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2014 Hong Kong Tennis Open – Singles
This was the first edition of Hong Kong Tennis Open. Sabine Lisicki won the title, defeating Karolína Plíšková in the final, 7–5, 6–3. Seeds Draw Finals Top half Bottom half Qualifying Seeds Qualifiers Lucky loser Qualifying draw First qualifier Second qualifier Third qualifier Fourth qualifier ReferencesMain Draw External links {{DEFAULTSORT:2014 Shenzhen Open - SinglesHong Kong Tennis Open
The Hong Kong Open (currently sponsored by Prudential and called the Prudential Hong Kong Tennis Open) is a professional tennis tournament in Hong Kong SAR. Organised by the Hong Kong Tennis Association, the tournament is ...
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Sabine Lisicki
Sabine Katharina Lisicki (; born 22 September 1989) is a German professional tennis player. Lisicki turned professional in 2006, and her breakthrough came in 2009 when she reached the quarterfinals of the Wimbledon Championships, and also won her first title on the WTA Tour, at the Family Circle Cup. In March 2010, she suffered an ankle injury at the Indian Wells Open that kept her out of competition for five months and saw her fall out of the top 200. Lisicki rebounded in 2011 and won the Eastbourne Classic before entering the Wimbledon Championships as a wildcard and going on to reach the semifinals, where she lost to Maria Sharapova. In doing so she became only the second woman in Wimbledon history to make it to the semifinals while entering the tournament as a wildcard. She followed that two months later by winning her third WTA tournament, the Texas Open. In 2012, she achieved her career-high ranking of world No. 12 and again reached the quarterfinals of Wimbledon. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johanna Larsson (tennis)
Johanna Larsson (; born 17 August 1988) is a Swedish former tennis player. She won two singles and 14 doubles titles on the WTA Tour, as well as 13 singles and 17 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. Her career-high WTA rankings are No. 45 in singles, achieved in September 2016, and No. 20 in doubles, set on 30 October 2017. In 2017, Larsson qualified for the WTA Finals in Singapore for the first time with her partner Kiki Bertens reaching the final upsetting fourth seeds Barty and Dellacqua and second seeds Vesnina and Makarova. They lost in the final against Tímea Babos and Andrea Hlaváčková. Larsson made her debut for the Sweden Fed Cup team in 2005, accumulating an overall win–loss record of 50–30. Early career Larsson began playing international tennis on the ITF Junior Circuit, with a career-high junior world ranking at No. 79 in September 2006. During the Fed Cup in 2005 she made a significant career achievement when defeating Anna Kremer. Larsson went on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jarmila Gajdošová
Jarmila Wolfe (née Gajdošová, formerly Groth; born 26 April 1987) is a Slovak-Australian former tennis player. In her career, she won two singles titles and one doubles title on the WTA Tour, as well as 14 singles and ten doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. She won her first WTA Tour title in 2006, emerging as the Nordic Light Open doubles champion, her first singles title came in 2010 at the Guangzhou International Open, and the following year she won the Hobart International. In May 2011, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 25. In August 2012, she peaked at No. 31 in the doubles rankings. Her greatest achievement came at the 2013 Australian Open, where she won the mixed-doubles title with countryman Matthew Ebden. Personal life Wolfe's father Ján Gajdoš is an engineer, as was her mother who died in September 2012; her older brother Ján Gajdoš Jr. was a professional skier. She married Australian tennis player Sam Groth in February 2009 and compe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luksika Kumkhum
Luksika "Luk" Kumkhum ( th, ลักษิกา คำขำ; ; born 21 July 1993) is a Thai tennis player. She turned professional in 2011, and reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 66 on 19 November 2018. On 16 July 2018, she peaked at No. 86 of the WTA doubles rankings. Career In 2010, Kumkhum had won one ITF Circuit event in singles but three events in doubles. The following year, she won five singles ITF events, all $10ks, and two in doubles. In 2012, she won two singles and two doubles events on the ITF Circuit. 2013 In 2013, she cracked the top 200 and started to play on the WTA Tour as well as the ITF Circuit. Kumkhum qualified for the Australian Open where she defeated Sofia Arvidsson in the first round, she was then beaten by Jamie Hampton. She played the Malaysian Open where she qualified for the tournament and reached the quarterfinals defeating Olivia Rogowska and Eleni Daniilidou en route before falling to Ayumi Morita in the quarterfinals, she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kiki Bertens
Kiki Bertens (; born 10 December 1991) is a Dutch former professional tennis player. Her career-high WTA singles ranking was world No. 4, which she reached on 13 May 2019, becoming the highest ranked Dutch female player ever. Her career-high doubles ranking of world No. 16, she achieved in April 2018. She won ten singles and ten doubles titles on the WTA Tour including 2018 Cincinnati Open and 2019 Madrid Open. Bertens was widely regarded as a clay court specialist, but also was successful on hardcourt. Early life and background Bertens was born on 10 December 1991 in Wateringen near The Hague, but grew up in the town of Berkel en Rodenrijs. She has two sisters, one older and one younger. Bertens started playing tennis at age six at ATV Berkenrode, a tennis club where her aunt and uncle played. She has been coached by Martin van der Brugghen at the club since she was seven years old. Van der Brugghen recognized her ability and continued to coach her primarily to help her reac ... [...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 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monica Puig
Monica Puig Marchán, (born September 27, 1993) is a Puerto Rican former professional tennis player. She is the first Puerto Rican in history to win a gold medal at the Olympics while representing Puerto Rico, having done so in 2016 at the women's singles event. She is also a Central American and Caribbean champion and Pan American silver medalist. Having turned professional in 2010, Puig won two WTA singles titles and six ITF singles titles. On 26 September 2016, she reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 27. On 25 May 2015, she peaked at No. 210 in the doubles rankings. She retired as a professional tennis player on 13 June 2022. At the 2016 Rio Olympics, Puig won the gold medal, the ninth overall medal at the Games for Puerto Rico. With the feat, she also became the first Latin American champion in the women's singles discipline and is the only unseeded female player to win the gold medal since the reintroduction of tennis in 1988. During her career, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patricia Mayr-Achleitner
Patricia Mayr-Achleitner (née Mayr; born 8 November 1986 in Rum, Tyrol, Rum) is a retired Austrian tennis player. Mayr-Achleitner won 17 singles and seven doubles titles on the International Tennis Federation, ITF Circuit in her career. On 4 May 2009, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 70. On 29 September 2014, she peaked at No. 117 in the doubles rankings. Playing for Austria Fed Cup team, Austria at the Fed Cup, Mayr-Achleitner had a win–loss record of 14–15. On 4 December 2010 she married her coach Michael Achleitner. On 22 July 2015 after her loss at the 2015 Gastein Ladies, Mayr-Achleitner announced that the 2015 Generali Ladies Linz would be her last tournament, stating chronic back pain as the reason for her retirement from professional tennis. Grand Slam performance timelines Singles Doubles WTA career finals Singles: 1 (runner-up) Doubles: 1 (runner-up) ITF finals Singles: 32 (17 titles, 15 runner-ups) Doubles: 14 (7 titles, 7 runner- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pauline Parmentier
Pauline Parmentier (; born 31 January 1986) is a French former tennis player. Her career-high WTA singles ranking is world No. 40, which she attained on 21 July 2008. On 30 April 2012, she peaked at world No. 89 on the WTA doubles rankings. She won four singles titles on the WTA Tour, as well as ten singles and three doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. She competed in the singles and women's doubles events at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and had been playing for France in the Fed Cup since 2010 (win–loss record: 7–14). Parmentier retired following the 2020 French Open. Personal life Parmentier was born in the northern French town of Cucq. Parmentier's parents are named Dominique and Jean-Philippe and she has two older brothers named Olivier and Julien. Pauline began playing tennis at age six and trained for five years at the Mouratoglou Tennis Academy. Career 2000–2003 In 2000, Parmentier played only one tournament on the ITF Women's Circuit; she lost her main-dr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zhang Kailin
Zhang Kailin (; ; born 28 January 1990) is a former tennis player from China. Zhang has won one doubles title on WTA 125 tournaments along five singles and 15 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. On 12 September 2016, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 103. On 20 June 2016, she peaked at No. 85 in the doubles rankings. Partnering Han Xinyun, Zhang won her first $50k tournament in April 2014 at the ITF event in Anning, defeating Varatchaya Wongteanchai and Zhang Ling in the final. Three months later, again on the side of Han, Zhang won her second $50k title in Wuhan Wuhan (, ; ; ) is the capital of Hubei Province in the People's Republic of China. It is the largest city in Hubei and the most populous city in Central China, with a population of over eleven million, the ninth-most populous Chinese city an .... WTA 125 tournament finals Doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner–up) ITF Circuit finals Singles: 14 (5 titles, 9 runner–ups) Doubles: 21 (15 titles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Misa Eguchi
is a former professional Japanese tennis player. In her career, she won six singles and seven doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 12 September 2016, she reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 109. On 17 November 2014, she peaked at No. 185 in the WTA doubles rankings. Eguchi won her first $50k title at the 2014 Burnie International, defeating Elizaveta Kulichkova in the final. Six months later, she advanced to her first ever WTA Tour quarterfinal at the Baku Cup, losing in three sets to Bojana Jovanovski. WTA 125 tournament finals Singles: 1 (runner–up) Doubles: 1 (runner–up) ITF Circuit finals Singles: 11 (6 titles, 5 runner–ups) Doubles: 11 (7 titles, 4 runner–ups) References External links * * Misa Eguchiat the Japan Tennis Association Japan Tennis Association (JTA) ( ja, 日本テニス協会) is the governing body for professional and amateur tennis in Japan. Founded in 1922 and recognized by International Lawn Tennis Feder ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chanelle Scheepers
Chanelle Scheepers ( ; born 13 March 1984) is a retired South African tennis player. She won one singles and one doubles title on the WTA Tour, as well as 12 singles and 20 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit in her career. On 10 October 2011, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 37. On 10 April 2014, she peaked at No. 42 in the doubles rankings. Career Scheepers turned pro in 2000 and played two ITF events. In 2001, she reached four finals on ITF level and won all, with three of them coming from Durban, South Africa a local tournament, and one in the United States. In 2002, she reached three ITF finals winning one in Mackay, Australia and losing in the other two in Liechtenstein and Switzerland. In 2003, she played her first tour-level event in the Mondial Australian Women's Hardcourts and won her first main-draw tour-level match after getting through the qualifying draw over Samantha Stosur but lost to Tathiana Garbin in the next round. She then had a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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