Kontaveit was reportedly diagnosed with mononucleosis in 2014, the year she turned professional, but quickly recovered and went as far as the fourth round of the US Open.
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A history maker in her own right, Anett Kontaveit is the highest ranked Estonian player in the history of tennis. Kontaveit won the Estonian championship in 2009, becoming the youngest in history to do so, and defended her crown the following year. Currently ranked second in the world, she has won six singles titles and has a career win-loss record of 66.5%. Although the Estonian is yet to have her name in the list of Grand Slam winners, she is one of the most prolific players in the world today and her career graph is well and truly on the rise. Kontaveit was reportedly diagnosed with mononucleosis in 2014, the year she turned professional, but quickly recovered and went as far as the fourth round of the US Open. In 2022, Konaveit’s best result came at the St. Petersburg Open where she beat Maria Sakkari in the final to be crowned champion.
Kontaveit found her best form in 2021, a year that saw her win four WTA finals and break in to the WTA top 10. These include the Cleveland Open, Ostrava Open, Kremlin Cup and Transylvania Cup. She also made it through to final of the WTA Finals that year in Mexico but lost to Garbine Muguruza 6-3, 7-5. The year ended with Kontaveit ranked seventh in the world. The Estonian stepped up her game in 2022 a by midway through the season, she had already won one WTA event and found herself ranked second behind Iga Swiatek.
Kontaveit’s parents, Ulle Milk and Andrus Kontaveit, welcomed him into the world on Christmas Eve, December 24, 1995, in Tallinn, Estonia. When she was six years old, she began playing tennis under the guidance of her tennis-coaching mother Ulle. Up to the age of 11, her mother continued to coach her. “We’re both very stubborn, strong individuals,” Kontaveit said of her mother in an interview win May 2019 as per thesportsreview.com. “I was very active as a kid and she’s definitely the reason I got started (with tennis), for sure.”
Torben Beltz is a tennis coach from Germany. Beltz is best known for coaching Angelique Kerber during her successful Australian Open and US Open campaigns in 2016. Beltz began working with Angelique Kerber in 2003, when the German turned professional. Kerber’s career breakthrough came in 2011, when she reached the semi-finals of the US Open while ranked 92nd in the world. Kerber has had numerous successes on the WTA Tour since then, including winning her first two career titles in 2012, reaching a career high ranking of world number five, and qualifying for the prestigious WTA Tour Championships in Istanbul. Beltz then ended his relationship with Kerber at the end of 2013.
However, Beltz was rehired as Kerber’s coach in early 2015 after the German had a string of poor results to begin the season, including losing in the first round of the 2015 Australian Open and falling out of the WTA’s top 10 for the first time since 2012. Kerber rediscovered the form that catapulted her into the world’s top 10, winning four titles but failing to reach a Grand Slam quarter-final this year.
