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2016 Wuhan Open – Singles ...
Petra Kvitová defeated Dominika Cibulková in the final, 6–1, 6–1 to win the singles tennis title at the 2016 Wuhan Open. It was her second Wuhan Open title. Venus Williams was the defending champion, but lost in the third round to Svetlana Kuznetsova. Seeds The top eight seeds received a bye into the second round. Draw Finals Top half Section 1 Section 2 Bottom half Section 3 Section 4 Qualifying Seeds Qualifiers Draw First qualifier Second qualifier Third qualifier Fourth qualifier Fifth qualifier Sixth qualifier Seventh qualifier Eighth qualifier External links Draws {{DEFAULTSORT:Wuhan Open - Singles, 2016 Singles Singles are people not in a committed relationship. Singles may also refer to: Film and television * ''Singles'' (miniseries), a 1984 Australian television series * ''Singles'' (1992 film), written and directed by Cameron Crowe * ''Singles'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petra Kvitová
Petra Kvitová (; born 8 March 1990) is a Czech professional tennis player. Known for her powerful left-handed groundstrokes and variety, Kvitová has won 31 career singles titles, including two Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, major titles at The Championships, Wimbledon, Wimbledon in 2011 Wimbledon Championships – Women's singles, 2011 and in 2014 Wimbledon Championships – Women's singles, 2014. She also won a bronze medal in singles while representing the Czech Republic at the 2016 Summer Olympics, Czech Republic at the Tennis at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's singles, 2016 Rio Olympics. Her career-high WTA Rankings, ranking of world No. 2 was achieved on 31 October 2011. Kvitová first gained notice by defeating then-world No. 1 Dinara Safina in the third round of the 2009 US Open – Women's singles, 2009 US Open. This was followed by her first major semifinal appearance at the 2010 Wimbledon Championships – Women's singles, 2010 Wimbledon Championships. Then ... [...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] |
Irina-Camelia Begu
Irina-Camelia Begu (born 26 August 1990) is a Romanian tennis player. She reached a career-high WTA ranking, WTA singles ranking of world No. 22 , in August 2016. Two years later, she reached her highest ranking in doubles, also No. 22. She is currently the No. 2 Romanian player. Begu has won five singles titles and nine doubles titles on the WTA Tour. She also has won three singles titles on the WTA 125 tournaments, WTA Challenger Tour, with 12 singles and 19 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. As a junior, she reached semifinal at the 2007 Wimbledon Championships, partnering with Oksana Kalashnikova. Later, as a senior, she continued with Grand Slam doubles success. She reached the semifinal at the 2018 Australian Open and quarterfinals of the 2017 French Open and 2018 Wimbledon Championships. In singles, she has the round of 16 as her best Grand Slam result at the 2015 Australian Open, 2016 French Open and 2022 French Open. In singles, she reached one Premier final, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shelby Rogers
Shelby Nicole Rogers (born October 13, 1992) is an American former professional tennis player. She had career-high WTA rankings of No. 30 in singles and No. 40 in doubles, and won six singles and two doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. Rogers won the girls' national championship at 17. Her best results at the majors were quarterfinals at the 2016 French Open and the 2020 US Open. Rogers was noted for her victories against top-ranked players which include Simona Halep (No. 4) at the 2017 Australian Open, Serena Williams (No. 9) at the 2020 Lexington Challenger and Ashleigh Barty (No. 1) at the 2021 US Open. Rogers is also undefeated against two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitová, with wins at the 2016 French Open and 2020 US Open, the latter in which she saved four match points. Both are also the only instances in her career where she made the quarterfinals at the majors. Personal life From Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, Rogers followed her sister, Sabra, into ... [...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] |
Zhang Shuai
Zhang Shuai ( zh , s = 张帅 , p = Zhāng Shuài ; ; born 21 January 1989) is a Chinese professional tennis player. She has a career-high doubles WTA rankings, ranking of world No. 2, achieved in July 2022 and a singles ranking of No. 22 reached in January 2023. She is a two-time Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, Grand Slam tournament champion in women's doubles, having won the 2019 Australian Open – Women's doubles, 2019 Australian Open and the 2021 US Open – Women's doubles, 2021 US Open, both alongside Samantha Stosur. Zhang also finished runner-up at the 2022 Wimbledon Championships – Women's doubles, 2022 Wimbledon Championships and 2024 US Open – Women's doubles, 2024 US Open, and has reached six further semifinals across women's and mixed doubles. She has won a total of 14 doubles titles on the WTA Tour, including the 2021 Western & Southern Open – Women's doubles, 2021 Cincinnati Open with Stosur. Zhang has also qualified for the WTA Finals on two occasions. ... [...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] |
Annika Beck
Annika Beck (; born 16 February 1994) is a German former professional tennis player. She started playing tennis at the age of four when introduced to the game by her parents. A baseliner whose favorite shot is forehand, and favorite surface is hardcourt. She was coached by Jakub Záhlava and Sebastian Sachs. Beck won two singles titles and one doubles title on the WTA Tour, as well as seven singles titles on the ITF Women's World Tennis Tour, ITF Women's Circuit. On 18 July 2016, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 37, and on the same date, she peaked at No. 84 in the WTA doubles rankings. Early life Her father Johannes and her mother Petra teach chemistry at the University of Bonn. Beck attended the Erzbischöfliche Liebfrauenschule Bonn, a Gymnasium (Germany), school for girls, where she completed her Abitur in 2011. Career 2012 Beck started 2012 ranked world No. 234. She played one ITF tournament in January, one in February, and three in March, where she was r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeļena Ostapenko
Jeļena "Aļona" Ostapenko (born 8 June 1997) is a Latvian professional tennis player. She has career-high rankings of world No. 5 in singles and No. 4 in doubles by the WTA. Ostapenko has won nine WTA Tour-level singles and eleven doubles titles, including a singles major at the 2017 French Open and a doubles major at the 2024 US Open, partnering Lyudmyla Kichenok. She is the first Latvian to win a major in singles or in doubles. Ostapenko has also won 15 singles titles and 15 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit, and the junior singles event at the 2014 Wimbledon Championships. She is a member of the Latvia Billie Jean King Cup team. Personal life Ostapenko was born in Riga to former Ukrainian footballer Jevgēnijs Ostapenko (d. 2020) and Latvian-Russian tennis coach and former player Jeļena Jakovļeva. Jevgēnijs played professional football for Metalurh Zaporizhzhia in the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia where Jeļena's grandmother lives. Jeļena has one half-b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elina Svitolina
Elina Mykhailivna Svitolina (, ; born 12 September 1994) is a Ukrainian professional tennis player. She reached career-high rankings of world No. 3 in singles and No. 108 in doubles by the WTA rankings, WTA. Svitolina has won 18 WTA Tour singles titles, including the 2018 WTA Finals – Singles, 2018 WTA Finals, and has reached three Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, major singles semifinals. Svitolina first broke into the world's top 50 in July 2013, reached the top 20 in June 2015, and then the top 10 in May 2017, making her the List of highest ranked tennis players per country, first Ukrainian woman to reach the top 10 in rankings after surpassing compatriot Alona Bondarenko. After winning her first WTA Tour title in 2013, she won three additional titles until 2017, during which she won five titles that same year to propel her into the top 10. Among her titles are the 2018 WTA Finals and three WTA Premier tournaments, Premier 5-level tournaments: the 2017 Dubai Tennis Champion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bethanie Mattek-Sands
Bethanie Mattek-Sands ( Bethanie Lynn Mattek; born March 23, 1985) is an American professional tennis player. She has won nine Grand Slam titles (five in women's doubles and four in mixed doubles), and an Olympic gold medal, and is a former world No. 1 in doubles. In women's doubles, Mattek-Sands has won 30 career titles, including five majors at the 2015 Australian Open, 2015 French Open, 2016 US Open, 2017 Australian Open and 2017 French Open, all partnering Lucie Šafářová. The pair also were the runners-up of the 2016 WTA Finals. Mattek-Sands became the world No. 1 in doubles on January 9, 2017, and held the top ranking for 32 consecutive weeks. Mattek-Sands has also found great success in mixed doubles; she won the 2012 Australian Open with and the 2015 French Open and a gold medal at the 2016 Rio Olympics. Mattek-Sands then suffered a major knee injury in 2017 that required surgery and a year away from competition to heal, but eventually came back to win the 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kristina Mladenovic
Kristina "Kiki" Mladenovic (born 14 May 1993) is a French professional tennis player and a former List of WTA number 1 ranked doubles tennis players, world No. 1 in doubles. Her best singles ranking is world No. 10. She is a nine-time Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam champion, having won the 2016 French Open – Women's doubles, 2016 and 2022 French Open – Women's doubles, 2022 French Open women's doubles titles partnering Caroline Garcia, and the 2018 Australian Open – Women's doubles, 2018 Australian Open, 2019 French Open – Women's doubles, 2019 and 2020 French Open – Women's doubles, 2020 French Opens and 2020 Australian Open – Women's doubles, 2020 Australian Open with Tímea Babos. In mixed doubles, Mladenovic won the 2013 Wimbledon Championships and 2014 Australian Open alongside Daniel Nestor, and the 2022 Australian Open – Mixed doubles, 2022 Australian Open with Ivan Dodig. She has also reached a further six major finals across women's and mixed doubles. Mlad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
