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2017 Upper Austria Ladies Linz
The 2017 Upper Austria Ladies Linz was a women's tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the 31st edition of the Generali Ladies Linz, and part of the WTA International tournaments-category of the 2017 WTA Tour. It was held at the TipsArena Linz in Linz, Austria, on 9–15 October 2017. Points and prize money Point distribution Prize money 1 Qualifiers prize money is also the Round of 32 prize money * per team Singles entrants Seeds * Rankings as of October 2, 2017 Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Belinda Bencic * Anna-Lena Friedsam * Barbara Haas The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Mihaela Buzărnescu * Jana Fett * Viktória Kužmová * Viktoriya Tomova The following player received entry as a lucky loser: * Naomi Broady Withdrawals ;Before the tournament * Mona Barthel → replaced by Denisa Allertová * Dominika Cibulková → replaced by Viktorija Golub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WTA International Tournaments
The WTA International Tournaments was a category for professional tennis tournaments of the Women's Tennis Association from the 2009 WTA Tour until 2020, which replaced the previous Tier III and Tier IV categories. The winner of a WTA International adds 280 points to her WTA ranking. For the 2020 season, there were 32 tournaments, all knock-out tournaments with a prize money for every event at $275,000 ($775,000 for Shenzhen, and $525,000 for Guangzhou and Hong Kong). Events Internationals Defunct Winners by tournament Singles Current tournaments Previous tournaments See also * WTA Premier tournaments * 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. As of 2021, WT ... {{WTA International tournaments * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belinda Bencic
Belinda Bencic ( sk, Belinda Benčičová, ; born 10 March 1997) is a Swiss professional tennis player. She has a career-high ranking of No. 4 by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) which she achieved in February 2020. Bencic has won six singles titles, including a gold medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, and two doubles titles on the WTA Tour. Born in Switzerland to Slovak parents at a time when another Slovak-Swiss player Martina Hingis was one of the best tennis players in the world, Bencic began playing tennis at the age of two. Her father arranged for her to train with Hingis's mother and coach daily from the age of seven. By the time she was 16, Bencic became the No. 1 ranked junior in the world and won two junior Grand Slam singles titles at the French Open and Wimbledon. On the professional tour, she made her top 100 debut shortly after turning 17. Her first big breakthrough came at the 2014 US Open, where she became the youngest quarterfinalist since Hingis in 1997. Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alison Van Uytvanck
Alison Van Uytvanck (; born 26 March 1994) is a Belgian professional tennis player. Van Uytvanck has won five singles and two doubles WTA Tour titles and three Challenger Tour singles titles, as well as 12 singles and two doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. In August 2018, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 37. Personal life Van Uytvanck was born in the small town of Grimbergen to René Van Uytvanck and Krista Laemers. She started playing tennis at age five when her older brother Sean introduced her to the game. She has a twin brother named Brett. Van Uytvanck graduated from high school at Sint-Donatus in Merchtem. As a junior, she alternated between training with local coach Sacha Katsnelson and the Flemish Tennis Association, where she was coached by Ann Devries. She admires Roger Federer, and her compatriot Kim Clijsters. Van Uytvanck was in a relationship with fellow Belgian tennis player Greet Minnen. Career 2011: WTA debut In 2011, she won four ITF singl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Océane Dodin
Océane Dodin (, born 24 October 1996) is a professional tennis player from France. WTA rankings, Ranked by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), she reached a career-high of 46 as a singles player in June 2017 and No. 375 in October 2017 as a doubles player. Dodin won the 2016 Coupe Banque Nationale – Singles, 2016 Coupe Banque Nationale in Quebec City, Québec as part of the WTA Tour and a further twelve singles titles on the ITF Women's World Tennis Tour, ITF Women's Circuit. Personal life Dodin was born on 24 October 1996 in Lille, France. An only child, she played tennis with her parents and was coached by her father, Frédéric Dodin. Her tennis idols include Maria Sharapova and Roger Federer. Professional career 2011–2013: French Open qualifying debut and first ITF title Dodin began playing on the ITF Women's Circuit in July 2011 at the age of 14. She first participated at the $10K Valladolid tournament, where she qualified for the main draw. Her first significant ach ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viktorija Golubic
Viktorija Golubic ( sr, Викторија Голубић, Viktorija Golubić; ; born 16 October 1992) is a Swiss professional tennis player. Golubic has won one singles title on the WTA Tour, two singles WTA Challenger titles, as well as ten singles and 15 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit so far. On 28 February 2022, she reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 35. On 15 January 2018, she peaked at No. 63 in the doubles rankings. Professional career 2008–15: ITF Circuit Golubic started playing on the ITF Women's Circuit at the $10K event in Budapest in June 2008. She played her first two WTA qualifying tournaments at the Hungarian Open and Gastein Ladies in 2010. She made her WTA Tour main-draw debut at the Gastein Ladies in 2013, where she recorded her first WTA win and reached second round. However, all of her attempts to qualify for a Grand Slam failed. 2016: Breakthrough, WTA title, top 100 After winning her eighth ITF title at the $25k event in Hong Kong, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dominika Cibulková
Dominika Cibulková (; born 6 May 1989) is a Slovak former professional tennis player. She is the 2016 WTA Finals champion, becoming the fourth player (after Serena Williams in 2001 WTA Tour Championships, 2001, Maria Sharapova in 2004 WTA Tour Championships, 2004 and Petra Kvitová in 2011 WTA Tour Championships, 2011) to win the tournament on her debut. She won eight WTA Tour singles titles and two on the ITF Women's Circuit, ITF Circuit. Cibulková reached the quarterfinals or better of all four Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam tournaments at least once. One of her most notable achievements was a final appearance at the 2014 Australian Open. Although she lost to Li Na, she was the first female Slovak to reach the final of a Grand Slam tournament. Personal life Cibulková was introduced to tennis at the age of eight in Piešťany. She was eleven when her family moved to Bratislava. Her mother is the Slovak lawyer and politician Katarína Cibulková. Her signature expression, ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denisa Allertová
Denisa is a feminine given name, equivalent to English '' Denise'', used in various European languages, particularly in Albanian, Croatian, Czech, Romanian, Slovak and Slovenian. Notable people with the name include: *Denisa Chládková * Denisa Dedu *Denisa Dvořáková *Denisa Golgotă *Denisa Křížová * Denisa Legac * Denisa Proto * Denisa Rosolová *Denisa Saková * Denisa Sokolovská * Denisa Smolenová *Denisa Spergerová *Denisa Tîlvescu *Denisa Vyšňovská *Denisa Wagner * Jiří Procházka, a Czech martial artist known as ''Denisa'' or '' Deniska'' See also * Denise (given name) Denise is a female given name. Dionysus is the Greek god of wine, and the name Denise means "to be devoted to Bacchus." Feminine variants * Deneece, Denice, Deniece: English * Denisa: Czech, Romanian, Russian, Slovak * Denise: English, French, ... {{given name Albanian feminine given names Czech feminine given names Croatian feminine given names Romanian feminine given names Slovak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mona Barthel
Mona Barthel (born 11 July 1990) is a German tennis player. Barthel has won four singles and three doubles titles on the WTA Tour, one doubles title on the WTA Challenger Tour as well as five singles titles and one doubles title on the ITF Circuit in her career. On 18 March 2013, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 23. On 14 September 2015, she peaked at No. 63 in the doubles rankings. Early life Mona Barthel was born in Bad Segeberg to Wolfgang Barthel, who won the shot put event at the 1970 European Junior Athletics Championships in Paris, and Dr. Hannelore. She was raised in a tennis-playing family, and took an interest in the game at age 3. She has cited Steffi Graf as an inspiration. Barthel moved to Neumünster, where she completed her Abitur in 2009, having attended the Klaus Groth Schule. Early career 2007–2010: Early career Barthel played her first ITF tournament in July 2007 in Frinton where she qualified for the main tournament and reached the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naomi Broady
Naomi Broady (; born 28 February 1990) is a British tennis player. She has won one WTA doubles title, as well as nine singles titles and 20 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 7 March 2016, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 76. On 22 May 2017, she peaked at No. 56 in the doubles rankings. Background Born in Stockport, Naomi Broady is a sister of tennis player Liam Broady and has another brother, Calum and a sister Emma. She attended Priestnall School. Broady began playing tennis at the age of seven and was the British Under-18 girls' champion in 2007. Career Junior (2004–2008) Broady competed on the junior ITF Women's World Tennis Tour, ITF Circuit from January 2004 until June 2008. She won one singles title in April 2006 at the Sutton ITF Junior Tournament and lost in the quarterfinals of four others, one of which was the 2008 Wimbledon Championships – Girls' singles, 2008 Wimbledon girls' tournament, where she was beaten by Noppawan Lertcheewaka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viktoriya Tomova
Viktoriya Konstantinova Tomova ( bg, Виктория Константинова Томова, born 25 February 1995) is a professional Bulgarian tennis player. Tomova reached a career-high WTA singles ranking of 89 achieved on 31 October 2022. Her best doubles ranking is world No. 254, achieved on 11 August 2014. She is currently the No. 1 Bulgarian in singles. She also plays for the Bulgaria Fed Cup team with a current win–loss record of 12–11. Professional career 2016: WTA debut and top 150 In July 2016, Tomova reached the biggest final of her career so far at the Hungarian Ladies Open, losing to fellow Bulgarian Elitsa Kostova. The following week, she failed to qualify for the Bucharest Open, losing in the final qualifying round to Nadia Podoroska. Tomova made her debut at US Open reaching qualifying competition. She finished the year as No. 152 in the world. 2017: WTA 250 tour-level debut, top 150 year end Tomova started the season with a loss to Elitsa Kostova a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viktória Kužmová
Viktória Kužmová (; born 11 May 1998) is a Slovak professional tennis player. She has been ranked as high as No. 43 in singles and No. 27 in doubles in the world by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA). Kužmová has won three WTA doubles titles and 21 titles (14 in singles, 7 in doubles) on the ITF Circuit. She also ended runner-up at the Premier-level 2019 St. Petersburg Trophy in the doubles event, along with Anna Kalinskaya. As a junior, she won the girls' doubles event at the 2015 US Open alongside Aleksandra Pospelova, defeating Kalinskaya and Anastasia Potapova in the final. A year later, she entered final of the 2016 US Open in the girls' singles, where she lost to Kayla Day. She continued her success at majors as a senior, reaching the 2019 US Open semifinal in the women's doubles alongside Aliaksandra Sasnovich, where they lost to the eventual champions Ashleigh Barty and Victoria Azarenka. Early life and background Kužmová was born 1998 in Košice to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jana Fett
Jana Fett (; born 2 November 1996) is a Croatian tennis player. On 30 October 2017, Fett reached her best singles ranking of world No. 97, and on 21 May 2018, she reached her best doubles ranking of No. 348. Fett has won six singles and five doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. Career On the ITF Junior Circuit, Fett had a career-high ranking of No. 12, which she achieved on 24 February 2014. She was the runner-up at the 2014 Australian Open girls' singles event, wherein she fell to Elizaveta Kulichkova in the final. Fett's biggest title to date was at the 2015 Dunlop World Challenge, where she won the singles title, defeating Luksika Kumkhum in the final. At the 2017 Hobart International, she qualified for her first entry to the main draw of a WTA tournament. She then lost to eventual champion and fellow qualifier, Elise Mertens. Later in the year, she reached her second WTA semifinal at the Japan Women's Open, again coming through qualifying, while also scoring her fir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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