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2009 Toray Pan Pacific Open
The 2009 Toray Pan Pacific Open was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 26th edition of the Toray Pan Pacific Open, and was part of the Premier Series of the 2009 WTA Tour. It was held at the Ariake Coliseum in Tokyo, Japan, from September 27 through October 2, 2009. Maria Sharapova won the singles title. Champions Singles Maria Sharapova defeated Jelena Janković, 5–2 (ret) * This is Sharapova's first title of the year and 20th of her career. It is her first title since April 2008 in the 2008 Bausch & Lomb Championships and her second win at this event, also winning in 2005. Doubles Alisa Kleybanova / Francesca Schiavone defeated Daniela Hantuchová / Ai Sugiyama, 6–4, 6–2 WTA entrants Seeds * seeds are based on the rankings of September 21, 2009 Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Dinara Safina * Ai Sugiyama * Ayumi Morita * Kimiko Date-Krumm The following players receiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WTA Premier Tournaments
WTA Premier tournaments was a category of tennis tournaments in the Women's Tennis Association, WTA Tour, implemented from the reorganization of the schedule in 2009 until 2020. In 2020, Premier events included: * Four "Premier Mandatory" events in Indian Wells, Miami, Madrid, and Beijing with prize money of $4.5 million. * Five "Premier 5" events in Doha, Rome, Cincinnati, Toronto/Montreal, and Wuhan with prize money of $2 million. * Twelve "Premier" events with prize money of $600,000 to $1,000,000. The ranking points awarded to the winners of these tournaments are: * "Premier Mandatory" 1000 * "Premier 5" 900 and * "Premier" 470. This compares to 2,000 points for winning a Grand Slam Tournament ("major"), up to 1,500 points for winning the WTA Finals, and 280 for winning an WTA International tournaments, International tournament. This system differs from that used for the men's ATP rankings, but only slightly. The men have nine Masters events with 1,000 points for the winner (a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caroline Wozniacki
Caroline Wozniacki (; born 11 July 1990) is an inactive Danish professional tennis player. She has been ranked as the List of WTA number 1 ranked singles tennis players, world No. 1 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association, WTA, holding the position for a total of 71 weeks (including as the year-end world No. 1 in 2010 WTA Tour, 2010 and 2011 WTA Tour, 2011). Wozniacki has won 30 WTA Tour-level singles Caroline Wozniacki career statistics#Singles, titles, including a Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, major at the 2018 Australian Open – Women's singles, 2018 Australian Open, as well as the 2017 WTA Finals – Singles, 2017 WTA Finals. Wozniacki had a successful junior career, winning the junior title at the 2006 Wimbledon Championships – Girls' singles, 2006 Wimbledon Championships. After being named the WTA Awards, WTA Newcomer of the Year in 2008, she contested two major finals at the 2009 US Open – Women's singles, 2009 and 2014 US Open – Women's singles, 201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kimiko Date-Krumm
is a Japanese former professional tennis player. She reached the semifinals of the 1994 Australian Open, the 1995 French Open and the 1996 Wimbledon Championships, and won the Japan Open a record four times. She reached a career-high ranking of world No. 4 in 1995, and retired from professional tennis in November 1996. She returned to tennis nearly 12 years later, announcing an unexpected comeback in April 2008. She then won her eighth WTA title at the 2009 Korea Open, becoming the second-oldest player in the Open era, after Billie Jean King, to win a singles title on the WTA Tour. In 2013, she won three WTA Tour titles in doubles and at the 2014 US Open, aged 43, she reached the semifinals of a Grand Slam doubles tournament for the first time in her career. Date announced her final retirement in September 2017. Professional career 1989–1996 Date began 1990 by reaching the fourth round at the Australian Open, where she was defeated by fourth seed Helena Suková. The foll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ayumi Morita
is a Japanese former professional tennis player. She reached a career-high ranking of 40 in the world in October 2011. At junior level, she reached a combined career-high ranking of 3. Morita is known for strong and consistent two-handed groundstrokes which she hits very flat. She was also regarded as very tough mentally for a young player, often showing great resolve to win close matches despite a lackluster serve. Morita was a small and quick player with excellent footwork and movement around the court. Morita is one of the most successful Fed Cup players of recent times with a 23–14 match win-loss record for Japan. Career On September 16, 2008, she beat world No. 19, Ágnes Szávay, in three sets in the Pan Pacific Open. In January 2009, Morita upset former Wimbledon quarterfinalist Michaëlla Krajicek in the final round of qualifying to reach the main draw of the Auckland Open. She faced third set deficits in all three of her qualifying matches, including a 4 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virginie Razzano
Virginie Razzano (born 12 May 1983) is a French former professional tennis player. She won two WTA Tour singles titles, both in 2007. Razzano reached her career-high WTA singles ranking of No. 16 on 14 September 2009. She represented France in the Fed Cup from 2001 to 2014; her overall Fed Cup win–loss record is 16–9 (singles 10–5, doubles 6–4). Career 2005 She was chosen by Georges Goven to play in the Fed Cup first round when Tatiana Golovin had an injury and Marion Bartoli and Émilie Loit were suspended. However, she was replaced by Séverine Brémond Beltrame because of injury in the quarterfinals. 2006–2007 On 31 August 2006, Razzano upset eighth seed Martina Hingis in the second round of the US Open. On 2 January 2007, she defeated former world No. 5, Daniela Hantuchová, in straight sets in the second round at the Auckland Open. In the first round at Wimbledon, she was upset by unseeded Yvonne Meusburger. At Forest Hills, she lost in her second WTA Tour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Li Na
Li Na (born 26 February 1982) is a Chinese former professional tennis player. She was WTA rankings, ranked world No. 2 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association. Li won nine WTA Tour-level singles titles, including two Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, majors at the 2011 French Open – Women's singles, 2011 French Open and 2014 Australian Open – Women's singles, 2014 Australian Open. Those victories made her the first major singles champion from Asia, male or female. She was also the runner-up at the 2011 Australian Open – Women's singles, 2011 Australian Open, 2013 Australian Open – Women's singles, 2013 Australian Open, and the 2013 WTA Tour Championships – Singles, 2013 WTA Tour Championships. A trailblazer for tennis in China, Li was the first Chinese player to win a WTA Tour title at the Guangzhou International Women's Open in 2004, the first to reach a major singles quarterfinal at the 2006 Wimbledon Championships – Women's singles, 2006 Wimbledon Cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marion Bartoli
Marion Bartoli (; born 2 October 1984) is a French former professional tennis player. Bartoli won the 2013 Wimbledon Championships – Women's singles, 2013 Wimbledon Championships singles title, after previously being runner-up in 2007 Wimbledon Championships – Women's singles, 2007, and was a semifinalist at the 2011 French Open – Women's singles, 2011 French Open. She also won seven singles and three doubles titles on the WTA Tour. Bartoli was known for her unorthodox style of play, using both hands on her forehand and backhand. On 30 January 2012, she reached a career-high ranking of world No. 7; she returned to this ranking on 8 July 2013, after triumphing at Wimbledon Championships, Wimbledon. Bartoli reached the quarterfinals at each of the four Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, majors. Her win at Wimbledon made her only the sixth player in the Open Era to win the title without losing a set. She is also one of only three players to have played at both the WTA Tour Champ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nadia Petrova
Nadezhda Viktorovna "Nadia" Petrova ( ; born 8 June 1982) is a Russian former professional tennis player. A former top-five player in both singles and doubles, she reached a career-high ranking of No. 3 in the world in both disciplines (doing so in doubles on 21 March 2005, then in singles on 15 May 2006). Petrova won a total of 37 titles on the WTA Tour in her career, 13 in singles and 24 in doubles, as well as over $12.4 million in prize money, making her one of the most successful Russian tennis players of all time. Petrova's career highlights in singles include reaching a total of nine Grand Slam quarterfinals across all four major tournaments (including two Grand Slam semifinals at the French Open in 2003 French Open – Women's singles, 2003 and 2005 French Open – Women's singles, 2005), and qualifying for the WTA Finals, WTA Tour Championships on three separate occasions. Her largest singles titles came at two Tier-I tournaments, 2006 Family Circle Cup – Singles, Char ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samantha Stosur
Samantha Jane Stosur (born 30 March 1984) is an Australian former professional tennis player. She is a former List of WTA number 1 ranked doubles tennis players, world No. 1 in doubles, a ranking which she first achieved on 6 February 2006 and held for 61 consecutive weeks. Also a former WTA rankings#Players with highest career rank 2–5, top ten singles player, Stosur reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 4 on 21 February 2011 and spent a total of 165 weeks ranked inside the top ten, between March 2010 and June 2013. Stosur was also the top-ranked Australian singles player for 452 consecutive weeks, from October 2008 to June 2017, and was ranked inside the top 25 for a period of nine straight years. She won a combined total of 40 career titles (9 in singles, 28 in doubles, and 3 in mixed doubles), including 8 major titles, and amassed more than $20 million in prize money. Stosur won a Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam singles title at the 2011 US Open – Women's si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agnieszka Radwańska
Agnieszka Roma Radwańska (; born 6 March 1989) is a Polish former professional tennis player and current coach. She was ranked world No. 2 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), in July 2012. Radwańska won 20 WTA Tour singles titles, including the 2015 WTA Finals – Singles, 2015 WTA Finals, and two doubles titles. She was also the runner-up at the 2012 Wimbledon Championships – Women's singles, 2012 Wimbledon Championships. Radwańska was the first Pole in the Open Era to contest a Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, major singles final (at the 2012 Wimbledon Championships), the first to win the WTA Finals, the first to claim a WTA Tour singles title (the 2007 Nordea Nordic Light Open – Singles, 2007 Nordic Light Open), and was part of the first Polish team to win the Hopman Cup in 2015 Hopman Cup, 2015. She was named the WTA Awards#Newcomer of the Year, Newcomer of the Year in 2006, and finished with a top-10 year-end ranking eight times. Radwańska's a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 Tennis Association (WTA) for 12 weeks. Ivanovic won 15 WTA Tour-level singles titles, including a Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, major at the 2008 French Open – Women's singles, 2008 French Open. She was also the runner-up at the 2007 French Open – Women's singles, 2007 French Open and the 2008 Australian Open – Women's singles, 2008 Australian Open. Ivanovic qualified for the year-end WTA Tour Championships three times, in 2007 WTA Tour Championships, 2007, 2008 WTA Tour Championships, 2008 and 2014 WTA Tour Championships, 2014, and won the year-end WTA Tournament of Champions twice, in 2010 Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions, 2010 and 2011 Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions, 2011. Ivanovic's breakthrough came at the 200 ... [...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] |
