page_title: Mandy Minella
section_title: 2014: Injuries and inconsistency
hierarchical_section_title: Mandy Minella / Tennis career / 2014: Injuries and inconsistency
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Mandy Minella ITF Cagnes-sur-Mer 2014
context_page_description: Mandy Minella is a professional tennis player from Luxembourg. Having made her debut on the WTA tour in 2001, she peaked at No. 66 in the singles WTA rankings in September, 2012 and No. 47 in doubles rankings in April, 2013.
  Minella has won two doubles titles on the WTA Tour, as well as one singles title and three doubles events of the WTA 125K series. She has also won 16 singles titles and nine doubles titles on the ITF Circuit.
  Minella was coached by Norbert Palmier from May 2008 until 2011. She is coached by Tim Sommer, her husband since October 2014.
context_section_description: In 2014, Minella started the year at the Brisbane International where she lost to Heather Watson in the first round of qualifying, but reached the semifinals in the doubles event partnering Chanelle Scheepers. Then, at the Apia International Sydney, Minella suffered a second successive qualifying loss at the first qualifying stage, this time at the hands of Ukrainian Lesia Tsurenko.
  Minella scored her first win of the season at the Australian Open where she defeated German qualifier Carina Witthöft in straight sets, scoring her first win at a Grand Slam championship outside of the US Open, but her run was not to go further as she fell in the second round to 29th seed Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova.
  Minella then was forced to withdraw from events in Paris, Rio and Acapulco, as well as the Fed Cup due to an edema in her right arm, in which she had experienced pain whilst playing in Australia. She made her comeback at the BNP Paribas Open, losing to Allie Klick in the first round of qualifying. She lost again at the first qualifying stage a fortnight later in Miami.
  Minella had to take a couple of weeks off again due to the edema in her right arm and hoped to be back in Marrakech for the Grand Prix SAR La Princesse Lalla Meryem, but sat out a further week before playing at the $25k Wiesbaden Tennis Open in Germany, losing in the first round of singles, but making the final in doubles with Julia Glushko. The pair lost in straight sets to Viktorija Golubic and Diāna Marcinkēviča.
  Minella encountered further first round loses at Cagnes-sur-Mer, Prague, the French Open and Marseille. She then won the $25k in Essen defeating Richèl Hogenkamp in the final. Although the success on clay did not translate to success on grass as she encountered another first-round loss in qualifying at Wimbledon to Shelby Rogers. Minella then went on to have success on the ITF Circuit reaching the semifinals of a $25k event in Stuttgart, reaching the quarterfinals at the Lorraine Open 88 and the semifinals at the Open GDF Suez de Biarritz.
  After having success on the ITF Circuit, the success did not translate towards the WTA Tour, suffering first-round losses at the İstanbul Cup and the Jiangxi International Women's Tennis Open. Minella then went to play the US Open suffering a first round lose to Kateryna Kozlova in the first qualifying round. She had scheduled to play doubles at the US Open with Camila Giorgi, but later withdrew.
  Minella started her Asian tour at the Tashkent Open where she was defending semifinal points but she failed to do so, losing in the first round to Donna Vekić. The next stop in her Asian tour was at Seoul where she qualified for the main draw, defeating Choi Ji-hee, Hong Seung-yeon and Hsu Chieh-yu all in straight sets. In the main draw, she drew Belgian Yanina Wickmayer, but unfortunately lost. In the doubles event she partnered German Mona Barthel, where they reached the final, losing to Lara Arruabarrena and Irina-Camelia Begu.
  Minella then continued to lose in qualifying rounds in Beijing and Linz, but continued her success with Barthel in the doubles competition in Wuhan, Beijing and Linz winning a round in each. Minella's year ended in her home tournament in Luxembourg where she faced Barthel in the first round but lost in straight sets. Minella stated that her edema in the right arm obtained in January had still been hurting her, finishing the year in October.
caption: Minella at Cagnes-sur-Mer
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