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1999 Sanex Trophy
The 1999 Sanex Trophy was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts in Knokke-Heist, Belgium that was part of the Tier IVa category of the 1999 WTA Tour. It was the inaugural edition of the tournament and was held from 2 August until 8 August 1999. Fourth-seeded María Sánchez Lorenzo won the singles title and earned $16,000 first-prize money. Entrants Seeds Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Michelle Gerards * Marta Marrero The following players received wildcards into the doubles main draw: * Kim Clijsters / Justine Henin The following players received entry from the singles qualifying draw: * Angelika Bachmann * Mariam Ramon Climent * Anastasia Myskina * Antonella Serra Zanetti The following players received entry from the doubles qualifying draw: * Petra Begerow / Antonella Serra Zanetti * Hannah Collin / Marta Marrero Finals Singles María Sánchez Lorenzo defeated Denisa Chl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WTA Tier IV Tournaments
The WTA Tier IV tournaments were Women's Tennis Association fourth-level tournaments held from 1990 until the end of the 2008 season. The line-up of events varied over the years, with tournaments being promoted, demoted or cancelled. Some of the tournaments became Tier V events between 1990 and 1992, and later from 2001 to 2005, before being integrated back into Tier IV. From 2009 WTA Tour, WTA changed the tournament categories, so that most of the Tier III and Tier IV tournaments from 2008 were in one category, WTA International tournaments The WTA International Tournaments was a category for professional tennis tournaments of the Women's Tennis Association from the 2009 WTA Tour until 2020, which replaced the previous Tier III and Tier IV categories. The winner of a WTA Internatio .... Events References External links {{WTA Tier IV tournaments * Tier 4 Recurring sporting events disestablished in 2008 Recurring sporting events established in 1990 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wild Card (sports)
A wild card (also wildcard or wild-card and also known as an at-large berth or at-large bid) is a tournament or playoff berth awarded to an individual or team that fails to qualify in the normal way; for example, by having a high ranking or winning a qualifying stage. In some events, wildcards are chosen freely by the organizers. Other events have fixed rules. Some North American professional sports leagues compare the records of teams which did not qualify directly by winning a division or conference. International sports In international sports, the term is perhaps best known in reference to two sporting traditions: team wildcards distributed among countries at the Olympic Games and individual wildcards given to some tennis players at every professional tournament (both smaller events and the major ones such as Wimbledon). Tennis players may even ask for a wildcard and get one if they want to enter a tournament on short notice. In Olympics, countries that fail to produce athlet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evgenia Koulikovskaya
Evgenia Kulikovskaya (Russian: Евгения Куликовская; born 21 December 1978) is a former professional tennis player from Russia. She reached her highest singles ranking of No. 91 in June 2003. She had more success in doubles, winning four doubles titles on the 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 tourna ... and reaching the top 50. A rarity among tennis players, Kulikovskaya is ambidextrous; she played with two forehands and no backhand, switching her racket hand depending on where the ball was coming from. WTA career finals Doubles: 10 (4 titles, 6 runner-ups) ITF Circuit finals Singles: 14 (8–6) Doubles: 24 (12–12) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Kulikovskaya, Evgenia 1978 births Living people Tennis players from Mosc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denisa Chládková
Denisa Chládková (born 8 February 1979) is a former professional tennis player from the Czech Republic. Life and career Chládková did not win any WTA Tour titles, but she is probably best remembered for reaching the Wimbledon quarterfinals in 1997 Wimbledon Championships, 1997, playing in only her third Grand Slam main draw. In the second round, she stunned Lindsay Davenport for the first top-ten win of her career, but eventually lost to the champion, Martina Hingis. Despite not winning any titles, she reached WTA Tour singles finals. The biggest of these was at the Tier-II event held in Hanover, Germany, where she lost to Serena Williams. She also finished runner-up at French Community Championships, Knokke-Heist, losing to María Sánchez Lorenzo and Nordea Nordic Light Open, Helsinki, losing to Svetlana Kuznetsova. On 16 June 2003, she ascended to her career-high ranking of No. 31 in the world. That same year she advanced to the fourth round of the Australian Open, her ... [...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] |
Petra Begerow
Petra Begerow (born 14 April 1975 in Bad Kreuznach) is a former German professional tennis player. Career She reached her highest WTA singles ranking, 29, on 8 April 1996. She reached the second round of the French Open 4 times, 1994-1997. That was also her highest achievement in Grand Slam Grand Slam most often refers to: * Grand Slam (tennis), one player or pair winning all four major annual tournaments, or the tournaments themselves Grand Slam or Grand slam may also refer to: Games and sports * Grand slam, winning category te ... tournaments. ITF Finals Singles (2–1) External links * * Munzinger site bio 1975 births Living people German female tennis players People from Bad Kreuznach {{Germany-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonella Serra Zanetti
Antonella Serra Zanetti (born 25 July 1980; ) is a retired female tennis player from Italy. On 30 January 2006, Serra Zanetti achieved her career-high singles ranking of world No. 60. On 8 May 2006, she peaked at No. 47 in the doubles rankings. In her career, she won two WTA doubles titles, as well as six singles titles and five doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. Personal Antonella was coached by Patricio Remondegui, her favorite surface is hard court. Father Alessandro is in banking; mother Arianna is an art history teacher; older brother Andrea and younger sister Alessia are students. Older sister Adriana Adriana, also spelled Adrianna, is a Latin name and feminine form of Adrian. It originates from present day Italy. Translations *Arabic: أدريان * Belorussian: Адрыяна (Adryjana) *Bulgarian: Адриана (Adriana) *Chinese Simplifi ... also retired as professional tennis player. Antonella Serra Zanetti retired from the professional tour 2009. WTA c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anastasia Myskina
Anastasia Andreyevna Myskina ( rus, Анастасия Андреевна Мыскина ; born 8 July 1981) is a Russian former professional tennis player. Myskina won the 2004 French Open singles title, becoming the first Russian woman to win a major singles title. Due to this victory, she rose to No. 3 in the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) rankings, becoming the first Russian woman to reach the top 3 in the history of the rankings. In September 2004, she reached a career-high ranking of No. 2. She has not retired officially, but has been inactive on the WTA Tour since May 2007. Tennis career 1999–2001 Myskina was born in Moscow and turned professional in 1998, the year in which she broke into the WTA top 500. She won her first WTA title in Palermo in only her second appearance in the main draw of a WTA tournament. She made her debut in a Grand Slam tournament at the US Open and the Fed Cup (playing doubles). In 2000, Myskina scored first career top-20 victory over No. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angelika Bachmann
Angelika Bachmann (born 16 May 1979) is a former professional German tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ... player. Her highest WTA singles ranking is 130th, which she reached on 17 April 2000. Her career high in doubles of world no. 90 set on 18 December 2000. Angelika Bachmann retired from tennis 2010. ITF finals Singles: 5 (2–3) External links * * 1979 births Living people Tennis players from Munich German female tennis players {{Germany-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Justine Henin
Justine Henin (; born 1 June 1982) is a Belgian former professional tennis player. She spent a total of 117 weeks as the world No. 1 and was the year-end No. 1 in 2003, 2006 and 2007. Henin, coming from a country with limited success in tennis, helped establish Belgium as a leading force in women's tennis with Kim Clijsters, and led the country to its first Fed Cup crown in 2001. She was known for her all-court style of play and for being one of the few female players to use a single-handed backhand. Henin won seven Grand Slam singles titles: winning the French Open in 2003, 2005, 2006 and 2007, the US Open in 2003 and 2007 and the Australian Open in 2004. At Wimbledon, she was the runner-up in 2001 and 2006. She also won a gold medal in the women's singles at the 2004 Olympic Games and won the year-ending WTA Tour Championships in 2006 and 2007. In total, she won 43 WTA singles titles. Tennis experts cite her mental toughness, the completeness and variety of her game ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Clijsters
Kim Antonie Lode Clijsters (; born 8 June 1983) is a Belgian former professional tennis player. Clijsters reached the world No. 1 ranking in both singles and doubles, having held both rankings simultaneously in 2003. She won six major titles, four in singles and two in doubles. Clijsters competed professionally from 1997 in an era in which her primary rivals were compatriot Justine Henin and Serena Williams. Coming from a country with limited success in men's or women's tennis, Clijsters became the first Belgian player to attain the No. 1 ranking. Together with Henin, she established Belgium as a leading force in women's tennis as the two of them led their country to their first Fed Cup crown in 2001 and were the top two players in the world in late 2003. Individually, Clijsters won 41 singles titles and 11 doubles titles on the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) Tour. She was a three-time winner of the WTA Tour Championships. Between singles and doubles, she has been a champion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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