Marlene Weingärtner

Marlene Weingärtner (born 30 January 1980) is a retired tennis player from Germany. She is a former top 40 player in both singles and doubles.

Career

The most remarkable moment of her career was her first-round match at the 2003 Australian Open when she defeated there the defending champion Jennifer Capriati. Capriati led the encounter 6–2, 4–1, but Weingärtner fought back and won by a 2–6, 7–6, 6–4 scoreline. She eventually reached the third round.

Her best Grand Slam tournament showings were two fourth-round appearances, the first in Melbourne 2002, the latter at the 2004 French Open.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 2004, she also reached her only WTA Tour final in Bali which she lost in straight sets to Svetlana Kuznetsova.

Playing for Germany in the Fed Cup, she has a win–loss record of 2–3.

Weingärtner retired after the 2005 US Open, after suffering several first-round losses due to ongoing physical problems.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> She made a brief return in July 2008 to play the doubles event of the Gastein Ladies tournament where she partnered Sandra Klemenschits, losing in the quarterfinals to Xu Yifan and Zhang Shuai.

WTA Tour finals

Singles: 1 (runner-up)

Result	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	Sep 2004	Bali Classic, Indonesia	Hard	Template:Flagicon Svetlana Kuznetsova	1–6, 4–6

Doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)

Result	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	Aug 2004	Cincinnati Open, US	Hard	Template:Flagicon Jill Craybas	Template:Flagicon Emmanuelle Gagliardi Template:Flagicon Anna-Lena Grönefeld	7–5, 7–6(7–2)
Loss	Oct 2004	Luxembourg Open	Hard (i)	Template:Flagicon Jill Craybas	Template:Flagicon Virginia Ruano Pascual Template:Flagicon Paola Suárez	1–6, 7–6(7–1), 3–6

ITF Circuit finals

Legend
$75,000 tournaments
$50,000 tournaments
$25,000 tournaments
$10,000 tournaments

Singles (0–5)

Result	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	1.	22 August 1994	ITF İstanbul, Turkey	Hard	Template:Flagicon Radka Surová	6–4, 0–6, 3–6
Loss	2.	14 October 1996	ITF Flensburg, Germany	Carpet (i)	Template:Flagicon Beate Reinstadler	6–4, 6–7(5–7), 5–7
Loss	3.	7 December 1998	ITF Bad Gögging, Germany	Carpet (i)	Template:Flagicon Karina Habšudová	6–7, 2–6
Loss	4.	29 October 2000	ITF Seoul, South Korea	Hard	Template:Flagicon Vanessa Webb	2–4, 3–5, 4–1, 3–5
Loss	5.	26 November 2000	ITF Nuriootpa, Australia	Hard	Template:Flagicon Rachel McQuillan	4–6, 3–6

Doubles (3–4)

Result	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1.	5 February 1995	ITF Coburg, Germany	Hard (i)	Template:Flagicon Seda Noorlander	Template:Flagicon Magdalena Feistel Template:Flagicon Helena Vildová	6–2, 6–7, 6–2
Loss	1.	7 April 1996	ITF Athens, Greece	Clay	Template:Flagicon Dragana Zarić	Template:Flagicon Annica Lindstedt Template:Flagicon Anna-Karin Svensson	0–6, 2–6
Win	2.	6 October 1996	ITF Puerto Vallarta, Mexico	Hard	Template:Flagicon María Fernanda Landa	Template:Flagicon Paula Cabezas Template:Flagicon Veronica Stele	4–6, 7–5, 6–3
Loss	2.	23 June 1997	ITF Bordeaux, France	Clay	Template:Flagicon María Fernanda Landa	Template:Flagicon Caroline Dhenin Template:Flagicon Nino Louarsabishvili	7–6(8–6), 4–6, 5–7
Loss	3.	6 July 1997	ITF Stuttgart, Germany	Clay	Template:Flagicon María Fernanda Landa	Template:Flagicon Seda Noorlander Template:Flagicon Nirupama Vaidyanathan	3–6, 1–6
Loss	4.	27 July 1997	ITF İstanbul, Turkey	Hard	Template:Flagicon Sylvia Plischke	Template:Flagicon Laura Golarsa Template:Flagicon Mercedes Paz	6–3, 3–6, 3–6
Win	3.	28 October 2000	ITF Seoul, South Korea	Hard	Template:Flagicon Surina De Beer	Template:Flagicon Cho Yoon-jeong Template:Flagicon Jeon Mi-ra	4–2, 4–1, 1–4, 3–5, 4–2

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