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2021 Gippsland Trophy – Singles
The Gippsland Trophy is a new addition to the WTA Tour in 2021. Elise Mertens won the title, defeating Kaia Kanepi in the final, 6–4, 6–1. Due to a delayed schedule because of a COVID-19 case at a tournament quarantine hotel, all matches from the quarterfinal stage forward played a match tiebreaker in the final set (first to ten points, win by two). Seeds The top ten seeds received a bye into the second round. Simona Halep ''(quarterfinals)'' Naomi Osaka ''(semifinals, withdrew)'' Elina Svitolina ''(quarterfinals)'' Aryna Sabalenka ''(second round)'' Johanna Konta ''(third round)'' Iga Świątek ''(third round)'' Elise Mertens (champion) Karolína Muchová ''(quarterfinals, withdrew)'' Ekaterina Alexandrova ''(semifinals)'' Wang Qiang ''(second round)'' Zheng Saisai ''(first round)'' Caroline Garcia ''(third round)'' Jeļena Ostapenko ''(third round)'' Coco Gauff ''(second round)'' Polona Hercog ''(second round)'' Laura Siegemund ''(thi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elise Mertens
Elise Mertens (; born 17 November 1995) is a Belgian professional tennis player. She is a former world No. 1 in doubles. Mertens is a three-time Grand Slam champion in doubles, having won the 2019 US Open and 2021 Australian Open partnering Aryna Sabalenka, and the 2021 Wimbledon Championships with Hsieh Su-wei. Mertens also finished runner-up at the 2022 Wimbledon Championships with Zhang Shuai. She became world No. 1 for the first time in May 2021, the third Belgian to hold the top ranking across both disciplines after Kim Clijsters and Justine Henin. Mertens has won 16 doubles titles on the WTA Tour, including the 2022 WTA Finals with Veronika Kudermetova, four at WTA 1000 level, and finished runner-up at the 2021 WTA Finals alongside Hsieh. She is also a successful singles player, and reached her first major semifinal at the 2018 Australian Open, also reaching the US Open quarterfinals in 2019 and 2020. Mertens achieved her career-high singles ranking of world No. 12 in No ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caroline Garcia
Caroline Garcia (, born 16 October 1993) is a French professional tennis player. She has been ranked in the top 5 in both singles at world No. 4 and in doubles at world No. 2. Garcia is the 2022 WTA Finals singles champion. She is also a two-time major champion in doubles, having won the French Open women's doubles title in 2016 and 2022 partnering Kristina Mladenovic. The pair were also runners-up at the 2016 US Open, and reached the semifinals at the 2017 Australian Open. Garcia reached her career-high doubles ranking of world No. 2 in October 2016, and has won seven doubles titles on the WTA Tour, including the 2016 Madrid Open. She has also qualified for the WTA Finals on two occasions, winning the tournament in 2022, and alongside Mladenovic was voted the 2016 WTA Doubles Team of the Year. Garcia is also a successful singles player. She has won ten WTA Tour singles titles, including three at the WTA 1000 level: the 2017 Wuhan Open, 2017 China Open and 2022 Cincinnat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaja Juvan
Kaja Juvan (born 25 November 2000) is a Slovenian tennis player who turned professional on 17 October 2016. Juvan has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 58, achieved on 6 June 2022, and peaked at No. 99 in the doubles rankings on 11 July 2022. She won her maiden WTA Tour doubles title at the 2021 Winners Open in Cluj-Napoca, partnering Natela Dzalamidze. Junior career On the junior tour, she achieved a career-high combined ranking of 5, in January 2017. She reached the semifinals of both the 2016 Wimbledon Championships and the 2016 US Open girls' doubles events. She was also winner of the Orange Bowl in 2016. Professional career 2019: Breakthrough, Grand Slam debut She made her Grand Slam debut as a lucky loser at the French Open where she lost in the first round. After winning her qualifier bracket, she reached the second round of the Wimbledon Championships where she lost a three-set match to Serena Williams. 2021: Australian Open and Wimbledon third rounds, top ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valeria Savinykh
Valeria Dmitrievna Savinykh (russian: Валерия Дмитриевна Савиных; born 20 February 1991) is a Russian tennis player. In April 2012, she achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 99. On 20 November 2017, she peaked at No. 98 in the WTA doubles rankings. Savinykh has won nine singles and 23 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit, along with one doubles title on WTA Challenger Tour. Career Her father, Dmitry, introduced her into tennis at age five, and her mother, Elena, often travels with her. Valeria trains at the SotoTennis Academy in Spain. Since November 2012, Savinykh is coached by Tomasz Iwański Tomasz Iwański (born 5 December 1968) is a Polish former professional tennis player. A winner of nine national championships, he is head coach of the Polish Tennis Association and formerly coached top-10 player Nadia Petrova. A native of Łódź .... Performance timeline Singles ''Current after the 2023 Thailand Open.'' WTA career finals Do ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Karolína Schmiedlová
Anna Karolína Schmiedlová (; born 13 September 1994) is a Slovak tennis player. She has won three singles titles on the WTA Tour, one singles title on the WTA Challenger Tour as well as 12 singles titles on the ITF Circuit. On 12 October 2015, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 26. Her younger sister, Kristína Schmiedlová, ended her professional tennis career at the age of 21. Career 2013: Grand Slam and top-100 debut Schmiedlová qualified for her first Grand Slam tournament at the French Open. After Wimbledon, she reached the final of the $100,000 tournament in Biarritz, and lost to Stephanie Vogt in three sets. She reached the top 100 for the first time with a ranking of world No. 97. 2014: French Open third round In May, Schmiedlová won the Empire Slovak Open in Trnava. She defeated the defending champion Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová in the final. The following week, she reached the final of the Prague Open, losing to Britain's Heather Watson in s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monica Niculescu
Monica Niculescu (born 25 September 1987) is a Romanian professional tennis player. She has been ranked by the Women's Tennis Association as high as 28 in singles and 11 in doubles. Niculescu has won several titles: three singles and ten doubles titles on the WTA Tour, one singles and one doubles title at WTA 125 tournaments, as well as 19 singles and 22 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. She has ranked within the top 30 for several years in singles. Niculescu entered the Grand Slam doubles final at Wimbledon 2017 tournament, together with Chan Hao-ching. She reached the quarterfinals in doubles in all Grand Slam championships. In WTA 1000 tournaments, she got into three finals (doubles), six semifinals (5 in doubles), and 12 quarterfinals (11 in doubles). In singles, her best Grand Slam performance is reaching round four, which she did at the 2011 US Open and 2015 Wimbledon Championships. Early life Niculescu was born in Slatina but moved to Bucharest when she was fou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chloé Paquet
Chloé Paquet (; born 1 July 1994) is a French professional tennis player. She has achieved career-high WTA rankings of No. 101 in singles on 25 April 2022 and 247 in doubles on 12 June 2017. Career 2010–2016: WTA Tour debut Paquet made her debut on the ITF Women's Circuit in March 2010 at the $10k tournament held in Gonesse, France; she only played the tournament's singles event, losing in the second qualifying round. She played five tournaments on the 2010 ITF Women's Circuit. She made her WTA Tour singles debut at the WTA Premier 2011 Open GdF Suez; as a wildcard, she lost in the first qualifying round to Michaela Pochabová. Paquet made her Grand Slam women's doubles debut at the 2014 French Open; she and her partner Alix Collombon had received a wildcard for the doubles main draw and they lost in the first round to the third-seeded Russian pair of Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina. Her Grand Slam singles debut in qualifying came at the 2015 French Open, after recei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Destanee Aiava
Destanee Gabriella Aiava (born 10 May 2000) is an Australian professional tennis player. She has career-high WTA rankings of 147 in singles, achieved on 11 September 2017, and of 192 in doubles, achieved October 2019. Aiava has won five singles and five doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. She made her Grand Slam main-draw debut after winning the 2016 U18 Australian Championships, granting her a wildcard into the 2017 Australian Open. She thus became the first player, male or female, born in 2000 or later to participate in the main draw of a Grand Slam tournament. Early life Aiava is Samoan descent; her father, Mark, was born in New Zealand to Samoan parents, and her mother, Rosie, was born in American Samoa. Junior career 2012–2016 In 2012, at the age of 12, Aiava represented Australia at Roland Garros in the Longines Future Tennis Aces Tournament. Competing against fifteen of the top under-13 female tennis players, Aiava won the tournament and won the right to pla ... [...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] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irina-Camelia Begu
Irina-Camelia Begu (born 26 August 1990) is a Romanian professional tennis player. She reached a career-high singles ranking of No. 22 in the world, in August 2016. Two years later, she reached her highest WTA doubles ranking, also No. 22. Begu has won five singles titles and nine doubles titles on the WTA Tour. She also has won two singles titles on the WTA Challenger Tour, as well as 12 singles and 19 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. As a junior, she reached semifinal at the 2007 Wimbledon Championships, partnering with Oksana Kalashnikova. Later, as a senior, she continued with Grand Slam doubles success. She reached the semifinal at the 2018 Australian Open and quarterfinals of the 2017 French Open and 2018 Wimbledon Championships. In singles, she has the round of 16 as her best Grand Slam result at the 2015 Australian Open, 2016 French Open and 2022 French Open. In singles, she reached one Premier final, at the 2014 Kremlin Cup, but lost to Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Siegemund
Laura Natalie Siegemund (born 4 March 1988, in Filderstadt) is a German professional tennis player. She is a two-time Grand Slam champion, having won the 2020 US Open in women's doubles with Vera Zvonareva, as well as the 2016 US Open in mixed doubles alongside Mate Pavić. Siegemund reached her career-high doubles ranking of world No. 27 in October 2022, and has won nine doubles titles on the WTA Tour, including the 2022 Miami Open. In singles, her career-high ranking is world No. 27, achieved in August 2016, and she has won two WTA titles, at the 2016 Swedish Open and 2017 Stuttgart Open. Siegemund's best Grand Slam result in singles was a quarterfinal appearance at the 2020 French Open. She also reached the same stage at the 2016 Summer Olympics, and has represented Germany in the Billie Jean King Cup since 2017. Biography Siegemund was born to parents Harro (an engineer) and Brigitta Siegemund. She has two siblings. She was introduced to tennis by her family at age three ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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