Carina Witthöft (also spelled Witthoeft; born 16 February 1995) is a German former professional tennis player. She won one singles title on the WTA Tour whereas on the ITF Women's Circuit, she won eleven singles titles and one doubles title. On 8 January 2018, she reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 48.

Career Witthöft made her WTA Tour debut at the 2012 Swedish Open. Having defeated Marina Shamayko, Akgul Amanmuradova and Jill Craybas to qualify, she lost in the first round of the main draw against Kateryna Bondarenko.

She won her first WTA title at the 2017 Luxembourg Open, defeating Monica Puig in straight sets in the final.

She was coached by Torben Beltz and then by Philip Lang.

2018 Witthöft started the season at the Brisbane International where she lost in the first round to Aleksandra Krunić. Despite being defeated in the final round of qualifying at the Sydney International by Camila Giorgi, Witthöft entered the main draw as a lucky loser. She lost in the first round to Australian wildcard Sam Stosur. At the Australian Open, Witthöft was defeated in the first round by eighth seed Caroline Garcia.

In Doha at the Qatar Open, she lost in the second round to top seed Caroline Wozniacki.

2019 Witthöft played her last professional match at the Australian Open qualifying, where she lost in the first round.

Singles performance timeline

Tournament201120122013201420152016201720182019SRW–LGrand Slam tournaments Australian OpenAAA1R3R1R2R1RQ10 / 53–5 French OpenAAQ2Q32R1R3R1RA0 / 43–4 WimbledonAA1RQ21R3R3R1RA0 / 54–5 US OpenAAQ1Q31R3R1R2RA0 / 43–4Win–loss0–00–00–10–13–44–45–41–40–00 / 1813–18Premier Mandatory tournamentsIndian Wells OpenAAAAA2RQ11RA0 / 21–2Miami OpenQ1AAAQ12R2R3RA0 / 34–3China OpenAAAA1RA1RAA0 / 20–2Premier 5 tournamentsQatar OpenNTIAAANTIANTI2RNTI0 / 11–1Canadian OpenAAAA3RAAAA0 / 12–1Cincinnati OpenAAAAQ1Q1Q2AA0 / 00–0Wuhan Opennot heldAAAQ2AA0 / 00–0Career statisticsTournaments012118151518070Titles / Finals0 / 00 / 00 / 00 / 00 / 00 / 01 / 10 / 00 / 01 / 1Hard win–loss0–00–00–00–17–96–812–74–90–029–34Clay win–loss0–00–10–10–05–72–56–50–60–013–25Grass win–loss0–00–00–10–00–22–24–21–30–07–10Overall win–loss0–00–10–20–112–1810–1522–145–180–049–69Year-end ranking405223210104658651172–42%

WTA career finals Singles: 1 (1 title) LegendGrand Slam tournaments Premier M & Premier 5 Premier International (1–0)Finals by surfaceHard (1–0)Clay (0–0)Grass (0–0)Carpet (0–0) ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScoreWin 1–0 Luxembourg Open International Hard (i) Monica Puig 6–3, 7–5

ITF Circuit finals Singles: 20 (11 titles, 9 runner–ups) Legend $100,000 tournaments (1–1) $75,000 tournaments (0–1) $50,000 tournaments (3–0) $25,000 tournaments (6–5) $10,000 tournaments (1–2)Finals by surfaceHard (3–2)Clay (7–7)Grass (0–0)Carpet (1–0) ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScoreWin 1–0 ITF Zell am Harmersbach, Germany10,000 Clay Vanessa Henke 4–6, 6–3, 6–4Loss 1–1 ITF Horb, Germany10,000 Clay Paula Kania 6–4, 4–6, 5–7Win 2–1 ITF Ystad, Sweden25,000 Clay Valeria Solovyeva 6–2, 6–1Win 3–1 ITF Wrexham, United Kingdom25,000 Hard Donna Vekić 6–2, 6–7(4–7), 6–2Loss 3–2 ITF Bad Saulgau, Germany25,000 Clay Mervana Jugić-Salkić 2–6, 4–6Loss 3–3 ITF Sutton, United Kingdom10,000 Hard (i) Stephanie Vogt 6–3, 4–6, 3–6Win 4–3 ITF Hechingen, Germany25,000 Clay Laura Thorpe 6–1, 6–4Loss 4–4 ITF Alphen a/d Rijn, Netherlands25,000 Clay Arantxa Rus 6–4, 2–6, 2–6Loss 4–5 ITF Stuttgart, Germany25,000 Clay Mariana Duque 7–5, 2–6, 2–6Loss 4–6 ITF Aschaffenburg, Germany25,000 Clay Lesley Kerkhove 5–7, 3–6Win 5–6 ITF Hechingen, Germany 25,000 Clay Laura Siegemund 4–6, 6–4, 6–3Win 6–6 ITF Barnstaple, United Kingdom25,000 Hard (i) Viktorija Golubic 6–2, 6–4Win 7–6 ITF Saint-Malo, France50,000 Clay Alberta Brianti 6–0, 6–1Loss 7–7 ITF Shrewsbury, United Kingdom25,000 Hard (i) Océane Dodin 4–6, 3–6Win 8–7 ITF Joué-lès-Tours, France50,000 Hard (i) Urszula Radwańska 6–3, 7–6(8–6)Win 9–7 ITF Altenkirchen, Germany25,000 Carpet (i) Antonia Lottner 6–3, 6–4Win 10–7 ITF Cagnes-sur-Mer, France100,000 Clay Tatjana Maria 7–5, 6–1Win 11–7 ITF Versmold, Germany50,000 Clay Johanna Larsson 6–3, 6–3Loss 11–8 ITF Cagnes-sur-Mer, France100,000 Clay Magda Linette 3–6, 5–7Loss 11–9 ITF Prague, Czech Republic75,000 Clay Antonia Lottner 6–7(6–8), 6–1, 5–7

Doubles: 1 (1 title) ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreWin 1–0 ITF Barnstaple, United Kingdom25,000 Hard (i) Alizé Lim Viktorija Golubic Diāna Marcinkēviča 6–2, 6–1

Record against top 10 players Witthöft's match record against players who have been ranked in the top 10.

Julia Görges 2–0 CoCo Vandeweghe 2–0 Kiki Bertens 2–2 Belinda Bencic 1–0 Ons Jabeur 1–0 Jeļena Ostapenko 1–0 Aryna Sabalenka 1–0 Francesca Schiavone 1–0 Nicole Vaidišová 1–0 Kimiko Date 1–1 Carla Suárez Navarro 1–1 Karolína Muchová 1–1 Timea Bacsinszky 0–1 Eugenie Bouchard 0–1 Dominika Cibulková 0–1 Sara Errani 0–1 Beatriz Haddad Maia 0–1 Ana Ivanovic 0–1 Jelena Janković 0–1 Barbora Krejčíková 0–1 Andrea Petkovic 0–1 Karolína Plíšková 0–1 Agnieszka Radwańska 0–1 Lucie Šafářová 0–1 Sloane Stephens 0–1 Samantha Stosur 0–1 Elina Svitolina 0–1 Roberta Vinci 0–1 Serena Williams 0–1 Svetlana Kuznetsova 0–2 Garbiñe Muguruza 0–2 Markéta Vondroušová 0–2 Caroline Wozniacki 0–2 Caroline Garcia 0–3 Angelique Kerber 0–3 Anett Kontaveit 0–3

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