Angelique Kerber - Germany's best tennis player

Created: 05/01/2022, 16:04

Angelique Kerber © IMAGO/Rob Prange

Germany's best tennis player has moved to Poland to prepare for tournaments there.

Interesting facts about Angelique Kerber's career.

Munich – Angelique Kerber, born on January 18, 1988 in Bremen, has a total of three Grand Slam titles in her track record: Australian Open (2016), Wimbledon (2018) and US Open (2016).

The French Open, on the other hand, was never a place of success for Kerber: she was eliminated in the quarter-finals (2018, 2012) at the latest, last year she even failed in round 1 to the Ukrainian Anhelina Kalinin.

Currently (as of April 26, 2022; note), the former world number one (2016) is ranked 19th in the WTA world rankings and – after the separation from coach Torben Beltz – is initially counting on continuing without a tennis coach in the team to be successful.

"In the current phase of my career, I have decided to take on more responsibility and to travel without a permanent coach for the time being," said the 34-year-old 

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"Maybe that will change again at a later date, but for the moment I'm satisfied with how my team is set up." Privately, her grandparents and her mother Beata are among her closest confidants.

Angelique Kerber – her family life

If you click on the "Angie" link on Angelique Kerber's website, you will find out the most important facts about Germany's best tennis player.

Among them about:

• Parents: Mama Beata, Papa Slawek, Sister Jessica

• Residence: Puszczykowo, Poland

• Idols: Steffie Graf

• Favorite Sports: Swimming, Formula 1 and Soccer

• Hobbies: Shopping, sleeping, swimming, cycling, hanging out with friends

• Speaks: German, Polish, English

In particular, Puszczykowo as a place of residence is surprising in the biography of the 34-year-old.

"It's true that I live in Poland now and of course have a connection to Poland because my grandparents live there and I also train there (in the 

 of her grandfather Janusz Rzeźnik; note) in between," said Kerber recently on SternTV.

"But I'm German, I play for Germany, I grew up in Germany, my heart beats in Germany."

Angelique Kerber – her private life

It has not yet been officially confirmed whether Angelique Kerber has a new boyfriend.

When asked about it, Kerber regularly refers to your privacy.

However, there was speculation in the media during the Australian Open 2022 that Franco Bianco could be the new man in her life: the manager of a sports park in Königstein, Hesse, had accompanied the former number 1 in the world to the first Grand Slam tournament of the year.

Bianco also sat in her box at other tournaments before that, for example when she reached the semi-finals in Wimbledon 2021.

Angelique Kerber – not everyone knows that about the tennis star

• Kerber's closest friends include tennis colleagues Ana Ivanovic and Agnieszka Radwanska.

• As a child, Angelique Kerber regularly took part in swimming competitions, but ultimately decided to play tennis after graduating from secondary school.

• Comparisons with Germany's first Wimbledon winner Steffi Graf (1996) still annoy Angelique Kerber today: "You can't compare me to Steffi.

  She's a champ.

  She has won everything there is to win.

  She was always my role model, she still is.

  I have to go my own way."

• Angelique Kerber was trained by her father Slawek when she was only three years old, and her mother Beata took over the management of her daughter right from the start, booking flights, hotels, etc.

• She runs a tennis center just outside Poznań, where she retreats several times a year to prepare and train.

• In 2019, Angelique Kerber graced the cover of the German Vogue issue.

  In an interview with the magazine, she also spoke about starting a family: “I have the impression that everyone around me is getting married, building houses and having children.

  But I don't let that stress me out.

  It's not a competition like in sport."

• In addition to German citizenship, Kerber also has Polish citizenship due to the principle of descent that applies in Poland.

• Kerber has the tennis racket in her left hand, even though she is right-handed.

  She attributes this to the fact that her (right-handed) trainers have faced her in training since she was a child and she intuitively mirrored their racquet position.

• In 2017, Angelique Kerber was appointed UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador.