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Sportsmen's Tennis Club Challenger
The Sportsmen's Tennis Club Challenger was a tournament for professional female tennis players played on outdoor hard courts. The event was classified as a $50,000 ITF Women's Circuit tournament and was held in Boston, United States, from 2007 to 2011. Past finals Singles Doubles External links ITF search {{DEFAULTSORT:Sportsmen's Tennis Club Challenger ITF Women's World Tennis Tour Hard court tennis tournaments in the United States Recurring sporting events established in 2007 Recurring sporting events disestablished in 2011 Tennis in Massachusetts ...
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Boston
Boston (), officially the City of Boston, is the state capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as the cultural and financial center of the New England region of the United States. It is the 24th- most populous city in the country. The city boundaries encompass an area of about and a population of 675,647 as of 2020. It is the seat of Suffolk County (although the county government was disbanded on July 1, 1999). The city is the economic and cultural anchor of a substantially larger metropolitan area known as Greater Boston, a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) home to a census-estimated 4.8 million people in 2016 and ranking as the tenth-largest MSA in the country. A broader combined statistical area (CSA), generally corresponding to the commuting area and including Providence, Rhode Island, is home to approximately 8.2 million people, making it the sixth most populous in the United States. Boston is one of the oldest ...
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Marie-Ève Pelletier
Marie-Ève Pelletier (; born May 18, 1982) is a Canadian former professional tennis player. She reached career-high rankings by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) of 106 in singles on June 20, 2005 and 54 in doubles on April 12, 2010. Tennis career 1998–2013 Marie-Ève played in one career Grand Slam singles match in 2004, at the Australian Open, qualifying for the tournament before losing in the first round to Akiko Morigami. She is the previous winner of two events on the ITF Women's Circuit, the 2000 Virginia Beach and 2005 Waikoloa tournaments. Her best result in a WTA Tour event came at the 2005 Hyderabad Open, where she reached the quarterfinals. The biggest win of her career was when she beat then-world No. 16, Li Na, in straight sets in the first round of the 2006 Rogers Cup. She won in June 2012 the third singles title of her career at the $25k tournament in El Paso, beating Ashley Weinhold in the final. Pelletier retired from tennis on January 9, 2013, after her l ...
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Hard Court Tennis Tournaments In The United States
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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 ...
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Ä°pek ÅženoÄŸlu
Ä°pek ÅženoÄŸlu (born 8 June 1979), nicknamed Ä°peko, is a former Turkish tennis player. She first made history in June 2004, when she was accepted into the women's doubles qualifying for The Championships, Wimbledon, Wimbledon. Though ÅženoÄŸlu did not advance into the main draw of Wimbledon, she became the first Turk ever to play in a qualifying tournament for a Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam event. On 15 May 2005, Venus Williams played a show game with ÅženoÄŸlu on the Bosporus Bridge in Istanbul, the first tennis match ever to be played across two continents. The event was organized as a promotion ahead of the 2005 Ä°stanbul Cup and lasted five minutes only on the north side of the bridge. After the exhibition, they both threw a tennis ball into the Bosporus. She and partner Yaroslava Shvedova reached the semifinals of the 2009 Internazionali BNL d'Italia, 2009 Italian Open, a WTA Premier event. Following this event, Ä°pek's WTA doubles rank rose to No. 76. Her peak double ...
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LÄ«ga Dekmeijere
Līga Dekmeijere (born 21 May 1983) is a Latvian tennis player. She has won one doubles title on the WTA Tour, as well as 19 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 26 August 2002, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 287. On 5 April 2010, she peaked at No. 54 in the doubles rankings. Dekmeijere has won her only WTA tournament title at the 2008 Cachantún Cup, where she entered the doubles draw with Poland's Alicja Rosolska, defeating Mariya Koryttseva and Julia Schruff in the final. Playing for the Latvia Fed Cup team The Latvia women's national tennis team represents Latvia in Fed Cup tennis competition and are governed by the Latvian Tennis Union. They currently compete in World Group II. History Latvia competed in its first Fed Cup in 1992. Their best res ..., Dekmeijere has a win–loss record of 14–16. Doubles performance timeline WTA career finals Doubles: 7 (1 title, 6 runner-ups) ITF finals Singles: 1 (1 runner–up) Doubles: 30 (20 ...
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Melinda Czink
Melinda Czink (born 22 October 1982) is a former professional tennis player from Hungary. On 21 September 2009, she reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 37. Czink reached two WTA Tour singles finals. In 2005, she lost to Ana Ivanovic in Canberra. In 2009, she defeated Lucie Šafářová in Quebec City for her first and only WTA Tour title. On the ITF Circuit, she won 20 singles and nine doubles titles. Tennis career 2000–2008 She played her first tournament at Budapest as a wildcard in 2000, and first entered the top 100 in 2003. Czink won several singles and doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. 2009 She reached the top 50 and won her first title at Quebec City; as the fifth seed, she defeated Aleksandra Wozniak in the semifinal, and Lucie Šafářová in the final. She also reached one semifinal and four quarterfinals during the season. At the end of the year, she played at the Tournament of Champions in Bali where she lost to Aravane Rezaï and to Sabine Li ...
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Youlia Fedossova
Youlia Fedossova (born 1 July 1988) is a retired Russian-born French tennis player. In her career, Fedossova won four doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 13 August 2007, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 107. On 26 July 2010, she peaked at No. 171 in the WTA doubles rankings. Fedossova moved to France when she was three years old. She competed in the main draw of the French Open in singles 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, and in doubles 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010 but lost each time in the first round. At the 2006 US Open, Fedossova upset 28th seed Anabel Medina Garrigues in the first round, 6–2, 6–1. At the 2007 Australian Open The 2007 Australian Open was a Grand Slam tennis tournament held in Melbourne, Australia from 15 January until 28 January 2007. The total prize pool was set at exactly A$20 million, with the winners of both the men's and women's singles competit ..., she also reached the second round. Fedossova retired from professional t ...
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Natalie Grandin
Natalie Grandin (born 27 February 1981) is a retired tennis player from South Africa. She achieved a career-high singles ranking of 144 as of 12 September 2005. On 14 May 2012, she peaked at No. 22 in the doubles rankings. In her career, she won one WTA doubles title as well as three singles and 25 ITF doubles titles. Grandin has yet to compete outside the qualifying rounds of a Grand Slam singles event. She is known for her variety of play, and volleying ability. Grandin retired from professional tennis in January 2015. Biography She was coached by Petra de Jong. Her father, Roy, is a project manager in IT while her mother, Rosamund, is a freight forwarder. Natalie has two sisters. She is a baseliner whose favorite shot is the forehand and her favorite surface is hard court. Grandin started playing tennis at age four. She speaks English and Afrikaans Afrikaans (, ) is a West Germanic language that evolved in the Dutch Cape Colony from the Dutch vernacular of Holla ...
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Mallory Cecil
Mallory Anne Cecil (born July 18, 1990) is a former professional tennis player from the United States. Biography A right-handed player from Spartanburg, South Carolina, Cecil trained at the IMG Academy in Florida, where she was coached by Nick Bollettieri. Her junior career included grand slam appearances and she won the doubles title at the 2007 Orange Bowl, partnering Melanie Oudin. College While at Duke, she received the Honda Sports Award as the nation's best female tennis player in 2009, having won the 2009 NCAA Division I Tennis Championships as a freshman, and winning all six of her matches in straight sets. Overall, she compiled a 32–4 record in her debut season with the Duke Blue Devils as their top singles player, leading her to leave Duke for what would prove to be a brief professional career. Cecil would eventually return to Duke to finish her degree, and later completed a postgraduate degree at Durham University Business School in England, where she represented ...
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Ahsha Rolle
Ahsha Rolle (born March 21, 1985) is a retired tennis player from United States. Tennis career Ahsha began playing tennis when she was nine years old. Her career-high singles ranking is No. 82, achieved in September 2007. In October 2011, she peaked at No. 111 in the doubles rankings. She played at the 2007 US Open as a wildcard entry, and defeated 17th seeded Tatiana Golovin in the first round, and Karin Knapp in the second before falling to Dinara Safina Dinara Mubinovna Safina (; ; tt-Cyrl, Динара Мөбин кызы Сафина; born April 27, 1986) is a Russian former world No. 1 tennis player. Safina was runner-up in singles at the 2008 French Open, 2009 Australian Open, and the .... Due to injuries, Ahsha Rolle retired from professional tennis in 2013, at the age of 28. ITF Circuit finals Singles: 6 (3 titles, 3 runner-ups) Doubles: 20 (10 titles, 10 runner-ups) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Rolle, Ahsha 1985 births Living peo ...
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Maria Fernanda Alves
Maria Fernanda Barbato Alves
(; born 17 April 1983), also known as Nanda Alves, is a retired Brazilian player. As of 1 March 2010, Alves was ranked world No. 262, and was the highest ranked Brazilian player.Sony Ericsson WTA Tour , Rankings , Singles Nationalities , Brazil
She enjoyed success on the ITF Circuit, winning 23 singles and 58 doubles titles.
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