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2003 Australian Open – Women's Singles Qualifying
This article displays the qualifying draw for women's singles at the 2003 Australian Open. Seeds Qualifiers Draw First qualifier Second qualifier Third qualifier Fourth qualifier Fifth qualifier Sixth qualifier Seventh qualifier Eighth qualifier Ninth qualifier Tenth qualifier Eleventh qualifier Twelfth qualifier External links 2003 Australian Open – Women's draws and resultsat the International Tennis Federation The International Tennis Federation (ITF) is the governing body of world tennis, wheelchair tennis, and beach tennis. It was founded in 1913 as the International Lawn Tennis Federation by twelve national tennis associations. As of 2016, there ... Official Results Archive (WTA) {{DEFAULTSORT:2003 Australian Open - Women's Singles Qualifying Women's Singles Qualifying Australian Open (tennis) by year – Qualifying ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2003 Australian Open
The 2003 Australian Open was a tennis tournament held in 2003. It was the first Grand Slam event of the 2003 ATP Tour and the 2003 WTA Tour. It was the 91st edition of the event and attracted 512,225 spectators. Thomas Johansson could not defend his 2002 title due to an injury which would rule him out for all of 2003. Jennifer Capriati was unsuccessful in her title defence, being defeated in the first round by German Marlene Weingärtner. Andre Agassi won his fourth Australian Open and final Grand Slam title, defeating Rainer Schüttler in a lopsided final. Serena Williams defeated her sister Venus in the final in three sets, to win her fourth consecutive Grand Slam title to hold all four Grand Slam titles at once. Seniors Men's singles Andre Agassi defeated Rainer Schüttler, 6–2, 6–2, 6–1 *It was Agassi's 8th (and last) career Grand Slam title, and his 4th Australian Open title (an Open Era record until it was broken by Novak Djokovic in 2015). Women's singles Seren ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 reaching the finals of Madrid and Palermo Palermo ( , ; scn, Palermu , 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 .... Her best results in Grand Slam tournaments were appearances in the third round of the Wimbledon Championships in 2001, and of the US Open in 1999 and 2001. As a junior, she won the 1993 Orange Bowl for over-18s. WTA career finals Singles: 5 (3–2) ITF Circuit finals Singles (12–6) Doubles (1–3) Grand Slam singles performance timeline External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Montolio, Angeles Spanish female tennis playe ... [...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] |
Maria Sharapova
Maria Yuryevna Sharapova ( , ; rus, Мари́я Ю́рьевна Шара́пова, p=mɐˈrʲijə ʂɐˈrapəvə, a=Maria_sharapova.ogg; born 19 April 1987) is a Russian former world No. 1 tennis player. She competed on the WTA Tour from 2001 to 2020 and was ranked world No. 1 in singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for 21 weeks. She is one of ten women, and the only Russian, to achieve the career Grand Slam. She is also an Olympic medalist, having won silver in women's singles at the 2012 London Olympics. Sharapova became the world No. 1 for the first time on 22 August 2005 at the age of 18, becoming the first Russian woman to top the singles rankings, and last held the position for a fifth time for four weeks from 11 June 2012, to 8 July 2012. She won five major titles — two at the French Open and one each at the Australian Open, Wimbledon, and the US Open. She won 36 titles in total, including the year-end championships in her debut in 2004. She also won ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nuria Llagostera Vives
Nuria Llagostera Vives (; born 16 May 1980) is a retired Spanish tennis player. In June 2005, Llagostera Vives reached her best singles ranking of world No. 35. In November 2009, she peaked at No. 5 in the WTA doubles rankings. Professional career Vives was born in Palma, Majorca, Balearic Islands. In her career, she won two singles and 16 doubles titles on the WTA Tour. She also won the silver medal at the 2005 Mediterranean Games, losing the final to compatriot Laura Pous Tió. She was the doubles champion at the 2009 WTA Tour Championships, playing with María José Martínez Sánchez. They defeated Serena and Venus Williams en route to a three-set victory over top seeds Cara Black and Liezel Huber. On 11 November 2013, it was announced that she would be suspended until 7 September 2015 after testing positive for Dextroamphetamine at the Bank of the West Classic The Silicon Valley Classic, sponsored by Mubadala Investment Company, is a week-long tennis tournament on t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melinda Czink
Melinda Czink (born 22 October 1982) is a former professional tennis player from Hungary. On 21 September 2009, she reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 37. Czink reached two WTA Tour singles finals. In 2005, she lost to Ana Ivanovic in Canberra. In 2009, she defeated Lucie Šafářová in Quebec City for her first and only WTA Tour title. On the ITF Circuit, she won 20 singles and nine doubles titles. Tennis career 2000–2008 She played her first tournament at Budapest as a wildcard in 2000, and first entered the top 100 in 2003. Czink won several singles and doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. 2009 She reached the top 50 and won her first title at Quebec City; as the fifth seed, she defeated Aleksandra Wozniak in the semifinal, and Lucie Šafářová in the final. She also reached one semifinal and four quarterfinals during the season. At the end of the year, she played at the Tournament of Champions in Bali where she lost to Aravane Rezaï and to Sab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanislava Hrozenská
Stanislava Hrozenská (; born 17 June 1982 in Nitra) is a retired Slovak tennis player. She was a semifinalist at the 1999 US Open – Girls' doubles tournament. Hrozenská won three singles and eleven 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 .... On 27 January 2003, she reached her best singles ranking of No. 146. On 18 July 2005, she peaked at No. 151 in the doubles rankings. ITF finals (14–20) Singles (3–7) Doubles (11–13) Fed Cup participation Doubles References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Hrozenska, Stanislava 1982 births Living people Sportspeople from Nitra Slovak female tennis players Universiade medalists in tennis Universiade silver medalists for Slovakia Universiade bronze medalists for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eva Fislová
Eva Fislová (; born 17 March 1981) is a former professional Slovak tennis player. She won one singles title and six doubles titles on the ITF Circuit during her career. On 11 August 2003, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 98. On 13 September 2004, she peaked at No. 158 in the doubles rankings. Playing for Slovakia 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 chan ... competition, Fislová had a win–loss record of 0–3. She retired from professional tennis 2009. ITF finals Singles: 7 (1–6) Doubles: 18 (6–12) References External links * * * 1981 births Living people People from Považská Bystrica Slovak female tennis players {{Slovakia-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kristie Boogert
Kristie Boogert (born 16 December 1973) is a former professional female tennis player from the Netherlands who retired in 2003 due to chronic elbow pain. On 5 February 1996 she reached her career-high singles ranking of number 29. She has not won any singles titles, but did win three titles in doubles. At the 1994 French Open championships she won the mixed doubles title with countryman Menno Oosting. Her biggest achievement came during the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney where she won the silver medal in doubles, partnering Miriam Oremans. They were beaten by Venus and Serena Williams Serena Jameka Williams (born September 26, 1981) is an American inactive professional tennis player. Considered among the greatest tennis players of all time, she was ranked world No. 1 in singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) fo ... in the final. Major finals Olympic finals Doubles: 1 (0–1) WTA finals Singles 1 Doubles 10 (3–7) Mixed doubles 1 ITF Fina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lina Krasnoroutskaya
Lina Vladimirovna Krasnoroutskaya (russian: Лина Владимировна Красноруцкая ; born 29 April 1984) is a retired tennis player. She is a former junior world No. 1 (1999), and in addition, she won the US Open junior title. Krasnoroutskaya, however, had a career blighted by injury. Tennis career After a successful year in 2001, when she reached the quarterfinals at Roland Garros (seventh youngest player ever to do so) and the Wimbledon last 16, as the world No. 34, she was badly injured at the 2002 Australian Open when she obtained an invite from Hong Kong Tennis Patrons' Association to play the Hong Kong Ladies Challenge after. She was not effectively back until February 2003 when she climbed back up the rankings (reached 25th) after wins over Monica Seles, Elena Bovina, Nadia Petrova and then-world No. 1, Kim Clijsters. However, a shoulder injury at the end of 2003, then a liver condition in 2004, followed by stomach problems at the start of 2005 meant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vanessa Webb
Vanessa Webb (born 24 January 1976) is a Canadian former professional tennis player. She is currently the Player Class Director for the WTA Board of Directors. In her career, she won ten singles and 25 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. She also reached one WTA Tour doubles final, in Kuala Lumpur in 2000. College While at Duke, she won the Honda Sports Award as the nation's best female tennis player in 1999. Tennis career Webb made the second round of the 2003 Australian Open which was her best Grand Slam singles performance. She also reached the first round of the French Open (in 2003) and the US Open (in 1998 & 2000). In doubles, she made the second rounds of the French Open (in 2001,'02,'03 & '04) and the Wimbledon Championships (in 2003). Webb made the first rounds of the Australian Open (in 2000,'03) and US Open (in 1999, 2000), and also the first round of mixed-doubles at the Wimbledon Championships in 2003. Personal life After retiring from tennis, Webb has had a s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katalin Marosi
Katalin Marosi (born 12 November 1979) is a Hungarian former professional tennis player. In her career, Marosi won 15 singles and 31 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 8 May 2000, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 101. On 6 May 2013, she peaked at No. 33 in the doubles rankings. Playing for Hungary Fed Cup team, Marosi has a win–loss record of 15–13. Early life Her mother Ildiko is a secretary, her father Sandor a gymnastics trainer; she has one older brother (Peter). Marosi was introduced to tennis at age six by Antal and Eva Elekes in Budapest. Favorite surface of the all-court player was hardcourt, favorite shot forehand. Best memories include warming-up her serve with Steffi Graf in 1996 Roland Garros juniors, and winning her first ITF event. Marosi admired Graf because she knew everything about tennis and was so good mentally. WTA career finals Doubles: 3 (3 runner-ups) ITF Circuit finals Singles: 22 (15 titles, 7 runner-ups) Doub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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