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2018 Dow Tennis Classic – Singles
Tatjana Maria was the defending champion, but chose to compete at the 2018 St. Petersburg Ladies' Trophy instead. Madison Brengle won the title, defeating Jamie Loeb Jamie Loeb (born March 8, 1995) is an American tennis player. She has career-high WTA rankings of 132 in singles, achieved in February 2018, and 120 in doubles, achieved in July 2018. Loeb has won nine singles and nine doubles titles on the ITF ... in the final 6–1, 6–2. Seeds Draw Finals Top half Bottom half External LinksMain Draw {{DEFAULTSORT:2018 Dow Tennis Classic - Singles Dow Tennis Classic - Singles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madison Brengle
Madison Brengle (born April 3, 1990) is an American professional tennis player. Her biggest success she had in early 2015, reaching her first WTA Tour final in January, followed by a fourth round major event appearance at the Australian Open. In May, she reached her career-high singles ranking of No. 35. Her greatest victory came in 2017 over world No. 2, Serena Williams. She has won two singles titles and one doubles title on the WTA Challenger Tour, 19 singles and seven doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. In August 2007, she was ranked fourth in the world in juniors. Brengle then toiled for years in the ITF Circuit. Over the course of 24 consecutive majors between 2008 and 2014, she failed to make it out of the pre-tournament qualifier. The streak ended when she earned a wildcard for the 2014 US Open main draw, which she capitalized on for her first major match-win. Her ranking soon rose into the top 100 for the first time in September 2014. Early life Brengle was born and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jil Teichmann
Jil Belén Teichmann (born 15 July 1997) is a Swiss professional tennis player. She has been ranked by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) as high as world No. 21 in singles and No. 74 in doubles. She has won two singles titles and one doubles title on the WTA Tour along with one doubles title on WTA 125 tournaments, plus six singles and five doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. A former junior world No. 3, Teichmann won a Grand Slam title in the girls' doubles event at the 2014 US Open. That year, she also won a gold medal for Switzerland in mixed doubles at the Summer Youth Olympics in Nanjing. Her breakthrough as a senior player came in May 2019 when she won her first WTA title in Prague. In July of that year, she won another WTA tournament title after making her first top-10 win over Kiki Bertens. She continued progressing, in March 2021 reaching the semifinals of the WTA 1000 Dubai Championships. With these performances she entered the top 50. Later that year, s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Misaki Doi
is a Japanese professional tennis player. Her highest WTA rankings are No. 30 in singles and No. 77 in doubles. Doi reached two junior Grand Slam doubles finals – at Wimbledon in 2007 with Kurumi Nara, and at the Australian Open in 2008, with Elena Bogdan (losing both). She has made it to three WTA tournament finals (only winning one). She is managed by Muse Group, a sports marketing agency based in Tokyo. Junior career Doi began playing tennis at the age of six. She first distinguished herself in tennis as a middle-school student, reaching the semifinals of the All Japan Middle School Tennis Championships in both 2004 and 2006 and joining the ITF Junior Circuit in 2006. In 2007, while enrolled as a freshman in Sundai Kōei High School, Doi earned second place in the Japan Open Junior Championships in Nagoya. A highlight of Doi's junior career was her successful doubles partnership with age-mate Kurumi Nara. They placed second in girls' doubles at the 2007 Wimbledon Cham ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bianca Andreescu
Bianca Vanessa Andreescu (; born June 16, 2000) is a Canadian professional tennis player. She has a career-high ranking of No. 4 in the world, and is the highest-ranked Canadian in the history of the Women's Tennis Association (WTA). Andreescu was the champion at the 2019 US Open – Women's singles, US Open and the 2019 Rogers Cup, Canadian Open in 2019, defeating Serena Williams to win both titles. She is the first Canadian tennis player to win a Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, major singles title, and the first to win the Canadian Open in 50 years. She was also the first player to win a major singles title as a teenager since Maria Sharapova in 2006. Andreescu began playing tennis in her parents' home country of Romania before returning to Canada, the country of her birth. She had success as a junior, winning the Orange Bowl (tennis), Orange Bowl and two major doubles titles with compatriot Carson Branstine en route to reaching a career-best junior ranking of No. 3 in the w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann Li (tennis)
Ann Li (born June 26, 2000) is an American tennis player. She has a career-high ranking by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) of No. 44 in the world, and was the runner-up at the 2017 Junior Wimbledon Championships. Personal background Li was born into a sports family. Her aunt was a professional speed skater in China. Her father played soccer in college, while her mother ran track in college. Tennis career 2017 Li reached her first Junior Grand Slam singles final in 2017 at Wimbledon. In the first all-American girls' final since 1979, the unseeded Li lost to third seed Claire Liu, in three sets. Two weeks later, Li won her first professional title on the ITF Circuit, a $15k tournament in Evansville, Indiana. 2018 Li entered the Kentucky Championships where she defeated Renata Zarazúa, Julia Glushko, Anastasia Nefedova, Jessica Pegula before losing to Asia Muhammad, in straight sets. She participated at the Koser Challenge where she defeated former British No. 1, Heathe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whitney Osuigwe
Whitney Osuigwe ( ; born April 17, 2002) is an American tennis player. In 2017, Osuigwe was the ITF Junior World Champion. She won the juniors 2017 French Open to become the first American to win the girls' singles event in Paris in 28 years. Personal life Osuigwe has been playing tennis at the IMG Academy since age six, where her father Desmond has been a teacher at the academy since 1997 and acts as her primary coach. Desmond is from Lagos in Nigeria and played professional tennis events at the ITF Futures level before coming to the United States to attend college. Whitney has an older brother named Deandre who is a college basketball player and a younger sister named Victoria who also plays tennis. Junior career In June 2017, Osuigwe climbed to No. 2 in the junior rankings by dominating the clay-court events in the previous six months. She started by reaching the semifinals at the Orange Bowl in December, and then won two Grade-1 clay-court tournaments in back-to-back weeks ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie Bouzková
Marie Bouzková (, born 21 July 1998) is a Czech professional tennis player. She attained her career-high WTA singles ranking of No. 26 on 31 October 2022. On 9 May 2022, she peaked at No. 24 in the WTA doubles rankings. So far, she has won one singles title on the WTA Tour, at the 2022 Prague Open, as well as three doubles titles on the WTA Tour. At the tournaments of the ITF Women's Circuit, Bouzková has won 12 singles titles and three doubles titles. She won the 2014 US Open girls' singles title, defeating Anhelina Kalinina in the final. She made her WTA Tour debut at the 2015 Abierto Mexicano Telcel, where she lost in the first round to Sesil Karatantcheva. Bouzková rose to prominence following her run to the semifinals at the 2019 Rogers Cup, where she defeated Sloane Stephens, Jeļena Ostapenko, and Simona Halep before falling to Serena Williams; despite losing, she pushed the former world No. 1 to three sets, winning the first set 6–1. She won her maiden WTA tournam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Usue Maitane Arconada
Usue Maitane Arconada (born 28 October 1998) is an American tennis player born in Argentina. Arconada is the 2016 Wimbledon Championships girls' doubles champion, alongside Claire Liu Claire Liu (born May 25, 2000) is an American tennis player. On 24th October 2022, she reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 60. In 2017, she was the world No. 1 in the junior rankings, after winning the Wimbledon girls' sing .... In May 2015, she achieved a career-high ITF juniors combined ranking of No. 5. To date, she has won five singles and seven doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. Performance timelines Singles WTA 125 tournament finals Singles: 1 (runner-up) Doubles: 2 (runner-ups) ITF Circuit finals Singles: 7 (5 titles, 2 runner–ups) Doubles: 13 (7 titles, 6 runner–ups) Junior Grand Slam finals Girls' doubles: 1 (1 title) External links * * 1998 births Living people American female tennis players Tennis players from Buenos Aires Sportspe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irina Bara
Irina Maria Bara (born 18 March 1995) is a professional tennis player from Romania. She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 104, achieved on 18 April 2022. On 13 May 2019, she peaked at No. 56 in the WTA doubles rankings. She won her maiden WTA Tour doubles title at the 2021 Transylvania Open, partnering Ekaterine Gorgodze. Bara has also won five doubles titles on the WTA 125 tournaments, WTA Challenger Tour, where she is undefeated in finals, and nine singles titles and 29 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit, ITF Circuit, most of them on clay. In singles, she reached a $100k and an $80k finals, three finals at $60k events, but lost all of them, having $25k as her highest category that she won. In doubles, she won a couple of $60k and $80k tournaments, but also won one $100k event, the 2016 Soho Square Ladies Tournament – Doubles, 2016 Soho Square Tournament in Sharm El Sheik, Egypt. Bara is better known for her performances in doubles, reaching the top 100. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carol Zhao
Carol Zhao (Chinese:赵一羽; born June 20, 1995) is a Canadian tennis player. She turned professional in June 2016 and was Canada's top singles player from June 11th, 2018 to July 23rd, 2018. She reached her highest WTA singles ranking of No. 131 on June 25, 2018, and her career-high junior rank of No. 9 on January 1, 2013. She won the Australian Open junior doubles title in 2013. Zhao was a member of the Stanford University tennis team, ending her college career with a 76–16 overall record and leading the team to win the 2016 NCAA championship. She also was the 2015 NCAA singles runner-up. Early life Zhao was born in Chongqing, China to Ping and Lily Zhao and started playing tennis at the age of five, with the encouragement of her grade school teacher. At the age of seven, she and her family emigrated to Canada and settled in the city of Richmond Hill, Ontario. In September 2010, she relocated to Montreal to be part of the National Training Centre until August 2013. Tenn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victoria Duval
Victoria Duval (born 30 November 1995) is an American professional tennis player. Duval has won one singles title and two doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. In August 2014, she reached her best singles ranking of No. 87. In 2012, she won the USTA Girls' 18s National Championships. Early life Duval was born in Miami and spent some of her childhood in Haiti, including time training at the JOTAC Tennis Academy in Port-au-Prince. While living in Port-au-Prince, Duval was robbed at gunpoint and held hostage at her aunt's house at the age of 7. Victoria's mother gave up her neonatal practice and moved Victoria and her two brothers to south Florida. Her father stayed behind to continue the gynecology and obstetrics practice he had helped build in Port-au-Prince. To continue improving Vicky's tennis game, Nadine moved with her to Atlanta. It was here that she worked with coach Brian de Villiers, at the Racquet Club of the South. In January 2010, Vicky was training in Atlanta w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katherine Sebov
Katherine Sebov (born January 5, 1999) is a Canadian professional tennis player. She reached a career-high WTA singles ranking of No. 190, on 16 January 2023, and a career-high ITF junior ranking of No. 22, on 20 July 2015. Early life Sebov was born in Toronto and is of Ukrainian descent. Her coaches are Simon Bartram in Toronto and Robert Lansdorp in Los Angeles. Tennis career 2013–14 Sebov made her professional debut in November 2013 at a $50k event in Toronto, but was defeated in the qualifying second round in singles and in the first round in doubles. In July 2013, she had won her first junior singles title at the G4 in Vancouver. In July 2014 at Wimbledon, she qualified for her junior Grand Slam main-draw debut where she lost in the first round in singles and in the quarterfinals in the doubles. In September 2014, Sebov advanced to the third round in singles as a qualifier at the junior US Open and was defeated in the first round in doubles. 2015 In January, Sebov won ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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