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2011 ASB Classic
The 2011 ASB Classic was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 26th edition of the ASB Classic, and was part of the WTA International tournaments of the 2011 WTA Tour. It took place at the ASB Tennis Centre in Auckland, New Zealand, from 3 to 8 January 2011. Gréta Arn won the singles title. Singles entrants Seeds * Rankings as of 27 December 2010. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Kateryna Bondarenko * Marina Erakovic * Sacha Jones The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Noppawan Lertcheewakarn * Sabine Lisicki * Florencia Molinero * Heather Watson The following player received the lucky loser spot: * Alberta Brianti The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw: * Leela Beattie / Emily Fanning Champions Singles Gréta Arn defeated Yanina Wickmayer, 6–3, 6–3 * It was Arn's 1st title of the year and the 2nd of her career. Dou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 International adds 280 points to her WTA ranking. For the 2020 season, there were 32 tournaments, all knock-out tournaments with a prize money for every event at $275,000 ($775,000 for Shenzhen, and $525,000 for Guangzhou and Hong Kong). Events Internationals Defunct Winners by tournament Singles Current tournaments Previous tournaments See also * WTA Premier tournaments * WTA 250 tournaments WTA 250 tournaments is a category of tennis tournaments in the Women's Tennis Association tour, implemented since the reorganization of the schedule in 2021. Earlier these events were classified as WTA International Tournaments. As of 2021, WT ... {{WTA International tournaments * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kimiko Date-Krumm
is a Japanese former professional tennis player. She reached the semifinals of the 1994 Australian Open, the 1995 French Open and the 1996 Wimbledon Championships, and won the Japan Open a record four times. She reached a career-high ranking of world No. 4 in 1995, and retired from professional tennis in November 1996. She returned to tennis nearly 12 years later, announcing an unexpected comeback in April 2008. She then won her eighth WTA title at the 2009 Korea Open, becoming the second-oldest player in the Open era, after Billie Jean King, to win a singles title on the WTA Tour. In 2013, she won three WTA Tour titles in doubles and at the 2014 US Open, aged 43, she reached the semifinals of a Grand Slam doubles tournament for the first time in her career. Date announced her final retirement in September 2017. Professional career 1989–1996 Date began 1990 by reaching the fourth round at the Australian Open, where she was defeated by fourth seed Helena Suková. The foll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emily Fanning
Emily Fanning (born 13 June 1995) is a former tennis player from New Zealand. Her career-high junior ranking is 38, achieved in July 2012. In her career, Fanning won three doubles titles at tournaments of the ITF Women's Circuit. University studies Fanning commenced studying Dietetics and Nutrition at Florida State University in 2014. She transferred to the University of Kentucky in 2017 to complete her degree, having played college tennis for both institutions. Tennis career 2011 Fanning made her WTA Tour debut when given a wildcard into the singles qualifying at the Auckland Open, where she lost in the first round to Katie O'Brien. She and fellow New Zealand junior Leela Beattie received a wildcard into the doubles, where they lost in the first round to Johanna Larsson and Jasmin Wöhr. She was voted New Zealand's Female Junior Player of the Year. 2012 Fanning received another wildcard into the Auckland Open in 2012, but again could not get past the first round, her con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alberta Brianti
Alberta Brianti (born 5 April 1980) is a former professional tennis player from Italy. On 13 June 2011, Brianti achieved her career-high singles ranking of 55. On 13 February 2012, she peaked at No. 68 in the doubles rankings. She won one singles title on the WTA Tour in her career, at Fes Fez or Fes (; ar, فاس, fās; zgh, ⴼⵉⵣⴰⵣ, fizaz; french: Fès) is a city in northern inland Morocco and the capital of the Fès-Meknès administrative region. It is the second largest city in Morocco, with a population of 1.11 mi ..., Morocco in 2011. Biography She is coached by Laura Golarsa and Niccola Vercellino. Her parents are Attilio and Rita, and her brothers are Andrea (engineer) and Alessandro (student). Her favourite surface is hard and she began playing tennis at age 6 when her family introduced her to the sport at a local club. She speaks Italian, English and French. Her favourite tournaments are Wimbledon and Stuttgart. WTA career finals Singles: 2 (1–1) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucky Loser
A lucky loser is a sports competitor (player or team) who loses a match in a knockout tournament or loses in qualifying, but who then enters the main draw, usually when another competitor withdraws during the tournament because of illness, injury, or other reasons. The lucky loser then re-enters the competition, normally in place of the withdrawn competitor. In the event of a lucky loser's re-entry to a competition, it usually occurs before all competitors in the main draw have started their first match in the tournament. Lucky losers as tennis tournament winners and finalists It is rare for a lucky loser to win an ATP or WTA tournament; Heinz Gunthardt did it in 1978 (at Springfield), Bill Scanlon in 1978 (at Maui), Francisco Clavet in 1990 in Hilversum, Christian Miniussi in 1991 in São Paulo, Sergiy Stakhovsky in 2008 in Zagreb, Rajeev Ram in 2009 in Newport, Andrey Rublev in 2017 in Umag, Leonardo Mayer in the following week in 2017 in Hamburg and Marco Cecchinato at t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heather Watson
Heather Miriam Watson (born 19 May 1992) is a British professional tennis player. A former British No. 1, Watson has won nine titles over her career, including the mixed-doubles title at the 2016 Wimbledon Championships partnering Henri Kontinen, making her the first British woman to win a major title since Jo Durie in 1991, and the first to win a Wimbledon title since Durie in 1987. In October 2012, Watson won her first WTA Tour singles title at the Japan Open, becoming the first British woman to win a WTA Tour singles title since Sara Gomer in 1988. In her junior career, Watson won the US Open and a gold medal at the 2008 Commonwealth Youth Games. She reached No. 3 in the world on the ITF Junior Circuit. Early life and junior career Heather Watson was born in Guernsey to Michelle and Ian Watson. Her mother is from Papua New Guinea and her father is British, and was the managing director of Guernsey Electricity from 1995 until retirement in 2010. She has one brother ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florencia Molinero
Florencia Molinero (; born 28 November 1988) is an Argentine former professional tennis player. She was coached by Leonardo Alonso. Her highest WTA singles ranking is 170, which she reached on 2 April 2012. Her career-high in doubles is 105, achieved on 15 September 2014. Playing for Argentina Fed Cup team The Argentina women's national tennis team represents Argentina in Billie Jean King Cup tennis competition and are governed by the Asociación Argentina de Tenis. The team's historical best results came in 1986 Federation Cup (tennis), 1986 and 1 ..., Molinero has a win–loss record of 11–4. WTA 125 tournament finals Doubles: 1 (runner-up) ITF Circuit finals Singles: 23 (9 titles, 14 runner-ups) Doubles: 51 (25 titles, 26 runner-ups) External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Molinero, Florencia 1988 births Living people Argentine female tennis players People from Rafaela Tennis players at the 2011 Pan American Games Pan American Games gold medalists for Argentina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sabine Lisicki
Sabine Katharina Lisicki (; born 22 September 1989) is a German professional tennis player. Lisicki turned professional in 2006, and her breakthrough came in 2009 when she reached the quarterfinals of the Wimbledon Championships, and also won her first title on the WTA Tour, at the Family Circle Cup. In March 2010, she suffered an ankle injury at the Indian Wells Open that kept her out of competition for five months and saw her fall out of the top 200. Lisicki rebounded in 2011 and won the Eastbourne Classic before entering the Wimbledon Championships as a wildcard and going on to reach the semifinals, where she lost to Maria Sharapova. In doing so she became only the second woman in Wimbledon history to make it to the semifinals while entering the tournament as a wildcard. She followed that two months later by winning her third WTA tournament, the Texas Open. In 2012, she achieved her career-high ranking of world No. 12 and again reached the quarterfinals of Wimbledon. Again, i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noppawan Lertcheewakarn
Noppawan "Nok" Lertcheewakarn ( th, นพวรรณ เลิศชีวกานต์; born 18 November 1991) is a former professional Thai tennis player. At 2009 Wimbledon Championships, she won the junior singles title. She reached career-high WTA rankings of 149 in singles and 97 in doubles. As of July 2018, Lertcheewakarn having played her last match in August 2017, is in training to be a police officer. She has yet to officially retire. Playing style Lertcheewakarn is a counterpuncher with her two-handed backhand and forehand. Her game is lacking powerful strokes, but based on precise groundstrokes and good strategy. Her main weakness is considered to be her serve, lacking of power, consistency and stability. She has had inspiration by Tamarine Tanasugarn, Monica Seles, Marion Bartoli, and Williams sisters. Lertcheewakarn has been coached by Chuck Kriese. Junior career In 2008, Lertcheewakarn was world No. 1 in ITF Junior Circuit, became the first Thai player to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sacha Jones
Sacha Hughes (née Jones; born 8 November 1990) is the current New Zealand Fed Cup captain, appointed May 2019. She is a former professional New Zealand and Australian tennis player who competed as Sacha Jones. Her highest WTA singles ranking is 150, which she reached on 8 October 2012. Her highest ITF junior ranking is 11 in the world. She attained the No. 1 ranking in New Zealand in 2009 and competed in the ASB Classic, New Zealand's only WTA event, on seven occasions. Personal life Her father is Australian-born and her mother is a New Zealander. She has two older brothers and one older sister. In 2014, Hughes retired from professional tennis citing a succession of injuries including three stress fractures in her ribs. Upon retiring from professional tennis she completed her private pilots license. In 2016, she co-founded a website calleRealYou with her friend Stephanie Hughes, which seeks to encourage young women to grow their inner confidence, and offers personal support ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marina Erakovic
Marina Erakovic ( ; hr, Marina Eraković ; born 6 March 1988) is a retired tennis player from New Zealand. She achieved career-high rankings of 39 in singles and 25 in doubles, and won one singles title, at U.S. National Indoor Tennis Championships, Memphis in February 2013, and eight doubles titles on the WTA Tour. Personal life Born in Split, Croatia (then part of Yugoslavia), Erakovic emigrated with her family to Auckland, New Zealand in 1994 at the age of 6. She attended St Thomas's Primary School and Glendowie College in Auckland. Junior career Erakovic and Monica Niculescu were the runners-up to Victoria Azarenka and Olga Govortsova in the 2004 Wimbledon Championships – Girls' doubles, 2004 Wimbledon girls' doubles, before Erakovic teamed with Michaëlla Krajicek to win the 2004 US Open – Girls' doubles, US Open title three months later, beating Niculescu and her Romanian teammate Mădălina Gojnea. Erakovic became the first player from New Zealand to win a Grand Sl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kateryna Bondarenko
Kateryna Volodymyrivna Volodko (née Bondarenko; uk, Катерина Володимирівна Бондаренко; born 8 August 1986) is a tennis player from Ukraine. She was the doubles champion in 2008 at the Australian Open, partnering her sister Alona Bondarenko. Kateryna is the younger sister of professional tennis players Valeria and Alona. She plays right-handed and turned pro in 2000. Her career-high rankings in singles and doubles are world No. 29 and No. 9, respectively. Her best Grand Slam performance in singles was reaching the quarterfinals at the 2009 US Open. Over her career, Bondarenko has defeated top ten players Elena Dementieva, Sara Errani, Ana Ivanovic, Garbiñe Muguruza, Li Na, Agnieszka Radwańska, Roberta Vinci, and Venus Williams. In 2022, she changed her name to Kateryna Volodko after marrying Denis Volodko. Biography Bondarenko was born on 8 August 1986 in Kryvyi Rih, Ukrainian SSR (nowadays Ukraine) to father, Vladimir, and mother, Natalia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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