making her mark she nearly broke into the world's top ten this year and alexander ferez is already there on the men's side here's more on the stars of german tennis . for you here twenty seven thousand was a tennis year to remember she even received praise from idol steffi graf after becoming germany's number one female player following a slow start to the year this one two titles the first silverware since twenty eleven. i think a hit was an eventful year for me and there were some close defeats and some very big ones i lost games at the french open and wimbledon despite having match point but i came away stronger i want to tournaments it's great when you can achieve that after such a long season. has had just a ten day break before she was back on court in germany preparing for the new tennis year her aim to get back in the a top ten to do that she's changed her game and worked on her stamina the twenty nine year old has become a role model for young a player as we're going to do and i believe that we have a good strong generation we have several players in the top one hundred so you c