Angelique Kerber

Angelique Kerber is one of those athletes I admire more the longer I think about her career. Reaching world No. 1 is hard enough, but holding it for 34 weeks and finishing 2016 as the year-end top-ranked woman shows real consistency, not a fluke run. What impresses me most is that her three majors came on completely different surfaces: the Australian Open and US Open hard courts in 2016, then Wimbledon's grass in 2018. That kind of range is rare. Being from Bremen rather than a traditional tennis powerhouse makes her climb feel even more self-made to me. A grinder who turned defense into a weapon.

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Name (English)

Angelique Kerber

Name (Japanese)

アンゲリク・ケルバー

Reading

あんげりく・けるばー

Born

January 18, 1988 (age 38)

Origin

Bremen, Germany

Height

173 cm

Occupation

tennis player / athlete

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Dragon

• Official sitehttps://www.angelique-kerber.de/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/angie.kerber/
• Xhttps://x.com/AngeliqueKerber
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelique%20Kerber
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B2%E3%83%AA%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B1%E3%83%AB%E3%83%90%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q77178

Tags

• Bremen
• tennis player
• athlete

Last updated

September 18, 2026

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.