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Sophie Ferguson
Sophie Ferguson (born 19 March 1986) is a former professional Australian tennis player. She won nine titles on the ITF Women's Circuit (six in doubles) and played on the WTA Tour. She reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 109 on 19 July 2010, and best ranking in doubles of 148 on 8 October 2007. She retired from tour in 2012. Ferguson has undergone coaching from Australian Tony Roche. Career In 2005, Ferguson got entry in the 2005 Australian Open as a wildcard. She defeated Nuria Llagostera Vives in the first round, before falling to Nadia Petrova in the second. At the 2007 Australian Open, she defeated former world No. 8, Ai Sugiyama. She received a wildcard to compete in the 2007 Indian Open but lost in the first round against Jelena Kostanić Tošić. She played at the 2009 Korea Open, and won through qualifying, before losing to former champion Maria Kirilenko. In 2010, Ferguson got entry in the French Open as a qualifier. In the first round, she def ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Sydney
Sydney is the capital city of the States and territories of Australia, state of New South Wales and the List of cities in Australia by population, most populous city in Australia. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Sydney Harbour and extends about 80 km (50 mi) from the Pacific Ocean in the east to the Blue Mountains (New South Wales), Blue Mountains in the west, and about 80 km (50 mi) from Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park and the Hawkesbury River in the north and north-west, to the Royal National Park and Macarthur, New South Wales, Macarthur in the south and south-west. Greater Sydney consists of 658 suburbs, spread across 33 local government areas. Residents of the city are colloquially known as "Sydneysiders". The estimated population in June 2024 was 5,557,233, which is about 66% of the state's population. Estimated resident population, 30 June 2017. The city's nicknames include the Emerald City and the Harbour City. There is ev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Wynne Prakusya
Wynne Prakusya (born 26 April 1981) is a former tennis player from Indonesia. Her first appearance in a professional tournament occurred in 1996, when she was 14 years old. She formally went professional in 1998. Over her career, she has won two WTA doubles titles, nine ITF singles titles and 17 ITF doubles titles. As a junior, her highest achievements includes reaching the 1998 Australian Open junior finals and the 1998 Wimbledon junior quarterfinals. Her first appearance at a WTA event took place in September 1997 at the Wismilak International in Surabaya. The first time she won a match in the WTA Tour was in the 1999 Wismilak International in Kuala Lumpur. In 2000, Prakusya began to attempt qualification for the main draws of major tournaments. She also began to appear primarily at WTA rather than ITF events. Her first win in the main draw of a major came in the 2001 Australian Open, in which she and partner Janet Lee reached round two in the women's doubles. Her first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Jeon Mi-ra
Jeon Mi-ra (, born 6 February 1978) is a South Korean former professional tennis player. She was the runner-up in the 1994 Wimbledon Championships girls' singles tournament, losing to Martina Hingis, 5–7, 4–6. As a professional, she won one WTA Tour doubles title, and reached a career-high doubles ranking of No. 120, in October 2004. Her husband is Yoon Jong-shin Yoon Jong-shin (; born October 15, 1969) is a South Korean singer-songwriter, record producer, and the CEO of Mystic Story. Early life and education Yoon completed high school at Daewon Foreign Language High School and studied Korean Language .... WTA career finals Doubles: 1 (1 title) ITF finals Singles (7–12) Doubles (12–14) External links * * * 1978 births Living people Sportspeople from North Jeolla Province South Korean female tennis players Asian Games medalists in tennis Tennis players at the 1994 Asian Games Tennis players at the 1998 Asian Games Tennis players at the 2002 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Casey Dellacqua
Casey Dellacqua ( ; born 11 February 1985) is an Australian former professional tennis player and current commentator. Her best singles results on the WTA Tour have been semifinal appearances at the 2012 Texas Tennis Open and 2014 Birmingham Classic, a quarterfinal finish at the 2014 Indian Wells Open and fourth round appearances at the 2008 Australian Open, the 2014 Australian Open and the 2014 US Open; she also won 22 ITF singles titles. Dellacqua's career highlights, however, have all come in doubles. She has won seven WTA Tour doubles titles, 23 ITF doubles titles, and one Grand Slam mixed-doubles title, at the 2011 French Open. She reached the finals of all four major events in women's doubles, appearing in seven finals from 2008 to 2017, however failed to win a title. She won her biggest women's doubles title at the Premier Mandatory 2015 Madrid Open, partnered with Yaroslava Shvedova. Dellacqua achieved her highest singles ranking of world No. 26 in September ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Julia Görges
Julia Görges (born 2 November 1988) is a German former professional tennis player. A former top-ten singles player, she was ranked as high as No. 9 in the world on 20 August 2018, and was ranked inside the top 15 in doubles, peaking at world No. 12 on 22 August 2016. She won seven singles and five doubles titles on the Women's Tennis Association, WTA Tour (her biggest title coming at the year-end 2017 WTA Elite Trophy), as well as six singles and six doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit, ITF Circuit. Görges turned professional in 2005, and first broke into the world's top 100 in June 2008. Prior to 2018, her best singles result in a Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam tournament was reaching the fourth round five times. She broke into the top ten for the first time in February 2018, before going on to reach the semifinals at the 2018 Wimbledon Championships. She was also a two-time semifinalist in women's doubles at the Australian Open, and reached the finals in mixed doubles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Open De Biarritz
The ENGIE OPEN Biarritz ''(previously known as the Open GDF Suez de Biarritz)'' is a tournament for professional female tennis players played on outdoor clay courts. The event is classified as a $60,000 ITF Women's Circuit tournament and has been held in Biarritz Biarritz ( , , , ; also spelled ; ) is a city on the Bay of Biscay, on the Atlantic coast in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in the French Basque Country in southwestern France. It is located from the border with Spain. It is a luxu ..., France, since 2003 (then a $25,000 category tournament). The 2024 Engie Open de Biarritz was upgraded to a $100,000 tournament. Past finals Singles Doubles References External links * ITF search {{ITF Women's Circuit ITF Women's World Tennis Tour Clay court tennis tournaments Tennis tournaments in France Recurring sporting events established in 2003 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Chanelle Scheepers
Chanelle Scheepers ( ; born 13 March 1984) is a retired South African tennis player. She won one singles and one doubles title on the WTA Tour, as well as 12 singles and 20 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit in her career. On 10 October 2011, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 37. On 10 April 2014, she peaked at No. 42 in the doubles rankings. Career Scheepers turned pro in 2000 and played two ITF events. In 2001, she reached four finals on ITF level and won all, with three of them coming from Durban, South Africa a local tournament, and one in the United States. In 2002, she reached three ITF finals winning one in Mackay, Australia and losing in the other two in Liechtenstein and Switzerland. In 2003, she played her first tour-level event in the Mondial Australian Women's Hardcourts and won her first main-draw tour-level match after getting through the qualifying draw over Samantha Stosur but lost to Tathiana Garbin in the next round. She then had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Industrial Bank Cup
The Industrial Bank Cup () is a tournament for professional female tennis players played on outdoor hardcourts. The event is classified as a $60,000 ITF Women's Circuit tournament and has been held annually in Quanzhou, China since 2009. Past finals Singles Doubles External links ITF search {{ITF Women's Circuit ITF Women's World Tennis Tour Hard court tennis tournaments Tennis tournaments in China Sport in Quanzhou Recurring sporting events established in 2009 Industrial Bank Cup, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Julia Vakulenko
Julia Olehivna Vakulenko (; born 10 July 1983) is a Ukraine-born former tennis player. She achieved her career-high ranking of No. 32 in November 2007. In April 2008, Vakulenko renounced her Ukrainian citizenship, and then announced her decision to acquire the citizenship of Spain where she's lived for the last ten years.Известная теннисистка отказалась от украинского гражданства '''', April 23, 2008 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Kristie Ahn
Kristie Hyerim Ahn (born June 15, 1992) is an American former professional tennis player. In her career, she won seven singles and two doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. On 30 September 2019, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 87. Her first appearance at a Grand Slam tournament was at 16 at the 2008 US Open. In 2019, she was given a wildcard bid and reached the fourth round of the US Open where she became the first Asian American woman to make the round of 16 at a Grand Slam tournament since Lilia Osterloh accomplished the feat in 2000. Ahn is of Korean descent and was born in Flushing Hospital, having later lived in Englewood Cliffs, N.J. She graduated from Stanford University in 2014 with a degree in Science, Technology and Society. She played on the Stanford Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University, is a private research university in Stanford, California, United States. It was founded in 1885 by railroad magn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Marina Erakovic
Marina Erakovic ( ; ; born 6 March 1988) is a former tennis player from New Zealand. She achieved career-high rankings of 39 in singles and 25 in doubles, and won a singles title at Memphis in February 2013, and eight doubles titles on the WTA Tour. Personal life Born in Split, Croatia (then part of Yugoslavia), Erakovic emigrated with her family to Auckland, New Zealand, in 1994 at the age of six. She attended St Thomas's Primary School and Glendowie College in Auckland. Junior career Erakovic and Monica Niculescu were the runners-up to Victoria Azarenka and Olga Govortsova in the 2004 Wimbledon girls' doubles, before Erakovic teamed with Michaëlla Krajicek to win the US Open title three months later, beating Niculescu and her Romanian teammate Mădălina Gojnea. Erakovic became the first player from New Zealand to win a Grand Slam title (singles or doubles) since James Greenhalgh and Steven Downs won the boys' doubles in 1993 at the French Open and Wimbledon. Erakovi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Zhao Yijing
Zhao Yijing (; ; born 7 February 1989) is a Chinese former tennis player. On 11 June 2012, she reached her career-high WTA singles ranking of 244. On 9 July 2012, she peaked at No. 222 in the doubles rankings. Zhao won four singles and nine doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit The ITF Women's World Tennis Tour, previously known as the ITF Women's Circuit, is a series of professional tennis tournaments run by the International Tennis Federation for female professional tennis players. History It serves as a developmenta .... Career Zhao was accepted as a wildcard into the qualifying of the 2011 Guangzhou International Women's Open where she defeated eighth seed Hsu Wen-hsin and second seed Mădălina Gojnea. In the main draw, she defeated Misaki Doi in the first round, 6–4, 6–3. This was her first WTA Tour main-draw appearance. In the second round, she lost to Tetiana Luzhanska in three sets. After this performance, she rose 92 ranks to No. 345. She then als ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
