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2008 Wimbledon Championships – Girls' Doubles
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and Urszula Radwańska were the defending champions but did not compete in the Juniors this year. Polona Hercog and Jessica Moore defeated Isabella Holland and Sally Peers in the final, 6–3, 1–6, 6–2 to win the girls' doubles tennis title at the 2008 Wimbledon Championships. Seeds # Elena Bogdan / Bojana Jovanovski ''(quarterfinals)'' # Ana Bogdan / Ksenia Lykina ''(second round)'' # Mallory Burdette / Melanie Oudin ''(first round)'' # Elena Chernyakova / Nikola Hofmanova ''(second round)'' # Lesley Kerkhove / Arantxa Rus ''(quarterfinals)'' # Polona Hercog / Jessica Moore (champions) # Cindy Chala / Noppawan Lertcheewakarn ''(first round)'' # Tímea Babos / Réka Luca Jani Réka Luca Jani (born 31 July 1991) is a Hungarian tennis player. She has won 24 singles titles and 34 doubles titles on the ITF Women's World Tennis Tour. On 19 September 2022, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 104. On 22 Augu ... ''(qu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polona Hercog
Polona Hercog (, born 20 January 1991) is a Slovenian professional tennis player. Her career-high WTA rankings are 35 in singles and 56 in doubles. She has won five titles on the WTA Tour, three in singles and two in doubles. Hercog also enjoyed success on the ITF Women's Circuit, winning 18 singles and five doubles titles. Partnering with Jessica Moore, she won the French Open and Wimbledon Championships junior titles in the doubles competition in 2008. Early and personal life Hercog was born in Maribor, Slovenia, to florist Romana and bar owner Vojko.Sony Ericsson WTA Tour, Players, Info (Biography), Polona Hercog As a four-year-old she began playing in the local tennis clinic opened by |
Noppawan Lertcheewakarn
Noppawan "Nok" Lertcheewakarn ( th, นพวรรณ เลิศชีวกานต์; born 18 November 1991) is a former professional Thai tennis player. At 2009 Wimbledon Championships, she won the junior singles title. She reached career-high WTA rankings of 149 in singles and 97 in doubles. As of July 2018, Lertcheewakarn having played her last match in August 2017, is in training to be a police officer. She has yet to officially retire. Playing style Lertcheewakarn is a counterpuncher with her two-handed backhand and forehand. Her game is lacking powerful strokes, but based on precise groundstrokes and good strategy. Her main weakness is considered to be her serve, lacking of power, consistency and stability. She has had inspiration by Tamarine Tanasugarn, Monica Seles, Marion Bartoli, and Williams sisters. Lertcheewakarn has been coached by Chuck Kriese. Junior career In 2008, Lertcheewakarn was world No. 1 in ITF Junior Circuit, became the first Thai player to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Robson (tennis)
Laura Robson (born 21 January 1994) is a British former professional tennis player. She debuted on the ITF Junior Circuit in 2007, and a year later won the Junior Wimbledon championships at the age of 14. As a junior, she also twice reached the final of the girls' singles tournament at the Australian Open, in 2009 and 2010. She won her first tournament on the ITF Women's Circuit in November 2008. In singles tennis, Robson was the first British woman since Samantha Smith at Wimbledon in 1998 to reach the fourth round of a Grand Slam tournament, doing so at the 2012 US Open and the 2013 Wimbledon Championships. At the 2012 Guangzhou Women's Open, Robson became the first British woman since Jo Durie in 1990 to reach a WTA Tour final, where she lost to Hsieh Su-wei. She was named WTA Newcomer of the Year for 2012 and reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 27 the following year. In mixed doubles, she won a silver medal at the 2012 London Olympics playing with A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richèl Hogenkamp
Richèl Hogenkamp (born 16 April 1992) is a Dutch professional tennis player. Her highest WTA singles ranking is 94, which she reached on 24 July 2017. On the ITF Circuit, she has won 16 singles and 14 doubles titles. Personal background Hogenkamp was born on 16 April 1992 to Benno and Jolanda in Doetinchem, where she continues to reside. She has a younger sister who rides horses professionally. Hogenkamp's grandparents introduced her to tennis. Hogenkamp is currently coached by Kees Oostrom. She is in a relationship with Dutch footballer . Career highlights The biggest win of her career came at the 2012 Gastein Ladies where she beat top-seeded Julia Görges. In a 2016 Fed Cup World Group tie, she defeated Svetlana Kuznetsova Svetlana Aleksandrovna Kuznetsova (born 27 June 1985) is a Russian inactive professional tennis player. She is a two-time major singles champion, winning the 2004 US Open and 2009 French Open, and finishing runner-up at two other majors. I ... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miyabi Inoue
is a former tennis player from Japan. Career Inoue reached the semifinals of the 2009 Wimbledon girls' singles tournament. On 28 September 2015, she achieved her career-high WTA singles ranking of No. 275. Inoue made her main-draw debut 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 tou ... in doubles competition at the 2015 Pan Pacific Open, partnering Kyōka Okamura. ITF Circuit finals Singles: 12 (5 titles, 7 runner-ups) Doubles: 20 (9 titles, 11 runner-ups) References External links * * 1991 births Living people Japanese female tennis players Sportspeople from Nagoya People from Kasugai, Aichi 20th-century Japanese women 21st-century Japanese women {{Japan-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johanna Konta
Johanna Konta (born 17 May 1991) is a British former professional tennis player, having represented Australia until 2012. She won four singles titles on the WTA Tour, as well as 11 singles and four doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. The former British no. 1 reached a career-high singles ranking of world no. 4 on 17 July 2017. She reached the semi-finals of the Australian Open, Wimbledon and the French Open. Born to Hungarian parents in Sydney, Australia, Konta moved to England when she was 14. She has treble citizenship: Hungarian, Australian and British. She switched her sporting allegiance from Australia to Great Britain after she became a British citizen in May 2012. Konta achieved a steep rise in her WTA ranking from the spring of 2015 to late 2016, climbing from 150th to inside the world's top ten, becoming the first Briton to be ranked amongst the WTA's top ten since Jo Durie was ranked fifth over 30 years prior. This period included her best Grand Slam resul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tyra Calderwood
Tyra Calderwood (born 19 September 1990)http://www.itftennis.com/procircuit/players/player/profile.aspx?playerid=100041331 is a former professional Australian tennis player. Her highest WTA singles ranking is 607, which she reached on 6 October 2008. Her career high in doubles is 190, set on 10 September 2012. Early life and junior career Calderwood was born in Sydney, New South Wales and started playing tennis at the age of three. She has had limited success on the circuit, though her junior ranking did peak at 33 in 2007. Career In 2008, she made her WTA doubles debut after being given a wild card with Alenka Hubacek into the 2008 Australian Open, Australian Open. However, they lost first round in straight sets. in December of that year she won the Sorrento ITF doubles title with Shannon Golds. In 2009, she received wildcards into the doubles tournaments at both the Medibank International and the Australian Open, losing first round in both tournaments. ITF Circuit finals ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malou Ejdesgaard
Malou Ejdesgaard (born 13 March 1991) is a retired Danish tennis player. She was a member of the Denmark Fed Cup team from 2010Caroline’s Blog: Hello from Ponte Vidra, Florida (6 April 2010) They tried to gain an entry to the 2012 Summer Olympics in doubles.Official Website of Caroline WozniackiCaroline To Play Doubles in 2012 Olympics in London (9 March 2010) Ejdesgaard has played with Wozniacki in five tournaments – in 2008 at Odense, in 2010 at Ponte Vedra Beach, Charleston & Copenhagen, and in 2011 at Copenhagen Copenhagen ( or .; da, København ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a proper population of around 815.000 in the last quarter of 2022; and some 1.370,000 in the urban area; and the wider Copenhagen metropolitan ar ....WTA TourCopenhagen Gallery(8 August 2010) They lost in the first round and twice in the second round, respectively. ITF finals Singles: 1 (0–1) Doubles: 18 (7–11) Fed Cup performances Singles Doub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kurumi Nara
is a Japanese former professional tennis player. She has won one singles title on the WTA Tour, as well as six singles and three doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 18 August 2014, she reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 32. On 2 May 2016, she peaked at No. 109 in the WTA doubles rankings. Playing for Japan Fed Cup team, Nara has a win–loss record of 12–8. Junior career Nara began playing tennis at the age of three. At the Esaka Tennis Center in Osaka, the budding pro player studied tennis under the tutelage of Japanese tennis luminaries Masaru Suishu and Hiroko Mochizuki. She won recognition from an early age as a tennis prodigy. In 2002, while enrolled in Kawanishi Makinodai Elementary School, Nara took second place in the All Japan Primary School Tennis Championships at the age of ten. She would go on to win that tournament in 2003. In 2004, after entering the middle school associated with Osaka Sangyo University, Nara won the girls' singles t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Misaki Doi
is a Japanese professional tennis player. Her highest WTA rankings are No. 30 in singles and No. 77 in doubles. Doi reached two junior Grand Slam doubles finals – at Wimbledon in 2007 with Kurumi Nara, and at the Australian Open in 2008, with Elena Bogdan (losing both). She has made it to three WTA tournament finals (only winning one). She is managed by Muse Group, a sports marketing agency based in Tokyo. Junior career Doi began playing tennis at the age of six. She first distinguished herself in tennis as a middle-school student, reaching the semifinals of the All Japan Middle School Tennis Championships in both 2004 and 2006 and joining the ITF Junior Circuit in 2006. In 2007, while enrolled as a freshman in Sundai Kōei High School, Doi earned second place in the Japan Open Junior Championships in Nagoya. A highlight of Doi's junior career was her successful doubles partnership with age-mate Kurumi Nara. They placed second in girls' doubles at the 2007 Wimbledon Cham ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jocelyn Rae
Jocelyn Rae (born 20 February 1991) is a British former tennis player. Rae has a career-high doubles ranking of 67 by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), achieved on 22 February 2016. In her career, she won one singles title and 23 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. Together with Colin Fleming, she won the gold medal in the mixed doubles at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi for Scotland (qualifying through her Stirlingshire-born father). She was coached by former professional tennis player and fellow Scot, Karen Paterson. She is openly lesbian. Career Junior (2006–2009) Rae played her first match on the ITF Junior Circuit in April 2006 and continued to compete as a junior until July 2009. During this time, her greatest successes came in doubles although she did win one title at the 2006 Egypt International Championships. She also reached one semifinal and three quarterfinals in singles. In doubles, Rae won three titles (two with Hannah James and one with Amanda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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