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2002 Canberra Women's Classic – Doubles
Nicole Arendt and Ai Sugiyama were the defending champions, but Arendt chose not to participate and Sugiyama chose to participate in Sydney instead. Nannie de Villiers and Irina Selyutina won the title, defeating Samantha Reeves and Adriana Serra Zanetti Adriana Serra Zanetti (born 5 March 1976; ) is a retired Italian tennis player. On 11 February 2002, she achieved her career-high singles ranking of world No. 38. On 17 June 2002, she peaked at No. 69 in the doubles rankings. In her career, she ... in the final, 6–2, 6–3. Seeds Draw Draw Qualifying Seeds Qualifiers Lucky losers Qualifying draw ReferencesDraw {{DEFAULTSORT:Canberra Women's Classic - 2 2002 WTA Tour 2002 Canberra Women's Classic – 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nannie De Villiers
Nannie de Villiers (born Esmé de Villiers, 5 January 1976) is a former professional tennis player who represented South Africa. She was born in neighbouring Namibia but moved at a young age. De Villiers made her début in 1993, at the small ITF Johannesburg tournament. She also played her next event in her native country, in Pretoria, winning the doubles event. Although she officially retired in 2003, she made a minor-comeback in 2007, entering the Cape Town event, losing in the first round singles and reaching the semifinals doubles. She never surpassed the singles qualifying stages at a Grand Slam tournament. Despite never winning a 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 ... singles title, she won four on the ITF Circuit, and 22 doubles titles there. De Vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amanda Grahame
Amanda Grahame (born 25 March 1979) is a former professional tennis player from Australia. Biography Grahame was born in Canberra, one of four daughters of stockbroker Denis and maths teacher Jeanette. Coached by Chris Kachel, Grahame began competing on the professional tour in 1997. She won three ITF Circuit singles titles locally in 1998 as well as the doubles at the $25,000 Lexington event. In 1999 she made the second round of the Australian Open doubles with Bryanne Stewart and played in the main doubles draw of the French Open. At the 2000 Australian Open she competed in the singles draw for the first of three times and lost a close opening round match to Serena Williams. She led the American 4–2 in the first set which she lost, then claimed the second set, but went down 4–6 in the third. Her best performances on the WTA Tour were at the Canberra International. She made the doubles quarter-finals in 2001 with Justine Henin and was a singles semi-finalist as a qualifier ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nana Smith
Nana Smith (born Nana Miyagi; 10 April 1971) is an American-born tennis player who played for Japan. Career Miyagi, a former top-15 player in doubles, played at all the Grand Slam tournaments in both singles and doubles – the Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon and the US Open. She scored her first top-10 win in singles in 1994, over then-world No. 8, Lindsay Davenport, and also scored wins over many top-20 ranked players, including Martina Hingis. Her highest ranking in singles is 51, which she reached in February 1995. She won four singles titles on the ITF Circuit. She had a more successful doubles career, reaching a career-high ranking of 12 in 1997, winning 10 WTA titles and an additional 31 ITF Circuit titles. Also, she reached the semifinals of the 1993 US Open with Yayuk Basuki, and scored a notable win over Serena and Venus Williams at the 1998 Australian Open, with Naoko Kijimuta. Nana also won two medals at the 1998 Asian Games in Bangkok, gold in mixed-dou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rika Hiraki
Rika Hiraki ( ja, 平木 理化, born 6 December 1971) is a former professional Japanese tennis player. She won the mixed-doubles title at the 1997 French Open (with Mahesh Bhupathi Mahesh Shrinivas Bhupathi (born 7 June 1974) is an Indian former doubles world No. 1 tennis player. In 1997, he became the first Indian to win a major tournament (with Rika Hiraki). With his win at the 2006 Australian Open mixed doubles, he ...). Biography Started playing at age 6. Baseliner, who considered groundstrokes her strength. Father, Koichi, works for Japan Airlines; mother, Noriko, is a homemaker; older brother, Yasuchika, graduated from the University of Tokyo and is now a pilot with Japan Airlines. Graduated from Aoyama Gakuin University, majoring in International Politics. Works as a Systems Manager for telephone company NTT, completing all her work from the road via computer modem while at tournaments. Hobbies include reading and working with computers. Likes to visit London. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lenka Němečková
Lenka Němečková (born 20 April 1976) is a Czech former professional tennis player. Němečková was born in Brno Brno ( , ; german: Brünn ) is a city in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. Located at the confluence of the Svitava and Svratka rivers, Brno has about 380,000 inhabitants, making it the second-largest city in the Czech Republic .... She has a career-high WTA singles ranking of 72, achieved on 12 January 1998. She also has a career-high WTA doubles ranking of 85 achieved on 28 April 1997. Němečková has won one WTA doubles title, and four ITF singles titles and 16 ITF doubles titles. Němečková (married Janoušková) retired from professional tennis in 2006. WTA career finals Singles: 1 (1 runner-up) Doubles: 3 (1 title, 2 runner-ups) ITF finals Singles (4–9) Doubles (16–15) External links * * 1976 births Living people Sportspeople from Brno Czech female tennis players {{CzechRepublic-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karina Habšudová
Karina Habšudová (; born 2 August 1973) is a Slovak former professional tennis player. She has been ranked as high as 10 in the world (1997). Together with Karol Kučera, she won the Hopman Cup in 1998. Her best performance at a Grand Slam tournament came when she got to the quarterfinals of the 1996 French Open, defeating Kristin Godridge, Nathalie Tauziat, Martina Hingis, and Anke Huber before losing to Arantxa Sánchez Vicario, 8–10 in the third set. She also had a successful junior career. She won the girls' singles at the 1991 US Open, and was junior No. 1 for some time. Biography Born in Bojnice, Czechoslovakia, Habšudová originally trained as a gymnast but at the age of ten, she switched to tennis under the encouragement of her mother, herself a former amateur tennis player. By the age of fourteen, she had already become the top junior player in Czechoslovakia. In 1990, she was crowned ITF Junior World Champion, and the following year she won the girls' singles t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jennifer Russell
Jennifer Russell (born Jennifer Rebecca Embry, August 7, 1978) is an American former professional tennis player. Russell was ranked in top 50 for doubles and as high as number 41, in November 2005. Before joining th WTA Tour, she had won 13 titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. She won her first WTA doubles title at the Gaz de France Stars in 2004, partnered with Mara Santangelo. In 2004, they reached the third round at Wimbledon, before being beaten by Martina Navratilova and Lisa Raymond. In 2005, they reached the quarterfinals at the Australian Open. Russell is a graduate of Purdue University Purdue University is a public land-grant research university in West Lafayette, Indiana, and the flagship campus of the Purdue University system. The university was founded in 1869 after Lafayette businessman John Purdue donated land and money ... and was one of the highest ranked professional players ever to have also been a college graduate player. Jennifer Embry married Jeff Russell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amanda Augustus
Amanda Augustus (born January 19, 1978) is a former professional tennis player from the United States. Biography Augustus, who grew up in Los Angeles County, attended UC Berkeley and was one of the most successful tennis players in California Golden Bears history. She received All-Pac-10 honors in each of her four seasons. In 1998 and 1999 she teamed up with Amy Jensen to claim back to back NCAA doubles titles. A left-handed player, Augustus turned professional after graduating from UC Berkeley in 1999. She played on tour primarily as a doubles player and reached a top ranking of 82 in the world, with 18 ITF doubles titles. Her best performance on the WTA Tour were semi-final appearances in the doubles at the 2001 Tashkent Open, 2002 Canberra Women's Classic and 2002 Bank of the West Classic in Stanford. She featured in the main draw of all four grand slam tournaments. Both of her wins in grand slam matches were over seeded pairings. Partnering Jennifer Embry at the 2002 Fren ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annabel Ellwood
Annabel Ellwood (born 2 February 1978) is a former professional tennis player from Australia. She is the sister of former ATP Tour professional Ben Ellwood. Ellwood, a right-handed player, born in Canberra, competed at seven Australian Open tournaments from 1995 to 2001. At the 1998 Australian Open, she was beaten by Amanda Coetzer in the third round, her best singles result at a 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 ... event. WTA career finals Doubles: 1 (runner-up) ITF finals Singles (9–9) Doubles (14–5) References External links * * * Australian female tennis players Hopman Cup competitors Sportspeople from Canberra Tennis people from the Australian Capital Territory Living people 1978 births Sportswomen from the Australian Cap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evie Dominikovic
Evie Dominikovic ( hr, Evie Dominiković, ; born 29 May 1980) is a retired Australian tennis player. Her younger sister (by seven years) is the fellow former tennis player Daniella Dominikovic (later Daniella Jeflea). Evie Dominikovic also has a child. She turned professional in 1997. Her best Grand Slam performance came at the 2001 Australian Open and at the 2002 French Open where she reached the third round. Her best singles ranking was 64, achieved in September 2001. Dominikovic also played women's doubles; her best doubles ranking was 52, reached in August 2002. In her career, she won one doubles title 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 ..., as well as 12 singles and 15 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. WTA career finals Doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miho Saeki
(born 18 March 1976) is a retired Japanese tennis player, winner of professional tournaments in doubles and singles, and a representative of Japan for the Federation Cup. Career Saeki's career began officially in April 1994. As a junior finale, she boasts a doubles tournament in the youth edition of the Japan Open. In senior tennis, she began mainly outside the main cycle of the WTA Tour, winning a total of 16 singles and eight doubles titles belonging to the ITF Women's Circuit. She gained four wins in doubles on WTA Tour, with her partners - Yuka Yoshida and Naoko Kijimuta. Her career-high ranking was at No. 56 in singles (June 1998) and No. 49 in doubles (July 1997). In 1998-1999 she appeared in the Japanese team for the Federation Cup Federation Cup or Fed Cup is the former name of the premier world team competition in women's tennis. Federation Cup may also refer to: * Capital Football Federation Cup, an Australian territory-based association football tournament *Fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akiko Morigami
is a Japanese former tennis player. She turned professional in 1998. On 15 August 2005, she reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 41. Morigami won one singles title in her career, defeating top-seeded Marion Bartoli in 2007 in the final of the Prague Open. She reached two other singles finals, both in Cincinnati (falling to Patty Schnyder in 2005, and losing to Anna Chakvetadze in 2007). At the 2006 French Open, she upset then-world No. 3, Nadia Petrova, in the first round. Morigami retired after the 2009 Japan Open. In the first round, she defeated qualifier Anastasia Rodionova in three sets, and in the second round, she lost to the eventual champion Samantha Stosur Samantha Jane Stosur ( ; born 30 March 1984) is an Australian professional tennis player. She is a former world No. 1 in doubles, a ranking which she first achieved on 6 February 2006 and held for 61 consecutive weeks. Also a former top ten s ..., 1–6, 2–6. This was her last match on the pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |