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2022 Dow Tennis Classic
The 2022 Dow Tennis Classic was a professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the twenty-eighth edition of the tournament which was also part of the 2022 WTA 125 tournaments. It took place at the Greater Midland Tennis Center in Midland, Michigan, United States between 31 October and 6 November 2022. Champions Singles * Caty McNally def. Anna-Lena Friedsam, 6–3, 6–2. Doubles * Asia Muhammad / Alycia Parks def. Anna-Lena Friedsam / Nadiia Kichenok, 6–2, 6–3 Singles main-draw entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings are as of 24 October 2022. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Eugenie Bouchard * Madison Brengle * Sofia Kenin * Maria Mateas * Peyton Stearns * Zhang Shuai The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Kayla Day * Elvina Kalieva * Robin Montgomery * Katherine Sebov The following player received entry as a lucky loser: * Sophie Chang Withdrawals ;Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tennis Court
A tennis court is the venue where the sport of tennis is played. It is a firm rectangular surface with a low net stretched across the centre. The same surface can be used to play both doubles and singles matches. A variety of surfaces can be used to create a tennis court, each with its own characteristics which affect the playing style of the game. Dimensions The dimensions of a tennis court are defined and regulated by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) governing body and are written down in the annual 'Rules of Tennis' document. The court is long. Its width is for singles matches and for doubles matches. The service line is from the net. Additional clear space around the court is needed in order for players to reach overrun balls for a total of wide and long. A net is stretched across the full width of the court, parallel with the baselines, dividing it into two equal ends. The net is high at the posts, and high in the center. The net posts are outside the d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Varvara Gracheva
Varvara Andreyevna Gracheva ( rus, Варвара Андреевна Грачёва, , vɐrˈvarə ɡrɐˈtɕɵvə, Ru-Varvara Gracheva.ogg; born 2 August 2000) is a Russian tennis player. Gracheva has a career-high WTA singles ranking of No. 54, achieved on 20 March 2023. She has won seven singles titles at tournaments of the ITF Circuit. Gracheva made her main-draw debut on the WTA Tour at the 2019 Ladies Open Lausanne, where she qualified by defeating Julia Grabher in the final round.https://www.wtatennis.com/players/325836/varvara-gracheva#bio In July 2019, she qualified for the Washington Open and won her first WTA Tour main-draw match, defeating Anna Blinkova. Career Juniors: Decent success Gracheva reached a career-high ranking of 19 in her junior career, winning four Grade-2 events. 2017: First professional tournaments Gracheva played her first professional events in 2017, starting off unranked but managed to reach a ranking of No. 647 by the end of the year, af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Kalinskaya
Anna Nikolayevna Kalinskaya ( rus, Анна Николаевна Калинская, , ˈanːə kɐˈlʲinskəjə, Ru-Anna_Kalinskaya.ogg; born 2 December 1998) is a Russian professional tennis player. Ranked by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), she reached a career-high of No. 51 as a singles player in September 2022, and No. 53 as a doubles player in August 2022 . On the WTA Tour she won three doubles and seven singles titles; on the ITF Women's Circuit she won nine doubles titles . Her promising career started at age 17 when she won the Grand Slam girls' doubles title at the 2016 Australian Open alongside Tereza Mihalíková. She had previously reached the finals in the 2015 French Open in the girls' singles event as well as the 2015 US Open final in the doubles event, alongside her compatriot Anastasia Potapova. In 2017, she defeated former US Open champion Sloane Stephens in the first round of the tournament, achieving her firsGrand Slam victory In 2022, she won th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sachia Vickery
Sachia Vickery (born May 11, 1995) is an American professional tennis player. She first entered the top 100 in 2018 and eventually reached a career-high of No. 73 in the world in the WTA rankings. Her best results on the WTA Tour came at the 2018 Auckland Open and the 2018 Monterrey Open, where she reached the semifinals. Vickery, a former USTA junior national champion, has also won three singles and three doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. Early life and background Vickery was born in Florida to Paula Liverpool and Rawle Vickery. Her parents had both lived in Linden, the second largest city in the Caribbean nation of Guyana, and her mother is originally from the small mining town of Kwakwani. Her mother ran track in high school and her father was a professional soccer player. She also has an older brother named Dominique Mitchell who played college football at South Carolina State University. Through her former stepfather Derrick Mitchell, she is acquainted with LeBron Jame ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fernanda Contreras Gómez
Fernanda Contreras Gómez (born October 8, 1997) is a Mexican tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 139 by the WTA, achieved on 3 October 2022, and a doubles ranking of world No. 110, achieved on 6 March 2023. She played collegiately for Vanderbilt University. College career As a junior at Vanderbilt, Contreras won the USTA/ ITA All-American Intercollegiate Championship to become Vanderbilt's first Riviera/ITA Singles Tournament Champion on 8 October 2017. She defeated Aliona Bolsova Zadoinov in the championship match. Contreras finished the season with a 44–10 record, setting the program record for most victories in a season, and was named singles and doubles All-American. She reached the semifinals of the Oracle ITA Fall National Championships and the semifinals in the NCAA singles draw. Contreras ended her collegiate career with the most wins in Commodore history with 138 career wins. Professional career 2018–2020 She made her debut for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sophie Chang
Sophie Chang (born May 28, 1997) is an American tennis player. Chang has career-high WTA rankings of No. 227 in singles, reached in October 2022, and No. 59 in doubles, achieved September 2022. She has won one doubles WTA title with Angela Kulikov in July 2022. On the ITF Circuit, Chang has won 16 doubles titles, five of them with Alexandra Mueller, and three singles titles. Career She made her WTA Tour main-draw debut at the 2017 Washington Open, in the doubles draw, partnering with Alexandra Mueller. She has won one doubles title on the WTA Tour at the 2022 Hamburg European Open, partnering with Angela Kulikov Angela Kirsten Kulikov (born 31 March 1998) is an American tennis player. She has a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 57 achieved on 24 October 2022. Kulikov has played college tennis at the University of Southern California (USC). Caree .... Her first Tour level singles match was at the 2022 Charleston Open. Grand Slam performance timelines Singles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katherine Sebov
Katherine Sebov (born January 5, 1999) is a Canadian professional tennis player. She reached a career-high WTA singles ranking of No. 190, on 16 January 2023, and a career-high ITF junior ranking of No. 22, on 20 July 2015. Early life Sebov was born in Toronto and is of Ukrainian descent. Her coaches are Simon Bartram in Toronto and Robert Lansdorp in Los Angeles. Tennis career 2013–14 Sebov made her professional debut in November 2013 at a $50k event in Toronto, but was defeated in the qualifying second round in singles and in the first round in doubles. In July 2013, she had won her first junior singles title at the G4 in Vancouver. In July 2014 at Wimbledon, she qualified for her junior Grand Slam main-draw debut where she lost in the first round in singles and in the quarterfinals in the doubles. In September 2014, Sebov advanced to the third round in singles as a qualifier at the junior US Open and was defeated in the first round in doubles. 2015 In January, Sebov won ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robin Montgomery
Robin Montgomery (; born September 5, 2004) is an American tennis player. She has a career-high WTA doubles ranking of 165, achieved on 7 March 2022. She has won two singles and three doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. A product of the Junior Tennis Champions Center (JTCC), Montgomery made her WTA main draw debut at the 2020 US Open, receiving a wildcard in the women's singles draw. The next year, she returned to juniors, winning the girls' singles and doubles titles at the US Open. Career In August 2019, Montgomery played in the Girls' Singles at the US Open, where she reached the third round, losing to fellow-American Katrina Scott. In September, she represented the US in the final of the Junior Fed Cup, teaming up with Connie Ma to win the doubles match against the Czech Republic and secure victory for the US. In December, she won the "18 and under" title in the 2019 Orange Bowl. Montgomery reached the quarterfinals of the 2020 Australian Open girls' singles tourn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elvina Kalieva
Elvina Kalieva (born July 27, 2003) is an American tennis player. Kalieva has a career-high singles ranking by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) of 168, achieved on 26 June 2023. She also has a career-high WTA doubles ranking of 194, set on 6 February 2023. Personal life She is the sister of Uzbek-born ice hockey player Arthur Kaliyev. Career Kalieva made her major main-draw debut at the 2021 US Open, after receiving a wildcard for the mixed doubles tournament. The following year, she made her WTA Tour The WTA Tour is a worldwide top-tier tennis tour for women organized by the Women's Tennis Association. The second-tier tour is the WTA 125K series, and third-tier is the ITF Women's Circuit. The men's equivalent is the ATP Tour. WTA Tour tou ... debut at the 2022 Indian Wells Open as a wildcard player. ITF Circuit finals Singles: 4 (1 title, 3 runner–ups) Doubles: 4 (3 titles, 1 runner–up) Junior Grand Slam finals Doubles: 1 (runner-up) References Ext ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kayla Day
Kayla Day (born September 28, 1999) is an American professional tennis player. She has a career-high ranking of No. 122 by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA). As a junior, she won one junior Grand Slam title, at the 2016 US Open. There, she also finished runner–up in the girls' doubles event, partnering with Caroline Dolehide. Despite having success as junior, Day is mostly spending time playing at the ITF Women's Circuit instead of WTA Tour, due to her ranking. She officially turned professional in 2017, at the Australian Open. Early life and background Kayla started playing tennis when she was seven years old. Her mother is from the Czech Republic. Junior career Kayla was No. 1 in the girls' 12s, 14s, 16s, and 18s US national rankings. In 2016, she climbed to No. 1 in the ITF junior rankings by winning the 2016 Junior US Open, reaching the semifinals at the 2016 Wimbledon, and reaching the final at the Orange Bowl the previous year. She also achieved her best doubles res ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peyton Stearns
Peyton Mckenzie Stearns (born October 8, 2001) is an American professional tennis player. A former player at the University of Texas at Austin, Stearns turned professional in 2022. She has been ranked by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) as high as world No. 55 in singles and has also reached a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 152, both of which she attained in June 2023. In spring 2022, Stearns became the first Texas player to become the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) champion in women's tennis and soon elected to turn professional later that year. In her first full season on tour in 2023, Stearns earned her top 100 debut in April after reaching her first WTA Tour quarterfinal at the inaugural ATX Open in March before going on to contend for her first WTA title at the Copa Colsanitas the following month. She has won five singles titles and two doubles titles on the ITF Tour. Junior career College career Stearns played two seasons of college tenn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Mateas
Maria Mateaș (born 21 July 1999) is a Romanian-American tennis player. She has a career-high WTA singles ranking of world No. 284, achieved on 13 August 2018. On the ITF Junior Circuit, Mateas has a career-high combined ranking of 26, achieved in April 2016. Career She made her WTA Tour main-draw debut at the 2016 Bank of the West Classic, having received a wildcard into the singles tournament. She made her Grand Slam debut at the 2023 US Open in mixed doubles partnering Mackenzie McDonald Michael Mackenzie Lowe "Mackie" McDonald (born April 16, 1995) is an American professional tennis player. He reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 48 on 1 August 2022, and No. 90 in doubles on 17 October 2022. He won the 2016 NCAA .... Ranked No. 348, she made her singles debut at a WTA 1000 level after qualifying into the main draw of the 2023 Guadalajara Open Akron. ITF Circuit finals Singles: 4 (2 titles, 2 runner-ups) Doubles: 7 (5 titles, 2 runner-ups) Refe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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