Ella Luise Seidel (born 14 February 2005) is a German professional
tennis
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player.
She has a career-high
WTA singles ranking of world No. 109, achieved on 9 June 2025, and a best doubles ranking of No. 190, attained on 23 September 2024.
Junior career
Seidel was born in
Hamburg
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, Germany and attended the Sportgymnasium Alter Teichweg school there, where she was able to graduate high school two years early at the age of 17, allowing her to focus on her tennis career. She also spent time training in
Kühlungsborn, a Baltic Sea resort town where her parents owned a holiday home in.
Professional career
2022: WTA doubles debut
Seidel made her WTA main draw debut at the
2022 Hamburg European Open in the doubles draw partnering with
Nastasja Schunk, winning her first round match against
Elixane Lechemia
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She has career-high WTA rankings of No. 343 in singles, achieved on 3 April 2017, and of No. 65 in doubles, set on 7 March 2022. Lechemia has won one doubles title on the WTA T ...
and
Sabrina Santamaria
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College career ...
.
2023: WTA singles and top 200 debut
In singles, she made her main-draw debut as a wildcard at the WTA 250
2023 Hamburg European Open, losing to compatriot
Jule Niemeier
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Career 2018–2019: WTA debut
She made her WTA Tour main-draw debut as a wildcar ...
in the first round.
2024: Grand Slam debut
Ranked No. 172, she made her Grand Slam debut at the
2024 Australian Open on her first attempt of qualifying at any Major, where she lost to world No. 2 and eventual champion
Aryna Sabalenka
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in the first round.
Ranked No. 124 at the WTA 500
2024 Ningbo Open, she entered the main draw as lucky loser and defeated fellow lucky loser
Kathinka von Deichmann before losing to
Yulia Putintseva
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Puti ...
. She also entered the main draw of the
2024 Guangzhou Open as a lucky loser but lost for a second time to fellow qualifier
Mananchaya Sawangkaew, having also previously lost to her in the last round of qualifying.
Performance timelines
Only WTA Tour (incl. Grand Slams) main-draw results are considered in the career statistics.
Singles
''Current through the
2025 French Open.''
Doubles
''Current through the
2025 Stuttgart Open.''
ITF Circuit finals
Singles: 7 (5 titles, 2 runner–ups)
Doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner–up)
Junior Grand Slam tournament finals
Doubles: 1 (runner-up)
References
External links
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2005 births
Living people
German female tennis players
Tennis players from Hamburg
21st-century German sportswomen