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2019 Ilkley Trophy – Women's Singles
Tereza Smitková was the defending champion but lost in the quarterfinals to Monica Niculescu. Niculescu went on to win the title, defeating Tímea Babos Tímea Babos (; born 10 May 1993) is a Hungarian professional tennis player who is a former List of WTA number 1 ranked doubles tennis players, world No. 1 in doubles. She has won three WTA Tour titles in singles and 27 in doubles. Babos is a f ... in the final, 6–2, 4–6, 6–3. Seeds Draw Finals Top half Bottom half References External linksMain Draw {{DEFAULTSORT:2019 Ilkley Trophy - Singles Ilkley Trophy - Singles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monica Niculescu
Monica Niculescu (born 25 September 1987) is a Romanian professional tennis player. She has been WTA rankings, ranked by the Women's Tennis Association, WTA as high as No. 28 in singles and No. 11 in doubles. She has won three singles and 10 doubles titles on the WTA Tour, one singles and three doubles titles on the WTA 125 tournaments, WTA Challenger Tour, as well as 19 singles and 22 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. She was ranked within the top 30 for several years in singles. Niculescu entered the Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam doubles final at 2017 Wimbledon Championships – Women's doubles, Wimbledon 2017 tournament, together with Chan Hao-ching. She reached the quarterfinals in doubles in all Grand Slam championships. In WTA 1000 tournaments, WTA 1000 tournaments, she got into three finals (doubles), six semifinals (five in doubles), and 12 quarterfinals (11 in doubles). In singles, her best Grand Slam performance is reaching round four, which she did at the 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whitney Osuigwe
Whitney Osuigwe ( ; born April 17, 2002) is an American tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 105 and a best doubles ranking of No. 115, achieved in August 2019 and 2024, respectively. In 2017, Osuigwe was the ITF Junior World Champion. She won the juniors 2017 French Open to become the first American to win the girls' singles event in Paris in 28 years. Personal life Osuigwe has been playing tennis at the IMG Academy since age six, where her father Desmond has been a teacher at the academy since 1997 and acts as her primary coach. Desmond is from Lagos in Nigeria and played professional tennis events at the ITF Futures level before coming to the United States to attend college. Whitney has an older brother named Deandre who is a college basketball player and a younger sister named Victoria who also plays tennis. Juniors In June 2017, Osuigwe climbed to No. 2 in the junior rankings by dominating the clay-court events in the previous six months. She ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabriella Taylor
Gabriella Patricia Taylor (born 7 March 1998) is a British former tennis player. Taylor won six singles and two doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 12 December 2018, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 162. On 19 March 2018, she peaked at No. 479 in the WTA doubles rankings. Taylor retired from tennis in 2020. Early life Taylor was born on 7 March 1998 in Southampton, to a British father from Newcastle and a Bulgarian mother from Plovdiv. She moved to Marbella, Spain at the age of 13 to further her tennis career and to Barcelona at 19. She turned professional at the age of 16. Career Juniors At the 2012 'British Junior National Championships' Taylor became under-14 girls' singles winner beating Katie Swan in the final 7–6(7), 6–3. Later in the year she was runner-up at the world's most prestigious junior tournament Junior Orange Bowl losing to Maia Lumsden 6–3, 7–5, both players having been semifinalists in that year's European equivalent the P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marta Kostyuk
Marta Olehivna Kostyuk ( ; born 28 June 2002) is a Ukrainian professional tennis player. She has career-high WTA rankings of world No. 16 in singles, achieved on 17 June 2024 and No. 27 in doubles, achieved on 8 May 2023. On the WTA Tour, she has won one singles title ( 2023 ATX Open) and two doubles titles ( 2022 Slovenia Open and 2023 Birmingham Classic). Her best major singles performance is reaching the quarterfinals of the 2024 Australian Open. Early and personal life Kostyuk is the daughter of Oleh Kostyuk and his wife, Talina Beiko. Her father was the technical director of the Antey Cup, a junior tennis tournament in Kyiv; her mother was a professional tennis player who reached a career-high WTA ranking of No. 391, won a $10k title in her home city of Kyiv in 1994, and represented a Ukrainian tennis team. Kostyuk is the younger sister of Mariya Kostyuk, who competed for Chicago State University and Southeast Missouri State University, and a cousin of professional foot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robin Anderson (tennis)
Robin Kimberly Anderson (born April 12, 1993) is an American tennis player. Personal life Anderson's parents are Denom and Trudy Anderson, and she has two siblings, Matthew and Samantha. Career College Anderson attended UCLA from 2011 to 2015, where she was on the tennis team each year, leading the Bruins to the NCAA championship in 2014. She won the Honda Sports Award as the nation's best collegiate female tennis player in 2014, and earned the award as well in the following year, 2015. Professional Anderson reached her first WTA 125 singles final at the 2021 Midland Tennis Classic, losing to top seed Madison Brengle. She received a wildcard into the main draw of the 2022 Australian Open on her Grand Slam tournament debut, after winning the USTA's Australian Open Wildcard Challenge, but lost in the first round to Sam Stosur. Partnering Dalayna Hewitt, Anderson was runner-up at the 2024 W75 Calgary National Bank Challenger, losing to Kayla Cross and Maribella Zamarripa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nao Hibino
is a Japanese professional tennis player. She has been ranked as high as world No. 56 in singles and No. 43 in doubles by the WTA. Hibino has won three singles titles and three doubles titles on the WTA Tour. She has also won nine singles and eleven doubles tournaments on the ITF Women's World Tennis Tour. Hibino was the number-one-ranked Japanese player in the WTA rankings for five weeks starting on 11 January 2016, and reached this position again on 3 April 2023. Hibino made her breakthrough in 2015, when she won her first WTA Tour title in singles at the Tashkent Open. As a result, she debuted in the top 100. Since then she has spent several years in the top 100, and has been in the top 150 constantly except for a period between February 2022 and September 2022 after a layoff from October 2021 to late April 2022. She has represented Japan at national competitions, debuting in Fed Cup in 2016, and at the Summer Olympics in 2021. Personal life and background Hibino was b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Verónica Cepede Royg
Verónica Cepede Royg (; born 21 January 1992) is a Paraguayan former tennis player. On 7 August 2017, she reached her highest WTA singles ranking of No. 73. Her best doubles ranking is No. 85, achieved on 19 September 2016. Cepede Royg has won one doubles title on the WTA Tour, one WTA 125 doubles title, and 14 singles titles and 20 doubles titles on ITF tournaments. Playing for Paraguay Fed Cup team, Cepede Royg has a win–loss record of 61–26. She participated in the 2012 London Olympics, losing in the opening round to American Varvara Lepchenko in three sets, as well as the 2016 Rio Olympics and 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Her best performance at a Grand Slam championship was reaching the fourth round of the 2017 French Open. Personal life and background Her father, Eduardo, owns a gas station, while her mother, Edith, is a retired dentist. Her brother Andres is an economist and her sister, Estefania, is an architect. She was introduced to tennis at age five by her sib ... [...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] |
Maia Lumsden
Maia Lumsden (born 10 January 1998) is a British professional tennis player. She has a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 57 achieved on 1 July 2024. Lumsden has won three doubles titles on the WTA Challenger Tour as well as three titles in singles and eleven in doubles on the ITF Circuit. Early and personal life Raised in Bearsden, near Glasgow from a family of five, her mother Gillian and father David brother Ewen and sister Eve, two and four years younger, respectively. Both siblings have played competitive tennis as juniors with Ewen progressing to the senior level. Educated at Beaconhurst School, Bridge of Allan later studying at nearby University of Stirling after returning to Scotland in 2016. Career Juniors Recognized as young as age 10 as the best in Britain in her age group and training at the national academy, University of Stirling, under coach Toby Smith with mentoring by Judy Murray who said at the time that Lumsden may need to train abroad to realis ... [...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] |
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] |
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] |
