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2018 Boyd Tinsley Clay Court Classic
The 2018 Boyd Tinsley Clay Court Classic was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the seventeenth edition of the tournament and was part of the 2018 ITF Women's Circuit. It took place in Charlottesville, United States, on 23–29 April 2018. Singles main draw entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings as of 16 April 2018. Other entrants The following players received a wildcard into the singles main draw: * Julia Elbaba * Allie Kiick * Katerina Stewart The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Sophie Chang * Mari Osaka * Camilla Rosatello * Iga Świątek The following player received entry as a Lucky Loser: * Ana Sofía Sánchez Champions Singles * Mariana Duque Mariño def. Anhelina Kalinina, 0–6, 6–1, 6–2 Doubles * Sophie Chang / Alexandra Mueller Alexandra Mueller (born 14 February 1988) is an inactive professional tennis player from the United States. She has won seven singles titles and 21 do ...
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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 ...
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Irina Bara
Irina Maria Bara (born 18 March 1995) is a professional tennis player from Romania. She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 104, achieved on 18 April 2022. On 13 May 2019, she peaked at No. 56 in the WTA doubles rankings. She won her maiden WTA Tour doubles title at the 2021 Transylvania Open, partnering Ekaterine Gorgodze. Bara has also won five doubles titles on the WTA 125 tournaments, WTA Challenger Tour, where she is undefeated in finals, and nine singles titles and 29 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit, ITF Circuit, most of them on clay. In singles, she reached a $100k and an $80k finals, three finals at $60k events, but lost all of them, having $25k as her highest category that she won. In doubles, she won a couple of $60k and $80k tournaments, but also won one $100k event, the 2016 Soho Square Ladies Tournament – Doubles, 2016 Soho Square Tournament in Sharm El Sheik, Egypt. Bara is better known for her performances in doubles, reaching the top 100. ...
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Whitney Osuigwe
Whitney Osuigwe ( ; born April 17, 2002) is an American tennis player. In 2017, Osuigwe was the ITF Junior World Champion. She won the juniors 2017 French Open to become the first American to win the girls' singles event in Paris in 28 years. Personal life Osuigwe has been playing tennis at the IMG Academy since age six, where her father Desmond has been a teacher at the academy since 1997 and acts as her primary coach. Desmond is from Lagos in Nigeria and played professional tennis events at the ITF Futures level before coming to the United States to attend college. Whitney has an older brother named Deandre who is a college basketball player and a younger sister named Victoria who also plays tennis. Junior career In June 2017, Osuigwe climbed to No. 2 in the junior rankings by dominating the clay-court events in the previous six months. She started by reaching the semifinals at the Orange Bowl in December, and then won two Grade-1 clay-court tournaments in back-to-back weeks ...
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Ashley Kratzer
Ashley Kratzer (born February 8, 1999) is an American female tennis player. Kratzer has a career high WTA singles ranking of 333 and a career high doubles ranking of 447. In 2017, Kratzer won the USTA National Girls' Championships, securing a wildcard in the main draw of the 2017 US Open (tennis), 2017 US Open. In 2020, Kratzer tested positive for GHRP-6 and was suspended from competition for four years on March 28 of that year. The ITF's decision dated the end of her suspension as March 27, 2024. Kratzer's subsequent appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) was rejected in June 2021. ITF finals Singles: 3 (3 runner–ups) Doubles: 1 (1 runner–up) References External links

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Ana Sofía Sánchez
Ana Sofía Sánchez Palau (; born 13 April 1994) is a Mexican tennis player. Sánchez has won 13 singles and 10 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. Her best result so far on the WTA Tour in singles came when she reached the second round at the Monterrey Open in 2018. She beat Usue Maitane Arconada in the first round, before losing to Sachia Vickery. In doubles, she reached the semifinal in Florianopolis in August 2016 with partner Montserrat González. The pair lost to third-seeded Tímea Babos and Réka Luca Jani, in straight sets. On 28 June 2021, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 248. On 15 August 2016, she peaked at No. 221 in the WTA doubles rankings. In 2012, Sánchez made her debut for the Mexico Fed Cup team The Mexico Billie Jean King Cup team represents Mexico in the Billie Jean King Cup tennis competition and are governed by the Federación Mexicana de Tenis. They currently compete in the Americas Zone Group II. History Mexico com ...
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Iga Świątek
Iga Natalia Świątek (; born 31 May 2001) is a Polish professional tennis player. She is currently ranked world No. 1 by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA). Świątek is a three-time major singles champion, having won the French Open in 2020 and 2022 and the US Open in 2022. She is the first player representing Poland to win a major singles title. She has won a total of 11 WTA Tour-level titles. Świątek's father Tomasz is a retired Olympic rower. As a junior, Świątek was the 2018 French Open girls' doubles champion alongside Caty McNally and the 2018 Wimbledon girls' singles champion. Świątek began playing regularly on the WTA Tour in 2019, and entered the top 50 at 18 years old after her maiden WTA final and a fourth-round appearance at the 2019 French Open. During her French Open title run in 2020, Świątek did not lose more than five games in any singles match. She entered the top ten of the WTA rankings for the first time in May 2021 after winning the Italian ...
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Camilla Rosatello
Camilla Rosatello (born 28 May 1995) is an Italian tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 225, achieved on 7 August 2017. On 29 January 2018, she peaked at No. 134 in the doubles rankings. Rosatello has won one singles title and 34 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On the ITF Junior Circuit, she had a career-high combined ranking of 30, achieved in January 2013. Rosatello has represented Italy in 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 ... competition, where she has a win–loss record of 0–1. ITF Circuit finals Singles: 12 (1 title, 11 runner–ups) Doubles: 60 (34 titles, 26 runner–ups) Notes References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Rosatello, Camilla 1995 births Living people Italian female tennis pla ...
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Mari Osaka
is a Japanese fashion designer, and former tennis player. In her career, she reached four ITF finals. Mari is the older sister of Naomi Osaka, with whom she has collaborated on several fashion design and art projects. Biography Osaka was born in Japan to a Japanese mother and a Haitian father; shortly thereafter, the family moved to Long Island, New York. She grew up in Fort Lauderdale. Osaka made her WTA Tour debut at the 2014 Bank of the West Classic, in the doubles event partnering with Marina Shamayko, losing in the first round to the pair Varvara Lepchenko and Ajla Tomljanović. She made her WTA Tour singles debut at the 2019 Miami Open, having received a wildcard into the main draw, but lost to Whitney Osuigwe. Osaka announced retirement from professional tennis in early 2021. Since retirement, she has focused on her art and fashion design, including co-designing her sister Naomi's Met Gala The Met Gala, or Met Ball, formally called the Costume Institute Gala o ...
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Katerina Stewart
Katerina Stewart (born July 17, 1997) is an American tennis player. Stewart has won 13 singles and five doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On July 27, 2015, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 158. On July 30, 2018, she peaked at No. 400 in the doubles rankings. She made her WTA Tour debut at the 2014 US Open, having been handed a wildcard into the doubles tournament alongside Louisa Chirico. She enrolled at the West Point Preparatory School, starting the program in July 2016. Personal life She is of Argentine-Italian descent through her mother, Marina. Her Romanian Romanian may refer to: *anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Romania **Romanians, an ethnic group **Romanian language, a Romance language *** Romanian dialects, variants of the Romanian language ** Romanian cuisine, tradition ...-born father, Caesar, is the director of Next Level Tennis Academy in Coral Gables, Florida. ITF Circuit finals Singles: 18 (13 titles, 5 r ...
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Allie Kiick
Alexandra Kiick (; born June 30, 1995) is an American tennis player. Kiick has won seven singles titles and two doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. In June 2019, she reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 126. In May 2014, she peaked at No. 214 in the doubles rankings. Career Between August 2015 and May 2017, Kiick did not play in any ITF Circuit tournaments. She was sidelined during this time because she was diagnosed with stage-II-skin cancer (melanoma) and severe knee injuries that caused her to be out for a total of three years and two months. She also was diagnosed with mononucleosis. In 2021, she was diagnosed with acoustic neuroma. Personal life Kiick's parents are mother Mary, a former professional softball player, and father Jim Kiick, a former NFL player who won two Super Bowls with the Miami Dolphins. Allie described her father as her hero upon his death. She has one brother, Austin. Her mother introduced her to tennis at the age of nine. Kiick w ...
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Jamie Loeb
Jamie Loeb (born March 8, 1995) is an American tennis player. She has career-high WTA rankings of 132 in singles, achieved in February 2018, and 120 in doubles, achieved in July 2018. Loeb has won nine singles and nine doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. She won the New York State high-school title as a sophomore. Loeb won the singles and doubles U18s championships at the 2012 USTA National Winter Championship, and won the doubles at the 2013 USTA International Spring Championship. She attended the University of North Carolina for her freshman and sophomore years (2013–15), and won the singles NCAA Championship in 2015. Biography Born in Bronxville, New York, Loeb was raised in Ossining, New York."Rising Jewish star Loeb ousted,"
''The Jerusalem Post''.
Her parents ...
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