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2018 Empire Slovak Open – Singles
Markéta Vondroušová was the defending champion, but chose not to participate. Viktória Kužmová won the title after defeating Verónica Cepede Royg 6–4, 1–6, 6–1 in the final. Seeds Draw Finals Top half Bottom half ReferencesMain Draw {{DEFAULTSORT:2018 Empire Slovak Open - Singles Empire Slovak Open - Singles ... [...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] |
Andrea Petkovic
Andrea Petkovic (, ; born 9 September 1987) is a German former professional tennis player. Born in Tuzla, SFR Yugoslavia, to Serbian father Zoran and Bosniak mother Amira, she moved to Germany at six months old and turned professional in 2006 at the age of 18. A former top-10 player, Petkovic reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 9 on 10 October 2011, becoming the first German female player ranked inside the top 10 since Steffi Graf in 1999. That year, she played in the quarterfinals of three Grand Slam tournaments as well as a Premier Mandatory final at the China Open, and qualified as an alternate to the WTA Tour Championships. Petkovic suffered three separate injuries in 2012: a back injury in January, an ankle injury in August and a knee injury in December that kept her out for nine months, and almost saw her fall out of the top 200. She rebounded in 2014 by reaching her first Grand Slam semifinal at the 2014 French Open and later winning the WTA Tournament o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vera Zvonareva
Vera Igorevna Zvonareva ( rus, Вера Игоревна Звонарёва, p=ˈvʲɛrə ˈiɡərʲɪvnə zvənɐˈrʲɵvə, a=Vera zvonareva.ogg; born 7 September 1984) is a Russian professional tennis player. She was introduced to tennis at the age of six and turned professional in 2000. Her career-high ranking by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) is world No. 2. Zvonareva has won twelve WTA Tour singles titles, including the 2009 Indian Wells Open, and reached the finals of the 2008 WTA Tour Championships, 2010 Wimbledon Championships, and 2010 US Open. She also was a bronze medalist at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. In doubles, Zvonareva has won five major titles. Three came in women's doubles, first at the 2006 US Open, partnering Nathalie Dechy, and the 2012 Australian Open, with Svetlana Kuznetsova. Following her return to tennis, Zvonareva won her third major title at the 2020 US Open, partnering Laura Siegemund. Her other two major titles came in mixed doubles, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anastasia Potapova
Anastasia Sergeyevna Potapova (born 30 March 2001) is a Russian tennis player. Potapova has a career-high ranking of No. 44 achieved on 17 October 2022 and a doubles ranking of No. 44 achieved on 3 October 2022. Potapova is a former junior No. 1, as well as the 2016 Wimbledon Championships girls' singles champion. Career Juniors On the junior tour, Potapova has a career-high junior ranking of 1, achieved in July 2016. Potapova has had large success on the junior tour including a semifinal at the 2016 French Open, quarterfinals at the 2016 Australian Open and the 2015 Wimbledon Championships and doubles finals at the 2015 US Open and the 2016 French Open. Potapova won the 2016 Wimbledon Championships girls' title, defeating Dayana Yastremska in the final. Two of the seven match points in the final set were overturned by challenges. This title made her the No. 1 junior in the world. Potapova's other junior highlights include semifinal appearances at the Trofeo Bonfiglio and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Françoise Abanda
Françoise Abanda (born February 5, 1997) is a Canadian professional tennis player. She reached her highest WTA singles ranking of 111 on October 9, 2017 and her highest WTA doubles ranking of 197 on September 8, 2014. She achieved a career-high combined junior rank of No. 4 on April 29, 2013. Early life Françoise started playing tennis at age seven, after her elder-by-three-years sister Élisabeth started playing two years earlier. She has been a member of Canada's National Training Centre in Montreal since 2009. Her parents, Blaise Abanda and Cecile Essono Ahibena, are from Cameroon. Her sister Élisabeth also played tennis professionally and studied at Barry University. Tennis career 2011–12 In 2011, Abanda reached the third round of the junior US Open in singles. In May 2012, she was eliminated in the third round of the junior French Open in singles, and in the quarterfinals in doubles. She lost in the semifinals of the junior Wimbledon in June 2012 in both singles and do ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kristie Ahn
Kristie Hyerim Ahn (born June 15, 1992) is an American former professional tennis player. She has won seven singles titles and two doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. On 30 September 2019, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 87. Her first appearance at a Grand Slam tournament was at the age of 16 at the 2008 US Open. In 2019, she was given a wildcard bid and reached the fourth round of the US Open where she became the first Asian American woman to make the round of 16 at a Grand Slam tournament since Lilia Osterloh accomplished the feat in 2000. Ahn is of Korean descent and was born in Flushing Hospital, having later lived in Englewood Cliffs, N.J. She graduated from Stanford University in 2014 with a degree in Science, Technology and Society. She played on the Stanford women's tennis team from 2010 to 2014 and was All-American in singles, ITA National Rookie of the Year, and Pac-10 Championships singles champion. Performance timelines ''Only main-draw resul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irina Falconi
Irina Falconi ( es, Falconí; born May 4, 1990) is an Ecuadorian-born American former tennis player. She moved to Manhattan, New York, as a toddler. Her highest WTA singles ranking is world No. 63, which she reached in May 2016. Her career-high in doubles is No. 70, set in June 2013. Professional career Falconi played college tennis at Georgia Tech where she was a two times ITA All-American and 2010 ACC Player of the Year. She was given a wildcard into the 2010 US Open qualifying tournament and managed to qualify defeating Mona Barthel, Anastasia Pivovarova and Stéphanie Dubois. She went out in the first rounds of the Australian Open, the French Open, and Wimbledon. The 2011 US Open was more successful for Falconi, when she defeated Klára Zakopalová and Dominika Cibulková, before losing to Sabine Lisicki. In March 2020, she competed at the Indian Wells Challenger for the last time in a pro match on tour. In 2021, it was reported that Falconi was working as a travelin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maja Chwalińska
Maja Chwalińska (; born 11 October 2001) is a Polish tennis player. She has a career-high ranking of world No. 149, achieved on 3 October 2022, and a best doubles ranking of world No. 175, reached on 1 August 2022. She won her first senior singles title at a ITF Circuit tournament in Bytom in July 2019, having already won four ITF doubles titles up to that point. Junior career Junior Grand Slam results - Singles: * Australian Open: 1R (2017) * French Open: Q1 (2017) * Wimbledon: 3R (2017) * US Open: 1R (2017) Junior Grand Slam results - Doubles: * Australian Open: F (2017) * French Open: 1R (2017) * Wimbledon: 1R (2017) * US Open: QF (2017) She won the European 14-and-under doubles title in 2015, and the 16-and-under doubles title in 2016. She was a member of the Polish team which won the Junior Fed Cup title in 2016, and made the final of the 2017 Australian Open junior doubles before completing a trio of European junior titles by winning the 16-and-under singles title six mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonia Lottner
Antonia Lottner (; born 13 August 1996) is a German tennis player. Lottner has won seven singles titles and six doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. In June 2018, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 128. In April 2015, she peaked at No. 131 in the doubles rankings. Career highlights In June 2017, Lottner won her first WTA Tour match in s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands. As a qualifier she upset then-world No. 6, Dominika Cibulková, in the first round. Grand Slam performance timeline ''Only results in WTA Tour and Grand Slam tournaments main-draw, Olympic Games and Fed Cup are included in win–loss records.'' Singles ''Current through the 2022 WTA Tour.'' WTA 125 tournament finals Singles: 1 (1 runner–up) ITF Circuit finals Singles: 8 (7 titles, 1 runner–up) Doubles: 14 (6 titles, 8 runner–ups) Junior Grand Slam tournament finals Girls' singles: 1 (1 runner–up) Head-to-head records Record against top 10 players * Andrea Petkovic 2–0 * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tereza Martincová
Tereza Martincová (; born 24 October 1994) is a Czech tennis player. Martincová has won one doubles title on the WTA Tour and four singles titles on the ITF Circuit. On 14 February 2022, she reached her best WTA singles ranking of world No. 40. On 8 August 2022, she peaked at No. 77 in the WTA doubles rankings. Career 2013–2015 In June 2013, Martincová made her WTA Tour main-draw debut at the Nürnberger Versicherungscup. After coming through all three qualifying rounds, she lost to Estrella Cabeza Candela in round one. One month later, Martincová once again came through qualifying at the Baku Cup, defeating Oksana Kalashnikova in the first round, but losing to Tadeja Majerič in the second. In 2014, first WTA tournament for Martincová was the Nürnberger Versicherungscup, where she qualified for the main draw, and then lost to Anastasia Rodionova. She qualified for the Swedish Open in Båstad, before Mona Barthel defeated her in the first round. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tamara Korpatsch
Tamara Korpatsch (born 12 May 1995) is a German tennis player. She has a career-high singles WTA ranking of No. 74, achieved on 28 November 2022, and doubles ranking of No. 291, achieved on 7 March 2022. She has won one singles title on WTA Challenger Tour and eleven singles titles on the ITF Circuit. Professional career 2016 Korpatsch made her WTA Tour debut at the Swiss Open in the doubles draw, partnering Ekaterina Yashina. 2017 In December 2017, she won the singles title at the National German Championships. 2020: Grand slam debut She made her Grand Slam main draw debut at the French Open The French Open (french: Internationaux de France de tennis), also known as Roland-Garros (), is a major tennis tournament held over two weeks at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France, beginning in late May each year. The tournament and ven ... and the US Open. 2022: Top 100 debut In June 2022, Korpatsch made her third Major main draw debut at the Wimbledon Championships w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lenka Stará
Lenka Kripac (born 19 March 1978) is an Australian singer-songwriter and actress best known for her song "The Show", from her debut album, ''Lenka''. "The Show" has been used in numerous advertisements, most notably for Old Navy, as well as the Nickelodeon film '' Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging'' and the 2011 film ''Moneyball''. Her song " Everything at Once" was used in a Windows 8 television advertisement and in a Disney Movie Rewards commercial. Her fifth studio album, '' Attune'', was released in 2017. Early life The daughter of Czech-born jazz trumpet musician, Jiří Křipač and Australian schoolteacher, Eden, Lenka was raised in the Australian coastal town of Bega until age seven, when her family moved to Sydney, where she received her schooling, acting and music training, and started to work as a highly regarded theatre actress and later musician. Career 2008–2012: Beginnings and self-titled debut album As a teenager, Lenka studied acting at the Austra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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