2016 Open Engie Saint-Gaudens Midi-Pyrénées
The 2016 Open Engie Saint-Gaudens Midi-Pyrénées was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the twentieth edition of the tournament and part of the 2016 ITF Women's Circuit, offering a total of $50,000+H in prize money. It took place in Saint-Gaudens, France, on 9–15 May 2016. Singles main draw entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings as of 2 May 2016. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Deniz Khazaniuk * Ariadna Martí Riembau * Victoria Muntean * Emmanuelle Salas The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Audrey Albié * Amanda Carreras * Beatriz Haddad Maia * Natalia Vikhlyantseva The following player received entry by a lucky loser spot: * Manon Arcangioli * Renata Voráčová The following player received entry by a protected ranking: * Melanie Oudin Champions Singles * Irina Khromacheva def. Maria Sakkari, 1–6, 7–6(7–3), 6–1 Doubles * Demi ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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ITF Women's Circuit
The ITF Women's World Tennis Tour, previously known as the ITF Women's Circuit, is a series of professional tennis tournaments run by the International Tennis Federation for female professional tennis players. History It serves as a developmental circuit for the WTA Tour, which is run by the independent Women's Tennis Association (WTA). There are several hundred ITF Women's Circuit tournaments each year, spread across all six inhabited continents, with prize money ranging from US$15,000 to US$100,000. Players who succeed on the ITF Women's Circuit earn sufficient points to be eligible for qualifying draw or main draw entry to WTA tournaments. Until 2011 the ITF Women's Circuit was the level immediately below the main WTA Tour, but in 2012 the WTA introduced an intermediate level, the WTA 125K series. There is also an ITF Men's Circuit, but it only incorporates the lower-level Futures tournaments. Mid-level men's tournaments, equivalent to the WTA 125k series and the bigger money ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ysaline Bonaventure
Ysaline Bonaventure (born 29 August 1994) is a Belgian professional tennis player. Bonaventure has won two doubles titles on the WTA Tour, as well as 12 singles and 14 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 31 October 2022, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 94. On 1 February 2016, she peaked at No. 57 in the doubles rankings. Playing for Belgium Fed Cup team, Bonaventure has a win–loss record of 9–5. She was selected for the Fed Cup team for the first time in 2012 when she played a doubles match alongside Alison Van Uytvanck in the World Group Play-offs. Career 2015 Bonaventure lost in the first round of qualifying at the 2015 Australian Open and French Open. At the 2015 Wimbledon Championships, she also lost in the first round of qualifying, beaten in three sets by Michelle Larcher de Brito. She reached the third round of qualifying at the US Open of that year. She won 2 WTA Tour doubles titles that year, showing her ability in doubles, her focus s ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Nicola Geuer
Nicola Geuer (; born 2 March 1988) is a German former professional tennis player. In her career, Geuer won four singles and ten doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 10 May 2010, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 276. On 9 October 2017, she peaked at No. 91 in the doubles rankings. Geuer was coached by former German ATP player Karsten Braasch Karsten Braasch (born 14 July 1967) is a German former professional tennis player. His highest ATP singles ranking was World No. 38, which he reached in June 1994. His career-high in doubles was World No. 36, achieved in November 1997. He won si .... Since October 2014, she has played only in doubles competition, and since October 2019 only once, in Lyon, France. ITF Circuit finals Singles: 7 (4–3) Doubles: 18 (10–8) References External links * * Official website 1988 births Living people Sportspeople from Duisburg German female tennis players Tennis people from North Rhine-Westphalia ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Melanie Oudin
Melanie Jennings Oudin (born September 23, 1991) is an American former professional tennis player. The former world junior No. 2 was a member of the American Fed Cup team from 2009 to 2011 and the winner of the 2011 US Open mixed-doubles title, with fellow American player Jack Sock. As a 17-year-old in the middle of 2009, Oudin reached the round of 16 of the Wimbledon Championships, followed by a quarterfinal at the US Open six weeks later. She reached a career-high ranking of world No. 31 in April 2010. Oudin retired from professional tour on August 18, 2017, citing numerous health issues and injuries. Personal life Oudin, a Marietta, Georgia native, has a twin sister, Katherine, and a younger sister, Christina. Introduced to the sport at the age of seven alongside sister Katherine, it was clear Melanie had a gift. As Melanie continued to improve, her time spent on the court increased as well. In seventh grade, Melanie made the decision to homeschool, giving her more time ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Manon Arcangioli
Manon Arcangioli (; born 28 August 1994) is an inactive French professional tennis player. On 2 March 2015, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 268. On 18 June 2018, she reached her best WTA doubles ranking of No. 189. Up to date, she has won eight singles and 15 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. Career Arcangioli made her Grand Slam singles main-draw debut at the 2015 French Open thanks to a wildcard, and she lost in the first round to the unseeded American Irina Falconi Irina Falconi ( es, Falconí; born May 4, 1990) is an Ecuadorian-born American former tennis player. She moved to Manhattan, New York, as a toddler. Her highest WTA singles ranking is world No. 63, which she reached in May 2016. Her career-high ... in straight sets. Grand Slam performance timelines Singles Doubles ITF Circuit finals Singles: 15 (8 titles, 7 runner-ups) Doubles: 35 (15 titles, 20 runner–ups) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Arcangioli, Manon 1 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Natalia Vikhlyantseva
Natalia Konstantinovna Vikhlyantseva (Russian: Наталья Константиновна Вихлянцева; born 16 February 1997) is a Russian tennis player. Her favourite court surface is grass. Vikhlyantseva has career-high rankings of 54 in singles, achieved on 23 October 2017, and 216 in doubles, reached in July 2019. Tennis career 2015–16 Vikhlyantseva made her WTA Tour main-draw debut at the 2015 Shenzhen Open where she received a wildcard. In her first WTA match, she defeated Anna-Lena Friedsam, in three sets. She lost in the second round against Simona Halep, in straight sets. After winning two titles in 2016 on the ITF Circuit, she reached the semifinals of the Open de Limoges where she took top-seeded top-30 player Caroline Garcia to three sets. 2017: Top 100 debut and first WTA final Vikhlyantseva debuted at a Grand Slam tournament at the 2017 Australian Open where she reached the second round of the main draw, losing to Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova. Her next t ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Beatriz Haddad Maia
Beatriz Haddad Maia (born 30 May 1996) is a Brazilian professional tennis player. On 22 August 2022, she reached a career-high in the WTA rankings in singles at No. 15. Haddad Maia has won two singles and four doubles titles on the WTA Tour, one singles and doubles title each on the WTA Challenger Tour, as well as 17 singles and nine doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. Playing for Brazil Fed Cup team, Haddad Maia has a win–loss record of 25–10 as of December 2022. Early life and background Born in São Paulo, to her parents Ayrton Elias Maia Filho and Lais Scaff Haddad, Haddad Maia started playing tennis at the age of five. She comes from a tennis family of Lebanese descent. Both her mother Lais Scaff Haddad and her grandmother Arlette Scaff Haddad were successful tennis players in Brazil. Career Haddad Maia peaked at No. 15 in the ITF junior rankings. She won her first professional doubles title at the $10k tournament in Mogi das Cruzes in September 2010 aged 14 playi ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Amanda Carreras
Amanda Carreras (born 16 May 1990) is a British tennis player from Gibraltar. Carreras has won 11 singles and 15 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. On 24 April 2017, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 236, and peaked at No. 279 in the doubles rankings. Due to Carreras winning her first two singles and doubles titles back-to-back, the ITF website wrote a "''Spotlight On…''" article on Carreras in May 2009. On 24 July 2012, Carreras carried the Olympic flame in the torch relay in Ealing, London. Nicola Bosio (another Gibraltarian athlete) passed on the flame to Amanda who was described as one of Gibraltar's finest sportswomen. The three additional gold medals, she won at her home Island Games in 2019, pushed her total up to nine medals, eight of them gold, and made her the most decorated athlete in the history of the games. As well as this, she holds a 12–0 record in singles and has won half of all her singles matches without the loss of a single game, twice ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Audrey Albié
Audrey Albié (born 24 October 1994) is a French professional tennis player. She has career-high WTA rankings of 278 in singles, attained on 22 April 2019, and 228 in doubles, set on 28 February 2022. Albié has won three singles titles and four doubles titles on tournaments of the ITF Women's Circuit. Career Albié made her Grand Slam debut at the 2017 French Open, where she received a wildcard for the women's doubles draw; she and her partner Harmony Tan lost to Pauline Parmentier and Yanina Wickmayer in the first round. Albié also was given a wildcard for the singles qualifying event of the same tournament, where she defeated world No. 186, Grace Min, in the first round before losing to Virginie Razzano Virginie Razzano (born 12 May 1983) is a former French professional tennis player. She won two WTA Tour singles titles, both of them in 2007. Razzano reached her career-high WTA singles ranking of world No. 16 on 14 September 2009. She represe .... Grand Slam singles ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Emmanuelle Salas
Emmanuelle is the lead character in a series of French erotic films based on the main character in the novel ''Emmanuelle'' (1959), created by Emmanuelle Arsan. Character history Emmanuelle appeared as the pen name of Marayat Rollet-Andriane, a French-Thai actress born in the 1930s in Bangkok. Her 1957 book ''The Joys of a Woman'' detailed the sexual exploits of Emmanuelle, the "bored housewife" of a French diplomat. Rollet-Andriane's book caused a sensation in France and was banned. The producer of another Arsan/Rollet-Andriane film ''Laure,'' Ovidio Assonitis, claimed that all books published under the pen name Emmanuelle Arsan were written by her husband Louis-Jacques Rollet-Andriane, rather than by Marayat.Interview with Ovidio Assonitis in the extras section of the Laure-DVD Films The first Emmanuelle film was the 1974 French theatrical feature ''Emmanuelle'' starring Dutch actress Sylvia Kristel (1952–2012) in the title role. She came to be the actress best id ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Victoria Muntean
Victoria Muntean (born 23 January 1997) is a French professional tennis player. Muntean has a career-high WTA rankings, WTA singles ranking of 435, attained on 27 June 2016, and a career-high WTA rankings, WTA doubles ranking of 408, reached on 24 July 2017. She has won three singles titles and six doubles titles on tournaments of the ITF Women's Circuit, ITF Circuit. Career Muntean made her WTA Tour doubles main-draw debut at the 2011 Internationaux de Strasbourg – Doubles, 2011 Internationaux de Strasbourg, partnering Dia Evtimova; they lost in the first round to the fourth-seeded pair of Akgul Amanmuradova and Chuang Chia-jung. ITF Circuit finals Singles: 8 (3 titles, 5 runner–ups) Doubles: 20 (6 titles, 14 runner–ups) References External links * * French female tennis players 1997 births Living people French people of Romanian descent Sportspeople from Meurthe-et-Moselle {{France-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ariadna Martí Riembau
''Ariadna'' is a genus of tube-dwelling spider (family Segestriidae). Species , the World Spider Catalog accepted the following species: *''Ariadna abbreviata'' Marsh, Stevens & Framenau, 2022 – Tasmania *''Ariadna abrilae'' Grismado, 2008 – Chile *''Ariadna algarvensis'' Wunderlich, 2011 – Portugal *'' Ariadna alta'' Marsh, Stevens & Framenau, 2022 – Tasmania *'' Ariadna amabilia'' Marsh, Stevens & Framenau, 2022 – Tasmania *'' Ariadna araucana'' Grismado, 2008 – Chile *''Ariadna arthuri'' Petrunkevitch, 1926 – USA, Caribbean *'' Ariadna aurea'' Giroti & Brescovit, 2018 – Brazil *''Ariadna barbigera'' Simon, 1905 – Chatham Islands *''Ariadna bellatoria'' Dalmas, 1917 – New Zealand *''Ariadna bicolor'' (Hentz, 1842) – USA, Mexico *'' Ariadna bilineata'' Purcell, 1904 – South Africa *'' Ariadna boesenbergi'' Keyserling, 1877 – Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina *''Ariadna boliviana'' Simon, 1907 – Bolivia, Suriname, Brazil, Paraguay *''Ariadna brevispina'' C ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |