Angelique Kerber, born in 1988 in Bremen and raised in Kiel, has been active in professional tennis since 2003. The former Number One of the Tennis World Ranking is a three-time Grand Slam winner and, apart from the Australian and the US Open, also won the silver medal at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in 2016. In 2018, she celebrated the greatest success of her career on the ‘holy lawn’ in Wimbledon, after struggling with sports setbacks in 2017. Kerber is a UNICEF ambassador and has received multiple awards, including Sportswoman of the Year and the Silver Laurel Leaf, the highest state award in sports. At the end of 2022, she announced that she was taking a break from her sport due to her pregnancy.