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2012 Sony Ericsson Open – Women's Singles
Agnieszka Radwańska defeated Maria Sharapova in the final, 7–5, 6–4 to win the women's singles tennis title at the 2012 Miami Open. It was her second Premier Mandatory title and first Miami Masters title. Radwańska did not drop a set during the tournament. Victoria Azarenka was the defending champion, but lost to Marion Bartoli in the quarterfinals, ending Azarenka's 26-match winning streak to start the 2012 season. This tournament also marked the first WTA Tour main draw appearance of two-time Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, major champion and future List of WTA number 1 ranked singles tennis players, world No. 1, Garbiñe Muguruza, where she made the fourth round before losing to Radwańska. Seeds All seed (tennis), seeds received a bye (tennis), bye into the second round. Victoria Azarenka ''(quarterfinals)'' Maria Sharapova ''(final)'' Petra Kvitová ''(second round)'' Caroline Wozniacki ''(semifinals)'' Agnieszka Radwańska (champion) Samantha Stosur ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agnieszka Radwańska
Agnieszka Roma Radwańska (; born 6 March 1989) is a Polish former professional tennis player and current coach. She was ranked world No. 2 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), in July 2012. Radwańska won 20 WTA Tour singles titles, including the 2015 WTA Finals – Singles, 2015 WTA Finals, and two doubles titles. She was also the runner-up at the 2012 Wimbledon Championships – Women's singles, 2012 Wimbledon Championships. Radwańska was the first Pole in the Open Era to contest a Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, major singles final (at the 2012 Wimbledon Championships), the first to win the WTA Finals, the first to claim a WTA Tour singles title (the 2007 Nordea Nordic Light Open – Singles, 2007 Nordic Light Open), and was part of the first Polish team to win the Hopman Cup in 2015 Hopman Cup, 2015. She was named the WTA Awards#Newcomer of the Year, Newcomer of the Year in 2006, and finished with a top-10 year-end ranking eight times. Radwańska's a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sabine Lisicki
Sabine Katharina Lisicki (; born 22 September 1989) is a German inactive professional tennis player. Lisicki turned professional in 2006, and her breakthrough came in 2009 when she reached the quarterfinals of the 2009 Wimbledon Championships – Women's singles, Wimbledon Championships, and also won her first title on the WTA Tour, at the 2009 Family Circle Cup, Family Circle Cup. In March 2010, she suffered an ankle injury at the 2010 BNP Paribas Open – Women's singles, Indian Wells Open that kept her out of competition for five months and saw her fall out of the top 200. Lisicki rebounded in 2011 and won the 2011 Aegon Classic – Singles, Birmingham Classic, before entering the 2011 Wimbledon Championships – Women's singles, Wimbledon Championships as a Wild card (sports), wildcard and going on to reach the semifinals, where she lost to Maria Sharapova. In doing so she became only the second woman in Wimbledon Championships, Wimbledon history to make it to the semifinals ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anabel Medina Garrigues
Ana Isabel Medina Garrigues (, ; born 31 July 1982) is a Spanish tennis coach and former professional player. As a player she reached a career-high ranking of world No. 16 in 2009, and won 11 singles and 28 doubles titles, including the 2008 and 2009 French Open with Virginia Ruano Pascual. Like many of her Spanish compatriots, she was a clay-court specialist who grinds to win most of her rallies. However, unlike most of her fellow Spaniards, she preferred to play on hardcourts. She won the WTA tournament in Strasbourg, beating Katarina Srebotnik in the final in May 2008, thus defending the title she won the previous year against Amélie Mauresmo. Her other singles titles came at Palermo in 2011, 2006, 2005, 2004 and 2001, at Canberra in 2006, Strasbourg in 2005 and Fès in 2009. After retirement from singles tennis (she continues playing doubles) at the end of the 2014 season, Medina Garrigues became a professional coach, gaining success while working for Jeļena Ostape ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flavia Pennetta
Flavia Pennetta (; born 25 February 1982) is an Italian former professional tennis player. She became Italy's first top-ten female singles player on 17 August 2009 and the first Italian to be ranked List of WTA number 1 ranked doubles tennis players, world No. 1 in doubles, on 28 February 2011. She is a Grand Slam (tennis), major champion, having won the 2011 Australian Open – Women's doubles, 2011 Australian Open women's doubles title with Gisela Dulko, and the 2015 US Open – Women's singles, 2015 US Open singles title over childhood friend Roberta Vinci in the first all-Italian major final. Pennetta won ten other WTA Tour, WTA singles titles, including the 2014 BNP Paribas Open – Women's singles, 2014 Indian Wells Open, where she defeated the top two seeds. She also was a mainstay in the Fed Cup team competition, helping Italy Fed Cup team, Italy win four titles in 2006 Fed Cup, 2006, 2009 Fed Cup, 2009, 2010 Fed Cup, 2010, and 2013 Fed Cup, 2013. Her other highlights in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yanina Wickmayer
Yanina Wickmayer (born 20 October 1989) is a Belgian professional tennis player. She reached the semifinals at the 2009 US Open – Women's singles, 2009 US Open, and a career-high WTA ranking of No. 12, on 19 April 2010. In doubles, she achieved a career-high of world No. 61, on 11 September 2023. She was awarded "Most Improved Player" by the Women's Tennis Association, WTA in 2009. ''Time (magazine), Time magazine'' named her one of the "30 Legends of Women's Tennis: Past, Present and Future" in June 2011. Personal life Wickmayer was born on 20 October 1989, to Marc Wickmayer and Daniella Dannevoye. She was introduced to tennis at the age of nine by friends at local courts. Her mother died at an early age shortly thereafter. She is named after Diego Maradona's youngest daughter Gianinna. The surname 'Wickmayer' traces back to Austrian people, Austria through her father Marc. Wickmayer, who fluently speaks Dutch, English, and French, most admires former Belgian tennis player Kim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Kirilenko
Maria Yuryevna Kirilenko ( rus, Мари́я Ю́рьевна Кириле́нко, p=mɐˈrʲijə kʲɪrʲɪˈlʲenkə, a=Ru-Maria_Kirilenko.ogg; born 25 January 1987) is a Russian former professional tennis player. A junior Grand Slam champion at the 2002 US Open at the age of 15, she went on to become a top-ten player in both singles and doubles. Kirilenko won six WTA Tour singles titles and 12 doubles titles. She was a three-time major singles quarterfinalist (reaching that stage at the 2010 Australian Open, the 2012 Wimbledon Championships, and the 2013 French Open), a semifinalist at the 2012 London Olympics (where she lost to Victoria Azarenka in the bronze medal match), and reached a career-high ranking of world No. 10, on 10 June 2013. In women's doubles, she became ranked as high as No. 5 in the world on 24 October 2011, and reached two major finals, at the 2011 Australian Open with Azarenka and the 2012 French Open with compatriot Nadia Petrova. Along with Pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roberta Vinci
Roberta Vinci (; born 18 February 1983) is an Italian former tennis player. In doubles tennis, she is a Grand Slam (tennis)#Career Grand Slam, Career Grand Slam champion having won all Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, major tournaments and reached the List of WTA number 1 ranked doubles tennis players, world No. 1 position. She also reached a career-high singles WTA rankings, ranking of world No. 7, in May 2016. At 33 years and 4 days old, she became the oldest player ever to debut in the top 10. Vinci rose to global prominence at the 2015 US Open – Women's singles, 2015 US Open, where she defeated world No. 1 Serena Williams in the semifinals to end her hopes of achieving the Grand Slam (tennis)#Grand Slam, Grand Slam, in what has been described by commentators as one of the greatest upsets in tennis history. She went on to lose to her childhood friend Flavia Pennetta, Pennetta in the first all-Italian major final. Vinci won 35 career titles, ten in singles and 25 in doubles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniela Hantuchová
Daniela Hantuchová (; born 23 April 1983) is a Slovak tennis commentator and retired player. She turned professional in 1999 and had her breakthrough year in 2002, when she won her first WTA Tour title at the Indian Wells Open, defeating Martina Hingis in the final and becoming the lowest-ranked player to ever win the tournament. She also reached the quarterfinals of that year's 2002 Wimbledon Championships – Women's singles, Wimbledon Championships and 2002 US Open – Women's singles, US Open, ending the year in the top ten. She was part of the Slovak team that won the 2002 Fed Cup and the 2005 Hopman Cup. Hantuchová reached her highest ranking of world No. 5 in January 2003, after playing the quarterfinals of the 2003 Australian Open – Women's singles, Australian Open. She has won seven WTA Tour tournaments, including the Indian Wells Open for a second time in 2007 Pacific Life Open – Women's singles, 2007, with the 2015 PTT Thailand Open – Singles, 2015 Thailand Ope ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
Anastasia Sergeyevna "Nastia" Pavlyuchenkova (; born 3 July 1991) is a Russian professional tennis player. She reached a career-high singles WTA rankings, ranking of world No. 11 on 8 November 2021. Pavlyuchenkova has won twelve singles titles on the WTA Tour, and contested a Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, major final at the 2021 French Open – Women's singles, 2021 French Open. A junior prodigy, Pavlyuchenkova won three junior major titles and became the junior world No. 1 aged just 14. She was continuously ranked inside the world's top 50 from November 2008 to June 2022. Her biggest singles titles to date came at two WTA Premier tournaments, Premier-level tournaments, the 2014 Open GDF Suez – Singles, 2014 Open GDF Suez and the 2014 Kremlin Cup – Women's singles, 2014 Kremlin Cup. In addition to her 2021 French Open final appearance, Pavlyuchenkova has contested eight other major quarterfinals. Pavlyuchenkova has also had success in doubles, having won six doubles titl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angelique Kerber
Angelique Kerber (; born 18 January 1988) is a German former professional tennis player. She was ranked as the List of WTA number 1 ranked singles tennis players, world No. 1 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for 34 weeks, including as the year-end No. 1 in 2016 WTA Tour, 2016. Kerber won 14 WTA Tour-level singles titles, including three Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, majors at the 2016 Australian Open – Women's singles, 2016 Australian Open, the 2016 US Open – Women's singles, 2016 US Open, and the 2018 Wimbledon Championships – Women's singles, 2018 Wimbledon Championships. She also won a silver medal in women's singles at the Tennis at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's singles, 2016 Rio Olympics. Kerber made her professional debut in 2003 and began her rise to prominence upon reaching the semifinals of the 2011 US Open – Women's singles, 2011 US Open as the world No. 92. An accomplished left-handed player, Kerber first cracked the top 5 i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peng Shuai
Peng Shuai (; ; born 8 January 1986) is a Chinese former professional tennis player. In February 2014, she was ranked as the List of WTA number 1 ranked doubles tennis players, world No. 1 doubles player by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), becoming the first Chinese tennis player to achieve that ranking in any discipline. She peaked at No. 14 of the singles rankings in August 2011, and won two singles and 23 doubles titles on the WTA Tour. Peng won a gold medal at the 2010 Asian Games, defeating Akgul Amanmuradova in the singles final. At the 2013 Wimbledon Championships – Women's doubles, 2013 Wimbledon Championships, Peng won her first Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, major title, in women's doubles with Hsieh Su-wei. She also won the women's doubles title at the 2014 French Open – Women's doubles, 2014 French Open with Hsieh. Her best performance at a major in singles came at the 2014 US Open – Women's singles, 2014 US Open where she reached the semifinals, becom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dominika Cibulková
Dominika Cibulková (; born 6 May 1989) is a Slovak former professional tennis player. She is the 2016 WTA Finals champion, becoming the fourth player (after Serena Williams in 2001 WTA Tour Championships, 2001, Maria Sharapova in 2004 WTA Tour Championships, 2004 and Petra Kvitová in 2011 WTA Tour Championships, 2011) to win the tournament on her debut. She won eight WTA Tour singles titles and two on the ITF Women's Circuit, ITF Circuit. Cibulková reached the quarterfinals or better of all four Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam tournaments at least once. One of her most notable achievements was a final appearance at the 2014 Australian Open. Although she lost to Li Na, she was the first female Slovak to reach the final of a Grand Slam tournament. Personal life Cibulková was introduced to tennis at the age of eight in Piešťany. She was eleven when her family moved to Bratislava. Her mother is the Slovak lawyer and politician Katarína Cibulková. Her signature expression, ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
