Education
She completed her training as a government inspector at the Saarland Ministry of Justice before turning professional in 2005.
She completed her training as a government inspector at the Saarland Ministry of Justice before turning professional in 2005.
On 9 May 2011, she reached her best singles ranking of world number 57. On 20 February 2012, she peaked at world number 55 in the doubles rankings. Barrois began playing tennis at the age of 9 in 1991 when she took the sport up herself and began to play at a tennis club
Barrois was trained by Patrick Schmidt, but is now trained by Andreas Spaniol, and her stamina-trainer is the football player Bernd Franke.
She played in the German Federation Cup team in 2006, losing her singles match to Li Na, and also losing her doubles match. She also qualified for the main draws of the Wimbledon Championships and the United States Open.
At Wimbledon, she lost to Shenay Perry. At the United States Open, she lost to the world number one Amélie Mauresmo.
In 2009 she started off well as she qualified for Auckland but lost to up-and-coming Russian teenager Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova.
She then fell in the qualifying round of the Hobart event to British player Melanie South. She also reached the first round of the Australian Open, where she pushed the number-four seeded Russian, Elena Dementieva, but eventually lost in three sets. In February she reached the second round in Memphis, but fell short against former world number 30 Michaëlla Krajicek.
In March, she played an International Tennis Federation event where she lost in the quarterfinals to British player Katie O"Brien.
She did extremely well at the premier mandatory event in Indian Wells, where she beat French star Alizé Cornet in the second round. She lost, however, to Hungarian Ágnes Szávay in the next round.
She reached the second round of the French Open, where Victoria Azarenka beat her and the United States Open, where she lost to Dinara Safina. In 2010, she reached the second round on the Australian Open, losing to Samantha Stosur.
She reached the second round of Wimbledon, being knocked out by Justine Henin.
In 2011, she reached the second round of the Australian Open, this time losing to Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova. After losing to Lucie Hradecká at the Luxembourg Open in October 2014, Barrois announced her retirement from professional tennis. Singles (0–2)
Doubles (1–3)
Singles
Doubles.