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2014 Malaysian Open – Singles
Karolína Plíšková was the defending champion, but lost in the semifinals to Dominika Cibulková. Donna Vekić won her first WTA title, defeating Cibulková in the final, 5–7, 7–5, 7–6(7–4). Seeds Dominika Cibulková ''(final)'' Zhang Shuai ''(semifinals)'' Karolína Plíšková ''(semifinals)'' Patricia Mayr-Achleitner ''(quarterfinals)'' Kimiko Date-Krumm ''(first round, retired)'' Zarina Diyas ''(quarterfinals)'' Donna Vekić (champion) Ayumi Morita ''(first round)'' Draw Finals Top half Bottom half Qualifying Seeds # Eri Hozumi (qualified) # Erika Sema ''(qualifying competition)'' # Duan Yingying (qualified) # Lyudmyla Kichenok (qualified) # Pemra Özgen (qualified) # Ana Vrljić (qualified) # Yurika Sema ''(first round)'' # Samantha Murray ''(first round)'' # Wang Qiang ''(qualifying competition)'' # Giulia Gatto-Monticone (qualified) # Arina Rodionova ''(qualifying competition)'' # Miharu Imanishi ''(qualifying competition)'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donna Vekić
Donna Vekić (; born 28 June 1996) is a Croatian professional tennis player and businesswoman. She has won three singles titles on the WTA Tour – at the 2014 Malaysian Open, at the 2017 Nottingham Open, and the 2021 Courmayeur Ladies Open. She has also won five singles titles and one doubles title on the ITF Circuit. Entering the quarterfinals of the 2019 US Open was her best performance at a major singles event. In November 2019, she achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 19. Professional career 2012: First WTA Tour final Born in Osijek, Vekić is a member of the Croatia Fed Cup team. In February 2012, she played three rubbers at the tournament, including helping her country to a 2–0 win over Bosnia and Herzegovina. At the Tashkent Open, Vekić made it to her first final on the WTA Tour. It was her first main-draw appearance there, and she was the youngest player in six years to make it to the final of such an event. However, she was defeated by Irina-Came ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tadeja Majerič
Tadeja Majerič (born 31 August 1990, in Maribor) is a former tennis player from Slovenia. Majerič has won nine singles and six doubles title on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 25 November 2013, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 111. On 28 January 2013, she peaked at No. 227 in the WTA doubles rankings. Career 2005–2012 Majerič made her debut on the ITF Women's Circuit in April 2005 as a qualifier at a $10k event in Makarska, Croatia. The following year, she reached her first professional final in Zadar, losing in straight sets to Ani Mijačika. 2006 also saw her qualify for the main draw at the Tier IV Slovenia Open in Portorož, defeating Margit Rüütel, Dominika Cibulková and Lucie Hradecká in the qualifying tournament, only to lose to fellow Slovenian Andreja Klepač in round one on her WTA Tour main-draw debut. In 2007, Majerič played her first matches in national colours for the Slovenia Fed Cup team. In August 2007, she won her first ITF singles to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olga Savchuk
Olga Mykolayivna Savchuk ( uk, Ольга Миколаївна Савчук; born 20 September 1987) is a retired tennis player from Ukraine. Savchuk grew up in the city of Makiyivka in Donetsk province. She resides in Nassau, Bahamas. Her best accomplishment to date was reaching the third round of the 2006 Australian Open. Her career-high singles ranking is world No. 79, which she achieved on 19 May 2008. Since the beginning of 2020, Savchuk is one of the two coaches of top-ten player Karolína Plíšková, along with Daniel Vallverdú and since November 2020 along with Sascha Bajin. Career On 5 August 2007, in Washington, D.C., Savchuk reached the Legg Mason USTA Women's Pro Circuit final as the No. 2 seed, but was defeated by Melinda Czink of Hungary in two sets. Savchuk won three doubles titles on the WTA Tour, 2008 the Tashkent Open, and 2017 the Hobart International both with Raluca Olaru, and the 2014 Katowice Open won with Yuliya Beygelzimer. She won one WTA 12 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ling Zhang (tennis)
Zhang Ling (; born October 28, 1989), stylized as Lynn Zhang after retirement, is a former professional Chinese tennis player competing for Hong Kong. On 12 September 2011, she reached her highest singles ranking by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) of 184. On 22 June 2009, she also reached her highest WTA doubles ranking of 219. She won 14 singles titles and seven doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. In 2014, she had her first main-draw match win on the WTA Tour in Kuala Lumpur. She defeated Olga Savchuk, and become the first Hong Kongese player to achieve this, after Patricia Hy-Boulais done it in the 1980s. Playing for Hong Kong at the Fed Cup The Billie Jean King Cup (or the BJK Cup) is the premier international team competition in women's tennis, launched as the Federation Cup in 1963 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the International Tennis Federation (ITF). The name was cha ..., Ling has a win–loss record of 37–26. She is the Hong Kong player wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alizé Lim
Alizé Lim (born 13 July 1990) is an inactive French tennis player. Her career-high WTA singles ranking is world No. 135, which she reached on 26 May 2014. Her career-high WTA doubles ranking is No. 148, attained on 7 November 2016. Career Lim made her Grand Slam debut at the 2011 French Open, where she and her French partner Victoria Larrière had received a wildcard for the doubles main draw, and lost to the No. 6 seeds Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Meghann Shaughnessy, 2–6, 1–6, in the first round. Lim made her Grand Slam singles debut at the 2014 French Open having received a wildcard, where she lost in the first round of the main draw to occasional training partner and then-world No. 1, Serena Williams, 2–6, 1–6. Lim worked with Eurosport during the 2022 Australian Open, and presented their coverage of the event with Mats Wilander, Tim Henman, and Johanna Konta Johanna Konta (born 17 May 1991) is a British former professional tennis player, having represented ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magda Linette
Magda Linette (born 12 February 1992) is a Polish professional tennis player. Having made her tour debut in 2009, she reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 33 in February 2020. Linette has reached five finals on the WTA Tour, winning two titles. Linette made her first appearance in a WTA tournament main draw at the Internationaux de Strasbourg in May 2013, where she also scored her first match win at this level. The same year, she reached her first WTA semifinal in Baku, coming from qualifying. Linette won her first WTA 125 title at the 2014 Ningbo International Open, and her first WTA Tour title at the 2019 Bronx Open. Her best result in WTA Premier tournaments is the quarterfinals of 2016 Pan Pacific Open. Linette has reached the third round of all Grand Slam championships; her most successful in terms of winning percentage is the French Open. In 2020, she won the WTA Fan Favorite Shot of the Year award for a slice forehand that she against Peng Shuai played en ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lyudmyla Kichenok
Lyudmyla Viktorivna Kichenok ( uk, Людмила Вікторівна Кіченок; born 20 July 1992) is a Ukrainian professional tennis player. On 21 July 2014, Lyudmyla reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 156. On 12 September 2022, she peaked at No. 9 in the doubles rankings. Kichenok has won eight doubles titles on the WTA Tour, including four with her twin sister Nadiia. Career 2015: First WTA doubles title and singles top-10 win In 2015, she won her first WTA doubles title together with her sister. They escaped a 5–0 deficit in the second set tie-break of their 6–4, 7–6 defeat of Liang Chen and Wang Yafan in the Shenzhen Open final. That made the Kichenoks the second pair of twins, after Karolína Plíšková and Kristýna Plíšková, to win a WTA doubles title. They previously had been runners-up at Tashkent in 2011 and Shenzhen in 2014. She won the second WTA doubles title at Brasil Tennis Cup. During the Tianjin Open, Lyudmyla caused the bigg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eri Hozumi
is a Japanese tennis player. On 10 November 2014, she reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 144. On 27 May 2019, she peaked at No. 28 in the WTA doubles rankings. Partnering with Miyu Kato, she reached semifinals of the 2017 Australian Open. She also played the first Grand Slam singles tournament there, losing in the first round to Carina Witthöft. Hozumi won her first 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 ... doubles title in 2016, at the Katowice Open alongside Miyu Kato. 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.'' Doubles Grand Slam tournament finals Doubles: 1 (runner-up) WTA career finals Doubles: 10 (5 titles, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
An-Sophie Mestach
An-Sophie Mestach (born 7 March 1994) is a Belgian retired tennis player. In her career, Mestach won two doubles titles on the WTA Tour, as well as six singles titles and eight doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. On 14 September 2015, she reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 98. On 1 February 2016, she peaked at No. 64 in the doubles rankings. Ghent-born Mestach won the junior events of the 2011 Australian Open in both singles and doubles. Following these wins, she became the world No. 1 junior. She also won two Grade-A and three Grade-1 tournaments in singles on the junior circuit. In 2012, Mestach made the final of one ITF event and the semifinals of two others. She ended the year with a ranking of world No. 361. Playing for the Belgium Fed Cup team since 2010, Mestach has accumulated a win–loss record of 9–6. Since retirement, Mestach has pursued a career as a police officer. She has also spent time on the professional padel Padel ( es, Pádel) i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danka Kovinić
Danka Kovinić ( cnr, Данка Ковинић; born 18 November 1994) is a Montenegrin professional tennis player. On 22 February 2016, she reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 46, and on 20 June 2016, she peaked at No. 67 in the WTA doubles rankings. Tennis career 2010–2013: Historic WTA debut and quarterfinal Kovinić started playing as a professional in 2010. Her first WTA Tour tournament in singles was the 2013 Budapest Grand Prix, where she became the first Montenegrin to reach the quarterfinals of a WTA event. 2015: First Grand Slam match wins, first WTA singles final and doubles title Her first major match wins in singles came at the 2015 French Open and the 2015 US Open. In October 2015, she reached her first WTA Tour singles final at the Tianjin Open. Her first match in doubles on the WTA Tour was at Bogotá, in April 2014. She won her first WTA Tour doubles title with Stephanie Vogt, in July 2015 at Bad Gastein. 2016: Top 50 debut Kovinić start ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 July 2017, she reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 35. On 14 June 2021, she peaked at No. 44 in the doubles rankings. Plíšková won the 2010 Wimbledon Championships junior tournament, beating Sachie Ishizu in straight sets.2010 Wimbledon ChampionshipsGirls' champion Pliskova adds to family success(3 July 2010) She currently holds the record for the most aces (31) in a match on the WTA Tour, which she set in a second-round match against Monica Puig at the 2016 Australian Open. Personal life Plíšková was born to Radek Plíšek and Martina Plíšková in Louny, and has an identical twin sister, Karolína, who is also a tennis player, and a former world No. 1. On 6 December 2021, Plíšková posted on her Instagram that s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tímea Babos
Tímea Babos (; born 10 May 1993) is a Hungarian professional tennis player who is a former world No. 1 in doubles. She is a four-time Grand Slam champion in women's doubles, having won the 2018 and 2020 Australian Opens, as well as the French Open in 2019 and 2020, all alongside Kristina Mladenovic. The pair also finished runners-up at the 2014 Wimbledon Championships, 2018 US Open and 2019 Australian Open, and Babos reached the final of the 2016 Wimbledon Championships with Yaroslava Shvedova. In mixed doubles, she has reached two major finals, at the 2015 Wimbledon Championships with Alexander Peya, and the 2018 Australian Open partnering Rohan Bopanna. Babos became world No. 1 for the first time in July 2018, holding the top ranking for 13 weeks, and was the first Hungarian player, male or female, to reach world No. 1 in either singles or doubles. She has won another 20 doubles titles on the WTA Tour, including the 2017, 2018 and 2019 WTA Finals and two at WTA ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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