Date of Birth: 
Place of Birth: Halle, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
About Jana Kandarr
- Jana Kandarr (born 21 September 1976 in Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, East Germany) is a German former professional tennis player.
- Kandarr is notable for playing with her right hand, even though she is left-handed. Kandarr moved with her parents from Halle to Karlsruhe after the German reunification.
- Her mother Petra Vogt was Sports Person of the Year in the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) in 1969.
- Jana Kandarr was practicing for some years in Unterhaching before she went professional in 1994. The biggest success of her 10-year-long career was her participation in the Australian Open in 2000, where she made the final sixteen, coming through the qualifying tournament and winning six three-set matches in a row before being forced to retire against ninth seed Julie Halard-Decugis.
- Also in 2000, she reached the last sixteen at the Sydney Olympics, losing to the second seed and eventual winner Venus Williams.
- By the end of the year, Kandarr was ranked as the No.
- 1 German player overall. The furthest Kandarr advanced at a WTA tournament was the semifinals of Palermo in 1996 and Estoril in 2001.
- She reached her highest placing in the world ranking on 11 June 2001 - after a victory against world No.
- 5 Amélie Mauresmo in the first round of the French Open.
- After the tournament she was listed as 43rd. Kandarr ended her professional career in 2005.
- Although she still plays competitive tennis occasionally in the women's tennis Bundesliga for TC 1899 Blau-Weiss Berlin. Having stopped school in 1996 to play tennis, she only graduated in 2000.
- From the winter semester of 2002/03, she has been studying geoscience and biology at the Humboldt University of Berlin, while living in Berlin-Kreuzberg.
- Her hobbies are horse riding, reading and going to the theater.
Read more at Wikipedia