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2000 DFS Classic – Singles
Julie Halard-Decugis was the defending champion, but was defeated in the quarterfinals by Tamarine Tanasugarn. Lisa Raymond won the title, defeating Tanasugarn in the final 6–2, 6–7(7–9), 6–4. Seeds The top eight seeds received a bye into the second round. # Nathalie Tauziat ''(semifinals)'' # Julie Halard-Decugis ''(quarterfinals)'' # Jennifer Capriati ''(quarterfinals)'' # Silvija Talaja ''(third round)'' # Nathalie Dechy ''(second round)'' # Lisa Raymond (champion) # Anne-Gaëlle Sidot ''(quarterfinals)'' # Kristina Brandi ''(quarterfinals)'' # Anne Kremer ''(third round)'' # Alexandra Stevenson ''(first round)'' # Tatiana Panova ''(first round)'' # Magüi Serna ''(third round)'' # Nicole Pratt ''(second round)'' # Anastasia Myskina ''(third round)'' # Mirjana Lučić ''(first round)'' # Tamarine Tanasugarn ''(final)'' Draw Finals Top half Section 1 Section 2 Bottom half Section 3 Section 4 External links 2000 DFS Classic drawsITF tour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisa Raymond
Lisa Raymond (born August 10, 1973) is an American former professional tennis player who has achieved notable success in doubles tennis. Raymond has eleven major titles to her name: six in women's doubles and five in mixed doubles. On June 12, 2000, she reached the world No. 1 ranking in doubles for the first time, becoming the 13th player to reach the milestone. Raymond was ranked No. 1 on five separate occasions in her career over a combined total of 137 weeks (the fourth-highest mark of all time) and finished as the year-end No. 1 doubles player in both 2001 and 2006. She currently holds the record of most doubles match wins (860) and most doubles matches played (1,206) in WTA history, and earned more than $10 million in prize money in her career. She is one of the few players to win a 'Career Grand Slam' in doubles, which she accomplished after winning the 2006 French Open title. Among her former doubles partners are Lindsay Davenport, Martina Navratilova, Rennae Stubb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erika DeLone
Erika deLone (born October 14, 1972) is an American retired tennis player who turned professional in 1992. She reached one WTA Tour singles final in her career, finishing runner-up to Åsa Svensson at the Wismilak International in 1999. In April 2000, she reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 65. DeLone won one WTA Tour doubles title in her career, winning the 2000 Rosmalen Grass Court Championships in 's-Hertogenbosch, partnering Australian Nicole Pratt Nicole Pratt (born 5 March 1973) is a retired tennis player from Australia. Pratt was born in Mackay, Queensland. She is the middle sibling of five children of cane farmers and was taught to play by her father, George, who was a top junior pl .... She reached her career-high doubles ranking of world No. 45 in December 2000. In 2003, she retired from professional tennis. Her sister Amy was a professional tennis player as well. WTA career finals Singles: 1 (1 runner-up) Doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holly Parkinson
Holly Parkinson-Hasler (born February 10, 1979) is a former professional tennis player from the United States. Biography Parkinson is originally from Bethesda, Maryland, the second oldest of seven children. Her father is an orthopedic surgeon and gulf war veteran. She began playing tennis at the age of eight and went to school at Westfield HS in Houston. Raised as a Mormon, she attended Brigham Young University in Utah. A right-handed player, Parkinson won six ITF circuit singles titles between 1997 and 1999, then began competing in the main draw of WTA Tour events. Her best performance came at the Advanta Championships of Philadelphia in 2000 where she made the quarter-finals as a lucky loser. After beating Kristina Brandi in the first round, she received a walkover against Chanda Rubin, before being eliminated by third seed Conchita Martínez. She featured in the main draw of all four grand slam events during her career. After falling in the final round of qualifying at the 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rachel McQuillan
Rachel McQuillan (born 2 December 1971) is a retired tennis player from Australia. She was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder. She won five doubles titles, as well as 14 singles and 21 doubles titles on the . She reached the mixed doubles semifinals at the and [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorna Woodroffe
Lorna Woodroffe (born 18 August 1976) is an English former tennis player. She competed in the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. Playing with Julie Pullin, she lost her first-round match in the women's doubles to Kristie Boogert and Miriam Oremans Miriam Oremans (born 9 September 1972) is a former professional female tennis player from the Netherlands. On 26 July 1993 she reached her career-high singles ranking of number 25. She did not win any singles titles (Oremans did have two Sate ... of the Netherlands, in two sets. WTA career finals Doubles: 1 (runner-up) ITF finals Singles (1–6) Doubles (28–23) Post-retirement life After retiring from professional tennis, Woodroffe was one of the founders of WimX Tennis, a tennis academy and coaching business. As of 2021, she is still coaching there. References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Woodroffe, Lorna Living people Tennis players at the 2000 Summer Olympics Olympic tennis players for Great B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pavlina Nola
Pavlina Stoyanova-Nola () (born 14 July 1974) is a former tennis player who played for both Bulgaria (up to May 2001) and New Zealand (since June 2001) in her professional career. Tennis career Nola turned professional in 1995. She reached her career high ranking of No. 68 in the world on 14 May 2001. The best singles result of her career was finishing runner-up to Henrieta Nagyová at a WTA tournament in Palermo Palermo ( ; ; , locally also or ) is a city in southern Italy, the capital (political), capital of both the autonomous area, autonomous region of Sicily and the Metropolitan City of Palermo, the city's surrounding metropolitan province. The ... where she lost 3–6, 5–7. She also one won doubles title at the same tournament two years previously with Elena Pampoulova-Wagner. She played her last match in 2002, losing in the first round of the 2002 Australian Open to Janette Husárová. ''Captain of Campbells Bay Tennis Club – Chelsea Cup team 2010'' — ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vanessa Webb
Vanessa Webb (born 24 January 1976) is a Canadian former professional tennis player. She is currently the Player Class Director for the WTA Board of Directors. In her career, she won ten singles and 25 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. She also reached one WTA Tour doubles final, in Kuala Lumpur in 2000. College While at Duke, she won the Honda Sports Award as the nation's best female tennis player in 1999. Tennis career Webb made the second round of the 2003 Australian Open which was her best Grand Slam singles performance. She also reached the first round of the French Open (in 2003) and the US Open (in 1998 & 2000). In doubles, she made the second rounds of the French Open (in 2001,'02,'03 & '04) and the Wimbledon Championships (in 2003). Webb made the first rounds of the Australian Open (in 2000,'03) and US Open (in 1999, 2000), and also the first round of mixed-doubles at the Wimbledon Championships in 2003. Personal life After retiring from tennis, Webb has ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meghann Shaughnessy
Meghann Shaughnessy (born April 13, 1979) is an American former professional tennis player. She achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 11 in 2001 and won six titles on the WTA Tour. Her best doubles ranking was world No. 4, and she won 17 career doubles titles, including the WTA Championships in 2004. She is best known for her serve, which was one of the most powerful on tour, and has produced as many as 22 aces in a match. Shaughnessy was coached and managed by Rafael Font de Mora for most of her career. She is the niece of Dan Shaughnessy, a ''Boston Globe'' sports columnist. Career Shaughnessy made her debut on the WTA Tour in 1996 in Budapest and broke into the top 100 in 1998. In 2000, she won her first WTA singles title in Shanghai, defeating Iroda Tulyaganova in the final, and breaking into the top 50. In her breakout year of 2001, she achieved a career-high singles ranking of No. 11, won the second singles title of her career in Quebec City, and reached t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jana Kandarr
Jana Kandarr (born 21 September 1976) is a German former top 50 professional tennis player. Kandarr is notable for playing with her right hand, even though she is left-handed. Career Kandarr moved with her parents from Halle to Karlsruhe after the German reunification. Her mother Petra Vogt is a former European athletics champion and was Sports Person of the Year in the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) in 1969. Jana Kandarr was practicing for some years in Unterhaching before she went professional in 1994. The biggest success of her 10-year-long career was her participation in the Australian Open in 2000, where she made the round of 16, coming through qualifying and winning six three-set matches in a row, before being forced to retire against ninth seed Julie Halard-Decugis. Also in 2000, she reached the last 16 at the Sydney Olympics, losing to the second seed and eventual winner Venus Williams. By the end of the year, Kandarr was ranked as the No. 1 German player ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lilia Osterloh
Lilia Osterloh (born April 7, 1978) is a former tennis player from the United States. Osterloh became professional in August 1997. She reached her highest singles ranking in April 2001, when she became world No. 41. Her career-high doubles ranking is world No. 77, which she reached in August 1999. In 2013, Osterloh graduated from Stanford University with a degree in International Relations. College While at Stanford, she won the Honda Sports Award The Honda Sports Award is an annual award in the United States, given to the best collegiate female athlete in each of twelve sports. There are four nominees for each sport, and the twelve winners of the Honda Sports Award are automatically in t ... as the nation's best female tennis player in 1997. WTA Tour finals Doubles: 3 (3 titles) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Osterloh, Lilia 1978 births Living people American female tennis players Sportspeople from Columbus, Ohio Stanford Cardinal women's tenni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amélie Cocheteux
Amélie Cocheteux (born 27 March 1978) is a former professional tennis player from France. She reached her career-high ranking of No. 55 in the world on 10 May 1999. She defeated world No. 10, Nathalie Tauziat in the Prostějov tournament in 1999. As a junior, she won the 1995 French Open The 1995 French Open was a tennis tournament that took place on the outdoor clay courts at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France. The tournament was held from 29 May until 11 June. It was the 94th staging of the French Open, and the second Gran ... title. In 2000, Cocheteux and another French player, Anne-Gaëlle Sidot, were accused of racism by Alexandra Stevenson. Cocheteux allegedly used a racial remark to Stevenson whilst bumping into her in the locker room. Cocheteux denied the claims, and no action was taken by the WTA Tour. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |