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2023 Korea Open
The 2023 Korea Open (also known for sponsorship purposes as the 2023 Hana Bank Korea Open) was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 19th edition of the tournament and a WTA 250 event on the 2023 WTA Tour. The tournament took place at the Olympic Park Tennis Center in Seoul, South Korea from 9 to 15 October 2023. The men's event was discontinued this year following the return of the ATP Tour to China. Champions Singles * Jessica Pegula def. Yuan Yue 6–2, 6–3 Doubles * Marie Bouzková / Bethanie Mattek-Sands def. Luksika Kumkhum / Peangtarn Plipuech 6–2, 6–1 Singles main draw entrants Seeds * Rankings are as of 2 October 2023. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Back Da-yeon * Han Na-lae * Jessica Pegula The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Arianne Hartono * Liang En-shuo * Sachia Vickery * Ku Yeon-woo The following player received ent ... [...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] |
Jeļena Ostapenko
Jeļena Ostapenko (born 8 June 1997), also known as Aļona Ostapenko, is a Latvian professional tennis player. She has career-high WTA rankings of world No. 5 in singles, achieved on 19 March 2018, and world No. 9 in doubles, reached on 22 August 2022. Ostapenko won the 2017 French Open singles title, becoming the first player from Latvia to win a Grand Slam singles tournament and the first unseeded player to win the French Open since 1933. In addition to her singles career, she has played as a member of the Latvia Fed Cup team. She has won seven singles and eight doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit, and she also won the junior singles event at the 2014 Wimbledon Championships. Personal life Ostapenko was born in Riga to former Ukrainian footballer Jevgēnijs Ostapenko (d. 2020) and Russian Jeļena Jakovļeva. Jevgēnijs played professional football for FC Metalurh Zaporizhya in the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhia where Jeļena's grandmother lives. Jeļena has one half-br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irina-Camelia Begu
Irina-Camelia Begu (born 26 August 1990) is a Romanian professional tennis player. She reached a career-high singles ranking of No. 22 in the world, in August 2016. Two years later, she reached her highest WTA doubles ranking, also No. 22. Begu has won five singles titles and nine doubles titles on the WTA Tour. She also has won two singles titles on the WTA Challenger Tour, as well as 12 singles and 19 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. As a junior, she reached semifinal at the 2007 Wimbledon Championships, partnering with Oksana Kalashnikova. Later, as a senior, she continued with Grand Slam doubles success. She reached the semifinal at the 2018 Australian Open and quarterfinals of the 2017 French Open and 2018 Wimbledon Championships. In singles, she has the round of 16 as her best Grand Slam result at the 2015 Australian Open, 2016 French Open and 2022 French Open. In singles, she reached one Premier final, at the 2014 Kremlin Cup, but lost to Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irina Khromacheva
Irina Pavlovna Khromacheva ( rus, Ирина Павловна Хромачёва; born 12 May 1995) is a professional tennis player from Russia. She has career-high WTA rankings of 89 in singles and 41 in doubles. Khromacheva was provisionally suspended by the Tennis Integrity Unit for one month from September 2019. Personal life Irina was born to Pavel and Natalya Khromacheva, on 12 May 1995 in Moscow. She trained at the Justine Henin Academy in Belgium. Khromacheva states that she doesn't have a favourite surface and likes everything. She started playing tennis at the age of four. Khromacheva, after her unsuccessful partnership with a Belgian coach, is now coached by Larisa Savchenko in Riga. Junior tennis Khromacheva had a breakthrough on the ITF Junior Circuit in 2008, in that year she won her first title at the Junior Zagreb Open. In 2009, she won four junior titles and competed for the first time at the 2009 French Open, French Open and 2009 US Open (tennis), US Open. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ku Yeon-woo
Ku Yeon-woo (born 15 March 2003) is a South Korean tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking of 411 by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), achieved on 20 March 2023, and a best WTA doubles ranking of 453, reached on 24 October 2022. Ku made her WTA Tour The WTA Tour is a worldwide top-tier tennis tour for women organized by the Women's Tennis Association. The second-tier tour is the WTA 125K series, and third-tier is the ITF Women's Circuit. The men's equivalent is the ATP Tour. WTA Tour tou ... main-draw debut at the 2022 Korea Open, after receiving a wildcard for the doubles tournament. ITF Circuit finals Doubles: 3 (3 titles) Doubles: 7 (4 titles, 3 runner-ups) References External links * * 2003 births Living people South Korean female tennis players Tennis players at the 2022 Asian Games Asian Games competitors for South Korea 21st-century South Korean women {{Korea-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sachia Vickery
Sachia Vickery (born May 11, 1995) is an American professional tennis player. She first entered the top 100 in 2018 and eventually reached a career-high of No. 73 in the world in the WTA rankings. Her best results on the WTA Tour came at the 2018 Auckland Open and the 2018 Monterrey Open, where she reached the semifinals. Vickery, a former USTA junior national champion, has also won three singles and three doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. Early life and background Vickery was born in Florida to Paula Liverpool and Rawle Vickery. Her parents had both lived in Linden, the second largest city in the Caribbean nation of Guyana, and her mother is originally from the small mining town of Kwakwani. Her mother ran track in high school and her father was a professional soccer player. She also has an older brother named Dominique Mitchell who played college football at South Carolina State University. Through her former stepfather Derrick Mitchell, she is acquainted with LeBron Jame ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liang En-shuo
Liang En-shuo (; ; in Chinese mainland born 2 October 2000) is a tennis player from Taiwan. She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 150, achieved on 13 May 2019. On 20 February 2023, she peaked at No. 165 in the doubles rankings. Liang has won one WTA 125 doubles title, as well as one singles title and three doubles titles in ITF Circuit tournaments. Junior career Liang had a career-high ITF junior combined ranking of No. 2, achieved on 29 January 2018. In January 2018, she won the Australian Open girls' singles title, defeating Clara Burel in the final, in straight sets. Professional career She made her Grand Slam debut as a qualifier at the 2021 French Open The 2021 French Open was a major level tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was held at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France, from 30 May to 13 June 2021, comprising singles, doubles and mixed doubles play. The qualifiers t .... Performance timeline Singles ''Current after the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arianne Hartono
Arianne Hartono (born 21 April 1996) is a Dutch tennis player. Hartono has won two singles and fifteen doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. On 12 September 2022, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 156, and on 11 July 2022, she peaked at No. 123 in the WTA doubles rankings. College career Hartono played tennis during her college years for University of Mississippi and won the 2018 NCAA Division I Women's Tennis Championship, becoming the first Dutch player to do so. The same year she won the Honda Sports Award awarded to the top female collegiate tennis player. Professional career She made her Grand Slam debut at the 2022 Australian Open. She repeated the feat qualifying for a second year in a row at the 2023 Australian Open. Personal life She is of Indonesian and Chinese descent, and is the niece of Deddy and Lukky Tedjamukti. Her cousin Nadia Ravita is also a tennis player, currently at the University of Kentucky The University of Kentucky (UK, UKY, or U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Han Na-lae
Han Na-lae ( ko, 한나래; born 6 July 1992) is a South Korean tennis player. Han has a career-high singles ranking of 149, achieved June 2019. She reached the top 100 in doubles for the first time with a ranking of 96, on 31 October 2022. Han made her WTA Tour main-draw singles debut at the 2014 Korea Open. Career Han made her Grand Slam main-draw debut at the 2020 Australian Open having received a wildcard. At the 2017 Korea Open, she defeated top 50 player Kristýna Plíšková Kristýna Plíšková (; born 21 March 1992) is an inactive Czech professional tennis player. Plíšková has won one singles and four doubles titles on the WTA Tour, as well as nine singles and eight doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. On 31 Ju ... as one of her biggest victories. Grand Slam singles performance timeline WTA career finals Doubles: 1 (1 title) WTA Challenger finals Doubles: 1 (1 title) ITF Circuit titles Singles: 23 (13 titles, 10 runner–ups) Doubles: 45 (26 tit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Back Da-yeon
Back Da-yeon (born 24 January 2002) is a Korean tennis player. Back has a career-high singles ranking of 494 by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), achieved on 21 August 2023. She also has a career-high WTA doubles ranking of 563, reached on 14 October 2022. Career Back made her WTA Tour debut at the 2022 Korea Open, after qualifying for the singles main draw. She is a winner of the Heart Award in the 2023 Billie Jean King Cup. Ranked No. 569, at the 2023 Korea Open where she received a wildcard, she upset second seed Jelena Ostapenko Jelena, also written Yelena and Elena, is a Slavic given name. It is a Slavicized form of the Greek name Helen, which is of uncertain origin. Diminutives of the name include Jelica, Jelka, Jele, Jela, Lena, Lenotschka, Jeca, Lenka, and Alena. Nota .... ITF Circuit finals Singles: 6 (3 titles, 3 runner–ups) Doubles: 9 (3 titles, 6 runner–ups) References External links * * 2002 births Living people South Korean female tenni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katie Boulter
Katie Boulter (born 1 August 1996) is a British tennis player. Boulter, from Woodhouse Eaves, Leicestershire, has won six singles titles and four doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 18 February 2019, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 82. On 31 December 2018, she peaked at No. 431 in the WTA doubles rankings. Boulter was ranked the No. 10 junior tennis player in the world in March 2014. She is based at the Lawn Tennis Association's National Tennis Centre in Roehampton and is coached by Jeremy Bates, Nigel Sears, and Mark Taylor. Early and personal life Boulter's mother played tennis at county level and represented Great Britain a few times. Boulter herself started playing tennis aged 5, and went on to represent Great Britain three years later, aged 8. She has said that when she was younger, beating her older brother was a motivating factor. "We used to practise together at this local court down the road from our house. It was the only thing I could ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arantxa Rus
Arantxa Rus (; born 13 December 1990) is a Dutch tennis player. In 2008, she won the girl's singles title at the 2008 Australian Open – Girls' singles, Australian Open, defeating Jessica Moore (tennis), Jessica Moore from Australia in the final. With this win she went from 35th to second place on the junior rankings, ultimately becoming the world No. 1 junior player. Her biggest singles successes to date are a second-round upset over world No. 2, Kim Clijsters, at the 2011 French Open, saving two match points in the second set, reaching the fourth round at the 2012 French Open, and defeating world No. 5, Samantha Stosur, in the 2012 Wimbledon Championships to reach the third round. Her maiden WTA Tour title was winning the 2017 Swedish Open doubles event, partnering Quirine Lemoine. Tennis career 2005–07 At age 14, Arantxa played her first ITF Women's Circuit tournament at Alkmaar where she lost in the second round to Julie Coin. In 2006, she played two more ITF events at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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