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2014 Powiat Poznański Open
The 2014 Powiat Poznański Open was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the first edition of the tournament which was part of the 2014 ITF Women's Circuit, offering a total of $50,000 in prize money. It took place in Sobota, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland, on 21–27 July 2014. Singles main draw entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings as of 14 July 2014 Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Magdalena Fręch * Katarzyna Kawa * Daria Kuczer * Natalie Suk The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Natela Dzalamidze * Anastasia Grymalska * Pernilla Mendesová * Valeria Savinykh The following players received entry into the singles main draw as lucky losers: * Inés Ferrer Suárez * Lina Stančiūtė The following players received entry by a Special Exempt: * Barbora Krejčíková * Lara Michel Champions Singles * Kristína Kučová def. Sesil Karatantcheva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ITF Women's Circuit
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 125 tournaments. 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 125 tournaments and the bigg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magdalena Fręch
Magdalena Fręch (; born 15 December 1997) is a Polish professional tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 22, achieved on 28 October 2024. On 8 August 2022, she peaked at No. 174 in the doubles WTA rankings, rankings. She has won one singles WTA Tour title and one on the WTA 125 tournaments, WTA Challenger Tour, along with six singles and four doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit, ITF Circuit. Playing for Poland Billie Jean King Cup team, Poland in the Billie Jean King Cup, Fręch has a win–loss record of 10–7, as of September 2024. Career 2013-2018: WTA Tour and major debuts Fręch made her WTA Tour debut at the 2013 BNP Paribas Katowice Open – Doubles, Katowice Open in doubles, partnering with Katarzyna Pyka. Fręch started 2018 season in Auckland where she lost in qualifying (in the first round) to Sachia Vickery, in straight sets. She then took part at the first Grand Slam qualifying in her career - at the 2018 Australian Open – Wome ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tennis Tournaments In Poland
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 strung with a cord to strike a hollow rubber tennis ball, ball covered with felt over or around a net and into the opponent's tennis court, court. The object is to manoeuvre the ball in such a way that the opponent is not able to play a valid return. If a player is unable to return the ball successfully, the opponent scores a Point (tennis), point. Playable at all levels of society and at all ages, tennis can be played by anyone who can hold a racket, including Wheelchair tennis, wheelchair users. The original forms of tennis developed in France during the late Middle Ages. The modern form of tennis originated in Birmingham, England, in the late 19th century as lawn tennis. It had close connections to various field (lawn) games such as croqu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clay Court Tennis Tournaments
Clay is a type of fine-grained natural soil material containing clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolinite, ). Most pure clay minerals are white or light-coloured, but natural clays show a variety of colours from impurities, such as a reddish or brownish colour from small amounts of iron oxide. Clays develop plasticity (physics), plasticity when wet but can be hardened through Pottery#Firing, firing. Clay is the longest-known ceramic material. Prehistoric humans discovered the useful properties of clay and used it for making pottery. Some of the earliest pottery shards have been radiocarbon dating, dated to around 14,000 BCE, and Clay tablet, clay tablets were the first known writing medium. Clay is used in many modern industrial processes, such as paper making, cement production, and chemical filtration, filtering. Between one-half and two-thirds of the world's population live or work in buildings made with clay, often baked into brick, as an essenti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sesil Karatantcheva
Sesil Radoslavova Karatantcheva (; born 8 August 1989) is a Bulgarian former tennis player. On 7 November 2005, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 35. On 19 April 2010, she peaked at No. 154 in the doubles rankings. In her career, she won nine singles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. Karatantcheva is perhaps best known for reaching the quarterfinals of the 2005 French Open, upsetting seven-time Grand Slam champion Venus Williams en route. Tennis career She began playing tennis at the age of five. In 2001, 12-year-old Karatantcheva won the Orange Bowl tournament for her age group, defeating Alisa Kleybanova in the final. Early in her playing days, she trained for approximately six months at the famous IMG Academy of Nick Bollettieri. 2003–2004: Early career Karatantcheva played her first professional tournament in September 2003 in Sofia, Bulgaria at the age of 14. As an unranked qualifier the next week, she defeated the No. 1, 2, and 3 seeds en route to her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lara Michel
Lara Michel (born 24 December 1991) is a Swiss tennis player. Michel has won six singles and two doubles titles on the ITF Circuit in her career. On 13 October 2014, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 285. On 21 February 2011, she peaked at No. 440 in the doubles rankings. Michel made her WTA Tour debut at the 2013 Internationaux de Strasbourg, partnering Claire Feuerstein Claire Feuerstein (; ; born 28 February 1986) is a former tennis player from France. She made her debut in professional competition in 2002, aged 16, at an ITF tournament in Les Contamines, France. From 2002 to 2009, she played at many ITF ... in doubles. ITF Circuit finals Singles: 10 (8 titles, 2 runner–ups) Doubles: 6 (2 titles, 5 runner–ups) References External links * * Official website 1991 births Living people Sportspeople from Morges Swiss female tennis players 21st-century Swiss sportswomen {{Switzerland-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lina Stančiūtė
Lina Stančiūtė (born 7 February 1986) is a Lithuanian former tennis player. In her career, she won four singles titles and three doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 28 September 2009, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 197. On 15 May 2006, she peaked at No. 138 in the doubles rankings. Playing for Lithuania Fed Cup team, Stančiūtė has a win–loss record of 37–31. Personal life Lina Stančiūtė was born on 7 February 1986 in Vilnius, Lithuania. She started playing tennis at age eight, her favourite surface is clay. In June 2016, she married Lithuanian professional Basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appro ... player Martynas Gecevičius. Career Stančiūtė had a successful junior career, winning one singles and one doubles ITF ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inés Ferrer Suárez
Inés Ferrer Suárez (; born 1 June 1990) is a Spanish former professional tennis player. Ferrer Suárez won two singles and nine doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit in her career. On 9 July 2012, she reached her highest singles ranking of 202 WTA whilst her best doubles ranking was 125, on 17 September 2012. Ferrer Suárez made her 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 ... main-draw debut at the 2012 Copa Colsanitas, where she qualified for the singles tournament. ITF finals Singles (2–5) Doubles (9–21) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Ferrer Suarez, Ines 1990 births Living people Spanish female tennis players 21st-century Spanish sportswomen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valeria Savinykh
Valeria Dmitrievna Savinykh (; born 20 February 1991) is a Russian tennis player. In April 2012, she achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 99. On 20 November 2017, she peaked at No. 98 in the WTA doubles rankings. Savinykh has won ten singles and 23 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit, along with one doubles title on the WTA Challenger Tour. Personal life Her father, Dmitry, introduced her into tennis at age five, and her mother, Elena, often travels with her. She trains in her hometown of Yekaterinburg (previously at the SotoTennis Academy and Ad in Tennis Academy in Barcelona, Spain; AZS Lodz in Poland; Swiss Tennis Academy in Biel/Bienne; Vienna; and Porto Porto (), also known in English language, English as Oporto, is the List of cities in Portugal, second largest city in Portugal, after Lisbon. It is the capital of the Porto District and one of the Iberian Peninsula's major urban areas. Porto c ...). Since November 2012, she has been coached by Tomasz I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pernilla Mendesová
Pernilla is a Swedish female given name derived from Petronella, and may refer to: * Pernilla Andersson (born 1969), Swedish singer and songwriter * Pernilla August (born 1969), Swedish actress * Anna Pernilla Backman (born 1969), Swedish composer, artist and singer known as ''Meja'' * Pernilla Karlsson (born 1990), Swedo-Finnish singer who represented Finland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 * Pernilla Månsson Colt (born 1966), Swedish journalist and producer * Pernilla Stålhammar (born 1971), Swedish politician * Pernilla Wahlgren (born 1967), Swedish singer and actress * Pernilla Wiberg (born 1970), Swedish former alpine ski racer and winner of two Olympic gold medals See also * Pernille Pernille is a Danish and Norwegian female given name derived from ''Petronella'', and may refer to: *Pernille Dupont, retired female badminton player from Denmark * Pernille Fischer Christensen (born 1969), Danish film director and sister of actor ..., the corresponding Danish and Nor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anastasia Grymalska
Anastasia Grymalska (born 12 July 1990) is an Italian former professional tennis player. She has a career-high WTA singles ranking of 213, achieved on 12 May 2014, and a best WTA doubles ranking of 169, reached in June 2019. Over her career, she won twenty titles in singles and thirty-four in doubles on the ITF Circuit. Grymalska made her WTA Tour main-draw debut at the 2011 Palermo Ladies Open where she was handed a wildcard. With another wildcard, she played there the following year. At the same tournament, she made her doubles main-draw debut on the WTA Tour, partnering Gioia Barbieri Gioia Barbieri (; born 9 July 1991) is an Italian former tennis player. Tennis career Barbieri was born in Forlimpopoli, Italy. She trained at the San Marino Tennis Academy, and was coached by Claudio Pistolesi. Her father is Andrea, her mothe .... Without wildcards, she made her main-draw debut at the 2013 Swedish Open, and the 2014 Marrakesh Grand Prix. Grand Slam singles perform ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natela Dzalamidze
Natela Georgiyevna Dzalamidze (, , ; born 27 February 1993) is a Russian-born Georgian inactive tennis player. On 16 May 2022, she reached her career-high doubles ranking of world No. 43. Dzalamidze has won three doubles titles on the WTA Tour. She has also won three WTA Challenger doubles titles with ten singles and 29 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 16 November 2015, she reached her career-high singles ranking of No. 245 in the WTA rankings. Nationality change She began representing Georgia, where her father is from, in international competition in June 2022 in order to be able to compete at Wimbledon and the Olympics. Professional career Dzalamidze made her WTA Tour main-draw debut at the 2015 Nürnberger Versicherungscup in Germany, in the doubles draw partnering Sviatlana Pirazhenka. In 2021, she won her first two doubles titles at the Romanian Open The Țiriac Open (also known as the Romanian Open) is a professional men's tennis tournament played on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
