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2025 Porsche Tennis Grand Prix – Singles
Jeļena Ostapenko defeated Aryna Sabalenka in straight sets to win the title at the 2025 Stuttgart Open. It was her ninth WTA Tour singles title, and her first singles final and title on clay since the 2017 French Open. She became the first unseeded champion at the tournament since Laura Siegemund in 2017. Sabalenka scored her fourth runner-up finish out of five editions of the tournament. En route to the title, Ostapenko defeated top two ranked players in the world. She ran her head-to-head record against Iga Świątek to six in a row with no lose to the Pole, having defeated her on every surface during six years. While her win against Sabalenka was the first one in four meetings in the timespan of six years too. Elena Rybakina was the reigning champion, but chose not to participate this year. 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" m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeļena Ostapenko
Jeļena "Aļona" Ostapenko (born 8 June 1997) is a Latvian professional tennis player. She has career-high rankings of world No. 5 in singles and No. 4 in doubles by the WTA. Ostapenko has won nine WTA Tour-level singles and eleven doubles titles, including a singles major at the 2017 French Open and a doubles major at the 2024 US Open, partnering Lyudmyla Kichenok. She is the first Latvian to win a major in singles or in doubles. Ostapenko has also won 15 singles titles and 15 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit, and the junior singles event at the 2014 Wimbledon Championships. She is a member of the Latvia Billie Jean King Cup team. Personal life Ostapenko was born in Riga to former Ukrainian footballer Jevgēnijs Ostapenko (d. 2020) and Latvian-Russian tennis coach and former player Jeļena Jakovļeva. Jevgēnijs played professional football for Metalurh Zaporizhzhia in the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia where Jeļena's grandmother lives. Jeļena has one half-b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ekaterina Alexandrova
Ekaterina Evgenyevna Alexandrova ( rus, Екатери́на Евге́ньевна Александро́ва, , jɪkətʲɪˈrʲinə ɐlʲɪksɐnˈdrovə; born 15 November 1994) is a Russian professional tennis player. She has won five WTA Tour singles titles, three WTA 125 titles and seven singles titles on the ITF Circuit. On 1 April 2024, she achieved her best singles ranking of world No. 15. On 26 September 2022, she peaked at No. 58 in the WTA doubles rankings. Personal life Since 2006, Alexandrova has been living and training in Prague, Czech Republic, with her parents and two siblings, a brother and a sister. They moved after travelling to the city for a youth tournament, attracted by the local availability of tennis courts compared to Russia. According to the player, the Russian Tennis Federation didn't know about her existence before 2016 and she has never been good enough to cause interest from the Czech Tennis Association in terms of citizenship switch. However, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sara Errani
Sara Errani (; born 29 April 1987) is an Italian professional tennis player. Errani is one of only seven women who have completed a career Grand Slam (tennis)#Golden Slam, Golden Slam in doubles. She is an Olympic Games gold medalist, a former doubles List of WTA number 1 ranked doubles tennis players, world No. 1, achieved on 10 September 2012, major champion in doubles and mixed doubles, and a finalist in singles. She reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 5 on 20 May 2013. With nine singles titles and 35 doubles titles (including eight majors, eight WTA 1000 titles, and an Olympic gold medal), she is the Italian tennis player with the highest number of career titles. In doubles, she entered the top 10 on 11 June 2012, remaining there for 94 straight weeks and was the year-end number-one doubles player in both 2013 and 2014, and has held the top ranking for a combined total of 87 weeks. Errani's breakthrough season occurred in 2012 WTA Tour, 2012. At the 2012 Aust ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magdalena Fręch
Magdalena Fręch (; born 15 December 1997) is a Polish professional tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 22, achieved on 28 October 2024. On 8 August 2022, she peaked at No. 174 in the doubles WTA rankings, rankings. She has won one singles WTA Tour title and one on the WTA 125 tournaments, WTA Challenger Tour, along with six singles and four doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit, ITF Circuit. Playing for Poland Billie Jean King Cup team, Poland in the Billie Jean King Cup, Fręch has a win–loss record of 10–7, as of September 2024. Career 2013-2018: WTA Tour and major debuts Fręch made her WTA Tour debut at the 2013 BNP Paribas Katowice Open – Doubles, Katowice Open in doubles, partnering with Katarzyna Pyka. Fręch started 2018 season in Auckland where she lost in qualifying (in the first round) to Sachia Vickery, in straight sets. She then took part at the first Grand Slam qualifying in her career - at the 2018 Australian Open – Wome ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liudmila Samsonova
Liudmila Dmitrievna Samsonova ( rus, Людмила Дмитриевна Самсонова, , lʲʊdˈmʲiɫə sɐmˈsonəvə; born 11 November 1998) is a Russian professional tennis player. She has career-high WTA rankings of No. 12 in singles and No. 40 in doubles. She has won five singles and two doubles titles on the WTA Tour, her first title being a WTA 500, WTA 500 title at the 2021 WTA German Open – Singles, 2021 German Open. She has also won a total of eight singles and three doubles titles on the ITF Women's World Tennis Tour, ITF Circuit. During the 2020–21 Billie Jean King Cup, Samsonova led the Russia Billie Jean King Cup team, Russian team to their first triumph since 2008, winning all five of her matches in both singles and doubles. Samsonova also competed for Italy from 2014 to 2018. Early life Samsonova was born in the industrial city of Olenegorsk, Murmansk Oblast, Russia. Her family moved with the then-one-year-old Liudmila to Italy. Her father Dmitry, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erika Andreeva
Erika Aleksandrovna Andreeva ( rus, Эрика Александровна Андреева, p=ˈɛrʲɪkə ɐlʲɪkˈsandrəvnə ɐnˈdrʲe(j)ɪvə, born 24 June 2004) is a Russian tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 65, reached on 21 October 2024. She also has a best doubles ranking of No. 274, achieved on 11 December 2023. Andreeva has won one doubles title on the WTA Challenger Tour, as well as three singles titles and one doubles title on the ITF Circuit. Juniors Andreeva finished runner-up at the 2021 French Open in the girls' singles event to Linda Nosková. Career 2020–21: First ITF Circuit title In November 2020, Andreeva won her first senior ITF Circuit title at the $15k event in Pazardzhik, Bulgaria. A month later, she won another ITF title, this time at the $15k Cairo, Egypt. In March 2021, she won her third $15k tournament. 2022: WTA Tour & major debuts In May 2022, she played her first significant final on the ITF Circuit, at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eva Lys
Eva Lys (; born 12 January 2002) is a German professional tennis player. Lys reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 59 on 19 May 2025. Personal life She was born in Kyiv, Ukraine, and moved to Germany at the age of 2. Her father Vladimir is a former tennis player who was a member of the Ukraine Davis Cup team, and currently is a coach in Hamburg. Lys' older sister Lisa Matviyenko is also a tennis player. She went to school at the Sportgymnasium Alter Teichweg in Hamburg, from where Marvin Möller and Carina Witthöft also graduated. She still has family in Ukraine, and after the Russian invasion of Ukraine she criticized some Russian players' "disrespectful" behaviour. Career 2020: Junior major debut As a junior she participated in the Australian Open Juniors, winning in the qualifiers but losing in the main draw first round to Melania Delai. 2021: WTA Tour doubles debut Lys made her WTA Tour main-draw debut at the Hamburg European Open when she received a wildcar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jule Niemeier
Jule Niemeier (born 12 August 1999) is a German professional tennis player. She has a career-high WTA singles ranking of world No. 61, achieved on 7 November 2022. Career 2018–2019: WTA debut She made her WTA Tour main-draw debut as a wildcard at the 2018 Nürnberger Versicherungscup in doubles, partnering Lara Schmidt. She made her singles main-draw debut at the 2019 Nürnberger Versicherungscup, as a qualifier. 2021: Two WTA semifinals As a qualifier, Niemeier secured her first WTA Tour main draw wins at the Internationaux de Strasbourg, reaching the semifinals, where she lost in three sets to fifth seed and eventual champion Barbora Krejčíková. Having received a wildcard entry, she also made the semifinals at the Hamburg European Open, losing to Andrea Petkovic. As a result, she entered top 150 at world No. 140, on 12 July. On her Grand Slam tournament qualifying competition debut at Wimbledon, Niemeier reached the third round but lost to Lesley Pattinama Kerkhove i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ella Seidel
Ella Luise Seidel (born 14 February 2005) is a German professional tennis player. She has a career-high WTA singles ranking of world No. 109, achieved on 9 June 2025, and a best doubles ranking of No. 190, attained on 23 September 2024. Junior career Seidel was born in Hamburg, Germany and attended the Sportgymnasium Alter Teichweg school there, where she was able to graduate high school two years early at the age of 17, allowing her to focus on her tennis career. She also spent time training in Kühlungsborn, a Baltic Sea resort town where her parents owned a holiday home in. Professional career 2022: WTA doubles debut Seidel made her WTA main draw debut at the 2022 Hamburg European Open in the doubles draw partnering with Nastasja Schunk, winning her first round match against Elixane Lechemia and Sabrina Santamaria. 2023: WTA singles and top 200 debut In singles, she made her main-draw debut as a wildcard at the WTA 250 2023 Hamburg European Open, losing to compatriot Jule ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tatjana Maria
Tatjana Maria (née Malek; born 8 August 1987) is a German professional tennis player. In January 2024 she reached her career-best singles ranking of world No. 42, and in June 2016, she peaked at No. 54 in the doubles rankings. She has won four singles titles and four doubles titles on the WTA Tour, as well as one singles title on the WTA Challenger Tour. She has also won 16 singles and 15 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. She has played 1243 matches, the third highest number of tennis matches in the Open Era, after just Martina Navratilova and Chris Evert. She has made 16 appearances (23 matches) for Germany in the Billie Jean King Cup competition between 2006 and 2011 and between 2018 and 2025.'' Career 2013–2016: Wimbledon third round, top 100 debut Maria took a sabbatical in 2013, to have her first child, and returned to tour at the 2014 Copa Colsanitas. 2017–2020: Top 50, first WTA Tour title Maria reached a career-high ranking in the top 50 in November 2017. Sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Veronika Kudermetova
Veronika Eduardovna Kudermetova (born 24 April 1997) is a Russian professional tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 9, achieved on 24 October 2022, and a best WTA doubles ranking of No. 2, reached on 6 June 2022. In doubles, she has won eight WTA Tour titles including three WTA 1000, and the 2022 WTA Finals – Doubles, 2022 WTA Finals with Elise Mertens. In addition, she reached the doubles final of Wimbledon in 2021, with Elena Vesnina. She has also won two WTA singles titles. Kudermetova won her first WTA Tour singles title at the 2021 Volvo Car Open, 2021 Charleston Open, and her first WTA doubles title at the 2019 Wuhan Open, partnering Duan Yingying. She made her WTA Tour main-draw debut in singles at the 2018 Porsche Tennis Grand Prix, and in doubles at the 2014 Kremlin Cup, partnering with Evgeniya Rodina. Playing for the Russia Fed Cup team, Kudermetova has a win–loss record of 3–4. Personal life Kudermetova was born to Eduard Kudermet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elise Mertens
Elise Mertens (; born 17 November 1995) is a Belgian professional tennis player. She became List of WTA number 1 ranked doubles tennis players, world No. 1 in doubles on 10 May 2021, the third Belgian to hold the top ranking in either singles or doubles after Kim Clijsters and Justine Henin. She has won 31 WTA Tour titles. Mertens is a four-time Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, major champion in doubles, having won the 2019 US Open – Women's doubles, 2019 US Open and 2021 Australian Open – Women's doubles, 2021 Australian Open partnering with Aryna Sabalenka, and the 2021 Wimbledon Championships – Women's doubles, 2021 Wimbledon Championships and 2024 Australian Open – Women's doubles, 2024 Australian Open with Hsieh Su-wei. She also finished runner-up at the 2022 Wimbledon Championships – Women's doubles, 2022 Wimbledon Championships with Zhang Shuai and at the 2023 Wimbledon Championships – Women's doubles, 2023 Wimbledon Championships with Storm Hunter. Mertens has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
