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2018 Mutua Madrid Open – Women's Doubles
Latisha Chan and Martina Hingis were the defending champions, but Hingis retired from professional tennis at the end of 2017. Chan played alongside Bethanie Mattek-Sands, but lost in the quarterfinals to Andrea Sestini Hlaváčková and Barbora Strýcová. Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina won the title, defeating Tímea Babos and Kristina Mladenovic in the final, 2–6, 6–4, 0–8 Seeds The top four seeds In botany, a seed is a plant structure containing an embryo and stored nutrients in a protective coat called a ''testa''. More generally, the term "seed" means anything that can be sown, which may include seed and husk or tuber. Seeds are the ... received a bye into the second round. Draw Finals Top half Bottom half References External links Main Draw {{DEFAULTSORT:Mutua Madrid Open - Women's Doubles, 2018 Women's Doubles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ekaterina Makarova
Ekaterina Valeryevna Makarova (; ; born 7 June 1988) is a Russian former professional tennis player who was ranked List of WTA number 1 ranked doubles tennis players, world No. 1 in doubles, and world No. 8 in singles. She is a four-time Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam champion, having won the 2013 French Open – Women's doubles, 2013 French Open, 2014 US Open – Women's doubles, 2014 US Open and 2017 Wimbledon Championships – Women's doubles, 2017 Wimbledon Championships in women's doubles, all alongside compatriot Elena Vesnina, as well as the 2012 US Open – Mixed doubles, 2012 US Open in mixed doubles with Bruno Soares. Makarova and Vesnina also finished runners-up at the 2014 Australian Open – Women's doubles, 2014 and 2018 Australian Open – Women's doubles, 2018 Australian Opens, 2015 Wimbledon Championships – Women's doubles, 2015 Wimbledon Championships and 2016 French Open – Women's doubles, 2016 French Open. She and Jaroslav Levinský reached the mixed d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chan Hao-ching
Chan Hao-ching (; ; born September 19, 1993), also known as Angel Chan, is a Taiwanese professional tennis player. She is primarily a doubles specialist, having won twenty-one WTA Tour, two WTA Challenger and six ITF titles in that discipline. Chan reached the final of the mixed-doubles competition at Wimbledon with Max Mirnyi in 2014, her first major final. She reached two more finals in 2017, the Wimbledon women's doubles with Monica Niculescu, and the US Open mixed doubles with Michael Venus. Personal life She is the younger sister of fellow professional tennis player and former world No. 1 in women's doubles, Latisha Chan, formerly known as ''Chan Yung-jan''. Career 2013: Shenzhen Open doubles title At the beginning of the season, Chan won the Shenzhen Open with her sister Chan Yung-jan, beating Irina Buryachok and Valeriya Solovyeva in straight sets. She reached the quarterfinals of the Indian Wells Open with Janette Husárová, falling to Ekaterina Makarova and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arantxa Parra Santonja
Arantxa Parra Santonja (; born 9 November 1982) is a Spanish former tennis player. She turned professional in 2000 and retired in 2019. In her career, Parra Santonja won eleven doubles titles on the 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 .... She reached career-high rankings of world No. 46 in singles and 22 in doubles. Significant finals Premier Mandatory tournaments Doubles: 1 (runner-up) WTA Tour finals Singles: 2 (2 runner-ups) Doubles: 27 (11 titles, 16 runner-ups) ITF Circuit finals Singles (11–6) Doubles (9–11) Grand Slam performance timelines Singles Doubles External links * * * * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Parra Santonja, Arantxa 1982 births Living people Tennis players from Valencia Spanish female tennis players Tennis ... [...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] |
Renata Voráčová
Renata Voráčová (; born 6 October 1983) is a Czech professional tennis player. Voráčová has won eleven doubles titles on the WTA Tour and three on WTA 125 tournaments, as well as 15 singles and 58 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 11 October 2010, she reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 74. On 21 August 2017, she peaked at No. 29 in the WTA doubles rankings. Background and early life Voracova's father, Frantisek, owns a gas company, while her mother, Vlasta, manages a sports center. She also has brother, David, that is a professional dancer and still studying. She started playing tennis aged 7. Junior achievements As a junior, Voráčová reached a career-high ranking of world No. 4 in singles and No. 3 in doubles. One of the highlights of her junior tennis career was winning the 2001 French Open doubles title, alongside Petra Cetkovská. Career 2017 At the Wimbledon Championships, Voráčová made the second week of a Grand Slam tournament ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alla Kudryavtseva
Alla Alexandrovna Kudryavtseva (; born 3 November 1987) is a retired Russian tennis player. Kudryavtseva won one singles title and nine doubles titles on the WTA Tour, as well as two singles titles and 15 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 4 October 2010, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 56. On 8 September 2014, she peaked at No. 15 in the WTA doubles rankings. On 2 November 2021, Kudryavtseva announced on Instagram that she had retired from the sport. Professional career Early career Kudryavtseva debuted on the WTA Tour at the 2004 Kremlin Cup, where she could not succeed beyond the qualifying rounds. In the following season, her best WTA Tour result was reaching the first rounds of the Nordea Nordic Light Open in Stockholm in singles and the Banka Koper Slovenia Open in doubles. Her first major appearance was at the 2006 Australian Open, where she could not win a qualification round. The same result was seen at the other three Grand Slam (tennis), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abigail Spears
Abigail Michal Spears (born July 12, 1981) is a former professional tennis player from the United States. Spears won 21 double titles including the 2017 Australian Open. Spears started playing tennis in 1988 when she was 7 years old, and turned professional in 2000. Spears and compatriot, Raquel Kops-Jones, were one of the most successful doubles team of the 2012 season, winning four tour titles and reaching the quarterfinals of Wimbledon. In 2017, Spears partnered with Juan Sebastián Cabal at the Australian Open to win the mixed-doubles tournament. After being suspended for much of the 2020 and 2021 seasons, Spears retired in September 2021. Biography July 12, 1981 Abigail Spears was born in San Diego, California, she is a distant relation of the well known singer Britney Spears. 2000–2010 Spears turned professional in 2000. She reached the third round at the 2005 Australian Open and the first round at the 2005 French Open, 2005 Wimbledon tournament (where she also reac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alicja Rosolska
Alicja Rosolska (; born 1 December 1985) is a Polish professional tennis player. On 9 June 2003, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 636. On 10 June 2019, she peaked at No. 23 in the WTA rankings, doubles rankings. Rosolska has won nine doubles titles on the WTA Tour in her career (in 2008 Cachantún Cup, Cachantún with Līga Dekmeijere, in 2009 Andalucia Tennis Experience, Marbella with Klaudia Jans-Ignacik, Klaudia Jans, in 2011 Budapest Grand Prix, Budapest with Anabel Medina Garrigues, in 2015 Monterrey Open, Monterrey with Gabriela Dabrowski, in 2016 Swedish Open, Bastad with Andreea Mitu, in 2017 St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy, St. Petersburg with Jeļena Ostapenko, again in 2017 Monterrey Open, Monterrey with Nao Hibino, in 2018 Nottingham Open, Nottingham with Abigail Spears and in 2019 Volvo Car Open, Charleston with Anna-Lena Grönefeld), as well as 14 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit, ITF Circuit. She represented Poland in Poland Fed Cup team, F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katarina Srebotnik
Katarina Srebotnik (born 12 March 1981) is a Slovenian former professional tennis player. She reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 20, on 7 August 2006. On 4 July 2011, she became the No. 1 of the WTA doubles rankings, holding this ranking for ten weeks. Srebotnik won four singles titles on the WTA Tour and was ranked inside the top 30 for several years. However, her best results have been in doubles draws, where she won 39 career titles, including a Grand Slam title at the 2011 Wimbledon Championships alongside Květa Peschke. She also won five major titles in mixed doubles, three at the French Open in 1999, 2006 and 2010; one at the US Open in 2003; and another at the Australian Open in 2011. In September 2021, Srebotnik was recognized by the Guinness World Records as the first and youngest tennis player, male or female, to win her first tournament in all three categories, singles, doubles and mixed doubles. Srebotnik won her debut in singles ( 1999 Oeiras); i ... [...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] |
Hsieh Su-wei
Hsieh Su-wei (; ; born 4 January 1986) is a Taiwanese professional tennis player. A former List of WTA number 1 ranked doubles tennis players, world No. 1 in Doubles tennis, doubles with nine Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam titles, she is regarded as one of the most successful and versatile doubles players in history. She also reached world No. 23 in singles, and is the highest-ranked Taiwanese player in history in both singles and doubles. She is known for playing with two hands on both sides, flat and quick groundstrokes, crafty and wily gameplay, aggressive volleys, and unorthodox variety of shots. Hsieh reached her career-high singles WTA rankings, ranking of No. 23 on 25 February 2013. On 12 May 2014, she reached No. 1 in the doubles rankings. She spent a total of 59 weeks with the top doubles ranking, the longest tenure by a tennis player from East Asia, and second-longest of any Asian people, Asian player after Sania Mirza's 91 weeks). She has finished with a year-end to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daria Gavrilova
Daria Saville (née Gavrilova; born 5 March 1994) is a Russian-born Australian professional tennis player. She competed under her maiden name until her marriage to Luke Saville in 2021. On 28 August 2017, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 20. On 25 September 2017, she peaked at No. 45 in the doubles rankings. Saville has won one singles title and three doubles titles on the WTA Tour, and has additionally won four singles and two doubles titles on the ITF Women's World Tennis Tour, ITF Circuit. Saville was an accomplished junior player, having won the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics, 2010 Youth Olympic Games and 2010 US Open (tennis), 2010 US Open, also reaching a combined career-high junior ranking of world No. 1 in August 2010. In her career, Saville has achieved victories against former Grand Slam champions Maria Sharapova, Ana Ivanovic, Angelique Kerber (her first victory over a reigning world No. 1), and Petra Kvitová (three times), with all of these play ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
