2018 Hardee's Pro Classic
The 2018 Hardee's Pro Classic was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the eighteenth edition of the tournament and was part of the 2018 ITF Women's Circuit. It took place in Dothan, United States, on 16–22 April 2018. Singles main draw entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings as of 9 April 2018. Other entrants The following players received a wildcard into the singles main draw: * Sophie Chang * Ashley Kratzer * Katerina Stewart The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Francesca Di Lorenzo * Deniz Khazaniuk * Marine Partaud * Camilla Rosatello Champions Singles * Taylor Townsend def. Mariana Duque Mariño, 6–2, 2–6, 6–1 Doubles * Alexa Guarachi / Erin Routliffe Erin Hope Routliffe (born April 11, 1995) is a New Zealand professional tennis player who previously represented Canada. She reached a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 29 on 8 August 2022 and a career-high junior rank of No. 17 ... [...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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Mariana Duque Mariño
Mariana Duque Mariño (; born 12 August 1989) is a Colombian retired tennis player. Having turned professional in 2005, she reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 66 in October 2015. Duque debuted on the ITF Junior Circuit in 2004. As a junior, she reached the final of the girls' singles tournament at the 2007 French Open. She defeated the tenth-seeded Ksenia Pervak in the first round, and ousted juniors' world No. 1, Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, in the semifinals. Duque lost in the final to Alizé Cornet in three sets. She had some setbacks during the tournament, due to losing her tennis rackets at the airport. Without money to buy replacements, she had to play with borrowed rackets. She won her first professional tournament in May 2006, in Mazatlán, Mexico. Her biggest win in senior competition is defeating 26th seed Anna Chakvetadze in the opening round of the 2009 French Open in three sets. Professional career 2005–2006 In 2005, she appeared in her first WTA To ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Camilla Rosatello
Camilla Rosatello (born 28 May 1995) is an Italian tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 225, achieved on 7 August 2017. On 29 January 2018, she peaked at No. 134 in the doubles rankings. Rosatello has won one singles title and 34 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On the ITF Junior Circuit, she had a career-high combined ranking of 30, achieved in January 2013. Rosatello has represented Italy in Fed Cup The Billie Jean King Cup (or the BJK Cup) is the premier international team competition in women's tennis, launched as the Federation Cup in 1963 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the International Tennis Federation (ITF). The name was cha ... competition, where she has a win–loss record of 0–1. ITF Circuit finals Singles: 12 (1 title, 11 runner–ups) Doubles: 60 (34 titles, 26 runner–ups) Notes References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Rosatello, Camilla 1995 births Living people Italian female tennis pla ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Marine Partaud
Marine Partaud (born 9 November 1994) is a French professional tennis player. She has career-high WTA rankings of 371 in singles, attained on 18 July 2022, and of 301 in doubles, attained on 21 February 2022. Partaud has won four singles titles and eleven doubles titles on tournaments of the ITF Circuit. Career Partaud made her Grand Slam women's doubles debut at the 2017 French Open, where she and her partner Virginie Razzano entered the event as a wildcard and lost in the first round to the Australian pair of Ashleigh Barty and Casey Dellacqua Casey Dellacqua ( ; born 11 February 1985) is a retired Australian professional tennis player and current commentator. Her best singles results on the WTA Tour have been semifinal appearances at the 2012 Texas Tennis Open and 2014 Birmingham .... ITF Circuit finals Singles: 9 (4 titles, 5 runner–ups) Doubles: 19 (11 titles, 8 runner–ups) Notes References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Partaud, Marine 1994 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Deniz Khazaniuk
Deniz Khazaniuk ( he, דניז חזניוק; born 24 October 1994) is an inactive Israeli tennis player. Khazaniuk has career-high WTA rankings of 200 in singles, achieved on 11 June 2018, and of 445 in doubles, achieved on 16 June 2014. She has won 21 singles titles and three doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. In 2016, Khazaniuk won the Israeli Singles Championship. Biography Khazaniuk was born in Ashkelon, Israel. Her father German Hazniuk is an orthopedist at the Hillel Yaffe Medical Center, and her mother Larissa who imports tennis equipment, both immigrated to Israel from Ukraine. When she was four years old the family moved to Netanya, Israel, where she lives. Her younger sister Stefany Khazaniuk is a former tennis player who currently works as a pitch-side reporter for Israel's Sport 5 Channel, and she has been in a relationship with Yair Netanyahu, son of the then Prime Minister of Israel. In December 2016, Khazaniuk won the Israeli Singles Championship at 22 y ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Francesca Di Lorenzo
Francesca Di Lorenzo (; born July 22, 1997) is an American tennis player. She played collegiately for the ''Ohio State University''. On May 29, 2017, Di Lorenzo and her partner Miho Kowase won the NCAA Women's Doubles Championship. Personal life Di Lorenzo was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania but raised in Columbus, Ohio, after her family moved there when she was around the age of seven. Her parents, Carlo and Daniela Di Lorenzo, are Italian immigrants from Salerno. Carlo is a physician at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus and Daniela teaches Italian at various colleges. Di Lorenzo attended New Albany High School in New Albany, Ohio. She has three siblings, and Cristina, her oldest sister, also played tennis at the collegiate level at Xavier University and graduated in 2017. Mario, her oldest brother, also has an athletic background as he won an intramural championship in the inaugural season of wheelchair basketball at The Ohio State University. Di Lorenzo is f ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Katerina Stewart
Katerina Stewart (born July 17, 1997) is an American tennis player. Stewart has won 13 singles and five doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On July 27, 2015, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 158. On July 30, 2018, she peaked at No. 400 in the doubles rankings. She made her WTA Tour debut at the 2014 US Open, having been handed a wildcard into the doubles tournament alongside Louisa Chirico. She enrolled at the West Point Preparatory School, starting the program in July 2016. Personal life She is of Argentine-Italian descent through her mother, Marina. Her Romanian Romanian may refer to: *anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Romania **Romanians, an ethnic group **Romanian language, a Romance language *** Romanian dialects, variants of the Romanian language ** Romanian cuisine, tradition ...-born father, Caesar, is the director of Next Level Tennis Academy in Coral Gables, Florida. ITF Circuit finals Singles: 18 (13 titles, 5 r ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ashley Kratzer
Ashley Kratzer (born February 8, 1999) is an American female tennis player. Kratzer has a career high WTA singles ranking of 333 and a career high doubles ranking of 447. In 2017, Kratzer won the USTA National Girls' Championships, securing a wildcard in the main draw of the 2017 US Open (tennis), 2017 US Open. In 2020, Kratzer tested positive for GHRP-6 and was suspended from competition for four years on March 28 of that year. The ITF's decision dated the end of her suspension as March 27, 2024. Kratzer's subsequent appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) was rejected in June 2021. ITF finals Singles: 3 (3 runner–ups) Doubles: 1 (1 runner–up) References External links * * * * 1999 births Living people American female tennis players Sportspeople from Newport Beach, California Doping cases in tennis Tennis people from California 21st-century American women {{US-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Sophie Chang
Sophie Chang (born May 28, 1997) is an American tennis player. Chang has career-high WTA rankings of No. 227 in singles, reached in October 2022, and No. 59 in doubles, achieved September 2022. She has won one doubles WTA title with Angela Kulikov in July 2022. On the ITF Circuit, Chang has won 16 doubles titles, five of them with Alexandra Mueller, and three singles titles. Career She made her WTA Tour main-draw debut at the 2017 Washington Open, in the doubles draw, partnering with Alexandra Mueller. She has won one doubles title on the WTA Tour at the 2022 Hamburg European Open, partnering with Angela Kulikov Angela Kirsten Kulikov (born 31 March 1998) is an American tennis player. She has a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 57 achieved on 24 October 2022. Kulikov has played college tennis at the University of Southern California (USC). Caree .... Her first Tour level singles match was at the 2022 Charleston Open. Grand Slam performance timelines Singles ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Lizette Cabrera
Lizette Faith Cabrera (born 19 December 1997) is an Australian tennis player of Filipino descent. She has a career-high singles ranking of No. 119, achieved on 3 February 2020. Early life Cabrera was born and raised in Townsville by her parents Ronnie and Maria before moving to Brisbane to train at the National Academy. She has one sister, Izabo and one brother, Carl. Cabrera's parents are both from the Philippines and both work in an abattoir in order to financially support her career. Professional career 2016 Cabrera started 2016 with a ranking of 1062. She won her first title on the professional tour in September 2016. Her year-end singles ranking was No. 257. 2017: Maiden tour match win Cabrera was given a wildcard into the Hobart International and won her first WTA Tour match against Misaki Doi in round one. At the Australian Open, Cabrera made her senior Grand Slam main-draw debut thanks to a wildcard; however, she lost in the first round to Donna Vekic. In September, Ca ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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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 Women's Circuit. She won the New York State high-school title as a sophomore. Loeb won the singles and doubles U18s championships at the 2012 USTA National Winter Championship, and won the doubles at the 2013 USTA International Spring Championship. She attended the University of North Carolina for her freshman and sophomore years (2013–15), and won the singles NCAA Championship in 2015. Biography Born in Bronxville, New York, Loeb was raised in Ossining, New York."Rising Jewish star Loeb ousted," ''The Jerusalem Post''. Her parents ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Sofya Zhuk
Sofya Andreyevna Zhuk ( rus, Софья Андреевна Жук, , ˈsofʲjə ɐnˈdrʲe(j)ɪvnə ˈʐuk; born 1 December 1999) is a former Russian tennis player. She won the 2015 Wimbledon girls' singles title. Career Early career Zhuk trained at the Justine Henin Academy in Belgium and her coach was Olivier Jeunehomme. Her best win to date on the professional tour has been at a $60K tournament in Turkey, where she beat home favourite İpek Soylu in the final. In 2014, she won her first tournament at Shymkent and became only the 17th 14-year-old in ITF history to win an open tournament at that age, joining a group which includes former world number ones Justine Henin and Dinara Safina. In 2015, Zhuk competed as an unseeded 15-year-old at Wimbledon, where she won the junior girls' title against fellow Russian and No. 12 ranked junior Anna Blinkova in straight sets, 7–5, 6–4. Zhuk did not drop a set in the whole Wimbledon tournament. Zhuk became only the second Russ ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |