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2018 Oracle Challenger Series – Houston – Women's Singles
This was the first edition of the tournament. Peng Shuai won the title, defeating Lauren Davis Lauren Davis (born October 9, 1993) is an American professional tennis player. Known for her aggressive backhand, speed, and clay-court strength, she has won two singles titles on the WTA Tour and reached a career-high singles WTA rankings, ran ... in the final 1–6, 7–5, 6–4. Seeds Draw Finals Top half Bottom half Qualifying Seeds Qualifiers Lucky losers Qualifying draw First qualifier Second qualifier Third qualifier Fourth qualifier Fifth qualifier Sixth qualifier ReferencesMain Draw {{DEFAULTSORT:2018 Oracle Challenger Series - Houston - Women's Singles Oracle Challenger Series – Houston - Singles ... [...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] |
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] |
Kristína Kučová
Kristína Kučová (; born 23 May 1990) is a Slovak tennis player. On 12 September 2016, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 71. On 5 October 2009, she peaked at No. 168 in the WTA doubles rankings. She has won one singles title on the WTA Challenger Tour with eleven singles titles and five doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. Kučová was an accomplished junior player, having won the girls' singles title at the 2007 US Open and reaching a combined career-high junior ranking of world No. 3, on 10 September 2009. Playing for Slovakia Fed Cup team, she has a win–loss record of 1–5. Personal life Kučová's elder sister Zuzana retired from the professional tour in 2013. Tennis career Junior years At the 2007 US Open, the unseeded Kučová took the girls' singles title, defeating the 13th seed Julia Glushko in the third round, top seed and defending champion Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in the quarterfinals, and number two seed Urszula Radwańska in the fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Varvara Flink
Varvara Alexandrovna Flink (; born 13 December 1996) is an inactive Russian tennis player. Flink achieved a career-high WTA singles ranking of 122 on 15 July 2019, and a doubles ranking of 372 on 31 October 2022. She owns one doubles title on the WTA Challenger Tour. Flink won the first of her six ITF singles titles on 21 May 2017. In doubles, she won two ITF titles. The first was in Monastir, Tunisia in 2012. She reached two singles semifinals in 2013, one in Dubrovnik and the other in Seoul. Career highlights ITF Circuit On the ITF Junior Circuit, Flink achieved a new career-high ranking of world No. 6, following her win at the Grade-A Copa Gerdau in Brazil in March 2013. Later that year, she achieved more success, reaching the final at the Osaka Mayor's Cup and winning the Dunlop Orange Bowl. She ended the year ranked world No. 3 junior, in January 2014, she became world No. 2. WTA Tour Flink made her WTA Tour debut at the 2012 Baku Cup, where she lost in the first roun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kurumi Nara
is a Japanese former professional tennis player. In her career, she won one singles title on the WTA Tour, with seven singles and three doubles titles on the ITF Women's World Tennis Tour, ITF Women's Circuit. On 18 August 2014, she achieved her career-high singles WTA rankings, ranking of world No. 32. On 2 May 2016, she peaked at No. 109 in the WTA doubles rankings. Playing for Japan Fed Cup team, Nara has a win–loss record of 12–8. Junior career Nara began playing tennis at the age of three. At the Esaka Tennis Center in Osaka, the budding pro player studied tennis under the tutelage of Japanese tennis luminaries Masaru Suishu and Hiroko Mochizuki. She won recognition from an early age as a tennis prodigy. In 2002, while enrolled in Kawanishi, Hyōgo, Kawanishi Makinodai Elementary School, Nara took second place in the All Japan Primary School Tennis Championships at the age of ten. She would go on to win that tournament in 2003. In 2004, after entering the middle schoo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katherine Sebov
Katherine Sebov (born January 5, 1999) is a Canadians, Canadian professional tennis player. She reached a career-high WTA rankings, WTA singles ranking of No. 136, on 10 April 2023. Sebov has a career-high combined ITF junior ranking of No. 22, achieved on 20 July 2015. Early life Sebov was born in Toronto and is of Ukrainians, Ukrainian descent. Her coaches are Simon Bartram in Toronto and Robert Lansdorp in Los Angeles. Tennis career 2013–14 Sebov made her professional debut in November 2013 at the $50k 2013 Tevlin Women's Challenger, Toronto Challenger but was defeated in the qualifying second round in singles and in the first round in doubles. In July 2013, she had won her first junior singles title at the G-4 in Vancouver. In July 2014 at 2014 Wimbledon Championships, Wimbledon, she qualified for her junior Grand Slam main-draw debut where she lost in the first round in singles and in the quarterfinals in the doubles. In September 2014, Sebov advanced to the third round in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jamie Loeb
Jamie Loeb (born March 8, 1995) is an American tennis player. She has career-high WTA rankings of world No. 132 in singles, achieved in February 2018, and No. 117 in doubles, achieved in July 2023. Loeb has won eleven singles and 17 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. She won the New York State high-school title as a sophomore. Loeb won the singles and doubles U18s championships at the 2012 USTA National Winter Championship, and won the doubles at the 2013 USTA International Spring Championship. She attended the University of North Carolina for her freshman and sophomore years (2013–15), and won the singles NCAA Championship in 2015. Biography Born in Bronxville, New York, Loeb was raised in Ossining, New York."Rising Jewish star Loeb ousted," ''The Jerusalem Post''. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louisa Chirico
Louisa Chirico (born May 16, 1996) is an American tennis player. On 24 October 2016, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 58. On 6 March 2017, she peaked at No. 184 in the WTA doubles rankings. Chirico has won seven singles titles and two doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. Her best performance in singles at a Grand Slam tournament was reaching the second round at the 2016 French Open. Personal life She is of Korean descent through her mother. She comes from Harrison, New York. Career Early years Partnering Jan Abaza, Chirico won her first $50k tournament at the 2013 Melbourne Pro Classic, defeating Asia Muhammad and Allie Will in the final. 2015: Grand Slam debut She made her major main-draw debut at the 2015 French Open after being awarded a wildcard into the event by the USTA. She lost in the first round to the ninth seed Ekaterina Makarova, in straight sets. Chirico won her first WTA Tour match at the Washington Open where she defeated Heather Wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Réka Luca Jani
Réka Luca Jani (born 31 July 1991) is a Hungarian former professional tennis player. She has won 25 singles titles and 34 doubles titles on the ITF Women's World Tennis Tour. As on 19 September 2022, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 104. On 22 August 2016, she peaked at No. 124 in the doubles rankings. Her favorite surface is clay. Playing for Hungary Billie Jean King Cup team, Jani has a win–loss record of 30–22 (as of July 2024). Early life Parents are Janos, Szilvia and Zsolt; brothers are Mate and Balint, sister is Petra. Career Jani who began playing at age six, reached the first final on the WTA Tour in 2016, at the Brasil Tennis Cup partnering Tímea Babos. She was awarded a wildcard entry to the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, along with Tímea Babos to play in women's doubles. Jani made her Grand Slam tournament main-draw debut at the 2011 US Open, losing to wildcard Sloane Stephens in the first round. Jani reached her first-ever ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dalma Gálfi
Dalma Rebeka Gálfi (born 13 August 1998) is a Hungarian professional tennis player. On 12 September 2022, she reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 79. On 19 September 2022, she peaked at No. 126 in the WTA doubles rankings. Gálfi has won nine singles titles and ten doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. Early life Gálfi began playing tennis at the age of five. Her father had two tennis courts, and he taught her how to play tennis. Career highlights Junior career Grand Slam performance - Singles: * Australian Open: SF (2015) * French Open: 2R (2015) * Wimbledon: 2R (2014) * US Open: W (2015) Grand Slam performance - Doubles: * Australian Open: 2R (2015) * French Open: QF (2015) * Wimbledon: W (2015) * US Open: 2R (2014) Professional career 2013: WTA Tour debut Gálfi was given a wildcard for the Budapest Grand Prix, where she made her WTA Tour main-draw debut alongside Lilla Barzó in doubles, only to lose to the 2011 French Open champions And ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deborah Chiesa
Deborah Chiesa (born 13 June 1996) is a professional Italian tennis player. On 11 June 2018, she achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 143. On 27 February 2017, she peaked at No. 307 in the WTA doubles rankings. Chiesa has won three titles in singles and twelve in doubles on the ITF Women's Circuit. Her biggest title to date she won at the $50k event in Brescia, partnering Martina Colmegna Martina Colmegna (born 10 December 1996) is an Italian tennis player. She has career-high WTA rankings of 347 in singles, achieved in 27 February 2023, and 185 in doubles, set on 17 June 2019. Colmegna has won four singles and 21 doubles titles ...; in the final, they defeated Cindy Burger and Stephanie Vogt. In 2018, she played two matches for Italy Fed Cup team, with a win-loss record of 1–1. Grand Slam performance timeline Singles ITF Circuit finals Singles: 11 (3 titles, 8 runner–ups) Doubles: 23 (13 titles, 10 runner-ups) References External links * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grace Min
Grace Min (born May 6, 1994) is an American tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 97, achieved on 2 March 2015, and she peaked at No. 308 in the doubles rankings, on 17 September 2012. Min won the 2011 US Open girls' singles title. She also won the 2011 Wimbledon girls' doubles title with Eugenie Bouchard. Tennis career 2006–07 Her first tournament was the Eddie Herr International Junior Tennis Championships, an under-14 tournament at the Bollettieri Sports Academy. Aged 12 and seeded tenth, Grace received a bye into the second round, where she was defeated by Nataliya Pintusova, 6–3, 6–4. Her next tournament was the Prince Cup in Miami, Florida. In the first round, she defeated tenth seed Melina Ferrero, for her first victory of the year. She then fell to qualifier Laurie Gingras in the second round, in straight sets. Her final tournament of the year was the Junior Orange Bowl in Coral Gables, Florida. In the first round, she crushed German ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
