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2018 Berkeley Tennis Club Challenge
The 2018 Berkeley Tennis Club Challenge was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the first edition of the tournament and was part of the 2018 ITF Women's Circuit. It took place in Berkeley, United States, on 16–22 July 2018. Singles main draw entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings as of 2 July 2018. Other entrants The following players received a wildcard into the singles main draw: * Gail Brodsky * Ashley Lahey * Maegan Manasse The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Haruna Arakawa * Lorraine Guillermo * Connie Ma * Pamela Montez Champions Singles * Sofia Kenin Sofia Anna "Sonya" Kenin (born November 14, 1998) is an American professional tennis player. She has a career-high ranking by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) of No. 4 in the world, which she achieved on March 9, 2020. She was the 2020 WTA ... def. Nicole Gibbs, 6–0, 6–4 Doubles * Nicole Gibbs / Asia Muhammad def. Ellen Perez / ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ITF Women's Circuit
The ITF Women's World Tennis Tour, previously known as the ITF Women's Circuit, is a series of professional tennis tournaments run by the International Tennis Federation for female professional tennis players. History It serves as a developmental circuit for the WTA Tour, which is run by the independent Women's Tennis Association (WTA). There are several hundred ITF Women's Circuit tournaments each year, spread across all six inhabited continents, with prize money ranging from US$15,000 to US$100,000. Players who succeed on the ITF Women's Circuit earn sufficient points to be eligible for qualifying draw or main draw entry to WTA tournaments. Until 2011 the ITF Women's Circuit was the level immediately below the main WTA Tour, but in 2012 the WTA introduced an intermediate level, the WTA 125K series. There is also an ITF Men's Circuit, but it only incorporates the lower-level Futures tournaments. Mid-level men's tournaments, equivalent to the WTA 125k series and the bigger money ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francesca Di Lorenzo
Francesca Di Lorenzo (; born July 22, 1997) is an American tennis player. She played collegiately for the ''Ohio State University''. On May 29, 2017, Di Lorenzo and her partner Miho Kowase won the NCAA Women's Doubles Championship. Personal life Di Lorenzo was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania but raised in Columbus, Ohio, after her family moved there when she was around the age of seven. Her parents, Carlo and Daniela Di Lorenzo, are Italian immigrants from Salerno. Carlo is a physician at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus and Daniela teaches Italian at various colleges. Di Lorenzo attended New Albany High School in New Albany, Ohio. She has three siblings, and Cristina, her oldest sister, also played tennis at the collegiate level at Xavier University and graduated in 2017. Mario, her oldest brother, also has an athletic background as he won an intramural championship in the inaugural season of wheelchair basketball at The Ohio State University. Di Lorenzo is fl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tennis Tournaments In California
Tennis is a List of racket sports, racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles (tennis), singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles (tennis), doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber tennis ball, ball covered with felt over or around a net and into the opponent's tennis court, court. The object of the game is to manoeuvre the ball in such a way that the opponent is not able to play a valid return. The player who is unable to return the ball validly will not gain a point, while the opposite player will. Tennis is an Olympic Games, Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society and at all ages. The sport can be played by anyone who can hold a racket, including Wheelchair tennis, wheelchair users. The modern game of tennis originated in Birmingham, England, in the late 19th century as lawn tennis. It had close connections both to various field (lawn) games such as cro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2018 In American Tennis
Eighteen or 18 may refer to: * 18 (number), the natural number following 17 and preceding 19 * one of the years 18 BC, AD 18, 1918, 2018 Film, television and entertainment * 18 (film), ''18'' (film), a 1993 Taiwanese experimental film based on the short story ''God's Dice'' * Eighteen (film), ''Eighteen'' (film), a 2005 Canadian dramatic feature film * 18 (British Board of Film Classification), a film rating in the United Kingdom, also used in Ireland by the Irish Film Classification Office * 18 (Dragon Ball), 18 (''Dragon Ball''), a character in the ''Dragon Ball'' franchise * "Eighteen", a 2006 episode of the animated television series ''12 oz. Mouse'' Music Albums * 18 (Moby album), ''18'' (Moby album), 2002 * 18 (Nana Kitade album), ''18'' (Nana Kitade album), 2005 * ''18...'', 2009 debut album by G.E.M. Songs * 18 (5 Seconds of Summer song), "18" (5 Seconds of Summer song), from their 2014 eponymous debut album * 18 (One Direction song), "18" (One Direction song), from the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sabrina Santamaria
Sabrina Ashley Vida Santamaria (born February 24, 1993) is an American tennis player. Career She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 384, achieved in June 2016, and a best WTA doubles ranking of 53, set on 12 August 2019. Alongside Jarmere Jenkins, she was given a wildcard into the mixed-doubles tournament of the 2013 US Open where they lost in the first round to Alizé Cornet and Édouard Roger-Vasselin. She was awarded a wildcard into the 2015 US Open women's doubles event alongside Kaitlyn Christian. Santamaria graduated from the University of Southern California in 2015 with a degree in International Relations. During her collegiate career, she was the 2013 NCAA Doubles Champion alongside Christian, while being the 2013 Pac-12 ''Player of the Year'' and ''Doubles Team of the Year''. She was also the 2013 World University Games silver medalist in singles in Kazan, Russia Kazan ( ; rus, Казань, p=kɐˈzanʲ; tt-Cyrl, Казан, ''Qazan'', IPA: ɑz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ellen Perez
Ellen Perez (born 10 October 1995) is an Australian professional tennis player. Perez has won five doubles titles on the WTA Tour, one doubles title on the WTA Challenger Tour, as well as two singles and 17 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. Her career-high rankings in singles and doubles are world No. 162 and No. 15, achieved August 2019 and October 2022, respectively. Perez made her Grand Slam main-draw debut at the 2016 Australian Open in doubles with Belinda Woolcock; they lost in the first round to Jessica Moore and Storm Sanders. Perez made her first singles Grand Slam appearance at the 2016 US Open, after winning the Australian Wildcard Play-off. Personal life Ellen is the daughter of John and Milića Perez and sister to Matt Perez. Ellen is of Spanish descent on her father's side and of Macedonian descent on her mother's side. She picked up a tennis racket at the age of three after receiving a totem tennis pole as a Christmas gift, and she started regular coaching a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pamela Montez
Pamela may refer to: *''Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded'', a novel written by Samuel Richardson in 1740 *Pamela (name), a given name and, rarely, a surname *Pamela Spence, a Turkish pop-rock singer. Known as her stage name "Pamela" * MSC ''Pamela'', a container ship launched in 2005 * ''Pamela'' (butterfly), a butterfly genus *''Perrhybris pamela'', a butterfly with the common name Pamela *Pamela hat, a straw hat named after Richardson's heroine, worn 1790s–1870s * ''Pamela'' (film), a 1945 French film * Super Typhoon Pamela, a typhoon in 1976 *''Una donna da guardare'', a 1990 Italian erotic movie *''P.A.M.E.L.A.'', a first-person survival video game Songs *"Pamela Pamela", a song recorded by Wayne Fontana that reached number 11 in the UK Singles Chart in 1967 * "Pamela" (song), a 1988 hit song for the band Toto *"Pamella", a song by Remmy Ongala from the album ''Songs For the Poor Man'' *"Pamela Wan", a song composed by Vhong Navarro in 2004, inspired by the movie Otso-Otso Pam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorraine Guillermo
Lorraine , also , , ; Lorrain: ''Louréne''; Lorraine Franconian: ''Lottringe''; german: Lothringen ; lb, Loutrengen; nl, Lotharingen is a cultural and historical region in Northeastern France, now located in the administrative region of Grand Est. Its name stems from the medieval kingdom of Lotharingia, which in turn was named after either Emperor Lothair I or King Lothair II. Lorraine later was ruled as the Duchy of Lorraine before the Kingdom of France annexed it in 1766. From 1982 until January 2016, Lorraine was an administrative region of France. In 2016, under a reorganisation, it became part of the new region Grand Est. As a region in modern France, Lorraine consisted of the four departments Meurthe-et-Moselle, Meuse, Moselle and Vosges (from a historical point of view the Haute-Marne department is located in the region), containing 2,337 communes. Metz is the regional prefecture. The largest metropolitan area of Lorraine is Nancy, which had developed for centurie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haruna Arakawa , Arabic masculine given name
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Haruna may refer to: Geography * Haruna, Gunma, a town in Gunma prefecture, Japan * Mount Haruna, a dormant volcano in Gunma, eastern Honshu, Japan ** Lake Haruna, a lake on Mount Haruna Names *Haruna (name), a Japanese feminine given name and a Japanese surname *Haruna, Haroona or Harouna, a Quranic given name common mostly in Africa (for boys) and South Asia (for girls) Other uses * , a battleship of the Imperial Japanese Navy * , a class of destroyers of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force ** See also * Harun Harun, also transliterated as Haroon or Haroun ( ar, هارون, ) is a common male given name of Arabic origin, related to the Hebrew name of the Prophet Aaron. Both are most likely of Ancient Egyptian origin, from ''aha rw'', meaning "warrior li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maegan Manasse
Maegan Manasse (born 16 April 1995) is an American tennis player. She has career-high WTA rankings of 327 in singles, reached on 15 July 2019, and 175 in doubles, achieved on 29 July 2019. Manasse won a WTA 125 title at the 2018 Houston Challenger, in the doubles draw, partnering Jessica Pegula Jessica Pegula (born February 24, 1994) is an American professional tennis player. She has a career-high WTA rankings in singles and doubles of world No. 3, both achieved on October 24, 2022. She has won two singles titles and five doubles title .... She has also won seven doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. WTA 125 tournament finals Doubles: 1 (1 title) ITF finals Singles: 2 (2 runner–ups) Doubles: 10 (7 titles, 3 runner–ups) External links * * 1995 births Living people American female tennis players Tennis people from California 21st-century American women {{US-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashley Lahey
Ashley Lahey (born 1999) is an American tennis player. Lahey has a career-high singles ranking of 317 by the WTA, achieved on 18 September 2023. She also has a career-high WTA doubles ranking of 170, achieved on 25 September 2023. Lahey won her first major ITF title at the 2022 Tyler Pro Challenge, in the doubles draw, partnering Maria Kozyreva Maria Alexandrovna Kozyreva (born 22 May 1999) is a Russian tennis player. Kozyreva has a career-high singles ranking by the WTA of 597, achieved on 12 June 2023. She also has a career-high WTA doubles ranking of 174, achieved on 19 June 2023. .... Lahey played college tennis at Pepperdine University. WTA Challenger finals Doubles: 1 (runner-up) ITF Circuit finals Singles: 3 (1 title, 2 runner-ups) Doubles: 10 (4 titles, 6 runner-ups) References External links * * 1999 births Living people American female tennis players Sportspeople from Hawthorne, California Pepperdine Waves women's tennis players {{US-te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gail Brodsky
Gail Brodsky (born June 5, 1991) is an American former professional tennis player. Her career-high WTA singles ranking is 182, reached on March 19, 2012. On May 2, 2011, she peaked at No. 348 in the doubles rankings. On the ITF Circuit, she has won six singles titles and two doubles titles. She won the 2008 USTA Girls’ 18s national title. Career Brodsky was born in Zaporizhia, Ukraine, to Eduard and Julia, moved to Ocean Parkway across the street from Coney Island Hospital in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, when she was six, and is Jewish. As a youth, she trained on public courts in Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn. She and her husband and two children live in Kirkland, Washington. She won the 2008 USTA Girls’ 18s national title, defeating Sloane Stephens, the 2017 US Open champion, and CoCo Vandeweghe, the 2017 US Open semifinalist, at 17 years of age. She thus earned a wild card to the 2008 US Open, where she lost in the first round, 5–7, 3–6, to world No. 14, Agnes Szavay ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
