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2022 Billie Jean King Cup Play-offs
The 2022 Billie Jean King Cup play-offs were held from 11 to 12 November 2022. Teams Sixteen teams played for eight spots in the 2023 qualifying round, in series decided on a home and away basis. These sixteen teams were: * 6 losing teams from qualifying round. * 7 winning teams from their Group I zone. * 2 later promoted teams from Zonal Group I (Serbia and Mexico) to fill the vacancy of Russia and Belarus. * 1 later promoted team from Zonal Group I (Austria) to fill the vacancy of Great Britain, whose was announced as Final hosts. The eight winners of this round qualify for the 2023 qualifying round while the eight losers will contest their respective regional Group I event in 2023. Seeded teams # (#2) # (#10) # (#13) # (#16) # (#18) # (#19) # (#20) # (#21) Unseeded teams * (#22) * (#23) * (#24) * (#26) * (#29) * (#33) * (#36) * (#37) Results summary Results France vs. Netherlands Croatia vs. Germany Romania vs. Hungary Austria vs. Latvia Jap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2023 Billie Jean King Cup Qualifying Round
The 2023 Billie Jean King Cup qualifying round is held from 14 to 16 April 2023. The nine winners of this round will qualify for the 2023 Finals while the nine losers will play at the 2023 Play-offs. Teams Eighteen teams play for nine spots in the Finals, in series decided on a home and away basis. These eighteen teams are: * 10 teams ranked 3rd–12th in the 2022 Finals * 8 winning teams from the 2022 Play-offs The nine winning teams from the qualifying round will play at the 2023 Finals and the nine losing teams will play at the 2023 Play-offs. ''#: Nations Ranking as of 16 November 2022.'' Qualified teams Seeded teams # (#3) # (#4) # (#5) # (#6) # (#7) # (#8) # (#9) # (#10) # (#12) Unseeded teams * (#13) * (#14) * (#15) * (#16) * (#17) * (#20) * (#22) * (#30) * (#34) Results summary Results Spain vs. Mexico Team nominations: : Nuria Párrizas Díaz, Rebeka Masarova, Sara Sorribes Tormo, Marina Bassols Ribera, Aliona Bolsova : Fernanda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suzan Lamens
Suzan Lamens (born 5 July 1999) is a Dutch professional tennis player. Lamens has a best singles ranking by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) of 161, achieved on 18 July 2022. She also has a career-high WTA doubles ranking of 206, attained on 26 July 2021. Career Lamens won her first $60k title at the 2021 Amstelveen Open, in the doubles draw, partnering Quirine Lemoine. She made her WTA Tour debut at the 2022 Copa Colsanitas The 2022 Copa Colsanitas (branded as the 2022 Copa Colsanitas presentado por Zurich for sponsorship reasons) is a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It is the 24th edition of the tournament and part of the 250 category of t .... Grand Slam performance Singles ITF finals Singles: 9 (4 titles, 5 runner-ups) Doubles: 27 (15 titles, 12 runner-ups) Notes References External links * * 1999 births Living people Dutch female tennis players 20th-century Dutch women 21st-century Dutch women {{Netherlands-te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ana Bogdan
Ana Bogdan (born 25 November 1992) is a Romanian professional tennis player. Having made her tour debut in 2007, she peaked at No. 46 in the WTA rankings in October 2022. Bogdan had a successful junior career, reaching world No. 2 on 5 January 2009. Tennis career 2016: Grand Slam debut and first WTA semifinal In May, she won her first ITF tournament of the year in Grado by defeating Susanne Celik in the final. In July, she qualified for the Bank of the West Classic. She won her first round match against Asia Muhammad before losing to Alison Riske in three sets in the second round. At her next tournament at Brasil Tennis Cup, she reached her first WTA Tour semifinal, defeating former world number 1, Jelena Jankovic along the way. At the US Open she made it out of qualifying and defeated her countrywoman, Sorana Cirstea, in the first round. This was her first main draw Grand Slam match win. In the second round, she lost to countrywoman Monica Niculescu in straight sets. 2017: Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romania
Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern, and Southeast Europe, Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Moldova to the east, and the Black Sea to the southeast. It has a predominantly Temperate climate, temperate-continental climate, and an area of , with a population of around 19 million. Romania is the List of European countries by area, twelfth-largest country in Europe and the List of European Union member states by population, sixth-most populous member state of the European Union. Its capital and largest city is Bucharest, followed by Iași, Cluj-Napoca, Timișoara, Constanța, Craiova, Brașov, and Galați. The Danube, Europe's second-longest river, rises in Germany's Black Forest and flows in a southeasterly direction for , before emptying into Romania's Danube Delta. The Carpathian Mountains, which cross Roma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Siegemund
Laura Natalie Siegemund (born 4 March 1988, in Filderstadt) is a German professional tennis player. She is a two-time Grand Slam champion, having won the 2020 US Open in women's doubles with Vera Zvonareva, as well as the 2016 US Open in mixed doubles alongside Mate Pavić. Siegemund reached her career-high doubles ranking of world No. 27 in October 2022, and has won nine doubles titles on the WTA Tour, including the 2022 Miami Open. In singles, her career-high ranking is world No. 27, achieved in August 2016, and she has won two WTA titles, at the 2016 Swedish Open and 2017 Stuttgart Open. Siegemund's best Grand Slam result in singles was a quarterfinal appearance at the 2020 French Open. She also reached the same stage at the 2016 Summer Olympics, and has represented Germany in the Billie Jean King Cup since 2017. Biography Siegemund was born to parents Harro (an engineer) and Brigitta Siegemund. She has two siblings. She was introduced to tennis by her family at age three ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna-Lena Friedsam
Anna-Lena Friedsam (born 1 February 1994) is a German tennis player. She has won three doubles titles on the WTA Tour, one WTA 125 singles title as well as 12 singles and three doubles titles on the ITF Circuit in her career. She played also in the fourth round of one Grand Slam championship, at the 2016 Australian Open. In August 2016, Friedsam reached her best singles ranking of world No. 45. In doubles, she peaked at world No. 34 in September 2020. Career overview Friedsam won her first $25K tournament in 2012, at the Infond Open. At the 2016 Australian Open, she reached her first and so far only Grand Slam round of 16. There she lost to Agnieszka Radwańska after big battle and struggling with injury during the match. In the previous round, she defeated US Open finalist and top 20 player, Roberta Vinci. At the 2020 WTA Lyon Open, she reached final but lost to Sofia Kenin. On her way to the final she defeated two former top 10 players, Kristina Mladenovic and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ana Konjuh
Ana Konjuh (; born 27 December 1997) is a Croatian tennis player. A successful junior player, Konjuh won both the singles and doubles junior events at the Australian Open in January 2013 and, as a result, moved up to No. 1 in the ITF Junior world rankings. Later in the year, she also won the girls' singles event at the 2013 US Open. She turned her attention to the main tour in 2014, and made her debut in the top 100 aged 16. Konjuh won her first singles title on the WTA Tour at the 2015 Nottingham Open, becoming the youngest player to win a main tour event since 2006. She has also won one title on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 31 July 2017, she reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 20. Tennis career Junior career Aged 14, Konjuh was the runner-up at the 2012 Wimbledon Championships in girls' doubles. In December 2012, Konjuh won two prestigious junior tennis tournaments, Eddie Herr and the Orange Bowl. In January 2013, she won the singles and doubles events ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jule Niemeier
Jule Niemeier (born 12 August 1999) is a German professional tennis player. She has a career-high WTA singles ranking of world No. 61, achieved on 7 November 2022. Career 2018–2019: WTA debut She made her WTA Tour main-draw debut as a wildcard at the 2018 Nürnberger Versicherungscup in doubles, partnering Lara Schmidt. She made her singles main-draw debut at the 2019 Nürnberger Versicherungscup, as a qualifier. 2021: Two WTA semifinals, top 150 debut In 2021, Niemeier reached two semifinals on clay, in May at the Internationaux de Strasbourg as a qualifier, losing to the eventual champion Barbora Krejčíková, and in July at the Hamburg European Open as a wildcard, losing to Andrea Petkovic. As a result, she entered top 150 at world No. 140, on 12 July 2021. On her Grand Slam qualifying competition debut at Wimbledon, she reached the third round losing to Lesley Pattinama Kerkhove. 2022: Top 100, first WTA 125 title, Grand Slam debut and quarterfinal At the French Op ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petra Marčinko
Petra Marčinko (born 4 December 2005) is a Croatian tennis player. Marčinko has career-high WTA rankings of 194 in singles, achieved on 7 November 2022, and 819 in doubles, set on 7 November 2022. She has won three singles and two doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. Marčinko has won nine singles titles as well as seven doubles titles on the ITF Junior Circuit. She achieved her career-high junior ranking of No. 1 on 13 December 2021. In December 2021, she completed a remarkable late-season surge as singles and doubles victories at the prestigious Orange Bowl Junior Tennis Championships saw her climb nine places to finish as the year-end junior world No. 1. At the beginning of 2022, Marčinko won her first junior Grand Slam title at the Australian Open, defeating Sofia Costoulas Sofia Costoulas (born 2 April 2005) is a Belgian tennis player. Costoulas has a Greek–Congolese father and a Belgian mother. Costoulas has a career-high singles ranking by the Women's Te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eva Lys
Eva Lys (born 12 January 2002) is a German professional tennis player. Lys reached a career-high WTA rankings, WTA ranking of world No. 112 in singles on 17 April 2023. She has won three singles titles at tournaments of the ITF Women's Circuit. Personal Life She was born in Kyiv, Ukraine. Her father Volodymyr is a former tennis player who represented Ukraine in the Davis Cup, and currently is a coach in Hamburg. Lys' older sister Lisa Matviyenko is also a tennis player. She went to school at the Sportgymnasium Alter Teichweg in Hamburg, from where Marvin Möller and Carina Witthöft also graduated. She still has family in Ukraine, and after the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine she complained of some Russian players' "disrespectful" behaviour. Career As a junior she participated in the 2020 Australian Open – Girls' singles, 2020 Australian Open, winning in the qualifiers but losing in the first round. Lys made her WTA Tour main-draw debut at the 2021 Hamburg European Open when ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petra Martić
Petra Martić (; born 19 January 1991) is a Croatian professional tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 14, achieved in January 2020. Martić has won two singles titles on the WTA Tour, one singles and one doubles tournament on WTA Challenger Tour, plus four singles and five doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. Early and personal life Petra Martić was born in Split, Yugoslavia to Nenad (father) and Sandra (mother). She grew up in the village of Duće, 30 km from Split, and moved to Split at the age of 10. Her father died in a car accident when Petra was five. Petra is quoted saying that her mother is a hero to her for managing to go through all this and raising Petra by herself, and that this motivates her to excel in tennis and bring joy to her family. Tennis career 2006–2009: Early career The best result in her junior career was the quarterfinals in 2006 US Open. In 2007, she played her first WTA Tour main draw match as a wild card at M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Croatia
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