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Emina Bektas
Emina Bektas (born March 30, 1993) is an American tennis player. She has career-high WTA rankings of 188 in singles, reached on 7 March 2022, and 78 in doubles, achieved on 11 July 2022. Bektas has won five singles and 21 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. Professional career 2016-17: Grand Slam doubles debut Bektas made her Grand Slam debut at the 2016 US Open in the mixed doubles main-draw with Evan King; they fell in the first round. The following year, she also had her debut at the 2017 US Open, where she played with Amanda Anisimova in women's doubles as a wildcard pair; they also fell in the first round. Her biggest singles win to date on ITF Circuit came at the 2017 Coleman Vision Tennis Championships in Albuquerque. 2022: Grand Slam singles debut She qualified into the main draw in her Grand Slam singles debut at the Australian Open, losing in the first round to Liudmila Samsonova. She reached her first WTA doubles final in April at the 2022 Copa Colsanitas part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022 Wimbledon Championships
The 2022 Wimbledon Championships was a Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam tier tennis tournament that took place at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom. Novak Djokovic successfully defended his gentlemen's singles title to claim his 21st Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, major title, defeating Nick Kyrgios in the final. Ashleigh Barty was the reigning ladies' champion, but did not defend her title after retiring from professional tennis in March 2022. The ladies' singles title was won by Elena Rybakina, who defeated Ons Jabeur in the final. This year, the AELTC #Controversy regarding the participation of Russian and Belarusian players, barred Russian and Belarusian tennis players from competing, because of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. In reaction, the Women's Tennis Association, WTA, Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP, and International Tennis Federation, ITF withdrew ranking points from the tournament. This was the final ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ITF Women's World Tennis Tour
The ITF Women's World Tennis Tour, previously known as the ITF Women's Circuit, is a series of professional tennis tournaments run by the International Tennis Federation for female professional tennis players. History It serves as a developmental circuit for the WTA Tour, which is run by the independent Women's Tennis Association (WTA). There are several hundred ITF Women's Circuit tournaments each year, spread across all six inhabited continents, with prize money ranging from US$15,000 to US$100,000. Players who succeed on the ITF Women's Circuit earn sufficient points to be eligible for qualifying draw or main draw entry to WTA tournaments. Until 2011 the ITF Women's Circuit was the level immediately below the main WTA Tour, but in 2012 the WTA introduced an intermediate level, the WTA 125K series. There is also an ITF Men's Circuit, but it only incorporates the lower-level Futures tournaments. Mid-level men's tournaments, equivalent to the WTA 125k series and the bigger money ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Open
The Australian Open is a tennis tournament held annually at Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Australia. The tournament is the first of the four Grand Slam tennis events held each year, preceding the French Open, Wimbledon, and the US Open. The Australian Open starts in the middle of January and continues for two weeks coinciding with the Australia Day holiday. It features men's and women's singles; men's, women's, and mixed doubles; junior's championships; and wheelchair, legends, and exhibition events. Novak Djokovic has the most Australian Open mens singles titles of all time with 9. Before 1988, it was played on grass courts, but since then three types of hardcourt surfaces have been used: green-coloured Rebound Ace up to 2007, blue Plexicushion from 2008 to 2019, and blue GreenSet since 2020. First held in 1905 as the Australasian championships, the Australian Open has grown to become one of the biggest sporting events in the Southern Hemisphere. Nicknamed "the happy sl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022 WTA Tour
The 2022 Hologic WTA Tour is the global elite women's professional tennis circuit organised by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for the 2022 tennis season. The 2022 WTA Tour calendar comprises the Grand Slam tournaments (supervised by the International Tennis Federation (ITF)), the WTA 1000 tournaments, the WTA 500 tournaments, the WTA 250 tournaments, the Billie Jean King Cup (organized by the ITF), and the year-end championships (the WTA Finals and the WTA Elite Trophy). On December 1, 2021, WTA chairman Steve Simon announced that all tournaments scheduled to be held in both China and Hong Kong are suspended beginning in 2022, due to concerns regarding the security and well-being of tennis player Peng Shuai after her allegations of sexual assault against Zhang Gaoli, a high-ranking member of the Chinese Communist Party. As part of international sports' reaction to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the WTA, the ATP (Association of Tennis Professionals), the ITF, and the four ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bianca Andreescu
Bianca Vanessa Andreescu (; born June 16, 2000) is a Canadian professional tennis player. She has a career-high ranking of No. 4 in the world, and is the highest-ranked Canadian in the history of the Women's Tennis Association (WTA). Andreescu was the champion at the 2019 US Open – Women's singles, US Open and the 2019 Rogers Cup, Canadian Open in 2019, defeating Serena Williams to win both titles. She is the first Canadian tennis player to win a Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, major singles title, and the first to win the Canadian Open in 50 years. She was also the first player to win a major singles title as a teenager since Maria Sharapova in 2006. Andreescu began playing tennis in her parents' home country of Romania before returning to Canada, the country of her birth. She had success as a junior, winning the Orange Bowl (tennis), Orange Bowl and two major doubles titles with compatriot Carson Branstine en route to reaching a career-best junior ranking of No. 3 in the w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tara Moore
Tara Shanice Moore (born 6 August 1992) is a Hong Kong-born British tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 145, which she achieved on 8 May 2017. She has won nine singles and 17 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. Her best WTA doubles ranking is No. 77, which she reached on 11 July 2022. As a junior, she was coached by the American tennis coach, Nick Bollettieri. In September 2006, he referred to Moore as one of the best young players in his school, the Bollettieri Tennis Academy, along with Michelle Larcher de Brito. Her current coach is Charles Homewood. Her favourite surface is stated as being grass although most of her titles to date have come on hardcourt. Career 2006–2007 Moore's first professional tennis match came in August 2006 at the $10k tournament in Guayaquil, Ecuador. She won two matches to qualify before losing in the first round of the tournament. Moore then moved on to qualify and reach the quarterfinals in only the second ITF tou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022 Copa Colsanitas
The 2022 Copa Colsanitas (branded as the 2022 Copa Colsanitas presentado por Zurich for sponsorship reasons) is a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It is the 24th edition of the tournament and part of the 250 category of the 2022 WTA Tour. It took place at the Country Club in Bogotá, Colombia, from 4 April to 10 April 2022. Champions Singles * Tatjana Maria def. Laura Pigossi, 6–3, 4–6, 6–2. This was Maria's second WTA Tour singles title, and first since 2018. Doubles * Astra Sharma / Aldila Sutjiadi def. Emina Bektas / Tara Moore, 4–6, 6–4, 1–9 Points and prize money Point distribution Prize money *per team Singles main-draw entrants Seeds *1 Rankings as of 21 March 2022. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the main draw: * María Herazo González * Yuliana Lizarazo * Yuliana Monroy The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * María Carlé * Suzan La ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liudmila Samsonova
Liudmila Dmitriyevna Samsonova ( rus, Людмила Дмитриевна Самсонова, , lʲʊdˈmʲiɫə sɐmˈsonəvə; born 11 November 1998) is a Russian tennis player. She also competed for Italy, from 2014 to 2018. Samsonova has a career-high WTA rankings, singles ranking of world No. 19. She won her first WTA Tour title at the 2021 WTA German Open – Singles, 2021 German Open, a WTA 500, WTA 500 title, and has overall won four singles titles on the WTA Tour. She has also won a total of six titles on the ITF Women's World Tennis Tour, ITF Circuit. At the 2020–21 Billie Jean King Cup, Samsonova led the Russia Billie Jean King Cup team, Russian team to their first triumph since 2008, winning all five of her matches in both singles and doubles. Early life Samsonova was born 11 November 1998 in the industrial city of Olenegorsk, Murmansk Oblast, Russia. Their family moved with the then-one-year-old Liudmila to Italy. Her father Dmitry, a table tennis player, was invit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022 Australian Open
The 2022 Australian Open was a Grand Slam tennis tournament that took place at Melbourne Park, Australia from 17 to 30 January 2022. It was the 110th edition of the Australian Open, the 54th in the Open Era, and the first Grand Slam of the year. The tournament consisted of events for professional players in singles, doubles and mixed doubles. Junior and wheelchair players competed in singles and doubles tournaments. As in previous years, the tournament's main sponsor was Kia. Rafael Nadal and Ashleigh Barty won the men's singles and women's singles titles, respectively. Nadal claimed his record-breaking 21st major title by defeating Daniil Medvedev in the final, coming back from two sets to love down. Barty won the first Australian Open singles title by an Australian in 44 years by defeating Danielle Collins in straight sets in the final. Novak Djokovic and Naomi Osaka were the 2021 champions in Men's Singles and Women's Singles, respectively. Djokovic was unable to partici ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2017 Coleman Vision Tennis Championships
The 2017 Coleman Vision Tennis Championships was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the twentieth edition of the tournament and was part of the 2017 ITF Women's Circuit. It took place in Albuquerque, United States, on 18–24 September 2017. Singles main draw entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings as of 11 September 2017. Other entrants The following players received a wildcard into the singles main draw: * Kayla Day * Quinn Gleason * Sanaz Marand The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Megan McCray * Amanda Rodgers * Sabrina Santamaria * Zuzana Zlochová The following player received entry as a lucky loser: * Ksenia Laskutova Champions Singles * Emina Bektas def. Maria Sanchez, 6–4, 6–2 Doubles * Tara Moore / Conny Perrin def. Viktorija Golubic / Amra Sadiković Amra Sadiković ( mk, Амра Садиковиќ; ; born 6 May 1989) is a Swiss tennis player. She announced her retirement in May 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amanda Anisimova
Amanda Anisimova ( ; , ; born August 31, 2001) is a Russian-American professional tennis player. She has a career-high WTA ranking of No. 21 in the world, and has been ranked in the top 100 since shortly after turning 17 years old. Anisimova has won two WTA Tour titles and reached three WTA finals in total. With her father Konstantin as her longtime coach and her older sister also a tennis player, Anisimova began playing tennis at a very young age. Her parents decided to move to Florida when Anisimova was very young to give their children better training opportunities. As a junior, Anisimova was ranked as high as No. 2 in the world. She won the 2017 US Open girls' singles title, as well as two other Grade-A titles. She also became the first American finalist at the French Open girls' singles event in 14 years. On the WTA Tour, Anisimova rose to prominence at the 2018 Indian Wells Open, where she scored her first top-10 victory at age 16 against Petra Kvitová. She won her first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2017 US Open (tennis)
The 2017 US Open was the 137th edition of tennis' US Open and the fourth and final Grand Slam event of the year. It was held on outdoor hard courts at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York City. Experimental rules featured in qualifying for the main draw as well as in the junior, wheelchair and exhibition events. Stan Wawrinka and Angelique Kerber were the previous year's men's and women's singles champions. Neither managed to defend their title as Wawrinka withdrew before the start of the tournament due to a knee injury that ended his season, while Kerber lost in the first round to Naomi Osaka. The men's singles tournament concluded with Rafael Nadal defeating Kevin Anderson in the final, while the women's singles tournament concluded with Sloane Stephens defeating Madison Keys in the final. Tournament The 2017 US Open was the 137th edition of the tournament and took place at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows–Corona ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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