Rebecca Peterson

Rebecca Peterson (born 6 August 1995) is a Swedish professional tennis player. In singles, she has a career-high Women's Tennis Association (WTA) ranking of No. 43 in the world, achieved on 21 October 2019. Her best WTA doubles ranking is No. 95, achieved on 30 November 2015. Peterson has reached two singles finals on WTA Tour, winning both of them in 2019. She also reached one doubles final on WTA Tour, where she also successed to win the title. On ITF Tour, she won 11 singles and 6 doubles title. On WTA 125K Series, she is runner-up in doubles at the 2018 Newport Beach Challenger.

Rebecca Peterson
Peterson at the 2018 French Open
Country (sports) Sweden
ResidenceStockholm, Sweden
Born (1995-08-06) 6 August 1995
Stockholm, Sweden
Height1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Turned pro2009
PlaysRight-handed (two-handed backhand)
CoachMart Peterson
Bosse Ericsson
Prize moneyUS$1,700,809
Singles
Career record260–149 (63.6%)
Career titles2
Highest rankingNo. 43 (21 October 2019)
Current rankingNo. 56 (12 October 2020)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open2R (2019)
French Open2R (2018, 2019)
Wimbledon2R (2018)
US Open3R (2018)
Doubles
Career record83–65 (56.1%)
Career titles1
Highest rankingNo. 95 (30 November 2015)
Current rankingNo. 288 (12 October 2020)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open1R (2019)
French Open2R (2019)
Wimbledon2R (2019)
US Open1R (2019)
Team competitions
Fed Cup9–10 (47.4%)
Last updated on: 12 October 2020.

Peterson had a career-high junior ranking of No. 34, and won 1 singles and 4 doubles titles on ITF Junior Tour, winning all of them in 2010. As junior, she didn't have so much success playing on Grand Slams, having third round as best result, that she achieved at French Open in 2012 in singles. In October 2009, she debuted on ITF Tour, playing at $10,000 Stockholm in doubles, while in 2012, she debut at the WTA Tour, playing in both singles and doubles at the Swedish Open, where she received a wild card.[1] Despite the fact she debuted at the WTA Tour in 2012, until 2018, she mostly played at ITF Tour, where she also had success with significant tournaments. During her career, she progressed more and more, and finally made her breakthrough into top 100 in May 2018. This helped her play in main-draw at most of WTA tournaments. She get most recognition in 2019, when she won two singles title and also made her first top 10 win, winning against Sloane Stephens at Citi Open. Also, in 2019, she entered top 50 for the first time.

She made her Grand Slam debut at the US Open 2017 where she lost in the first round to Denisa Allertová. In 2018 at the French Open, she had her first Grand Slam main-draw win when she beat Hsieh Su-wei in straight sets, before losing to Mihaela Buzărnescu in the second round 1–6, 2–6.

Among other players, Rebecca is most famost for the aggressive style of play, and she loves to force her forehand.

Playing for Sweden in the Fed Cup, Peterson debuted in 2014 and has a win–loss record of 9–10.[2]

Early life and background

Rebecca Peterson was born on 6 August 1995 to mother Annelie and father Mart in capital of Sweden, Stockholm. She has a one sister Berit. Her father is tennis coach, that currently coached her, together with Bosse Ericsson. Rebecca is player that prefers aggressive game style, and she likes to control the game with her forehand. During her growing-up, she enjoyed watching Kim Clijsters and Justine Henin.[3][4]

Junior career

She made her debut on the ITF Junior Circuit at the age of 13. In singles, her first tournament was Salk Open in January 2009, where she also get her first win, but then lost in second round.[5] In doubles, her first tournament was Estonian Junior Open, held in June 2009, where she lost in first round. On same tournament, she get to quarterfinal in singles.[6] In 2010, she played her first doubles final at Salk Open, and also won the title.[7] In May 2010, she played in semifinal of Tennis Sweden Junior Cup in singles, where in doubles she won title.[8] In October 2010, she won Mian-Chang Cup International Junior Championships, that was her first junior singles title. There she also won title in doubles.[9] In June 2012, she played her first junior grand-slam, specifically at French Open, where in singles, she firstly passed qualification and then get to third round, while in doubles she lost in second round.[10] Later that year, she lost in first round of Wimbledon and US Open, in both singles and doubles.[11][12] In 2013, she played second round of Australian Open in singles, and first round in doubles.[13] Her last junior tournament was European Summer Cups in September 2013.[14]

Professional career review

2009–12: Playing in both juniors and seniors on ITF Tour

Despite the fact that she made her first doubles match at ITF Tour in seniors, in October 2009, she also continue to play in juniors. In 2010, she played qualification at WTA tournament at Swedish Open, but failed to reach main-draw.[15] Her first singles ITF tournament was $10,000 Stockholm in November 2010. She defeated german player Alina Wessel in first round, but lost from Alison Van Uytvanck in second round.[16] In 2011, Rebecca didn't have much success, winning only one singles and one doubles match, both at ITF Båstad, in May.[17][18]

2012-17: First steps on WTA Tour, debut

Rebecca debut at WTA Tour in 2012, where she get wild card in both singles and doubles at 2012 Swedish Open. Unfortunatelly, she failed in both competition in first round.[19]

In 2013, Peterson also get wildcard for Swedish Open, in both singles and doubles, but againt failed to reached second round in both competition.[20]

In 2014, Rebecca get wild at Miami Open, where she get to second round after retirement of Mona Barthel during their first round match, but Ekaterina Makarova was better in second round.[21] This was Rebecca's first appearance at some Premier 5/Premier Mandatory tournament. For the third time in a row, Rebecca get wild card for both singles and doubles at Swedish Open, but this time she was successful in doubles. In singles, she failed in first round from Jana Čepelová, but in doubles, together with Johanna Larsson, they won two matches and then get to semifinal, where Andreja Klepač-María Teresa Torró Flor defeated them.[22][23] That was her first doubles semifinal at WTA Tour.

At 2015 Rio Open, she failed to qualify in singles, but in doubles she get into her first WTA doubles final, where she also successed to win the title.[24] At 2015 Nürnberger Versicherungscup, she passed qualification and then lost in first round from Angelique Kerber. At Swedish Open, this time she get wildcard only for singles, where she successed to get to quarterfinal, while in doubles, her ranking helped her get directly to main-draw without need for wildcard, but lost in first round. At US Open, it was her first appearance at qualification for some grand-slam. She finished her participation in second round of qualification, losing her chance to debut in main-draw of grand-slams. Guangzhou Open was good Rebecca, getting to second round in singles, and semifinal in doubles.

In 2016, Rebecca had unnoticiable results, oftern reaching first or second round mostly on international tournaments. Also, she failed to get to main-draw at all four grand-slams. In doubles, she reached quarterfinal of Copa Colsanitas and Swedish Open.

Rebecca first attempted to play on WTA Tour in 2017 was at Wimbledon, where she failed in qualification. Her first appearance in main-draw happened at Swedish Open, where she lost in first round in singles, but in doubles reached quarterfinal. Finally, in 2017, Rebecca debut in main-draw at grand-slams, specifically at US Open. She passed qualification, but then in first round of main-draw, Denisa Šátralová defeated her. After that she get to quarterfinal at Guanzhou Open and semifinal at OEC Taipei WTA Challenger.

2018: Mostly played at WTA Tour, top 100

Peterson at the 2018 Wimbledon

Rebecca started year as world No. 149, that means she was forced to play in qualification at Australian Open, in order to play in main-draw. Unfortunatelly, she failed in first round of qualification, losing to Fangzhou Liu in three-sets, losing her chance to play for the first time in main-draw at Australian Open. Then she reached second round at Newport Beach challenger, as well as quarterfinal at Dow Tennis Classic. Still outside top 100, she needed to play in qualification for Mexican Open, but this time she successed. Playing in main-draw, she defeated Alizé Cornet, Monica Puig, Zhang Shuai and then lost in semifinal from Stefanie Vögele.[25] At that time, this was her first significant result, reaching her first singles semifinal at WTA Tour. At Indian Wells Open, she failed in first round of qualification, unlike in Miami, where she was successful in qualification, but lost in first round in main-draw. At Morocco Open, she lost in first round in singles, but reached semifinal in doubles. In May, she came back to ITF to play at Open de Cagnes-sur-Mer, where she defeated Dayana Yastremska in final.[26] This lead her directly to top 100, where she debuted. At French Open she won three matches in qualification, and then defeated Hsieh Su-wei in first round, recording her first won at any grand-slams, but lost from Mihaela Buzărnescu in second round.[27] At Wimbledon, she also reached second round, but this time she wasn't forced to play firstly in qualification. At Western & Southern Open she debuted in qualification, that she also passed, and then in first round was better than Kateřina Siniaková, but in second round wasn't good enough for Elise Mertens. At US Open, just like at Wimbledon, she didn't need to play in qualification. There she also made her first third round at some grand-slam, winning against Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and Vania King, respectively, but then Kaia Kanepi defeated her in third round.[28] Her last tournament of 2018 was Wuhan Open where she debuted in qualification, where she successed in order to qualify to main-draw. In first round she defeated Tímea Babos, but then Caroline Wozniacki was better in second round.[29]

2019: Breakthrough into top 50, two WTA singles titles

Peterson at the 2019 French Open

Rebecca started year playing at the Australian Open, that also was her debut there, and she get to second round, where she lost from Maria Sharapova.[30] After that, she came to the challenger in Newport Beach, where she reached quarterfinal. She continued with good results, reaching semifinal at Dow Tennis Classic. In Acapulco, she lost in first round, as well at Indian Wells Open, but reached second round of Miami Open.[31] On Clay season, she didn't have some significant result, reaching few second rounds and quarterfinal at Morocco Open.[32] On Italian Open she passed qualification, and lose in first round from Serena Williams, while at French Open she left tournament in second round, in both singles and doubles.[33] On Grass season, she get to first round of Mallorca Open, third round of Eastbourne International and first round of Wimbledon.[34] At Citi Open, she upseted No. 8 Sloane Stephens, that mark her first top 10 win, but then in second round Camila Giorgi defeated her. At Rogers Cup, she failed to qualify for the main-draw. At Western & Southern she made good performance; she passed qualification and defeted Johanna Konta in first round and Veronika Kudermetova in second round and get to third round of any Premier 5/Premier Mandatory tournament for the first time.[35] Then she faced seed No. 3 Karolína Plíšková, but lost her chance to reached first Premier 5/Premier Mandatory quarterfinal.[36] At US Open, she defeated Monica Puig in first round but lost in second round from Dayana Yastremska. This was first year that Rebecca played at all four grand-slams in main-draw. Asian Tour was breakthrough for Rebecca. At Jiangxi Open, she get to her first singles final, where she defeated Elena Rybakina.[37] Then she came to Wuhan, where she won two matches in qualification, and then in main-draw she defeated Camila Giorgi, but lost from Petra Martić in second round. At China Open, she also passed qualification, but was stopped in first round of main-draw from Simona Halep.[38] Her last tournament of year was Tianjin Open, where she won her second career singles title, defeating Heather Watson in final.[39] After that title, on October 14, she entered top 50 for the first time in her career.[40]

2020: Health problems

Rebecca started year playing at ASB Classic where she was defeated from Tamara Zidanšek. Next week, she played at Hobart International, and in first round met Fiona Ferro, but she wasn't enable to continue match at the result 4–4 in first set, due to back problems.[41] During her play at Australian Open, back injury and illness, made things even worse. Rebecca lost in first round from Polona Hercog.[42] After that she had one month break, and then she return at Monterrey Open.[43] There she won against two Ukrainian players, Kateryna Kozlova and Kateryna Bondarenko in first two rounds, and then in quarterfinal she lost to Arantxa Rus.[44] A few months of inactivity due to the COVID-19 pandemic, helped Rebecca rest and cure from her back problems, before she played at Palermo International that was first WTA tournament after tennis returned.[45] In Palermo, she faced Camila Giorgi, but didn't make it to the second round.[46] At Cincinnati Open, she lost to Elise Mertens.[47] At US Open, it was first time that Rebecca was seeded at some grand-slam, being seed No. 32.[48] She lost in first round from Kirsten Flipkens.[49] At İstanbul Cup, she reached quarterfinal, losing from Patricia Maria Țig.[50] At Italian Open, she also didn't have success, losing in first round from Yulia Putintseva.[51] At French Open, she left tournament in first round, losing from Alison Van Uytvanck.[52]

National representation

Yastremska made her debut for Sweden Fed Cup team at the 2014 Fed Cup. The team was host, playing against the Thailand in a World Group II play-off in order to remain in World Group II in 2015. Rebecca first match happened in doubles, together with Hilda Melander, and they succeeded in winning against Tamarine Tanasugarn-Varatchaya Wongteanchai. Swedish team, with score of 4–0, kept their place in World Group II in 2015.[53]

In 2015, first singles match happened for Rebecca. Swedish team played against Swiss team, in order to play in World Group I Play–Off, and may have chance to be promoted into World Group in 2016. She played against Timea Bacsinszky, but lost in straight-sets. In doubles, together with Johanna Larsson, they won against Viktorija Golubic-Xenia Knoll, but still Switzerland won with 3–1 score.[54] That means that Swedish team was forced to play at World Group II play-off, in order to stay in World Group II in 2016. They played against Slovakia. Rebecca faced Anna Karolína Schmiedlová, but didn't success to win. In doubles, together with Susanne Celik, they lost from Jana Čepelová-Anna Karolína Schmiedlová. Swedish team lost from Slovakian team with 0–4 score.[55]

Coaches

In August 2019, After Wimbledon Championships, Rebecca started a collaboration with Swedish star coach Thomas Högstedt, who previously trained, among others, Maria Sharapova. Together with him, Rebecca debuted in top 50, and also won two WTA singles title. After six months, in February 2020, they split.[56] She is currently coached by her father (Mart Peterson) and Bosse Eriksson.

Playing style

Peterson's forehand

Rebecca is one of the most aggressive tennis players on Tour. Her most significant shot is forehand, that she also stated in interview with Live Tennis Italy: "My best shot is the forehand and I try to play by always varying the shot and looking for new solutions."[57] In one interview, Peterson's former coach Thomas Högstedt talked about his impression of Rebecca: "Rebecca knows a lot about how she feels herself, other big players maybe more just see how they beat the opponent - if you win the first set then you put in extra gear and decide. It is easy to feel after you are nervous or tired, but the best do not think so much about how they themselves feel. They only think about how to mentally crack the opponent. It's something she needs to work on. I think that bit is very important." Speaking about her game, Hogstedt says, "She has an incredibly good forehand, plays a bit like a men's player with quite a lot of topspin.. Very serious, incredibly well trained." Her dad, Mart Peterson, who has also been her coach for most of her career, says: "Hogstedt has helped my daughter a lot and made her tougher. It has been a lot of help. She has become tougher against herself and tougher against her opponents."[58]

Career statistics

Key
W  F  SF QF #R RR Q# A NH
(W) Won; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (A) absent; (NH) not held. SR=strike rate (events won/competed)
To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated at the conclusion of a tournament or when the player's participation has ended.

Singles

Tournament 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 SR W–L Win %
Australian Open A Q1 A Q1 2R 1R 0 / 2 1–2 33%
French Open A Q1 A 2R 2R 1R 0 / 3 2–3 40%
Wimbledon A Q3 Q2 2R 1R NH 0 / 2 1–2 33%
US Open Q2 Q3 1R 3R 2R 1R 0 / 4 3–4 43%
Win–Loss 0–0 0–0 0–1 4–3 3–4 0–3 0 / 11 7–11 39%
Career statistics
Titles 0 0 0 0 2 0 Career total: 2
Finals 0 0 0 0 2 0 Career total: 2
Year-end ranking 138 137 196 55 43 $1,700,809

Doubles

Tournament 2018 2019 2020 2021 SR W–L Win %
Australian Open A 1R A 0 / 1 0–1 0%
French Open A 2R 1R 0 / 2 1–2 33%
Wimbledon A 2R NH 0 / 1 1–1 50%
US Open 1R 1R A 0 / 2 0–2 0%
Win–Loss 0–1 2–4 0–1 0 / 6 2–6 25%

Notes

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