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Jil Teichmann

Jil Teichmann

Swiss tennis player (born 1997)


Jil Belén Teichmann (born 15 July 1997) is a Swiss professional tennis player. She has been ranked by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) as high as world No. 21 in singles and No. 73 in doubles. She has won two titles in singles and two in doubles on the WTA Tour, along with one WTA 125 doubles title. In addition, she won six singles titles and five doubles titles on the ITF Circuit.

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A former junior world No. 3, Teichmann won a Grand Slam title in the girls' doubles event at the 2014 US Open. That year, she also won a gold medal for Switzerland in mixed doubles at the Summer Youth Olympics in Nanjing.

Her breakthrough as a senior player came in May 2019 when she won her first WTA Tour title in Prague. In July of that year, she won another WTA tournament title after making her first top-10 win over Kiki Bertens. She continued progressing, in March 2021 reaching the semifinals of the WTA 1000 Dubai Championships. With these performances she entered the top 50. Later that year, she reached the final of the Cincinnati Open, a WTA 1000 event, defeating Naomi Osaka, Belinda Bencic, and Karolína Plíšková, before falling to world No. 1, Ashleigh Barty.

Personal life and background

Jil Teichmann was born on 15 July 1997 to mother Regula and father Jacques.[1] She was born and raised in Barcelona, but her parents are from Zürich. Despite being born in Barcelona, Teichmann does not have a Spanish passport.[2] In her youth, she tried various sports but then decided to play tennis on the professional level. She speaks five different languages: German, Spanish, English, French, and Catalan.[1]

Junior career

Teichmann is former junior world No. 3 player.[3] She made her debut on the ITF Junior Circuit in February 2011 at the Grade-4 Swiss Junior Trophy, where she reached the final in doubles. In September 2011, she won her first junior title at the Grade-5 Luzern Junior Competition in singles. In October 2012, she reached the quarterfinals of the Grade A Osaka Mayor's Cup in singles. She won her first doubles title at the Swiss Junior Trophy in February 2013. At her Grand Slam debut at the 2014 Australian Open, she reached the quarterfinals in doubles. In March 2014, she had success at the Grade-A Campeonato Internacional Juvenil de Tenis de Porto Alegre, winning titles in both singles and doubles.

She then continued with success, winning the title in doubles at the Grade-A Trofeo Bonfiglio, and reached the semifinals in singles. At the 2014 Wimbledon, she also reached the semifinals in doubles. In July 2014, she reached singles quarterfinals and doubles semifinals of the European Junior Championships. She then won the 2014 US Open girls' doubles title along with İpek Soylu, defeating Vera Lapko and Tereza Mihalíková in the final. At the 2015 French Open, she reached quarterfinals in singles and semifinals in doubles. She reached another doubles Grand Slam quarterfinal in 2015 at Wimbledon. She finished her junior career at the 2015 European Junior Championships, where she reached final in singles. As a junior, she won one singles and eight doubles titles in total.[4]

Professional career

2013–18: First steps

Teichmann in 2015

Teichmann made her debut at the ITF Women's Circuit at the $10k event in Kreuzlingen in February 2013. In June of the same year, she reached her first ITF semifinal at the $10k Bredeney Ladies Open. Year later, she reached another ITF semifinal, this time at the $25k event in Lenzerheide. In October 2014, she reached her first ITF final, but lost to Polina Leykina at the $10k event in Sharm El Sheikh. In August 2015, she won her first ITF title at the $15k event in Braunschweig, defeating Ekaterina Alexandrova in the final.[5] In May 2016, she made her WTA Tour debut, playing at the Internationaux de Strasbourg, where she also recorded her first WTA Tour match win, defeating Kurumi Nara in the first round. At the 2016 US Open, she made her debut at a major in qualifying, but failed to reach main draw.[6] In May 2017, she finished runner-up at the $100k Open de Cagnes-sur-Mer, losing to Beatriz Haddad Maia in the final.[5] In September, she reached second round of the Premier 5 Wuhan Open, that was her first appearance on that level. At the 2018 US Open, she made her Grand Slam main-draw debut and also recorded her first win on that level.[6]

2019–20: Breakthrough, two WTA Tour singles titles, top 100

Teichmann won her first WTA Tour singles title when she came through the qualifiers to win the Prague Open in May 2019, beating Karolína Muchová in the final. The win took her into the top 100 of the WTA rankings.[7] In July, she reached quarterfinals of the Swiss Open, where she lost to Tamara Korpatsch.[6] The following week, she won the Palermo Ladies Open, securing her first top-10 win with a victory over Kiki Bertens in the final.[8] In August 2020, she reached another WTA Tour final, but lost to Jennifer Brady at the Lexington Challenger.[9] In September, she reached the quarterfinals of the Internationaux de Strasbourg, where she lost to Elina Svitolina.[10]

2021: First WTA 1000 final, four top-10 wins, top 50

At the Australian Open warm-up event Gippsland Trophy, she lost to Coco Gauff in the first round.[11] Then, at the Australian Open, she was beaten again by Gauff.[12] After these losses, she made progress by getting to the quarterfinals at the Phillip Island Trophy in Melbourne. She defeated three Romanian players in a row, Mihaela Buzărnescu, Monica Niculescu[13] and Patricia Maria Țig,[14] right before she faced a loss against Marie Bouzková.[15]

The following week, Teichmann advanced to her first Premier-level semifinal at Adelaide. On her way, she defeated Kristina Mladenovic, Wang Qiang and Anastasija Sevastova. Eventual champion Iga Świątek prevailed in straight sets in the semifinals.[16]

Her next step was the WTA 1000 event in Dubai. After defeating qualifier Katarina Zavatska in the first round,[17] she upset top-10 player Petra Kvitová and reached her first WTA 1000 third round.[18] She followed this up with a win over Ons Jabeur[19] and then took her revenge against Gauff for the two consecutive losses that year.[11] With the win she entered the semifinals where she faced Barbora Krejčíková, and lost in straight sets.[20] As a result, she reached the top 50 at world No. 41, on 15 March 2021.

At her next tournament, the WTA 1000 Miami Open, she was forced to retire during her first-round match against Paula Badosa.[21] However, she then came to the Madrid Open, starting with an upset over world No. 5, Svitolina, saving six match points.[22] In the following round, she was eliminated by Badosa in three sets.[23]

Ranked 76th at the WTA 1000 Cincinnati Open, Teichmann reached the final as a wildcard player, defeating en-route world No. 2 and second seed, Naomi Osaka, in the round of 16, tenth seed compatriot Belinda Bencic in the quarterfinals, and fifth seed Karolína Plíšková in the semifinals to make the biggest final in her career.[24]

2022: Third WTA 1000 semifinal, top 25 debut, major fourth round

She reached her third career WTA 1000 semifinal at the Madrid Open, following four consecutive straight-set wins over Petra Kvitová, Leylah Fernandez, Elena Rybakina, and Anhelina Kalinina in the quarterfinals.[25][26] Despite being ousted in the last four by Jessica Pegula, Teichmann entered the top 30 at world No. 29 for the first time following the tournament.[27] At the Italian Open, she recorded a back-to-back win against Rybakina at the same level as the WTA 1000 Madrid to reach again the quarterfinals in an over three-hours marathon match.[28] It was her 13th career top 20 win, with her 12th coming one day previously over Karolína Plíšková. As a result, she secured her top 25 debut at world No. 24, on 16 May 2022.[29]

At the French Open, she had reached the third round, after beating the Serbian Olga Danilović in straight sets, for the first time in her career in eleven attempts.[30][31][32] She went one step further to reach the fourth round, having never past the second round at a major before, defeating Victoria Azarenka in a three-sets match lasting three hours and 18 minutes, the longest match thus far. This was her seventh of 14 top-20 wins in 2022.[33][34][35] Seeded 18th at Wimbledon, after having an incredible run at the French Open, Teichmann lost in the first round to Ajla Tomljanović, in straight sets.[36]

2023: Eighth top-10 win, out of top 100 in singles, second doubles title

She reached the third round in Indian Wells for the first time defeating ninth seed Belinda Bencic for her first top-10 win of the season.

She captured her second WTA Tour doubles title with Jodie Burrage at the 2023 Transylvania Open.[37]

National representation

Junior

At the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics in China, she won the gold medal in mixed doubles, partnering Jan Zieliński. They defeated Ye Qiuyu of China and Jumpei Yamasaki of Japan in the final.

Performance timelines

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, Grand Slam tournaments, Fed Cup/Billie Jean King Cup and Olympic Games are included in win–loss records.[38]

Singles

Current through the 2023 Guadalajara Open.

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Doubles

Current through the 2023 Australian Open.

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Significant finals

WTA 1000 tournaments

Singles: 1 (runner-up)

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WTA Tour finals

Singles: 4 (2 titles, 2 runner-ups)

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Doubles: 4 (2 titles, 2 runner-ups)

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WTA Challenger finals

Doubles: 1 (title)

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ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 11 (6 titles, 5 runner–ups)

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Doubles: 11 (5 titles, 6 runner–ups)

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Junior Grand Slam finals

Girls' doubles: 1 (title)

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Olympic medal matches

Mixed doubles: 1 (gold medal)

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WTA Tour career earnings

Current through the 2022 French Open[6]

YearGrand Slam
singles titles
WTA
singles titles
Total
singles titles
Earnings ($)Money list rank
2014 0 0 0 4,305 756
2015 0 0 0 10,832 487
2016 0 0 0 31,280 307
2017 0 0 0 86,108 213
2018 0 0 0 148,980 181
2019 0 2 2 305,603 129
2020 0 0 0 295,876 86
2021 0 0 0 749,904 44
2022 0 0 0 944,517 14
Career 0 2 2 2,594,207 223

Career Grand Slam statistics

Seedings

Tournaments won by Teichmann are in boldface, and advanced into finals by Teichmann are in italics.[6]

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Best Grand Slam results details

Grand Slam winners are in boldface, and runner–ups are in italics.[6]

Singles

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Head-to-head record

Record against top 10 players

  • She has a 8–8 (50%) record against players who were, at the time the match was played, ranked in the top 10.
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Notes

  1. Formerly known as Fed Cup until 2020.
  2. Edition is split into two years due to COVID-19.
  3. The first Premier 5 event of the year has switched back and forth between the Dubai Tennis Championships and the Qatar Ladies Open since 2009. Dubai was classified as a Premier 5 event from 2009 to 2011 before being succeeded by Doha for the 2012–2014 period. In 2015, Dubai regained its Premier 5 status while Doha was demoted to Premier status. The Premier 5 tournaments were reclassified as WTA 1000 tournaments in 2021.
  4. 2013: WTA ranking–789, 2014: WTA ranking–586, 2015: WTA ranking–439.
  5. Withdrawal during the tournament not counted as a loss.
  6. The WTA International tournaments were reclassified as WTA 250 tournaments in 2021.

References

  1. "Jil Teichmann's Bio". WTA Tennis. Retrieved 19 January 2021.
  2. Mathias Germann (September 13, 2018). ""Ich fühle mich als Schweizerin" (in German)" [I feel like a Swiss]. blick.ch. Retrieved 20 January 2021.
  3. Alex Macpherson (August 25, 2018). "Getting to know you: Introducing the US Open 2018's Grand Slam debutantes". WTA Tennis. Retrieved 19 January 2021.
  4. "Jil Teichmann Junior ITF". ITF. Retrieved 19 January 2021.
  5. "Jil Teichmann ITF". ITF. Retrieved 19 January 2021.
  6. "Jil Teichmann career statistics". WTA Tennis. Retrieved 19 January 2021.
  7. WTA Staff (May 4, 2019). "Teichmann triumphs in Prague for first WTA title". WTA. Retrieved October 26, 2020.
  8. WTA Staff (28 July 2019). "Teichmann triumphs over Bertens to win Palermo". WTA. Retrieved 18 August 2019.
  9. David Kane (August 16, 2020). "Brady bests Teichmann for first title in Lexington". WTA Tennis. Retrieved 19 January 2021.
  10. WTA Staff (September 24, 2020). "Svitolina seals spot in Strasbourg semifinals with Teichmann victory". WTA Tennis. Retrieved 19 January 2021.
  11. WTA Staff (March 11, 2021). "Muguruza outlasts Sabalenka, Teichmann stops Gauff in Dubai". WTA Tennis. Retrieved 29 April 2021.
  12. Eurosport (8 February 2021). "Australian Open 2021 - CoCo Gauff breezes past Jil Teichmann to set up Elina Svitolina clash". Eurosport. Retrieved 29 April 2021.
  13. Abbey Johnson (February 15, 2021). "Phillip Island Trophy: Bianca Andreescu gets promising start in Melbourne". Tennis World USA. Retrieved 29 April 2021.
  14. ats / tai (16 February 2021). "WTA Phillip Island Trophy: Teichmann s'impose avant la limite (in French)" [WTA Phillip Island Trophy: Teichmann wins before the limit]. rts.ch. Retrieved 29 April 2021.
  15. WTA Staff (February 17, 2021). "Andreescu battles past Begu into Phillip Island Trophy semis". WTA Tennis. Retrieved 29 April 2021.
  16. WTA Staff (February 26, 2021). "Swiatek eases past Teichmann into Adelaide final". WTA Tennis. Retrieved 29 April 2021.
  17. ats / alt (8 March 2021). "WTA Dubaï: Teichmann franchit le 1er tour et défiera Kvitova (in French)" [WTA Dubai: Teichmann crosses the 1st round and will challenge Kvitova]. rts.ch. Retrieved 29 April 2021.
  18. WTA Staff (March 9, 2021). "Kuznetsova upsets Svitolina; Swiatek, Muguruza set Dubai clash". WTA Tennis. Retrieved 29 April 2021.
  19. WTA Staff (March 10, 2021). "Muguruza stops Swiatek in Dubai; Gauff and Teichmann set rematch". WTA Tennis. Retrieved 29 April 2021.
  20. WTA Staff (March 12, 2021). "Krejcikova storms past Teichmann into Dubai final". WTA Tennis. Retrieved 29 April 2021.
  21. Joan Solsona (23 March 2021). "Paula Badosa pasa a la segunda ronda de Miami por la retirada de Teichmann (in Spanish)" [Paula Badosa goes to the second round of Miami due to the withdrawal of Teichmann]. marca.com. Retrieved 29 April 2021.
  22. WTA Staff (29 April 2021). "Teichmann saves 6 match points to upset Svitolina in Madrid, Kerber moves on". WTA Tennis. Retrieved 29 April 2021.
  23. WTA Staff (May 1, 2021). "Kudermetova ousts defending champion Bertens in Madrid". WTA Tennis. Retrieved 24 May 2021.

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