Background
Kschwendt was born in Switzerland, to Austrian parents Heinz and Edith, but grew up in Luxembourg, where she lived for 28 years.
Kschwendt was born in Switzerland, to Austrian parents Heinz and Edith, but grew up in Luxembourg, where she lived for 28 years.
She reached her career high ranking of world Number. 37 on August 12, 1996. In doubles, she went as high as Number.
45 on February 16, 1996.
In 1991, she reached the third round of the Australian Open, a result that broke her into the top 100, and finished the year at Number. 88, but soon left in early 1992 after a lengthy break with injury.
She came back stronger and managed to finish 1992 as the Number. 78 in the world. The following year, she reached the third round of a major once more, this time at the French Open, but fell to Iva Majoli.
She finished that year at Number.
47, but went as high as Number. 37 in August. In 1997, she played her only match for the Austria Federation Cup team, losing her doubles match against Croatia. Her last few years on Tour were mostly spent playing on the International Tennis Federation Women"s Circuit and qualifications of Women's Tennis Association events.
In 2000, she played her last professional match.
Singles = Finalist (1) Doubles 1990: Palermo, Italy (w/Laura Garrone) 1990: Athens, Greece (w/Laura Garrone) 1992: Prague, Czechoslovakian Republic (w/Petra Schwarz) 1993: Palermo, Italy (w/Natalia Medvedeva) 1993: Hong Kong (w/Rachel McQuillan) 1995: San Juan, Puerto Rico (w/Rene Simpson) = Finalist (2) 1998: Makarska, Croatia (w/Evgenia Kulikovskaya) 1998: Warsaw, Poland (w/Liezel Horn).
Kschwendt made her professional debut in 1986, where she played for Luxembourg during a Federation Cup tie. She continued to represent Luxembourg in the early part of her career, and in 1990 became the first female player from her country to reach the third round of a Grand Slam, a feat that she achieved at Wimbledon, before she lost to Martina Navratilova. Kschwendt began to achieve solid results in 1993. Now playing for Germany, she reached the semifinals of Auckland, the quarterfinals of Paris, and made her first and only Women's Tennis Association Tour final at an event in Belgium (she lost to Radka Bobková). 1996 saw Kschwendt put together her best season, reaching the third round of the Australian Open and achieving consistent results in Women's Tennis Association Tour events. = Win (6).
