WTA: Görges and the top ten:”There’s a tear in your eye.”

Julia Görges also proved her strong form impressively in her debut match as a top ten player. The world ranking yearned to defeat Czech Lucie Safarova in Doha – and has adopted the motto of biathlon heroine Laura Dahlmeier:”Shit, nothing, then feid da nix”.

From Ulrike Weinrich from Doha

Of course Julia Görges watched biathlon again in these Olympic days. The sport that fascinates her so much because it is a balancing act between two extremes: first running up to the maximum – and then coming down to follow the policy of a steady hand at the shooting range. Görges saw Laura Dahlmeier take two gold medals in Pyeongchang. And she always has to laugh about this one sentence, which the double Olympic champion likes to say:”Don’t shit there, then don’t feid there”. If you don’t think anything, nothing will happen to you. Dahlmeier even had that spell written on her gun.

Whether Görges has the cool motto engraved on her racket? More unlikely. But at the moment it doesn’t seem as if the 29-year-old needs a leitmotif. Too stable and constantly strong,”Jule” has a strong effect in these rosy times. This does not mean that she doesn’t appreciate the beautiful side effects of her hard-earned success.

About a week ago, after their semi-final outing in St. Gallen. Petersburg, she traced her first jump into the top ten at the airport. It was fitting that the plane home was late. Even the higher powers seem to be comfortable with the Auckland winner at the moment. So Görges at the airport, together with her physio and fitness coach Florian “Flo” Zitzelsberger, watched the Czech Petra Kvitova’s victory in the tsarist city, who moved the woman from Regensburg to tenth place in the world rankings.

“When the match ball was over, it was a special moment when you have tears in your eyes and have to pinch yourself,”revealed Görges in a tennisnet interview in Doha. In the minutes of perfect happiness, she also thought of the many setbacks:”I’ve been through a lot in my career. The emotions were boiling up once again when the official world ranking list appeared on Monday:” Black on white was written there: 10. Julia Görges. It is now officially part of the Beletage – a fixed star in the huge tennis universe.

“I think the top ten are the biggest milestone,”said the Porsche ambassador. Knowing that their push has even reduced public pressure a little, I can now put a hook on the topic of’ first ten’. And now I concentrate again on what I want to do: to develop myself further” Görges speaks clearly and goal-oriented when she says so. A verbal attack on the Top 5 – or even the Top 3? Not with her, the realist with the dry humor, who doesn’t like brash sayings at all.

The power player from Bad Oldesloe has been in the WTA-Tour travelling circus long enough to know how fast-moving the business is “It’s now all about establishing herself up there and continuing to work hard. But it’s not always just a number that counts” And yet Görges is allowed to pat himself on the back. Their courage was rewarded. By the end of 2015, she had moved from the north to Bavaria and had completely replaced her staff. This is simply a completely different jule than in the past,”said Görges last year when she won two titles (Zhuhai and Moscow) – and what many forgot: three more finals.

For the first time since September 1997 and thus for 244 months now, two German players are in the top ten in Görges and Angelique Kerber (9th). And the tennis year 2018 could be a very special one. Görges confirmed on the fringes of the tournament in Doha, where she will meet Barbora Strycova of the Czech Republic on Wednesday in the second round, that she will return to the Fed Cup team for the semi-finals against Czech Republic (21/22). Yes, I’m definitely in,”said the 29-year-old. Görges had paused in the opening match of the DTB team against hosts Belarus in Minsk (3-2) as well as Kerber.

Without their two stars, who had always been available for the German team in the past few years, the team of the new captain Jens Gerlach managed the big surprise in the duel with last year’s finalist:”The girls did incredible things,”Görges praised her colleagues Tatjana Maria, Anna-Lena Grönefeld, Antonia Lottner and Anna-Lena Friedsam.

In Doha, however, Görges wants to extend its successful series. And watch some biathlon on TV once in a while. Speaking of which: She still has a voucher from Fritz Fischer, which entitles her to go to the cross-country ski run and the shooting range herself.”I will do that after my career,”Görges announced with beaming eyes:”And I’m already looking forward to this experience”. I’ll bet her motto will be,”Fuck nothing, then fuck off.”