Simona Waltert

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Simona Waltert
Simona Waltert (Roland Garros 2023) 12.jpg
Waltert at the 2023 French Open
Country (sports)Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Switzerland
Born (2000-12-13) 13 December 2000 (age 24)
Chur, Switzerland
Height1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)
PlaysRight (two-handed backhand)
Prize money$728,757
Singles
Career record233–166
Career titles6 ITF
Highest rankingNo. 107 (12 June 2023)
Current rankingNo. 215 (14 October 2024)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open Q3 (2023, 2024)
French Open 2R (2023)
Wimbledon 1R (2023)
US Open Q2 (2022, 2023, 2024)
Doubles
Career record67–48
Career titles1 WTA, 4 ITF
Highest rankingNo. 180 (7 March 2022)
Current rankingNo. 440 (14 October 2024)
Team competitions
Fed Cup W (2022)
Record: 0–1
Last updated on: 15 October 2024.

Simona Waltert (born 13 December 2000) is a Swiss tennis player.

Contents

Waltert has career-high WTA rankings of 107 in singles, achieved on 12 June 2023, and 180 in doubles, reached on 7 March 2022. Up to date, she has won one doubles title on the WTA Tour, and six singles and four doubles titles at tournaments on the ITF Circuit.

Career

Junior years

She was a girls' singles semifinalist at the 2017 Wimbledon Championships, losing to eventual runner-up Ann Li.[ citation needed ] On the ITF Junior Circuit, Waltert had a career-high combined ranking of No. 9, achieved on 22 January 2018.[ citation needed ]

WTA Tour

Waltert made her WTA Tour main-draw debut at the 2019 Ladies Open Lausanne, where she received a wildcard for the singles and the doubles tournaments. [1]

She won her first doubles title at the 2021 Ladies Open Lausanne, partnering Susan Bandecchi. [2]

Waltert at the 2022 French Open Waltert RGQ22 (19) (52130012205).jpg
Waltert at the 2022 French Open

At the 2022 Ladies Open Lausanne, she earned her first top-10 win as a wildcard over world No. 7 and top seed, Danielle Collins, saving three match points in the deciding tiebreak. [3] [4] [5] By defeating Cristina Bucsa the second round, she went one step further to reach her first WTA Tour quarterfinal, where she was beaten by Olga Danilović. [6] [7] She won the 2022 Bronx Open in doubles with partner Anna Blinkova.[ citation needed ]

Waltert made her major debut at the 2023 French Open [8] and won her first match defeating Elizabeth Mandlik, [9] before losing in the second round to Elisabetta Cocciaretto. [10] As a result, she reached a new career-high ranking of No. 107, on 12 June 2023.[ citation needed ]

Partnering with María Lourdes Carlé, Waltert was runner-up in the doubles at the WTA 125 2024 Montreux Nestlé Open, losing to Quinn Gleason and Ingrid Martins in the final which went to a deciding champions tiebreak. [11]

Performance timeline

Key
W F SFQF#RRRQ#DNQANH
(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.
To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated at the conclusion of a tournament or when the player's participation has ended.

Only main-draw results in WTA Tour (incl. Grand Slam tournaments) are included in win–loss records. [12]

Singles

Current through the 2024 French Open.

Tournament 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 SRW–L
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open AAA Q2 Q3 Q3 0 / 00–0
French Open AAA Q2 2R Q1 0 / 11–1
Wimbledon AA Q2 Q1 1R Q2 0 / 10–1
US Open AAA Q2 Q2 Q2 0 / 00–0
Win–loss0–00–00–00–01–20–00 / 21–2
WTA 1000
Indian Wells Open Q1 A0 / 00–0
Career statistics
Tournaments101225
Overall win–loss1–10–00–13–21–25–6
Year-end ranking29529721712016645%

WTA Tour finals

Doubles: 1 (title)

Legend
Grand Slam
WTA 1000
WTA 500
WTA 250 (1–0)
Finals by surface
Hard (0–0)
Grass (0–0)
Clay (1–0)
Carpet (0–0)
Result   Date   TournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScore
Win Jul 2021 Ladies Open Lausanne,
Switzerland		WTA 250Clay Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Susan Bandecchi Flag of Norway.svg Ulrikke Eikeri
Flag of Greece.svg Valentini Grammatikopoulou 		6–3, 6–7(3–7), [10–5]

WTA Challenger finals

Doubles: 1 (runner-up)

ResultW–L   Date   TournamentSurfacePartnerOpponentsScore
Loss0–1Sep 2024 Montreux Ladies Open,
Switzerland		Clay Flag of Argentina.svg María Lourdes Carlé Flag of the United States.svg Quinn Gleason
Flag of Brazil.svg Ingrid Martins 		3–6, 6–4, [7–10]

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 18 (7 titles, 11 runner–ups)

Legend
$80,000 tournaments (0–1)
$60,000 tournaments (2–2)
$25,000 tournaments (0–3)
$15,000 tournaments (5–5)
ResultW–L   Date   TournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScore
Loss0–1Jun 2017ITF Lenzerheide, Switzerland25,000Clay Flag of Italy.svg Georgia Brescia 6–0, 4–6, 6–7(1)
Loss0–2Nov 2017ITF Oslo, Norway15,000Hard (i) Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Leonie Küng 4–6, 4–6
Win1–2Mar 2018ITF Mâcon, France15,000Hard (i) Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Tess Sugnaux 6–4, 3–6, 6–3
Loss1–3May 2018ITF San Severo, Italy15,000Clay Flag of Greece.svg Despina Papamichail 1–6, 2–6
Win2–3Dec 2018ITF Ortisei, Italy15,000Hard (i) Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg Joanna Garland 6–4, 6–2
Loss2–4Jan 2019ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt15,000Hard Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Magali Kempen 7–5, 3–6, 3–6
Win3–4Feb 2019ITF Sharm El Sheikh15,000Hard Flag of Finland.svg Oona Orpana 6–1, 6–3
Loss3–5Feb 2019ITF Sharm El Sheikh15,000Hard Flag of Egypt.svg Mayar Sherif 4–6, 6–1, 3–6
Win4–5Apr 2019ITF Cairo, Egypt15,000Clay Flag of Austria.svg Melanie Klaffner 7–6(6), 7–5
Loss4–6May 2019ITF Cairo, Egypt15,000Clay Flag of Egypt.svg Mayar Sherif2–6, 1–6
Loss4–7Jul 2019ITF Horb, Germany25,000Clay Flag of Croatia.svg Lea Bošković 4–6, 6–0, 1–6
Win5–7Jan 2021ITF Manacor, Spain15,000Clay Flag of Spain.svg Yvonne Cavallé Reimers 6–2, 7–6(4)
Loss5–8Feb 2021 AK Ladies Open, Germany25,000Carpet (i) Flag of Denmark.svg Clara Tauson 6–3, 1–6, 3–6
Loss5–9 Oct 2021 ITF Poitiers, France80,000Hard (i) Flag of France.svg Chloé Paquet 4–6, 3–6
Loss5–10 Apr 2022 Chiasso Open, Switzerland60,000Clay Flag of Italy.svg Lucia Bronzetti 6–2, 3–6, 3–6
Win6–10Jul 2022 Amstelveen Open, Netherlands60,000Clay Flag of the United States.svg Emma Navarro 7–6(10), 6–0
Loss6–11Feb 2023 Open de l'Isère, France60,000Hard (i) Flag of France.svg Océane Dodin 2–6, 5–7
Win7–11 Oct 2024 GB Pro-Series Glasgow, United KingdomW75Hard (i) Flag of Georgia.svg Mariam Bolkvadze 6–4, 6–2

Doubles: 8 (4 titles, 4 runner–ups)

Legend
$60,000 tournaments (1–1)
$25,000 tournaments (1–1)
$10/15,000 tournaments (2–2)
ResultW–L   Date   TournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScore
Loss0–1Sep 2016ITF Sion, Switzerland10,000Clay Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Leonie Küng Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Emily Arbuthnott
Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Karin Kennel 		2–6, 1–6
Loss0–2Dec 2018ITF Ortisei, Italy15,000Hard (i) Flag of Italy.svg Verena Hofer Flag of Slovenia.svg Veronika Erjavec
Flag of Slovenia.svg Kristina Novak		4–6, 5–7
Win1–2Apr 2019ITF Cairo, Egypt15,000Clay Flag of Greece.svg Despina Papamichail Flag of Egypt.svg Mayar Sherif
Flag of Egypt.svg Rana Sherif Ahmed 		6–3, 6–2
Win2–2May 2019ITF Cairo, Egypt15,000Clay Flag of Slovakia.svg Alica Rusová Flag of Australia (converted).svg Seone Mendez
Flag of Ecuador.svg Charlotte Römer 		7–5, 0–6, [10–6]
Win3–2Sep 2019Verbier Open, Switzerland25,000Clay Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Xenia Knoll Flag of Turkey.svg İpek Soylu
Flag of Liechtenstein.svg Kathinka von Deichmann 		6–4, 6–3
Loss3–3Feb 2022ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt25,000Hard Flag of Romania.svg Irina Fetecău Flag of the Netherlands.svg Isabelle Haverlag
Flag of Lithuania.svg Justina Mikulskytė 		1–6, 2–6
Loss3–4 Feb 2022 AK Ladies Open, Germany60,000Carpet (i) Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Susan Bandecchi Flag of Georgia.svg Mariam Bolkvadze
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Samantha Murray Sharan 		3–6, 5–7
Win4–4 Aug 2022 Bronx Open, United States60,000Hard Flag of Russia.svg Anna Blinkova Flag of South Korea.svg Han Na-lae
Flag of Japan.svg Hiroko Kuwata 		6–3, 6–3

Head-to-head record

Record against top 10 players

Waltert's match record against players who have been ranked in the top 10. [13]

* As of 12 July 2022

Wins over top-10 players

#PlayerRankEventSurfaceRdScoreSW Rank
2022
1. Flag of the United States.svg Danielle Collins No. 7 Ladies Open Lausanne Clay1R6–7(5–7), 6–3, 7–6(8–6)No. 154

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