2014 Dubai Tennis Championships – Women's Doubles
Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Sania Mirza were the defending champions, but Mattek-Sands chose not to participate. Mirza played alongside Cara Black, but lost to Andrea Hlaváčková and Lucie Šafářová in the first round. Alla Kudryavtseva and Anastasia Rodionova won the title, defeating Raquel Kops-Jones and Abigail Spears Abigail Michal Spears (born July 12, 1981) is a former professional tennis player from the United States. Spears won 21 double titles including the 2017 Australian Open. Spears started playing tennis in 1988 when she was 7 years old, and turn ... in the final, 6–2, 5–7, 0–8 Seeds Draw Draw ReferencesMain Draw {{DEFAULTSORT:2014 Dubai Tennis Championships - Women's Doubles Dubai Tennis Championships - Doubles Women's Doubles ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Alla Kudryavtseva
Alla Alexandrovna Kudryavtseva (; born 3 November 1987) is a retired Russian tennis player. Kudryavtseva won one singles title and nine doubles titles on the WTA Tour, as well as two singles titles and 15 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 4 October 2010, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 56. On 8 September 2014, she peaked at No. 15 in the WTA doubles rankings. On 2 November 2021, Kudryavtseva announced on Instagram that she had retired from the sport. Professional career Early career Kudryavtseva debuted on the WTA Tour at the 2004 Kremlin Cup, where she could not succeed beyond the qualifying rounds. In the following season, her best WTA Tour result was reaching the first rounds of the Nordea Nordic Light Open in Stockholm in singles and the Banka Koper Slovenia Open in doubles. Her first major appearance was at the 2006 Australian Open, where she could not win a qualification round. The same result was seen at the other three Grand Slam (tennis), ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Chan Hao-ching
Chan Hao-ching (; ; born September 19, 1993), also known as Angel Chan, is a Taiwanese professional tennis player. She is primarily a doubles specialist, having won twenty-one WTA Tour, two WTA Challenger and six ITF titles in that discipline. Chan reached the final of the mixed-doubles competition at Wimbledon with Max Mirnyi in 2014, her first major final. She reached two more finals in 2017, the Wimbledon women's doubles with Monica Niculescu, and the US Open mixed doubles with Michael Venus. Personal life She is the younger sister of fellow professional tennis player and former world No. 1 in women's doubles, Latisha Chan, formerly known as ''Chan Yung-jan''. Career 2013: Shenzhen Open doubles title At the beginning of the season, Chan won the Shenzhen Open with her sister Chan Yung-jan, beating Irina Buryachok and Valeriya Solovyeva in straight sets. She reached the quarterfinals of the Indian Wells Open with Janette Husárová, falling to Ekaterina Makarova and ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Alisa Kleybanova
Alisa Mikhailovna Kleybanova (, born 15 July 1989) is a Russian former tennis player. Her career-high singles ranking is world No. 20, achieved in February 2011. In her career, she won two singles titles and five doubles titles on the WTA Tour. Career Kleybanova made her senior tennis début in 2003 aged 14, and won the first ITF tournament she entered. To date her career-best achievements have been reaching the fourth round at two Grand Slam tournaments at 2008 Wimbledon Championships, Wimbledon and 2009 Australian Open, Australian Open as a direct entrant, two WTA Tour Tier-II quarterfinals (Antwerp, 2008; Eastbourne, 2008) as a qualifier. Additionally, she has reached one Tier I third round (Miami, 2008) as a qualifier, and one Tier IV quarterfinal (Fes, 2008) as a direct entrant. At the higher levels of the ITF Women's Circuit, she has reached one $100k quarterfinal, two $75k quarterfinals, one $50k final and one $50k semifinal. In addition, at the lower levels, she has wo ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Jelena Janković
Jelena Janković ( sr-Cyrl, Јелена Јанковић, ; born 28 February 1985) is a Serbian former professional tennis player. She was ranked as the List of WTA number 1 ranked singles tennis players, world No. 1 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for 18 weeks, including as the year-end No. 1 in 2008 WTA Tour, 2008. Janković won 15 WTA Tour-level singles titles and two doubles titles, including the 2007 Wimbledon Championships – Mixed doubles, 2007 Wimbledon mixed-doubles title partnering Jamie Murray. Her career-best Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, major performance in singles was a runner-up finish at the 2008 US Open – Women's singles, 2008 US Open. Family and early life Janković was born in Belgrade, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, as the third child of Veselin and Snežana, both economists. She has two brothers, Marko and Stefan. She is a student at the Megatrend University in Belgrade, studying economics. However, she has put he ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Petra Kvitová
Petra Kvitová (; born 8 March 1990) is a Czech professional tennis player. Known for her powerful left-handed groundstrokes and variety, Kvitová has won 31 career singles titles, including two Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, major titles at The Championships, Wimbledon, Wimbledon in 2011 Wimbledon Championships – Women's singles, 2011 and in 2014 Wimbledon Championships – Women's singles, 2014. She also won a bronze medal in singles while representing the Czech Republic at the 2016 Summer Olympics, Czech Republic at the Tennis at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's singles, 2016 Rio Olympics. Her career-high WTA Rankings, ranking of world No. 2 was achieved on 31 October 2011. Kvitová first gained notice by defeating then-world No. 1 Dinara Safina in the third round of the 2009 US Open – Women's singles, 2009 US Open. This was followed by her first major semifinal appearance at the 2010 Wimbledon Championships – Women's singles, 2010 Wimbledon Championships. Then ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Kirsten Flipkens
Kirsten "Flipper" Flipkens (; born 10 January 1986) is a Belgian tennis coach and a former professional player. She reached a career-high ranking of No. 13 by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA). Flipkens has won one singles title on the WTA Tour, winning the 2012 Tournoi de Québec, as well as seven doubles titles. She also won 13 singles and two doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit, and one singles title on the WTA Challenger Tour. She had success as a junior, winning the girls' doubles title at the 2002 US Open (tennis), 2002 US Open and the singles titles at the 2003 Wimbledon Championships and the 2003 US Open (tennis), 2003 US Open. Her best Grand Slam performance as a senior was at the 2013 Wimbledon Championships – Women's singles, 2013 Wimbledon Championships, where she reached the semifinal. In the same year, she was crowned Sportswoman of the Year at the Belgian Sportsman of the year, Belgian Sport Awards. In 2016, Flipkens entered her first Olympic Games 2016 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Zhang Shuai (tennis)
Zhang Shuai ( zh , s = 张帅 , p = Zhāng Shuài ; ; born 21 January 1989) is a Chinese professional tennis player. She has a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 2, achieved in July 2022 and a singles ranking of No. 22 reached in January 2023. She is a two-time Grand Slam tournament champion in women's doubles, having won the 2019 Australian Open and the 2021 US Open, both alongside Samantha Stosur. Zhang also finished runner-up at the 2022 Wimbledon Championships and 2024 US Open, and has reached six further semifinals across women's and mixed doubles. She has won a total of 14 doubles titles on the WTA Tour, including the 2021 Cincinnati Open with Stosur. Zhang has also qualified for the WTA Finals on two occasions. She has also enjoyed success in singles winning three WTA Tour singles titles, at the Guangzhou International in 2013 and 2017, and the 2022 Lyon Open, and finished runner-up at three further tournaments. She has reached two major quarterfinals, at ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Lisa Raymond
Lisa Raymond (born August 10, 1973) is an American former professional tennis player who has achieved notable success in doubles tennis. Raymond has eleven major titles to her name: six in women's doubles and five in mixed doubles. On June 12, 2000, she reached the world No. 1 ranking in doubles for the first time, becoming the 13th player to reach the milestone. Raymond was ranked No. 1 on five separate occasions in her career over a combined total of 137 weeks (the fourth-highest mark of all time) and finished as the year-end No. 1 doubles player in both 2001 and 2006. She currently holds the record of most doubles match wins (860) and most doubles matches played (1,206) in WTA history, and earned more than $10 million in prize money in her career. She is one of the few players to win a 'Career Grand Slam' in doubles, which she accomplished after winning the 2006 French Open title. Among her former doubles partners are Lindsay Davenport, Martina Navratilova, Rennae Stubb ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Alicja Rosolska
Alicja Rosolska (; born 1 December 1985) is a Polish professional tennis player. On 9 June 2003, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 636. On 10 June 2019, she peaked at No. 23 in the WTA rankings, doubles rankings. Rosolska has won nine doubles titles on the WTA Tour in her career (in 2008 Cachantún Cup, Cachantún with Līga Dekmeijere, in 2009 Andalucia Tennis Experience, Marbella with Klaudia Jans-Ignacik, Klaudia Jans, in 2011 Budapest Grand Prix, Budapest with Anabel Medina Garrigues, in 2015 Monterrey Open, Monterrey with Gabriela Dabrowski, in 2016 Swedish Open, Bastad with Andreea Mitu, in 2017 St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy, St. Petersburg with Jeļena Ostapenko, again in 2017 Monterrey Open, Monterrey with Nao Hibino, in 2018 Nottingham Open, Nottingham with Abigail Spears and in 2019 Volvo Car Open, Charleston with Anna-Lena Grönefeld), as well as 14 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit, ITF Circuit. She represented Poland in Poland Fed Cup team, F ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Anna-Lena Grönefeld
Anna-Lena Grönefeld (also spelled Groenefeld; married name Herzgerodt; born 4 June 1985) is a German former professional tennis player. Competing as a professional from 2003 until 2019, she won one singles title on the WTA Tour, at the 2006 Mexican Open, and reached the quarterfinals of the 2006 French Open. She is a two-time Grand Slam champion in mixed doubles, having won the 2009 Wimbledon Championships alongside Mark Knowles, and the 2014 French Open with Jean-Julien Rojer. Grönefeld also finished runner-up in mixed doubles at the 2016 Wimbledon Championships and 2017 French Open. In women's doubles, Grönefeld won 17 career titles, most notably the 2005 Rogers Cup with Martina Navratilova, and reached seven Grand Slam semifinals. She was part of the German team which reached the final of the 2014 Davis Cup, and competed at the 2012 and 2016 Olympic Games. Career 2002–2006: Breakthrough In 2002, she was the singles champion of both the Belgium and Frankfurt In ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Arantxa Parra Santonja
Arantxa Parra Santonja (; born 9 November 1982) is a Spanish former tennis player. She turned professional in 2000 and retired in 2019. In her career, Parra Santonja won eleven doubles titles on the WTA Tour The WTA Tour (also known as the Hologic WTA Tour for sponsorship reasons) is a worldwide top-tier tennis tour for women and organized by the Women's Tennis Association. The second-tier tour is the WTA 125 series, and third-tier is the ITF Wome .... She reached career-high rankings of world No. 46 in singles and 22 in doubles. Significant finals Premier Mandatory tournaments Doubles: 1 (runner-up) WTA Tour finals Singles: 2 (2 runner-ups) Doubles: 27 (11 titles, 16 runner-ups) ITF Circuit finals Singles (11–6) Doubles (9–11) Grand Slam performance timelines Singles Doubles External links * * * * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Parra Santonja, Arantxa 1982 births Living people Tennis players from Valencia Spanish female tennis players Tennis ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Vera Dushevina
Vera Yevgenyevna Dushevina (; born 6 October 1986) is a Russian former professional tennis player. She won one singles title and two doubles titles on the WTA Tour. As a junior, she won the Wimbledon Championships, beating Maria Sharapova in the final, while she reached the final of the French Open losing to Anna-Lena Grönefeld. Personal life Dushevina was born in Moscow. Beside tennis, Vera also played football and basketball. Tennis career Early years She played her first main-draw match at the 2002 Warsaw Open by qualifying, but lost to Virginia Ruano Pascual 1–6, 6–7. Her first WTA Tour match she won at the 2003 Miami Open. After qualifying, she defeated Patricia Wartusch 6–0, 6–3 but lost to fourth seed Justine Henin 3–6, 2–6 in the second round. She then won her first professional title at the ITF event in Innsbruck, Austria coming through the qualifying draw and defeating Melinda Czink in the final. In her next tournament, she reached her first W ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |