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2005 Richard Luton Properties Canberra Women's Classic
The 2005 Richard Luton Properties Canberra Women's Classic was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 5th edition of the Canberra International, and part of the WTA Tier V tournaments of the 2005 WTA Tour. It took place at the National Sports Club in Canberra, Australia, from 10 to 16 January 2005. Singles main-draw entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings are as of 27 December 2004 Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Monique Adamczak * Lauren Breadmore The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Ekaterina Bychkova * Evie Dominikovic * Ana Ivanovic * Lenka Němečková The following player received entry as a lucky loser: * Melinda Czink Withdrawals ;Before the tournament * Katarina Srebotnik → replaced by Melinda Czink Doubles main-draw entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings are as of 27 December 2004 Other entrants The following pair received a wildcard into the doubles ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WTA Tier V Tournaments
The WTA Tier V tournaments were the fifth, and lowest, level of women's tennis tournaments on the WTA Tour between 1990 and 1992 and from 2001 to 2005. The line-up of events varied over the years, with tournaments being promoted, demoted or cancelled. Most of the Tier V tournaments became Tier IV events between 1993 and 2000 and from 2006 to 2008. In 2009, WTA changed the tournament categories, so that most of the Tier III, Tier IV and Tier V tournaments from 2008 were placed in a single, WTA International tournaments, category. Number of tournaments Events Past finals 1990 The 1990 WTA Tour consisted of 59 tournaments of which 12 were categorized as Tier V. These were tournaments approved by the WIPTC with prize money of $75,000. 1991 The 1991 WTA Tour consisted of 60 tournaments of which 14 were categorized as Tier V. These were tournaments approved by the WIPTC with prize money of $75,000 or $100,000. 1992 The 1992 WTA Tour consisted of 57 tournaments of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Émilie Loit
Émilie Loit (; born 9 June 1979) is a retired tennis player from France. Besides her three career singles titles, all on clay, included Estoril and Casablanca both in 2004, and Acapulco in 2007, she won 16 doubles titles on the WTA Tour. Her highest rankings were No. 27 in singles and No. 15 in doubles. On 24 May 2009, right after losing her first-round match at the French Open The French Open (french: Internationaux de France de tennis), also known as Roland-Garros (), is a major tennis tournament held over two weeks at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France, beginning in late May each year. The tournament and ven ..., she announced her retiring from professional tennis by the end of the tournament. In summer 2011, she gave birth to a son, Mathias.Tennis Magazine (France), September 2011 issue WTA career finals Singles: 3 (3 titles) Doubles: 26 (16 titles, 10 runner-ups) ITF Circuit finals Singles: 12 (7–5) Doubles: 11 (5-6) References External links ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michaela Paštiková
Michaela Paštiková (born 27 March 1980) is a retired tennis player from the Czech Republic. On 31 January 2005, Paštiková achieved her career-high singles ranking of world No. 89. On 25 July 2005, she peaked at No. 35 of the WTA doubles rankings. Her father introduced her to the game at age three and she was coached by Jiri Fencl. Paštiková preferred playing on clay surfaces. Father, Vladimir, is a teacher and tennis coach, mother, Zdena, is a nurse; Michaela has a younger sister named Marketa. Paštiková retired from professional tennis 2014. WTA career finals Doubles: 4 (1 title, 3 runner-ups) ITF Circuit finals Singles: 13 (8–5) Doubles: 45 (19–26) External links * * * 1980 births Living people People from Šumperk Czech female tennis players Australian Open (tennis) junior champions Grand Slam (tennis) champions in girls' doubles Sportspeople from the Olomouc Region {{CzechRepublic-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabriela Chmelinová
Gabriela Chmelinová (née Navrátilová; born 2 June 1976) is a retired Czech tennis player. Chmelinová has won six singles titles and 55 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit in her career. On 23 June 2003, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 258. On 25 July 2005, she peaked at No. 55 in the doubles rankings. Until 2003, Navrátilová played mainly on the ITF Women's Circuit in Europe, garnering over 60 titles. From 2004, she began to play exclusively in doubles and became a more active participant on the WTA Tour. She reached six finals and the semifinals of the 2005 Australian Open, partnering with Michaela Paštiková. She announced her retirement in November 2008. In November 2014, in a comeback in an ITF tournament in Poland, she reached the finals partnered with Karolína Muchová Karolína Muchová (; born 21 August 1996) is a Czech tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 19, achieved on 17 May 2021. Muchová has reached two fin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claudine Schaul
Claudine Schaul (born 20 August 1983) is a former tennis player from Luxembourg. Her career-high rankings are world No. 41 in singles, which was achieved on 24 May 2004, and No. 71 for doubles, achieved on 8 November 2004. Schaul first played for the Luxembourg Fed Cup team in 1998, where she has a win–loss record of 42–43. Career Her father and brother are sports teachers and introduced her to tennis when she was four years old. A year after turning pro, Schaul made it to the third round of the 2003 U.S. Open – Women's singles, 2003 US Open, upsetting former No. 15 Anna Smashnova, 7–6(5), 6–2 in the first round. In January 2004, Schaul won her first doubles title in Canberra, Australia, partnering Jelena Kostanić Tošić. Schaul then made it to the third round of the 2004 Australian Open – Women's singles, Australian Open. In May 2004, she won her first Women's Tennis Association, WTA Tour title at Internationaux de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, defeating Lindsay Dav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna-Lena Grönefeld
Anna-Lena Grönefeld (also spelled Groenefeld; born 4 June 1985) is a German former professional tennis player. Competing as a professional from 2003 until 2019, she won one singles title on the WTA Tour, at the 2006 Mexican Open, and reached the quarterfinals of the 2006 French Open. She is a two-time Grand Slam champion in mixed doubles, having won the 2009 Wimbledon Championships alongside Mark Knowles, and the 2014 French Open with Jean-Julien Rojer. Grönefeld also finished runner-up in mixed doubles at the 2016 Wimbledon Championships and 2017 French Open. In women's doubles, Grönefeld won 17 titles on WTA Tour, most notably the 2005 Rogers Cup with Martina Navratilova, and reached seven Grand Slam semifinals. She was part of the German team which reached the final of the 2014 Davis Cup, and competed at the 2012 and 2016 Olympic Games. Career 2002–2006: Breakthrough In 2002, she was the singles champion of both the Belgium and Frankfurt International Champio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katarina Srebotnik
Katarina Srebotnik (born 12 March 1981) is a Slovenian retired professional tennis player. She reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 20 on 7 August 2006. On 4 July 2011, she reached No. 1 of the WTA doubles rankings, holding this ranking for 10 weeks. Srebotnik won four singles titles on the WTA Tour and was ranked inside the top 30 for several years. However, her best results have been on the doubles circuit, where she has won 39 WTA titles, including one Grand Slam title, at the 2011 Wimbledon Championships alongside Květa Peschke. She has also won five Grand Slam titles in mixed doubles, at the French Open in 1999, 2006 and 2010, the US Open in 2003 and the Australian Open in 2011. Career As a junior, she won the 1998 Wimbledon singles title and was runner-up at the US Open. Srebotnik was ranked No. 2 in the junior rankings in 1997 and 1998. She was mentored by Gabriela Sabatini. 1995–1999: WTA Tour debut and historic Guinness World record Srebotn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melinda Czink
Melinda Czink (born 22 October 1982) is a former professional tennis player from Hungary. On 21 September 2009, she reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 37. Czink reached two WTA Tour singles finals. In 2005, she lost to Ana Ivanovic in Canberra. In 2009, she defeated Lucie Šafářová in Quebec City for her first and only WTA Tour title. On the ITF Circuit, she won 20 singles and nine doubles titles. Tennis career 2000–2008 She played her first tournament at Budapest as a wildcard in 2000, and first entered the top 100 in 2003. Czink won several singles and doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. 2009 She reached the top 50 and won her first title at Quebec City; as the fifth seed, she defeated Aleksandra Wozniak in the semifinal, and Lucie Šafářová in the final. She also reached one semifinal and four quarterfinals during the season. At the end of the year, she played at the Tournament of Champions in Bali where she lost to Aravane Rezaï and to Sabine Li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lenka Němečková
Lenka Němečková (born 20 April 1976) is a Czech former professional tennis player. Němečková was born in Brno Brno ( , ; german: Brünn ) is a city in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. Located at the confluence of the Svitava and Svratka rivers, Brno has about 380,000 inhabitants, making it the second-largest city in the Czech Republic .... She has a career-high WTA singles ranking of 72, achieved on 12 January 1998. She also has a career-high WTA doubles ranking of 85 achieved on 28 April 1997. Němečková has won one WTA doubles title, and four ITF singles titles and 16 ITF doubles titles. Němečková (married Janoušková) retired from professional tennis in 2006. WTA career finals Singles: 1 (1 runner-up) Doubles: 3 (1 title, 2 runner-ups) ITF finals Singles (4–9) Doubles (16–15) External links * * 1976 births Living people Sportspeople from Brno Czech female tennis players {{CzechRepublic-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evie Dominikovic
Evie Dominikovic ( hr, Evie Dominiković, ; born 29 May 1980) is a retired Australian tennis player. Her younger sister (by seven years) is the fellow former tennis player Daniella Dominikovic (later Daniella Jeflea). Evie Dominikovic also has a child. She turned professional in 1997. Her best Grand Slam performance came at the 2001 Australian Open and at the 2002 French Open where she reached the third round. Her best singles ranking was 64, achieved in September 2001. Dominikovic also played women's doubles; her best doubles ranking was 52, reached in August 2002. In her career, she won one doubles title on the 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 tourna ..., as well as 12 singles and 15 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. WTA career finals Doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ekaterina Bychkova
Ekaterina Andreevna Bychkova (russian: Екатерина Андреевна Бычкова; born 5 June 1985) is an inactive tennis player from Russia. In her career, Bychkova won ten singles and five doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit, ITF Circuit. On 20 February 2006, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 66. On 29 January 2007, she peaked at No. 106 in the doubles rankings. Bychkova defeated defending champion Svetlana Kuznetsova in the first round of the 2005 US Open (tennis), 2005 US Open. She was coached by her mother, Liudmila Bychkova. Her father's name is Andrey Bychkov. Introduced to tennis by her mother, she began playing at the Spartak and Chajka tennis clubs. Currently coaches players and commentates with Eurosport, She co-hosted, with Irish-born Russia-based sportsperson, sports journalist and administrator Alan Moore (Russian athlete), Alan Moore, on Capital Sports from 2017-18. She also reported for ''The Bookmaker Ratings''. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lauren Breadmore
Lauren Breadmore (born 1 June 1983) is a former professional tennis player from Australia. Biography Born in Melbourne, Breadmore attended Wesley College where she graduated in 2001 with an VCE score of 99.1 and was awarded the Alexander Wawn Scholar Dux Award. From 2002, she competed on the international tennis circuit. In 2003, she won both the singles and doubles titles at an ITF tournament in Wellington. In 2004, she made the first of her three main-draw appearances in women's doubles at the Australian Open. At the beginning of the 2005 season, she made her WTA Tour singles main-draw debut at the Canberra Women's Classic, which remained her only appearance at that level. She featured in a total of 36 professional tournaments in 2005, as well as at the Summer Universiade in Turkey. Her titles in 2005 included a $25,000 tournament in Lyneham, Canberra. She received a wildcard into the main draw of the 2006 Australian Open and was beaten in the first round by 14th seed Sve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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