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Leslie Butkiewicz
Leslie Butkiewicz (born 26 May 1982) is a former tennis player from Belgium. Biography Butkiewicz, a right-handed player, won nine singles and 15 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. She also featured in the main draw of the doubles at several WTA Tour events, including five appearances at her home tournament in Antwerp. Both of the Fed Cup ties she played in for Belgium came against the United States. In 2005, she lost a dead rubber singles match to Venus Williams Venus Ebony Starr Williams (born June 17, 1980) is an American professional tennis player. A former world No. 1 in both singles and doubles, Williams has won seven Grand Slam singles titles, five at Wimbledon and two at the US Open. She is ... in the quarterfinals of the World Group. The following year, she partnered Caroline Maes in the doubles of the World Group semifinal against the United States, which was also a dead rubber. She was a member of the Belgian squad that lost the 2006 World Group final to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antwerp
Antwerp (; nl, Antwerpen ; french: Anvers ; es, Amberes) is the largest city in Belgium by area at and the capital of Antwerp Province in the Flemish Region. With a population of 520,504,Statistics Belgium; ''Loop van de bevolking per gemeente'' (Excel file) Population of all municipalities in Belgium, . Retrieved 1 November 2017. it is the most populous municipality in Belgium, and with a metropolitan population of around 1,200,000 people, it is the second-largest metrop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marion Bartoli
Marion Bartoli (; born 2 October 1984) is a French former professional tennis player. Bartoli won the 2013 Wimbledon Championships singles title after previously being runner-up in 2007, and was a semifinalist at the 2011 French Open. She also won eight WTA Tour singles and three doubles titles. Bartoli was known for her unorthodox style of play, using both hands on her forehand and backhand. On 30 January 2012 she reached a career-high ranking of world No. 7; she returned to this ranking on 8 July 2013 after triumphing at Wimbledon. Bartoli reached the quarterfinals at each of the four majors. Her win at Wimbledon made her only the sixth player in the Open Era to win the title without losing a set. She is also one of only three players to have played at both the WTA Tour Championships and the WTA Tournament of Champions (later renamed the WTA Elite Trophy) in the same year (2011); the other two being Kiki Bertens and Sofia Kenin. Early life and personal life Marion Bartoli w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicole Kriz
Nicole Kriz (born 13 December 1983) is a retired Australian tennis player. Her career-high WTA doubles ranking is No. 104, achieved on 9 July 2007. Her career-high singles ranking is world No. 332, which she reached on 4 August 2008. Early life Kriz was born on 13 December 1983, in Bankstown, New South Wales, Australia, to Mike and Seija Kriz. She was educated at the Presbyterian Ladies' College, Sydney, in Croydon, leaving at the end of Year 10, in 1999, to focus on her tennis career.. Kriz won the $25k Australian Challenger event in Berri, beating top-100 player Marina Erakovic in the final. She also defeated the No. 2 seed Monique Adamczak in the semifinals. Both wins were by third set tiebreakers. Kriz retired in 2010. WTA career finals Doubles: 1 (runner-up) ITF Circuit finals Singles: 3 (2 titles, 1 runner-up) Doubles: 35 (23 titles, 12 runner-ups) WTA doubles highlights * 2007 – SF Tier IV Prague, Czech Republic w/ Leanne Baker * 2007 – QF Tier IV Fes, Mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jaslyn Hewitt
Jaslyn Hewitt-Shehadie (born 23 February 1983) is a former professional tennis player from Australia. She is the younger sister of Lleyton Hewitt. Biography Tennis career A right-handed player from Adelaide, Hewitt was highly ranked in junior tennis and represented Australia at the 2000 Commonwealth Youth Games in Edinburgh. Hewitt had a best singles ranking of 304 in the world on the professional circuit. In 2001 she featured in the main draws of two WTA Tour tournaments, the Croatian Bol Ladies Open and Belgium's Sanex Trophy, which was followed by home appearances at the 2002 Sydney International and 2005 Gold Coast Hardcourt. Her biggest title win came at the Canberra ITF in 2004, where she beat top seed Evie Dominikovic in the final of the $25,000 tournament. As a doubles player she competed as a wildcard in the main draw of the women's doubles at the Australian Open every year from 2002 to 2005. Personal life During her career she was in a relationship with Swedish te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elke Clijsters
Elke Clijsters (born 18 January 1985) is a former professional tennis player from Belgium. The daughter of Belgian football player Lei Clijsters (1956–2009) and sister of former world No. 1, Kim Clijsters (born 1983), won 2002 the girls' Wimbledon Championships doubles title with Barbora Strýcová, and the girls' US Open doubles title with compatriot Kirsten Flipkens. Her highest singles ranking was 389, a ranking she achieved on 15 September 2003. She played in the Belgium Fed Cup team in 2002, 2003 and 2004, losing all four matches, of which one was a singles match. In 2004, she reached the finals of two ITF singles tournaments, winning the one in Bournemouth. In the same year, she also reached the finals of two ITF doubles tournaments, of which she also won one. She retired in 2004 due to a persistent back injury. Elke married footballer Jelle Van Damme on 31 May 2008 in Bree. They had their first child in 2009, a boy. She gave birth to their second baby, a girl in Nove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tessy Van De Ven
Tessy van de Ven (born 8 July 1983) is a former professional tennis player from the Netherlands. Born in Woerden, van de Ven spent her career on the ITF Women's Circuit, ITF Circuit, playing her first tournament in 2000. She had her best year on tour in 2004 when she won three of her four ITF singles titles and represented the Netherlands in two Fed Cup ties, partnering Anousjka van Exel in doubles rubbers against Ukraine Fed Cup team, Ukraine and South Africa Fed Cup team, South Africa. ITF Circuit finals Singles: 6 (4 titles, 2 runner-ups) Doubles: 9 (5 titles, 4 runner-ups) See also * List of Netherlands Fed Cup team representatives References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Ven, Tessy van de 1983 births Living people Dutch female tennis players People from Woerden Sportspeople from Utrecht (province) 20th-century Dutch women 21st-century Dutch women ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kristen Van Elden
Kristen van Elden (born 18 September 1981) is a former professional tennis player from Australia. Biography A former scholarship holder at the Victorian Institute of Sport, van Elden had a best ranking on the professional tour of 262 in the world. She competed mainly on the ITF Circuit, with most of her titles coming in doubles. Her only WTA Tour main-draw appearance came at the 2004 Ordina Open in the Netherlands, where she and Russia's Galina Fokina Galina Fokina () (born 17 January 1984) is a Russian former tennis player. Fokina has won a total of 35 titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. Her career-high WTA rankings are world number 168 in singles and number 79 in doubles, both achieved in 2 ... teamed up to make the quarterfinals of the doubles. ITF Circuit finals Singles: 5 (1–4) Doubles: 13 (9–4) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Van Elden, Kristen 1981 births Living people Australian female tennis players Tennis people from Victoria (stat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samantha Stosur
Samantha Jane Stosur ( ; born 30 March 1984) is an Australian professional tennis player. She is a former world No. 1 in doubles, a ranking which she first achieved on 6 February 2006 and held for 61 consecutive weeks. Also a former top ten singles player, Stosur reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 4 on 21 February 2011 and spent a total of 165 weeks ranked inside the top ten, between March 2010 and June 2013. Stosur was also the top-ranked Australian singles player for 452 consecutive weeks, from October 2008 to June 2017, and was ranked inside the top 25 for a period of nine straight years. She won a combined total of 40 career titles (9 in singles, 28 in doubles, and 3 in mixed doubles)——including 8 major titles, and amassed more than $20 million in prize money. Stosur won a Grand Slam singles title at the 2011 US Open, where she beat Serena Williams in the final and became the first Australian woman since Evonne Goolagong Cawley in 1980 to win a Grand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicole Sewell
Nicole Sewell (born 1981) is a former professional tennis player from Australia. Biography A right-handed player from Perth, Sewell was most prominent on the doubles circuit, with 11 ITF titles and a best ranking of 107 in the world. She made most of her Grand Slam and WTA Tour main-draw appearances partnering Casey Dellacqua. She is the daughter of former East Fremantle and Footscray footballer Jim Sewell James Sewell (born 3 February 1956) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Footscray in the Victorian Football League (VFL) during the 1980s. Born in Geraldton, Sewell joined West Australian Football League (WAFL) club East .... ITF finals Singles (1–1) Doubles (11–12) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Sewell, Nicole 1981 births Living people Australian female tennis players Tennis players from Perth, Western Australia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabriela Navrátilová
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Gabriela may refer to: * Gabriela (given name), a Spanish, Portuguese and Romanian feminine given name * ''Gabriela'' (1942 film), a Czech film * ''Gabriela'' (1950 film), a German film * ''Gabriela'' (1983 film), a Brazilian film * ''Gabriela'' (2001 film), an American film * ''Gabriela'' (1960 TV series), a Mexican telenovela * ''Gabriela'' (1964 TV series), a Mexican telenovela * ''Gabriela'' (1975 TV series), a 1975 Brazilian telenovela * ''Gabriela'' (2012 TV series), a 2012 Brazilian telenovela * Gabriela Women's Party (General Assembly Binding Women for Reforms, Integrity, Equality, Leadership, and Action), a feminist Filipino political alliance See also *Gabriella (other) Gabriella may refer to: * Gabriella (given name), a feminine given name * ''Gabriella di Vergy'', an opera seria by Gaetano Donizetti (1826, revised 1838), and an opera by Mercadante (1828), based on the tragedy ''Gabrielle de Vergy'' by Dormont De ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natacha Randriantefy
Natacha Randriantefy (born 14 March 1978) is a former professional tennis player from Madagascar. In her career, she won one singles title and eight doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 5 August 2002, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 325. On the same date, she peaked at No. 173 in the doubles rankings. Playing for Madagascar at the Fed Cup The Billie Jean King Cup (or the BJK Cup) is the premier international team competition in women's tennis, launched as the Federation Cup in 1963 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the International Tennis Federation (ITF). The name was chan ..., Randriantefy has a win–loss record of 7–5. She was the Madagascan's Fed Cup team captain Madagascar Fed Cup team in 2014, and 2016. Natacha retired from professional tennis 2010. Personal Born in Antananarivo, Randriantefy was coached by father, Max; mother Olga is a language professor. Her sister Dally is also a tennis player. ITF Circuit finals Singles: 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniela Olivera
Daniela Olivera (born 10 December 1980) is a Uruguayan retired tennis player. Olivera won one single titles and seven doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. On 16 April 2001, she reached her best singles ranking of world number 222. On 3 December 2001, she peaked at world number 224 in the doubles rankings. Playing for Uruguay in Fed Cup The Billie Jean King Cup (or the BJK Cup) is the premier international team competition in women's tennis, launched as the Federation Cup in 1963 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the International Tennis Federation (ITF). The name was chan ..., Olivera has accumulated a win/loss record of 19–14. ITF Circuit finals Singles: 8 (1–7) Doubles: 12 (7–5) References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Olivera, Daniela 1980 births Living people Sportspeople from Montevideo Uruguayan female tennis players 20th-century Uruguayan women 21st-century Uruguayan women ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
