Kirsten Flipkens

Quick Facts

Full Name	Kirsten Flipkens
Occupation	Tennis Player
Date Of Birth	Jan 10, 1986(1986-01-10)
Age	38
Birthplace	Belgium
Country	Belgium
Horoscope	Capricorn

Kirsten Flipkens Biography

Kirsten Flipkens is one of the most popular and richest Tennis Player who was born on January 10, 1986 in Belgium, Belgium. She reached the semifinals in Wimbledon in 2013 and won the 2012 Middelburg, 2012 Rebecq, and 2009 Zwevegem.

She lost to Maria Sharapova in the second round of the 2010 Australian Open.

Kirsten “Flipper” Flipkens (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈkɪrstən ˈflɪpkəns] ; born 10 January 1986) is a Belgian tennis player. Her WTA career-high singles ranking is world No. 13, which she achieved in August 2013. She had success as a junior, winning the girls’ doubles title at the 2002 US Open and the singles titles at the 2003 Wimbledon Championships and the 2003 US Open. Since then she has won one WTA singles title, one WTA Challenger singles title, 5 WTA doubles titles, 12 ITF singles titles, and two ITF doubles titles. Her best Grand Slam performance was at the 2013 Wimbledon Championships, where she reached the semifinal. In the same year, she was crowned Sportswoman of the Year at the Belgian Sport Awards. In 2016, Flipkens entered in her first Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro and made it to the third round in singles. She is also the Belgian player who has played the most years in Fed Cup (16 years as of 2019). For this reason, she received the Fed Cup Commitment Award in 2016.

Flipkens entered her first Olympics ever in both singles and doubles. In singles, she stunned the gold medalist from Sydney 2000, and three times doubles champion, Venus Williams in the first round, defeating her after an epic match with 4–6, 6–3, 7–6. In the second round, Flipkens beat Lucie Šafářová, who retired after losing the first set with 6–2. Eventually, Flipkens was beaten in R16 by Laura Siegemund from Germany. In doubles, Flipkens played alongside Yanina Wickmayer. In the first round, the Belgians faced Kazakh duo Shvedova/Voskoboeva, who retired after losing the first set with 6–1. However, Flipkens and Wickmayer were defeated in the round of 16 by the Spanish team Muguruza/Suarez Navarro, the fourth seeds.

She was born in Geel, Belgium.

Kirsten Flipkens Net Worth

Kirsten Flipkens is one of the richest Tennis Player from Belgium. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Kirsten Flipkens 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

She won the women’s junior Wimbledon Championship title in 2003.

She sports a right-handed forehand and two-handed backhand.

Flipkens was born on 10 January 1986 in Geel, Belgium as the only child of a car dealer and a housewife. She began playing tennis at four years old. Flipkens played tennis, football, volleyball and basketball before eventually deciding to pursue a career as a tennis player at the age of 12. She then went to the tennis academy in Wilrijk where she became friends with Kim Clijsters. At the age of 17, after winning Wimbledon and the US Open as a junior, she dropped out of school to continue her career as a professional tennis player. She speaks Dutch, English, French and German. One of her trademarks is her prescription glasses, which she needs to wear due to being near-sighted.

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In 2009, Flipkens reached the second round of the Australian Open and the French Open. She defeated No. 30 Ágnes Szávay in order to reach the second round at Wimbledon, where she faced Elena Baltacha. Flipkens beat the British wildcard in straight sets to set up an encounter with top seed Dinara Safina and a place in a Grand Slam third round for the first time in her career. She lost to the Russian, after having a set point in the first set, 5–7, 1–6. At the US Open, she reached the third round, after victories in straight sets over Jelena Dokic and Anabel Medina Garrigues. She suffered a defeat in the third round, losing to compatriot and eventual champion Kim Clijsters, 0–6, 2–6. In October, she again defeated Medina Garrigues to reach the quarterfinals of the Luxembourg Open. Flipkens reached the top 100 for the first time in her career at the end of 2009.

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Kirsten Ranked on the list of most popular Tennis Player. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Belgium. Kirsten Flipkens celebrates birthday on January 10 of every year.

At the 2010 Australian Open Flipkens lost in the first round to another unseeded countrywoman making a comeback, Justine Henin, 4–6, 3–6. At the French Open, she beat Japan’s Ayumi Morita in the first round, 6–1, 6–4. Maria Sharapova beat her in straight sets in the second round. In the week before Wimbledon, she reached the semifinals of the UNICEF Open, a WTA tournament on grass at Rosmalen, where she lost to Andrea Petkovic. At Wimbledon, she lost in the second round to Yanina Wickmayer. She had been troubled by a recurring wrist injury and underwent surgery at the end of the 2010 season.