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2001 ASB Classic – Doubles
Cara Black and Alexandra Fusai were the defending champions but they competed with different partners that year, Black with Sandrine Testud and Fusai with Rita Grande. Black and Testud lost in the semifinals to Emmanuelle Gagliardi and Barbara Schett. Fusai and Grande won in the final 7–6(7–4), 6–3 against Gagliardi and Schett. Seeds Champion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated. # Cara Black / Sandrine Testud ''(semifinals)'' # Liezel Horn / Paola Suárez ''(semifinals)'' # Alexandra Fusai / Rita Grande (champions) # Tina Križan / Katarina Srebotnik ''(quarterfinals)'' Draw Qualifying Seeds # Amanda Augustus / Amy Jensen ''(second round)'' # Haruka Inoue / Maiko Inoue (Qualifiers) Qualifiers # Haruka Inoue / Maiko Inoue Draw * '' NB: The first two rounds used the pro set In American football, the pro set or split backs formation is a formation (American football), forma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandra Fusai
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Milagros Sequera
Milagros Sequera Huss (; born 30 September 1980) is a Venezuelan former professional tennis player. Career She joined the WTA Tour in 1999 and was ranked world No. 48 in July 2007. Her coach was Larry Willens. She was introduced to the game at the age of seven. Her favorite surface was hardcourt. She won her first title in Fes, Morocco, in May 2007, defeating Aleksandra Wozniak in the final. Sequera won the gold medal at the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, winning the final against Sarah Taylor, and again in the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, winning the final against Mariana Duque Marino. Sequera retired from professional tennis in 2009. Personal Milagros currently resides in San Diego with her husband, Stephen Huss, whom she married in the Dandenong Ranges, near Melbourne, Australia, on 29 December 2009. She was born on the same day as Martina Hingis Martina Hingis (, ; born 30 September 1980) is a Swiss forme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lilia Osterloh
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Yuka Yoshida
Yuka Kaneko (née Yuka Yoshida, , born 1 April 1976) is a former professional tennis player from Japan. In her career, she won three doubles titles on the WTA Tour: 1995 in Tokyo, 1996 in Pattaya Pattaya is a city in Eastern Thailand, the second-largest city in Chonburi province and the List of municipalities in Thailand, eighth-largest city in Thailand. It is on the east coast of the Gulf of Thailand, about southeast of Bangkok, and h ..., and 2005 in Memphis. Kaneko also won five singles and seven doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. Her best Grand Slam performance came in 1998 when she reached the quarterfinals of the doubles tournament of the US Open. WTA career finals Singles: 1 (runner-up) Doubles: 5 (3 titles, 2 runner-ups) ITF Circuit finals Singles: 10 (5–5) Doubles: 15 (7–8) References External links * * 1976 births Living people Japanese female tennis players Sportspeople from Yokohama Tennis people from Kanagawa Prefecture Spo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shinobu Asagoe
is a Japanese former tennis player. She turned professional in 1997, and retired in 2006. Career 2000 was the first year in which she finished in the WTA top 100 (No. 72). At the US Open that year, she defeated Patty Schnyder, a top-50 player. She also reached her first WTA Tour quarterfinal that year at the Princess Cup at Tokyo, defeating Ai Sugiyama and losing to Monica Seles. She also represented Japan at the Sydney Olympics. In 2003, she reached her first WTA singles final. In 2004, she reached her second career singles final in Hobart, as well as her first Grand Slam quarterfinal at the US Open. In April 2005, Asagoe reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 21. In May of the following year, she reached her career-high doubles ranking (13th). Asagoe appeared in one WTA Tour final, in Auckland 2003, where she lost to Katarina Srebotnik in three sets. She held a 4–0 lead in the second set when Srebotnik took an injury timeout. From there, Strebotnik played ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pavlina Nola
Pavlina Stoyanova-Nola () (born 14 July 1974) is a former tennis player who played for both Bulgaria (up to May 2001) and New Zealand (since June 2001) in her professional career. Tennis career Nola turned professional in 1995. She reached her career high ranking of No. 68 in the world on 14 May 2001. The best singles result of her career was finishing runner-up to Henrieta Nagyová at a WTA tournament in Palermo Palermo ( ; ; , locally also or ) is a city in southern Italy, the capital (political), capital of both the autonomous area, autonomous region of Sicily and the Metropolitan City of Palermo, the city's surrounding metropolitan province. The ... where she lost 3–6, 5–7. She also one won doubles title at the same tournament two years previously with Elena Pampoulova-Wagner. She played her last match in 2002, losing in the first round of the 2002 Australian Open to Janette Husárová. ''Captain of Campbells Bay Tennis Club – Chelsea Cup team 2010'' — ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leanne Baker
Leanne Baker (born 8 January 1981) is a former New Zealand professional tennis Tennis is a List of racket sports, racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles (tennis), singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles (tennis), doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket st ... player, and a former United States club rugby player. She is currently the head coach of the Chicago Women's Rugby Football Club. Her tennis career-high singles ranking is world No. 260, which she reached on 26 February 2007. Her career-high doubles ranking is No. 108, set at 17 January 2005. WTA career finals Doubles: 1 (0–1) ITF Circuit finals Singles: 10 (7–3) Doubles: 38 (18–20) References Baker wins Mazatlan Title [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maiko Inoue
is a Japanese former tennis player. She is a younger sister of Haruka Inoue. A right-handed player, Inoue began competing on the professional tour in the late 1990s. She left the tour in 2003, before returning in 2007 and featuring as a doubles specialist. During her career she was most successful in doubles, with a best ranking of 139. She made several WTA Tour main-draw appearances in doubles and won 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 .... As a singles player, she was ranked as high as 299 in the world, winning two ITF titles. Inoue, who retired in 2012, is married to former tennis player Bumpei Sato. ITF finals Singles (2–2) Doubles (9–11) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Inoue, Maiko 1979 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haruka Inoue
is a former professional tennis player from Japan. Biography Early life Born in Tokyo, Inoue, a right-handed baseline player, started tennis aged nine and was coached by her father Gou. Her younger sisters, Maiko and Akari, also played on the professional tennis circuit. She had her best year as a junior in 1995 when she was a girls' singles quarter-finalist at the Australian Open and semi-finalist at the Wimbledon Championships. Professional career In 1996 she graduated from high school and began competing on the professional tour. Her earliest success on the WTA Tour came at the Wismilak International in Surabaya, where he made the quarter-finals in both 1996 and 1997. She qualified for her first Grand Slam tournament at the 1997 Wimbledon Championships and was beaten by seventh seed Anke Huber in the first round. In the 1998 season, she reached her highest ranking of 108 in the world. Her highlights in 1998 include reaching the quarterfinals of the ENKA Open in Istanbul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Émilie Loit
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Nathalie Dechy
Nathalie Dechy (born 21 February 1979) is a former professional tennis player from France. Dechy is a three-time doubles Grand Slam champion, winning the 2006 US Open women's doubles title with Vera Zvonareva, the 2007 French Open mixed doubles title with Andy Ram, and the 2007 US Open women's doubles title with Dinara Safina. Her biggest singles achievement is reaching the semifinals of the 2005 Australian Open. At the 2008 Wimbledon Championships, she faced world No. 1 and reigning French Open champion, Ana Ivanovic Ana Schweinsteiger (name at birth, née Ivanovic; born 6 November 1987) is a Serbian former professional tennis player. She was ranked as the List of WTA number 1 ranked singles tennis players, world No. 1 in women's singles by the Women's Tenn .... She had a match point during the second set, before losing in the super-tiebreak, 7–6, 6–7, 8–10. Since 2015, Nathalie Dechy has been the director of the Biarritz Tennis Tournament, a women's tennis tourn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mariana Díaz Oliva
Mariana Díaz Oliva (born 11 March 1976) is a former professional tennis player from Argentina. She played professionally from September 1992 until 12 October 2006. Her highest ranks were world No. 42 for singles and No. 93 for doubles, both achieved in 2001. At the 2001 Bol Open, she defeated Kim Clijsters to reach the final, where she lost to Ángeles Montolio Ángeles Montolio (born 6 August 1975) is a former tennis player from Spain. Montolio reached a career-high ranking of world No. 22 in February 2002, and won three WTA Tour titles at the small events in Porto, Estoril, and Bol, as well as reac .... In 2002, she won the Internazionali Femminili di Palermo. In 2003, she also reached the Mexican Open singles final. WTA Tour finals Singles: 3 (1 title, 2 runner-ups) Doubles: 2 (runner-ups) ITF finals Singles: 27 (16–11) Doubles: 23 (15–8) External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Diaz Oliva, Mariana 1976 births Living people Tennis players from B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |