<P> Bartoli was seeded 11th at the Australian Open . She reached the third round, where she was defeated by the 19th seed Ekaterina Makarova . At the Open GDF Suez in Paris, Bartoli reached the quarterfinals, where she was defeated by German and eventual champion Mona Barthel . Bartoli entered her first tournament without her father acting as her coach at the Qatar Total Open, where she was seeded ninth . She lost to Svetlana Kuznetsova in the second round . </P> <P> At the French Open Bartoli was seeded 13th . She defeated Olga Govortsova in the first round, qualifier Mariana Duque Marino in the second, but lost to Francesca Schiavone in the third . </P> <P> At Wimbledon Bartoli was seeded 15th . She defeated Elina Svitolina in the first round, Christina McHale in the second, Camila Giorgi in the third, and Karin Knapp in the fourth . In the quarterfinals she defeated 17th seed Sloane Stephens, which was her first quarterfinal victory of any WTA Tour or Grand Slam event in 2013 . In the semifinals she beat 20th seed Kirsten Flipkens to reach her second Wimbledon final . In the final she faced 23rd seed Sabine Lisicki, who had beaten pre-tournament favorite Serena Williams and 2012 finalist Agnieszka Radwańska en route to the final . Bartoli won the match in straight sets for her first and only Grand Slam title . She did not drop a set in the entire tournament . She also became the female player who participated in the most Grand Slam tournaments before winning one, as this was her 47th such tournament (breaking the previous perseverance record held by Jana Novotná, at 45). Bartoli also competed in the mixed doubles alongside Nicholas Monroe . They lost in the first round to Santiago González and Natalie Grandin . </P> <P> Bartoli announced her immediate retirement from tennis during the Western & Southern Open, citing continuous and increasingly unbearable pain from injuries sustained throughout her career . At an emotional press conference, just 40 days after her Wimbledon victory, she said "I made my dream a reality and it will stay forever with me, but now my body just can't cope with everything . "I have pain everywhere after 45 minutes or an hour of play ." </P>

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