Clara Tauson
Clara Tauson (born 21 December 2002) is a Danish professional tennis player. In 2016, at age 13, she became the youngest Danish champion in tennis. Caroline Wozniacki held the previous record when she won at age 14. Her career-high rankings are world No. 33 in singles and No. 432 in doubles reached February 2022. She has won two WTA titles both on hardcourt indoor. As a junior, she played amateur tournaments from 2013 till 2019 and started mixing this with prize money tournaments in 2017. Her best amateur result was girls' 2019 Australian Open winner. The same year, she became the first Danish girl to top the junior world ranking. On the professional ITF Circuit, she has won nine titles, the first at age 14. Her WTA Tour debut came in April 2019 and her debut in a senior level Grand Slam came at the 2020 French Open. She also represented Denmark in Fed Cup with a win–loss record of 5–5. She ended her junior years in top 200 on the WTA ranking. In 2021, her first year ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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2019 Meitar Open
The 2019 Meitar Open was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the first edition of the tournament which was part of the 2019 ITF Women's World Tennis Tour. It took place in Meitar, Israel between 9 and 15 September 2019. Singles main-draw entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings are as of 26 August 2019. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Shelly Bereznyak * Ilona Georgiana Ghioroaie * Shavit Kimchi * Maya Tahan The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Alicia Barnett * Lina Glushko * Nadiia Kichenok * Anna Kubareva * Viktória Morvayová * Victoria Muntean Champions Singles * Clara Tauson def. Katharina Hobgarski, 4–6, 6–3, 6–1 Doubles * Sofya Lansere / Kamilla Rakhimova def. Anastasia Gasanova / Valeriya Strakhova Valeriya Mykhaylivna Strakhova ( uk, Валерія Михайлівна Страхова; born 9 June 1995) is a Ukrainian tennis player. Car ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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2021 Lyon Open (WTA) – Singles
2021 Lyon Open may refer to: *2021 ATP Lyon Open The 2021 ATP Lyon Open (also known as the Open Parc Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Lyon) was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the fourth edition of the Lyon Open and part of the ATP Tour 250 series of the 2021 ATP Tour. It ... * 2021 WTA Lyon Open {{Short pages monitor ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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US Open (tennis)
The US Open Tennis Championships is a hardcourt tennis tournament held annually in Queens, New York. Since 1987, the US Open has been chronologically the fourth and final Grand Slam tournament of the year. The other three, in chronological order, are the Australian Open, French Open and Wimbledon. The US Open starts on the last Monday of August and continues for two weeks, with the middle weekend coinciding with the US Labor Day holiday. The tournament is of one of the oldest tennis championships in the world, originally known as the U.S. National Championship, for which men's singles and men's doubles were first played in August 1881. It is the only Grand Slam that was not affected by cancellation of World War I and World War II or interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. The tournament consists of five primary championships: men's and women's singles, men's and women's doubles, and mixed doubles. The tournament also includes events for senior, junior, and wheelchair pl ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Grand Slam (tennis)
The Grand Slam in tennis is the achievement of winning all four major championships in one discipline in a calendar year, also referred to as the "Calendar-year Grand Slam" or "Calendar Slam". In doubles, a team may accomplish the Grand Slam playing together or a player may achieve it with different partners. Winning all four major championships consecutively but not within the same calendar year is referred to as a "non-calendar-year Grand Slam", while winning the four majors at any point during the course of a career is known as a "Career Grand Slam". The Grand Slam tournaments, also referred to as majors, are the world's four most important annual professional tennis tournaments. They offer the most ranking points, prize money, public and media attention, the greatest strength and size of field, and the longest matches for men (best of five sets, best of three for the women). The tournaments are overseen by the International Tennis Federation (ITF), rather than the separate ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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European Youth Olympic Festival
The European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF) is a biennial multi-sport event for youth (14 to 18 years old) athletes from the 50 member countries of the association of European Olympic Committees. The festival has a summer edition, held for the first time in Brussels in 1991, and a winter edition, which began two years later in Aosta. It was known as the ''European Youth Olympic Days'' from 1991 to 1999.Bell, Daniel (2003). ''Encyclopedia of International Games''. McFarland and Company, Inc. Publishers, Jefferson, North Carolina. . History The event is run by the European Olympic Committees, under the patronage of the International Olympic Committee, and was the first multi-sport event in the Olympic tradition specifically for European athletes; it predates its senior equivalent, the European Games by some 24 years, and the Youth Olympic Games by 19 years. The event should not be confused with the various European junior and youth championships in individual sports, such as the Eur ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Clara Tauson - Stockholm Ladies (2017-11-05)
Clara may refer to: Organizations * CLARA, Latin American academic computer network organization * Clara.Net, a European ISP * Consolidated Land and Rail Australia, a property development consortium People * Clara (given name), a feminine given name (includes a list of people and fictional characters with this name) * Saint Clara or Clare of Assisi ; Surname * Florian Clara (born 1988), Italian luger * Roland Clara (born 1982), Italian cross country skier Places France * Clara, Pyrénées-Orientales, a commune of the Pyrénées-Orientales ''département'' in southwestern France Ireland * Clara, County Kilkenny, a parish * Clara, County Offaly, a town in Ireland ** Clara Bog, a wetland near the town of Clara, County Offaly * Clara, County Wicklow, sometimes referred to as the "smallest village in Ireland" United Kingdom *Clara Vale, a village in Tyne and Wear, England United States *Clara, Florida, area on the border of Taylor County and Dixie County * Clara City, Minnesota * C ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Hannah Viller Møller
Hannah Viller Møller (born 4 August 2001) is a Danish tennis player. On the ITF Junior Circuit, Viller Møller reached a career-high combined ranking of 103, achieved on 2 April 2018. Viller Møller made her Fed Cup debut for Denmark in 2019 File:2019 collage v1.png, From top left, clockwise: Hong Kong protests turn to widespread riots and civil disobedience; House of Representatives votes to adopt articles of impeachment against Donald Trump; CRISPR gene editing first used to experim .... Junior career Junior Grand Slam results - Singles: * Australian Open: 1R (2018) * French Open: Q2 (2018) * Wimbledon: Q1 (2018) * US Open: Q2 (201)8 Junior Grand Slam results - Doubles: * Australian Open: – * French Open: – * Wimbledon: – * US Open: – ITF finals Singles: 1 (1 runner–up) Doubles: 1 (1 title) References External links * * 2001 births Living people Danish female tennis players {{Denmark-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Tennis Europe
Tennis Europe (formerly known as the European Tennis Association) was formed in Rome, Italy on 31 May 1975 by a group of 17 European national tennis federations as a regional governing body for the sport of tennis and under the auspices of the International Tennis Federation. It is the world's largest regional association of the sport's governing body, the International Tennis Federation, with 50 member states in 2015. Based in Basel, Switzerland, the organisation takes an active role in all aspects of the European game, executing tasks delegated by the ITF, and also by organizing a number of competitions and events independently from the ITF, such as European Tennis Championships. Francesco Ricci Bitti was President of Tennis Europe from 1993 to 1999. Ivo Kaderka was elected as President until 2024 at elections in September 2021. The Chief Executive Officer is Thomas Hammerl. In reaction to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Tennis Europe suspended from membership both the R ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Holger Rune
Holger Vitus Nødskov Rune (; born 29 April 2003) is a Danish professional tennis player. He was ATP rankings, ranked as high as No. 10 in singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), which he first achieved on 7 November 2022 making him the highest-ranked Danish singles male tennis player in the ATP Rankings. Rune has won three ATP Tour singles titles, including a ATP Tour Masters 1000, Masters 1000 title at the 2022 Rolex Paris Masters – Singles, 2022 Paris Masters, and produced his best Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, Grand Slam performance at the 2022 French Open – Men's singles, 2022 French Open by reaching the quarterfinals in his main draw debut at the tournament.As a junior, Rune was ranked as high as world No. 1 and won ten titles on the ITF Junior Circuit, including the 2019 French Open – Boys' singles, 2019 French Open boys' title. After turning professional in 2020, he won five titles on the ITF World Tennis Tour and five on the ATP Challenger Tour a ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Zealand
Zealand ( da, Sjælland ) at 7,031 km2 is the largest and most populous island in Denmark proper (thus excluding Greenland and Disko Island, which are larger in size). Zealand had a population of 2,319,705 on 1 January 2020. It is the 13th-largest island in Europe by area and the 4th most populous. It is connected to Sprogø and Funen by the Great Belt Fixed Link and to Amager by several bridges in Copenhagen. Indirectly, through the island of Amager and the Øresund Bridge, it is also linked to Scania in Sweden. In the south, the Storstrøm Bridge and the Farø Bridges connect it to Falster, and beyond that island to Lolland, from where the Fehmarnbelt Tunnel to Germany is planned. Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark, with a population between 1.3 and 1.4 million people in 2020, is located mostly on the eastern shore of Zealand and partly on the island of Amager. Other cities on Zealand include Roskilde, Hillerød, Næstved, Helsingør, Slagelse, Køge, Holbæk a ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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ITF Junior Circuit
The ITF Junior Circuit is the premier level for worldwide competition among under-18 junior tennis players. Founded in 1977 with only nine tournaments, the 2011 ITF Junior Circuit offered over 350 tournaments in 118 countries. Mirroring the ATP and WTA circuits, the ITF Junior Circuit ranks players and crowns a year end world champion. History The ITF Junior Circuit is organized by the International Tennis Federation. Since its creation it has been the beginning of many successful careers. Some Junior World Champions that have gone on to achieve great success on the pro tour include Ivan Lendl, Pat Cash, Gabriela Sabatini, Martina Hingis, Marcelo Ríos, Andy Roddick, Amélie Mauresmo, Roger Federer, and many more. From 1982 through 2003, the ITF Junior Circuit recognized Year End Champions in singles and doubles. Beginning in 2004, the rankings were combined and a single champion in both boys' and girls' competition was recognized. Tournament grades Just like the ATP and WTA, ju ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Michael Tauson
Michael Tauson (born 25 June 1966 in Copenhagen) is a former tennis player from Denmark, who represented his native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. There he was defeated in the first round by the number five seed from the United States, Brad Gilbert. The right-hander reached his highest singles ATP-ranking on 5 March 1990, when he became the number 101 of the world. Michael Tauson is nowadays among other things, working as Tennis commentator for Danish television; TV2 and TV2 Sport. Personal life His niece Clara Tauson is also a professional tennis player. Challenger titles Singles: (2) Doubles: (1) See also *List of Denmark Davis Cup team representatives This is a list of tennis players who have represented the Denmark Davis Cup team in an official Davis Cup match. Denmark have taken part in the competition since 1921. Players References {{DEFAULTSORT:Denmark Davis Cup Lists of Davis Cup ... References External links * 1966 births Danish ma ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |