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Margit Rüütel
Margit Rüütel (born 4 September 1983) is a former tennis player from Estonia. In her career, she won six singles titles and seven doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. On 12 January 2009, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 158. On 9 April 2007, she peaked at No. 192 in the doubles rankings. Rüütel made 42 appearances for the Estonia Fed Cup team between 1999 and 2012. Playing in Fed Cup The Billie Jean King Cup (or the BJK Cup) is the premier international team competition in women's tennis, launched as the Federation Cup in 1963 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the International Tennis Federation (ITF). The name was cha ... competition, Rüütel has a win–loss record of 20–22. In 2012, she played her last match on the ITF Circuit, and retired from circuit 2015. ITF Circuit finals Singles: 12 (6 titles, 6 runner-ups) Doubles: 12 (7 titles, 5 runner-ups) References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Ruutel, Margit 1983 births Livin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tallinn
Tallinn is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Estonia, most populous city of Estonia. Situated on a Tallinn Bay, bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, it has a population of (as of 2025) and administratively lies in the Harju County, Harju ''Counties of Estonia, maakond'' (county). Tallinn is the main governmental, financial, industrial, and cultural centre of Estonia. It is located northwest of the country's second largest city, Tartu, however, only south of Helsinki, Finland; it is also west of Saint Petersburg, Russia, north of Riga, Latvia, and east of Stockholm, Sweden. From the 13th century until the first half of the 20th century, Tallinn was known in most of the world by variants of its other historical Names of Tallinn in different languages, name Reval. “Reval” received Lübeck law, Lübeck city rights in 1248; however, the earliest evidence of human settlement in the area dates back nearly 5,000 years. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magda Linette
Magda Linette (born 12 February 1992) is a Polish professional tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 19, achieved in March 2023. She has reached eight finals on the WTA Tour, winning three titles, and the semifinal of the 2023 Australian Open – Women's singles, 2023 Australian Open, and the third round of the other majors. Linette made her first appearance in a WTA Tour main draw at the 2013 Internationaux de Strasbourg – Singles, Internationaux de Strasbourg in May 2013, where she also scored her first match win at this level. The same year, she reached her first WTA Tour semifinal in 2013 Baku Cup – Singles, Baku, coming from qualifying. Linette won her first WTA 125 tournaments, WTA 125 title at the 2014 Ningbo International Women's Tennis Open, 2014 Ningbo International Open, and her first WTA Tour title at the 2019 Bronx Open. Her best result in WTA Premier tournaments is the quarterfinals of 2016 Toray Pan Pacific Open, 2016 Pan Pacific Ope ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karen Paterson
Karen Paterson (born 18 May 1982) is a Scottish retired tennis player. She is now known as Karen Lamb. Between the years 1998 and 2007 she won a total of seven titles on the ITF Women's Circuit, reaching a career-high ranking of world No. 369 in singles (achieved on 3 October 2005) and No. 220 as a doubles player (achieved on 6 August 2007). She coached British junior, Steph Cornish and currently coaches another British player, Jocelyn Rae. As a singles competitor, she never managed to qualify for any of the four Grand Slam tournaments although she did compete in the Wimbledon doubles competition on two occasions in 2006 and 2007. In 2006, she and Rebecca Llewellyn were beaten by the No. 2 seeds, Cara Black and Rennae Stubbs, and in 2007 she and Melanie South lost to Janette Husárová and Meghann Shaughnessy, the No. 7 seeds. Career 1998–2000 Paterson's first professional tournament came in September 1998 when she attempted to qualify for a $25k tournament in Edinburgh, S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Keothavong
Anne Viensouk Keothavong (born 16 September 1983) is a British former tennis player. In her career, she won a total of 28 titles on the ITF Women's Circuit, and reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 48 (achieved February 2009). She also reached the semifinals of six WTA International tournaments, and the semifinals of one Premier tournament. Keothavong was British No. 1 and in 2009 became the first British player to make the WTA top 50 since 1993. In April 2001, aged 17, she became, until Katie Swan in 2016, the youngest player ever to play in the Fed Cup for the British team, and she is second (alongside Elena Baltacha) to Virginia Wade's record for most Fed Cup ties played for the Great Britain with 39. Keothavong announced her retirement on 24 July 2013. After that, she became a member of BT Sport's tennis coverage team, alongside Martina Navratilova and fellow British ex-number one Sam Smith. In 2017, Keothavong became Fed Cup captain for Great Britain, lea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elena Baltacha
Elena Sergeevna Baltacha (; 14 August 1983 – 4 May 2014) was a Ukrainian-born British professional tennis player. Being a four-time winner of the AEGON Awards, she was also a long-term British No. 1, a position she held intermittently from 2002 to 2012. However, as a result of her absence from competition due to knee surgery, she dropped down the world rankings and at the time of her retirement on 18 November 2013, she was ranked as the world No. 221 and British No. 6. Her career-high ranking of world No. 49 was achieved in September 2010. Over the course of her career, she won 11 ITF singles titles (five $25k, two $50k, two $75k, and two $100k) and four ITF doubles titles (all $25k). She was also a runner-up in three ITF events in singles and four in doubles. In 2010, Baltacha had victories over top 10-players, including two victories over Li Na (the second of which came via retirement) and one against Francesca Schiavone, who at the time was the reigning French Open ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flavia Pennetta
Flavia Pennetta (; born 25 February 1982) is an Italian former professional tennis player. She became Italy's first top-ten female singles player on 17 August 2009 and the first Italian to be ranked List of WTA number 1 ranked doubles tennis players, world No. 1 in doubles, on 28 February 2011. She is a Grand Slam (tennis), major champion, having won the 2011 Australian Open – Women's doubles, 2011 Australian Open women's doubles title with Gisela Dulko, and the 2015 US Open – Women's singles, 2015 US Open singles title over childhood friend Roberta Vinci in the first all-Italian major final. Pennetta won ten other WTA Tour, WTA singles titles, including the 2014 BNP Paribas Open – Women's singles, 2014 Indian Wells Open, where she defeated the top two seeds. She also was a mainstay in the Fed Cup team competition, helping Italy Fed Cup team, Italy win four titles in 2006 Fed Cup, 2006, 2009 Fed Cup, 2009, 2010 Fed Cup, 2010, and 2013 Fed Cup, 2013. Her other highlights in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caroline-Ann Basu
Caroline-Ann Basu (born 11 July 1983) is a former professional tennis player from Germany. Basu has a career high WTA singles ranking of 396 achieved on 15 September 2003. She also has a career high WTA doubles ranking of 270 achieved on 14 April 2003. Partnering Kildine Chevalier, Basu won her first $40k tournament in March 2003 at the ITF Monterrey in Mexico. Basu played college tennis in the USA. She played for the Georgia Bulldogs of University of Georgia.Basu was born in Wolfsburg Wolfsburg (; Eastphalian language, Eastphalian: ''Wulfsborg'') is the fifth-largest city in the Germany, German state of Lower Saxony, on the river Aller (Germany), Aller east of Hanover and west of Berlin. Wolfsburg is famous as the locat ... Her mother and father are doctors. She has two brothers and can speak five languages. In 1999 she won the Junior tournament Copa del Cafe in San José, Costa Rica. ITF Circuit finals Singles: 2 (0 titles, 2 runner-up) Doubles: 10 (4 titles, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irina Kotkina
Irina Kotkina (born 19 September 1986) is a Russian former professional tennis player. Biography A right-handed player from Moscow, Kotkina was a top 10 ranked junior. At the 2004 French Open, she and Yaroslava Shvedova were runners-up in the girls' doubles, to Kateřina Böhmová and Michaëlla Krajicek. On the professional circuit she reached a best singles ranking of 400 in the world. She featured in one 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 ... main draw, as a wildcard at the 2006 İstanbul Cup, where she retired hurt while trailing Michaëlla Krajicek in the first round, due to an elbow injury. In her career, Kotkina won four ITF titles, all in doubles. ITF finals Singles (0–4) Doubles (4–5) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Kotk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ilona Poljakova
Ilona Poljakova (born 1 April 1973) is an Estonian former professional tennis player. Born and raised in Pärnu, Poljakova studied at Virginia Commonwealth University in the United States, where she played collegiate tennis before joining the professional tour. She was a member of the Estonia Fed Cup team between 1999 and 2005, appearing in a total of 11 ties, for two singles and four doubles wins. After retiring from the professional tennis, Poljakova became a beach tennis Beach tennis is a game combining elements of tennis and volleyball and played on a beach. Recognized * First played 1972. * First championship was played in 1976/1978. * International Federation Beach Tennis (IFBT) was founded in 1995. * Inte ... player. ITF finals Singles: 3 (0–3) Doubles: 3 (1–2) References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Poljakova, Ilona 1973 births Living people Estonian female tennis players Female tennis players playing beach tennis Sportspeople from Pärnu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniela Olivera
Daniela Olivera (born 10 December 1980) is a Uruguayan retired tennis player. Olivera won one single titles and seven doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. On 16 April 2001, she reached her best singles ranking of world number 222. On 3 December 2001, she peaked at world number 224 in the doubles rankings. Playing for Uruguay in Fed Cup The Billie Jean King Cup (or the BJK Cup) is the premier international team competition in women's tennis, launched as the Federation Cup in 1963 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the International Tennis Federation (ITF). The name was cha ..., Olivera has accumulated a win/loss record of 19–14. ITF Circuit finals Singles: 8 (1–7) Doubles: 12 (7–5) References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Olivera, Daniela 1980 births Living people Tennis players from Montevideo Uruguayan female tennis players 20th-century Uruguayan women 21st-century Uruguayan sportswomen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kildine Chevalier
Kildine Chevalier (born 30 June 1980) is a French former professional tennis player. Chevalier has a career-high singles ranking by the WTA of 218, achieved on 2 February 2004. She also has a career-high WTA doubles ranking of 172, achieved on 5 July 2004. Chevalier won eight singles and 22 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. Chevalier retired from professional tennis in 2009. ITF finals Singles (8–6) Doubles (22–23) Junior Grand Slam finals Girls' singles: 1 (runner-up) External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Chevalier, Kildine 1980 births Living people French female tennis players Tennis players from Lyon 21st-century French sportswomen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Līga Dekmeijere
Līga Dekmeijere (born 21 May 1983) is an inactive Latvian tennis player. She has won one doubles title on the WTA Tour, as well as 20 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 26 August 2002, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 287. On 5 April 2010, she peaked at No. 54 in the doubles rankings. Dekmeijere has won her only WTA Tour, WTA tournament title at the 2008 Cachantún Cup, where she entered the doubles draw with Poland's Alicja Rosolska, defeating Mariya Koryttseva and Julia Schruff in the final. Playing for Latvia Fed Cup team, Dekmeijere has a win–loss record of 14–16. Doubles performance timeline WTA Tour finals Doubles: 7 (1 title, 6 runner-ups) ITF Circuit finals Singles: 1 (runner–up) Doubles: 30 (20 titles, 10 runner–ups) References External links * * * Official websiteESPN Profile {{DEFAULTSORT:Dekmeijere, Liga 1983 births Living people Tennis players from Riga Latvian female tennis players ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
