Jana Kandarr

Jana Kandarr

Country (sports)	Germany
Residence	Munich, Germany
Born	(1976-09-21) 21 September 1976 (age 48) Halle, East Germany
Height	1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)
Turned pro	1994
Retired	2005 (last match)
Plays	Right (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	$674,203
Singles
Career record	184–211
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 43 (11 June 2001)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	4R (2000)
French Open	2R (1997, 2001, 2002)
Wimbledon	2R (1995, 2000, 2001, 2002)
US Open	2R (2000)
Other tournaments
Olympic Games	3R (2000)
Doubles
Career record	18–40
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 108 (7 February 2000)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open	2R (2000)
French Open	1R (2000)

Jana Kandarr (born 21 September 1976) is a German former top 50 professional tennis player. Kandarr is notable for playing with her right hand, even though she is left-handed.

Career

Kandarr moved with her parents from Halle to Karlsruhe after the German reunification. Her mother Petra Vogt is a former European athletics champion and was Sports Person of the Year in the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) in 1969. Jana Kandarr was practicing for some years in Unterhaching before she went professional in 1994.

The biggest success of her 10-year-long career was her participation in the Australian Open in 2000, where she made the round of 16, coming through qualifying and winning six three-set matches in a row, before being forced to retire against ninth seed Julie Halard-Decugis. Also in 2000, she reached the last 16 at the Sydney Olympics, losing to the second seed and eventual winner Venus Williams. By the end of the year, Kandarr was ranked as the No. 1 German player overall.

Her best performance at a WTA tournament was the semifinals of Palermo in 1996 and Estoril in 2001. She reached her highest ranking on 11 June 2001 - after a victory against world No. 5 Amélie Mauresmo in the first round of the French Open. After the tournament she was listed as world No. 43.

Kandarr ended her professional career in 2005 but is still playing competitive tennis occasionally in the Bundesliga for TC 1899 Blau-Weiss Berlin.

Having stopped school in 1996 to play tennis, she only graduated in 2000. From the winter semester of 2002/03, she has been studying geoscience and biology at the Humboldt University of Berlin, while living in Berlin-Kreuzberg. Her hobbies are horse riding, reading and going to the theater.

External links

• Jana Kandarr at the Women's Tennis Association
• Jana Kandarr at the International Tennis Federation
• Jana Kandarr at the Billie Jean King Cup
• Jana Kandarr at Olympedia
• Jana Kandarr at Olympics.com