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1999 Japan Open Tennis Championships
The 1999 Japan Open Tennis Championships was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at the Ariake Coliseum in Tokyo, Japan that was part of the International Series Gold of the 1999 ATP Tour and of Tier III of the 1999 WTA Tour. The tournament was held from April 12 through April 18, 1999. Nicolas Kiefer and Amy Frazier won the singles titles. Entrants Seeds Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Saori Obata * Shinobu Asagoe The following players received wildcards into the doubles main draw: * Haruka Inoue / Maiko Inoue The following players received entry from the singles qualifying draw: * Katie Schlukebir * Misumi Miyauchi * Cho Yoon-jeong * Hannah Collin The following players received entry as lucky losers: * Wynne Prakusya Finals Men's singles Nicolas Kiefer defeated Wayne Ferreira, 7–6(7–5), 7–5. * It was Kiefer's 1st title of the year and the 3rd of his career. Women's singles Amy Fraz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ATP Championship Series
International Series Gold (previously known as the Championship Series) was a series of professional tennis tournaments held internationally between 2000 and 2008 that were part of the ATP Tour. The tournaments were positioned below the ATP Masters Series, and above the ATP International Series in terms of prize money and ranking points available. International Series Gold tournaments offered players cash prizes (purses from $755,000 to $1,426,250 as of 2008) and the ability to earn ATP ranking points. See Association of Tennis Professionals#Rankings for more details. Effective in 2009, this series of tournaments became the ATP Tour 500, incorporating many of the same tournaments. The "500" represents the number of ATP ranking points earned by the winner of each event in the series. Tournaments The locations and titles of these tournaments may change from year to year. The tournaments, in calendar order, are: Singles champions ATP International Series Gold ATP Championship ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ai Sugiyama
is a Japanese former tennis player. She reached the world No. 1 ranking in women's doubles on the WTA Tour and had a career-high singles ranking of world No. 8, achieved on February 9, 2004. In her career, she won six singles and 38 doubles titles, including three Grand Slam titles (one with Julie Halard-Decugis and two partnering Kim Clijsters), and one Grand Slam mixed doubles title (partnering Mahesh Bhupathi). Sugiyama held the all-time record, for both male and female players, for her 62 consecutive Grand Slam main-draw appearances, until she was surpassed by Roger Federer at the 2015 Wimbledon Championships. Career 1990s In 1993, at age 17, Sugiyama played tennis legend Martina Navratilova in her native city, losing in three sets. The same year, she made her Grand Slam debut at Wimbledon but lost in the first round to world No. 30, Gigi Fernández, in three sets. In 1994, Sugiyama again reached the main draw at Wimbledon but lost to world No. 6 and compatriot, Kimiko ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wynne Prakusya
Wynne Prakusya (born 26 April 1981) is a former tennis player from Indonesia. Her first appearance in a professional tournament occurred in 1996, when she was 14 years old. She formally went professional in 1998. Over her career, she has won two WTA doubles titles, nine ITF singles titles and 17 ITF doubles titles. As a junior, her highest achievements includes reaching the 1998 Australian Open junior finals and the 1998 Wimbledon junior quarterfinals. Her first appearance at a WTA event took place in April 1999 at the Japan Open. The first time she won a match in the WTA Tour was in the 1999 Wismilak International in Kuala Lumpur. In 2000, Prakusya began to attempt qualification for the main draws of major tournaments. She also began to appear primarily at WTA rather than ITF events. Her first win in the main draw of a major came in the 2001 Australian Open, in which she and partner Janet Lee reached round two in the women's doubles. Her first tournament win ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hannah Collin
Hannah Collin (born 18 February 1982) is an English former professional tennis player. Collin competed at her home Grand Slam, Wimbledon, on three consecutive occasions from 2000 to 2002 and also for Great Britain in the Europe/Africa Zone at the 2000 edition of the Fed Cup. Considered to be one of Britain's most promising young players in the 1990s, at a time when British tennis was doing particularly poorly, she reached the quarter-finals of the Wimbledon juniors' tournament, and was the national 14, 16 and 18 year old age group champion. She played her first match on the ITF circuit in 1997 and her final professional match at the Wimbledon qualifying event in 2005. During her career, she reached a total of seven ITF singles finals (winning three) and managed to notch up a victory over former British number one, Sam Smith. She also managed to beat Justine Henin and Kim Clijsters Kim Antonie Lode Clijsters (; born 8 June 1983) is a Belgian former professional tennis pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cho Yoon-jeong
Cho Yoon-jeong ( ko, ì¡°ìœ¤ì •, born 2 April 1979) is a retired South Korean tennis player. In her career, she won one doubles title on the WTA Tour, at Seoul in 2004. Her best Grand Slam performance came when she made the third round of the 2005 US Open by defeating Arantxa Parra Santonja in three sets in the first round, upsetting the 27th seed Gisela Dulko in the second round, before she fell to No. 7, Justine Henin. She reached career-high WTA rankings The WTA rankings are the ratings defined by the Women's Tennis Association, introduced in November 1975. Iga ÅšwiÄ…tek is the current world No. 1. Ranking method The WTA rankings are based on a rolling 52-week, cumulative system. A play ... of No. 45 in singles (in July 2003), and No. 98 in doubles (in September 2003). Yoon-jeong retired from professional tennis in 2008. WTA career finals Singles: 3 (3 runner-ups) Doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up) ITF Circuit finals Singles: 13 (5–8) Doubles: 16 (10â ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Misumi Miyauchi
is a former professional tennis player from Japan. Biography Born in Ibaraki, Miyauchi played on the professional tour in the 1990s and had a best ranking of 115 in the world. Miyauchi partnered with Ai Sugiyama in the women's doubles at the 1993 Australian Open and featured in the women's singles main draw at the 1993 French Open The 1993 French Open was a tennis tournament that took place on the outdoor clay courts at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France. The tournament was held from 24 May until 6 June. It was the 97th staging of the French Open, and the second Gran .... She was a two-time quarter-finalist at the Asian Open, a WTA Tour tournament in Osaka, as well as reaching the quarter-finals of the 1991 Pattaya Open and 1994 Salem Open-Beijing. Her ITF titles include the $50,000 Gifu tournament in 1998. ITF finals Singles (3–3) Doubles (1–2) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Miyauchi, Misumi 1971 births Living people Japanese female ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katie Schlukebir
Katrina "Katie" Schlukebir (born April 29, 1975) is a former professional tennis player from the United States. Biography Schlukebir was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, to insurance agent John and tennis instructor Kathy. On her father's side she is of German and Dutch descent. She is the eldest of three daughters. Her youngest sister, Kristen, also became a professional tennis player. The middle sister, Karie, played tennis at Indiana University, before her death from cancer in 2010. A right-handed player, Schlukebir started out in tennis aged four, introduced to the sport by her mother. She was runner-up in the girls' doubles event at the 1992 US Open, with partner Julie Steven. Later she played on the collegiate team at Stanford University and in 1997 was a member of the championship winning side. Individually she was a four-time All-American and in the championship year of 1997 won Stanford's award for both "Sophomore Athlete of the Year" and "Woman of the Year". She graduated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maiko Inoue
is a Japanese former professional tennis player. She is a younger sister of Haruka Inoue. A right-handed player, Inoue began competing on the professional tour in the late 1990s. She left the tour in 2003, before returning in 2007 and featuring as a doubles specialist. During her career she was most successful in doubles, with a best ranking of 139. She made several WTA Tour The WTA Tour is a worldwide top-tier tennis tour for women organized by the Women's Tennis Association. The second-tier tour is the WTA 125K series, and third-tier is the ITF Women's Circuit. The men's equivalent is the ATP Tour. WTA Tour tou ... main draw appearances in doubles and won nine doubles titles on the ITF circuit. As a singles player she was ranked as high as 299 in the world, winning two ITF titles. Inoue, who retired in 2012, is married to former tennis player Bumpei Sato. ITF finals Singles (2–2) Doubles (9–11) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Inoue, Maiko ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haruka Inoue
is a former professional tennis player from Japan. Biography Early life Inoue was born in Tokyo on 7 June 1977. A right-handed baseline player, she started tennis aged nine and was coached by her father Gou. Her younger sisters, Maiko and Akari, also played on the professional tennis circuit. She had her best year as a junior in 1995 when she was a girls' singles quarter-finalist at the Australian Open and semi-finalist at the Wimbledon Championships. Professional career In 1996 she graduated from high school and began competing on the professional tour. Her earliest success on the WTA Tour came at the Wismilak International in Surabaya, where he made the quarter-finals in both 1996 and 1997. She qualified for her first Grand Slam tournament at the 1997 Wimbledon Championships and was beaten by seventh seed Anke Huber Anke Huber (born 4 December 1974) is a German retired top-five professional tennis player. She was the runner-up in women's singles at the 1996 Australian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shinobu Asagoe
is a Japanese former tennis player. She turned professional in 1997, and retired in 2006. Career 2000 was the first year in which she finished in the WTA top 100 (No. 72). At the US Open that year, she defeated Patty Schnyder, a top-50 player. She also reached her first WTA Tour quarterfinal that year at the Princess Cup at Tokyo, defeating Ai Sugiyama and losing to Monica Seles. She also represented Japan at the Sydney Olympics. In 2003, she reached her first WTA singles final. In 2004, she reached her second career singles final in Hobart, as well as her first Grand Slam quarterfinal at the US Open. In April 2005, Asagoe reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 21. In May of the following year, she reached her career-high doubles ranking (13th). Asagoe appeared in one WTA Tour final, in Auckland 2003, where she lost to Katarina Srebotnik in three sets. Asagoe held a 4–0 lead in the second set when Srebotnik took an injury timeout. From there, Strebotnik play ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saori Obata
, Obata Saori, born 23 April 1978 is a retired female tennis player from Japan. She turned professional in April 1996, and in February 2004, she achieved her career-high singles ranking of 39, and on the same day she reached her career-high doubles ranking of 98. Biography She did not win a singles title on WTA Tour in her career, however did reach one singles final in Tashkent in 2003 where she lost in two sets to Virginia Ruano Pascual. In the same year, she reached the semifinals of the WTA event in Bali, Indonesia, before losing to Chanda Rubin. Early career Having had moderate success on the ITF junior circuit – reaching a career high ranking of 55 – Obata made her WTA-level professional debut in 1996, at the age of 18, at the Tier IV WTA event at Surabaya, where she lost 6–1 6–3 to Hila Rosen in qualifying. However, she subsequently qualified for Tier IV events in Beijing and Pattaya, and played a number of Asian WTA events in the subsequent two years. However, h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wang Shi-ting
Wang Shi-Ting (; born 19 October 1973) is a retired tennis player from Taiwan. She turned professional in 1991. In her career, she won six singles titles on the WTA Tour. She played 49 times over 11 years for Chinese Taipei Fed Cup team The Chinese Taipei Fed Cup team represents the Republic of China in Fed Cup tennis competition and are governed by the Chinese Taipei Tennis Association. They currently compete in the World Group II play-offs. History Chinese Taipei competed i ..., earning a 51–25 overall record and setting many team records. Wang retired from the tour in 2000. Since 2006, she has been the captain of the Chinese Taipei Fed Cup team. WTA career finals Singles: 7 (6 titles, 1 runner-up) Doubles: 3 (3 runner-ups) ITF finals Singles (8–1) Doubles (1–1) External links * * * 1973 births Living people Olympic tennis players for Taiwan Taiwanese female tennis players Tennis players at the 1996 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Tainan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
