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2022 Prague Open
The 2022 Prague Open (branded as the 2022 Livesport Prague Open for sponsorship reasons) was a professional women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at the ''TK Sparta Praha''. It was the 13th ( WTA and non-WTA) edition of the tournament and part of the 2022 WTA Tour, classified as a WTA 250 tournament. It took place in Prague, Czech Republic from 25 to 31 July 2022. This was the second edition of the tournament held on outdoor hard courts, as opposed to clay courts in previous editions. Champions Singles * Marie Bouzková def. Anastasia Potapova, 6–0, 6–3. This was Bouzková’s first WTA Tour singles title. Doubles * Anastasia Potapova / Yana Sizikova def. Angelina Gabueva / Anastasia Zakharova, 6–3, 6–4 Singles main draw entrants Seeds † Rankings are as of 18 July 2022. Other entrants The following players received wildcard entry into the singles main draw: * Lucie Havlíčková * Anett Kontaveit * Linda Nosková The foll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WTA 250 Tournaments
WTA 250 tournaments is a category of tennis tournaments in the Women's Tennis Association tour, implemented since the reorganization of the schedule in 2021. Earlier these events were classified as WTA International tournaments, WTA International Tournaments. As of 2021, WTA 250 tournaments include events with prize money of approximately $250,000. The ranking points awarded to the winners of these tournaments are 280. This compares to 2,000 points for winning a Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam tournament ("major"), up to 1,500 points for winning the WTA Finals, 1000 points for winning a WTA 1000 tournament, and 470 for winning a WTA 500 tournament. This system differs slightly from that used for the men's ATP Tour, which has ATP Tour 250 events with 250 points for the winner (similar to WTA 250 tournaments), and two higher tiers of ATP tournaments offer 1000 and 500 points for winning, respectively. Events Historic names 1990–2008 ''WTA Tier III / IV / V'' 2009–2020 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alizé Cornet
Alizé Cornet (; born 22 January 1990) is a French professional tennis player. Cornet has won six singles and three doubles titles on the WTA Tour, as well as three singles and three doubles titles on the ITF Women's World Tennis Tour, ITF Circuit. On 16 February 2009, she reached her highest WTA rankings, WTA singles ranking of world No. 11. Cornet has also made the second week at each of the four Grand Slam events, having reached the quarterfinals at the 2022 Australian Open, and the fourth round at the 2014 Wimbledon Championships, the 2015 French Open, 2015 and 2017 French Opens, and the 2020 US Open (tennis), 2020 US Open. She holds the record for the most Open Era tennis records – women's singles#Consecutive totals, consecutive Grand Slam appearances with 63 and also in seventh place for Open Era tennis records – women's singles#Career totals, overall appearances with 66. In 2014, Cornet became known for defeating world No. 1, Serena Williams, on three occasions. At the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ekaterine Gorgodze
Ekaterine Gorgodze ( ka, ეკატერინე გორგოძე, tr, ; born 3 December 1991) is a Georgian professional tennis player. Gorgodze has won two doubles titles on the WTA Tour and also four doubles titles on the WTA Challenger Tour along with 17 singles and 29 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 23 May 2022, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 108. On 15 August 2022, she peaked at No. 43 in the doubles rankings. Since her debut for Georgia Fed Cup team The Georgia Billie Jean King Cup team represents Georgia in the Billie Jean King Cup tennis competition and are governed by the Georgian Tennis Federation. They competed in the Europe/Africa Zone of Group II in 2007, but were promoted to Group I ... in 2007, Gorgodze has accumulated a win–loss record of 18–20. Performance timeline Singles ''Current through the 2023 Australian Open.'' Doubles WTA career finals Doubles: 3 (2 titles, 1 runner-up) WTA Challenger finals Do ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ekaterina Alexandrova
Ekaterina Evgenyevna Alexandrova ( rus, Екатери́на Евге́ньевна Александро́ва, links=no; ; born 15 November 1994) is a Russian professional tennis player. She has won three WTA singles titles, three WTA 125 titles and seven singles titles on the ITF Circuit. On 26 September 2022, she reached her best singles ranking of No. 21. On 26 September 2022, she also peaked at No. 58 in the WTA doubles rankings Personal life Since 1996, Alexandrova has been living and training in Prague, Czech Republic, with her parents and two siblings, a brother and a sister. They moved after travelling to the city for a youth tournament, attracted by the local availability of tennis courts compared to Russia. According to the player, the Russian Tennis Federation didn't know about her existence before 2016 and she has never been good enough to cause interest from the Czech one (Czech Tennis Association or cz, Český tenisový svaz) in terms of citizenship switch. Ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
Sinja Kraus
Sinja Kraus (born 29 April 2002) is an Austrian tennis player. Kraus has career-high WTA rankings of 192 in singles and world No. 345 in doubles, both achieved January 2023. She reached a career-high ITF juniors ranking of No. 87, on 21 January 2019. Kraus also won a bronze medal at the 2017 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival in Győr. She represents Austria in the Fed Cup and made her debut in 2020, when she partnered Melanie Klaffner in the tie against Italy, losing to Giulia Gatto-Monticone and Martina Trevisan. Grand Slam singles performance timeline ITF finals Singles: 10 (4 titles, 6 runner–ups) Doubles: 1 (title) Junior career ITF Circuit finals Singles: 5 (4–1) Doubles: 5 (3–2) National representation Kraus was nominated to make her Fed Cup debut for Austria in 2019, while the team was competing in the Europe/Africa Zone Group II, the opponent forfeited the match. Fed Cup Singles (5–5) Doubles (4–3) * walkover John_Carpent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nao Hibino
is a Japanese professional tennis player. She has been ranked as high as No. 56 in singles and No. 43 in doubles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA). Hibino has won two singles and two doubles titles on the WTA Tour. Along with that, she has won eight singles titles and eight doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. Hibino made her breakthrough in 2015, when she won her first WTA Tour title in singles at the Tashkent Open. As a result, she debuted in the top 100. Since then, she spent all weeks inside top 150 and several years in the top 100. She has represented Japan at national competitions, debuting at the Billie Jean King Cup in 2016 and at the Summer Olympics in 2021. Personal life and background Hibino was born on November 28, 1994, in Ichinomiya, Japan. Coming from a tennis-loving family, she is named after former top-20 player Naoko Sawamatsu, while her brother is named after Shuzo Matsuoka. She also has one older sister. At the age of 10, she and her brother were intr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wang Qiang (tennis)
Wang Qiang (; ; born 14 January 1992) is a Chinese professional tennis player. She has won two singles titles on the WTA Tour, one WTA 125 singles title, and 13 singles titles and one doubles title on the ITF Circuit. Her best result at a Grand Slam tournament came at the 2019 US Open where she reached the quarterfinals. On 9 September 2019, Wang reached her highest singles ranking of world No. 12, becoming the second-highest ranked Chinese tennis player in history after Li Na. Alongside Li Na, Zheng Jie, Peng Shuai, and Zhang Shuai, Wang is one of only five Chinese tennis players to have reached the quarterfinals of a Grand Slam tournament. Career Wang was born in Tianjin. At age nine, she started playing tennis. That year, she became the promotion player for the Tianjin National Tennis Center. For two years consecutively (2006, 2007), she won the Junior's Tennis Championship in China. She officially started touring the ITF Women's Circuit in Japan as of 2007. In February ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oksana Selekhmeteva
Oksana Olegovna Selekhmeteva ( rus, Окса́на Оле́говна Селехме́тьева, links=no; ; born 13 January 2003) is a Russian tennis player. Selekhmeteva has a career-high singles ranking by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) of 128, set on 8 August 2022, and a best doubles ranking of 150, achieved on 11 July 2022. Selekhmeteva won two junior Grand Slam titles in doubles – the 2019 US Open and 2021 French Open. She also reached the final of the 2019 Wimbledon girls' doubles tournament. Junior career As a junior, Selekhmeteva posted a 78–44 win–loss record in singles and 83–31 in doubles, and reached as high as world No. 7 in the combined junior rankings in January 2021. She won two junior Grand Slam doubles titles (each on a different surface) with two different partners – 2019 US Open with Kamilla Bartone and 2021 French Open with Alex Eala. She also finished runner-up at the 2019 Wimbledon Championships, partnering with Bartone. She compete ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dominika Šalková
Dominika Šalková (born 28 June 2004) is a Czech tennis player. Šalková has a career-high singles ranking of 209 by the WTA, achieved on 29 January 2024. She also has a career-high WTA doubles ranking of 147, achieved on 28 August 2023. Šalková made her WTA Tour debut at the 2022 Prague Open, after qualifying for the singles main draw, defeating Astra Sharma and Natalia Vikhlyantseva in qualifying. She also received a wildcard for the doubles main draw with Barbora Palicová Barbora Palicová (; born 11 March 2004) is a Czech tennis player. Palicová has a career high WTA ranking of 200 in singles, achieved on 28 November 2022. Palicová made her WTA Tour main-draw debut at the 2021 Prague Open, where she received a .... Junior career Junior Grand Slam results - Singles: * Australian Open: 3R (2022) * French Open: 3R (2022) * Wimbledon: 1R (2022) * US Open: – Junior Grand Slam results - Doubles: * Australian Open: 2R (2022) * French Open: 2R (2022) * Wimbledon: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbora Palicová
Barbora Palicová (; born 11 March 2004) is a Czech tennis player. Palicová has a career high WTA ranking of 200 in singles, achieved on 28 November 2022. Palicová made her WTA Tour main-draw debut at the 2021 Prague Open, where she received a wildcard to the doubles tournament. In singles, she also made her Tour level debut but needs to play in qualifying first. Junior career Junior Grand Slam results - Singles: * Australian Open: – * French Open: 2R (2021) * Wimbledon: 1R (2021) * US Open: – Junior Grand Slam results - Doubles: * Australian Open: – * French Open: 2R (2021) * Wimbledon: 2R (2021) * US Open: – Performance timelines ''Only main-draw results in WTA Tour, Grand Slam tournaments, Fed Cup/Billie Jean King Cup and Olympic Games are included in win–loss records.'' Singles ''Current through the 2023 French Open – Women's singles qualifying, 2023 French Open qualifying.'' Doubles ''Current after the 2023 Australian Open.'' ITF Circuit finals Singles: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dalila Jakupović
Dalila Jakupović (born 24 March 1991) is a Slovenian tennis player of Bosnian descent. Jakupović to date has won two doubles titles on the WTA Tour along with two WTA Challenger doubles titles. She also has won five singles and ten doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. In November 2018, she reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 69. On 10 September 2018, she peaked at No. 38 in the doubles rankings. Playing for the Slovenia Fed Cup team, Jakupović has a win–loss record of 8–9. In January 2020, Jakupovic collapsed during the Australian Open as a result of the pollution following the bushfires A wildfire, forest fire, bushfire, wildland fire or rural fire is an unplanned, uncontrolled and unpredictable fire in an area of combustible vegetation. Depending on the type of vegetation present, a wildfire may be more specifically identif ... in the country. Performance timeline ''Only main-draw results in WTA Tour, Grand Slam tournaments, Fed Cup/Bil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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