and grass courts, and her favorite tournament was the Australian Open.

Julia Goerges made her top-100 debut in the rankings after the French Open.

Julia Goerges won her first Grand Slam main-draw match at Wimbledon, where she upset the 23rd seed Katarina Srebotnik in a three-hour, 41-minute first-round match.

Julia Goerges began her season at the Brisbane International, where she lost in qualifying to Anna-Lena Gronefeld.

Julia Goerges retired in the first round of the French Open in a match against Iveta Benesova due to heat exhaustion.

Julia Goerges went on to play against Jelena Jankovic in the first round of Wimbledon, losing in straight sets.

Julia Goerges lost prior to the third round at the Slovenia Open, the Istanbul Cup, and the US Open, where she faced Svetlana Kuznetsova.

Julia Goerges was defeated by Raluca Olaru in the second round of the Linz Open.

Julia Goerges went on to play at the Australian Open, where she beat Tamira Paszek, but then lost to Caroline Wozniacki in the second round.

Julia Goerges eventually reached her second WTA career final, losing to Roberta Vinci.

Julia Goerges's third-round match against the 2008 champion Maria Sharapova was a three-set battle, which Gorges finally lost.

Julia Goerges finished her 2011 season with a semifinal loss to Azarenka at the Luxembourg Open.

Julia Goerges defeated Svetlana Kuznetsova, Casey Dellacqua and Daniela Hantuchova, scored a two-set win over the third seed Caroline Wozniacki, but then fell to Agnieszka Radwanska again.

Julia Goerges reached the third round, beating Lucie Hradecka and Heather Watson along the way.

Julia Goerges lost in the third round to Arantxa Rus, ending the match with two double faults.

Julia Goerges was the No 1 seed in Bad Gastein but lost in three sets to the Dutch qualifier Richel Hogenkamp, ranked 211, who won her first WTA match.

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Julia Goerges beat Lepchenko in round two, but in the third round lost to Maria Kirilenko in straight sets.

Julia Goerges then played a fairly successful tournament in Linz, reaching the finals of both singles and doubles.

Julia Goerges lost in her fourth-round match to sixth seed and eventual finalist, Li Na.

Julia Goerges lost her third-round match to tenth seed Nadia Petrova.

Julia Goerges was defeated in the second round by Ajla Tomljanovic.

Julia Goerges reached the second round in Nuremberg, losing to Andrea Petkovic.

Julia Goerges was more successful in doubles during this part of season.

Julia Goerges defeated Misaki Doi before losing to Irina-Camelia Begu in the second round.

Julia Goerges lost her openers in her final three tournaments of 2013; against Sorana Cirstea in Tokyo, against Kaia Kanepi in Beijing and against the qualifier Camila Giorgi in Linz.

Julia Goerges reached the second round at Indian Wells, where she lost to Maria Sharapova.

Julia Goerges did not qualify for the Miami Open and lost to Virginie Razzano in the first round at the Family Circle Cup.

Julia Goerges did not qualify for Rome but managed to reach the quarterfinals at Strasbourg the week before the French Open.

Julia Goerges defeated the top seed Sloane Stephens and Lauren Davis, but lost to Madison Keys.

Julia Goerges then competed at the Coupe Banque Nationale in Quebec where she was seeded fifth.

Julia Goerges reached the quarterfinals, after defeating Stephanie Dubois and Melanie Oudin.

Julia Goerges then defeated Andrea Hlavackova to face Mirjana Lucic-Baroni in the last four, but lost to the eventual tournament champion.

Julia Goerges was successful in the doubles, where together with Anna-Lena Gronefeld, she reached the semifinals.

Julia Goerges defeated Irina Falconi before losing to Sara Errani in round four.

Julia Goerges reached her second final of the year on clay, where she lost to the home favourite Irina-Camelia Begu at the Bucharest Open.

Julia Goerges defeated her compatriot Annika Beck in the first round, Zheng Saisai in the second and Aleksandra Krunic in the third to reach the fourth round for the first time.

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Julia Goerges defeated them both in straight sets to advance to the semifinal stage, where she faced Anastasija Sevastova, whom she defeated in straight sets as well.

Julia Goerges then defeated CoCo Vandeweghe to win the biggest title of her career.

Julia Goerges finished the year with a nine-match winning streak and a career-high ranking of 14.

Julia Goerges defeated Dominika Cibulkova and Alison Van Uytvanck before losing to Serena Williams in the third round.

Julia Goerges started the grass-court season in Birmingham, where she lost in the quarterfinals to the defending champion Petra Kvitova.

Julia Goerges then headed to Melbourne where, as 14th seed, she was beaten in the first round of the Australian Open by Danielle Collins.

Julia Goerges partnered Caroline Garcia in doubles, and reached the quarterfinals, where they fell to eventual champions Asia Muhammad and Taylor Townsend.

Julia Goerges next participated at the French Open, where she defeated Riske in the first round, before losing to Laura Siegemund in the second round.