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2023 Wimbledon Championships – Girls' Doubles
Alena Kovačková and Laura Samsonová defeated Hannah Klugman and Isabelle Lacy in the final, 6–4, 7–5 to win the girls' doubles tennis title at the 2023 Wimbledon Championships. Rose Marie Nijkamp and Angella Okutoyi Angella Okutoyi (born 29 January 2004) is a Kenyan professional tennis player. She became the first Kenyan to win a Grand Slam title at the girls’ juniors Wimbledon event, partnering Rose Marie Nijkamp. At the 2022 Australian Open, Okutoyi b ... were the defending champions, but Nijkamp chose not to participate and Okutoyi was no longer eligible to participate in junior tournaments. Seeds Draw Finals Top half Bottom half References External links Main draw {{DEFAULTSORT:2023 Wimbledon Championships - Girls' Doubles Girls' Doubles Wimbledon Championship by year – Girls' doubles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alena Kovačková
Alena Kovačková (born 13 June 2008) is a Czech tennis player. She has a career-high junior combined ranking of No. 8, achieved on 10 June 2024. Personal life She has a younger sister Jana who is also tennis player. Career Junior career Whilst ranked European number one in the U14s, Kovackova won the U16 title at the Tennis Europe Masters in Monte Carlo in October 2022. Later that year she became the first girl to win both the U14 and U16 "Player of the Year" awards in the same year. In July 2023, she won the Wimbledon girls' doubles alongside compatriot Laura Samsonová. In the final, they faced Hannah Klugman and Isabelle Lacy of Great Britain, winning in straight sets. It was the first Czech pairing to win the title since Barbora Krejčíková and Kateřina Siniaková in 2013. Defending the Wimbledon girls' doubles title alongside Samsonová in 2024, they lost in the quarterfinals to Mika Stojsavljevic and Mingge Xu. She played in the girls' doubles at the 2025 Au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sara Saito
is a Japanese tennis player. She has a career-high WTA singles ranking of world No. 159, achieved on 16 December 2024. She reached her career-high doubles ranking of No. 484 on 18 March 2024. Career 2023: Juniors She has a career-high ITF junior combined ranking of 2, achieved on 29 May 2023. She had a disappointing performance in the singles draw of the 2023 Australian Open, losing in the first round to Australian wildcard Stefani Webb. She reached the final of the doubles with fellow Japanese Hayu Kinoshita, losing to Renáta Jamrichová and Federica Urgesi. She was top seeded in the girls' singles tournament at the 2023 French Open, after winning two titles in South America. 2024: First quarterfinal on WTA Tour debut Saito made her WTA Tour main draw debut as a wildcard at the 2024 Japan Women's Open, defeating Jéssica Bouzas Maneiro and fifth seed Elina Avanesyan to reach her first WTA Tour quarterfinal, where her run was ended in straight sets by Kimberly Birrell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mara Gae
Mara Gae (born 14 September 2005) is a Romanian tennis player. Gae and her partner Anastasiia Gureva won the 2023 US Open girls' doubles title beating Sara Saito and Nanaka Sato in the final. Personal life Gae was given her first tennis racquet on her sixth birthday, a gift from family friend, tennis professional Ruxandra Dragomir Ruxandra Dragomir Ilie (born 24 October 1972) is a retired tennis player from Romania. She won four singles and five doubles titles on the WTA Tour during her career. The right-hander reached her highest individual WTA ranking on 25 August 199 .... ITF Circuit finals Singles: 2 (1 titles, 1 runner-up) Doubles: 6 (5 titles, 1 runner-ups) Junior Grand Slam finals Doubles: 1 (1 title) References External links * * * * * 2005 births Living people Romanian female tennis players Grand Slam (tennis) champions in girls' doubles US Open (tennis) junior champions 21st-century Romanian sportswomen {{Romania-ten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taylah Preston
Taylah Preston (born 27 October 2005) is an Australian professional tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 134, achieved on 18 March 2024. She reached a career-high high combined junior ranking of No. 10. Career 2022: WTA Tour debut In January 2022, she lost in the second round of the Australian Open qualifying. Preston made her WTA Tour main-draw debut in doubles at the Melbourne Summer Set 2, where she received a wildcard partnering Alexandra Osborne. She also received a wildcard into the qualifying draw for the Melbourne Summer Set 1, where she defeated former French Open finalist, Sara Errani, in the first round, before falling in the final round. She made her WTA Tour main-draw debut in singles at the 2022 Rosmalen Grass Court Championships as a qualifier. 2024: Grand Slam debut, first WTA 125 final and maiden top 50 win Preston received a wildcard for her major debut at the 2024 Australian Open but went out in the first round to Elina Svi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alina Korneeva
Alina Aleksandrovna Korneeva (, born 23 June 2007) is a Russian professional tennis player. In 2023, she won two major girls' singles titles, at the Australian Open and the French Open, and reached world No. 1 in the ITF junior rankings. Career 2021 Korneeva finished runner-up at the European Junior Championships under-14 girls singles to the Czech player Tereza Valentová. 2022 On the ITF Junior Circuit, in 2022 Korneeva's tally of six singles titles saw her claim the most singles titles in girls’ tennis that year. Korneeva won her first $15k event in Casablanca in September, defeating Laura Hietaranta in the final. 2023: No. 1 junior, WTA Tour debut Korneeva had success in her junior Grand Slam debut at the Australian Open, reaching the semifinals of the girls' doubles with partner Mirra Andreeva, and defeating Andreeva in three sets in the final of the girls' singles. Before their final, Andreeva said, "She is a really good friend of mine, my best friend." After the m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francesca Pace
Francesca Pace (born 5 August 2005) is an Italian tennis player. She made her debut at a WTA 250 tournament when she played in the women's doubles at the 2022 Emilia-Romagna Open. Early and personal life The daughter of former tennis professional Irina Spîrlea, Pace was brought up in Rome. She has been coached from an early age by her father Massimiliano Pace. He also acted as coach for her mother during her tennis career. She has a brother named Tommaso. Career 2021 In May 2021, Pace won an ITF junior tournament in Limassol. That year, she also claimed her first victories in women’s tennis, winning her debut match in a 15k event in Cairo, 6–1, 6–1 against Wan Chao-yi. 2022 Pace played in the women's doubles at the 2022 Emilia-Romagna Open, a WTA 250 tournament, in September 2022. She played with Federica Urgesi, and they lost in the first round to compatriots Martina Trevisan and Jasmine Paolini Jasmine Paolini (; born 4 January 1996) is an Italian professional t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ela Nala Milić
Ela Nala Milić (born 28 February 2006) is a Slovenian tennis player. Career Milić made her WTA main-draw debut at the 2021 Zavarovalnica Sava Portorož, after receiving a wildcard for the doubles tournament. She and her partner Tina Cvetkovič lost in the first round to third seeds Anna Danilina and Fanny Stollár in two sets. The next wildcard she received was for the WTA 125 tournaments, WTA 125 tournament 2023 Zavarovalnica Sava Ljubljana – Singles, 2023 Zavarovalnica Sava Ljubljana. Milić lost in the first round to third seed Dalma Gálfi in three sets. In 2024, she played for Slovenia Fed Cup team, Slovenia in the 2024 Billie Jean King Cup qualifying round, Billie Jean King Cup qualifying tie against Slovakia Fed Cup team, Slovakia. Milić lost in the opening singles match to Anna Karolína Schmiedlová and, partnering with Pia Lovrič, was also defeated in the dead rubber doubles against Viktória Hrunčáková and Tereza Mihalíková. She, once again, received a wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emerson Jones
Emerson Jones (born 7 July 2008) is an Australian tennis player. She has a career high ITF junior combined ranking of No. 1, achieved on 9 September 2024, becoming the first Australian junior to reach the top spot since Jelena Dokic in 1998. Early life Jones was born and raised on the Gold Coast, Queensland, where she attended Coomera Anglican College. Her mother, Loretta Harrop, is an Olympic silver medallist triathlete and her father, Brad Jones, is a former Australian Rules footballer who won the 1999 Grogan Medal in the Queensland State League, and narrowly missed out on a professional AFL career when he trialled with the Brisbane Bears in 1994. Her brother, Hayden, is also a prodigious tennis player ranked inside the top 10 of the ITF juniors. Junior career Jones began playing ITF junior tournaments in August 2021 a few weeks after her 13th birthday when she was given a wildcard entry into a J5 tournament in her hometown of the Gold Coast in August 2021. She recorded sever ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikola Bartůňková
Nikola Bartůňková (born 25 February 2006) is a Czech tennis player. Bartůňková has a career-high singles ranking by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) of 226, achieved on 8 April 2024, and a career-high WTA doubles ranking of 320, achieved on 14 August 2023. Professional career In April 2021, at the 2021 İstanbul Cup – Singles, 2021 İstanbul Cup, Bartůňková attempted her WTA Tour debut. She defeated world No. 152, Leonie Küng, in the first round of qualifying, before losing to Anastasia Gasanova. She made her WTA Tour debut at the same tournament one year later, after having been handed a wildcard for the main draw, losing to Anastasia Potapova. On 16 October 2023, Bartůňková won her first tour-level match when she defeated Dayana Yastremska in the first round of the 2023 Transylvania Open – Singles, 2023 Transylvania Open, before losing in three hours to Ana Bogdan in the second round. In November 2024, Bartůňková was issued with a six month competit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tereza Valentová
Tereza Valentová (born 20 February 2007) is a Czech professional tennis player. She has career-high WTA rankings of No. 182 in singles and No. 241 in doubles. She has a career-high combined junior ranking of No. 4, achieved on 10 June 2024, and won both the 2024 French Open girls' singles and girls' doubles titles. Early life and background Valentová was born to Marcel Valenta and Jitka Janáčková. Her mother is a former sprint canoeist who represented Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic at the 1992 and 1996 Summer Olympics, respectively. She began playing tennis at the age of three after watching her father play. She currently trains at TK Sparta Prague. Junior career Valentová reached the final of the 2023 US Open in girls' singles, but lost to Katherine Hui. She won the 2024 French Open girls' singles title, defeating compatriot Laura Samson in the final. She also won the 2024 French Open girls' doubles title, partnering Renáta Jamrichová. Grand Slam p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clervie Ngounoue
Clervie Ngounoue (born 19 July 2006) is an American tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 241 by the WTA, achieved on 31 March 2025 and a doubles ranking of No. 187, achieved on 17 August 2024. Early life Ngounoue was born in Washington, D.C. to Cameroonian parents. From an early age she showed talent for tennis, and her father Aimé Ngounoue helped her begin to train. Career At the 2022 US Open, she and Reese Brantmeier received a wildcard into the women's doubles tournament. They defeated Alison Van Uytvanck and Rosalie van der Hoek in the first round, recording their first Major victory, before losing to eventual semifinalists Nicole Melichar-Martinez and Ellen Perez in three sets in the second. Ngounoue won the 2023 Wimbledon junior title, defeating Nikola Bartůňková in the final. On the ITF Junior Circuit, she climbed the top of the world rankings on 5 June 2023. Ngounoue also won the 2022 Australian Open girls' doubles event, partneri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Samsonová
Laura Samson (formerly known as Laura Samsonová; born 10 March 2008) is a Czech professional tennis player. She won the girls' doubles title at the 2023 Wimbledon Championships and was a runner-up in girls' singles at the 2024 French Open. Personal info In 2024, she changed her surname to the gender neutral form to be distinguished from another WTA Tour tennis player, Russian Liudmila Samsonova, with whom she shared the same abbreviated name (L. Samsonova). Career Juniors A member of TK Sparta Prague, Samson won her first junior title as a 13-year-old at a J5 event in Prostějov in an October 2021, without dropping a set. It was her first junior-level event. She then won her second J5 event in November 2021 in Silla-Saledar in Spain, and reached the final in her third, in Montemar. In July 2023, she won the Wimbledon girls' doubles title with compatriot Alena Kovačková. In the final, they faced Hannah Klugman and Isabelle Lacy of Great Britain, winning in straight ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |