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Teodora Mirčić
Teodora Mirčić ( sr-cyr, Теодора Мирчић, ; born 3 March 1988) is a retired Serbian tennis player. She won three singles and 33 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit, and also played for the Serbia Fed Cup team. Personal life Teodora Mirčić was born to Miomir and Draginja Mirčić in Belgrade, and also has a brother, Radovan. A great fan of sports, she cites hardcourt as her favourite surface, and Roger Federer and Monica Seles her idols.''SvetTenisa.net''Intervju s Teodorom Mirčić (26 July 2007) Mirčić began training tennis aged 8 at Belgrade's tennis club ''As''. She trained at the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy in Bradenton, Florida with a full scholarship, and currently resides in Sarasota, Florida. She also earned a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology at Indiana East University. Tennis career Teodora Mirčić was one of the best doubles players Serbia has had on the pro tour. She is the only female Serbian tennis player to win 33 ITF doubles titles. In si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarasota, Florida
Sarasota () is a city in Sarasota County on the Gulf Coast of the U.S. state of Florida. The area is renowned for its cultural and environmental amenities, beaches, resorts, and the Sarasota School of Architecture. The city is located in the southern end of the Greater Tampa Bay Area and north of Fort Myers and Punta Gorda. Its official limits include Sarasota Bay and several barrier islands between the bay and the Gulf of Mexico. Sarasota is a principal city of the Sarasota metropolitan area, and is the seat of Sarasota County. According to the 2020 U.S. census, Sarasota had a population of 54,842. The Sarasota city limits contain several keys, including Lido Key, St. Armands Key, Otter Key, Casey Key, Coon Key, Bird Key, and portions of Siesta Key. Longboat Key is the largest key separating the bay from the gulf, but it was evenly divided by the new county line of 1921. The portion of the key that parallels the Sarasota city boundary that extends to that new county l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Thorpe
Laura Thorpe (; born 24 May 1987) is a French former tennis player. On 6 June 2011, she achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 161. On 28 April 2014, she peaked at No. 86 in the doubles rankings. In her career, she won two singles and 16 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. In 2013, Thorpe played her first WTA Tour final at the Luxembourg Open alongside Kristina Barrois, which they lost against Yanina Wickmayer and Stephanie Vogt. WTA career finals Doubles: 1 (runner-up) ITF Circuit finals Singles: 8 (2 titles, 6 runner-ups) Doubles: 24 (16 titles, 8 runner-ups) External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Thorpe, Laura 1987 births Living people French female tennis players ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Urszula Radwańska
Urszula Radwańska (; born 7 December 1990) is a Polish professional tennis player. Radwańska has won one doubles title on the WTA Tour, as well as seven singles and ten doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 8 October 2012, she reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 29. On 21 September 2009, she peaked at No. 74 in the doubles rankings. As a junior player, Radwańska won the 2007 Wimbledon girls' singles title, culminating in the junior year-ending world No. 1 ranking. Nicknamed Ula, she is the younger sister of Agnieszka Radwańska. Tennis career As a junior player, Radwańska won Grand Slam titles, including the 2007 Wimbledon girls' singles, culminating in the junior year-ending world No. 1 ranking. This was the launching pad into her professional career, where she has been getting into WTA main draws via qualifying and wildcards. In 2007, Radwańska played in the main draw of three WTA Tour tournaments. She lost in the first round of the Tier II W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 changed to the Fed Cup in 1995, and changed again in September 2020 in honor of former World No. 1 Billie Jean King. The Billie Jean King Cup is the world's largest annual women's international team sports competition in terms of the number of nations that compete. The current Chairperson is Katrina Adams. The Czech Republic dominated the BJK Cup in the 2010s, winning six of ten competitions in the decade. The men's equivalent of the Billie Jean King Cup is the Davis Cup, and the Czech Republic, Australia, Russia and the United States are the only countries to have held both Cups at the same time. After the 2022 Russia invasion of Ukraine, the International Tennis Federation suspended Russia and Belarus from Billie Jean King Cup competition ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poland Fed Cup Team
The Poland Billie Jean King Cup team represents Poland in the Billie Jean King Cup tennis competition and are governed by the Polski Związek Tenisowy. They currently compete in the World Group. The Radwańska sisters won three singles competitions, Katarzyna Piter and Alicja Rosolska won double match and they gave Poland return to World Group II for the first time since 2010 with a 4-1 victory over Belgium in the Fed Cup by BNP Paribas World Group II play-off. Current Team (2022) * Magda Linette * Iga Świątek * Alicja Rosolska * Magdalena Frech * Maja Chwalińska History Poland competed in its first Fed Cup in 1966 Federation Cup (tennis), 1966. Their best result was reaching the quarterfinals in 1992 Federation Cup (tennis), 1992 and 2015 Fed Cup, 2015. {, , -valign=top , {, class=wikitable !Legend , - , bgcolor=ffff99, World Group , - , bgcolor=ffcccc, World Group Play-off , - , bgcolor=#F7E98E, World Group II , - , bgcolor=#ADDFAD, World Group II Play-off , ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ana Jovanović
Ana Jovanović ( sr-Cyrl, Ана Јовановић, ; born 28 December 1984) is a Serbian former professional tennis player. She was coached by Nikola Pilić. Tennis career During her career, she won nine titles in singles and one title in doubles on tournaments of the ITF Circuit. Playing for Serbia Serbia (, ; Serbian: , , ), officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian: , , ), is a landlocked country in Southeastern and Central Europe, situated at the crossroads of the Pannonian Basin and the Balkans. It shares land borders with Hung ... in the Fed Cup, Jovanović has a win–loss record of 3–6. Following her playing career, she was hired as a coach at the Novak Tennis Academy when it opened in November 2011. ITF Circuit finals Singles: 18 (9–8) Doubles: 4 (1–3) Fed Cup participation Singles (3–2) * PO = Playoff * RR = Round Robin Doubles (0–4) * CND = Cancelled * PO = Playoff * RR = Round Robin References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSO ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ana Ivanovic
Ana Schweinsteiger ( sr, Ана Швајнштајгер / ''Ana Švajnštajger''; born 6 November 1987), professionally known by her birth name Ana Ivanovic (Ана Ивановић / ''Ana Ivanović'', ), is a Serbian former world No. 1 tennis player. She gained the top ranking in 2008 after she won the 2008 French Open, and held it for a total of 12 weeks. She was also the runner-up at the 2007 French Open and the 2008 Australian Open, losing to Justine Henin and Maria Sharapova respectively. She qualified for the year-end WTA Tour Championships three times, in 2007, 2008 and 2014 and won the year-end WTA Tournament of Champions twice, in 2010 and 2011. Ivanovic won 15 WTA Tour singles titles, and one Grand Slam singles title, the French Open in 2008. Additionally during this time, she earned over $15.5 million in prize money, which is the 25th highest in the all-time rankings. In June 2011, she was named one of the "30 Legends of Women's Tennis: Past, Present and Fut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jelena Janković
Jelena Janković ( sr-Cyrl, Јелена Јанковић, ; born 28 February 1985) is a Serbian former tennis player. A former world No. 1, Janković reached the top ranking before her career-best major performance, a runner-up finish at the 2008 US Open. Janković won 15 WTA Tour singles titles and two doubles titles, with career highlights that include winning the 2007 Wimbledon mixed-doubles title partnering Jamie Murray. Family and early life Janković was born in Belgrade, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, as the third child of Veselin and Snežana, both economists. She has two brothers, Marko and Stefan. She is a student at the Megatrend University in Belgrade, studying economics. However, she has put her course of study on indefinite hold as she continues to pursue her tennis career. Janković learned her first tennis skills at the Tennis Club 'Red Star'. As a -year-old she was introduced to tennis by her elder brother and fitness coach Marko. She later ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tashkent Open
The Tashkent Open by Zeromax is a women's tennis tournament held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Held since 1999, this WTA Tour event is an International tournament and is played on outdoor hard courts. Since 2014, the event has been scheduled in early autumn, during the same week as Wuhan Open. In 2020 the tournament was replaced by WTA Lyon Open. Past finals Women's singles Women's doubles See also * List of tennis tournaments *ATP Tashkent Open The ATP Tashkent Open is a defunct ATP Tour affiliated men's tennis tournament played from 1997 to 2002. It was held in Tashkent in Uzbekistan and was played on outdoor hard courts. Although no ATP 250 level tournaments have been played in Tashk ... – Men's tennis tournament References External linksOfficial Website [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Veronika Kapshay
Veronika Kapshay ( uk, Вероніка Капшай; born 2 December 1986) is a Ukrainian former tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball c ... player. Kapshay won three singles titles and 23 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. On 14 May 2012, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 227. On 20 April 2009, she peaked at No. 114 in the doubles rankings. ITF Circuit finals Singles: 9 (3 titles, 6 runner-ups) Doubles: 51 (23 titles, 28 runner-ups) External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Kapshay, Veronika 1986 births Living people Sportspeople from Lviv Ukrainian female tennis players 21st-century Ukrainian women ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2011 Internazionali Femminili Di Palermo – Singles Qualifying
This article displays the qualifying draw of the 2011 Internazionali Femminili di Palermo. Players Seeds Qualifiers Lucky losers # Lara Arruabarrena-Vecino Qualifying draw First qualifier Second qualifier Third qualifier Fourth qualifier References Qualifying Draw {{DEFAULTSORT:2011 Internazionali Femminili di Palermo - Singles Qualifying 2011 - qualifying Internazionali Femminili di Palermo - qualifying ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karin Knapp
Karin Knapp (born 28 June 1987) is a retired Italian tennis player. In her career, Knapp won two singles titles on the WTA Tour, as well as six singles titles and six doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. On 24 August 2015, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 33. On 28 September 2015, she peaked at No. 49 in the doubles rankings. As a member of the Italy Fed Cup team, Knapp was part of the winning squad in 2013 and has a win–loss record of 3–3. Personal life Knapp was born 1987 in the northern Italian province of South Tyrol. Her father, Alois, is a fabric manufacturer and her mother, Marianne, is a retired school teacher. She has two brothers, Stefan and Michael. Knapp was introduced to tennis at age seven by her parents. She admires Kim Clijsters. Career 2007 At the French Open, her first Grand Slam tournament, she reached the third round in the singles event, beating 22nd-seeded Alona Bondarenko. In the third round, she lost to 14th-seeded Patty Schnyder. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
