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Ana Vrljić
Ana Vrljić (; born 1 August 1984) is an inactive professional Croatia tennis player. Vrljić has won four singles and eleven doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 24 June 2013, she reached her highest singles ranking of world No. 180. On 26 August 2013, she peaked at No. 149 in the doubles rankings. Playing for Croatia Fed Cup team, Vrljić has a win–loss record of 4–3. Tennis career She started playing tennis at the age of four, her favorite surface is hardcourt. At the Mediterranean Games, she won the silver medal in women's doubles along with Matea Mezak. Vrljić made it to the quarterfinals of the 2010 Swedish Open, defeating Angelique Kerber and Arantxa Rus but she lost to Gisela Dulko Gisela Dulko (; born 30 January 1985) is a retired Argentine tennis player. Although she enjoyed modest success in singles, reaching a career-high ranking of world No. 26 and winning four WTA titles, her speciality was doubles, where she achiev .... ITF finals Singles: 16 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zagreb
Zagreb ( , , , ) is the capital (political), capital and List of cities and towns in Croatia#List of cities and towns, largest city of Croatia. It is in the Northern Croatia, northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb stands near the international border between Croatia and Slovenia at an elevation of approximately above mean sea level, above sea level. At the 2021 census, the city had a population of 767,131. The population of the Zagreb urban agglomeration is 1,071,150, approximately a quarter of the total population of Croatia. Zagreb is a city with a rich history dating from Roman Empire, Roman times. The oldest settlement in the vicinity of the city was the Roman Andautonia, in today's Ščitarjevo. The historical record of the name "Zagreb" dates from 1134, in reference to the foundation of the settlement at Kaptol, Zagreb, Kaptol in 1094. Zagreb became a free royal city in 1242. In 1851 Janko Kamauf became Z ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arantxa Rus
Arantxa Rus (; born 13 December 1990) is a Dutch tennis player. In 2008, she won the girl's singles title at the 2008 Australian Open – Girls' singles, Australian Open, defeating Jessica Moore (tennis), Jessica Moore from Australia in the final. With this win she went from 35th to second place on the junior rankings, ultimately becoming the world No. 1 junior player. Her biggest singles successes to date are a second-round upset over world No. 2, Kim Clijsters, at the 2011 French Open, saving two match points in the second set, reaching the fourth round at the 2012 French Open, and defeating world No. 5, Samantha Stosur, in the 2012 Wimbledon Championships to reach the third round. Her maiden WTA Tour title was winning the 2017 Swedish Open doubles event, partnering Quirine Lemoine. Tennis career 2005–07 At age 14, Arantxa played her first ITF Women's Circuit tournament at Alkmaar where she lost in the second round to Julie Coin. In 2006, she played two more ITF events at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kateryna Bondarenko
Kateryna Volodymyrivna Volodko (née Bondarenko; uk, Катерина Володимирівна Бондаренко; born 8 August 1986) is a tennis player from Ukraine. She was the doubles champion in 2008 at the Australian Open, partnering her sister Alona Bondarenko. Kateryna is the younger sister of professional tennis players Valeria and Alona. She plays right-handed and turned pro in 2000. Her career-high rankings in singles and doubles are world No. 29 and No. 9, respectively. Her best Grand Slam performance in singles was reaching the quarterfinals at the 2009 US Open. Over her career, Bondarenko has defeated top ten players Elena Dementieva, Sara Errani, Ana Ivanovic, Garbiñe Muguruza, Li Na, Agnieszka Radwańska, Roberta Vinci, and Venus Williams. In 2022, she changed her name to Kateryna Volodko after marrying Denis Volodko. Biography Bondarenko was born on 8 August 1986 in Kryvyi Rih, Ukrainian SSR (nowadays Ukraine) to father, Vladimir, and mother, Natalia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katarzyna Piter
Katarzyna Piter (; born 16 February 1991) is a Polish professional tennis player. In the spring of 2014, she reached her career-high rankings, No. 95 in singles and 67 (new high in July 2022: No. 66) in doubles. She has won eight singles and 25 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. In July 2013 at Palermo, Piter won her sole title on the WTA Tour. Partnering with Kristina Mladenovic, they upset Karolína and Kristýna Plíšková in the final, in a super-tiebreak decision. Fed Cup Piter played 2009 for Poland in the Europe/Africa Zone I of the Fed Cup and helped them qualify for the World Group II Play-offs against Japan. In the round-robin stage, she lost her match against Monica Niculescu of Romania, won against Johanna Larsson of Sweden, beat Dijana Stojić of Bosnia and Herzegovina and paired up with Klaudia Jans to beat the Bosnian pairing. In the first play-off against Great Britain, she lost the first singles match to Elena Baltacha Elena Sergeevna Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alison Van Uytvanck
Alison Van Uytvanck (; born 26 March 1994) is a Belgian professional tennis player. Van Uytvanck has won five singles and two doubles WTA Tour titles and three Challenger Tour singles titles, as well as 12 singles and two doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. In August 2018, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 37. Personal life Van Uytvanck was born in the small town of Grimbergen to René Van Uytvanck and Krista Laemers. She started playing tennis at age five when her older brother Sean introduced her to the game. She has a twin brother named Brett. Van Uytvanck graduated from high school at Sint-Donatus in Merchtem. As a junior, she alternated between training with local coach Sacha Katsnelson and the Flemish Tennis Association, where she was coached by Ann Devries. She admires Roger Federer, and her compatriot Kim Clijsters. Van Uytvanck was in a relationship with fellow Belgian tennis player Greet Minnen. Career 2011: WTA debut In 2011, she won four ITF singl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karolína Plíšková
Karolína Hrdličková ( née Plíšková; ; born 21 March 1992) is a Czech professional tennis player. She is a former world No. 1 in singles, reaching the top of the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) rankings on 17 July 2017 and holding the position for eight weeks. On 31 October 2016, she peaked at world No. 11 in the doubles rankings. Known for her powerful serve and forehand, Plíšková has won 16 singles and five doubles titles on the WTA tour, 10 singles and six doubles titles on the ITF Circuit, and over $20 million in prize money. She has reached two Grand Slam singles finals at the 2016 US Open and the 2021 Wimbledon Championships. As a junior, Plíšková won the girls' singles event at the 2010 Australian Open. She has also played for the Czech Republic in Fed Cup competition. Personal life Plíšková was born in Louny to Radek Plíšek and Martina Plíšková, and has an identical twin sister, Kristýna, who is two minutes older and is also a tennis player. She ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paula Kania
Paula or PAULA may refer to: Arts and entertainment Fictional characters * Paula, in video game ''EarthBound'' * Paula, in ''The Larry Sanders Show'' * Paula Campbell (''EastEnders''), in 2003 Film and television * ''Paula'' (1915 film), a silent film * ''Paula'' (1952 film), an American drama * ''Paula'' (2011 film), a Canadian animation * ''Paula'' (2016 film), a German film * ''Paula'' (TV series), 2017 Music * ''Paula'' (album), by Robin Thicke, 2014 * "Paula" (Zoé song), 2006 * "Paula", a 1972 song by Monica Verschoor * "Paula", a 1981 song by Tim Weisberg People * Paula (given name), including a list of people with the name * Paula of Rome (347–404), ancient Roman saint *Paula (surname) Other uses * Paula (computer chip), the sound chip of the Commodore Amiga computer * ''Paula'' (novel), memoir by Isabel Allende, 1994 * ''Paula'' (1876 barque), a German ship from which was sent the longest travelled message in a bottle * ''Paula'' (insect), a synonym for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kristina Barrois
Kristina Barrois (born 30 September 1981) is a retired German tennis player. Barrois won 15 singles and 16 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit in her career. On 9 May 2011, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 57. On 20 February 2012, she peaked at No. 55 in the WTA doubles rankings. Early life Barrois began playing tennis at the age of nine in 1991 when she took the sport up herself and began to play at a tennis club. She completed her training as a government inspector at the Saarland Ministry of Justice before turning professional in 2005. Career Barrois was trained by Patrick Schmidt, and later by Andreas Spaniol, and her stamina-trainer was the footballer Bernd Franke. She played in the German Fed Cup team in 2006, losing her singles match to Li Na, and also losing her doubles match. In the same year, she won the German Tennis Championship. She also qualified for the main draws of the Wimbledon Championships and the US Open. At Wimbledon, she lost to Shenay ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elena Baltacha
Elena Sergeevna Baltacha ( uk, Олена Сергіївна Балтача; 14 August 1983 – 4 May 2014) was a Ukrainian-born British professional tennis player. Being a four-time winner of the AEGON Awards, she was also a long-term British No. 1, a position she held intermittently from 2002 to 2012. However, as a result of her absence from competition due to knee surgery, she dropped down the world rankings and at the time of her retirement on 18 November 2013, she was ranked as the world No. 221 and British No. 6. Her career-high ranking of world No. 49 was achieved in September 2010. Over the course of her career, she won 11 ITF singles titles (five $25k, two $50k, two $75k, and two $100k) and four ITF doubles titles (all $25k). She was also a runner-up in three ITF events in singles and four in doubles. In 2010, Baltacha had victories over top 10-players, including two victories over Li Na (the second of which came via retirement) and one against Francesca Schiav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oxana Lyubtsova
Oxana Lyubtsova ( uk, Оксана Любцова in Melitopol) is a Ukrainian tennis player. As a professional, her highest career singles ranking is World No. 149, achieved on 21 July 2008, her highest career world doubles ranking is No. 254, achieved on 27 April 2009. Lyubtsova has won five ITF singles titles and three ITF doubles titles. Lyubtsova played in her first WTA Tour event when she qualified to play in the 2009 Open GDF Suez. She lost in the first round to the 4th seeded Polish teenager Agnieszka Radwańska Agnieszka Roma Radwańska (; born 6 March 1989) is a Polish former professional tennis player. She won 20 career singles WTA Tour titles, two doubles titles, and achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 2 on 9 July 2012. Her achiev ... 6–1, 6–1. Her highest WTA singles ranking is 141st, which she reached on 21 July 2008. Career statistics Singles finals: 10 (5–5) Doubles finals: 8 (3–5) References External links * * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuliya Beygelzimer
Yuliya Markovna Beygelzimer ( ua, Юлія Марківна Бейгельзимер; born 20 October 1983) is a retired tennis player from Ukraine. Career She is perhaps best known for nearly defeating Jennifer Capriati at the 2004 French Open where she was down three games to love in the second set but then swept nine of ten games. She lost the match, having led three games to love in the final set after winning the second 6–4. On 25 September 2006, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 83. On 3 April 2006, she peaked at No. 56 in the doubles rankings. In her career, she won 12 singles and 35 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. She also won three doubles titles on the WTA Tour: the Tashkent Open in 2003 with Tatiana Poutchek, the 2005 Internazionali di Modena with Mervana Jugić-Salkić, and the 2014 Katowice Open with Olga Savchuk. She was also the runner-up in doubles finals at the Warsaw Open with Anastasia Rodionova 2001, Sunfeast Open with Yuliana Feda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sanja Ančić
Sanja Ančić (; born 18 July 1988) is a former tennis player from Croatia. She won a total of eight ITF tournaments in singles and one title in doubles. Her highest singles ranking was world No. 159, which she reached on 11 September 2006, and her best doubles ranking 240, reached in March 2007. She retired in 2007. Biography Ančić was born in Split to Stipe and Nilda Ančić. She plays right-handed, has a two-handed backhand and is the sister of professional tennis players Ivica and Mario Ančić Mario Ančić (; born 30 March 1984) is a Croatian former professional tennis player who currently works as a private equity vice president in New York City. He won three singles titles and five doubles titles. His career-high singles ranking c .... She played with her brother in the 2007 Hopman Cup. ITF finals Singles: 9 (8–1) Doubles: 2 (1-1) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Ancic, Sanja 1988 births Living people Tennis players from Split, Cro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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