Simona Waltert

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

Simona Waltert
Waltert at the 2023 French Open
Country (sports)  Switzerland
Born (2000-12-13) 13 December 2000
Chur, Switzerland
Height1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)
PlaysRight (two-handed backhand)
Prize money$449,030
Singles
Career record196–128 (60.5%)
Career titles6 ITF
Highest rankingNo. 107 (12 June 2023)
Current rankingNo. 116 (3 July 2023)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian OpenQ3 (2023)
French Open2R (2023)
Wimbledon1R (2023)
US OpenQ2 (2022, 2023)
Doubles
Career record58–42 (58.0%)
Career titles1 WTA, 4 ITF
Highest rankingNo. 180 (7 March 2022)
Current rankingNo. 357 (3 July 2023)
Team competitions
Fed CupW (2022)
Record: 0–1 (0%)
Last updated on: 12 July 2023.

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 semifinalist at the 2017 Wimbledon Championships girls' singles, losing to eventual runner-up Ann Li.

On the ITF Junior Circuit, Waltert had a career-high combined ranking of No. 9, achieved on 22 January 2018.

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.

Waltert at the 2022 French Open

At the 2022 Ladies Open Lausanne, she earned her first top-10 win over world No. 7 and top seed Danielle Collins as a wildcard, saving three match points in the deciding tiebreak.[2][3][4] 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.[5][6] As a result, she moved up into the top 150 in the rankings. She won the 2022 Bronx Open in doubles with partner Anna Blinkova.

Walters made her major debut at the 2023 French Open[7] and won her first match defeating Elizabeth Mandlik. As a result, she reached a new career-high ranking of No. 107, on 12 June 2023.

Performance timeline
Key
W  F  SF QF #R RR Q# DNQ A NH
(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.[8]


Singles

Current through the 2023 French Open.

Tournament 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 SR W–L
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open A A A Q2 Q3 0 / 0 0–0
French Open A A A Q2 2R 0 / 1 1–1
Wimbledon A A Q2 Q1 1R 0 / 1 0–1
US Open A A A Q2 Q2 0 / 0 0–0
Win–loss 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 1–2 0 / 2 1–2
WTA 1000
Indian Wells Open Q1 0 / 0 0–0
Career statistics
Tournaments 1 0 1 2 2 5
Overall win–loss 1–1 0–0 0–1 3–2 1–2 5–6
Year-end ranking 295 297 217 120 45%

WTA career 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    Tournament Tier Surface Partner Opponents Score
Win Jul 2021 Lausanne Open,
Switzerland		 WTA 250 Clay Switzerland Susan Bandecchi Norway Ulrikke Eikeri
Greece Valentini Grammatikopoulou		 6–3, 6–7(3–7), [10–5]

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 17 (6 titles, 11 runner–ups)
Legend
$100,000 tournaments
$80,000 tournaments (0–1)
$60,000 tournaments (1–2)
$40,000 tournaments
$25,000 tournaments (0–3)
$15,000 tournaments (5–5)
Result W–L    Date    Tournament Tier Surface Opponent Score
Loss 0–1 Jun 2017 ITF Lenzerheide, Switzerland 25,000 Clay Italy Georgia Brescia 6–0, 4–6, 6–7(1)
Loss 0–2 Nov 2017 ITF Oslo, Norway 15,000 Hard (i) Switzerland Leonie Küng 4–6, 4–6
Win 1–2 Mar 2018 ITF Mâcon, France 15,000 Hard (i) Switzerland Tess Sugnaux 6–4, 3–6, 6–3
Loss 1–3 May 2018 ITF San Severo, Italy 15,000 Clay Greece Despina Papamichail 1–6, 2–6
Win 2–3 Dec 2018 ITF Ortisei, Italy 15,000 Hard (i) Chinese Taipei Joanna Garland 6–4, 6–2
Loss 2–4 Jan 2019 ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt 15,000 Hard Belgium Magali Kempen 7–5, 3–6, 3–6
Win 3–4 Feb 2019 ITF Sharm El Sheikh 15,000 Hard Finland Oona Orpana 6–1, 6–3
Loss 3–5 Feb 2019 ITF Sharm El Sheikh 15,000 Hard Egypt Mayar Sherif 4–6, 6–1, 3–6
Win 4–5 Apr 2019 ITF Cairo, Egypt 15,000 Clay Austria Melanie Klaffner 7–6(6), 7–5
Loss 4–6 May 2019 ITF Cairo, Egypt 15,000 Clay Egypt Mayar Sherif 2–6, 1–6
Loss 4–7 Jul 2019 ITF Horb, Germany 25,000 Clay Croatia Lea Bošković 4–6, 6–0, 1–6
Win 5–7 Jan 2021 ITF Manacor, Spain 15,000 Clay Spain Yvonne Cavallé Reimers 6–2, 7–6(4)
Loss 5–8 Feb 2021 AK Ladies Open, Germany 25,000 Carpet (i) Denmark Clara Tauson 6–3, 1–6, 3–6
Loss 5–9 Oct 2021 ITF Poitiers, France 80,000 Hard (i) France Chloé Paquet 4–6, 3–6
Loss 5–10 Apr 2022 Chiasso Open, Switzerland 60,000 Clay Italy Lucia Bronzetti 6–2, 3–6, 3–6
Win 6–10 Jul 2022 Amstelveen Open, Netherlands 60,000 Clay United States Emma Navarro 7–6(10), 6–0
Loss 6–11 Feb 2023 Open de l'Isère, France 60,000 Hard (i) France Océane Dodin 2–6, 5–7

Doubles: 8 (4 titles, 4 runner–ups)
Legend
$100,000 tournaments
$80,000 tournaments
$60,000 tournaments (1–1)
$40,000 tournaments
$25,000 tournaments (1–1)
$15,000 tournaments (2–2)
Result W–L    Date    Tournament Tier Surface Partner Opponents Score
Loss 0–1 Sep 2016 ITF Sion, Switzerland 10,000[lower-alpha 1] Clay Switzerland Leonie Küng United Kingdom Emily Arbuthnott
Switzerland Karin Kennel		 2–6, 1–6
Loss 0–2 Dec 2018 ITF Ortisei, Italy 15,000 Hard (i) Italy Verena Hofer Slovenia Veronika Erjavec
Slovenia Kristina Novak		 4–6, 5–7
Win 1–2 Apr 2019 ITF Cairo, Egypt 15,000 Clay Greece Despina Papamichail Egypt Mayar Sherif
Egypt Rana Sherif Ahmed		 6–3, 6–2
Win 2–2 May 2019 ITF Cairo, Egypt 15,000 Clay Slovakia Alica Rusová Australia Seone Mendez
Ecuador Charlotte Römer		 7–5, 0–6, [10–6]
Win 3–2 Sep 2019 Verbier Open,
Switzerland		 25,000 Clay Switzerland Xenia Knoll Turkey İpek Soylu
Liechtenstein Kathinka von Deichmann		 6–4, 6–3
Loss 3–3 Feb 2022 ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt 25,000 Hard Romania Irina Fetecău Netherlands Isabelle Haverlag
Lithuania Justina Mikulskytė		 1–6, 2–6
Loss 3–4 Feb 2022 AK Ladies Open,
Germany		 60,000 Carpet (i) Switzerland Susan Bandecchi Georgia (country) Mariam Bolkvadze
United Kingdom Samantha Murray Sharan		 3–6, 5–7
Win 4–4 Aug 2022 Bronx Open,
United States		 60,000 Hard Russia Anna Blinkova South Korea Han Na-lae
Japan 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.[9]

* As of 12 July 2022

Wins over top-10 players
# Player Rank Event Surface Rd Score SW Rank
2022
1. United States Danielle Collins No. 7 Ladies Open Lausanne Clay 1R 6–7(5–7), 6–3, 7–6(8–6) No. 154

Notes
  1. The $10,000 tournaments were reclassified as $15,000 in 2017. However, there were some $15,000 even before 2017.

References
  1. "Simona Waltert mit Wildcard in Lausanne". www.suedostschwiez.ch (in German).
  2. "Tennis, WTA – Lausanne Open 2022: Waltert downs Collins". 12 July 2022.
  3. "Lausanne: Waltert saves 3 MPS, upsets Collins for 1st Top 10 win".
  4. "Collins stunned by home hope Waltert as Bencic bounces back in Lausanne". 12 July 2022.
  5. "Lausanne: Wildcard Waltert beats Bucsa in 3 sets to make 1st WTA QF".
  6. "Beginner's Guide: Simona Waltert breathes life into Lausanne with breakout run".
  7. "Roland Garros 2023's Grand Slam debuts: Mirra Andreeva, Shymanovich, Waltert".
  8. "Simona Waltert | Player Stats & More – WTA Official".
  9. "Head to Head". WTA Tennis.


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