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Huang Lei (tennis)
Huang Lei (born 10 March 1986) is a Chinese former professional tennis player. Huang, while a student in Guangdong, represented China at the 2005 Summer Universiade, held in the Turkish city of İzmir. On the professional tour, Huang reached a best singles ranking of 382 and won an ITF tournament in Tarakan in 2006. Her WTA Tour main-draw appearances all came in doubles and included a quarterfinal appearance at the 2006 Guangzhou International Women's Open The 2006 Guangzhou International Women's Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 3rd edition of the Guangzhou International Women's Open, and was a Tier III Series, Tier III event on the 2006 WTA Tour, 2006 Sony Eric .... In 2007 she won two ITF doubles titles, one a $25,000 and the other a $50,000 tournament. ITF Circuit finals Singles: 2 (1–1) Doubles: 5 (2–3) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Huang, Lei 1986 births Living people Chinese female tennis players ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ITF Women's Circuit
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] |
Song Shanshan
Song Shanshan (born 25 March 1987) is a former professional tennis player. She won six ITF titles, all in doubles, including two $25k tournaments. Song made her WTA Tour main-draw debut in the doubles at the 2006 Guangzhou International Open, where she and Chen Yanchong made the quarterfinals, with a win over future world number one doubles player Elena Vesnina and her partner Anna Chakvetadze. At the 2007 Guangzhou International Open, she qualified for the singles main draw and defeated Chinese wildcard Ji Chunmei in the first round, before being eliminated in the second round by fourth seed Dominika Cibulková Dominika Cibulková (; born 6 May 1989) is a Slovak former professional tennis player. She is the 2016 WTA Finals champion, becoming the fourth player (after Serena Williams in 2001 WTA Tour Championships, 2001, Maria Sharapova in 2004 WTA Tour .... ITF Circuit finals Singles: 1 (0–1) Doubles: 8 (6–2) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Song ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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1986 Births
The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 **Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands by separating from the Netherlands Antilles. **Spain and Portugal enter the European Community, which becomes the European Union in 1993. *January 11 – The Sir Leo Hielscher Bridges, Gateway Bridge in Brisbane, Australia, at this time the world's longest prestressed concrete free-cantilever bridge, is opened. *January 13–January 24, 24 – South Yemen Civil War. *January 20 – The United Kingdom and France announce plans to construct the Channel Tunnel. *January 24 – The Voyager 2 space probe makes its first encounter with Uranus. *January 25 – Yoweri Museveni's National Resistance Army Rebel group takes over Uganda after leading a five-year guerrilla war in which up to half a million people are believed to have been killed. They will later use January 26 as the official date to avoid a coincidence of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ji Chunmei
Ji Chunmei (; ; born February 14, 1986) is a former professional Chinese tennis player. Her highest WTA singles ranking is 352, which she reached on 10 May 2010. Her career-high in doubles is 61, which she reached on 12 May 2008. WTA career finals Doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up) ITF Circuit finals Singles: 2 (2 runner-ups) Doubles: 18 (10 titles, 8 runner-ups) See also * Chinese tennis players * Tennis in China Tennis in China is a rapidly growing sport that has received much private and public support, and has today become firmly entrenched in the Chinese as one of the most popular. Tennis is now the third-most popular sport on television in China, b ... References External links * * * 1986 births Living people Chinese female tennis players Tennis players from Jiangsu 21st-century Chinese women {{PRChina-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sun Shengnan
Sun Shengnan (; ; born 21 January 1987) is a Chinese former tennis player. Her highest WTA singles ranking is 216th, which she reached on 4 April 2011. Her career high in doubles is 50th, which she reached on 17 September 2007. By March 2006, Sun had won two ITF singles titles and risen to No. 320 in the WTA rankings, and had earned herself a reputation as 'one to watch', having shown plenty of recent promise of further improvement in the preceding year. Career Sun Shengnan began competing on the ITF Circuit at the age of 15, in May 2002. Over the next few months, she won seven matches (mostly in qualifying draws) and lost just five. However, she did not compete again for a whole year after the beginning of August, and thus gained for herself only a lowly end-of-year foothold on the world ranking list at No. 1031. When August finally came around again in 2003, she returned to competition as a 16-year-old at ITF events; and that October she reached the quarterfinal of a $25k t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zhang Shuai (tennis)
Zhang Shuai (; ; born 21 January 1989) is a Chinese professional tennis player. She is a two-time Grand Slam champion in women's doubles, having won the 2019 Australian Open and the 2021 US Open, both alongside Samantha Stosur. Zhang also finished runner-up at the 2022 Wimbledon Championships with Elise Mertens, and has reached four further major semifinals across women's and mixed doubles. She has a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 2, achieved in July 2022, and has won 12 titles on the WTA Tour, including the 2021 Cincinnati Open with Stosur. Zhang has also qualified for the WTA Finals on two occasions. She has also enjoyed success in singles, and reached her highest ranking of world No. 23 in November 2016. Zhang has won three WTA singles titles, at the Guangzhou International in 2013 and 2017, and the 2022 Lyon Open, and finished runner-up at three further tournaments. She has reached two major quarterfinals, at the 2016 Australian Open and 2019 Wimbledon Cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zhou Yimiao
Zhou Yimiao, also spelled as Zhou Yi-Miao, (; ; born February 7, 1991) is a professional Chinese tennis player. Zhou was born in Hubei Hubei (; ; alternately Hupeh) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, and is part of the Central China region. The name of the province means "north of the lake", referring to its position north of Dongting Lake. The p .... Her highest WTA singles ranking is 127, which she reached on August 19, 2013. Her career high in doubles is 134, which she reached on September 16, 2013. She has won 6 singles and 8 doubles ITF titles . ITF finals (14–10) Singles (6–3) Doubles (8–7) External links * * 1991 births Living people Chinese female tennis players Tennis players from Hubei 21st-century Chinese women {{PRChina-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chen Yanchong
Chen Yanchong (; ; born 10 April 1987), is a WTA professional women's tennis player from the People's Republic of China. She was born in Hengyang, Hunan province in China. A member of the Chinese Olympic team in 2003, Chen is the best tennis player of the Guangdong team, with a ranking of the 14th best Chinese player overall. Her highest WTA singles ranking is 187, which she reached on 6 November 2006. Her career high in doubles is 157, which she reached on 6 November 2006. Chen has won 3 ITF singles title and 4 doubles titles. Career statistics Singles finals: 5 (3–2) Doubles finals: 8 (4–4) See also * Chinese tennis players *Tennis in China Tennis in China is a rapidly growing sport that has received much private and public support, and has today become firmly entrenched in the Chinese as one of the most popular. Tennis is now the third-most popular sport on television in China, b ... References External links * * 1987 births Living people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kumiko Iijima
is a Japanese former tennis player. She played on the ITF Women's Circuit 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 ... where she won four singles and 20 doubles titles. In May 2011, Iijima reached her highest WTA singles ranking of 182. On 9 July 2007, she peaked at No. 151 in the WTA doubles rankings. She was coached by Kimiyo Hatanaka. ITF Circuit finals Singles: 10 (4–6) Doubles: 36 (20–16) External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Iijima, Kumiko 1982 births Living people Japanese female tennis players People from Gunma Prefecture 20th-century Japanese women 21st-century Japanese women ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chan Chin-wei
Chan Chin-wei (, born 8 January 1985) is a former professional tennis player from Taiwan. She won one doubles title on the WTA Tour, along with six singles and 49 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. She reached her best singles ranking of world No. 152 in October 2006. On 3 August 2015, she peaked at No. 74 in the WTA doubles rankings. Career Chan started tennis at the age of ten. In 2002, she played for Taiwan's Fed Cup team for the first time. Her coach was Chan Fu-chen. In 2013, she won the doubles competition at the Korea Open in Seoul, her first title on the WTA Tour. She also won three $25k events (in Changwon, Huzhu and Tsukuba) on the ITF Circuit. In September 2014, Chan won the doubles competition at the Suzhou Ladies Open, her first doubles title on WTA 125 tournaments WTA 125 tournaments are an international series of professional women's tennis tournaments organized by the Women's Tennis Association since 2012. In the past (2012–2015) sometimes call ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xu Yifan
Xu Yifan (; ; born 8 August 1988) is a professional tennis player from China. She reached a career-high ranking of No. 148 in singles, on 13 July 2015. Since October 2018, she has specialized playing in doubles. On 13 January 2020, she peaked at No. 7 in the WTA doubles rankings. Career Xu made her debut playing on the ITF Women's Circuit in China. She won her first doubles title with Xia Huan in 2006. She was a finalist in women's doubles at the 2008 China Open in Beijing. 2014–2016: Australian Open semifinalist She was a quarterfinalist at the 2014 US Open in women's doubles with Zarina Diyas. She reached the semifinals at the 2016 Australian Open and was a quarterfinalist at the 2016 French Open in women's doubles with Zheng Saisai. 2017–2019: Major final and semifinal at Wimbledon, five quarterfinals She was also a quarterfinalist in doubles at the Australian Open in 2017 with Raquel Atawo. In 2017, she formed a new partnership with Canadian Gabriela Dabrowski. Xu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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