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2005 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Doubles
Cara Black and Rennae Stubbs were the defending champions, but did not play together. Stubbs partnered with Lisa Raymond but lost in the first round to Stéphanie Cohen-Aloro and Selima Sfar. Black competed with Liezel Huber and defeated Svetlana Kuznetsova and Amélie Mauresmo in the final, 6–2, 6–1 to win the ladies' doubles tennis title at the 2005 Wimbledon Championships. Seeds Virginia Ruano Pascual / Paola Suárez ''(withdrew)'' Cara Black / Liezel Huber (champions) Lisa Raymond / Rennae Stubbs ''(first round)'' Nadia Petrova / Meghann Shaughnessy ''(quarterfinals)'' Elena Likhovtseva / Vera Zvonareva ''(quarterfinals)'' Janette Husárová / Conchita Martínez ''(third round)'' Daniela Hantuchová / Ai Sugiyama ''(quarterfinals)'' Anna-Lena Grönefeld / Martina Navratilova ''(semifinals)'' Anabel Medina Garrigues / Dinara Safina ''(third round)'' Shinobu Asagoe / Katarina Srebotnik ''(third round)'' Bryanne Stewart / Samantha Stosur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cara Black
Cara Cavell Black (born 17 February 1979) is a Zimbabwean former professional tennis player. Black was primarily a doubles specialist, winning 60 WTA Tour and 11 ITF Women's Circuit, ITF doubles titles. A former List of WTA number 1 ranked doubles tennis players, doubles world No. 1, she won ten Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, major titles. By winning the 2010 Australian Open – Mixed doubles, 2010 Australian Open mixed doubles title, Black became the third woman in the Open Era to complete the Grand Slam (tennis)#Career Grand Slam, career Grand Slam in mixed doubles (after Martina Navratilova and Daniela Hantuchová). Having also won one singles title on the WTA Tour, Black peaked at world No. 31 in the singles rankings in March 1999. Personal life Black was born in Salisbury, Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe) to Don Black (tennis), Donald and Velia Black. Her father and older brothers, Wayne Black, Wayne and Byron Black, were all professional tennis players themselves. The si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ai Sugiyama
is a Japanese former tennis player. She reached the world No. 1 ranking in women's doubles on the WTA Tour and had a career-high singles ranking of world No. 8, achieved on February 9, 2004. In her career, she won six singles and 38 doubles titles, including three Grand Slam titles (one with Julie Halard-Decugis and two partnering Kim Clijsters), and one Grand Slam mixed doubles title (partnering Mahesh Bhupathi). Sugiyama held the all-time record, for both male and female players, for her 62 consecutive Grand Slam main-draw appearances, until she was surpassed by Roger Federer at the 2015 Wimbledon Championships. Career 1990s In 1993, at age 17, Sugiyama played tennis legend Martina Navratilova in her native city, losing in three sets. The same year, she made her Grand Slam debut at Wimbledon but lost in the first round to world No. 30, Gigi Fernández, in three sets. In 1994, Sugiyama again reached the main draw at Wimbledon but lost to world No. 6 and compatriot, Kimik ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eleni Daniilidou
Eleni Daniilidou (; ; born 19 September 1982) is a Greek former tennis player from the island of Crete. She is considered one of the best Greek tennis players of the Open Era, winning five singles titles and three doubles titles on the WTA Tour. In 2003, she reached the mixed-doubles final of the Australian Open, making her the first Greek player to have reached a Grand Slam final. Her highest singles ranking is world No. 14, making her the only female tennis player from Greece to have reached the top 20 until Maria Sakkari in February 2020. No male tennis player had achieved this until Stefanos Tsitsipas reached 15th place in August 2018. By beating Justine Henin in the first round of the 2005 Wimbledon Championships, she became the first player to defeat a reigning French Open champion in the first round of Wimbledon. Career summary Daniilidou began her professional career in 1996, making the final of her first ITF event, having barely turned 14. She achieved her first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
María Vento-Kabchi
María Alejandra Vento-Kabchi (born 24 May 1974) is a Venezuelan former professional tennis player. In July 2004, she reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 26. She won four WTA Tour titles in doubles. Vento-Kabchi reached the fourth round of the 2005 US Open, where she was heavily defeated by the eventual champion, Kim Clijsters. Vento-Kabchi likened the defeat to being "run over by a truck". Her best results in Grand Slam tournaments are reaching the fourth round in Wimbledon (1997) and US Open (2005 2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...). She competed as María Vento until July 21, 2001, when she married lawyer Gamal Kabchi. Vento-Kabchi retired from professional tennis in 2006. WTA career finals Singles (1 runner-up) ITF finals Singles (7� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gisela Dulko
Gisela Dulko (; born 30 January 1985) is an Argentine former tennis player. Although she enjoyed modest success in singles, reaching a career-high ranking of world No. 26 and winning four WTA Tour, WTA titles, her speciality was doubles, where she achieved the List of WTA number 1 ranked doubles tennis players, world No. 1 ranking and won 17 WTA titles. Partnering with Flavia Pennetta, Dulko won the 2010 WTA Tour Championships and the 2011 Australian Open. She also reached the mixed-doubles final at the 2011 US Open (tennis), 2011 US Open, with Eduardo Schwank. During her career, Dulko upset a number of top players on the tour, including Maria Sharapova in the second round of Wimbledon in 2009, Samantha Stosur in the third round of Roland Garros in 2011, and Martina Navratilova in the second round of Wimbledon in 2004 Wimbledon Championships – Women's singles, 2004 and in Navratilova's final Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam singles match. Dulko retired from professional tennis o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corina Morariu
Corina Maria Morariu (born January 26, 1978) is an American former professional tennis player. Morariu (pronounced: mo-RA-R'ju) was born in Detroit, Michigan and is of Romanian descent. She turned professional in 1994. Mainly known as a doubles specialist, she won the women's doubles title at Wimbledon in 1999 with Lindsay Davenport. She also won the mixed-doubles title at the 2001 Australian Open with Ellis Ferreira. She reached the Australian Open women's doubles final with Davenport in 2005. She also reached the world No. 1 ranking in doubles in 2000. In 2001, Morariu was diagnosed with leukemia and began a program of chemotherapy Chemotherapy (often abbreviated chemo, sometimes CTX and CTx) is the type of cancer treatment that uses one or more anti-cancer drugs (list of chemotherapeutic agents, chemotherapeutic agents or alkylating agents) in a standard chemotherapy re .... During this time, Jennifer Capriati dedicated her 2001 French Open victory to Morariu. Afte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lindsay Davenport
Lindsay Ann Davenport Leach (born June 8, 1976) is an American former professional tennis player. She was ranked as the world No. 1 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for 98 weeks (including as the year-end No. 1 four times), and as the world No. 1 in women's doubles for 32 weeks. Davenport won 55 WTA Tour-level singles titles, including three majors (the 1998 US Open, 1999 Wimbledon Championships, and 2000 Australian Open), the gold medal at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, and the 1999 Tour Finals. She also won 38 doubles titles, including three majors (the 1996 French Open, 1997 US Open, and the 1999 Wimbledon Championships ) and three consecutive Tour Finals. In 2005, '' TENNIS Magazine'' ranked Davenport as the 29th-greatest player (male or female) of the preceding 40 years. She amassed career-earnings of US$22,166,338; formerly first in the all-time rankings. Davenport was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2014. Early lif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samantha Stosur
Samantha Jane Stosur (born 30 March 1984) is an Australian former professional tennis player. She is a former List of WTA number 1 ranked doubles tennis players, world No. 1 in doubles, a ranking which she first achieved on 6 February 2006 and held for 61 consecutive weeks. Also a former WTA rankings#Players with highest career rank 2–5, 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 (tennis), Grand Slam singles title at the 2011 US Open – Women's si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bryanne Stewart
Bryanne Stewart (born 9 December 1979) is a former professional tennis player from Australia. She has been ranked World No. 16 in doubles and has won three doubles titles. In singles, she reached the third round of the Australian Open in 2000. Her best result at a Grand Slam was reaching the semifinals of the women's doubles tournament at the 2005 Wimbledon Championships, partnering Samantha Stosur, before losing to Cara Black and Liezel Huber Liezel Huber (née Horn; born 21 August 1976) is a South African- American retired tennis player who represented the United States internationally since August 2007. Huber has won four Grand Slam titles in women's doubles with partner Cara B .... WTA career finals Doubles (4) (3-1) ITF Finals Singles (0–3) Doubles (11–15) References External links * * * * 1979 births Living people Australian female tennis players Sportswomen from New South Wales Tennis players from Sydney 21st-century Australian women< ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katarina Srebotnik
Katarina Srebotnik (born 12 March 1981) is a Slovenian former professional tennis player. She reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 20, on 7 August 2006. On 4 July 2011, she became the No. 1 of the WTA doubles rankings, holding this ranking for ten weeks. Srebotnik won four singles titles on the WTA Tour and was ranked inside the top 30 for several years. However, her best results have been in doubles draws, where she won 39 career titles, including a Grand Slam title at the 2011 Wimbledon Championships alongside Květa Peschke. She also won five major titles in mixed doubles, three at the French Open in 1999, 2006 and 2010; one at the US Open in 2003; and another at the Australian Open in 2011. In September 2021, Srebotnik was recognized by the Guinness World Records as the first and youngest tennis player, male or female, to win her first tournament in all three categories, singles, doubles and mixed doubles. Srebotnik won her debut in singles ( 1999 Oeiras); i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shinobu Asagoe
is a Japanese former tennis player. She turned professional in 1997, and retired in 2006. Career 2000 was the first year in which she finished in the WTA top 100 (No. 72). At the US Open that year, she defeated Patty Schnyder, a top-50 player. She also reached her first WTA Tour quarterfinal that year at the Princess Cup at Tokyo, defeating Ai Sugiyama and losing to Monica Seles. She also represented Japan at the Sydney Olympics. In 2003, she reached her first WTA singles final. In 2004, she reached her second career singles final in Hobart, as well as her first Grand Slam quarterfinal at the US Open. In April 2005, Asagoe reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 21. In May of the following year, she reached her career-high doubles ranking (13th). Asagoe appeared in one WTA Tour final, in Auckland 2003, where she lost to Katarina Srebotnik in three sets. She held a 4–0 lead in the second set when Srebotnik took an injury timeout. From there, Strebotnik played ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dinara Safina
Dinara Mubinovna Safina (, ; ; born April 27, 1986) is a Russian former professional tennis player. She was ranked as the world No. 1 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for 26 weeks, and world No. 8 in doubles. Safina won twelve WTA Tour-level singles titles and nine in doubles, including the women's doubles title at the 2007 US Open with Nathalie Dechy. She was the runner-up at three major singles tournaments: the 2008 French Open, 2009 Australian Open, and 2009 French Open, and won an Olympic silver medal in singles at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Safina officially retired in 2014 due to a long-term back injury. She is the younger sister of former world No. 1 men's player Marat Safin; the brother–sister pair are the first to both achieve the No. 1 singles rankings. Biography Early life Safina was born in Moscow to Tatar parents. Her mother Rauza Islanova was her trainer when she was younger; while her father is director of the Spartak tennis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
