Carolina Kuhl
{{Short description|German tennis player}}
{{Infobox tennis biography
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| country_represented = {{GER}}
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|2005|4|4}}
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| plays = Left-handed (two-handed backhand)
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| careerprizemoney = US$48,731
| singlesrecord = {{tennis record|won=75|lost=59}}
| singlestitles = 3 ITF
| highestsinglesranking = No. 391 (11 November 2024)
| currentsinglesranking = No. 409 (24 February 2025)
| doublesrecord = {{tennis record|won=24|lost=26}}
| doublestitles = 1 ITF
| highestdoublesranking = No. 617 (2 December 2024)
| currentdoublesranking = No. 620 (24 February 2025)
| updated = 27 February 2025
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Carolina Kuhl (born 4 April 2005) is a German tennis player.
Career
In 2017, Kuhl won the Bavarian championship title in the U14 age group at the age of twelve,{{cite web|access-date=2022-05-28 |date=2017-03-27 |title=Juhu! Zwei Bayerische Meister |url=https://tv-fuerth-1860.de/sportangebot/tennis/aktuelles/detail?tx_news_pi1%5Baction%5D=detail&tx_news_pi1%5Bcontroller%5D=News&tx_news_pi1%5Bnews%5D=252&cHash=6d0ee84f67673c5aaa125caf3d718c15 |website=tv-fuerth-1860.de}} and two years later she also became Bavarian champion in the U16 age group.{{cite web|access-date=2022-05-29 |format=PDF |title=Bayerischer Tennis-Verband |url=https://www.btv.de/dam/jcr:e8c1fb4e-fc79-463c-aa46-c157b6b10c20/bt_7_2019_epaper.pdf |website=btv.de}} She won six singles and three doubles titles on the ITF Junior Tour and achieved her highest junior world ranking of 31st on January 31, 2022.
Kuhl has been part of the Porsche Junior Team since 2021 and has also been playing tournaments on the ITF Women's World Tennis Tour since the same year.{{Cite web |date=2021-01-20 |title=DTB nominiert Porsche-Nachwuchsteams für 2021 |url=https://www.dtb-tennis.de/Jugend-und-Leistungssport/Aktuelle-Meldungen/DTB-nominiert-Porsche-Nachwuchsteams-fuer-2021 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210613043943/https://www.dtb-tennis.de/Jugend-und-Leistungssport/Aktuelle-Meldungen/DTB-nominiert-Porsche-Nachwuchsteams-fuer-2021 |archive-date=2021-06-13 |website=Deutscher Tennis Bund |language=de}}{{Cite news |last= |first= |title=DTB nominiert Porsche Nachwuchsteams für 2022 |url=https://www.dtb-tennis.de/Jugend-und-Leistungssport/Aktuelle-Meldungen/DTB-nominiert-Porsche-Nachwuchsteams-fuer-2022 |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20230630014253/https://www.dtb-tennis.de/Jugend-und-Leistungssport/Aktuelle-Meldungen/DTB-nominiert-Porsche-Nachwuchsteams-fuer-2022 |archive-date=2023-06-30 |access-date=2025-02-27 |work=Deutscher Tennis Bund |language=de}}{{Cite news |last=Bund |first=Deutscher Tennis |title=DTB nominiert Porsche Nachwuchsteams für 2023 |url=https://www.dtb-tennis.de/Jugend-und-Leistungssport/Aktuelle-Meldungen/DTB-nominiert-Porsche-Nachwuchsteams-fuer-2023 |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20230630014254/https://www.dtb-tennis.de/Jugend-und-Leistungssport/Aktuelle-Meldungen/DTB-nominiert-Porsche-Nachwuchsteams-fuer-2023 |archive-date=2023-06-30 |access-date=2025-02-27 |work=Deutscher Tennis Bund |language=de}}
In 2022, she reached the quarter-finals of the girls' singles at the Australian Open.{{Cite web |date=2022-01-06 |title=Australian Open: Carolina Kuhl zieht ins Viertelfinale der Juniorinnen ein - Rittner lobt deutsche Nachwuchshoffnung |url=https://www.eurosport.de/tennis/australian-open-carolina-kuhl-zieht-ins-viertelfinale-der-juniorinnen-ein-rittner-lobt-deutsche-nachwuchshoffnung_vid1615752/video.shtml |access-date=2025-02-27 |website=www.eurosport.de}} In April, she won her first ITF doubles title together with Ilinca Amariei. In September, she and her partner Ella Seidel reached the final of the girls' doubles at the 2022 US Open, which they lost 3-6 and 2-6 to Lucie Havlíčková and Diana Schneider.{{Cite news |last=Bund |first=Deutscher Tennis |title=Tennis-Ticker: Deutsches Juniorinnen-Doppel spielt groß auf |url=https://www.dtb-tennis.de/Tennis-International/News/Tennis-Ticker-Deutsches-Juniorinnen-Doppel-spielt-gross-auf |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20230630014253/https://www.dtb-tennis.de/Tennis-International/News/Tennis-Ticker-Deutsches-Juniorinnen-Doppel-spielt-gross-auf |archive-date=2023-06-30 |access-date=2025-02-27 |work=Deutscher Tennis Bund |language=de}}
In 2023, Kuhl celebrated her first ITF singles title in May when she won the tournament in Pörtschach am Wörther See.{{Cite web |date=2023-05-15 |title=Carinthian Ladies Lake's Trophy Pörtschach: Kuhl siegt vor Salden |url=https://www.meinbezirk.at/klagenfurt-land/c-sport/kuhl-siegt-vor-salden_a6048462 |access-date=2025-02-27 |website=MeinBezirk.at |language=de}} At the beginning of June, she won her second singles tournament in Troisdorf,{{Cite news |last=Bund |first=Deutscher Tennis |title=Tennis-Ticker: Starker Erfolg für Carolina Kuhl in Troisdorf |url=https://www.dtb-tennis.de/Tennis-International/News/Tennis-Ticker-Starker-Erfolg-fuer-Carolina-Kuhl-in-Troisdorf |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20230630014254/https://www.dtb-tennis.de/Tennis-International/News/Tennis-Ticker-Starker-Erfolg-fuer-Carolina-Kuhl-in-Troisdorf |archive-date=2023-06-30 |access-date=2025-02-27 |work=Deutscher Tennis Bund |language=de}}{{Cite web |date=2023-06-13 |title=Titel-Ansage von Carolina Kuhl! Deutsches Tennis-Talent lässt aufhorchen |url=https://www.sport1.de/news/tennis/2023/06/titel-ansage-von-carolina-kuhl-deutsches-tennis-talent-lasst-aufhorchen |access-date=2025-02-27 |website=SPORT1 |language=de}} and in the same month she won her third tournament in a row in Gdańsk, Poland.
Tournament wins
= Singles =
| class="wikitable"
!No. !Date !Tournament !Category !Surface !Final opponent !Result |
| 1.
|14 May 2023 |{{Flagicon|Austria}}Pörtschach |ITF W15 |Clay |{{Flagicon|Belgium}} Lara Salden |6:1, 1:6, 6:4 |
| 2.
|4 June 2023 |{{Flagicon|Germany}}Troisdorf |ITF W25 |Clay |{{flagicon |
|3:6, 6:4, 6:4
|-
|3.
|25 June 2023
|{{Flagicon|Poland}} Gdańsk
|ITF W15
|Clay
|{{Flagicon|Poland}} Gina Feistel
|2:6, 6:2, 7:65
|}
= Doubles =
| class="wikitable"
!No. !Date !Tournament !Category !Surface !Partner !Final opponents !Result |
| 1.
|16 April 2022 |{{Flagicon|Egypt}} Cairo |ITF W15 |Clay |{{Flagicon|Romania}} Ilinca Amariei |{{Flagicon|Italy}} Diletta Cherubini |6:2, 2:6, [10:3] |
References
External links
- {{Women's Tennis Association link|330547}}
- {{ITF profile|carolina-kuhl/800520182/ger|Carolina Kuhl}}
- {{cite web|access-date=2022-05-28 |title=Carolina Kuhl |url=https://www.porsche-tennis.com/prod/pag/tennis.nsf/web/german-kuhlcarolina |website=porsche-tennis.com}}
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