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Baltic Open
The Baltic Open is a women's professional tennis tournament held at National Tennis Center Lielupe in Jūrmala, Latvia. It replaced the Moscow River Cup with the tournament joining the WTA Tour with it being classified as an International tournament. It takes place on outdoor clay courts. The tournament's prize money is $250,000 and the main draw consists of 32 players in singles and 16 teams in doubles while the qualifying draw in singles consists of 16 players. In 2021, the Baltic Open (its license) moved to Hamburg Germany to become the Hamburg European Open The Hamburg European Open (formerly ''German Open Tennis Championships'') is an annual tennis tournament for professional players held in Hamburg, Germany and part of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) Tour. Before 2021, it was a mal .... Results Singles Doubles References Official website {{WTA International tournaments Tennis tournaments in Latvia Sports competitions in Latvia Clay court t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jūrmala
Jūrmala (; "seaside") is a state city in Latvia, about west of Riga. Jūrmala is a resort town stretching and sandwiched between the Gulf of Riga and the Lielupe River. It has a stretch of white-sand beach, and a population of 49,325 in 2019, making it the fifth-largest city in Latvia. While Latvia was part of the Soviet Union, Jūrmala was a favorite holiday-resort and tourist destination for high-level Communist Party officials, particularly Leonid Brezhnev and Nikita Khrushchev. Although many amenities such as beach-houses and concrete hotels remain, some have fallen into disrepair. Jūrmala remains a tourist attraction with long beaches facing the Gulf of Riga and romantic wooden houses in the Art Nouveau style. Names and administrative history The name Jūrmala stems from Latvian ''jūra'' ("sea") and ''mala'' ("edge", "side", "margin"), thus "seaside" in English. In 1920, soon after Latvian independence, the town of Rīgas Jūrmala ("Seaside of Riga") was establish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2019 Baltic Open – Doubles
This was the first edition of the tournament. Sharon Fichman and Nina Stojanović won the title, defeating Jeļena Ostapenko and Galina Voskoboeva Galina Olegovna Voskoboeva (russian: Галина Олеговна Воскобоева; born 18 December 1984) is a professional Russian-born Kazakhstani tennis player. She reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 42 on 7 May 2012. He ... in the final, 2–6, 7–6(7–1), 0–6 Seeds Draw Draw References SourcesMain Draw {{DEFAULTSORT:2019 Baltic Open - Doubles Baltic Open - Doubles 2019 Doubles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 tournaments Structure (2021–present) The WTA Tour underwent slight change in the classification of tournaments in 2021, which were organized on par with the nomenclature used on ATP Tour: *Grand Slam tournaments (4) *Year-ending WTA Finals (1) *WTA 1000 tournaments (9): ** Mandatory: Four combined tournaments with male professional players with prize money ranging from US$6.5 million to US$8.3 million. These tournaments are held in Indian Wells, Miami, Madrid, and China Open (tennis), Beijing. However, Beijing tournament could not be held in 2021–22 due to the impact of Covid-19 Pandemic. ** Non-mandatory: Five events in Qatar Ladies Open, Doha/Dubai Tennis Championships, Dubai, Italian Open (tennis), Rome, Canadian Open (tennis), Montreal/ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clay Court Tennis Tournaments
Clay is a type of fine-grained natural soil material containing clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolin, Al2 Si2 O5( OH)4). Clays develop plasticity when wet, due to a molecular film of water surrounding the clay particles, but become hard, brittle and non–plastic upon drying or firing. Most pure clay minerals are white or light-coloured, but natural clays show a variety of colours from impurities, such as a reddish or brownish colour from small amounts of iron oxide. Clay is the oldest known ceramic material. Prehistoric humans discovered the useful properties of clay and used it for making pottery. Some of the earliest pottery shards have been dated to around 14,000 BC, and clay tablets were the first known writing medium. Clay is used in many modern industrial processes, such as paper making, cement production, and chemical filtering. Between one-half and two-thirds of the world's population live or work in buildings made with clay, often ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sports Competitions In Latvia
Sport pertains to any form of competitive physical activity or game that aims to use, maintain, or improve physical ability and skills while providing enjoyment to participants and, in some cases, entertainment to spectators. Sports can, through casual or organized participation, improve participants' physical health. Hundreds of sports exist, from those between single contestants, through to those with hundreds of simultaneous participants, either in teams or competing as individuals. In certain sports such as racing, many contestants may compete, simultaneously or consecutively, with one winner; in others, the contest (a ''match'') is between two sides, each attempting to exceed the other. Some sports allow a "tie" or "draw", in which there is no single winner; others provide tie-breaking methods to ensure one winner and one loser. A number of contests may be arranged in a tournament producing a champion. Many sports leagues make an annual champion by arranging games in a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tennis Tournaments In Latvia
Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over or around a net and into the opponent's court. The object of the game is to manoeuvre the ball in such a way that the opponent is not able to play a valid return. The player who is unable to return the ball validly will not gain a point, while the opposite player will. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society and at all ages. The sport can be played by anyone who can hold a racket, including wheelchair users. The modern game of tennis originated in Birmingham, England, in the late 19th century as lawn tennis. It had close connections both to various field (lawn) games such as croquet and bowls as well as to the older racket sport today called real tennis. The rules of modern tennis have ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baltic Open
The Baltic Open is a women's professional tennis tournament held at National Tennis Center Lielupe in Jūrmala, Latvia. It replaced the Moscow River Cup with the tournament joining the WTA Tour with it being classified as an International tournament. It takes place on outdoor clay courts. The tournament's prize money is $250,000 and the main draw consists of 32 players in singles and 16 teams in doubles while the qualifying draw in singles consists of 16 players. In 2021, the Baltic Open (its license) moved to Hamburg Germany to become the Hamburg European Open The Hamburg European Open (formerly ''German Open Tennis Championships'') is an annual tennis tournament for professional players held in Hamburg, Germany and part of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) Tour. Before 2021, it was a mal .... Results Singles Doubles References Official website {{WTA International tournaments Tennis tournaments in Latvia Sports competitions in Latvia Clay court t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Galina Voskoboeva
Galina Olegovna Voskoboeva (russian: Галина Олеговна Воскобоева; born 18 December 1984) is a professional Russian-born Kazakhstani tennis player. She reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 42 on 7 May 2012. Her best ranking in doubles is 26th, achieved on 20 August 2012. Professional career Born in Moscow, Voskoboeva turned pro in 2002. During her career, she has won five doubles titles on the WTA Tour, as well as three singles titles (in Mont-de-Marsan in 2003, Cuneo in 2006, and Casablanca in 2011) and 13 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. 2008–2010 In 2008, Voskoboeva managed to qualify for the Qatar Open in Doha. In the first round she defeated Eleni Daniilidou before taking a set off world No. 5, Maria Sharapova, but losing 4–6, 6–4, 1–6. That same year, she reached the quarterfinals in Quebec City. In 2009, she reached the quarterfinals in Warsaw. At the US Open, she lost in the first round to Caroline Wozniacki, in straight se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeļena Ostapenko
Jeļena Ostapenko (born 8 June 1997), also known as Aļona Ostapenko, is a Latvian professional tennis player. She has career-high WTA rankings of world No. 5 in singles, achieved on 19 March 2018, and world No. 9 in doubles, reached on 22 August 2022. Ostapenko won the 2017 French Open singles title, becoming the first player from Latvia to win a Grand Slam singles tournament and the first unseeded player to win the French Open since 1933. In addition to her singles career, she has played as a member of the Latvia Fed Cup team. She has won seven singles and eight doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit, and she also won the junior singles event at the 2014 Wimbledon Championships. Personal life Ostapenko was born in Riga to former Ukrainian footballer Jevgēnijs Ostapenko (d. 2020) and Russian Jeļena Jakovļeva. Jevgēnijs played professional football for FC Metalurh Zaporizhya in the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhia where Jeļena's grandmother lives. Jeļena has one half-br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nina Stojanović
Nina Stojanović ( sr-cyr, Нина Стојановић, ; born 30 July 1996) is a Serbian professional tennis player. On 2 March 2020, Stojanović reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 81. On 17 January 2022, she peaked at No. 37 in the WTA doubles rankings. She has won two doubles titles on the WTA Tour, and ten singles and 24 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. As a junior, Stojanović reached three Grand Slam semifinals in doubles, each on a different surface, the French Open and Wimbledon in 2013, and the Australian Open in 2014. As a professional, she made her debut on the WTA Tour in 2016. In 2019, Stojanović reached her first WTA semifinal in singles at the Jiangxi International Open and also won her first doubles title at the Baltic Open. That year, she also debuted in the top 100 in singles, while in doubles, she made her top-100 debut in 2017, when she reached three WTA tournament finals. Junior career Stojanovic is a former junior world No. 17 ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sharon Fichman
Sharon Fichman ( ; born December 3, 1990) is a Canadian-Israeli inactive tennis player. In 2004, at the age of 13, she was Canada's Under-18 Indoor & Outdoor National girls' champion, and also won the doubles title. In 2005, Fichman won the gold medal in women's singles at the 2005 Maccabiah Games in Israel, at the age of 14. In 2006, Fichman won the Australian Open and French Open junior doubles championships. She was ranked No. 5 on the ITF Junior Circuit in December 2006. Since turning professional, her career-highs have been No. 77 in singles (May 19, 2014) and No. 21 in doubles (January 17, 2022). She was inactive from May 2016 to April 2018, but returned to tennis in doubles at the $60k event in Indian Harbour Beach, reaching the quarterfinals with Jamie Loeb. She competed at last at the 2021 WTA Finals. Personal life Fichman, who is Jewish, was born and raised in Forest Hill in Toronto, Canada. She is a citizen of both Canada and Israel. Her parents, Julia and Bobby, e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katarzyna Kawa
Katarzyna Kawa (; born 17 November 1992) is a Polish professional tennis player. Her career-high WTA rankings are 112 in singles, achieved November 2020, and world No. 70 in doubles, set on 26 September 2022. She has won one WTA Challenger doubles title, and also seven singles and 19 doubles titles on tournaments of the ITF Women's Circuit. Personal Katarzyna Kawa was born in Krynica-Zdrój, but moved in 2013 to Poznań, Poland, where she currently resides. She started playing tennis at age seven and is coached by Grzegorz Garczyński.http://www.itftennis.com/procircuit/players/player/profile.aspx?playerid=100102952 Parents are Anna and Jacek, two sisters are Monika and Weronika, and brother is Radomir. Hobbies include reading and traveling. Idolizes Justine Henin and Novak Djokovic. Favorite shot is her backhand and her favorite surfaces to compete on are both clay and grass. Career 2019: First WTA final and breakthrough In July, Kawa made it through the qualifying rounds at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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