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2016 Ladies Championship Gstaad – Singles ...
This is the first edition of the tournament since 1994. Viktorija Golubic won her first WTA title, defeating Kiki Bertens in the final, 4–6, 6–3, 6–4. Seeds Draw Finals Top half Bottom half Qualifying Seeds Qualifiers Draw First qualifier Second qualifier Third qualifier Fourth qualifier Fifth qualifier Sixth qualifier References Main drawQualifying draw {{DEFAULTSORT:Ladies Championship Gstaad - Singles, 2016 2016 WTA Tour 2016 Singles Sixteen or 16 may refer to: *16 (number) *one of the years 16 BC, AD 16, 1916, 2016 Films * '' Pathinaaru'' or ''Sixteen'', a 2010 Tamil film * ''Sixteen'' (1943 film), a 1943 Argentine film directed by Carlos Hugo Christensen * ''Sixteen'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viktorija Golubic
Viktorija Golubic (; ; born 16 October 1992) is a Swiss professional tennis player. On 28 February 2022, she reached her career-high singles WTA ranking of No. 35. On 17 April 2023, she peaked at No. 61 in the doubles rankings. She is the current No. 2 Swiss player. Golubic has won two singles titles on the WTA Tour, four singles WTA Challenger titles, as well as 12 singles and 15 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit so far. Career 2008–15: ITF Circuit Golubic started playing on the ITF Women's Circuit at the $10k event in Budapest in June 2008. She played her first two WTA Tour qualifying tournaments at the Hungarian Open and Gastein Ladies in 2010, and made her main-draw debut at the Gastein Ladies in 2013, where she recorded her first WTA Tour win and reached the second round. However, all of her attempts to qualify for a major failed. 2016: Maiden WTA Tour title, top 100 After winning her eighth ITF title at the $25k event in Hong Kong, Golubic reached her first Grand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 tournaments, with three wins. Her first appearance in a WTA Tour event was at the 2009 Internationaux de Strasbourg, where she lost in the first round of the singles competition, but reached the final in doubles with partner Stéphanie Foretz. She received a wildcard entry into the main draw of the 2009 French Open and lost to No. 7 seed, Svetlana Kuznetsova Svetlana Aleksandrovna Kuznetsova (born 27 June 1985) is a Russian former professional tennis player. She was ranked as high as world No. 2 in singles and world No. 3 in doubles by the Women's Tennis Association, WTA. Kuznetsova won 18 singl ..., in the first round. WTA career finals Doubles: 1 (runner-up) ITF Circuit finals Singles: 19 (11–8) Doubles: 10 (2–8) E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Sakkari
Maria Sakkari (, ; born 25 July 1995) is a Greek professional tennis player. She has been ranked as high as world No. 3 by the Women's Tennis Association, WTA, which she first achieved on 21 March 2022, making her the highest-ranked Greek player, tied with Stefanos Tsitsipas. Her career-best doubles WTA rankings, ranking is world No. 169, achieved on 9 September 2019. Sakkari has won two singles titles on the WTA Tour, including a WTA 1000 title at the 2023 Guadalajara Open Akron – Singles, 2023 Guadalajara Open. She is known for her aggressive, all-court style of play, centered around her strong serve and powerful groundstrokes. She served the sixth most aces of any WTA player in 2020, with 144 aces served in 31 matches. Sakkari reached the semifinals at the 2017 Wuhan Open – Singles, 2017 Wuhan Open, where she defeated Caroline Wozniacki for her first top-10 win. In 2019, she reached another WTA Premier tournaments, Premier 5 semifinal at the 2019 Italian Open – Women's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kateřina Siniaková
Kateřina Siniaková (; born 10 May 1996) is a Czech professional tennis player. She is the current List of WTA number 1 ranked doubles tennis players, world No. 1 in doubles. She also has a best singles WTA rankings, ranking of No. 27 by the Women's Tennis Association, WTA, achieved in June 2024. Siniaková is a ten-time Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, major champion in women's doubles. She won seven of her major titles in her Krejčíková–Siniaková doubles team, longtime partnership with compatriot Barbora Krejčíková, with whom she completed the Grand Slam (tennis)#Super Slam, career Super Slam. She has won three other women's doubles majors, partnering Coco Gauff and Taylor Townsend. Siniaková became world No. 1 for the first time in October 2018 and has held the top ranking in doubles for a total of 153 weeks, the fourth-longest total since the beginning of the WTA rankings. Siniaková has won 30 doubles titles on the WTA Tour, including the 2021 WTA Finals – Dou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patty Schnyder
Patty Schnyder (born 14 December 1978) Weltwoche, 14. September 2011 is a Swiss retired tennis player. A former top 10 player in singles, she twice defeated a reigning List of WTA number 1 ranked players, world No. 1 player in her career: Martina Hingis at the 1998 Grand Slam Cup (by retirement) and Jennifer Capriati at the Family Circle Cup in 2002. In addition, she has notable wins over such former No. 1 players as Lindsay Davenport, Serena Williams, Arantxa Sánchez Vicario, Steffi Graf, Kim Clijsters, Justine Henin, Amélie Mauresmo, Maria Sharapova, Jelena Janković, Ana Ivanovic, and Caroline Wozniacki. In her career, she reached six Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam singles quarterfinals and one major singles semifinal. She won eleven WTA Tour singles titles including Zurich Open (Tier I), and five WTA doubles titles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marina Erakovic
Marina Erakovic ( ; ; born 6 March 1988) is a former tennis player from New Zealand. She achieved career-high rankings of 39 in singles and 25 in doubles, and won a singles title at Memphis in February 2013, and eight doubles titles on the WTA Tour. Personal life Born in Split, Croatia (then part of Yugoslavia), Erakovic emigrated with her family to Auckland, New Zealand, in 1994 at the age of six. She attended St Thomas's Primary School and Glendowie College in Auckland. Junior career Erakovic and Monica Niculescu were the runners-up to Victoria Azarenka and Olga Govortsova in the 2004 Wimbledon girls' doubles, before Erakovic teamed with Michaëlla Krajicek to win the US Open title three months later, beating Niculescu and her Romanian teammate Mădălina Gojnea. Erakovic became the first player from New Zealand to win a Grand Slam title (singles or doubles) since James Greenhalgh and Steven Downs won the boys' doubles in 1993 at the French Open and Wimbledon. Erakovi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lara Arruabarrena
Lara Arruabarrena Vecino (; born 20 March 1992) is a former professional tennis player from Spain. On 3 July 2017, she reached a career-high WTA singles ranking of 52, and her best doubles ranking is world No. 28, set on 22 February 2016. Over her career, she won two singles and eight doubles titles on the WTA Tour. Arruabarrena retired from professional tour in August 2022. Personal life and background Arruabarrena is coached by Andoni Vivanco. Her father, Juan, is a lithographer, and her mother, Blanca, is a nurse. She also has one younger sister. Arruabarrena started playing tennis at age eight when she took lessons with a friend for fun. She stated that her favourite surface is clay. When she was 15, she moved to Barcelona to train with Spanish Federation. Her tennis idol growing up was Justine Henin. Career highlights 2007: ITF Circuit Arruabarrena made her debut appearance at the ITF Circuit at Les Francqueses del Valles, France, where she lost in first round against h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stefanie Vögele
Stefanie Vögele (born 10 March 1990) is a Swiss professional tennis player. She achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 42 on 11 November 2013. Her highest WTA rankings, WTA ranking in doubles is 100, which she reached on 5 January 2015. Over her career, she has defeated top ten players Sloane Stephens and Caroline Wozniacki. Vögele announced her retirement from tennis in November 2022. Biography Vögele who has three sisters was introduced to tennis at the age of four by her parents. Her coach was Ivo Werner. Professional career 2009 For the first five months of the year, Vögele participated in several WTA Tour events, needing to play through the qualifying rounds of most tournaments. During this period, she never won a main-draw match in such an event. In June, Vögele played in 2009 Aegon Classic – Singles, Birmingham, defeating seeded Ekaterina Makarova en route to a quarterfinal showing. Playing at 2009 Wimbledon Championships – Women's singles, Wimbled ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carina Witthöft
Carina Witthöft (also spelled Witthoeft; born 16 February 1995) is a German former professional tennis player. She won one singles title on the WTA Tour whereas on the ITF Women's Circuit, she won eleven singles titles and one doubles title. On 8 January 2018, she reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 48. Career Witthöft made her WTA Tour debut at the 2012 Swedish Open. Having defeated Marina Shamayko, Akgul Amanmuradova and Jill Craybas to qualify, she lost in the first round of the main draw against Kateryna Bondarenko. She won her first WTA title at the 2017 Luxembourg Open, defeating Monica Puig in straight sets in the final. She was coached by Torben Beltz and then by Philip Lang. 2018 Witthöft started the season at the Brisbane International where she lost in the first round to Aleksandra Krunić. Despite being defeated in the final round of qualifying at the Sydney International by Camila Giorgi, Witthöft entered the main draw as a lucky loser. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Haas
Barbara Haas (; born 19 March 1996) is an inactive Austrian tennis player. She has won 16 singles titles and three doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. On 24 February 2020, she reached her best singles ranking by the WTA of 133. On 27 September 2021, she peaked at No. 164 in the doubles rankings. Playing for the Austria Fed Cup team, Haas has a win–loss record of 16–8. Career Haas 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 ... debut at the 2012 Gastein Ladies and also played at the 2012 Linz Open. Grand Slam singles performance timelines WTA Tour finals Doubles: 2 (runner-ups) ITF Circuit finals Singles: 28 (16 titles, 12 runner–ups) Doubles: 6 (3 titles, 3 runner–ups) Notes References External links * * * * 1996 births ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evgeniya Rodina
Evgeniya Sergeyevna Rodina (, born 4 February 1989) is an inactive Russian tennis player. On 6 May 2019, she achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 67. Rodina has won 13 singles and six doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit along with one singles and one doubles title on WTA 125 tournaments. Personal life Rodina is married to her coach Denis Shteyngart. They have a daughter, born in November 2012. Career 2004–05 Rodina began her career on the ITF Circuit with the assistance of a wildcard into the first round of the main draw of a $25k tournament at Moscow in late August 2004, when she was fifteen and a half years old, and took a set from up-and-coming fellow Russian Elena Vesnina, though she lost the match in three. Further wildcards into two successive $10k events at Dubrovnik, Croatia that October gave her the opportunity to win her first and second main-draw ITF matches without qualifying. She lost in the second round on both occasions. But these two res ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jana Čepelová
Jana Čepelová (; born 29 May 1993) is a Slovak former professional tennis player. Čepelová won seven singles and three doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 12 May 2014, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 50. On 18 May 2015, she peaked at No. 158 in the doubles rankings. Her best result at a major event was the third round of the 2012 and 2016 Wimbledon Championships. As a junior, she won the girls' doubles at the 2010 Australian Open with Chantal Škamlová. Following the birth of the daughter in 2020, Čepelová took a break from her tennis career. In 2023, she made a "quick comeback, just to say good bye and play the final Grand Slam tournaments". Personal life Čepelová was born in Košice to Peter and Jarmila and was coached by Martin Zathurecký. Career Junior career Jana Čepelová and Chantal Škamlová won the girls' doubles at 2010 Australian Open. They also won silver medals in doubles at 2010 Summer Youth Olympics. At the same even ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
