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2018 Guangzhou International Women's Open – Singles
Zhang Shuai was the defending champion, but she withdrew before her first round match against Wang Yafan. Wang Qiang won the title, defeating Yulia Putintseva in the final, 6–1, 6–2. Seeds Draw Finals Top half Bottom half Qualifying Seeds Qualifiers Lucky loser Qualifying draw First qualifier Second qualifier Third qualifier Fourth qualifier Fifth qualifier Sixth qualifier External links Main drawQualifying draw {{DEFAULTSORT:Guangzhou International Women's Open - Singles, 2018 2018 WTA Tour 2018 Singles Eighteen or 18 may refer to: * 18 (number) * One of the years 18 BC, AD 18, 1918, 2018 Film, television and entertainment * ''18'' (film), a 1993 Taiwanese experimental film based on the short story ''God's Dice'' * ''Eighteen'' (film), a 2 ... 2018 in Chinese tennis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wang Qiang (tennis)
Wang Qiang (; ; born 14 January 1992) is a Chinese tennis player. On 9 September 2019, Wang achieved her highest singles ranking of world No. 12, becoming the third-highest ranked Chinese tennis player in history after Li Na and Zheng Qinwen. She has won two singles titles on the WTA Tour, one WTA Challenger singles title, and 14 singles titles and one doubles title on the ITF Circuit. Her best performance at a major came at the 2019 US Open when she advanced to the quarterfinals. Alongside Li Na, Zheng Jie, Peng Shuai, Zhang Shuai and Zheng Qinwen, Wang is one of only six Chinese tennis players to have reached the quarterfinals of a major. Career Wang was born in Tianjin. At age nine, she started playing tennis. That year, she became the promotion player for the Tianjin National Tennis Center. For two years consecutively (2006, 2007), she won the Junior's Tennis Championship in China. She officially started touring the ITF Women's Circuit in Japan as of 2007. In F ... [...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] |
Wang Xinyu
Wang Xinyu (, ; born 26 September 2001) is a Chinese professional tennis player. Wang reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 32 on 9 October 2023, and set a doubles ranking of No. 16 on 20 May 2024. Partnering with Hsieh Su-wei, she won the women's doubles title at the 2023 French Open. She also won a silver medal in mixed doubles, alongside Zhang Zhizhen at the 2024 Summer Olympics. Personal life Wang was born in Shenzhen, Guangdong. Her father, Wang Peng (born in Hangzhou, Zhejiang), is a former head coach of the Shenzhen tennis team and the China Fed Cup team, Chinese women's national tennis team, but resigned from the latter to concentrate on his daughter's tennis career. Her mother was a former player in the Zhejiang women's basketball team. Both of them have devoted themselves to accompanying Wang everywhere. Wang showed great enthusiasm for tennis from early childhood and, coached by her father, she started playing properly at the age of five. Career 2018 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deniz Khazaniuk
Deniz Khazaniuk (; born 24 October 1994) is an Israeli former tennis player. Khazaniuk has career-high WTA rankings of 200 in singles, achieved on 11 June 2018, and of 445 in doubles, achieved on 16 June 2014. She has won 21 singles titles and three doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. In 2016, Khazaniuk won the Israeli Singles Championship. Biography Khazaniuk was born in Ashkelon, Israel. Her father German Hazniuk is an orthopedist at the Hillel Yaffe Medical Center, and her mother Larissa who imports tennis equipment, both immigrated to Israel from Ukraine. When she was four years old the family moved to Netanya, Israel, where she lives. Her younger sister Stefany Khazaniuk is a former tennis player who currently works as a pitch-side reporter for Israel's Sport 5 Channel, and she has been in a relationship with Yair Netanyahu, son of the noted current Prime Minister of Israel. In December 2016, Khazaniuk won the Israeli Singles Championship at 22 years of age, def ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vania King
Vania King (born February 3, 1989) is a retired American tennis player. A former top-10 doubles player, King won both the Wimbledon and US Open women's doubles titles in 2010 with partner Yaroslava Shvedova, with whom she also reached the final of the 2011 US Open. She won a total of 15 doubles titles on the WTA Tour and reached a career-high ranking of No. 3 in the world. She also ended runner-up in the mixed-doubles final at the French Open in 2009, with Marcelo Melo. In singles, King has been ranked as high as No. 50 in the world. Her biggest accomplishments included a WTA Tour title at the 2006 Bangkok Open and two runner-up finishes at the 2013 Guangzhou International and 2016 Jianxi International. She also progressed as far as the third round in Grand Slam tournaments, doing so on four occasions (the 2009 US Open, the 2011 French Open, the 2011 US Open, and the 2012 Australian Open). King announced her retirement on April 6, 2021 Personal life King's parents move ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicole Gibbs
Nicole Gibbs (born March 3, 1993) is an American former professional tennis player. She won seven singles and five doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 25 July 2016, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 68. On 19 September 2016, she peaked at No. 107 in the WTA doubles rankings. Gibbs graduated in 2010 from Crossroads School in Santa Monica, California, and from Stanford University in 2014. Career College Gibbs was the top player in both singles and doubles for the Stanford women's team. As a collegiate sophomore, Gibbs was named 2012 recipient of the Honda Sports Award for tennis. Her selection by the Collegiate Women Sports Awards program recognized Gibbs as the country's top junior female player in her sport. A 2012 All-American in both singles and doubles, Gibbs, as a sophomore, pulled off a historic sweep of the year's NCAA singles and doubles titles. Gibbs joined Stanford's Linda Gates (1985) and UCLA's Keri Phebus (1995) as only the third play ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karman Thandi
Karman Kaur Thandi (born 16 June 1998) is an Indian professional tennis player. She has been a previous Indian number one in singles. Thandi has career-high WTA rankings of 196 in singles, as of 20 August 2018, and No. 180 in doubles, as of 14 January 2019. In 2023, Karman Kaur Thandi married Gurjant Singh, an Indian national hockey player. Tennis career She started playing tennis at the age of eight. Thandi is the sixth Indian female tennis player to enter the top 200 of the WTA rankings, after the likes of Nirupama Sanjeev, Sania Mirza, Shikha Uberoi, Sunitha Rao, and Ankita Raina. Thandi has won four singles titles and four doubles titles on the ITF Circuit- the maiden singles title in $25k Hong Kong tournament on 23 June 2018, and the doubles titles in 2017 in Heraklion, and two in 2015 in Gulbarga. On the ITF Junior Circuit, she achieved a career-high ranking of 32 in January 2016. Additionally, she also made it to the semifinals in two other tournaments in China ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 singles and 16 doubles titles on the WTA Tour, including two singles Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, majors at the 2004 US Open – Women's singles, 2004 US Open and 2009 French Open – Women's singles, 2009 French Open, and two doubles majors at the 2005 Australian Open – Women's doubles, 2005 and 2012 Australian Open – Women's doubles, 2012 Australian Opens. Kuznetsova first took part in a WTA Tour event in 2001. Her first major title came at the 2004 US Open over compatriot Elena Dementieva, making her the third Russian woman to win a major. Kuznetsova's second major singles title was the 2009 French Open, defeating compatriot Dinara Safina in the final. At the 2006 French Open – Women's singles, 2006 French Open and the 2007 US Open ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wang Xiyu
Wang Xiyu (; ; born 28 March 2001) is a Chinese professional tennis player. She reached a career-high WTA singles ranking of No. 49 on 9 January 2023, and a best doubles ranking of No. 98 on 19 August 2024. Wang became junior world No. 1 on 10 September 2018, right after she won her only singles major title at the 2018 US Open, defeating Clara Burel in the final. The same year, she finished as quarterfinalist on the Australian Open and French Open and then as semifinalist on Wimbledon, all in singles. In doubles, she also has won one major title at the 2018 Wimbledon, partnering with Wang Xinyu, and finished runners-up at the 2017 US Open alongside Lea Bošković. She also reached semifinals at the 2017 French Open and 2018 Australian Open. Career Juniors On the ITF Junior Circuit, Wang has won six singles and eight doubles titles. Grand Slam performance Singles: * Australian Open: QF (2018) * French Open: QF (2018) * Wimbledon: SF (2018) * US Open: W (2018) Doubles: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fiona Ferro
Fiona Ferro (born 12 March 1997) is a French-Belgian professional tennis player. She has career-high WTA rankings of world No. 39 in singles, attained on 8 March 2021, and No. 257 in doubles, reached on 17 May 2021. Ferro has won two singles titles on the WTA Tour and six singles titles on the ITF Circuit. Personal life Ferro was born in Libramont, Belgium, to a Belgian mother, Catherine, and a French-Italian father, Fabrizio. Ferro's parents owned a restaurant in Belgium when she was born. The Ferros moved to southern France when Fiona was one year old. As of 2018, Fiona's parents were the owners of two hotels in Valbonne, France. Fiona has two older brothers, Gianni and Paolo, and one younger brother, Flavio. Fiona started playing tennis when she was seven in her hometown of Valbonne. In 2022, Ferro pressed charges against former coach Pierre Bouteyre for alleged rape and sexual assault that took place when she was aged between 15 and 18 years old. She is sponsored by L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guo Hanyu
Guo Hanyu ( zh, s=郭涵煜, p=Guō Hányù; ; born 18 May 1998) is a Chinese professional tennis player. On 4 March 2024, she peaked at world No. 35 in the doubles rankings. On 23 October 2017, she achieved a career-high singles ranking of No. 278. She has won four WTA Tour doubles titles, along with four titles in singles and eleven in doubles on the ITF Women's Circuit. Career 2017: WTA Tour doubles debut Partnering Ye Qiuyu, Guo made her WTA Tour main-draw debut at the 2017 Tianjin Open, after defeating Dalila Jakupović and Nina Stojanović in qualifying. 2023: Maiden title, WTA 1000 debut Guo won her first WTA title at the 2023 Guangzhou Open with Jiang Xinyu. She reached the final of the 2023 Ningbo Open with Jiang Xinyu. She received a wildcard for the WTA 1000 China Open in doubles with Jiang. She received a wildcard for the WTA 500 Zhengzhou Open in singles but lost to Lucia Bronzetti. At the same tournament, she also received a wildcard in the doubles event w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivana Jorović
Ivana Jorović ( sr-Cyrl, Ивана Јоровић; born 3 May 1997) is a tennis player from Serbia. In her career, she won thirteen singles and three doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 15 July 2019, she reached her best singles ranking of world . On 17 July 2017, she peaked at No. 299 in the doubles rankings. Playing for Serbia Billie Jean King Cup team, Jorović has a win–loss record of 13–10. She was nominated for the Fed Cup Heart Award in 2015 and 2017. National representation 2015: Fed Cup debut On 4 February, Jorović played her first Fed Cup match, in Europe/Africa Zone Group I, where Serbia played against Austria. She defeated Barbara Haas in straight sets. After that, she made her debut in doubles in Fed Cup, partnering Aleksandra Krunić; they won against Austrian combination Julia Grabher / Sandra Klemenschits, in straight sets. A day later, Serbia played against Hungary, and Ivana was chosen for the first match against Dalma Gálfi. She won th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
