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2002 Budapest Grand Prix – Doubles
Tathiana Garbin and Janette Husárová were the defending champions, but none competed this year. Husárová chose to compete at Charleston in the same week. Catherine Barclay and Émilie Loit won the title by defeating Elena Bovina and Zsófia Gubacsi 4–6, 6–3, 6–3 in the final. Seeds Draw Draw Qualifying Qualifying seeds Qualifiers # Iveta BeneÅ¡ová / ĽubomÃra Kurhajcová Lucky losers # Jelena Kostanić / Silvija Talaja Silvija Talaja (born 14 January 1978) is a Croatian former professional tennis player. Talaja won two singles titles and one doubles title on the WTA Tour, as well as one singles title on the ITF Circuit. On 29 May 2000, she reached her best s ... Qualifying draw References External links Official results archive (ITF)Official results archive (WTA) {{DEFAULTSORT:2002 Budapest Grand Prix - Doubles Budapest Grand Prix - Doubles Budapest Grand Prix ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catherine Barclay
Catherine Barclay (born 12 June 1973) is a former professional tennis Tennis is a List of racket sports, racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles (tennis), singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles (tennis), doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket st ... player from Australia. Barclay's parents were the owners of a tennis facility in Sydney, and she began playing tennis at the age of eight. In her junior career, she was a winner of the Wimbledon girls' doubles. In her professional career, she won three ITF titles in singles and thirty in doubles. She was a quarterfinalist in the Wimbledon women's doubles and mixed doubles. In the 2002 season, she won two double titles on the WTA Tour. On 30 August 2000, she was awarded the Australian Sports Medal for her strong commitment to tennis. Catherine Barclay retired in 2004. In 2003, she married field hockey player Christopher Reitz of Germany, and they reside ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anikó Kapros
Anikó Kapros (born 11 November 1983) is a former professional tennis player from Hungary. She won the junior's singles title at the Australian Open in 2000. Kapros caused an upset at the 2002 French Open, when she, as a qualifier, beat fifth seeded Justine Henin-Hardenne in the first round. Career Early life Her mother, Anikó Kéry, won a bronze medal in gymnastics at the Olympic Games in Munich 1972. When Kapros was two years old, she moved to the Bahamas where her parents worked as acrobats. She returned to Hungary at the age of nine. Professional career In the 2002 French Open, as a qualifier, she upset future four-time French Open champion Justine Henin in the first round, 4–6, 6–1, 6–0. Kapros' senior career has been marred by recurring knee injuries. Her biggest success at a WTA tournament came in September 2003 when she reached the final of the Japan Open in Tokyo, where she lost to Maria Sharapova Maria Yuryevna Sharapova (, ; born 19 April 1987) is a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alena Vašková
Alena VaÅ¡ková (married name Alena NeÅ¡tická; born 8 November 1975) is a retired Czech tennis player. She won eight singles and eleven doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. On 9 July 2001, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 115. On 22 April 2002, she peaked at No. 135 in the doubles rankings. In 2001, VaÅ¡ková made two appearances for the Czech Republic 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 cha ... competition. WTA career finals Doubles: 1 (runner-up) ITF Circuit finals Singles: 14 (8–6) Doubles: 19 (11–8) External links * * * 1975 births Living people People from Rožnov pod RadhoÅ¡tÄ›m Czech female tennis players Tennis players from the ZlÃn Region {{CzechRepublic-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eva Martincová
Eva Martincová (born 4 March 1975 in Brno) is a former Czech tennis player. Martincová reached a singles ranking high of world No. 94 in June 1997 and even ranked world No. 69 in doubles during a career in which she won one WTA Tour The WTA Tour (also known as the Hologic WTA Tour for sponsorship reasons) is a worldwide top-tier tennis tour for women and organized by the Women's Tennis Association. The second-tier tour is the WTA 125 series, and third-tier is the ITF Wome ... doubles title and a total of 17 ITF tournaments. She made three appearances for the Czech Republic Fed Cup team in the 1990s but without any wins. Junior Grand Slam finals Girls' doubles WTA Tour finals Doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up) ITF finals Singles (1–2) Doubles (16–22) References * * * 1975 births Living people Tennis players from Brno Czech female tennis players Czechoslovak female tennis players Long stubs with short prose {{CzechRepublic-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shelley Stephens
Shelley Stephens (born 29 July 1978) is a New Zealand former professional tennis player. She won two singles and 21 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit in her career. On 11 June 2001, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 249. On 4 March 2002, she peaked at No. 133 in the doubles rankings. Playing for New Zealand at the Fed Cup, Stephens has a win–loss record of 14–22. She made her WTA Tour main-draw debut at the 2001 ASB Classic in the doubles event, partnering with MarÃa Emilia Salerni MarÃa Emilia Salerni (born 14 May 1983), known as "Pitu Salerni", is a former professional tennis player from Argentina. On 25 February 2008, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 65. On 23 September 2002, she peaked at No. 45 in t .... Stephens retired from professional tennis 2009. ITF Circuit finals Singles: 10 (2–8) Doubles: 35 (21–14) References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Stephens, Shelley Living people 1978 births New Zealand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martina Müller (tennis)
Martina Müller-Skibbe (; born 11 October 1982) is a former professional tennis player from Germany. She won one singles title and one doubles title on the WTA tour. Career Coached by her father, Reinhard Müller, Martina had her best results on clay courts: she won her only WTA Tour singles title at the Budapest Grand Prix and a WTA Tour doubles title in 's-Hertogenbosch on grass. On the ITF Women's Circuit, she won ten singles and ten doubles titles. On 2 April 2007, she reached a career-high WTA ranking of 33. In February 2008, she peaked at No. 47 in the WTA doubles rankings. In 2007, she started the year with middling results, reaching the second round at the Australian Open, losing to Elena Dementieva in three sets. From January to April, Müller never came past the second round of a tournament. In May, at the German Open in Berlin, she defeated Eleni Daniilidou and 13th seed Shahar Pe'er to reach the round of 16 where she lost to Svetlana Kuznetsova 3–6, 2–6. She ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magdalena Zděnovcová
Magdalena Zděnovcová (born 17 May 1978) is a former Czech tennis player. Zděnovcová, who won a total of eleven ITF Women's Circuit, ITF tournaments in her career, reached a singles ranking high of world No. 195 in September 2003. ITF finals Singles (3–10) Doubles (8–9) External links * * 1978 births Living people Czech female tennis players {{CzechRepublic-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eva Fislová
Eva Fislová (; born 17 March 1981) is a former professional Slovak tennis player. She won one singles title and six doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit during her career. On 11 August 2003, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 98. On 13 September 2004, she peaked at No. 158 in the doubles rankings. Playing for Slovakia 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 cha ... competition, Fislová had a win–loss record of 0–3. She retired from professional tennis 2009. ITF finals Singles: 7 (1–6) Doubles: 18 (6–12) References External links * * * 1981 births Living people Sportspeople from Považská Bystrica Slovak female tennis players {{Slovakia-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MarÃa José MartÃnez Sánchez
MarÃa José MartÃnez Sánchez (; born 12 August 1982) is a Spanish former professional tennis player. In singles, she won five WTA Tour titles, her biggest being a Premier 5 title at the 2010 Italian Open where she defeated two former world No. 1 players, Ana Ivanovic and Jelena Janković, en route to the title. As a junior, she won the Orange Bowl (1999) and French Open (2000). She reached a career-high ranking in singles of world No. 19, on 10 May 2010. In doubles, MartÃnez Sánchez won 21 WTA Tour titles, ten partnering with her compatriot Nuria Llagostera Vives. Among them are the 2009 WTA Tour Championships, 2009 Rogers Cup and the Dubai Tennis Championships in 2010 and 2011. MartÃnez Sánchez reached a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 4, on 5 July 2010. Career MartÃnez Sánchez won the 1999 Orange Bowl, a year-ending tennis event for Juniors. Next year she became the champion of French Open girls' doubles. She made her first Grand Slam draw at the 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maret Ani
Maret Ani (born 31 January 1982) is a retired tennis player from Estonia. At the start of 2006, she was the top-ranked player in Estonia, before losing that spot to Kaia Kanepi Kaia Kanepi (; born 10 June 1985) is an Estonian inactive professional tennis player. She achieved her career-high ranking of world No. 15 on 20 August 2012 and has won four singles titles on the WTA Tour. Described as a 'resident Grand Slam up .... Ani was a junior basketball champion, but devoted herself to tennis from the age of 14. She moved to Italy three years later, after finding sponsorship for coaching. She was coached initially by Aita Põldma and later by Pierfrancesco Restelli. Ani first played for the Estonia Fed Cup team in 1998. WTA career finals Doubles: 2 runner-ups ITF Circuit finals Singles (7–14) Doubles (17–15) References External links * * * * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Ani, Maret 1982 births Living people Tennis players from Tallinn Estonian female ten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ĽubomÃra Kurhajcová
ĽubomÃra Kurhajcová (; born 11 October 1983) is a former professional Slovak tennis player. On 24 May 2004, she reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 59. She never passed the first round of a Grand Slam championship in seven appearances but did get close at the 2004 French Open when she led Lisa Raymond 6–0, 5–0 in the first round and held two match points, only to lose the match 6–0, 5–7, 3–6. Kurhajcová reached her first WTA Tour final in 2003 at the Pattaya Open, but lost to fellow Slovak Henrieta Nagyová. In doubles, she was a two-time runner-up, losing the 2004 Internazionali Femminili di Palermo final (teaming up with Nagyová) and the 2005 Copa Colsanitas final with Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová Barbora (; ) is a Czech and Slovak female given name. It was derived from the Greek word ''barbaros'' () meaning "foreign", a variant of " Barbara". It is the 36th most popular given name in the Czech Republic (as of 2007). Notable people with th .. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iveta Benešová
Iveta Benešová () (formerly Melzer, ; born 1 February 1983) is a Czech former tennis player. She began playing tennis aged seven and turned professional in 1998. She won two WTA Tour singles and 14 doubles tournaments, and one Grand Slam title in mixed doubles, partnered with Jürgen Melzer at the 2011 Wimbledon Championships. On 14 September 2012, she married Melzer and adopted his family name (until 2015 when their relationship ended). She announced her retirement from tennis on 13 August 2014. Career 2005–2008 Benešová was the first player to be beaten by Ana Ivanovic in the main draw of a Grand Slam tournament, at the 2005 Australian Open. At the 2006 Australian Open, for the first time, she reached the third round of a Grand Slam championship by beating fifth seed Mary Pierce. She lost in the next round to former world No. 1 Martina Hingis. Entering as a qualifier in the 2008 French Open, she reached the third round, beating 15th seed and compatriate Nicole ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
