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Keiko Nagatomi
Keiko Nagatomi (born 22 November 1974) is a Japanese former professional tennis player. Nagatomi, who had a highest singles ranking of 271, won four ITF titles and had her best WTA Tour performance at the 1999 Tashkent Open, where she made the second round. As a doubles player, she won a further 12 ITF titles and featured in the qualifying draw for the 1997 Wimbledon Championships The 1997 Wimbledon Championships was a tennis tournament played on grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London in the United Kingdom. It was the 111th edition of the Wimbledon Championships and was held from .... ITF Circuit finals Singles: 5 (4 titles, 1 runner-up) Doubles: 15 (12 titles, 3 runner-ups) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Nagatomi, Keiko 1974 births Living people Japanese female tennis players 20th-century Japanese women 21st-century Japanese women ... [...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] |
Jane Chi
Jane Chi (; born June 21, 1974) is a former professional tennis player from the United States. Early career Chi was born in El Paso, Texas, to parents Steven and Ling. At the age of 11 she started playing tennis and after graduating from high school in 1992 played collegially at the University of California, Los Angeles. She attended the university for three years, while studying for a political science degree, during which time he earned multiple All-American honors. Her regular doubles partner was younger sister Stephanie. In 1994 she played internationally for Chinese Taipei, first in a Fed Cup World Group tie against Indonesia in Frankfurt, then at the Asian Games in Hiroshima, where she won a bronze medal in the team competition. During the 1995 season, her last for UCLA, Chi was America's top ranked player in college tennis, ending with a No. 3 ranking. Professional tennis From 1995 she competed on the professional circuit. At the 1996 US Open she made her Grand Slam d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Li Li (tennis)
Li Li (born 15 November 1976) is a Chinese former professional tennis player. Li competed on the professional circuit in the 1990s and featured in a total of 13 ties for the China Fed Cup team. In Fed Cup tennis she had a 17–4 overall win–loss record, with wins in nine of her ten singles rubbers. On the WTA Tour, Li twice made the second round of the China Open, in both 1995 and 1996. At the 1998 Asian Games in Bangkok, she was a member of the silver medal-winning Chinese team and won a women's doubles bronze medal with Yi Jing-Qian. ITF finals Singles (1–1) Doubles (3–3) See also * List of China Fed Cup team representatives This is a list of tennis players who have represented the China Fed Cup team in an official Fed Cup match. China have taken part in the competition since 1981. Players References External linksChinese Tennis Association {{DEFAULTSORT:China F ... External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Li, Li 1976 births Living people Chinese female ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaysie Smashey
Kaysie Smashey (born April 11, 1980) is an American former professional tennis player. Smashey, who was born and raised in El Paso, played college tennis on a scholarship for the Texas Longhorns between 1999 and 2002. On the professional tour, Smashey reached a best ranking of 451 in singles and 146 in doubles. She made four doubles main-draw appearances on the 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 tourna ..., with her best performance a quarterfinal appearance at Memphis in 2005. Her four ITF doubles titles included the $50,000 Waikoloa tournament. ITF Circuit finals Doubles: 14 (4 titles, 10 runner-ups) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Smashey, Kaysie 1980 births Living people American female tennis players Texas Longhorns women's tennis play ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jessica Steck
Jessica Steck (born 6 August 1978) is a South African former tennis player. During her career on the professional tennis circuit from 1996 to 2003, she won the 1996 US Open Junior Girls' Doubles title and won several singles and doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. Steck also won first-round doubles matches in all four Grand Slam Grand Slam most often refers to: * Grand Slam (tennis), one player or pair winning all four major annual tournaments, or the tournaments themselves Grand Slam or Grand slam may also refer to: Games and sports * Grand slam, winning category te ... events. Career She reached the singles world ranking of 140th in the world on 16 March 1998, and the 56th in doubles on 3 March 2003. During her career, she won a WTA tournament in doubles. WTA career finals Doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up) ITF finals Singles: 9 (5–4) Doubles: 15 (4–11) Performance timelines Doubles Mixed doubles WTA year-end rankings Singles Doubles Ref ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renata Kolbovic
Renata Kolbovic (born July 30, 1976) is a former tennis player, who was born in Czechoslovakia but competed for Canada. Kolbovic had a professional career from 1996 to 2002. A resident of Vancouver, British Columbia, Kolbovic reached her highest individual ranking in the WTA Tour on December 4, 2000, when she became the No. 159 in the world. Alongside Aneta Soukup, she won the bronze medal at the 1999 Pan American Games in Winnipeg Winnipeg () is the capital and largest city of the province of Manitoba in Canada. It is centred on the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers, near the longitudinal centre of North America. , Winnipeg had a city population of 749,6 ..., Canada. WTA career finals Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up) ITF finals Singles (1–9) Doubles (12–13) References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Kolbovic, Renata 1976 births Living people Canadian female tennis players Czech female tennis players Czechoslovak emigrants to Canada Sport ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saori Obata
, Obata Saori, born 23 April 1978 is a retired female tennis player from Japan. She turned professional in April 1996, and in February 2004, she achieved her career-high singles ranking of 39, and on the same day she reached her career-high doubles ranking of 98. Biography She did not win a singles title on WTA Tour in her career, however did reach one singles final in Tashkent in 2003 where she lost in two sets to Virginia Ruano Pascual. In the same year, she reached the semifinals of the WTA event in Bali, Indonesia, before losing to Chanda Rubin. Early career Having had moderate success on the ITF junior circuit – reaching a career high ranking of 55 – Obata made her WTA-level professional debut in 1996, at the age of 18, at the Tier IV WTA event at Surabaya, where she lost 6–1 6–3 to Hila Rosen in qualifying. However, she subsequently qualified for Tier IV events in Beijing and Pattaya, and played a number of Asian WTA events in the subsequent two years. However, h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyōko Nagatsuka
Kyōko Nagatsuka ( ja, 長塚京子, born February 22, 1974) is a retired Japanese tennis player. She achieved a career-high ranking of world No. 28 on 14 August 1995. In doubles, she reached as high as No. 31 in June 1995. She won the 12-and-under championships of Japan in 1986, and the under-16 in 1989. Nagatsuka reached three singles finals on the WTA Tour, but failed to win the title in any of them. She did, however, win two doubles titles as well as achieving a further three runner-ups in doubles competition. She reached the fourth round of a Grand Slam tournament twice in singles: at the 1995 Australian Open, where she beat a young Martina Hingis and Amy Frazier, and that same year at the French Open. Playing for the Japan Fed Cup team, she has a win–loss record of 2–4. Since her retirement, she has briefly worked as a coach with Akiko Morigami is a Japanese former tennis player. She turned professional in 1998. On 15 August 2005, she reached her career-high singl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yi Jing-Qian
Yi Jingqian (; born 28 February 1974, in Nanjing) is a retired tennis player from China. Yi first played in the China Fed Cup team in 1991, and turned professional in 1994. In her career, she won 13 singles titles and six doubles titles on tournaments of the ITF circuit. Yi appeared in the finals of two WTA Tour tournaments in 1995: those at Surabaya and Pattaya. She appeared in the main draw in several major tournaments as a singles player from 1996 to 2001. The furthest she progressed in a major was when she reached the third round of the 2000 Australian Open. Yi was part of the Chinese Fed Cup team in 1991, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1998, and 2000. She represented China at the 1996 and 2000 Summer Olympics. Over the course of her career, she won four medals (three bronze, one silver) at the Asian Games The Asian Games, also known as Asiad, is a continental multi-sport event held every four years among athletes from all over Asia. The Games were regulated by the Asian Games F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chen Jingjing
Chen Jingjing (born 19 August 1975) is a former professional tennis player from China. Chen, who had a career high ranking of 244, had her best performance on the WTA Tour at the 1995 Nokia Open in Beijing, where she beat fourth seed Karin Kschwendt to make the round of 16. In 1996 she appeared in five Fed Cup ties for China, for a 6/2 record, winning three matches in both singles and doubles. ITF finals Singles (1–1) Doubles (3–3) See also *List of China Fed Cup team representatives This is a list of tennis players who have represented the China Fed Cup team in an official Fed Cup match. China have taken part in the competition since 1981. Players References External linksChinese Tennis Association {{DEFAULTSORT:China F ... References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Chen, Jingjing 1975 births Living people Chinese female tennis players 20th-century Chinese women 21st-century Chinese women ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeon Mi-ra
Jeon Mi-ra ( ko, 전미라, born 6 February 1978) is a South Korean former professional tennis player. She was the runner-up in the 1994 Wimbledon Championships girls' singles tournament, losing to Martina Hingis, 5–7, 4–6. As a professional, she won one WTA Tour doubles title, and reached a career-high doubles ranking of No. 120, in October 2004. Her husband is Yoon Jong-shin Yoon Jong-shin (; born October 15, 1969) is a South Korean singer-songwriter, record producer, and the CEO of Mystic Story. Early life and education Yoon completed high school at Daewon Foreign Language High School and studied Korean Language .... WTA career finals Doubles: 1 (1 title) ITF finals Singles (7–12) Doubles (12–14) External links * * * 1978 births Living people Sportspeople from North Jeolla Province South Korean female tennis players Asian Games medalists in tennis Tennis players at the 1994 Asian Games Tennis players at the 1998 Asian Games Tennis play ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Choi Young-ja
Choi Young-ja (born 30 May 1975) is a former professional tennis player from South Korea. Biography A right-handed player from Seoul, Choi began playing tennis at the age of 10. She won her first ITF tournament at Bangkok in 1993 and began touring professionally after graduating from high school in 1994. At the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta she made the second round of the singles competition, with a win over South Africa's Joannette Kruger, before she was eliminated by 11th seed Brenda Schultz-McCarthy of the Netherlands. Choi represented the South Korea Fed Cup team in a total of 16 ties. She was most successful in Fed Cup tennis as a doubles player, losing only one of her 12 matches. In singles she won three rubbers, one of which was against Li Na Li Na (born 26 February 1982) is a Chinese former professional tennis player. She achieved a career-high WTA ranking of world No. 2 on 17 February 2014. Over the course of her career, Li won nine WTA Tour singles titles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
